skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are assuming there was absolutely no build up to the firing. Just because the disagreements weren’t public doesn’t mean they weren’t happening.
London Is Building Its Own Vegas Sphere
I believe this is a reference to Emmett’s Sept 16 [1] post on X:

> I specifically say I’m in favor of slowing down, which is sort of like pausing except it’s slowing down.

> If we’re at a speed of 10 right now, a pause is reducing to 0. I think we should aim for a 1-2 instead.

[1] https://x.com/eshear/status/1703178063306203397?s=20
They didn't buy OpenAI, they got the best part of their team to develop new products for MS.
>I really don't understand why any technically proficient user would willingly use any of the official YouTube frontends.

I'm a technically proficient user that's written custom bash scripts for youtube-dl combined with ffmpeg to download videos locally and I still use the official Youtube desktop web browser UI every day for several reasons:

+ transcripts and close-captioning (use Ctrl+F search for text to find the section of video that starts talking about the topic I'm interested in)

+ many videos have index of chapters (deep links), table-of-contents

+ viewers' comments (especially valuable for crowdsourced feedback on DIY videos to point out extra tips, or flaws, etc)

+ external links mentioned (Amazon links to products is especially valuable for DIY tutorials)

+ convenient hot links to related videos (part 2, part 3, etc). Not every creator makes "playlists"

+ Youtube web UI has superfast video scrubbing of the timeline. A local video player like VLC scrubbing of the timeline is very slow compared to Youtube because the youtube backend pre-analyzes the entire video and generates a bunch of timeline thumbnails at multiple intervals. This makes the Youtube web UI timeline scrubbing very fluid with responsive visual feedback.

I like downloading with yt-dlp but I also lose a lot of functionality when I watch videos in VLC instead of the Youtube desktop webbrowser UI. The above points are not relevant to the terrible Youtube app on mobile and tablets.
Because 5E3 is shorter than 5000, just like you can often see !0 to get "true" in minimize code because it saves two characters.
Whoever has the power of the computing, controls the world.
Except the USSR 'ended up' with those people because they went towards Western-style capitalism, these werent Soviet nomenklatura who stole power by abusing Soviet bureacracy, these were post-Soviet, American-style "democratic" leaders.
I've donated information to a few nature databases. I care a lot about which organizations are behind them. They each have their own legitimate reasons for usually light restrictions, which I fully support.
Oh, cut it. We're talking about a non-profit organisation that wants to keep the pace of scientific progress on AGI research slow enough to make time for society to gauge the ethical implications on an actual AGI, should it emerge.

Nobody is telling you how to live your life, unless your life's goal is to erect Skynet.
When you experienced a bad result, did you do a direct comparison with the equivalent Google search?

I found myself questioning some of Kagi's search results when I first started using it and sometimes thought a search result was of poor quality, but whenever that happened, I did a direct comparison with Google whose result was equally bad.

I've now used Kagi for almost six months and have never found a search where Google provided better quality results. Except for image search.
There are more structures available than simply gobbling something up and everyone is your employee.

See openai investment with technology transfers and sunset clauses. They just did a new dance.

They'll prod do something special for these guys.

They would never be employees. That's for non Sam Altman's and non Brockmans. Brockman is prob already a billionaire from openai shares. No employees here. Big boys.
The dog slow load times of ad infested AMP pages would suggest otherwise.
Absolutely will! That's gonna take a couple of hours so.
Watching training metrics is a time killer and addictive, so I made slackker
> He is basically openly poaching the employees of a company that he supposedly has a very close cooperation with

Not doing that would be participating in illegal wage suppression. I'm not sure how following the law means OpenAI and MSFT can't continue a business relationship.
Mithril.js also probably uses the history API?

.replaceState() will replace current url without putting it in the history, so back won't work, while .pushState() does.
Apple's In-House Technologies Team Still Has Plenty of Work to Do
Isn't this exactly what op was saying?
Maybe the exception that proves the rule: I always thought The Blues Brothers perfectly captured the feeling of driving around in Chicago.
Yeah I think that's what they were asking, if there are any resources appropriate for an 8 year old
Altman claims AGI is very close though, so maybe it is a path to it?
My design is perfect, but libraries have no idea and can and will break my perfect design.

Joke aside though, for this reason thread safety is one of general requirements for the composability that any large enough software project would definitely need.
To be fair, the IE6 problem wasn’t just massive usage, it was massive usage plus complete stagnation.

