skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Don't buy keys from Germany, buy online from anywhere else, that's the beauty of the internet

2. Germany can go pound sand, nobody care about that digital dinosaur
This site is a nightmare.
demagoguery.

go read musks public statements leading up to Twitter purchase.

it's pretty clear they were fired because of profit motives. that's all I hear.
I had the same issue, it turned out to be some random addon I installed years ago. Check if the problem also occurs with everything but uBlock Origin disabled.
> It's only used by newscasters, and car dealers in their commercials.

When I was growing up in Southern California, “the Southland” was used in the same way to mean the Los Angeles area. I heard the term only in the mass media, never directly from a person in conversation.

A little googling turned up this list of media-only geographical terms:

https://www.cyburbia.org/forums/threads/nicknames-for-metrop...

I noticed this phenomenon when I moved to Chicago in 1978. I liked the city, but I thought that “Chicagoland” sounded stupid.
What's even more striking, support on WB is higher than on GS. Which means it has nothing to do with fear of answering honestly because of possible reprisals, as Hamas is not in power in the WB and is in schism with their local authorities. Also people in WB were not subject to Hamas propaganda all that much and have access to all world media.

Probably suggesting that this is not a result of propaganda or brainwashing, but their innate, honest beliefs, thus only humane solution to their problem seems to be containment or expulsion.
Was GPT4 a success due to the brilliance of OpenAI's tech team vs first movers advantage and good GPU deals with MS? I might be missing something here, but to me nothing about this technology feels like rocket science (obviously, there is a lot of nuance, yada yada, but nothing that seems intractable). I have a strong suspicion that the reason Amazon, Google and so on are not particularly interested in building GPT-scale transformers is that they know they can do it anytime - they are just waiting for others to pave the path to actually good stuff.
On non-UNIX platforms stuff like getenv() belongs to the specific compiler C library, not the OS API, hence why Windows doesn't use it.
>Humans are really bad in assessing situations larger than their immediate family

Agreed, and we're also bad at being told what to do. Especially when someone says they know better than us.

What we are extremely good at is adaptation and technological advancement. Since we know this already , why do we try to stop or slow progress.
They would have to be pretty dumb, or have a compelling sense of urgency, to make such brash and public changes.
Time for EU to slap them in the face again
People on reddit have posted videos of this happening in chrome, I think it's possible this is actually just a bug and not an evil scheme.
The only shocking thing about this whole episode was how many people in the media failed to understand just how much power this board had.

They were, at no time, under any obligation to do anything except what they wanted and no one could force them otherwise. They held all the cards. The tech media instead ran with gossip supplied by VCs and printed that as news. They were all going to resign 8 hours after their decision. Really? Mass resignations were coming. Really? OpenAI is a 700 people company, 3 people have resigned in solidarity with Altman and Brockman at the time.

Sam had no leverage. Microsoft and other investors had little leverage. Reading the news you’d think otherwise.
Out of context but still hilarious.
Isn't AI probabalistic, to what exent is thinking also probabalistic?
> I partly agree with him.

It is not helpful in general. Magnitude and relative changes are different things. Sometimes you need one, and sometimes you need the other.

Global average temperatures are a good example: where is the zero? Is it significant? The effects of an increase or decrease of 0.5°C are massive, so the appropriate way of presenting this is to show the temperature anomaly, not the absolute temperature. Also, this way the information is conveyed regardless of the temperature scale in use.

The religiosity graph is interesting. If you want to show a sudden change at some point, then showing the relative change is appropriate. If you want to show that people are not religious anymore using this graph, then you are dishonest. It is all about the narrative and the point you want to make.

On its face, “scales must go to zero” is not good advice, because you can always change the variable so you can make anything go to zero without changing the shape of the curve and our perception. However, when we see a graph, then we always need to understand why it goes to zero or not, what the author is trying to show, and whether they are being honest about it
Ah, I was hoping to find a drop in replacement for RSS, but Nostr looks more like some kind of Twitter clone in protocol form.
I've been dying to play with cosmopolitan for a while while working on a micro-Lisp and another interpreted language that I've been designing for a while.

