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Ask HN: Is Google logging you out on Firefox?
Starting some point in the last few months, my Google Account on Firefox on my desktop keeps being logged out every few hours.

I had not changed any setting, used any VPN, etc.

It’s very annoying, since it means constantly losing progress in any Gmail and Youtube tabs.

It doesn’t happen in Chrome, on mobile apps, etc.

I wonder if I’m the only one.
Indeed. The "free market" is an easy scapegoat, for both good and bad outcomes to give to people who are ignorant of how the economy works. Which is most people since economic education is only the most simplistic in high schools and doesn't tell you how the system we have operates.
We think a lot about this. I think it's very important to us to provide building blocks that foster a more open ecosystem. Part of that is providing building blocks (like the proxy) that do not lock you too much into "our" way of doing things either.
Look into the origin of Media Matters. It is eye opening.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1726653530218619018
We are going to build something new and it will be incredible
I changed it to 2016, which is when Wikipedia says it entered early access. I also added an early access tag (thanks to a PR).

Sorry, the dates weren't meant to be a competition, and I just pulled whatever Steam listed it as! If you know of any other games that have an unfair date, please let me know :)
So killing Skype was actually their goal? :(
There are a lot of comments saying “but you already have a phone”, but if they (Apple) came out with a laptop that had good cellular service, I might just get rid of my phone. (Or maybe replace it with a dumb phone)
> Users who exceed 50 GB of data usage (across all their devices) will have their data speeds slowed to 256 kbps for the remainder of their billing cycle, unless they opt out and choose to be charged for additional full speed data usage at $10 per GB.

According to Google, it looks like that "unlimited" plan is 50 GB and then slowed to 256 kbps (basically useless). It isn't unlimited with lower priority after 50 GB. It's basically just limited to 50 GB given how useless 256 kbps is.
His winning personality?
Affiliate marketing encompasses three types of offers:

- White hat (SaaS, hardware products from reputable companies)

- Grey hat (Nutra)

- Black hat (Gambling, Dating)

The choice of offers to promote depends on the type of marketer you are. Your comment is very general and indicates your limited understanding of the marketing industry. Additionally, my post was about a slightly different thing.
It actually happened to me once, when I was in London dining in a restaurant. I wanted to pay in cash that I withdrew in Scotland and the lady did decline the money I gave her.
Pretty wild for me as a German doing a little trip through the UK.
Some libraries behaviour/API can be tweaked with env var. env var are read at runtime not loading time.
If your whole Program is one unit there is no integration between units that warrants an integration test.
That is true to a certain extent, but that doesn’t make it a programming paradigm.
By the way, I recently had the experience of remotely setting up a corporation in the United States, and it took just 2 hours. In stark contrast, establishing a GmbH in Germany, a member state of the EU, is a much lengthier process, often taking at least 4-6 weeks. The contrast in efficiency and time commitment is quite striking.
I think part of the issue is that, unfortunately, there are conspiracy theories that have proven out to be true. The military's thumb pushing the scales on Hollywood's war depiction through careful deliberation of allowing use of equipment has the added effect of limiting the resources of any military narrative the us military doesn't approve of. There is actually in existence a conservative court group whose entire existence is to funnel conservative justices, including things like politically-aligned clerking for supreme courts and providing republican appointers with lists of politically-aligned candidates. A federal program really did exist to try and figure out if they can brainwash people with acid, and then records of the program mysteriously went missing when the public tried to investigate it. Epstein's book exists and all its implications thereof. Microsoft's early "embrace, extend, extinguish" is a conspiracy theoy about Microsoft's business dealings that turned out to be true.

It's really hard to turn back on the "but realistically, conspiracies are uncommon" brain when exposed to the fact that actually decades-long conspiracies do actually occur and produce results.

[Caveat: I don't actually believe in shit like flat earth, and am skeptical of all conspiracy theories if their evidence is some shit like a 45 minute youtube video with their own sources of, idk, a blogspot post. But I do want to acknowledge that conspiracies have been reported on in relatively trustworthy news reporting sources, and that I myself find it really difficult to determine true vs fake conspiracy theories if multiple news reporters are contradicting each other.]
> Approximately four GPTs and seven years ago, OpenAI’s founders brought forth on this corporate landscape a new entity, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men might live equally when AGI is created.

OpenAI founding date: December 2015. Incredible opening line, bravo.
> There is no real lower bound of how fast it could happen.