Chrome has high but not massive usage, and it hasn’t stagnated. It has a separate problem though: the lack of stagnation is actually a drive towards Google’s somewhat unhealthy vision for the web.
I look forward to the day when AGI seems distributed + safe enough that each employee transition doesn't force participation in Kremlinology
Interesting weekend for former Justin.TV / Twitch co-founders.
Which jobs do you think gets replaced the most?
We have art galleries displaying things like empty canvases or toilet bowls that make a statement, it's definitely not about difficulty. The fact is that the debate about what art is is part of what makes art art, it escapes definition because part of the spirit of art is rebelling against definition.
I loved cassettes and a tape recorder. So incredibly tactile and mechanical. Makes me sad my kids don’t have them actually.
They did have downsides of course.
> For billing purposes, emails that you send to the Amazon SES mailbox simulator are the same as any other email you send using Amazon SES. In other words, we bill you the same amount for messages that you send to the mailbox simulator as for those that you send to regular recipients.
Roughly around the same time as the anti-adblocking effort, youtube started just not playing the video stream for me much of the time. I say play a video, it will start playing the audio, and the video will just be a frozen image.

In unrelated news, my youtube-dl usage is way, way up.
Yeah but I have access to various APIs, it doesn't mean I own them or the IP behind them. Does tech transfer really mean MSFT can launch their own competitor off the back of OpenAI's tech? If Altman permitted such ownership no investors should touch him with a barge pole.
I am not a fan of all these breaking changes. I still love Python, but it's just too much with these tiny tweaks.

Developers really seem to like endless polishing, even when more important stuff still isn't done.

On the other hand... Maintenance is a thing. Less code to maintain means less work.

I can see why they want to get rid of stuff, it shouldn't be too hard to update, it's just annoying. Can't complain too much, at least it's not like C, where the big dependencies seem to like making such big changes it takes years to port.
Show HN: Eye Relief Workouts in Chrome
Hi, the maker here.
Like most developers, I stare at my work screen for many hours a day, completely forgetting that my eyes need rest. Yes, in an ideal world you need to go for a walk, do eye exercises, and also sleep well, etc.

I tried different techniques and reminders, but it only lasted me for a couple of days. So I decided to make a browser extension that contains exercises and a timer to switch from routine tasks to short exercises, this allows you to switch tasks and really helps relieve stress.

In development, I used scientific articles with an evidence base and chose exercises for you that really affect the eye muscles. Of course, this is not a replacement for looking out the window, going outside and looking into the distance, but, again, in the real world we are not robots, so among other non-working alternatives, I want that in this way we can improve our condition and be healthier.

Now I'm working on new exercises and I also want to include musical themes that should enhance the effect of the eye exercise. Your feedback and recommendations on how to improve the product so that it is as useful as possible will be important to me.

You can follow updates at https://twitter.com/MeditizeApp

Thanks!
Wait, that's a Firefox-only issue ?!
The cult of tech bros and the cult of AGI
They don't. He's a smart guy but he's far from having the reins of AI in his hands as some people blindly believe.

Exhibit A: this weekend, lol.
My future-proof and secure backup: Exported to csv - printed on a piece of paper + a copy on a SD card. Locked in my safe.
"Innovation" through anti-trust isn't "killing it".
And Spotify is trying to kill that too, bring it into the cable/paid subscription model.
Right. Greenpeace also protects the world against technological threats only they can see, and in that capacity has worked to stop nuclear power and GMO use. Acting as if all concern about technology is noble is extremely misguided. There's a lot of excessive concern about technology that holds society back.

If we use the standard of the alignment folks - that the technology today doesn't even have to be the danger, but an imaginary technology that could someday be built might be the danger. And we don't even have to be able to articulate clearly how it's a danger, we can just postulate the possibility. Then all technology becomes suspect, and needs a priest class to decided what access the population can have for fear of risking doomsday.
You believe every tech oriented person already knows everything there is in the book?
> 41% increase in status page incidents

Maybe they got funding for a proper incident team? Or changed the metrics of a incdient is, maybe the SLAs changed to mirror MS SLAs?

Also Betteridge's law.
OpenAI tech is licensed exclusively to Microsoft until pre AGI. OpenAI threw themselves in the river with their hands tied.

https://stratechery.com/2023/openais-misalignment-and-micros...

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38348010 | https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1726598360277356775 (550 of 700 Employees OpenAI tell the board to resign)
The problem with many technophiles is that they have a very distorted view of what they create. They often think it's going to do good because it's so cool but once that tech is out in the real world, it just mostly causes damage.

If you're interested, feel free to reach out to me because I am starting an anti-AI coalition.
In Italy Foodinho's point system for riders ruled discriminatory
How is that a good reason for GPT4 not being able to write the word 'fuck'? You might handwave the patronising attitude of OpenAI strategy, but with many of ust they did lost most of their good faith by trying to make their model 'safe' to a horny 10-year-old.
Uhhh...

Buddhists die in the Armageddon same as others.

The bunkers are in new Zealand which is an island and less likely to fall into chaos with the rest of the world in event of ww3 and/or moderate nuclear events.

