skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, I think this is an awesome outcome. We now have an extremely capable AI product organization in-house at each of Microsoft, Meta, and Google, and a couple strong research-oriented organizations in Anthropic and OpenAI. This sounds like a recipe for a thriving competitive industry to me.
Delete the iOS app and install the Vinegar Safari extension. It will replace the hostile video player with a native HTML5 <video> element. I never see any ads, I can select the stream quality, and Picture-in-Picture works as my OS intended it to.
I don't know what sort of artists you know, but of all the artists I know, nobody is "completely fine" with tracing. It is okay but still frowned upon when people do it for "practice" without publishing the result, but anything that even looks remotely like it is traced gets called out and further investigated incredibly quickly.

And as for fan art, a lot of companies explicitly allow art based on their IP, as long as it's used/published by the artists themselves and the commercial rights to the work aren't sold to some other company. In Japan, there is a whole industry based around derivative works, Doujin - self-published works, that works off of what is essentially a code of honor. Companies don't go against the artists, as long as said artists adhere to certain guidelines on what they're allowed to depict (eg. no NSFW content.) Many franchises have become a lot more popular due to fan art/derivative works alone (ie. Touhou Project, Fate Series.)
Pretty sure that it would be illegal for them to tweet insider information like that if it were false, since it's effectively a statement to shareholders.
Seems like in the minority here, but for me this is looking like a win-win-win situation for now.

1. OpenAI just got bumped up to my top address to apply to (if I would have the skills of a scientist, I am only an engineer level), I want AGI to happen and can totally understand that the actual scientists don't really care for money or becoming a big company at all, this is more a burden than anything else for research speed. It doesn't matter that the "company OpenAI" implodes here as long as they can pay their scientists and have access to compute, which they have do.

2. Microsoft can quite seamlessly pick up the ball and commercialize GPTs like no tomorrow and without restraint. And while there are lots of bad things to say about microsoft, reliable operations and support is something I trust them more than most others, so if the OAI API simply is moved as-is to some MSFT infrastructure thats a _good_ thing in my book.

3. Sam and his buddies are taken care of because they are in for the money ultimately, whereas the true researchers can stay at OpenAI. Working for Sam now is straightforward commercialization without the "open" shenaningans, and working for OpenAI can now become the idealistic thing again that also attracts people.

4. Satya Nadella is becoming celebrated and MSFT shareholder value will eventually rise even further. They actually don't have any interest in "smashing OAI" but the new setup actually streamlines everything once the initial operational hurdles (including staffing) are solved.

5. We outsiders end up with a OpenAI research focussed purely on AGI (<3), some product team selling all steps along the way to us but with more professionality in operations (<3).

6. I am really waiting for when Tim Cook announces anything about this topic in general. Never ever underestimate Apple, especially when there is radio silence, and when the first movers in a field have fired their shots already.
I wonder if MSG will concede and start building these spheres without the external screens. It seems like it would be much easier to get buy in from locals.

I'm not sure how much they would lose on advertising revenue, but if they are trying to proliferate the sphere as a format, like IMAX, then it seems short sighted to force the external screens. After all very few places are as accomodating of in your face 24/7 advertising like Vegas.
That issue can be solved with service workers.
What's the difference for the world between the Altman and the Sutskever approach for OpenAI? With Altman the bad stuff happens at OpenAI and everyone gets it at the same time. With Sutskever, the bad stuff happens two years later but it happens in random pockets all over the world and nobody can be quite sure what they're facing.
The Activision purchase is still way too new to judge.
There is JSON Feed¹ already. One of the spec writers is behind https://micro.blog, which is the first place I saw it(and also one of the few places I've seen it). I don't think it is a bad idea, and it doesn't take all that long to implement it given the sane and quite readable specification.

I have long hoped it would pick up steam with the JSON-ify everything crowd, just so I'd never see a non-Atom feed again. We perhaps wouldn't need sooo much of the magic that is wrapped up in packages like feedparser² to deal with all the brokeness of RSS in the wild then.

¹ https://www.jsonfeed.org/

² https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser
A bit of a weird way to structure this kind of article. Why spend multiple pages comparing different formats by compression % / "Quality Setting" and only after 6 graphs start saying "oh by the way at 40% the AVIF image is 3x smaller than JPG".

Only the last two charts in this article actually contain interesting information, the others are just comparing arbitrary numbers with each other (how each codec defines it's 0-100 "Quality Setting")

Also JPEG-XL is kinda missing which is the main competitor of AVIF.
Here's the RFC ref for anyone wanting to check it out: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110#field.vary

Notice that this is the HTTP "Semantics" RFC, not the "core" one (Message and Syntax) which is the venerated RFC-7230 [1] which is indeed quite simple for such a widely used protocol.