Imagine writing an interpreter that's compiled with cosmopolitan, you bundle it with your program source code, and bam! your script runs pretty much everywhere, even on bare metal. How cool is that? I could distribute my apps written in my niche Lisp to anyone, without having to write a JIT, or incorporate LLVM, or asking them to download and compile my interpreter from github. Here's a binary, just run it (if you trust me :)

To me it's mind blowing, and I have enormous respect for the work of Justine and her collaborators.
When they first introduced anti-adblock crap, you could evade the banner by switching UAs. I'd say it's fair to assume that switching UAs triggers some other code path and this function never gets called.
It actually does happen reasonably often, typically they hire a lawyer to do a review. It represents a careful approach to governance -- remember OpenAI is a charity, so they're ultimately answerable to the relevant law than shareholders.
> a council that actually has humanities interests in mind

It's interesting that "Effective Altruism" enthusiasts all seem to be mega-rich grifters.
As a JavaScript Dev, around 2010-2012 it was not uncommon to see `setTimeout(..., n)` hacks, often with n=0 but sometimes even n=1000, n=5000 into a codebase. This could workaround some bugs, and given the overall low-quality state of the JS ecosystem back then, often a last-resort.

And yes, am guilty too of committing this to prod back then. I think I haven't had a case where this was deployed in the last decade, but in the ugly SPA days pre angular v1 (and even during angular v1), where you code was this big glued-together conglomerate of various 3rd party UI libraries, this was common. Its ugly as hell, and you really had to be there at that time to understand this. But often it was just a cheap alternative, while debugging and fixing the truly underlying cause would be several man-days or even weeks.

My point being: It might have slipped their QA cracks and was at some point intended to workaround a bug of some obscure Firefox behavior. For a company at youtube's scale this is however pretty embarrassing.
Roc – A fast, friendly, functional language
> Despite it's popularity, Half-Life is a delicate property in the sense that the story hinges on a lot of unknowns that are not revealed straight forwardly, similarly to LOST, the lack of detail stokes that mystery to the audience's delight, because they know there will be a big payoff that explains these mysteries at the end of the tunnel. That's a lot of pressure for the writers room @ Valve, especially so considering the development process of the game engine/assets itself.

They have noone else but themselves to blame for writing themselves into a corner. LOST is another example why you should absolutely not write a Mistery without knowing how it plays out before releasing the first part. Most importantly, it does not excuse their shitty cummunication about the development status of Episode 3 - to this day they have not formally acknowledged its cancellation. And all the vague hints at a sequel throughout the years which amounted to nothing are just abusive. Any hack can use the unknown with a promise of a future reveal to lure an audience but if you don't even have what you promise to reveal yourself then you are not better than a snakeoil salesman. Selling a promise you don't know you can keep is a scam, simple as.

Although with valve specifically I don't even believe that they couldn't manage to tie the story up but rather that they can afford not to - because they have found a more profitable business in selling other people's games as well as a few gambling simulators of their own rather than making single player games themselves. That alone would be sad but at least understandable - what's less OK is gaslighting their fans instead of coming clean about their plans.

> As long as I live to see the end of the narrative, I'll be happy. If not, then valve pls fix.

Good for you but many fans have died waiting for a sequel. Many more have moved on.
> If that's the case, you will have a very hard time selling to folks like me.

I'm not even sure what I have to sell to you? What do you think I'm selling to you?
he's definitely laln example how people will throw too much money at things ...
There’s been a rewrite btw, mostly a critique of the non profit board structure not the non profit.
I'd love to see real competition to YouTube. I'm afraid this seems not, the UX isn't great, homepage is useless, you need to click on Browse content then enter some keywords on a blank page, search results limited to 2 items and then you need to click on "Display more videos". I might be to used to youtube homepage, for me it's perfect I get videos right away and suggestions are good. I'm pretty sure this project, Mastodon and others are in good will, but they lack great ux/ui, it seems to me that ux isn't even researched, how can it be a viable competitor?
In this case as opposed to e.g. a non-profit?

