skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it's terrible how many resources that pivot has brought in to help advance the field. If only the US were more like Europe.
Yeah it's totally fine that a group of people that took upon itself to get everyone else to not take airplanes to not eat meat to buy less to recycle more etc. also turns out to be polluting the most...
You're almost there. Few recognize that Art is human communication. Most just want a pretty or awe inspiring image, or an illustration to supply the consumer's lack of imagination.

Perhaps with commercial art, pragmatic bread and butter art being automated and pooped out by noncomprehending, non-communicating consumers the job of real Art that communicates the frontiers of human experience using rich metaphor and on the edge of language and reason can work without having to also deliver hallmark nonsense.

Yeah, the economics to allow this are all fucked. But if you're an artist communicating your human experience, that does not matter, it's a part of your work.
On Windows, yes. On Linux, the proprietary driver was OK (consistently connecting at 48kbps and keeping it for hours), except for the micro-freeze when going off-hook.

LT Win Modem.
A Potentially Explosive Error [video]
I detest the use of the term “RSS” for feeds in general, because it grants mindshare to the inferior option—vast numbers of feeds have been implemented in RSS because that was what someone had heard of (and they’d probably have done it in Atom if they knew the full story). Just call them feeds, which has always been the appropriate technology-independent term.

What I say is: use Atom, unless you’re making a podcast. Unfortunately, Apple ruined everything there by choosing RSS even though the clearly-superior Atom was (just) published by the time they released their software, and subsequently continuing to not support Atom. Most other podcasting tooling also doesn’t support Atom. But every other application of feeds supports Atom just as well as RSS.
The further time goes on toward segmented streaming platforms and DRM bullshit, the deeper my piracy hedge grows. Eventually there will be a streaming service aggregation service a la Cable channels and we're back at square 1. Add to that streaming services pushing new ad schemes now that they've captured enough market share for the risk to be worth it, and we've got a great storm brewing for a resurgence in piracy and media execs going "but y?"

BTW modern piracy setups are far more streamlined and easier to manage/use than modern streaming platforms. Assuming you have some tech ability anyway.
unfortunately, you could also just be a Buddhist and reject material notions.

see, what exactly is insurance at the billionaires level.
dude, just pay the fine and frame the ticket.
This, anytime, anywhere.

Basically what you see these days is PR teams together with legal teams acting like individual that hired them. There are exceptions, but they are outliers in say Trump style, not these billionaires. Same, heck even more for politics.

It can be easily transferred into personal or professional relationships. For me at least, this analysis works 100% of the time when for example rest of friends or family struggle hard to understand actions of some individuals. Just point them to their previous actions and see the consistency emerging. This is how you can easily work with various people if you are smart but lack social skills, just observe actions and ignore blah.

People simply don't change, they may reflect change in their environment but thats it. Unless we talk about 2 decades+ since last encounter, but even then it may be just more polished PR.
> They have a bunch of cancelled/unreleased games [0] because their standards are so high.

Their standards for recurring revenue maybe. Most of their recent games(discounting smaller demos that are really just platform/hardware ads) are casino simulators.

(Less profitable) single player games don't get enough attention to be finished. Alyx is the exception that proves the rule - and even that might never have happened if they didn't need a game to showcase VR.

> Games are in their DNA

This is such a nonsensical statement. People can change. So can companies made up of people.
Oxygen not included is very cool by actually requiring logic gates to do anything sophisticated and also teaching a lot of scientific concepts

The systems you can design in ONI can be crazy complicated and it is just a joy when it works. I derive a lot of satisfaction from just optimising systems in that game even though it is not really required difficulty-wise to do optimisation
I think a lot of people have hit the snooze button 2 or 3 times at this point.

Rolling over, covering head with blanket. 'Surely the dystopian future, rich cleansing the world, is still a few decades away, just need a little more sleepy time'.
self fulfilling prophecies are real.
Apple TV shows something like 50 languages. More than I can be bothered to count, certainly.

Are you saying it's some sort of challenge beyond the abilities of a Senior Technical Lead with total comp in the seven digits to figure out how to make a list of items more than 4 or 5 entries long? Too many megabytes of JSON to shove down the wire for more?

> Maybe they mean the subtitles' copyright?

They definitely do not. That's not how work-for-hire translations work. You pay someone to translate your shows' subtitles for you, then you own the copyright on that work that you paid for. That's how that works. No weird region-locked silliness.

You can make other languages appear by changing the entire UI language of Netflix, which then shows some other "data driven" subset of the subtitle languages.

