Back in the 1800s, we had this idea called Manifest Destiny. There was a famous painting about it, _American Progress_, painted by John Gast in 1872. It depicts Columbia, bringing civilization and liberty - telegraphs and railroads - for creating a great nation. It was devastating for the Native Americans.
the ridiculous "no ad blocker" full-screen modal that's unclosable led me down a rabbit hole there - turns out there's some obfuscated script from "Ad Shield" which replaces the whole site with an iframe if you dare to block their domain, "html-load.com", which proxies ad networks.
fortunately one can just run debugger; to stop it early
Is this a script-kiddy DDOS (when many users run it) of someone's email? This doesn't seem very HN.
Edit: No, the email is blank, so it's just a regular DOS, unless his email is public somewhere and everyone will fill in the same email. Still not very HN, but just bad, not malicious.
I didn’t think we’d get to the point where all compute is headed for the data centre and normal people don’t get to have anything bigger than a phone but here we are.
Kind of inevitable when you realize how much people are naturally willing to give up computational sovereignty for the sake of convenience and psychological safety espousing values claiming the opposite, and it's still the case despite everything that's happened so far
I don't think there is a lot of conscious choice here: If at some point, anything more complex than a phone would be phased out or become unaffordable for consumers, that's not because consumers had somehow collectively voted they only want phones from now on.
I am an old-school guy. I don’t send them emails with unused RAM, I just fax them a printout of the script so they have to physically look at it and remove it before it goes in the trash. Bonus points if you send it to legal. Legal always has a fax machine.
With what people at OpenAI make per hour, every fax costs them thousands of dollars in labor costs, wasting all their precious resources one toner cartridge at a time in the process.
I am just making proper use of all that underutilised toner.
To rub Altman's nose in the fact that we have RAM that he wishes he had.
Or, more likely (since I doubt he's ever going to see one of these emails), to make us feel a bit better about ourselves after Altman said (in effect) that what we want doesn't matter.
lol, it’s so funny watching the cynical AI haters whip yourself into a frenzy over this. I bet 99% of you didn’t even listen to this podcast episode. His comments were so anodyne, y’all are ridiculous.
We’ve had this idea before.
Back in the 1800s, we had this idea called Manifest Destiny. There was a famous painting about it, _American Progress_, painted by John Gast in 1872. It depicts Columbia, bringing civilization and liberty - telegraphs and railroads - for creating a great nation. It was devastating for the Native Americans.
https://youtu.be/HCZmBMo_jhM
Similar ideas now, though it doesn’t have broad support. People are angry and fighting back against data centers.
the ridiculous "no ad blocker" full-screen modal that's unclosable led me down a rabbit hole there - turns out there's some obfuscated script from "Ad Shield" which replaces the whole site with an iframe if you dare to block their domain, "html-load.com", which proxies ad networks.
fortunately one can just run debugger; to stop it early
I noticed it on several completely unrelated sites since a few days. I've never seen it before.
I was wondering if they're was some kind of consolidation/buyoff of pro-ad-protection services.
Or... one run noscript
Is this a script-kiddy DDOS (when many users run it) of someone's email? This doesn't seem very HN.
Edit: No, the email is blank, so it's just a regular DOS, unless his email is public somewhere and everyone will fill in the same email. Still not very HN, but just bad, not malicious.
I would hesitate to say the memory used by the filesystem cache is unused.
Dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50414839
That's a dupe too. This is the original https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50412766
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50412766
I didn’t think we’d get to the point where all compute is headed for the data centre and normal people don’t get to have anything bigger than a phone but here we are.
Kind of inevitable when you realize how much people are naturally willing to give up computational sovereignty for the sake of convenience and psychological safety espousing values claiming the opposite, and it's still the case despite everything that's happened so far
I don't think there is a lot of conscious choice here: If at some point, anything more complex than a phone would be phased out or become unaffordable for consumers, that's not because consumers had somehow collectively voted they only want phones from now on.
What are the chances that they already do this :) Well, probably not given how much memory the harnesses use. (Claude too in fairness)
All your RAM are belong to us
I am an old-school guy. I don’t send them emails with unused RAM, I just fax them a printout of the script so they have to physically look at it and remove it before it goes in the trash. Bonus points if you send it to legal. Legal always has a fax machine.
With what people at OpenAI make per hour, every fax costs them thousands of dollars in labor costs, wasting all their precious resources one toner cartridge at a time in the process.
I am just making proper use of all that underutilised toner.
This guy knows what's up.
No toner on fax machines, just forever chemical paper that slowly muders their employees.
Obviously you do not know my trusty battle fax. The Brother Laser Fax 2840.
22 direct-dial and 200 speed-dial entries. Broadcast to up to 272 participants. Sexy.
Lots of companies still use Laserfax. dr2200 toner cartridge is 40 bucks for 12k pages.
> "Broadcast to up to 272 participants."
256 + 16? How do you get a number like that? Some trick with variable-width binary codes?
If you're going to that trouble you may as well create a DOI number for it so they think it's a rare book and scan and destroy it.
I think my signature will do for now.
Regards,
https://fbi.cults3d.com/uploaders/15196480/photo-file/19c974...
I am sad that it is not configured to actually email him by default
Just what is the point?
To rub Altman's nose in the fact that we have RAM that he wishes he had.
Or, more likely (since I doubt he's ever going to see one of these emails), to make us feel a bit better about ourselves after Altman said (in effect) that what we want doesn't matter.
I have no unused RAM; if any shows up I spin up some nested Alpine VMs. I got 20 layers deep the other day.
Fucking Cry Harder, AI bros.
Wouldn't unused RAM infuriate him more ?
That’s the point.
lol, it’s so funny watching the cynical AI haters whip yourself into a frenzy over this. I bet 99% of you didn’t even listen to this podcast episode. His comments were so anodyne, y’all are ridiculous.
It is just one symptom of a push for corporate-controlled infrastructure.
A single unencrypted point of access is the dream for watching and controlling your life.
That is the centralized API in a nutshell, a single unencrypted point of access.