What you describe is indeed the liberal (as in liberalism) ideal of how societies should be structured. But what is supposed to happen is necessarily not what actually happens.

The state should be controlled by the population through democracy, but few would claim with a straight face that the economic power doesn't influence the state.
OpenAI's misalignment and Microsoft's gain
I'm always logged on and using adblockers. So no, that's not it. I also use Youtube probably every day and am a very active user.
Because that is not what's happening. My friends that work as illustrators for PC and mobile games say it's the exact opposite. AI is used for the bulk of the creative work - composition, posing, even the general artstyle. Illustrators are then tasked with "fixing" visual artefacts, stitching together generated images and giving the final polish. They describe it as being reduced from a creative writer to a grammar checker.

It's tempting to just say that creative work that can be automated this quickly should be automated so that artists can focus on more creative challenges, but this is not how it plays out in practice. Rather, this only allows companies to cut down costs. It is already extremely difficult to find work which will pay a livable wage as a creative. AI has already caused layoffs and negative wage pressure on remaining employees. The only thing that AI has done (at least among my circle of friends) is reduce corporate costs and increase antidepressant prescriptions.
Speaking as someone who only very occasionally does browser related programming, what is the supposed sin committed here by implementing it this way?
I'm getting such a pause also in Chrome since a few days, I was assuming that it's fallout from the adblocking wars though (I use uBlock Origin and don't get the nag screen anymore since around the time that pause appeared)
right, they'll just steal it and watch a nonprofit try to enforce anything about it.
Lots of C isn't thread safe, and that's the point. It's supposed to be close to the metal, and it's supposed to be small. If you want to add additional functionality then that's on the user/library.
If we add thread safe/memory safe versions of every function, then we're moving away from C and into Rust territory.

C is a powerful language, but it's not a language designed to hold your hand.

Edit: Especially in this case where the environment is maintained by the OS, that puts the onus of safety on the OS to ensure that different processes can't modify and read the env simultaneously.

If you're worried about reading and writing the env in different threads within the same process, then you need to reconsider your design.
I would suspect because Google can do the detection in Chrome itself, but not in Firefox.
New OpenAI interim CEO Emmit Shear responds to Twitter concerns re safety
He made two tweets. The first, for those who missed it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345162

This was the 2nd. I like the guy already.
Depends. Including it in the location part of the URL could make it harder to understand if you have multiple parameters, instead of just one. Using query parameters makes it very explicit, which can be good or bad depending on your use case, while sticking it into the URL makes it implicit.

Together with that, you can also go for putting it in the `hash` part of the URL, if you want to keep it a secret from the server, as the server doesn't receive those parts, `/fred/#format=md`. In this case, it doesn't make much sense, but useful to know for other things, like keys and whatnot.
> now

Krita is actually quite old. The reason you haven't heard of it is probably that it's more focused on digital painting than on general image manipulation.
Thanks, that's nice to know VM can accommodate that. A migration will be something we will have consider if Mimir and OpenTelemetry force us to use joins for all our queries.

They maybe trying to address label cardinality but their approach seems like they are throwing the baby out with the bath water. The developer experience suffers as a result because from a dev pov, resource attributes are added to the metric yet this relationship isn't transferred when translated to Prometheus metrics.
Winners of the 2023 IFComp
Most people in tech to me seem to be suckers looking to buy a bridge IMO.

