skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really bad for OpenAI. They will fade to irrelevance soon. OpenAI is going to get a gut punch to wake up to real world. In real world you need capital at scale to make meaningful impact. people who provide capital, not just VCs but any regular folks who buy shares or bonds want to maximize their returns. You do that with a for-profit corporation. If they think they can continue their breakneck speed of breakthroughs with a meager philanthropy, they are in for a rude awakening.
Hi Hackers

I have made YouTube dev vlog for the first time and would appreciate if you watch, judge and give some feedback, the script was generated by chatGpt, so I sound like robot, thinking to write it myself next time. Any andive from you as a viewer??
> You think they let inexperienced developers touch the YT code base

Uh, yes? We were all inexperienced at some point. Just the linked file is like 300k lines of unminified code, I doubt it's all written by PHDs with 20 years of experience
I would say that about 99% of the time people just need feeds in general. The most common formats being RSS 2.0 and Atom.
Less likely to get into trouble with the ultra left wing politically correct mobs who can't wait to call you a racist nazi for pointing out immigration related failures.
Chrome have been the IE6 situation all over again for a while now, except this time it's possibly too late to walk back. They are pretty much done taking over the standard.
> the IBM PC and 8088 was the beginning of the future.

The entry level IBM PC was 16KB, and the top-of-the-line model was 128KB.

> at that price it was severely hobbled in what it could do, space- and time-wise

Again, Commodore 64 had 64KB of RAM, more than the cheapest PC. It also had dedicated sound (SID) and video (VIC-II) chips which made it more performant when it comes to entertainment (i.e. video games).
It's a bug they can't fix and "if you wait 5 seconds it works". Also , in 5 seconds, ad blockers are guaranteed to have kicked in
> Too bad I don't have the Hardware to run it.

Cloud GPUs is supported if that is an option:

https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion/blob/main/doc/clo...
Greg Brockman has already announced some of the others on the leadership team -- https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1726530200484372688
> There's a thin possibility that Microsoft would have to write-off its whole $10B (or more?) investment in OpenAI

How so? I don't get the hype.

OpenAI trained truly ground breaking models that were miles ahead of anything the world had seen before. Everything else was really just a side show. Their marketing efforts were, at best, average. They called their flagship product "ChatGPT", a term that might resonate with AI scientists but appears as a random string of letters to the average person. They had no mobile app for a long time. Their web app had some major bugs.

Maybe Sam Altman deserves credit for attracting talent and capital, I don't know. But it seems to me that OpenAI's success by far and large hinges on their game-changing models. And by extension, the bulk of the credit goes to their AI research/tech teams.
Could it be done more reasonably with the transcription? With diarisation the logic of "someone is saying exactly / almost exactly what I'm saying, that's probably me" might be pretty reasonable.
Microsoft does not prevent OpenAI from achieving their mission. OpenAI does not bind Microsoft to behave one way or another.
pihole doesnt work for youtube because ads and content are served from the same domains.
Not much, but it's only about 16 Gb of space, and it makes me happy. 8)

Eventually I would like to see it run STOIC and Teco, if I can figure out how to get the appropriate languages and libraries installed.

I have a fondness for Teco for some reason. It was the tool of the ancients back in my student days.

I think it's mostly nostalgia.
Code generally does not enter the YouTube code base without a lot of review namely (1) performance tests and (2) code reviews from multiple teams. Lines like this almost certainly get flagged/increased scrutiny. It would be very hard to imagine multiple people didn’t know about this and assign the blame to a single person.
I'm confused what you're arguing, or what type of refutation you're expecting. We all agree on the facts, that ChatGPT refuses some requests on the ground of one party's morals, and other parties disagree with those morals, so there'll be no refutation there

I mean let's take a step back and speak in general. If someone objects to a rule, then yes, it is likely because they don't consider it wrong to break it. And quite possibly because they have a personal desire to do so. But surely that's openly implied, not a damning revelation?

Since it would be strange to just state a (rather obvious) fact, it appeared/s that you are arguing that the desire to not be constrained by OpenAI's version of morals could only be down to desires that most of us would indeed consider immoral. However your replier offered quite a convincing counterexample. Saying "this doesn't refute [the facts]" seems a bit of a non sequitur
I can't believe billion dollar companies 'solve' bugs the same way as i do
Except that clones appeared out of nowhere, dirt cheap and just as fast.
I mean it could be that the programmer wanted it to be discovered to draw attention to Google managers' shenanigans but that seems kind of far fetched.
We're going back to 90s where Microsoft was universally considered evil in IT world. Interesting how world really turns in circles (or more like spirals since world changed a bit, but I wish I would know whether spiral goes up or down).
That's a lot of code to be purged, even for a superintelligent AI.
Thats called whitewashing an evil corp with one anecdote. HN deserves better.
Huh, I nearly exclusively use Brave for YouTube because it does a good job blocking ads and I haven’t noticed any slowdown.

