skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anything, the examples in that tweet shows the opposite. GitHub and Mojang both done lots of things that wouldn't happen if they weren't now Microsoft, especially GitHub which is only "GitHub" by name at this point, none of the original spirit is still there.
Ask HN: How often did your parents talk negatively about others in front of you?
I recently discovered that when growing up if you continuously hear negative things about others from your parents, it can seriously hamper your mindset and psychological state. Any similar experiences here?

For me, I am recovering from Social Anxiety Disorder. I find very hard to find positive things in any situation.
> I believe this is why we have art galleries proudly displaying oil paintings of fruit bowls, but don't do this for random food snapshots.

We also have them for social/historical reasons. A museum usually isn't built around "best stuff humanity has to offer", but has some sort of more complicated angle.

Eg, a reason why you may have a fruit bowl hanging on the wall is that this particular artist has been influential, and they just happened to paint a fruit bowl. Maybe thousands of artists of the era painted fruit bowls, and maybe a dozen of those are technically more impressive, but this is the guy that got talked about a lot, or started a movement, or such, so it's this guy's bowl we're going to go with.

Museums can have many themes. They may showcase a particular artist, a particular movement, a particular theme, a particular period in time. You can build a museum of nothing but paintings of cats if you wanted to.
OK, but has he written a line of code in the intervening 40 years?
Chinese Whispers
RFC 822 defines a Messsge-id header that the client can set, and most MTAs can be configured to add one if not set by the client. IIRC, they're supposed to be globally unique, but like so many things in email, ymmv.

Edit: oh, yeah, there's also a queue id returned in the 250 response (in postfix, at least)
Does Firefox allow a wider range of plugins, including adblockers?
TBH We are living in the outcome of the $10B investment. Google is in a weaker position in search, with egg on their face. Microsoft appears (with or without ChatGPT) uniquely positioned to monopolize on this new AI future we're heading into with or without OpenAI as a company.

Yes directly, the $10B investment in the company itself may be a write off. But it's not just about that.
yeah, but I don't think production and sales of CRT-tubes could be called a "market" in an economically sustainable sense today.

If someone would find a warehouse full of Trinitron tubes: Yes, a nice opportunity to cater to a retro-gaming market.

Setting up the production chain to BUILD tubes at scale: Not really.
When you have doubts, always replace "it's" with "it is" and see if it makes sense.

And by the way, the tweet itself is correct.
> And yet the mainstream consensus is that C and JavaScript are terrible languages with deep design flaws.

Oh, they all have flaws. But whether these make them "terrible" is a matter of opinion. Because they are certainly all very much usable, useful and up to the tasks they were designed for, or they would have vanished a long time ago.

> and its proponents will finally be able to honestly accept and discuss its design flaws

We are already doing that.

But that doesn't mean we have to share anyones opinion on what is or isn't a terrible language, or their opinions about what languages we should use.

And yes, that is all these are: opinions. The only factually terrible languages are the ones noone uses, and not even all languages that vanished into obscurity are there because people thought them to be "terrible".

Go does a lot of things very well, is very convenient to use, solves a lot of very real problems, and has a lot to offer that is important and useful to us. That's why we use it. Opinions about which languages are supposedly "terrible" and which are not, is not enough to change that.

An new language has to demonstrate to us that its demands on our time are worth it. It doesn't matter if it implements the newest findings about how PLs should be designed according to someones opinion, it doesn't matter if its the bees knees and the shiniest new thing, it doesn't matter if it follows paradigm A and includes feature B...the only thing that matters is: "Are the advantages this new thing confers so important to us, that we have a net benefit from investing the time and effort to switch?"

If the answer to that question is "No", then coders won't switch, because they have no reason to do so. And to be very clear about something: The only person who can answer if that switch is worth for any given programmer, is that programmer.
When did you last try that? I checked right now and it says

> A straw has one hole that runs through its entire length.
And nuitka.
> which you would know if you ever tried to draw anything

I know exactly how hard it is to draw anything because I tried a bunch of times, and failed. I for one am happy that I can now express my creative ideas, which I couldn't do before due to missing talent / practice.
I have 3 screens on my desk, and even on weekends I’m too lazy to look out the window. What usually helps me is rubbing my fists with my eyes until I see new galaxies. I'll try your app. Are you planning to support other browsers?
Why Did Joyce Carol Vincent Die Alone?
Not true

Sama on X said as of late 2022 they were single digit pennies per query and dropping
Bootstrapping Wisdom: 20 Founders on What Matters
There's an implication that he's more of a leader than just pure lucky. Sort of more like Bill Gates than Zuck I guess.
Yeah, I find this extremely weird. Doesn't sound like a super idea.

If the investigator finds the board was wrong, it makes the new CEO an enemy of the board. If the investigator finds Sam Altman did bad things, it makes Microsoft look bad and incompetent for hiring him; MS is OpenAI biggest client.