"I am not into money or power man, I just want to be a good person and save the world man"

I just can't believe such simplistic, transparent, bullshit works so consistently as to become standard PR.
Glad I dropped chrome for Firefox at the beginning of 2022. It took some time to get used to it but eventually it's now my main browser. Tired of Google being such a piece of shit. Hopefully 2024 will be the year of Linux on mobile.
> recruit the most formidable AI team in the world, removed from the shackles

Or at least the most hyped AI team in the world. The level of cult of personality around OpenAI is reaching pretty nauseating levels.
They just practice leetcode a lot, doesn't mean they know how to deal with those issues in the UI.
> Would love to be working a tech stock desk right now to know what it's like.

dropping 1.5% - those are rookie numbers in this racket.
There are interviews with all three at Dwarkesh Patel youtube channel. One is definitely not like the other two, but that might just be my impression based on those interviews. edit: Brockman might've been on Lex only.
Adding https://youtube-lite.js.org/#/ to the list.
I listened to this last night and found it worthwhile. I learned a few things I hadn't known before: he wrote parts of Dune in Haiku and other poetical forms, for the pacing those forms imposed, then expanded those parts into prose [1]. The magazine editor John Campbell turned down Dune Messiah because he (the editor) disliked (Herbert thought) the fact that the story explored the downsides to prognostication [2]. Herbert and the interviewer also discussed Joseph Campbell's ideas on cycles of stories.

[1] at 1:19:17 https://youtu.be/A-mLVVJkH7I?si=lMcNQJCB0dEYalIH&t=4757

[2] at 53:27 https://youtu.be/A-mLVVJkH7I?si=_Iz5-Dm9qcrHXd_H&t=3207
One robotaxi driving 24/7 without a driver pays for itself in a couple of years, even if it's a Jaguar full of lidars. After that it's pure money.
But as I understand it they’re still losing money, as much as $0.30 on every ChatGPT query.
A little bit, but I highly doubt it'll last long. I predict most of them will end up in a startup sooner rather than later.
people in the violence frame aren't doing the long term thing. but we absolutely know they exist and in no scenario can you be assured they're not in that position.

it's gambling, pure and simple.
> Maybe. If that helpes us develop better medicines or food crops it sounds like the smart thing to do.

What about the ramifications of doing so?
I use Firefox on macOS Ventura, and here the video pages load instantly.

I do have YouTube Premium (paid for in India to reduce the cost), but also in an incognito window where I'm not logged in, the video pages load immediately.

Maybe it's because I use the extensions uBlock Origin and/or Disable Autoplay For YouTube?
user: How to make a White Russian?

AI: I’m sorry due to the ongoing conflict we currently don’t provide information related to Russia. (You have been docked one social point for use of the following forbidden words: “White).

Or maybe more dystopian…

AI: Our file on you suggests you may have recently become pregnant and therefore cannot provide you information on alcohol products. CPS has been notified of your query.
You lost me at "can be coded in few days".
And despite the above track record, he somehow managed to not accidentally buy Yahoo as well.
That is no reason to throw all ethic considerations over board. We have ethics panels on scientific studies for a very good reason, unless you want to let Dr. Mengele and his friends decide on progress.

It is a good thing that society has mechanisms to at least try and control the rate of progress.
Knuth Airgaps and Knuth Buffers
The fine has been paid [0]. A host for a radio station in US collected the money and paid the fine on NASAs behalf in 2019.

[0]https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/skylabs-remains
Surprise surprise!

https://x.com/satyanadella/status/1726509045803336122?s=46
Wouldn't incident increase in forward movement of time where there would be a user increase as well?
When you point out that some minority is committing most of the crimes it doesn't make you racist if it helps you solve the problem of crime.

If you point out those at the top of increasingly inequal world are of one race and gender it's not racist or sexist if it helps you solve the problem of inequality.

Labeling things that are inconvenient for you as "racist" is lazy.
Hi, could we discuss [...]

Um, look, I'd not be comfortable discussing this if it goes on my medical records, could we discuss [...] off-the-record?

Scenario A

No, sorry, it has to be recorded.

OK. Then I'd prefer not to discuss it.

Scenario B

Sure, I'll just record the fact that we had a conversation, not the contents

Thanks, with all the NHS leaks, I'd rather this didn't end up in the papers!
Try .credit-card instead. Pretty sure that one works.
"I enjoy touristy Queenstown in my own country"

I love the naivety of New Zealanders, bless 'em all :)
Significant changes are not necessarily visible on a scale from 0 K to 400 K. I mean, if you show up at the hospital with a temperature of 315 K instead of your base line around 310 K, that’s fucking significant even though you would not see anything on a scale that starts at 0 K.