I did see the ad nag once when I accidentally went to YouTube in safari
It's funny because I actually get my news via an RSS-to-email service. But I still typically subscribe to things via RSS when given the choice. This is because it keeps me in control and I know I can subscribe at any time without them holding on to my contact info. (Plus the first-party emails tend to have annoying tracking links and other nonsense. Thankfully those haven't infected the feeds yet)
>There are many more good reasons to live in this dysfunctional hellhole of a city

What are those reasons, that don't also exist in other better-run European cities, like Vienna for example? At least there you don't have to fight 200 other people for a shitty overpriced apartment.

I also like Berlin to visit, attend tech conferences or meet-up, concerts and parties, but moving there now would simply wear me out.
>it's not safety

Can you explain what is meant by the word safety?

Many are mentioning this term but it's not clear what is the specific definition in this context. And then what would someone get fired over relating to it?
Shudder from awesomeness? Windows 2k is still peak Windows UI (the aesthetics might be subject to fashion cycles - still better than the lollipop look that was prelevant on Mac and WinXP shortly after, but the UX has gone into a slow downward spiral since then). Same is true for macOS, only that it reached its peak and following slow regression about a decade later).
> you pay $0.30 every time someone asks a doofus question to ChatGPT.

Anyone know where this figure comes from ?
Elon couldn’t even run a python script written for an area of his interest. At least these two have a firm CS background.
Another way I noticed is good at skipping ads when adblocker fails is to refresh the page. When it loads again it does not play the ad.
Where did they openly lament?
ABP also still works just fine. I prefer the armsrace being taken care of someone else
it'd be nice if we could enforce monopoly regulations too.
when the purpose is to abuse your monopoly to further your business interests in another area, being obtuse and convoluted to get plausible deniability is good engineering. This is just sloppy.
Yeah, Copilot has become a very nice branding.

For business and for the consumer. They can retire Bing search at this point, making it Microsoft Copilot for Web or something.
An apocalypse needs power. That power can be offering money to humans, but doesn't have to be: other (thankfully not yet existent) possibilities include hacking a single clanking replicator, as would offering rewards to unrelated non-human uplift project subjects.
Yes it would make sense, but no there is no way to actually ensure they have been deleted. A trivial but nonetheless very common case would be if your process is started with a wrapper shell script. But even just within your process, there is no guarantee at all against some random library (or the kernel) making a copy of the entire environment.

If you want to pass secrets into a process at startup, I would strongly recommend passing a pipe as an additional open file descriptor (e.g. fd #4, but this FD number you can then put in an env variable) and writing it onto the pipe. It can only be read once, and you can control where the value propagates.
RVC? R… Voice Model?
Nah same tweet different topics
Netflix does the same thing. Actually, speaking of infuriating corporate bullshit, allow me to go on a rant about Netflix and subtitles.

They give you the option to choose between like four, maybe five languages. That's it!

If you want subtitles in any of the other hundred or so languages that they have available, well... no. Just no. Learn one of the four they've picked for you.

If you call their support, they'll gaslight you and mumble something about "copyright", which is patent nonsense. Copyright doesn't restrict Netflix from showing more translations for their own content that they made themselves. They own the copyright on it, which means, literally, that they have the right to do whatever they please with the copy. Including showing the associated subtitles to you.

You see, what actually happened, is that some too-smart UX guy at Netflix couldn't make a language picker look nice for that many options so he asked a too-smart data science (lol) guy to figure out the most common languages for each region.

Here in Australia they picked English, Italian, Vietnamese, Chinese because we have a lot of immigrants from those countries. I'm sure they used very clever algorithms on big data clusters to figure that out. Good job, well done.

Never mind that every other streaming app vendor figured this out. Netflix and their $500K total comp Stanford or wherever graduates couldn't. So they instructed their call centre staff to lie to their customers.

Then they had someone write this idiocy: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/101798

"If subtitles for a title are offered in a language but do not display on your device, try another device."

Oh, oh, I'll go do that right now! Let me try my PC... nope four languages. On the TV? Four languages. Actually, I have a phone... and... oh... four languages.

PS: Thai (only!) subtitles are "special" and use eye-searing HDR maximum white. Like 1,600 nits white that literally leaves green after-images etched into my retina. They have a support page and a pre-prepared set of lies for the support staff to read for that piece of shoddy engineering also.
As the saying goes: "we like naked girls, not naked sleep". Even the interns should know that, naked sleep is just bad - not fixing anything.
there is such a thing as overextending the benefit of the doubt, to the point that malicious actors will abuse it.
_Openly_ gay people, possibly. Within an economy you could make the opposite point - openly gay people are underrepresented in the economic and political elites.
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> They could have easily slowed down serving of JS files (and other assets) based on the user agent to a similar effect.

