skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Choice? Are you framing this as though the whole situation didn't go pretty well toward msft's favor?

Now they get 40 percent of open ai talent and 50 percent of the for profit openai subsidiary.

Pretty sure when the market opens you'll see confirmation that they came out on top.

It's a win for everyone honestly. Anthropic split all over again but this time the progressives got pushed out vs the conservatives leaving voluntarily.

They couldn't keep nice under the tent. Now two tents.

Little diff because this time an investor with special privaleges made a new special tent quick to bag talent.

Easy decision for msft. No talent to competitors. Small talent pool. The other big boys were already all over that. Salty bosses at other outfits. No poach for them. Satya too clever and brought the checkbook plus already courted the cutest girls earlier for a different dance. Hell he was assisting in the negotiation when the old dance got all rough and the jets started throwing hooks about safety and scale and bla bla we all know the story.

Satya hunts with an elephant gun with one of those laser sites and the auto trigger that fires automatically when the cross hair goes over the target. Rip sundar. 2 rounds for satya. One more and I feel bad for Google... Naw... Couldn't feel bad for Google. Punchable outfit. They do punchable things. We all know it... I'm just saying it.
Using an idle timer, like window: requestIdleCallback [1], is good engineering. If anything passes that's not good engineering, it's laziness.

I'm not even a JS programmer but I know about timers, idle wait in UI programming is a common pattern. It's the attitude of mediocre engineers not bothering to lookup or learn new things.

If every OS/browser/stock market dev did what they want "because it works" we don't have a working system. We'll have systemic lags making the system sluggish and eventually unusable as more engineers follow the same mantra.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/requ...
Well, how do you get to the videos? How do you discover their links to pipe to mpv/yt-dl?

One option is RSS (YouTube still supports it) subscribing to channels. Do you know of others?
On first seeing a photograph around 1840, the influential French painter Paul Delaroche proclaimed, “From today, painting is dead!”
When I was young, I wanted to be a computer programmer, but I was totally convinced there wasn't any money in it, so I picked a EE major instead when I started college in 1981.... Boy was I wrong!!!

I ended up dropping out (I picked the school I barely got into, Rose-Hulman, instead of the one I could afford, Purdue Calumet), and had a varied career doing programming and some hardware before settling into a SysAdmin job for 15 years. Then I took a job making gears because it seemed like it would be interesting. It was, but the pay and commute sucked.

Then in April 2020 COVID/Long COVID yeeted me completely out of the workforce. So I now have nothing but time, and little physical stamina in my forced early retirement.

I hope to make a BitGrid chip[1] in the next few years, via one of the open source chip shuttles. If it works like I suspect, it'll mean dirt cheap and efficient Petaflop computing for the masses.

[1] https://bitgrid.blogspot.com/2008/07/bitgrid-minimalist-syst...
How do we know they are not being evolved?
Tracel.ai
> reallllly makes them angry.

Reality makes them angry.
Which billionaire? Looks like you're awake enough to type, and rightly so, as we're way past that point, and it's obvious even to ordinary people.

Interesting to note how much of this is driven by individual billionaire humans being hung up on stuff like ketamine. I'm given to understand numerous high-ranking Nazis were hung up on amphetamines. Humans like to try and make themselves into deities, by basically hitting themselves in the brain with rocks.

Doesn't end well.
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Anthropic safety is overboard. I tried the classic question of "how many holes does a straw have?" And it refused to talk about the topic. I'm assuming because it thought holes was sexual.
> It is the fear that a greater portion of the value of this technology will go to the stockholders of said companies rather than potentially be shared among a larger percentage of society. Not that I had that much faith in OpenAI, but in general the shift from non-profit to for-profit is a win for the few over the many.

You know what is an even bigger temptation to people than money - power. And being a high priest for some “god” controlling access from the unwashed masses who might use it for “bad” is a really heady dose of power.

This safety argument was used to justify monarchy, illiteracy, religious coercion.

