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by zoogeny 3y ago
I think it was different within different communities. For certain, not everyone shared the "dream" of a totally fungible web, but some did. I recall at the time a lot of discussion about user stylesheets. People actually believed
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by zoogeny 3y ago
In that interpretation, it sounds like you feel that the scientists referenced in the article and Ms. Toner are insubordinate. You feel that Altman was exercising legitimate authority to remove obstructionist elements in the OpenAI organiza
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> Mr. Sutskever’s frustration with Mr. Altman echoed what had happened in 2021 when another senior A.I. scientist left OpenAI to form the company Anthropic. That scientist and other researchers went to the board to try to push Mr. Altman
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I am old enough to remember when the css zen garden first came out! I've seen hundreds and hundreds of clever tech demos. I even believed in some of them for a time. Now I realize they were carefully constructed gimmicks. css zen garde
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I once worked with a guy who hated Python. He also hated IntelliJ and did all of his programming in Eclipse. He hated MacOS and would only run old versions of Windows of Linux. What I found was that he was just sensitive to change. It
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I wasn't a huge fan of BEM but it solved a real problem. The fact that sucky BEM was better for large teams than being without it shows how bad CSS design is. There was nothing more annoying than including a component on a page and som
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Yes, I agree the pendulum does swing. Just jarring to see it swing so quickly. Remember, this change began on Friday! I guess the old saying: "If you can't beat them, join them" is the new mantra. And I suppose if you're
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I am a reluctant convert to tailwind. I've been doing HTML since the 90s, before CSS was even really usable for things like page layout. I mean, we didn't even use div in those days - it was table based layouts and spacer gifs. CS
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I've already wasted a lot of my own time and energy on this, but I'm starting to get a bit confused on this whole thing. People seem pretty comfortable jumping to a profit-driven motivation for employees potentially leaving OpenAI
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by zoogeny 3y ago
The number of ads is getting pretty bad now. I use the YouTube app for Apple TV (so no chance for an ad blocker) and it has been slowly increasing the last two years. I even get surveys asking "How is the Ad experience?" and I alw
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Scale.ai was valued at 7.3 billion in 2021, which was before the current AI craze. I mean, OpenAI would be a step up in some regards under ideal circumstances. But under these circumstances he is wise to stay at his 10+ billion dollar compa
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by zoogeny 3y ago
No, the implied threat is that the brands name will be conspicuously dragged through the mud using every tool they have in the national media. Brands don’t care if a small group of activists boycott their product. They are terrified of bein
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by zoogeny 3y ago
This is a switch to “advertisers choosing not to advertise with Twitter is free speech”. That is different than “activists engaging in collective action to threaten advertisers to compel them to boycott Twitter are merely criticizing Musk”
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I have no interest in legality or even morality on this topic. This is a question of rhetoric. The actions in question aren’t a criticism of the ideas of Musk. They are collective actions to harm him by harming his business. The lawsuit w
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I disagree that organizations like the ones Musk is railing against are “telling that person someone did something bad” I mean that in the sense that a group of thugs might show up to a business and mention “this is a bad neighborhood, it w
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> Musk is also a fan of the theory that when he speaks, your criticism of him violates his rights I hate to use such trite debate bro topics, but isn't this a motte and bailey fallacy [1]? The motte is "we're just criticis
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I believe it is hard to understand these kind of movements because there isn't one reason. As has been mentioned, it may be money for some. For others it may be anger over what they feel was the board mishandling the situation and prec
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I mean, I don't actually believe this. But I am reminded of 2016 when the Turkish president headed off a "coup" and cemented his power. More likely, this is a case of not letting a good crisis go to waste. I feel the board wa
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I was considering this when I saw the huge outpouring from OpenAI employees. It seems the agreement between Nadella and Altman was probably something like: Altman and Brockman can come to MS and that gives OpenAI employees an immediate pl
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by zoogeny 3y ago
All of the naysayers here seem convinced this is Altman and Microsoft looking to destroy OpenAI. Normally I am the cynic but this time I’m seeing a potential win-win here. Altman uses his talent to recruit and drive forward a brilliant prod
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I’m genuinely surprised that they stuck to their guns. The PR push behind Altman’s return was convincing enough that I had my doubts. Altman will be more than fine, he’ll get a bucket of money and the chance to prove he is the golden boy he
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by zoogeny 3y ago
It's worth noting that the cost of storage wasn't the issue in this case. They already had a system that allowed you to determine which headers in the Vary list would be respected and so you could calculate a worst-case storage lo
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by zoogeny 3y ago
This isn't something I considered but it totally makes sense. Given that the Vary header is a per-resource value you would have to propagate that through the network. For millions of resources that might become an issue. And since in a
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by zoogeny 3y ago
To be clear, I'm not trying to make their argument for them since we spent probably 1 day working around it. I'm just passing along an anecdote. One day, Vary header stopped working on one CDN and we had to fix it. When I spoke to
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by zoogeny 3y ago
One of the benefits of being cynical and jaded is that I see exactly where these kind of movements are going as soon as they get started. The new-atheism movement from a decade ago is one example, rationalist movement was another. The newes
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I haven't dealt with Cloudflare specifically, but I did deal with a number of big CDNs for large amounts of traffic. They were pretty adamant about NOT supporting arbitrary Vary header values. It broke some logic on a few of our system
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by zoogeny 3y ago
For some reason this reminds me of the olden days of Railroad Tycoons. Like those old timey movies where a bunch of land from the common folks is bought out for super cheap prices because the guys building the railways know where the statio
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> a) that the board is aware So, if a CEO was talking to investors about a new venture (or a set of new ventures) in a closely related field, perhaps even sharing some details about the existing company with those potential investors, wo
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by zoogeny 3y ago
This is tangential to an idea I have been pondering for almost a decade. I had a thought experiment of a Pharaoh on a procession exactly like the one described in this article. As the Pharaoh is carried in a litter on the shoulders of serva
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I suppose OpenAI had two futures in front of it. It could devote its resources completely to building AGI or it could continue to split its resources to also commercialize its current LLM offerings. Perhaps an internal struggle over those f

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