> You could argue that a graph that makes 25C look "25% hotter" than 20C is misleading in this sense.

That’s meaningless in any sense. The origin of the Celsius scale is arbitrary, “25% hotter” has no meaning whatsoever.
MS/G/A didn’t put this into voice assistants not because they don’t have it, but because it doesn’t scale to fit the commercials at the moment. Google invented transformers and Deepmind had GPT scale LLM’s at least a year before CGPT came out.

Altman just rushed everyone’s hand by publishing it into the world at cost
If Ai had not magically appeared they would be dead - the most commonly posted articles on HN would be about how the 12th round of layoffs at big tech had reduced headcount to 30% of its peak.

Big tech employees are recieving paycheques on the back of the Ai mirage.
Watching this unfold, I'm unsure armchair experts on HN would have executed this WORSE than the board did.
I think the "examples" are better understood as displays of the properties of the colour scales, not examples of how they are used in the wild.

That is to say they aren't examples of when you would use a colour scale at all.
It world for the past few decades (just do the same). In some provinces of Argentina more than 50% of people are on govt payroll, so yeah they want to keep their jobs.
This gives us some background, but it's still slowing down firefox with no relation to the video content.
I've read quite a few of their books, and I'm not sure I'm even aware of, or care, what PG's tastes in literature are.

The thing I always find odd here is who qualifies for a black banner or not.
> the difficulty is the point

Ok, so what does the next level of "difficult" look like?
Yep, curious to know the same thing myself.
> It was especially egregious when MSFT was trying their own EdgeHTML/Trident-based Edge. Issues would go away by faking user-agent.

Why is there more than one user-agent? Does somebody still expect to receive different content based on the user-agent, and furthermore expect that the difference will be beneficial to them?

What was Microsoft trying to achieve by sending a non-Chrome user-agent?
> 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

I'm on the same boat and I hear you. And since we are on this subject, do you know what else grinds my gears? The whole idea of cultural appropriation. So if your ancestry is X then you can't do/wear/celebrate Y.

So when you ask these people something like: Is it okay for my half-X, half-Y children to do this? they start feeling confused. But if you go: What about my grandchildren, who are 1/4 X and 1/4 Y and 1/2 Z?. Some of them begin to realize how racist and simplistic they are being.

Learn and enjoy other people's cultures, for goodness' sake. It's called being human.
We're talking about C standard library here. Which has streams (struct FILE) that are threadsafe and use locks by default - even in single-threaded programs. They could have extended the interface to access the environment too. But idk, reasons.
I'm in the US, and had the same experience.

I got the you can't use an adblocker message, but was able to close and/or reload the page to watch videos without ads. After a week or so it stopped popping up.

US, Firefox, uBlockOrgin.
I agree that OpenAI’s mission is probabky bad for humanity. But Microsoft is not a company that would hesitate at replacing a billion people permanently with AI.
Yup, same here — I see the same delay in Chrome now and then.

I guessed it was due to the cat-and-mouse adblocking prevention between YouTube and adblockers (I'm also using uBlock Origin).
Clickable URLs https://parascale.io/ https://parascale.io/demo
Now imagine the AI gets better and better within the next 5 years and is able to provide and explain, in ELI5-style, how to step by step ... create a system to catch the people trying to do the above.

Gotcha! We can both come up with absurd examples.
Sadly nothing about how it fared in combat.
Satya and gdb know. I would guess most of management/leadership that followed him also know.
Saying it and doing it are very different things. Many huge, lumbering companies have a “startup” lab. Few have done anything of note, and typically it’s because the reasons that made the company move slow and not take risks don’t magically disappear because you’re in a different part of the org chart.
Homemade Sauce Recipes
Tribal vibes. The board should have fired Sam even earlier.
I got it in the past for weeks, though.