This RFC only defines a handful of "header fields", almost all of which necessary for actually being able to "frame" (find the beginning and end, applying decoding if specified) the HTTP message : https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7230#section-8.1

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7230
“The Windows App might just set the stage for consumers to access cloud PCs and Windows apps on devices that don’t run Microsoft’s operating system.”

…like computers that are a couple years too old.
In js I thought 1==true, and 1 is shorter than !0 ??

Never seen the use of exponential notation for numbers in js though (not a surprise, I'm not really a programmer), it seems sensible to me from the point of shifting the domain from ms to seconds.
One thing I’ve found useful is that you can attach a zip, and the files in it that zip can be opened with open() as normal. This makes it easy to wrap multi-file Python apps (or other languages) as a single executable.
They’re gonna start rickrolling anyone not using Chrome next.

Unexpected side effect - Rick is now number 1 in all the streaming charts.
They shouldn't, but if even the C standard library reads environment variables, then the bar is set pretty low for library designers.

Look up the mess around LOCALE sometime.

The best the programmer can do is perform all the setenv calls before spawning any threads or making any library calls.
OpenAI is also one of the most dangerous companies in existence because its existing and future technologies are disrupting communities, livelihoods, and the world in general. The world does not need artificial intelligence. We need to focus on less efficiency and local communities, not replacing people who have earned their jobs through human creativity.

OpenAI is nothing without its people? History will look at these people as those who tried to play God and instead created a monster.
I'll take securities fraud for 420, please, but private.
> + many videos have index of chapters (deep links)

In mpv, you can use PgUp and PgDown to select chapters.

> + external links mentioned

Video description is in audio/video file if yt-dlp gets a --embed-metadata. mpv prints that if present.
Your snark would be slightly harder hitting if not for the fact that freshly minted CS grads demonstrate approximately the same skill as LLMs when it comes to turning feature requests into code.

The "G" in "AGI" is "general", as in "can do all things" — Ask not for whose job Bell Labs tolls, it tolls for them all.

(And now I'm reminded of someone, ages ago now, who was boasting about how good he was at matching all the `new`s and `delete`s in his C++ code, or possibly even `malloc`s and `free`s, being completely oblivious to the existence of STL smart pointers…)
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You seem to have missed the entire point of the comment you’re replying to.

The money was promised in tranches, and probably much of it in the form of spare Azure capacity. Microsoft did not hand OpenAI a $10B check.

Satya gives away something he had excess of, and gets 75% of the profits that result from its use, and half of the resulting company. Gives him an excuse to hoard Nvidia GPUs.

If it goes to the moon he’s way up. If it dies he’s down only a fraction of the $10B. If it meanders along his costs are somewhat offset, and presumably he can exit at some point.
This is only true when there is some context establishing recency. If I mail you a letter, that is recent and may be assumed to be in the current year. If I find a letter in my grandparents’ attic, I should not assume that it is from the current year. It may have just been moved to the attic yesterday, or it may have been decades before.

For a post about processors from the 70s, there is no default assumption of recency. This post is on Google Groups, which has existed since 2001, and which is a gateway server to Usenet groups that predate it. Absolutely nothing about it gives a shared context in which the absence of a year can be reasonably assumed to be the current year.
I walk past this site multiple times a week. It's currently partially derelict land and a car park. Not sure which nature you're talking about.
> Most of them, including mailcatcher, seem to be unmaintained.

MailCatcher is great. It "just works" and has Docker images for both AMD64 and ARM64 CPUs.
Who says that the OpenAi Board has humanity's interests in mind? Copy and reality are often different. It's more likely that said Board feels most of its pressure from the Press, which is for-profit and often has partisan agendas that are detached from humanity's interests. Whereas profit motive traditionally does pesky things like incentivizes company response to the market (humanity) and keeps them from doing braindead things like freeing up their talent to be scooped up by "megacorp" because either a. ego or b. pressure from outside forces with their own agendas.
> I don't understand this. If people don't want to or need to buy anything and they don't want to see ads, because this is pure simply a distraction and won't sway them into buying anything, then what is the point of forcing them to watch ads?

Age-old question. It's not that simple. Those ads have an effect on you whether you "want to or need to buy anything" or not.
I am an introvert: I rarely socialize, listen to podcasts at 2x speed, and mostly use subtitles rather than listening to audio for movies; therefore having a below average ability to differentiate humans/robots.

I asked someone to play the recordings for me to differentiate. I could not tell which was human (only between StyleTTS2 and Ground truth. The others were obvious)
If you look at the very right of the screenshots, there is a "history" of generations with unused alternatives. Me and my visual cortex managed to synthesize "before" images from this information.