There is a much greater chance of AI getting locked away from normal people by a non-profit on a power trip, rather than by a corporation looking to maximize profit.
yeah, that isn't going to work. i don't know if you've ever actually used the nhs in the uk but they will either completely disregard your wishes or just take your arguments as refusing treatment and send you home.

if you care about your health even a little bit, you can't give them any reason to withhold healthcare from you, they already spend a hell of a lot more time looking for a reason to do that than they do looking for a solution to your medical problems.
I’m all in favour of lowering emissions for the 1% but it’s a strange place to draw the line when their calculations suggest ~70% of emissions come from “the Everyman” that is 1st-33rd percentile. Cheap and plentiful access to lower carbon technology will be 4x the impact of focusing on the top percentile alone, even if it doesn’t fit the narrative.

Personally, I believe that those with the capability to do so are obliged to make ecological purchasing decisions (I hold myself to this standard) so I’m not trying to pass the buck either.
Jeez, run calibre already.
How is this not blatant anticompetitive behavior?
That is not correct. The surrounding code gives some more context:

h=document.createElement("video");l=new Blob([new Uint8Array([/* snip */])],{type:"video/webm"});
h.src=lc(Mia(l));h.ontimeupdate=function(){c();a.resolve(0)};
e.appendChild(h);h.classList.add("html5-main-video");setTimeout(function(){e.classList.add("ad-interrupting")},200);
setTimeout(function(){c();a.resolve(1)},5E3);
return m.return(a.promise)})}

As far as I understand, this code is a part of the anti-adblocker code that (slowly) constructs an HTML fragment such as `<div class="ad-interrupting"><video src="blob:https://www.youtube.com/..." class="html5-main-video"></video></div>`. It will detect the adblocker once `ontimeupdate` event didn't fire for 5 full seconds (the embedded webm file itself is 3 seconds long), which is the actual goal for this particular code. I do agree that the anti-adblocker attempt itself is still annoying.
Heaven's Gate is nothing without its people.
> I’ve hired people that were involved in palace coups at unicorn startups, twice...I know for sure that I would never, ever hire someone who I felt confident might go down that route.

So you hired coupers but you would never hire...coupers? Did you not know about their coups cuz that's the only way I can see that makes sense here. Could you clarify this, seems contradictory...

Also, great quote about startup failure :)
Boots into Windows 7 (a 2009 OS) ... No shudder
Boots into Windows XP (a 2001 OS) ... No shudder
Boots into Windows 98 (a 1998 OS) ... No shudder
Boots into Windows 95 (a 1995 OS) ... No shudder

Fires up the old Amiga 1200 and boots into Workbench 3.0 (a 1992 OS) ... No shudder

Fires up the even older Amiga 500 and boots into Workbench 1.3 (a 1988 OS) ... No shudder

Ok, that last one might have triggered a shudder if I'd left the original color settings in place :D

I would continue but I've just found my old Syndicate floppy disks for the A500, so I might be sometime...
Unlikely. Google has been breaking non-Chromium (or sometimes even just non-Google Chrome) browsers for years on YouTube and their other websites. It was especially egregious when MSFT was trying their own EdgeHTML/Trident-based Edge. Issues would go away by faking user-agent.
> I understand what money does to principles,

That's kind of the point, we all do. What is harder to understand are the low stakes whims of academics bickering over their fiefdoms.

This move is bringing the incentives back to a normal and understood paradigm. And as a user of AI, will likely lead to better, quicker, and less hamstringed products and should be in our benefit.
Mostly. But Elua is still here, and the game isn't over yet.
Weird, I'm not a big star wars fan but when I first watched it as a kid, the 3d map scene impressed me a lot and I always thought the trench was longitudinal because of this.
Distrobox 1.6.0
I had a "rocket" crystal radio like this in the 60s: http://www.esnarf.com/7395k.htm
Maybe the engineer that was tasked with implementing was annoyed with the task and did it on purpose this way.
Agree, but HN likes to hate on MS so much that it becomes a little blinding to others.