And that is /not/ easily discoverable??
Yes. This is getting at it. But accountability to what?

A for-profit corporation has accountability to its shareholders. If you're a shareholder, you can sell your shares. If enough people are willing to sell their shares at a low enough price, someone will come long and buy a majority of the shares and take over the company, maybe liquidating it. If something egregious enough happens, you might even be able to sue the company or the officers for a breach of fiduciary duty. Either way, the way to stay employed is to make money. If you make enough money, purely money-interested people will be willing to buy the shares of those who have other interests for a high price. For-profit corporations have an incentive to be as good as possible at making money.

A not-for-profit theoretically has accountability to the board, who aren't really accountable to anyone. They can be sued, but only if they do an extremely and formally bad job. The only thing that weeds out bad non-profits is donors.

It seems like there needs to be another type of organization, that can have objectives other than making money, where market forces still cause it to do as good a job as possible at that mission.
Actually, the first PC in 1981 had only 16KB of RAM. And it cost something like US$1500. It really wasn't an obvious choice.
Youtube is a very toxic environment. Even "informative" content is often toxic, but in a very subtle manner.

At google They may be not respecting the web but they are doing firefox users a favor. If you really need to see a video, five seconds won't make a difference. If you don't need it, five seconds may remind you that you don't really need it.

Try to see the positives
Satya's todo list:

1. Hire Altman and co to prevent share price bloodbath (and reach new heights)

2. Gradually strangle OpenAI's access to compute resources to ensure their failure

3. Prevent competitors saving OpenAI due to continued large minority ownership

4. $$$

I name this an acquassination.

It's a master stroke and incredible good luck for MSFT. It'll pay for itself in share valuation increase and save them from actually buying OpenAI (not that they could have due to the non-profit, but they would have ages ago if possible).
Is the use of the "E" notation common in JS? I can see that it (could be) less bytes, obviously more efficient for bigger values... Looking at the script I can see it is minified or whatever we call that these days. I guess my question really is: did someone write "5E3" or did the minifier choose it?

(Sorry this is heading into the weeds, but I'm not really a web developer so maybe someone can tell me!)
Hyperspace: A Peer-to-Peer Artificial Intelligence [pdf] Network
> I have spent today drinking

Not off to a good start.
Haha! I was going to comment the same, especially on:

> [...] and be housed as Global Principal Product Managers in building 4 in Seattle, where it rains non-stop

Feels so much like "Action" Jack Barker's demise, confined to a small desk on a datacenter...

Then:

> Satya will always say the right thing about you - because he is an honorable person.

Rings to me like what Gavin Belson used to do to underperforming staff, he would keep then on a roof, permanently unassigned to any team. Some form of punishment worst than getting outright sacked.
Leaded glass is not required for CRTs. In the case of color CRTs, it was only used for the backs and sides, because x-rays make leaded glass turn brown. The faceplates used barium-strontium glass, which I assume was more expensive. This sample chapter from "Image Performance in CRT Displays" by Kenneth Compton provides some details:

https://spie.org/samples/TT54.pdf

I see no reason why you couldn't make the whole thing from barium-strontium glass.
Where are you getting from that Altman has "fairly deep AI knowledge"? He dropped out of college after just a year and is mostly a business person. Shear at least has a BSc in CS.
I dunno. How long has it been there without anybody noticing?

5 years? 7? Longer?

No matter how they approached it, you could demonstrate the pattern through the law of large numbers regardless. Might as well make the implementation straight forward.
Next: researching regulatory capture?
Moloch always wins.
Very good point. It's important to recognise that developers in many companies are often not fully aware of the intended use of features they're asked to create.

Another example that springs to mind is Uber, who used a tool called "Greyball" to avoid contact between drivers and authorities: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-uber-greyball-idUKKBN16B0...

My initial reaction was astonishment that the engineers would happily implement this. And maybe that is what happened. But the alternative possibility is that product and senior management assigned different parts of the feature to different teams e.g. one team develops a pattern recognition system to detect users' professions, another team develops a spoofing system for use in demos, etc...
Hah! Nice call out, but they even required the 'reel' to keep them somewhat manageable.

My dad had a reel to reel player. First time I heard Hocus Pocus by Focus was on that device. Still one of my top ten favourite songs. He's probably still got it too.
The problem is that support for this is rare. I know that Podcast Addict supports it but it is rare in podcatchers and even more rare in feed readers.

But I definitely agree that it should be a standard feature!
I just skip and I'm thankful for the FREE content.

I wouldn't pay for YouTube, so I'm fine with 5 seconds of something I ignore while waiting for the skip button to activate.
I heard it was a glass of water...
What’s ironic is how backwards people here have the narrative. Not sure you’re fully aware of what happened at OpenAI.