But then, the entire UI is in another language, which not everyone watching may understand.

Essentially there are audio-subtitle language combinations that are impossible to achieve, no matter what. That combo may not be common enough to make any top-5 list anywhere.

So if you love someone of a sufficiently small minority, or have an unusual racial makeup in your household, Netflix would rather you weren't so weird.

Sit down and think about how absurd it is for the bastion of wokeness that is Netflix to discriminate this profoundly against inter-racial love. On purpose. They wrote the code to do this.

Blows my mind.
Didn't Elon write a video game when he was 12?
>>There's a thin possibility that Microsoft would have to write-off its whole $10B (or more?) investment in OpenAI, but that isn't Satya's focus. The focus is on what he can do next. Maybe, recruit the most formidable AI team in the world, removed from the shackles...

That's a slightly flamboyant reading.. but I agree with the gist.

A slim chance of total right off doctor off.. that was always the case. This decision does not affect it much. The place in the risk model, where most of the action happens... Is less dramatic effects on more likely bans of the probability curve.

Msft cannot be kicked off the team. They still have all of the rights to their openai investment no matter who the CEO is.

Meanwhile, is clearly competing, participating, and doing business with openai. The hierarchy of paradigms, is flexible... Competing appears to have won.

I agree that direct financial returns, are the lesser part of the investment case for msft.. and the other participants. That's pretty much standard in consortium-like ventures.

At the base level, openai's IP is still largely science, unpatentable know how and key people. Msft have some access to (I assume) of openAI' defendable IP via their participation in the consortium, or 49% ownership of the for-profit entity. Meanwhile, openai is not so far ahead that pacing them from a dead start is impossible.

I also agree, that this represents a decision to launch ahead aggressively in the generative AI space.

In the latter 2000s, Google have the competence, technology, resources and momentum to smash anyone else on anything worldwideWeb.

They won all the "races." Google have never been good at turning wins into businesses, but they did acquire the wins handily. Microsoft wants to be that for the 2020s.

Able to replicate everything, for the new paradigm OpenAI's achievments probably represents.

The AI spreadsheet. The LLM email client. GPT search. Autobot jira. Literally and proverbially.

At least in theory... Microsoft is or will be in a position to start executing on all of these.

Sama, if he's actually motivated to do this.. it's pretty much the ideal person on planet earth for that task.

I'm sure takes a lot to motivate him. Otoh, CEO of Microsoft is it realistic prize if he wins this game. The man is basically Microsoft the person. I mean that as a compliment.. sort of.

One way or another, I expect that implementing OpenAI-ish models in applications is about commence.

Companies have been pleading chatbot customer support for years. They may get it soon, but so will the customers. That makes for a whole new thing in the place where customer support used to exist. At least, that is the bull case.

That said, I have said a lot. All speculative. I'll probabilistic, even where my speculations are correct. These are not really predictions. I'm chewing the cud.
Nah, then it doesn't work.

"It works" is The high engineering bar and it's the hard one to hit.

Oftentimes it's replaced these days with imagined complexity, ideological conformity or some arbitrarily defined set of virtues and then you get a really complicated thing that maybe works some of the time and breaks in really hard to understand ways.

Transcompiled frameworks inside of microservices talking to DBMS adapters over virtual networks to do a "select *" from a table and then pipe things in the reverse direction to talk to a variety of services and providers with their own APIs and separate dependencies sitting in different microservices as it just shepherds a JSON string through a dozen wrapper functions on 5 docker containers to just send it back to the browser is The way things are done these days. This is the crap that passes for "proper" engineering. Like the programming version of the pre-revolutionary French Court.

A simple solution, fit for purpose, that works as intended, easy to understand, remove, debug and modify with a no-bus factor, that's the actual high end solution, not the spaghetti stacked as lasagna that is software haute couture these days.

Sometimes, in practice, the dumb solution can also be the smart one. True mastery is in what you choose Not to do.
Google stopped testing stuff in Firefox, that is all they did afaik. We all should know how many bugs and "oppsies" you get when you don't test before releasing new features. Test code snippets being pushed to prod etc.

Engineers tend to create paper trails on what they work on, code reviews and bug logs etc are everywhere, so I doubt there is any of those where they say "Make things shit for Firefox to hurt our competitors", that would net them an easy loss in court. But not testing in browsers with small userbases will hold in court.
"Local time" is time zone metadata. I've written a fair bit about timekeeping, because the context of what you're capturing becomes very important: https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/ce...
I mean, we already benefit plenty in various ways from corporations like Google.

