Does anyone have a link to the "read more"?

exactly. They probably have unsustainable margins on accident.

sweet.

I've been out of the game for a bit but it's great to hear.

This is the least informed take i've ever seen.

I worked at fb, and I'm 100% certain we sponsored VLC and OBS at the time. It would be strange if we didn't sponsor FFMPEG, but regardless (as the article says) we definitely got out of our internal fork and upstreamed a lot of the changes.

I worked on live, and everyone in the entire org worships ffmpeg.

I never said they didn't sponsor them, it just isnt enough, not even close.

and I know the teams love ffmpeg, there are some great folks at meta just not a lot in the c suite

You make a lot of money, Meta makes A LOT of money.

doesn't matter how you worship ffmpeg if a company, which makes billions by destroying our society, gives a little bit of handout back.

So good for you? Bad for ffmpeg, society and the rest of the world.

Meta has made more positive contributions to society and the world than every HN commenter combined, and more than most of the other FAANGS (Amazon being the exception).

Damned for virtual signalling if they make posts about their contributions, damned for destroying tech when they don't. I love these kinds of articles and share them with students all the time.

While contributing back to ffmpeg is great, this is insanely hyperbolic lol. Do you genuinely think Instagram and Facebook are positive contributions to society?

Yes, I do.

same. this is about losing a negotiation and saving face / exacting revenge.

i don’t get it. what’s his motive in your view? he literally has no shares in openai.

Maybe he just wants power? Some people are just evil and don't need greed to fuel their evil ways.

even marvel villain thanos was given a plausible motivation.

i don’t think if you actually knew him as a person you’d think this was a reasonable perception.

I wanted the AOL one to say "Welcome" before "you've got mail!" lol

The last 3 years of LLM progress, to me, feel like 1994-1998.

I don't know. The novelty of LLMs faded very quickly for me.

I think they're scaling down in novelty quicker than they're scaling up in capability.

Still easy to be surprised if you stop paying attention for a while though.

Agree! I've been computering for 50 years and for me the significant milestones have been:

- rdbms

- PC

- Internet and email

- SaaS

- Mobile

- social media

- LLMs

I doubt that LLMs will be anything like as significant to our futures as social media though. And not in an entirely good way.

Except this time there isn’t a strong hacker counter culture.

Where are the greybeards in their flip flops? Where are the teen prodigies?

Everyone is sucking corporate dick, myself included

To me, the current AI boom is more like when McDonald's became available in my neck of the woods after '89. Amazing at first, but then you realize it's mostly sloppy grease that has its uses.

The wild technology race of the 90s, on the other hand, felt like a magical new dimension opening up. Maybe just because it took much longer to get thoroughly turned into a vector for BS.

this is like irl cryptographic signatures for content lol

thanks for the PR! :)