And if, as is likely, the investigator finds some blame here and there, and nothing conclusive, nobody's better off and a lot of time and energy was spent learning nothing.

What good can possibly come from this?
David Shapiro complained about Anthropic's approach to alignment. In his video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgwpqjiKkoY he discusses ableism, moralism, lying.

As to cat-and-mouse with jailbreakers, I don't remember any thorough articles or videos. It's mostly based on discussions on LLM forums. Claude is widely regarded as one of the best models for NSFW roleplay, which completely invalidates Antropic's claims about safety and alignment being "solved."
Very much doubt this. Altman may be able to attract the necessary talent - but Altman himself isn't exactly an AI expert.
I’ve also noticed mysterious buffering in the iOS app for YouTube for at least a few months. Even on a Google Fiber connection many videos will take a number of seconds to start, and sometimes buffer in the middle. I also have YT Premium, so anti ad blocking shouldn’t come into the picture. Videos load right away in Safari though.
maybe he got invited by Emmet Shear (other Twitch co-founder, current OpenAI CEO) to eventually join OpenAI. So he started preparations
It's probably because of two reasons:

1. Most of northwest Indiana (Lake County) is considered part of Chicagoland, but is a different state. For example: Growing up there, I remember my parents crossing the state line on Sundays to buy alcohol, which was not legal to sell on that day in IN. But NWI had all the same radio and TV as Chicago.

2. Outside of of said Chicagoland, Illinois and Indiana are very different, especially the more south you go in both states.
Satya is a CEO.
I'm wondering how Sam is going to work with Demis. Two master cooks in a kitchen/
Yes, Chrome is severely hobbled in this by comparison.
If I was a SE/MLE at OpenAI , and I had a choice between the nonprofit OpenAI and MS, I'd follow Sam to MS. This is assuming I had profit sharing contracts in place.
Uhhh they won that appeal BTW.. If you are referring to the trouble with Janet Reno.

Gates keeps repeating. Noone hears it.
> Our partnership with Microsoft remains strong

Did he say that before or after Microsoft announced they'd hired Altman and Brockman, and poached a lot of OpenAI's top researchers?
YouTube's market hold is unfortunately circular; no uploader on the platform will risk splitting their audience to a platform nobody goes to, and because of that, new platforms are unable to grow.

That aside: I also doubt most peertube instances can withstand the bandwidth costs of seriously hosting a few moderately succesful YouTube channels.
Hey if it’s a Weimar style apocalypse we’ll all be billionaires.
Doesn't the holographic map they show in the briefing show the trench they go down to bomb it running north/south? It's been a while since I watched the film.

Oh nevermind it says that in the article.
I don’t know about that. Yes, there was tension built into the structure, something happened to trigger this. You don’t fire your CEO without a backup plan if this was an on going conflict. And if your backup plan is to keep the current president (who was the chair of the board until you removed him), that’s not a backup plan.

Everything points to this being a haphazard change that’s clumsy at best.
What do you mean by this, kinda vague?
Jellyfin on a NAS is just great. You don't even need a NAS. A Pi with a large SSD attached will do fine.
I use Firefox, and Google's sites are literally the only ones where I consistently have issues. There was a period of about a month this summer where Google Maps was just completely broken for me, the map wouldn't update at all when attempting to search or pan. There was recently a several day span where chat in Gmail had a 10+ second input lag due to some font-related JavaScript code spinning the CPU nonstop. It's literally gotten to the point where I keep a Chrome window open and use it exclusively for Gmail, Google Meet, YouTube, and Google Maps.

It's pretty obvious from the outside that supporting Firefox is not a product priority for Google. It also seems clear that it's in their best interest to have users choose Chrome over Firefox. My guess is that this likely emerges from a lot of very reasonable sounding local decisions, like "prioritize testing on browsers with the most market share," but it is convenient how those align with the anti-competitive incentives.
Wasn't this whole thing about 'Safety?'
Basically, you have elucidated their entire revenue model. Those exact words came out of some executives orifices, and like you I would not give them the better part of a millionth of a cent.

I recently had a site owned by the theme plug in. (They were using word press? What are they stupid? ) chrome edge and others had problems. Firefox/nightly with a hosts file and ublock origin? Nothing. I cannot remember the last time saw a youtube ad. Kudos for everyone that got this to work.
If the board was in the wrong then they are already an enemy of the new CEO and he just doesn't know it yet. Investigation finds out if that's the case for the new CEO.
Didn't The Simpsons already do this?
Mostly because there is a shooting happening where my family lives daily or bombs that go off close to where they may be.

