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Arcsech commented on Extracting concepts from GPT-4 openai.com/index/extracti... · Posted by u/davidbarker

mlsu · 2 years ago

This is interesting:

> Autoencoder family

> Note: Only 65536 features available. Activations shown on The Pile (uncopyrighted) instead of our internal training dataset.

So, the Pile is uncopyrighted, but the internal training dataset is copyrighted? Copyrighted by whom?

Huh?

Arcsech · 2 years ago

> Copyrighted by whom?

By people who would get angry if they could definitively prove their stuff was in OpenAI's training set.

Arcsech commented on Apple's risky bet on CarPlay theturnsignalblog.com/app... · Posted by u/vsdlrd

xyst · 2 years ago

I used to be fascinated with Apple but I no longer want anything to do with them.

I could care less if my car has Apple or android auto at this point. I would rip it out immediately if it had one. Any always on connectivity would be removed.

Car manufacturers are increasingly selling off your private data and leveraging all of these technology upgrades you paid for to do it. As soon as the car is connected to the internet, it’s shipping off your private data and selling it to data brokers. Manufacturers are hiding behind their wall of text called “terms of service” to do so [1]

In some cases the manufacturers are reporting your driving history to insurance companies so they can get any reason to bump your rates or deny you coverage . [2]

My dream car is now a “dumb” car.

Give me a car with a simple backup camera, manual transmission, and regular sized vehicle (no trucks or suvs, fuck that).

[1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/technology/gm-lexis-nexis...

Arcsech · 2 years ago

I don't disagree with your points about connected cars, but at least for CarPlay (I don't know about Android Auto), it's entirely an orthogonal concern. CarPlay is a standard for, basically, connecting an external display to your iPhone - it doesn't need to connect to anything other than the iPhone itself, and doesn't grant the car any access to the internet or anything, and IIRC the phone can't read anything meaningful from the car either.

Arcsech commented on Ask HN: Chip startups? · Posted by u/icu

IshKebab · 4 years ago

> a complete CI on our chip took 4 days

So rather than just say "ok we won't do simulations of the full chip in CI; we'll just do module testbenches which are much quicker" you scrapped the whole thing?

> Version control sucks unless your data is text--generally that's only your Verilog.

So you don't use version control because it "only" works with the most important things in your repo?

> Tcl is a decent enough language

Sure, compared to Bash or BASIC or other ancient terrible languages. It's pretty terrible compared to any vaguely good language. Even PHP or 90s JavaScript are leagues better.

>the stuff you write is no more than a one off and the real product is your chip--so nobody is going to reward you for a "good" script in any language.

Yeah I've heard this from people at my company too. So do you really completely throw away your entire infrastructure and start from scratch for every chip? If not it's hardly a "one off". And yes, people are going to reward you - your future selves will say "thank god you didn't choose to use such a bug prone language that I spend all my time fixing basic type errors".

> I've seen more verification in hardware before shipping a product than I EVER have seen in any software role.

For obvious reasons. Chips are much simpler than software and therefore way easier to verify, and missed bugs are extraordinarily expensive. I bet FPGAs don't get as much verification.

Your post is exactly the sort of attitude I was talking about - thanks for the demonstration!

Arcsech · 4 years ago

EXACTLY. This lazy, backwards approach to tooling and workflow is why I jumped ship from logic design to software despite having an EE degree. VHDL/Verilog tooling is heinously terrible and everyone in the industry seems to be actively opposed to doing anything about it.

Arcsech commented on Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me Sick medium.com/@katelyngadd/w... · Posted by u/kg

BaseballPhysics · 4 years ago

> I explained to a Google leader how the WebAssembly project was struggling without support from his organization and how people were being driven away from the project. He agreed with my assessment and then told me nothing was going to change. In the end, the team changed things on their own.

Man I wish that didn't feel so relevant. Literally on an all-day "strategy" meeting right now and heard a variation of this about 5 minutes ago...

Arcsech · 4 years ago

Oh yeah, that paragraph really nailed it. Every place I've worked that's started to go downhill, it always started with executives, who never acknowledged their role in the problem or did anything to fix it.

I'm increasingly convinced that a large portion of our problems as a society is our absolute refusal to hold anyone in power accountable for anything.

Arcsech commented on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources reuters.com/technology/ex... · Posted by u/thm

Arcsech · 4 years ago

My concerns about toxicity on Twitter are less about what I want to see (I don’t use Twitter anymore myself, even), and more about the incitement to violence we’ve clearly seen is possible on the platform. Twitter should not be a platform for organizing a mob to invade the capitol and attempt to execute the Vice President, for example.

Arcsech commented on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources reuters.com/technology/ex... · Posted by u/thm

artur_makly · 4 years ago

Having the 'richest' man w/ social Asperger fully control the largest 'public town square" seems..ironic and frankly dangerous.

To me it feels like twitter or something better should simply be a DAO. What are the chances of that?

Arcsech · 4 years ago

That’s a disgustingly prejudiced statement. While I don’t like Mr. Musk very much myself, I’ve known plenty of autistic folks who do a great job managing communities.

Arcsech commented on App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee axios.com/app-store-bill-... · Posted by u/mark-ruwt

Nbox9 · 4 years ago

> all Apple has to do is give a >60% discount to their current prices.

Arcsech · 4 years ago

If being forced to compete fairly requires them to drop their prices by 60%, I think that’s a pretty good argument that they’re not competing fairly at the moment.

Arcsech commented on Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who turned it off · Posted by u/twhb

dang · 4 years ago

Please don't cross into personal attack. You don't need it to make your substantive points, and it poisons the ecosystem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Arcsech · 4 years ago

I don’t see a personal attack here.

Arcsech commented on Common Lisp ASDF maintainer considers resignation mailman.common-lisp.net/p... · Posted by u/clircle

reikonomusha · 4 years ago

On the other hand, if a single, foundational project is continually issuing PRs across the ecosystem that, at the end of the day, are not a result of changes that seem to benefit the user tangibly, then I could see it getting annoying for project maintainers.

Arcsech · 4 years ago

“Continually” is a pretty strong word for one change.

Arcsech commented on The SQLite Amalgamation sqlite.org/amalgamation.h... · Posted by u/mkl95

aninteger · 4 years ago

An alternative view of this amalgamation: https://sabotage-linux.github.io/blog/1/

Arcsech · 4 years ago

The author of that article is overly focused on the Linux (or similar) deployment model, which most definitely does not cover all uses of SQLite. The argument against 2) also depends on a feature available in specific versions of specific compilers, which again, a piece of software that supports as many use cases as SQLite can’t depend on.

Even in that model, I’ve long found that the arguments against 1) are weak in practice (especially with a well-designed and maintained lib like SQLite) versus the additional complexity added by depending on dynamically linked libraries.