I'm sure the bunkers are nice. Material notions got little to do with it. The bunker isn't filled with Ferraris. They are filled with food, a few copies of the internet and probably wierd sperms banks or who knows what for repopulating the earth with Altman's and Theils.
No, because OpenAI is still Microsoft somehow. And also, all the other big players already have their own thing.
Ok... but Altman & Brockman are just managers. Brockman did an ML course in 2018. If they can now get the actual technical people who built GPT4 over then that is something, but at the moment there's a lot of premature celebration here - managers don't actually do anything.
> A drought in Syria lead to rural farmers moving into the cities to try to earn money differently, and the tensions there sparked the civil war

I'm sure the US had nothing to do with it. They just came later to exploit some abandoned oil fields. /s
For my unlimited PTO, I just put my vacation into our HR website and the manager quickly approves it. I think our policy is like 5 days or less only requires your managers approval. 10 days or less is your manager and the senior manager. Anything 11 days or greater includes your manager, the senior manager, and our CEO (we are a small startup).
Imagine you have users all around the world and you've got logs of their activities. Someone asks "do users spend more time on X in the morning or afternoon"? If you only recorded absolute times and threw away their local time then you can't answer that question.

It doesn't matter whether you record UTC or local time as long as you record their time zone, you can always derive one from the other. This is an implementation detail that should be abstracted by any decent time library.
Looking at the list of people who have resigned it's quite obvious that the team goes where he goes.

Even if he does nothing, he keeps the team together and that is worth quite a bit.
In general, I agree with you. I hate the swedish culture in that aspect. In Sweden, "diversity" is another word for skin color, if you are diverse in how you think or your opinions you will be ousted very quickly and people will distance themselves from you which is most likely why I don't have many friends and have moved many times under my life. Quite often, I don't feel swedish at all.

I kinda agree with the prospect that the swedish right demonizing them but the problem is that it usually comes from bad experiences with immigrants. Immigrants that work, are productive and do their due diligence very few swedes have an issue with.
* Meanwhile, reddit asks me to sign up or log in to see the thread. *

Oh wait. Who thought it's a good idea to post this with a link to a login page instead of the actual discussion thread?
And corporations already benefited plenty from infrastructure, education and stability provided by governments.

>If I get to benefit from the technology while the company that offers it also makes profit, that's fine.

What if you don't benefit because you lose your job to AI or have to deal with the mess created by real looking disinformation created by AI?

Is was already bad with fake images out of ARMA but with AI we get a whole new level of fakes.
In theory you get higher effective sending rates, however I've not actually proven how much faster in practice.
Based on my reading of rssCloud it seemed to lack a verification step so I'm glad to see the WebSub spec explicitly mention that. Without verification this seemed like an easy way to trick a server into sending random HTTP requests to third party services.
Interesting. Crete has the stupendously ancient olive tree of vouves [0].

It’s as public as trees get. Otoh it’s on the yard of a building complex. You can walk to it, hug it, go hide inside it’s hollow trunk.

I don’t know how much tourism it receives but it seems to be doing fine.

But it’s watched all the time. And if someone wants to cut down illegally some olivet rees there are much less guarded ones to pick from.

Ancient trees are awesome.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_tree_of_Vouves
Any of their performance graphs… none of them include axis labels, so you never really know what they are comparing. All you can see is that the newer chip is “faster” or “more efficient” than something else. You just never know by how much.
Most professional artists will be unemployed and hobbyist artists using AI seems to be kind of against the point of creating art for the art of creation.

But for one-click self-expression, AI tools will certainly come in handy.
Same, I use Firefox + uBlock Origin + YouTube Unhook for a cleaner interface. I also always watch videos on private navigation windows (my default way of browsing the internet) and I manage subscriptions with the RSS feed of the channels, much better to track what I have watched since the default homepage of YouTube does not display the last videos of your subscriptions.

Edit: I have forgotten to add sponsorblock to the list of extensions
Isn't that fraudulent? Its amazing how an individual can commit fraud one time and its FRAUD! But a company can do the exact same thing en masse as like a business model over and over and its only ever a misunderstanding that they get a chance to correct and a gentleman's handshake. aAnd even if they didn't, it seems impossible to adjust the dial from civil to criminal as its often left in the consumers hands. Its not like there are attorneys that, like, represent the State that could exercise their legal authority to protect consumers.
Don’t apologize, they can be tough to find if you don’t know the jargon.

https://community.apan.org/cfs-file/__key/telligent-evolutio...

See scenario #2: Ascending Powers

https://adminpubs.tradoc.army.mil/pamphlets/TP525-92.pdf

See chapter 7

There’s lots more, hopefully these will get you the keywords to start finding more docs. I’m not a mil guy but know some. Actually part of the strategy is to get civilians more informed on the nature of the changing operating environment, because a lot of areas that used to be considered non military are becoming contested arenas.

