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1f60con ChatGPT just (accidentally) shared all of its secret rules

It's possible that OpenAI have implemented both soft and hard limits, and repeating it in the prompt just prevents it from hitting the user with a scary error.

1f60con Klára Dán von Neumann

I didn't really get that (I only skimmed the article). However, it uses a lot of flowery language, which doesn't seem very WP:NPOV.

1f60con Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns

The EU is already falling behind in the AI revolution, and now this. I love the EU, but is there any EU tech regulation that actually had the intended effect?

1f60con EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday

Has anyone in power thought through the scale of this? Even if it has a frankly exceptional error rate of just 0.001%, that still means tens of thousands of innocent Europeans will have their lives ruined every day. And, assuming there's a human in the loop, who are we going to traumatize to check The Machine's work? Is it going to be Kenyans again^, or Eastern Europeans this time?

^ https://theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/02/ai-chatbot-tr...

1f60con macOS Sequoia to Allow iCloud Logins in Virtual Machines on ARM Macs

Fun fact: the macOS EULA^ contains a "bug" in section 2.B and section 2.B.(iii) that technically precludes 99% of people from running macOS VMs: the EULA does not stipulate any other download mechanisms than directly through the Mac App Store, even though System Settings has been the dominant source of updates for some time.

^ https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOSSonoma.pdf

1f60con WebKit fix: Quirk news.ycombinator to skip TextAutoSizing

I wish Apple had never abandoned the rule that you need to be able to subscribe in the app at the same listed price as on the web.

1f60con Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process

It is a ridiculous name, but I think it's intriguing without being overpromising and that's why they went with it.

1f60con My Hour of Memoryless Lucidity

Of course I can't speak for phire, but maybe this is not the right time.

1f60con The Irrevocable SSL Certificates of Cloudflare

(2021)

1f60con Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?

Can't you host the videos yourself or use another managed service (such as Cloudflare Stream—no relation)?

1f60con Make timelapses easily using FFmpeg

Davinci Resolve has a free (as in beer) version that is quite capable and easy to use, even as someone who'd only used iMovie before. The only problem is that "how to do X in Davinci Resolve" has been taken over by slop.

1f60con The Bel Language (2019)

If you're wondering what’s up with the strange URL, apparently it is official. paulgraham.com links to it here: https://www.paulgraham.com/bel.html

1f60con The most backdoor-looking bug I've ever seen (2021)

> communities

Discord itself calls them "guilds" internally. :)

1f60con I'm puzzled how anyone trusts ChatGPT for code

I had an idea about that the other day!

What if you could write something like:

  @implement_this
  def prime_sieve(n: int) -> list[int]:
    pass

And the decorator reads the function name and optional docstring, runs it through an LLM and replaces the function with one implementing the desired behavior (hopefully correctly). I remember there was something like this for StackOverflow.

1f60con StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in protest against OpenAI

According to OSNews' quote of the source, it's not even a permanent ban (as the title on HN implies), but a 7-day ban.

https://www.osnews.com/story/139601/stack-overflow-signs-dea...

1f60con Project AZORIAN

> Among the contents of the recovered section were the bodies of six Soviet submariners. They were given a formal military burial at sea. In a gesture of good will, Director of Central Intelligence Robert Gates presented a film of the burial ceremony to Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 1992.

Interestingly, footage of the ceremony and burial is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TOypyBdVZhU

1f60con Show HN: I built a free in-browser Llama 3 chatbot powered by WebGPU

It's sadly stuck on "Loading model from cache[24/24]: 0MB loaded. 0% completed, 0 secs elapsed." on my iPhone 13 Pro Max :(

1f60con Show HN: I built a free in-browser Llama 3 chatbot powered by WebGPU

I had the same issue on my iPhone! You can (temporarily) enable WebGPU by going to Settings > Safari > Advanced > Experimental features (I don't know what it's called in English, but it's the bottom one).

1f60con New startup sells coffee through SSH

"Universal" podcast link: https://pods.link/i/1651741524

1f60con Snowflake Arctic Instruct (128x3B MoE), largest open source model

It appears to have limited guardrails. I got it to generate some risqué story and it also told me how to trade onion futures, which is illegal in the US.

1f60con Only <SPAN>s

When I was 12, I invented my own tag called <t> (I wanted something with no default styling but I didn't know how to do it).

1f60con Fixing Gemma Bugs

It's possible that GP confused Gemma and Gemini.

1f60con Bob_cassette_rewinder

I've never heard of liquid dishwasher detergent before, but

> With shipping and VAT added, it costs a whopping £43 ($60) for 90 washes! That is 48p (67c) per wash.

This about matches the cost of "premium" (think Dreft, Finish, etc.) dishwasher detergent tablets in my country.

1f60con Findaway's new terms of service are unacceptable

The clause quoted in TFA is broad, but fairly standard (businesses need it to provide their services). The moral rights stuff is interesting, though, and I'm also not sure what "[n]othing in these Terms prohibits any use of User Content by Spotify that may be taken without a license." means.

1f60con OpenAI – Application for US trademark “GPT” has failed

As someone who is both a paid customer of ChatGPT Plus and the API (in other words, a loyal customer), I'm glad to see this.

While companies can and should do better than name everything CompanyGPT, this sends a clear message that OpenAI doesn't own the concept of GPTs, even if it's a meaningless string of letters to most people.

1f60con European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption

  FOR THESE REASONS, THE COURT
  
  Holds, unanimously, that it has jurisdiction to deal with the applicant’s complaints in so far as they relate to facts that took place before 16 September 2022;
  Declares, unanimously, the complaint concerning the alleged violation of the right to respect for private life and correspondence admissible;
  Holds, unanimously, that there has been a violation of Article 8 of the Convention;
  Holds, by five votes to two, that there is no need to examine the complaint under Article 13 of the Convention;
  Holds, by six votes to one, that the finding of a violation constitutes in itself sufficient just satisfaction for any non-pecuniary damage sustained by the applicant;
  Dismisses, by six votes to one, the applicant’s claim for just satisfaction.
  
  Done in English, and notified in writing on 13 February 2024, pursuant to Rule 77 §§ 2 and 3 of the Rules of Court.

1f60con Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

Is there a good iOS app to create or review Anki flash cards?

1f60con Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

I meant the first two paragraphs. They seem uncharacteristically forceful, and the entire statement seems belittling at times, which is also very unlike Apple.

1f60con Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

I love Apple, and I'm frankly shocked that they would put out this statement in its current form. In the opening paras, their barely-contained rage is palpable, and sentences like

> Today, iOS users already have the ability to set a third-party web browser — other than Safari — as their default.

make me wonder if anyone proof-read this thing at all. That said, this is a good day for EU users, and I applaud everyone who worked so hard to make this happen.

The notarization requirement seems quite reasonable, and honestly better than I expected.

1f60con Orthic Shorthand – Write as fast as you type