AI is just another product by another corporation. If I get to benefit from the technology while the company that offers it also makes profit, that’s fine, I think? There wasn’t publicly available AI until someone decided to sell it.
Software that's not getting any attention will be ok as it won't get python upgrades.

Software that is getting attention has a nice long warning period and fixes may not even cause any trouble at all if the code is ok and there are unit tests.

New software won't have a whole class of timezone problems because people will use the better API to remove the warnings.

I cannot see what the big problem is - much more troublesome things happen in Go all the time. Python isn't a huge for-profit company like Google or even MS which has to dedicate efforts to ensuring that games from 1992 still run in 2023.
All technology is an arms race. People are hung up on OpenAI, OpenAI is just one of hundreds of AI companies. Military AI in drones is already to point where AI can fly an F-16 and beat humans.
I don't know about browser options, but on the android app I can choose between 7 different audio languages and 29 subtitles. Looked it up just for you with an episode of "The good Doctor", which is not a netflix original. I live in Germany. Definitely not an UI issue.
+1, Automation+BeamNG combo is very, very playable!
Go read the gpt3 and gpt3 tech report and see for yourself.
A common thing where I live is for local companies to buy streaming rights for Netflix-created media, and then we can't watch Netflix-created media on Netflix because local-company bought streaming/playback rights. Netflix doesn't care about the customer. They care about money, and that won't change. They'll max out the bullshit until customers push back, leave it there for a bit, wait for customers to get used to the new-bullshit, then add more bullshit and repeat.
Microsoft must have pushed for the situation to be resolved before the market opens on Monday. They couldn't afford to drag it out.
I wrote an email to Electronic Frontier Foundation and European Digital Rights collective asking them to file a complaint against Google because of this unjustified slowdown. I advise other readers to consider doing the same.
wait, wait, how do we know this? where are the receipts? so far it's just heavy duty PR artillery. he was fired, then allegedly there was a negotiation (with some strange already-passed "5PM deadline"), but we have no idea who initiated that and why (allegedly Satya), etc.
> That's how we got Starship

You forget massive public investment?
If you believe what people say, instead of what people do, then you are going to be disappointed by many, many people in your life.

It's a cliche, but it's true: actions speak louder than words.

You are the things you do, not the things you say you want to be.
Seems like it will create a Deepmind/Google Brain style split within MS.

MSR leadership is probably a little shaken at the moment.
It depends how far ahead they currently are.
The really interesting question is whether AI, provided with superhuman inference, is better at this than humans. All the most powerful humans remain relentlessly human, and sometimes show it to tragic and/or laughable effect.

To some extent human societies viewed as eusocial organisms are better at this than individual humans. And rightly so, because human follies can have catastrophic effects on the society/organism.
Nah, I would suspect all the press about “Altman being begged to come back” was likely planted, if not by Altman himself, then by investors seeking to pressure the board.
I also don't believe in those doom odds, but he does, and he still wants to roll the dice?

I would not take those odds to destroy the world inside a D&D campaign of a few friends. If that is really what they think they are building here...
Not only that: Google's recaptcha will also ask you for dozens of captchas on firefox android (which is probably the best) way to watch youtube/use google site without ads on mobile)

f** google
Islets of Langerhans
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VLC somehow refuses to play it, but its nominal length can be verified with a short JS code like:

v = document.createElement('video');
v.src = `data:video/webm;base64,<as above>`;
await new Promise(resolve => v.onloadedmetadata = resolve);
console.log(v.duration);
> If more people are afraid of ostracism, that suggest ostracism has increased (even) faster than progress on racism and sexism, and that doesn't sound like it can go on forever.

Ostracism is progress on racism and sexism. It's society pushing back against them.

This is a very long war. Wars are ugly. If you think that racism and sexism will just go down quietly without a fight, well, that's not how it works. When they feel most threatened, that's when they'll make the most noise.
Blockers work with my throw away Google accounts that I use for this and that. So maybe it's restricted further still to very entrenched users.
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So, we've got this open-source TTS wizardry going on, which is kinda like if Siri had a caffeine overdose - faster, snappier, and way more fun at parties. This thing is running on gaming rigs with beefy GPUs, and it's apparently so user-friendly, even your grandma could set it up without accidentally summoning a digital demon.

