Readit Newssparkling commented on Happy 20th Birthday, Django djangoproject.com/weblog/... · Posted by u/davepeck
I’ve also switched away from Django (to Litestar), but the ORM is the mean thing I keep missing from Django. SQLAlchemy feels really clunky by comparison
What made you choose Litestar over fastapi (which seems to be the most popular choice right now)?
sparkling commented on Proton announces release of a new VPN protocol, "Stealth" protonvpn.com/blog/stealt... · Posted by u/theschmed
I'm interested to try this out for a game I'm banned from. My little brother did a thing little brothers tend to do (lol) and I got caught in the crossfire. This is my baseline test for all VPN services.
When they talk about detection, they are most likely referring to protocol level detection by ISPs forced to block VPN traffic, hostile local networks, corporate firewalls and such.
The actual service you are connecting to (example: website, game server etc.) most likely uses a IP-based detection service such as https://focsec.com/ or similar. In such cases, the protocol will not make a difference.
sparkling commented on Ask HN: Why haven't we seen a race to the bottom in SaaS pricing? · Posted by u/majani
When we are talking about medium to large enterprise customers, there is significant costs of switching a SaaS provider.
Vendor assessment, legal concerns, data privacy concerns, talks about SLA guarantees, talks about 24/7 support plans and much more. There will likely be several departments involved. Technical folks, legal people, data privacy experts etc.
That new deal could pass easily thru 50 peoples desk before getting signed eventually. For what? A 15% saving that could be wiped out with the next round of price adjustments from the new vendor? Simply not worth it. That is why SaaS revenue tends to be so sticky.
sparkling commented on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman openai.com/blog/openai-an... · Posted by u/davidbarker
Sorry for being so precise, but Microsoft renamed Bing Chat to Copilot yesterday, has already rolled it out to all users of Microsoft Edge, and is rolling out a permanent button on the Windows 11 taskbar to access it.
This is what shouldn't add up: Microsoft is literally adding GPT-4, for free, to the Windows 11 taskbar. Can you imagine how much that costs when you look at the GPT-4 API, or ChatGPT's subscription price? Either Microsoft is burning money, or OpenAI agreed to burn money with them. But why would they do that, when that would compromise $20/mo. subscription sales?
Something doesn't financially add up there.
Sorry i assumed you were talking about Github CoPilot (also owned by MS via Github)
sparkling commented on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman openai.com/blog/openai-an... · Posted by u/davidbarker
Microsoft didn't buy them did they? I thought it was just an investment. Either way though you're right that they probably did their DD.
My first comment wasn't really about them not being profitable, it was more of a question about how close to bankruptcy they are. Again though, you're right that MSFT probably did their DD, so that's unlikely
Correct. Strike "buy" and replace with "massive investment"
sparkling commented on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman openai.com/blog/openai-an... · Posted by u/davidbarker
I wonder if the cost of running GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models at scale turned out to have been astoundingly more expensive than anticipated.
Imagine if you were the CTO of a company, massively underestimated your AWS bill, and presented your board with something enormous. Maybe something like that happened?
Or, if I wanted to speculate to the extremely negative; what if the training and operating costs ballooned to such a degree, that the deal with Microsoft was an attempt to plug the cash hole without having to go to the board requesting an enormous loan? Because the fact that Copilot (edit: previously known as Bing Chat and Bing Image Creator) is free and ChatGPT (edit: and DALL-E 3) are not should be a red flag...
> Because the fact that Copilot is free and ChatGPT is not should be a red flag...
I'd assume that running a model that only needs to deal with a single programming language (the Copilot plugin knows what kind of code base it is working on) is _a lot_ cheaper than running the "full" ChatGPT 4.
sparkling commented on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman openai.com/blog/openai-an... · Posted by u/davidbarker
I can't wait for the revel that GPT-4 is just a chat application connecting you to a the worlds biggest center in India.
Joking aside, this feels massive. Both that it happened so suddenly and that the announcement doesn't mince words. The fact that the CTO is now CEO makes me think it's probably not a lie about their tech. It wouldn't make sense to say "we've been lying about our capabilities" and then appoint the current CTO as CEO.
This makes me think it's either financial or a scandal around Sam himself.
I can't wait to hear more
> The fact that the CTO is now CEO makes me think it's probably not a lie about their tech.
Agreed
> This makes me think it's either financial or a scandal around Sam himself.
I can't imagine it being about fake financials. This isn't Microsoft's first time doing due diligence on a acquisition. That is both technical and financial due diligence.
And clearly they didn't buy the company because it was super profitable, but for the tech.