Very inconvenient? Yes. Completely useless? No.
The site is the car park to the south of the train tracks. The red pin in your link shows it right in the middle of the housing development to the north. The Wikipedia map has the correct pin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSG_Sphere_London#/map/0

To note, I would object to this as well if I lived in the area and hope it gets rejected somewhere along the way.
Why are people upvoting a submission without a proper link? Really shows that people are always just commenting on the headline and not the content.
No one I've ever had as an investor would be OK with me enslaving the planet for 1 Trillion dollars...

You're talking about investors and shareholders like they're just machines that only ever prioritize profit. That's just obviously not true.
But they just hired him, and he accepted. It's a little late to dig into the past now.
It has a shopping mall (singular) and is surrounded by tons and tons of residential buildings. Seems odd to drop a giant sphere and 60k tourists in such a residential heavy area.
What do you think of elevator logic?

https://play.elevatorsaga.com/
User agents are useful. However they tend to be abused much more often than effectively used

1. They are useful for working around bugs. You can match the user agent to work around the bugs on known-buggy browser versions. Ideally this would be a handful of specific matches (like Firefox versions 12-14). You can't do feature detection for many bugs because they may only trigger in very specific situations. Ideally this blacklist would only be confirmed entries and manually tested if the new versions have the same problem. (Unfortunately these often end up open-ended because testing each new release for a bug that isn't on the priority list is tedious.)

2. Diagnosing problems. Often times you see that some specific group of user-agents is hammering some API or fails to load a page. It is much easier to track down if this user agent is a precise identifier of the client for which your site doesn't work correctly.

3. Understanding users. For example if you see that a browser you have never heard of is a significant amount of traffic you may want to add it to your testing routine.

But yes, the abuse of if (/Chrome/.test(navigator.userAgent)) { mainCode() } else { untestedFallback() } is a major issue.
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Microsoft releasing dramatically improved Clippy next week.
Just yesterday people on here were talking about how using Adblock instead of paying for Youtube was unfair to Google and basically stealing. Is this the type of behavior you want to reward?
Because of embeddings
If talent starts leaving OpenAI and join Sam at Microsoft, what does OpenAI have left? If investors decide not to give money to OpenAI because their leadership comes across as over their heads, how will they continue running?

That may have been the leverage Microsoft and other investors tried to use, but OpenAI leadership thinks won't happen. We'll see what unfolds.
That's exactly the point - by tweeting insider information you are making a public statement. We've learned this very recently...
Someone needs to invent a protocol for transferring mail and make it simple.
Still subject to a planning approval process:

https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/sadiq-khan-set-decision-londons-...
https://www.amsoil.com/ their 25000 mile oil when combined with their bypass filter and regular oil tests.

No OEM car manual says this is recommended.
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I really hope the next Next Generation EU package will be entirely funded by the fines we will inflict on Google for its blatant abuse of market dominance
I mean there weren't a lot of options.
I'm surprised no ones talking what a betrayal this is for people who followed Sam and Greg. Microsoft is the opposite of everything they've talked about for years and here they are. Seems like the board had the right idea about them huh.
Nevertheless, the world isn’t sloshing with forged banknotes.
The point of forcing ads onto users who don't want to see them and won't buy anything from them, is that the advertisers will still pay Google. In the long run, their CTR will suffer, but it will be consistent across advertisers. If they're paying per click then nobody loses except the user, who Google is betting actually will click on some ads (meaning they're basically engaging in psychological warfare, or at least rewarding the advertisers who do). And if they're paying per impression, then advertisers will see conversions go down in the long run, but Google might think the increased volume will make up for it.
This seems bad for users, no?

MS just wants to integrate AI into their junk enterprise tools. Hobbyists and small businesses could be left out?
Only option 1 is something that users, who are the people who decide what user-agent to send, might care about. And as you yourself point out, it doesn't happen.
>My friends that work as illustrators for PC and mobile games

You mean your friends that work to produce generically pleasant looking props in order to maximize player retention and profits?

It seems like artists complaining about AI don't actually work like artists but more like office drones
It could even just be a timeout as part of retry logic or similar. A lot of people seem to be saying that there is no reasonable reason to have a `sleep` in a production application. But there are many legitimate reasons to need to delay execution of some code for a while.
i think one could generate the background first and then the characters separately on a different layer, so any editing only affects them and not the background

Edit: just tried it and it mostly works. Generate background, then add pose, add new layer paint on top of pose, select area around character and click generate. The caveat is that it also generates a bit of background around the character, but it does not change it so dramatically
MIT licensed. Models, code, and everything is available right there when you click the link.

Maybe actually check it out before complaining.
Everyone experiences things daily without fully appreciating the patterns and insights that could be derived from it (would be exhausting if we did)

The book most definitely helps tech workers.
Really? These two did not do the technical work but hired, managed, and fund raised.