But also if I go into a larger town, especially at night, there is very few swedes out in large parts of sweden nowadays. You see immigrant gangs hanging out everywhere and you can't really walk freely in pretty much any city anymore at night without being afraid of being a victim of some crime. Most of the time, people may just threaten you but you never know and there is no idea to call the police because they aren't doing shit and your problems may just become larger if you do.
"HTTP/1.1 is a delightfully simple protocol, if you ignore most of it".

A Vary field containing a list of field names has two purposes:

1. To inform cache recipients that they MUST NOT use this response to satisfy a later request unless the later request has the same values for the listed header fields as the original request (Section 4.1 of [CACHING]) or reuse of the response has been validated by the origin server. In other words, Vary expands the cache key required to match a new request to the stored cache entry.

[...]

When a cache receives a request that can be satisfied by a stored response and that stored response contains a Vary header field (Section 12.5.5 of [HTTP]), the cache MUST NOT use that stored response without revalidation unless all the presented request header fields nominated by that Vary field value match those fields in the original request (i.e., the request that caused the cached response to be stored).

So, Cloudfare doesn't actually implement HTTP/1.1: you can't just decide to ignore parts of the standard and still claim you implement it, that's only allowed for "SHOULD [NOT]" and "MAY" parts, not for the "MUST [NOT]" ones.
This is just anecdote, but sometimes (especially when I'm on slower internet) Safari + AdGuard will have glitch [0] on YouTube. Never happened with Firefox + Ublock Origin.

[0] Unable to press play and showing image with Ad instead.
It has to be a background check, otherwise you can't explain cases (like me) where the code is running but users never noticed any delay.
Is not standard and, as I said, creates ambiguity and additional cognitive load for a weak reason.
You could also run WSL2 for the Linux apps you need to use part-time.
Please send this to the Peertube developer. Consider also that until recently it's likely that having videos load fast on peer2peer and adding features like streaming likely had a higher priority than interface polishing.

But you might be asking for something impossible : the focus is on the different servers, and having a "suggested videos" page is seen as an anti-feature because it involves making an "algorithm", at which point you are editorializing, become (legally !) responsible for what you select, and are close to become a platform yourself, something that you started out by fighting in the first place !
I only even know where those are because of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqDBB0no6dQ
How unfortunate. The Sphere works in Vegas because it’s a grand spectacle amongst a city based on dopamine. Plopping it down in London is random and would presumably lose its playful video style.
None of what you said implies they have current legal access to the source/IP for GPT4.

The original 2019 deal was described as:

> Microsoft and OpenAI will jointly build new Azure AI supercomputing technologies

> OpenAI will port its services to run on Microsoft Azure, which it will use to create new AI technologies and deliver on the promise of artificial general intelligence

> Microsoft will become OpenAI’s preferred partner for commercializing new AI technologies

The $10 billion deal was probably not making a ton of money for MSFT as it was 75% percent of profits, which are easy to get rid of, until they get 49% of the company.

Can you explain why MSFT would spend $10 B for either of these things if they just got OpenAI’s IP?
What is starting from zero exactly?
To get a number that high, they're likely also including parking costs too, as well as fuel. If a garage adds $100,000 to the value of a house, that's over $500 a month in increased mortgage costs. And if you have to pay to park at work, too...
I think you have simply been lucky, the full story is that uBlock Origin and Youtube have been tying to outpatch the other, with uBlock rolling out a bypass to the filters every one-two days since late October (https://github.com/stephenhawk8054/misc/commits/main/yt-fix....).

Depending on if you've set up uBlock to auto-update and when you've watched youtube relative to when the block filters got updated you might just not have been hit with the latest detectors while they were active. Personally I know I got the "accept ads or leave" modal with firefox + uBlock, locking me out completely on one of my devices.
New models might have different economics…
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?

Furthermore, I wish regulators have gone at YouTube like a ton of bricks. The ads they show are mostly from various kind of scam artists. My friend is a bit naive, but fortunately she asked me for an opinion whether she should invest her savings into the programme offered by one of "gurus" advertising on YT. She even gone on a few of their webinars and became as you would say, brainwashed. The kind of way you see in a cult. Fortunately there was still some worry running around her and she asked me to check before transferring £20k. You can't imagine how much effort it took to tell here these guys are fraudsters. Now she is onto another scheme and now she tells me that I just don't want her to invest the money, because I think everyone is a fraudster and these are the good guys! Then she showed me testimonials from apparent "clients" how they got rich. One person looked familiar and I actually found them on Cameo. She tried to say maybe this is just that person's side gig etc. and she does not talk to me.

I really really hope someone or some organisation get to the bottom of this kind of harmful and dangerous content.