I don't know anything about how executives get hired. But supposedly this all happened between Friday night and Monday morning. This isn't a simple situation; surely one man working through the weekend can't decide to set up a new division, and appoint two poached executives to head it up, without consulting lawyers and other colleagues. I mean, surely they'd need to go into Altman and Brockman's contracts with OpenAI, to check that the hiring is even legal?

That's why I think this has been brewing for at least a week.
Somewhat plausible and better than most in that it at least fits all of the available pieces so far.
A power grab by open sourcing something that fits their initial mission? Interesting analysis
My Twitter won't shut up about this, to the point that it's annoying.
So why does he stay (at least as an employee) but the rest of the board goes?
It isn't quite that simple, because equity isn't on W-2s.
The price will definitely come down. But not enough for taxi/ride-share companies. Many drivers for ride-share companies make less than nothing once you account for consumables, maintenance, and depreciation of their vehicles. That last one is often left out of the discussion. Many such drivers stop being drivers when their cars wear out because they don't make enough to pay off a car loan before the car wears out. In many cases, this means the companies are getting the cars at below cost with drivers thrown in for free. The premium for self driving hardware isn't likely to be negative anytime soon. Self-driving eliminates the drivers and therefore the people providing part of the cost of the cars.

There are certainly exceptions, often well publicized by the companies, of drivers who figure out how to exploit the algorithms to make decent money. But when too many figure this out, the companies adjust the algorithms to contain costs, leading right back to the above.
I did - ugh!
FSD doesn't mean that these deaths wouldn't have happenned.

There are other solutions to the problem - I'm sure you can come up with a few that are more satisfactory than changing all cars to being computer controlled.
Now try booting Windows ME...
no, I did say "literal alphabet" i.e. not some bigger corporation...

but I play with words, so take it as you are able

i'm saying something closer to: if microsoft merges with facebook, then they really are both trying to get bought by google's parent entity
The global middle class has grown and the volume of airline traffic passengers has exploded since the mid 1980s.

Looks like the annual number of airline passengers roughly doubled between 2006 and 2019:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/564717/airline-industry-...
Sam Altman: we are all going to work together some way or other
Sure, the part about everyone just pirating photoshop is absolutely tue (it comes out to be the same thing though, you can't pirate hardware). My point is the gap in potential quality and art output between photoshop on a powerful pc an a pirated copy of ps on a thinkpad is pretty small: you need a lot of ram to produce 4k art, but a thinkpad is fine for most comissions. The gap is obviously a lot larger with ai: you yourself mention that sd (just one of the models people are currently using) runs slowly and with limitations. If the expectation becomes that you deliver 100 4k permutations on a certain theme, the time it takes to achieve that from a human labor standpoint will be similar, but the time that takes to render wise will vary orders of magnitude based on your resources. Not to mention that a workflow with a realtime refresh rate is qualititavely different frome one that runs 0.1fps.
> the entire operation is a clown show

The most organized and professional silicon valley startup.
Can't help but feel it was Altman that struck first. MS effectively Nokia-ed OpenAI - i.e. buyout executives within the organization and have them push the organization towards making deals with MS, giving MS a measure of control over said organization - even if not in writing, they achieve some political control.

Bought-out executives eventually join MS after their work is done or in this case, they get fired.

A variant of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Guess the OpenAI we knew, was going to die one way or another the moment they accepted MS's money.
Well, with the hollowing out of OpenAI, it seems that someone else will easily take the lead! They're not my personal hopes - this move destroyed OpenAI's best chance at retaining control over cutting edge AI as well. They destroyed their own hopes.
Implying the poor are poor just because of some random act and not because the current administration put them there.
Milei voiced that removing the subsidies in the current situation is nonsense and that first he wants to work on bringing income up so people can afford subsidy-less fares.
"if you value intelligence above all other human qualities, you’re gonna have a bad time"

I assume this is meant to mean don't get too attached to intelligence as a uniquely human quality as it soon won't be (or maybe already isn't, based on his estimation).

Altman did indicate there'd been a recent breakthrough a couple of weeks ago (4th one in company history). Not sure why the secrecy in saying what is is (or what the prior 3 were) .. Maybe can't be told without giving away HOW to achieve it, e.g. "when you train on data type XXX, YYY happens" ?
Is this some n=1 thing or can someone else confirm that this is for all Firefox users?
I think people here will likely be somewhat open to that conspiracy theory, as my assumption is they'd rather see the world through a lens where capable but malicious individuals are able to enact such complex plans, than believe even smart people can make a series of progressively dumb decisions without correctly predicting the downstream consequences.

