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tester457··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
"Ilya"

They are suggesting that Ilya Sutskever played in this coup.

tester457··on How to compete with Patreon
But can't anyone just look up the owner of the LLC, that info is public?

I believe that if someone with a patreon wants their identity to stay private, making an LLC (depending on the name of it) may backfire?

tester457··on Harvard: Student Use Cases for AI
> or who won't pay $20/month for the best homework tool?

That much isn't necessary, GPT4 api costs $0.03-$0.06 for what's more than an essay of text.

It's affordable and accessible to anyone with a credit card. Ethically this is more fair than having to pay for over-priced textbooks.

tester457··on Books for Game Developers
Good selection of older books.

I didn't see [1] Game Programming Patterns.

[1]: https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/

tester457··on Free Download Manager backdoored – a possible supply chain attack on Linux
> Stop believing OSS is automatically clean and safe.

Not disagreeing but Free Download Manager stopped being OSS in version 3.9.7, that was 2017 and this article's infected package was released in 2020.

tester457··on Vale.sh – A Linter for Prose
It needs a better landing page
tester457··on Ever used `SQLite_OMIT_*` directives to reduce SQLite's memory footprint?
Thank you!
tester457··on Ever used `SQLite_OMIT_*` directives to reduce SQLite's memory footprint?
Good to know! Which of the omit directives do you usually use?
tester457··on AI-generated art lacks copyright protection, D.C. court says
Great difference in scale, humans cannot automate at nearly the level machines can. The law will have to account for this.
tester457··on We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x
It can be the smallest things. Just the other day a CS professor was banned from a programming server for interviewing at the NSA 15 years ago. That was pre-snowden.

The bright side is that it's easy to move to a new server.

tester457··on Discord.io breached, 760k user accounts for sale on darknet
His name was generated by xbox for a gamertag
tester457··on 80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans
> Claiming that WFH is bad because you can't bounce ideas off other employees and get into the real world-changing "deep work" is silly

Ironically it's easier to get into deep work at home because you don't have to worry about coworkers bouncing ideas on you.

tester457··on Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?
This video describes quantum locking as strings going through a superconductor.

https://youtu.be/8GY4m022tgo?t=957

tester457··on Show HN: Gogit – Just enough Git (in Go) to push itself to GitHub
> One has an embedded Javascript engine and does all kinds of pattern matching and string manipulation.

Why did you decide to use an embedded JavaScript engine instead of pure go?

tester457··on Deepgram Whisper Cloud: 3X Faster and 20% Cheaper Than OpenAI’s
> Use of Deepgram Whisper Cloud is subject to a rate limit of 50 requests per minute or 15 concurrent requests. > Which is a bit disappointing. I've run into whisper rate limits.

The rate limit for Deepgram's Nova speech-to-text model is 100 concurrent requests on the pay as you go plan. They claim it's more accurate than their Whisper model but I'm trying out both.

tester457··on The Rise of AI Girlfriends
For now I think only a small percentage of men and women will choose to opt out this way. Similar to how most people prefer a physical book over ebook, digital love will not be the preference.

> Possible answer to the Fermi paradox: the intelligent life self destructs.

Although if robotic AI girlfriends become more real than real by using various kinds of supernormal stimuli [1], to the point where actual humans look fake, I can see this happening.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus

> It is possible to create artificial bird eggs which certain birds will prefer over their own eggs

tester457··on OpenAI shuts down its AI Classifier due to poor accuracy
We could but doing so would lobotomize it.
tester457··on Parents, environmentalists to Google: stop Chromebooks from expiring this summer
It is monotonous work having to remove the Write-Protect screw and many other manual steps before the process can be automated.

Teachers don't have the time for that for a fleet of chromebooks.

tester457··on All foster kids in California can now attend any state college for free
I think it should be free because of stories like yours. It shouldn't be a requirement to be saddled with debt to participate in society.
tester457··on Midjourney Showcase
More boring, only because dribble's popular page is UI mockups.

A better comparison is this vs artstation.

tester457··on Reddit Reads: list of the top mentioned books on Reddit
I like the site despite the affiliate links, I'm looking for more sites similar to it.

It has a Subreddit List page and sorts subreddits by niche. I like to know what people of a niche or fandom are actually reading instead of what books amazon or advertisements promote.

I've found hidden gems in hobbies I didn't know existed.

tester457··on Reddit Reads: list of the top mentioned books on Reddit
Similarly, HN has https://hackernewsbooks.com/ and https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/ which are useful in their own ways.

The first link uses karma to rank the books, the second uses total comment count.

Unfortunately the reddit site does not show the comments, unlike https://hackernewsbooks.com/

tester457··on Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company
How did you mitigate the attack?
tester457··on Introducing Superalignment
Only works for so long. A smart enough serf could easily find a way to socially engineer and slaughter the king.
tester457··on Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?
> they weren’t even slightly impressed

Could be because they haven't actually tried it. There are a surprising amount of applications something that tells wrong answers part of the time can do.

tester457··on Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?
> "it's crucial to remember"

> "I'm a language model, so I can't..."

You won't catch the clever students who programmically remove these (e.g. using Langchain).

tester457··on Rings.social – Reddit-API compatible and Open Source content-voting platform
I'm waiting for something minimal like tildes or hn to show up. These new competitors are too bloated.
tester457··on Get a personal teacher
Feedback is necessary for mastery. There is a teacher for every learning style.
tester457··on Get a personal teacher
I prefer using a book on the subject with chatgpt and forums/chatrooms as supplements.

I find that prompting chatgpt with book excerpts keeps it grounded in reality.

tester457··on Ask HN: What are your favorite methodologies for organizing digital life
I like Karl Voit's methodology. He goes more deep into Personal Information Management than anyone I've seen.

> For a couple of years, I taught PIM in a lecture at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences. My students are surprised, how inefficient they were doing even «common» things like handling email, managing files like photographs on your computer, or searching for information. It is so rewarding to see students realizing how much improvement is possible with some background-knowledge and a few hints here or there. Starting with 2021, that lecture started at Graz University of Technology.

> I hereby claim that I am able to save you at least twenty minutes of your computer time a day just by looking over your shoulder and suggesting more advanced tools, better methods, and efficient workflows.

https://karl-voit.at/tags/pim/

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