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by kweingar 2y ago
When Altman says "OpenAI is not for sale", is there any sense in which that is not a lie? As part of the for-profit transition he is selling all of the non-profit's assets. Musk's group has offered to buy them, and Altma
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by kweingar 2y ago
The transition involves a sale of the non-profit's assets. This is what Elon has offered to buy. They can refuse Elon's offer, but they can't turn around and sell the assets 50% cheaper to someone else (as they had previously
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by kweingar 2y ago
OAI's fiduciary duty is to their charitable mission. If selling to Elon for $97b jeopardizes the mission, then so would selling to preferred investors for $40b (as they would in turn face immense pressure by shareholders to realize an
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by kweingar 2y ago
Regardless of how you feel about the potential consequences of Musk being a significant shareholder of OpenAI, the alternative is not to let sama and other preferred investors buy the non-profit's stake at a >50% discount as they ha
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by kweingar 2y ago
Not respecting precedence is ok, as long as the user is aware of it. When I use a calculator, I don't necessarily care if I can punch in a written expression verbatim from left to right. I just want to do a calculation.
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by kweingar 2y ago
Elon Musk promised to build this tech.
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by kweingar 2y ago
The MUMPS database is wild. When I was working in MUMPS, it was so easy and fun to whip up an internal tool to share with my coworkers. You don't have to give any special thought at all to persistence, so you're able to stay in th
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by kweingar 2y ago
I'd love to use HTMX at work. Sadly the security folks would probably balk at checking in JS code that uses eval(), even though you can disable eval at runtime in the HTMX config. I thought about writing a script to remove all referenc
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by kweingar 2y ago
Taiwan has an official policy that it owns the mainland
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by kweingar 2y ago
> only OpenAI was able to productize What do you mean? Anthropic and Google both have widely used products based on transformers.
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by kweingar 2y ago
This isn't really an argument though. It's an assertion that not honoring a commission agreement (or an employment contract) is equivalent to not paying for a license to an existing work. I tend to disagree. I could be persuaded o
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by kweingar 2y ago
The success of the Chrome browser on desktop proves otherwise, no? It's interesting that the argument is "nobody can compete with defaults" when one of the proposed remedies is to break off the part of the company that was t
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by kweingar 2y ago
I like Go's error handling. The reader knows exactly which lines of code can encounter an error, and exactly how the error is handled. I find that exception-based code is much harder to read. The happy path is clearer, but exceptional
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by kweingar 2y ago
It's good to get an uneditorialized view so you can know what's going on without wasting your breath making the same complaints over and over. But that doesn't mean the complaints are wrong. SCOTUS is an insane, dysfunctional
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by kweingar 2y ago
It seems incredibly convenient that a non-profit's leaders can say "I want equity in a for-profit company, so we will sell our assets to investors (who will hire me) and pass off the proceeds to some other non-profit org run by so
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by kweingar 2y ago
Can anybody explain how this actually works? What happens to all of the non-profit's assets? They can't just give it away for investors to own. The non-profit could maybe sell its assets to investors, but then what would it do wit
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by kweingar 2y ago
My contract mentions nothing about time spent.
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by kweingar 2y ago
This doesn't seem relevant to a discussion about chargebacks, a feature that cash famously does not have.
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by kweingar 2y ago
> GPT-2 level You must not have ever used GPT-2 if you think it is comparable to any commonly used chatbot today
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by kweingar 2y ago
The arguments in HN and elsewhere about monopoly seem to be missing the point imo. My problem isn't even with Apple's 30% take rate! I use Patreon on the web on a non-Apple desktop computer. Apple is simply not part of the equatio
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by kweingar 2y ago
You're not objecting to public transportation, you're objecting to the public. The people on the bus or the train are not any different from the people at the supermarket or at the park. Many Americans, like myself, are ok with be
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by kweingar 2y ago
The states select the president, and in this case, the states agreed to adopt thr compact. Don't see a problem there.
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by kweingar 2y ago
There are zero product managers who read this Twitter thread about a random decade-old Chromium hack and will do anything about it.
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by kweingar 2y ago
That is a good point. I would happily let Trump go free if it means that Biden can delete all student debt without fear of prosecution.
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by kweingar 2y ago
Reading HN is caring about what other people do, no?
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by kweingar 2y ago
> It wasn't that long ago that we considered the brain and a computer to also be quite similar Many people in tech still think this. It will take a while to dislodge the idea that if you squint enough, cells, brains, etc. are all ba
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by kweingar 2y ago
This tweet is speculation, there is no evidence presented in the thread that it is A/B testing. The message says "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot." Given that this message is being presented to Cobalt, an automated d
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by kweingar 2y ago
I'm talking about the copyright claims. If Bing and Google stand down when people request their sites to be removed, how would OpenAI have the resources to push against that?
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by kweingar 2y ago
If all you have to do to beat these claims is throw money at the problem, then why haven't the other (better funded) search engines done that?
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by kweingar 2y ago
Normally if I were recommending Linux to a friend, I would encourage them to use their existing computer rather than going out and buying new hardware just for Linux. ChromeOS Flex might fit the bill though, and the installation process is

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