The far simpler explanation: Microsoft positioned itself very ably prior to this debacle, and its experienced and ruthless executive team was able to successfully capitalise on a major mistake as a result. This way you do not need to purport the existence of a seer-like ability within Satya to correctly predict third+ order effects, just a very high level of experience + competence for one party, and the opposite for the other.

Truth is, until a reasonable sounding explanation of what set these events into motion is made public, it'll be impossible to put any narrative to rest.
Because they thought everybody would see things as they did. Inability to put yourself in someone else's shoes isn't all that rare.
Maybe they are targeting MacBooks as a warm up act?

If the chip consumes 3x as much power as a competing chip, it's more likely people won't notice on a laptop than a cell phone. If signal isn't quite as good, again people might not notice.

Only like 10% of these chips will ever get used at all, by anyone, if they are in laptops. Targeting laptops first seems like an obvious & lower risk choice.
> we have more unity and commitment and focus than ever before.

> we are all going to work together some way or other, and i’m so excited.

> one team, one mission.

Let's all scrutinize another enigmatic @sama tweet. It is all lowercase so it must be very serious. What's in for tomorrow's episode?
> Are they going to pay then >$1M salaries?

This sounds like hyperbole, but isn't that what China is doing?
It's not being said as if it's terrible, it's shining a light on the fact that OpenAI without a cutting edge product to attempt to practice AI safety on is something much tinier, much different, and altogether less important. Without that it becomes a sort of activist non-profit like the pause people, attempting to garner support or influence policy for a cause it doesn't have a direct stake in.
Right? I was looking at the front page thinking how nice it'd be if HN would start a megathread or something. We don't need the front page to be like 30% the same openai news
Inside the World's Only Vegemite Factory
> You're talking from a pretty biased pov of a bubble.

You are in danger of crossing the line into personal insult territory there.

You don't know me. You don't know my travel patterns. You don't even know what my line of work is. So I suggest you don't accuse me of working in a biased bubble.

No further comment.
I'm reading this as confirmation that turtling is a good strategy.
If I knew that I'd never be out on the streets no matter how bad things got, because I at least have the money to pay rent and buy food, there's no chance I'm working anything but BS jobs for random spending money. p=1, but still, I doubt I'm that unique.

My job is difficult and takes a lot of work to get the skills necessary to do it. Who's going to take over my job? Probably nobody, but that's just my (extremely uneducated) guess.
Or you could simply not own a car anymore, but order two robotaxis to drive you to work and your kids to school at the same time (with optional carpooling to reduce costs) - that would reduce both traffic and the need for parking space.
> for-profit company

Slashdot literally used to call them M$
We never see Star Wars ships moving at relativistic speeds. Jumping to lightspeed takes you into hyper, it doesn't let you engage in a ramming attack.

Besides, we don't know that shields won't stop a ramming attack. The only time it was done it appears the shields weren't being used.
"There is talk that OpenAI might completely disintegrate as a result, that ChatGPT might not work a few days from now, and so on."

Oh damn! While this seems wildly unlikely, I can imagine this scenario and think it would have huge implications.
They have been, you're a day behind
I don't think this is Apple's plan. It's more that Apple has been developing in house modem technology for years (they bought Intel's modem division in 2019) because they are reliant on Qualcomm for them in iPhones.

Once they have the capacity to build great modems and add it to their vertical integration/SoC process, it's another no brainer thing to add that makes their laptops best in class.

However, if it gets picked up by other tech companies then yes, expect your device to be always connected, even if it's against your will.
And still front page, with 386 comments. And links to the source instead of some random X / Twitter post!
It seems reasonable to say that AGI will take a ton of resources. You'll need investors for power, GPUs, researchers, data, and the list goes on. It's a lot easier to get there with viable commercial products than handouts.

I'd be willing to bet that between Sam's approach and the theorized approach of the OpenAI board we're discussing, Sam's approach has a higher chance of success.
https://archive.ph/NBhUS
Can't the best of you ML-devs here just go and join OpenAI?
AGI hype is a powerful hallucinogen, and some are smoking way too much of it.
if everyone followed your reasoning, there wouldn't be Facebook and a lot of other tech startups.
> When is the last time you saw a "think of the kids" argument offered in good faith?

Right there, when I made one?

But no, what you're claiming doesn't align with other proponents of the ideology I've seen. They are only opposed to state coercion, but market pressures can certainly be coercive and they don't resist that.

And by what mechanism would anarcho-capitalists prevent the selling of children or child labor? They don't hold that the state has such a power. Children also don't consent to be even their parents' wards, so the consent of children is not a sufficient framework to construct a basis of opposition.