But here's the real kicker - it's got the manners of a Victorian gentleman. You can rudely interrupt it mid-sentence, and it'll just stop and listen. Politeness level 100. The reverse, though - getting Mr. Bot to interrupt you - is still in the 'that's too much brain for my silicon' phase. Like, how do you teach a bunch of 1s and 0s to know when you're just taking a dramatic pause or actually done with your TED talk?

And get this - they're talking about making this bot read body language. Imagine your laptop judging you for your slouchy posture or that 'I haven't slept properly in days' look. Creepy? Maybe a bit. Cool? Absolutely.

In conclusion, StyleTTS2 is shaping up to be the cool new kid on the block, but it's still learning the ropes of human conversation. It's like that super smart friend who knows everything about quantum physics but can't tell when you're sarcastically saying 'Yeah, sure, let's invade Mars tomorrow.
This is a pretty simplistic and uneducated view on how big companies actually function.
2019…
The board trying to get Sam back might be a smoking screen, reading Bloomerg's report:

> Was game of chicken until the very end. Only constant was board talking to just about no one.

https://twitter.com/ashleevance/status/1726469367565619590

They called Sam bluff, using the talk to bring him back just to get enough time to replace Mira. They made the decision to sacrifice OpenAI as it once was.
Ah, the mental gymnastics of the privileged to convince the rest that inequality is not a problem
This is why the superior term is "AI notkilleveryoneism."
It makes it a pretty silly idea to invite people writing new programs in a new language to use that method, though.
"As of 16/08/2023, Amazon’s checkout button for Kindle ebooks is labeled “Buy Now”.

Just as on Steam you 'Buy' and on Steam it'll tell you the number of games you "Own".

For books, I de-DRM them and I can then read them in other clients, notably The Books app from Apple.
If I had to make a list of companies that need shackles of that sort, Microsoft would definitely be top three or so.
The EU Wants to Fix Gig Work. Uber Has Its Own Ideas
This article is not clickbait.

Let's start with a simple question: Is this article clickbait? The answer is obviously yes. But if you get right down to it seems like they are trying to get people to go to their website and they are using clickbait to do it. So it really is a website popularization page, not clickbait. It just happens that they use clickbait to do it.
Seems like this is an unintentional benefit to firefox users. A small amount of friction is the difference between "I'm mindlessly watching" vs "I actually care about watching this video."
What pisses me off about this is that people are such drones for The Google via GMail (mostly) that they don't question this since it works for them. Nevermind that Google is a user-hostile megacorp that will screw them as soon as it makes financial sense to do so.

Ever talk to someone random about Google's privacy bullshit and why Chrome is not a great browser? Nobody cares, and they think you're an idiot.

So, Google will carry on until it's too late.
>"Researchers at least can have other motives."

I know about a man who had turned country upside down while "having people's best interests" in mind.
Yeah, that makes sense. If that's the case, I wonder how sweet the offer to Altman and company was to move things along.
I'm not sure 'join' is the right word? It looks like Satya has offered the OAI team a new autonomous home where they can do what they want. It's going to be independent in the same way LinkedIn and Github are?
From a user experience point of view, Windows 2000 was absolutely awesome. An operating system should not get in your way and distract you from what you need to do the way Win 10 and 11 do.
You're mad that they're using a function for its intended purpose?
it's probably even more prosaic than that. new CEO should not spend his attention on going through days or weeks worth of he-said-she-said. (he will find out who he can work with, who is hostile to him, soon enough - if not he's useless as CEO.)

but of course the question captivates the peanut gallery so there's a certain importance to it. so making this empty promise costs nothing, hence it's there.
Yep. The relevant parts from the article:

> ... I run a simple scan ... against all the 74 real looking GitHub user tokens ... and discovered that 6 of them are actually valid.

> ... only 2 of them actually have bio and email, but one of them (a c/c++ developer) has a repo with 3.4k stars ...

> I obviously couldn’t verify all the secrets. From most of them I’ll probably be banned, so I stooped here.

As an alternative to manually testing the credentials (and risking bans), I wonder if any organisations would agree to test the credentials for you if you sent them a list of suspected leaks. If the organisation doesn't tell you which ones were valid (and takes responsibility for revoking/notifying), I don't see much room for abuse. Might be hard to convince the organisation of that though!
@dang seems like bot/spam account. Can you ban it ?
Like skywhopper (see sibling comment below), I think that the news coverage of the situation was probably heavily biased by parties favorable to Altman who wanted to influence the negotiation. There is no evidence that the board tried to get Sam back. I suspect that the true extent of discussion on this topic was probably limited to the attempt to hire sam back by Mira Murati, who is not on the board.