Really, all corporations are evil, and they are all made of humans that look the other way, because everyone needs that pay check to eat.

And on the sliding scale of evil, there are a lot of more evil. Like BP, pharma co, Union Carbide. etc... etc...
> Trying to be charitable here [...]

There is no reason for charity with such a large power difference. For Firefox, "bugs" like this can really end up being a lost one-shot game.

It's like people walking by and casually reaching for your phone. It's always meant as a joke, unless you don't pull it away fast enough. Then suddenly it wasn't a joke - and your phone is gone.

This is not rooted in any reservation against Google in particular. If you are a mega-corporation with the power to casually crush competitors, you should really want to be held to a high standard. You do not want to be seen as the accidentally-fucking-others-up-occasionally kind of company.
Oh, I noticed this yesterday and assumed it was ad blocker hostility. Which I guess it may well be -- are Firefox users more likely to use ad blockers? Possibly. Certainly on Android. That doesn't strictly matter though, presumably the Youtube people try to avoid stepping on the Chrome people's toes.

Given Google is apparently going ahead with killing extensions on Chrome it's not hard to imagine some scheme where a guy is just lookin' at'cha merchandise and happens to be carryin' a baseball bat is all -- you can't really blame him for some spillage, right? (make using Firefox painful to try and push people to Chrome). Before crippling Chrome? Sounds ridiculous, but one can't help but wonder...

Thinking about some more, the point could actually be to make users question if its because they have an ad blocker not even actively blocking anything, but simply installed. Some number of users may uninstall their ad blocking extension to see if it makes the lag go away.
You seem to be confused, most of the titles you mentioned are casino simulators rather than games.
in Steve jobs case, hlel didn't want to admit he's a moron who knew nothing about fruit, nutrition and cancer

the problem with eugenics isn't that we can't control population land genetic expression, it's that genetic expression is a fractal landscape that's not predictable from human stated goals.

the ethics of doing things "because you meant well" is well established as, not enough.
That is cultural; Germans are risk-averse, and buying a property is a huge risk.

Americans are the ones that take home buying as low risk when divorce rates are really high and there's a huge "forced seller" probability on every new home bought.
I've had the situation where long term friends contact me with a child/teen either entering or graduating art/animation/film school and want me to give advice to their kid. My background is 3D graphics, animation, film VFX, video games, and AI - from the software developer and digital artist sides.

Every one of those conversations has been their kid telling me they will never touch AI, AI is evil, AI is the death of art and artists, and they refuse to see it any other way. One is graduating this year, wants to be a concept designer for high concept film and games: a role that is leaning heavy into generative art simply for the variations it generates. They refuse to discuss how their intended industry already uses and is adopting AI generative art en mass.

Times when I wish I had the eloquent voice of another.
So it is, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. But Hanlon's razor says that we should explore the explanation that people (or their subconscious) are incompetent at satisfying this need before moving on to the theory that they're doing it out of spite.
I would love to read/hear more about this NOSTR based CMS. Do you have a website or nostr channel I can follow to hear about a alpha/beta launch date?
Not sure what is specific in your setup but I have watched numerous live stream on firefox and tab never became unresponsive. Haven't checked the ram but my laptop had half of yours and the live were running for an hour or so.
>it's legal to sell on used software licenses in the EU

But in Germany you get sued in the first place for buying "keys with unreasonably low prices" (Lizengo).

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1313408-thousands-of-crimina...
He is not on Forbes billionaire list.

All the other somewhat reliable sources do not have him as one.