Markets don't have the will to decline child exploitation and anarcho-capitalism doesn't invest an entity with the power to prevent it. Individuals may honestly say they don't want it but the system offers nothing to oppose the incentives that will cause it.
Is anyone aware of a language that simply does not have globals like this? Or globals at all? The more I deal with other people's code, the more I want one.

Obviously there are some semantic-globals (ports, env, main thread, etc) that are unavoidable, but we have a way to deal with that: dependency injection. Allow it in main, everything else has zero access unless it is given the instance representing it.

Obviously that would be pretty painful in practice without some boilerplate-reducing tools, but... would it be worse in aggregate? Or would having real control over all this at last pay off? I'm quite curious.
Got a link?

It's hard to search foreign press.
Yes indeed! I love this web page. Sleek and very upfront with everything. Great job team!! Would love to help in any way.
it is a good way to clear out the old bloated threads
Is this different in Canada? The fees exist but I’ve always immediately seen the final number that includes all of them. Then there’s some upsells but they’re not really fees because I just decline them.
totally pointless if its not open source
Change it to dc9 and you are describing my first flight. 2-3 seating, engines on the wing, feels like you are outside of the plane. When I did a changeover to 747 it felt like I was in a quiet movie theater.
This actually seemed a lot more useful than most of the other cookie cuttered tech "journalism" threads. Its good to see a nice overview of the situation.
Well, yes, but they were the existential threat.

Hey, maybe this means the AGIs will fight amongst themselves and thus give us the time to outwit them. :D
The non profit board controlled a for profit company that issued equity to employees.
I use my phone mostly for tethering internet, so being able to connect directly to 4G from the laptop or pass calls would be great for me (tho not on a mac)
It doesn’t mean that at all, it’s slang

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=operator
>You are in danger of crossing the line into personal insult territory there.

Oh no, anyway...

> So I suggest you don't accuse me of working in a biased bubble.

I wasn't accusing you of anything. Maybe don't act like such a sensitive princess making a big deal out of nothing, and look at the facts mate.
i know some consulting firms betting the farm on commercial uptake of GenAI that probably got Xanax refills first thing this AM hah
That’s for the pre-trained models. Train one up yourself.
Cool. Reminds me of ptable.com , a little.
Why is it wildly unlikely 5/7ths of the company may resign and the ceo they pissed
Off controls their services. It’s more than likely.
Hey folks, this blew up way more than I expected :) Glad so many are interested.

I've merged all the PRs on Github and addressed about half the comments here on HN. I'll go through the rest ASAP. Thanks so much for all the contributions!
I should have said: until commerical aircraft meet ALL fuel economy and emissions standards that old trucks have had to meet in their lifetimes.

If your jet engine does not have a catalytic converter, it must not fly. What's good for old trucks is good for aircraft.

If for airplane burns leaded fuel, it must not fly.

If your airplane does not meet CAFE standards, it must not fly without paying fines.

Here are a few of the standards: https://www.epa.gov/emission-standards-reference-guide/epa-e...
Very few are talking about Adam D'Angelo's insane conflicts of interest. Beyond ChatGPT being a killshot for Quora, the recently launched ChatGPT store puts Adam's recent effort, Poe, under existential threat. OpenAI Dev Day has been cited as the final straw, but is it mere coincidence that the event and subsequent fallout occurred less than a week after Poe announced their AI creator economy?

Adam had no incentive to kill OpenAI, but he had every incentive to get the org to reign in their commercialization efforts and to instead focus on research and safety initiatives, taking the heat off Poe while still providing it with the necessary API access to power the product.

I don't think it's crazy to speculate that Adam might have drummed up concern amongst the board over Sam's "dangerous" shipping velocity, sweeping up Ilya in the hysteria who now seems to regret taking part. Sam and Greg have both signaled positive sentiment towards Ilya, which points to them possibly believing he was misguided.
The mean in South America is dialing the same crap policies to 11. With 4 in 10 Argentines in poverty and 140% inflation, you are making an incredibly poor case for...I don't know, defending the status quo? Advocating for ratcheting up the previous policies? It sounds clinically insane either way.
The groundbreaking paper from 96 did not lead to immediate advances because of the absence of computational power. This was then used by Hunton for the speech recognition paper which created the deep neural network revolution providing funding to create the transformers.
How many employees are given just an iPad and no phone?
"Theorem" usually means something a lot more concrete. "Pythagorean theorem", "theory of evolution". What you have is a "conjecture", or maybe just a "guess".
While I respect the simplicity that governs HN design, I think a worthwhile edition would be tags. At least then it would be fairly trivial to do a client side filter.
A delightful document on a delightful subject!