The “Open” types, ironically, wanted to keep LLMs hidden away from the public (something something religious AGI hysteria). These are the people who think they know better than you, and that we should centralize control with them for our own safety (see also, communism).

The evil profit motive you’re complaining about, is what democratized this tech and brought it to the masses in a form that is useful to them.

The “cash grab show” is the only incentive that has been proven to make people do useful things for the masses. Otherwise, it’s just way too tempting to hide in ivory towers and spend your days fantasizing about philosophical nonsense.
“I have spent today drinking from the firehose as much as possible, speaking with the board, a small number of major partners, and listening to employees.”
The problem with Google is that it is being run by the bunch of nerds. Sure, they are smart but without ad revenue they would gave gone down long time ago...

Bill missing the whole web stuff was more about their lawsuit because regulators believed that only through the browser on Windows people could access the internet. Which was a wrong prediction.

And Ballmer...Yeah. He fumbled hard with mobile. And thanks to the board stopping from buying Yahoo. Would be another AT&T merger fiasco.
ah yes, the fact that they are sabotaging other browsers in a very obvious way is actually proof that they didn't meant to sabotage other browsers!
Almost certainly the minimizer
ClippyAI coming2025: I see you're trying to invade a third world nation, can I help you with that?
Snakebird's trailer reminds me a lot of Room to Grow.
Because that's a different game that while inspired by HL is not and will never be HL.
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I find the glee in this thread quite disturbing. That and the “MS is the winner, OpenAI is so stupid” general tenor.

You all know who you are cheering for right? It seems that profits or potential profits is all that matter here in the end for this community and the high-minded “OpenAI should be ‘Open’” was all bullshit.

I know this comment is going against the grain but I find the HN response to this (and previous responses to Altman’s firing, treating him like a god) to be quite disgusting.

Apple fanboys don’t have anything on the top comments here.
to be fair, it's a bit out of context - however, it shows that they are somewhat overwhelmed with the whole situation
Is it possible for Microsoft to eventually get a board seat in Open AI Inc and put Sam Altman as a representative there? :P
Might be because of the EU ruling, if you're in the EU.
Ilya is an idiot, there is a time and place to say something or nothing at all. This was a time and place to say something.
I think this is a good example of corporations being made up of people, rather than being contiguous coordinated entities as many of us sometimes think of them.

An engineer doing "good engineering" on a feature typically depends not only on them being a "good engineer" but also on them having some actual interest in implementing that feature.
Truth buried deep in the comments
Totally possible that the minifier did this, yes.
Ah right, thanks for the correction, it was the IBM XT that started with 128 KBytes RAM. Totally forgot that this wasn't the first IBM PC :)
Some would argue that owning a PhD degree does not necessarily guarantee half decent engineering skills.
> My respects for your work on Chrono!

Thank you. To be frank as a first-time maintainer I did a mediocre job---my biggest regret for Chrono is that I did know most forthcoming issues beforehand and yet didn't take enough time to make them public and explicit so that someone else could prepare for the future.
Reasonable people disagree by saying "although we agree on U,V, and W, we still disagree on X and Y".

According to TFA, they may proceed to nuance that statement by identifying which aspects of {U,V,W} have been weighted differently to produce the differing conclusions for {X,Y}.

(see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38333041 for a graphic example of how people may agree on basic facts yet have divergent interpretations)
Boot RISC-OS on a Raspberry Pi. That was a nice fast graphical OS even before the 90s.
There are two level of pointers: the environment block points to an array of pointers to C strings, this higher-level pointer can be updated and the previous one freed, which is a problem when it is being iterated on (which getenv does). The C strings themselves aren't freed by glibc, though some applications do modify them in place.
The idea that OpenAI people whose focus is building an AGI that can replace humans in every viable human activity will create a more ethical outcome than Microsoft whose focus is using AI to empower workers to do more sounds extremely unlikely.

People have gotten into their heads that researchers are good and corporations are bad in every case which is simply not true. OpenAI's mission is worse for humanity than Microsoft's.
... that's how government works.

name a utopian fiction that has corporations as benefactors to humanity
OpenAI can also jump ship and get a nice deal with amazon or google. In fact, right now they are ripe for the taking.
Self-driving car venture Cruise chief resigns after uproar over accident
In this context, I believe it's safety of releasing AI tools, and the impact they may have on society or unintentional harm they may cause.
Me too, very unBBC: Sam Fox? Sam Sam the Adventure man?
Yup. But in shocked to see rssCloud mentioned in 2023! It has been largely superceded by WebSub (https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/).

I have yet to see a feed that supports rssCloud but not WebSub, but the reverse is common.
I implemented downloading of youtube thumbnails for one of these scripts.

https://github.com/marzzzello/mpv_thumbnail_script