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by ttul 3y ago
It’s not getting dropped. If OpenAI’s models get good enough, search traffic will crater and Google will fall on extremely hard times for lack of ad revenue. At the same time, if they fail to integrate state of the art generative features i
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by ttul 3y ago
But what about that black ooze?
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by ttul 3y ago
Absolutely this. A friend considers herself too poor to afford a house in Vancouver. Her company makes $10M a year and she peels off 10% net profit. Only in Vancouver…
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by ttul 3y ago
I’m sure the supply side is constrained by various things that aren’t uncommon in other places. NIMBY zoning, terribly slow permitting, etc. But the demand side has been lit on fire by cheap money. It’s as if Canada is a country that pulls
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by ttul 3y ago
The supply crunch is caused by wealthy Canadians owning multiple homes, most of which are empty. There are some relatively new speculation and vacancy taxes, but they are trivially easy to evade - just have your adult child “rent” your vaca
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by ttul 3y ago
My household is in the top 1% of income earners. We cannot afford a house in our exurb. 20 years ago, with this level of income, it would have been trivially affordable. Yes, I rent for $4250 a home that you can buy for $1.7M. The distortio
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by ttul 3y ago
Property tax as a share of property value is lower, but property tax revenue as a share of total taxation is similar.
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by ttul 3y ago
Falcon fails. GPT-3.5 also fails this test. GPT-4 gets it right. I suspect that GPT-4 is just large enough to have developed a concept of counting, whereas the others are not. Alternatively, it's possible that GPT-4 has memorized the a
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by ttul 3y ago
Yeah, good point on the importance of FOSS focusing on subtasks... because FOSS isn't going to be spending $150M+ training a model any time soon without something like government backing.
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by ttul 3y ago
There are many MoE architectures and I suppose we don’t know for sure which OpenAI is using. The “selection” of the right mix of models is something that a network learns and it’s not a complex process. Certainly no more complex than traini
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by ttul 3y ago
I’m not an employment lawyer, but it seems these former employees have a decent shot. They will eventually win their severance in court. But will they ever be paid? By the time they win, will “X” even exist in its current corporate form? Or
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by ttul 3y ago
Supposedly, they were dismissed for cause minutes before they would have been awarded millions in severance when the sale closed. I’m fairly sure I recall that Parag and colleagues sued because the dismissal for cause was an obvious stretch
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by ttul 3y ago
The HP Itanium dev units we worked with at ActiveState in 2000 shipped with an Imation floppy drive. If I recall correctly, the install media for HPUX shipped on an Imation disk. It was a true beast.
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by ttul 3y ago
To each their own, but I just dropped my daughter off at university, and nearly every kid is white. I felt it may be of some interest here on HN to let people know there is a step 0 that most humans will never be able to access. I don’t mea
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by ttul 3y ago
Not at all. But I think it’s worth pointing out that it’s a privilege to even have wealth to manage in the first place. It is commonplace to disregard that privilege in these sorts of discussions on the topic of wealth.
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by ttul 3y ago
Rule #0: Be born into a privileged family. Your parents will raise you in a wealthier suburb where the schools are good and you network with other similarly privileged kids. The crime rate is low, so you’re less likely to end up injured or
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by ttul 3y ago
“San Francisco to remain empty for two to three more days”
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by ttul 3y ago
Don’t be misled. This is not government trying to protect Canadian journalism. This is a few rich, mostly billionaire-owned telecom/media companies working as hard as they can to keep out competition. It’s not Google’s fault that Canad
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by ttul 3y ago
Absolutely never build on top of Google. They steam roll you and then drive the steamroller into the wrecking yard.
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by ttul 3y ago
If you are doing chemotherapy, your oncologist may tell you to avoid vitamin C and other anti-oxidants precisely because the chemotherapy drugs rely on oxidation to kill the cancer cells.
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by ttul 3y ago
Telecoms by the mid-2000s had long ago lost their innovation mojo, ceding it to the big tech companies after the deregulation push of the late-1990s and over-leveraging to build out internet networks.
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by ttul 3y ago
“Hey guys, we need to train a large language model to understand all of science. All we have is a stack of old papers from the dawn of time and we need to convert them into LaTeX…”
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by ttul 3y ago
I attended the Mobile World Congress in 2012 and what stuck out for me was the total absence of Apple. BlackBerry was there and Google had a massive booth. The telecoms were all promoting their versions of over-the-top messaging, meant to c
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by ttul 3y ago
BlackBerry didn’t have a second act. They put all their blackberries in one very nice basket and failed to invest their riches into the kind of deep, speculative R&D that keeps Apple, Microsoft, and Google on the cutting edge on multipl
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by ttul 3y ago
Microsoft is primarily a mid-market company. They definitely sell to enterprise as well, but what makes Microsoft truly great is their ability to sell at enormous scale through a vast network of partners to every SMB in the world. OpenAI is
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by ttul 3y ago
The jump to enterprise pricing suggests that they have enormous enterprise demand and don’t need to bother with SMB “teams” pricing. I suspect OpenAI is leaving the SMB part up to Microsoft to figure out, since that’s Microsoft’s forte thro
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by ttul 3y ago
Just the SOC2 bit will generate revenue… If your organization is SOC2 compliant, using other services that are also compliant is a whole lot easier than risking having your SOC2 auditor spend hours digging into their terms and policies.
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by ttul 3y ago
The PRC would doubtless have an interest in precisely removing all knowledge of certain historical facts from LLMs within China.
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by ttul 3y ago
It’s easy to criticize these guys in hindsight. Survivorship bias makes failed companies seem way worse than the success stories, most of whom just got lucky. Even great companies were horror shows at various times.
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by ttul 3y ago
Doesn’t this just reflect that humans are generally just large language models? Maybe throw in an extra dimension of “emotions” that are useful for training?

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