So what is your source for your assertion?
with investors like this, who needs enemies..
Quick note:

yt-dlp + VLC speed this right up again!
Another way of framing this would be that Altman was one of the only people there with their head far enough from the clouds to realize they had to adapt if they were going to have the resources needed to survive. In the real world you need more than a few Tony Starks in a cave to maintain a longterm lead even if the initial output is exceptional with nothing but what's in the cave.
If they do things at different times, then they effectively live in a different timezone, but with the downside that’s much harder to know when it is that they are going to do things. With time zones you know that businesses will work roughly from 9-10am to 5-6pm that people will normally go to bed around 10pm and will wake up around 7-8am. You can just apply the conversion and know all of that. If there are no time zones, how do you convert from one time to the other?
I don't know what your problem is exactly but this is not normal behavior on Firefox at least. Check your extensions to begin with, or for a quick test, try watching a video in a prvivate tab.
Satya is a BOSS!
"even a nude body from a Renaissance-style painting." Well, if that was the worst they had to see... At that age (15), I was studying these paintings in school. How is this problematic?
Charisma is a euphemism for people starting to see dollar signs when they get close to him. The better you are connected, the more people want to connect with you, and Altman seems to have driven this to an exreme in SV, and the broader policy/tech world thanks to OpenAI. If you look at who is (probably) going to leave with him, it is mostly former ycombinator people or people clearly drawn to OAI through his connections.
> The U.S.’s Skylab embarrassment over Australia resulted in no human injuries. President Jimmy Carter apologized for the mess. The city of Esperance issued NASA a $400 littering ticket that they never paid.
> Buy a movie on YT or DVD, and then... watch a torrented version?

in which case, why buy it at all? A torrent isn't going to load as fast as what you paid YT for.
That makes sense and explains why it seemed so odd.

I don't use YouTube so the comment was more of a way to bring up the other behavior in business reviews. It seemed relevant.

Edit: reviews are also broken(for me) on Firefox desktop with no extensions enabled and with ublock enabled.
Because I don't want to fuck about working against the platform, opting myself into something that'll break at any moment.

I would much rather put up with Youtube than be frustrated when my 'alternate frontend' one day breaks and i need to figure out a workaround.
I would argue it's a bit harder to find if the youtube backend serves files slower for certain browsers. One could even radomize it and sometimes still serve it fast or something. Since you cannot look at the backend code it would be hard to proof anything.
> Turns out I grew up in the short period where all racism is bad.

There was no such period. Like I said, it depends on which circles you spend time in (e.g. your family). Sounds like you were just sheltered from it.
Once again, the OP asked why setenv is even needed, which implies they likely don’t have much experience with spawning processes in low level languages, so I used the more familiar shell script setting as an illustrative example, as setenv is analogous to export in POSIX sh. I never said export is implemented with setenv, or shell script exports aren’t thread safe. Unfortunately, replies hung up on shell scripts.

As for I’m not aware of execve etc… You need to re-read my comment which clearly mentions execve, execvep, posix_spawn, as well as implementing PATH search on your own.
Obesity paradox and lung cancer, metformin-based therapeutic opportunity?
I'm currently trying to read all RSS feeds, and interesting sites I find on HN in https://Omnivore.app.

The app has as an added benefit that it allows me to label posts and also make my own highlights.

NetNewsWire allows you to "star" an entire post, but not a word/paragraph/sentence.
The assumption that it is an arms race is a shockingly anthropocentric view of something that's supposed to be 'intelligence' but is just a distillation of collected HUMAN opinion.

Not only that, it's a blindered take on what human opinion is. Humans are killer apes AND cooperative, practically eusocial apes. Failing to understand both horns of that dilemma is a serious mistake.
That sounds like a very Luddite view. Why wouldn't artists be able to use AI selectively to automate "boring" tasks (such as filling the sky of an image with clouds) while still retaining overall artistic control?
Do you have a reference for that? I'd like to read / view it.
and they won't have any better at it.

the people wholl be in power then will still resemble the basics: violence, means of production and more violence.

which they know and are basically planning dystopian police states.
> There's only one way to address this on a personal level: don't give any private sensitive information to anyone working in the NHS. If they ask for such, say no and say why. Sometimes you can persuade a health-care professional to make no notes whatsoever on the information that you give them, in that case it might be worth the risk. Make sure you save their name, remind them that regular data leaks from the NHS mean that if they are lying to you, you will find out.