YouTube is a scammers paradise and YouTube wants more people to fall for these things.
Krita is much better than GIMP, I hope you can make the switch.
I am assuming your asking where I'd go, and the honest answer is that I do not yet know but I won't raise my kids in todays Sweden, that is for sure.
It really doesn't work in Vegas either; it's already lost $100M in the first three months: https://boingboing.net/2023/11/09/las-vegas-sphere-lost-near...
The Radiating Programmer
Steve was his role model as a child. Says so on his wikipedia page.
Not interested in political debates, but you make political statements drawn from the extremes to support your arguments. Gotcha.

"Europe is falling behind" very much depends on your metrics. I guess on HN it's technological innovation, but for most people the metric would be quality of life, happiness, liveability etc. and Europe's left-leaning approach is doing very nicely in that regard; better than the US.
It took me a while to switch to Krita, because I used to think it was mainly for painting/illustrating. It took me being unbearably frustrated with Gimp's UI to give Krita a go for basic editing. Never looked back.
If it shines bright enough, you won't see any of the poor people /s
One of the benefits of ublock origin for me is blocking the youtube comments section, along with all of the video overlay elements.
>find your nearest art college and go to the end of year show

This. I just want to add: If you want to see more interesting things, if you have a choice, go to the less prestigious school. I have seen my fair bit of end of year shows, and the prestige of the institution is directly correlated with how orthodox everything is.
> recruit the most formidable AI team in the world, removed from the shackles of an awkward non-profit owning a for-profit company

This massively increases the odds we’ll see AI regulated. That isn’t what Altman et al intended with their national press tour—the goal was to talk up the tech. But it should be good in the long run.

I also assume there will be litigation about what Sam et al can bring with them, and what they cannot.
I'm planning to make a desktop application. For exercise, it is important that your attention is completely switched and no notifications are distracting, at least for 30 seconds. I also plan to use AI to generate new exercises.
In the UK, complaints from neighbors can get pretty much any project canned or delayed indefinitely.

There is always some kind of rare amoeba whose habitat would be impacted by any new building, requiring more multi-year studies be done.
Is there any good evidence of the board actually wanting him back? Sure, he was invited back into the office, but maybe Mira allowed this as CEO? From the outside it seems plausible that the board was just under immense pressure but was firm in its decision. If he had come back and the board got replaced with new people, why even have a non-profit board if the CEO can just revert decisions and replace everyone on the board?
I think there are lots of intuitions for why this is not enough to explain their capability. For example, if you train an LLM on English and French text, and then use reinforcement learning with English examples to teach it how to answer questions reliably, it will then also be able to answer questions in French. Why?
Big discussion previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38341466
Moved to NH not long ago from the bay. It's more of a small town vibe here but lots of rural areas, farm stands, with most action off a main street or highway. I'm contemplating chickens and people sell them freely. If I ever want to change careers I could definitely find someone to apprentice with. I'm not living on a farm rural but there's plenty and life is good.
It's an interesting question, because AI breaks the intuitiveness of this dramatically.

You can look at say, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wedding_at_Cana and quickly get that yup, this took a whole lot of time and effort.

But AI has nothing like that. Some things that look like an awful lot of work it spits out with ease, some things that sound simple can take a whole lot of fiddling.

Like the other day I was playing with DALLE3, and for whatever reason it didn't want to place things on a table.
> it'll suddenly make board actions much more justifiable

The investigation would also include checking if the board had some odd intentions by ousting Sam; so, no, not necessarily.
Much of environmentalism is aimed at developed, mostly white countries. You frame it as whites lecturing others, but much of it is whites lecturing other whites.

Any tortured logic will do, so long as it finds the right culprit.
Microsoft specifically does not get a front row seat (in any meaningful sense) to and OpenAI AGI event, per their agreement.
The question was “did they try to find compromise” not “was the firing haphazard.” The answer is definitely yes to the former.
MS has the upper hand here. Don't underestimate a company that survived that much (anti-trust etc.)

If there is misconduct from Sam - he will get fired. If he succeeds - MS will benefit from whatever success means.

On the other hand, other competitors won't be able to porch Sam at this point. This is something many do not get. Whatever happens in the next few weeks to month, it won't hurt MS and won't benefit others, while on the outside we play the corporate compliance game.

OpenAI definitely needs professional structures. And MS will help them achieve that.
Not the ideal solutions, but they work: Try https://libgen.rs/ or https://zlibrary.to/
More like very mental. The geeks are drinking their own Kool aid and acting weird again.
Likely being groom to take over Satya 10 years from now.
There's several faster ones out there. I've been using https://github.com/Softcatala/whisper-ctranslate2 which includes a nice --live_transcribe flag. It's not as good as running it on a complete file but it's been helpful to get the gist of foreign language live streams.
> They seem to be in a bit over their heads with a company that is supposedly worth 80bln dollars.

seems to me as if Microsoft's lawyers are the ones in over their head

they invested billions in an entity that has no power that is controlled by another entity they have no control over
The knowledge taught in a CS degree has very little relation to what OpenAI is doing.