They won’t necessarily be able to attract similar technical talent because they no longer have the open non profit mission not the lottery ticket startup PPO shares.

Working on AI at Microsoft was always an option even before they were hired, not sure if they tip the scale?
This is such a weird take. Sam and Greg were at OpenAI for 8 years! Why is it assumed that their “potential contribution to advanced AI research” is contingent on their having spent (no/more/less) time at academic institutions decades ago?
Bullshit. They CAN support whatever they want.

They CAN choose NOT to use Chrome. They used Windows' browser before and no browser component before that. Steam doesn't NEED an embedded browser, having one just makes things more convenient for Valve because they can reuse their website in the client.

They CAN maintain support for older versions in their fork of Chrome. Browsers are expansive but not rocket science. Valve has the funds to maintain one.

They CAN make a specced down version of Steam (or GUI for steamcmd) for older operating systems. They don't have to keep selling Games on older operating systems (or could require an external browser for that) but taking away the ability to run already sold ones is unacceptable.

Problems caused by middleware are still the responsibility of the developer using that middleware. The end user does not and should not have to care how you cobble together your software.

They have simply decided that doing the right thing would be more costly than whatever cost they will incur from dropping support. That only works out for them because people accept this shit rather than demanding Valve keep their promise that you can continue to play the games you bought from them without trying to add additional conditions.
It's main purpose would be as an event venue where people would travel there deliberately rather than as a sightseeing item, and Stratford is a travel hub with connections to all other travel hubs in London and by extension the rest of the UK.
> These concerns are in the hands of voters and their representatives in governments now, and really, they always were. A single private organization was never going to be able to solve the coordination problem of balancing progress in a technology against its impact on society.

Um, have you heard of lead additives to gasoline? CFCs? Asbestos? Smoking? History is littered with complete failures of governments to appropriately regulate new technology in the face of an economic incentive to ignore or minimize "externalities" and long-term risk for short-term gain.

The idea of having a non-profit, with an explicit mandate to use to pursue the benefit of all mankind, be the first one to achieve the next levels of technology was at least worth a shot. OpenAI's existence doesn't stop other companies from pursuing technology, nor does it prevent governments doing coordination. But it at least gives a chance that a potentially dangerous technology will go in the right direction.
My suspicion is that given Sam and Greg’s engineering and deal making chops, they will only ideate in how to use AI models invented elsewhere like right now.

Don’t think Sam or Greg have it in them to build a competing AI model suite, that too inside a bureaucracy like Microsoft.

I think this is exactly what OpenAI wanted - get the business types out and focus on building brilliant models which asymptotically approach AGI whose safety and ethicality they can guarantee.
Apple only spend at max $10B a year to Qualcomm. Even if you ignore any R&D related to the 5G modem Apple would still need around $4B to Fab those chips. At a cost saving of maximum
$6B per year.

Qualcomm has a market cap of $150B, potential take over would be at least 20% premium at $180B, along with regulation hurdle.

The largest Apple takeover to date, Beats at $3B. Roughly $4B today when adjusted for inflation.
You're right that if Valve made Half-Life 3 today it would be just like any other FPS - and Alyx does back up those concerns. But that doesn't mean that it has to be like that. Even just making Episode 3 with little technical and design changes from the other HL2 entries would be a breath of fresh air today. And that's just the bare minimum possible - there are many things about games that are still incredibly primitive.
Same here in Germany, but I don't think that it's always a bad idea. Should help to make better decisions. Why seal land instead of reusing already existing lots.

In that case here, it's a huge screen in front of a lot of peoples windows, so I see why it's a dumb decision. I wouldn't want that either.
Everywhere in London is just 50-100 meters from residential areas. That’s even true for central London. It’s one of the quirks of the city.

It’s also worth noting that Stratford is under heavy redevelopment as a non-residential area. You have massive shopping malls, a top tier football stadium, huge rail links for out of town commuters and music festivals are hosted there too.

Stratford isn’t a residential district like Tooting.

Edit: I’m getting down voted for this but I visit Stratford daily, so I know a thing or two about the area ;)
Honestly, not much better. There are more chargers but also more EVs. New EVs support fast charging above 50kW, but there are very few chargers that offer that.
As much as I'd love visiting the Sphere, imagine living in your apartment knowing that a giant LED is about to be built blasting ads in your windows 24/7.
Altman reporting to Nadella is certainly going to be a fascinating political struggle!

Part of me thinks that Nadella, having already demonstrated his mastery over all his competitor CEOs with one deft move after another over the past few years, took this on because he needed a new challenge.

I'd wager Altman will either get sidelined and pushed out, or become Nadella's successor, over the course of the next decade or so.

It's an interesting time!