Also just to reiterate, I don’t think they’ve made the jump yet to realize that relying on congress for funding is going to get harder.
You mean a ZOO? We have plenty of those.
Which they did in many cases.
The mentioned issue that can be seen on the video has been happening to me for a day or two while using Chrome.
Yeah, people are smart though. Like if you’re good at getting food you find the person who’s best at violence and promise to get them plenty of food if they protect you from the other violent people. Maybe you divide up the work among the good at food getting people and the good at violence people and pretty soon you got yourself a little society going.
As a user and not shareholder, I simply can't agree with this sentiment.

Windows got massively worse during his tenure in literally everything that can get worse including half-legal snooping on all users including Enterprise ones (I stand by the statement that this is idiotic long term strategy driven by childish emotions like FOMO - no way he didn't have a direct say in this).

Office is certainly PITA and getting worse in my experience, but that can be corporate modifications/restrictions I am exposed to.

Teams was, is and probably forever will be pathetic, buggy, slow and just a bad joke compared to some competition with 1% of their budget.

These are core extremely visible products and for most of mankind 100% of the surface with MS. There is not even an attempt for corrections, direction is set and rest are details.
Why is that getting downvotted?
> AI is a tool that is and always will make the creation of art less a matter of the expression of the human soul

I firmly disagree. I have a very strong imagination, but I never had time (and still don't have the time between full-time work and needing to learn German) to develop the skills to turn what I can imagine into artefacts that others can enjoy by my own hand. AI gives me the means to turn some of what I imagine into things I can share — not everything! (SD is so terrible at dragons, even the basic body plan is all over the place) — but it can help with many things.

> its primary purpose is to take away the reliance on artists. The ultimate aim of BIG TECH is to take away this reliance so that they can be the ultimate source of cheap art, just like cheap slave labour is the ultimate source of cheap and unsustainable clothing for most people.

IMO the purpose is fully automated luxury communism.

Stable Diffusion is free, so "Big Tech" (which would here have to include a small German academic spin-off) can't reap huge rewards from this, just like there's no huge business case for yet more video call services or social networks — too much competition for the money.

Finally, just yesterday I was watching a year-old video from a german robot supplier that's undercutting "cheap slave labour" for clothing.
How does horde compare with petals?
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/20/petals-is-creating-a-free-...
In your world yes, but in another, nonprofits are able to work in research that the Government should not, cannot or is too inefficient at ever getting working.

I'm no embarrased billionaire, but there is a place for both.
"just" is an understatement.

My friends and family had an awful opinion of AI in general because it was the voice assistants were sold to them as the best example of AI. That changed with ChatGPT.

Google invented really useful AI but failed to deliver. OpenAI did so in record time. Now it's Google that's playing catching up with the technology they invented themselves, ironically.

But my comment applies more to Microsoft and Amazon, tbh.
Agreed but worth it to note that since then building standards have gone up by a lot. It was much easier to offer cheap homes based on old-growth planks and lead paint.
Much ado about nothing. If you have to set environment, do it at the beginning of a program, before threading. When you execute an application, pass a new environment, without setting it. There's really no need to set environment from threads.

The only use case where this bug happens seems to be threaded programs that load libraries after threading has initialized, and want to configure those libraries with environment variables, that the user/parent program hasn't specified, rather than calling their APIs with specific arguments. If a library provides no way to set some option other than environment variables, their API is simply incomplete and needs fixing. An incomplete library is not a good enough reason to amend the C standard.
> And it's not like I'm not going to get an eye-roll or tin-foil-man comments from the mom-pop-type people in my life.

That's why you don't start with the nerd explanation of the privacy issues, you just tell them Firefox is way better. You install FF + uBlock (since presumably they don't even have an adblocker on Chrome if they're anything like my parents), and tell them "Look ma, no ads!". Not even people who don't care about ads that much and just ignore them will go back to seeing them if they see the option of no ads existing. And if you handle all their bookmark imports and account logins for them so they don't have to, they won't even feel the difference from a UI/UX point of view (sans a few microscopic differences that nobody notices).

As for these artificial speedbumps, I think that statistic about every 100ms of page load decreases visitor time is true to an extent, but at least if I look at the way my parents use websites, even 5kb plaintext ones take like 3s to load since they have unfathomably slow internet and ancient devices, so it doesn't really factor in for them if they click on a video on youtube they wanna watch.
They resist expansion pretty strongly even if they love change.

Like, remember when Google wanted to put Dart in the browser natively? Nobody liked it, and now we're stuck with build steps for quite a while until JS finally adds typing, which might never happen, especially because insane people seem to think canvas+WASM is a good idea for anything but the most specialized uses...
It is still better to wait 5s without ad than with ad.
> Or being forced to use Teams and Azure, due to my company CEO getting the licenses for free out of his Excel spend? :-))

The pain is real :(

"You use Windows because it is the only OS you know.
I use Windows because it is the only OS you know."