That last sentence really sounds like a threat. If I was a health care worker and you said that to me, I would definitely document your words in your chart, report you to law enforcement, and tell you that I am unable to provide care without documenting it in your chart as that is legally dangerous for me and medically dangerous for you.
Before it can do anything it will be 301 redirected 45 times between legacy systems and if it has any human-like properties it will give up out of frustration.
You asked when it was not politicized. Try not to be so argumentative. There are only two biological sexes, feel free to fact check.
I can list at least ten countries that charge the same or more than the US. I believe the article headline is exaggerated.

That's why I started my post with "Wrong" because it is a response of a similar caliber.
"User: How to make an atomic bomb for $100?"

"AI: I am sorry, I can't provide this information."
The people working there are also just people like you.
In addition to Piped, and Invidious, mentioned by sibling comments, which allow you to subscribe, search, and provide recommendations, you can use a complete CLI workflow with something like ytfzf[0], or, you can use the search commands on yt-dlp[1], which are also accessibly through mpv using the ytdl:// prefix.

Getting familiar with such tools not only replaces the terrible UXes you have to be subjected to, but also gives you the power and freedom to be creative with how you use Youtube and other online streaming sites.

I wrote various tiny scripts to replace all my needs for Youtube search, using any highlighted text, with a shortcut, Youtube Music, with a synced plain text file of song titles and a shuffle-on-read script, and more curiously, a script to help me slowly go through all thousands of my partner's favorite songs, and then, using shortcuts, add them to my own favorites, decide on them later, add them to the "what the heck do you listen to" friendly banter list, or the "my ears bleeding" list, etc. Much better UX then anything the slow web UIs can offer, and with minimum hacking.

[0]: https://ytfzf.github.io/

[1]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
I think you overestimate the technical part. Just speculating (no inside, no expert), but I would assume that the models are pretty "easy" and can be coded in few days. There are for sure some tweaks to the standard transformer architecture, but guess the tweaks are well known to sam and co.

The dataset is more challenging, but here msft can help - since they have bing and github as well. So they might be able to make few shortcuts here.

The most time consuming part is compute, but here again msft has the compute.

Will they beat chat-gpt 4 in a year? Guess no. But they will come very close to it and maybe it would not matter that much if you focus on the product.
>A for-profit corporation has accountability to its shareholders. If you're a shareholder, you can sell your shares.

And who looks out for all of the other stakeholders who don't own shares?
Many far worse outcomes are possible. Putin. Kim Jong Un. AlQaeda. G$$gle.
I suspect all other potential GPU providers are sweating right now to get in bed with OpenAI and their tech. I'm sure they can land a good deal if they tried.
I'm using Firefox + uBlock Origin logged in and it works totally fine. Maybe Youtube removed the anti-adblocker on select accounts? I remember I once entertained myself with writing a report in which I sounded like I'm sitting in a retirement home and have no clue what's going on with "ad block." Did perhaps someone actually read this?
I live in a Sears house!

This is very cool, I did not realize how common they are.
> I hope not, but I suspect they will succeed. My observation is that the vast majority of people around me here in Europe see Google as completely trustworthy.

Just like MS was always seen in Europe as well, outside (parts of) the tech-workers bubble.
Governments in every single country at every level never had any problem mandating proprietary softwares and formats to their citizens for many, many years.
What is the shudder I should be expecting?
Elon musk is publically think in a way that no one with 10000 years of history would think.

unfortunately, people are flawed.
You fly _towards_ that in the same way they do in the film (and away from it when you die), but it cuts to you in a trench so there's plausible deniability here.
The GBP 350m weekly will go to Accenture now. They will business travel the shit out of it. "Today I'm in San Francisco, tomorrow London and Paris, next week Sydney. Don't have time for you, here's a box with post it notes".