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I made an image and it fooled GPT. I asked it to look for a hidden message and it found the blurred word.

Still cool+fun though.

Clicked on link, it tried to upsell me on twitter prime or whatever it is. Closed the promotion, now I'm just sitting on twitter, not on the link I clicked on.

That is sad.

I guess I'll play devil's advocate here, don't shoot me.

Over the course of my career I've had to deal with multiple hacks, DDOSes, and even situations working with the FBI. It's a mess, and extremely frustrating and unfair to those of us who are just trying to do a good job and make a living. Those of you who are throwing stones at Microsoft's coding, how confident are you that your code is safe from this new AI age?

Obviously MS handled this poorly, even after reading this article it's not clear how MS handles bug bounties. But that doesn’t mean this “researcher” deserves a pass.

Releasing 0-days, especially working exploit code for unpatched vulnerabilities, is extremely unethical. It has real potential to cause a lot of harm to regular engineers, and users who had nothing to do with the dispute.

the new bottleneck for development at work is code reviews. devs are creating whole features that would take months in only a couple weeks, but code reviewing that is a slow, painful process

The low latency is more of a pain point than a good thing, the way they have it implemented. Trying to have a casual conversation with it, as humans we naturally pause, and GPT will take this as you are "done" and start blabbing away.

I also suffer from finding the appropriate word I want as I've gotten older and slower, and this fast-voice-gpt just ends up frustrating me more than helping. I have to sit there and think out the whole sentence in my head before I say anything -- not very natural.

Just happened to me and I was really confused. First time I've seen any malware callouts so it had me worried for a minute.

This file is clearly not malware

Yeah, it's all my code, that you've seen before...

waste of time and resources. you aren't going to win a fight against 3d printers. might as well outlaw the printers completely.

we have failed a long time ago in that regard

adapt or die

waiting on the govt to do something is a path of failure

only a couple steps away from Idiocracy

what thermometer would you use to measure the temperature of space?

Wasn't 2048 first posted on HN before it got big?

Battery tech

Lots of old man yelling at clouds energy in here.

This is new territory, you don't ban it, you adapt with it.

I blame the prevalence of package mangers in the first place. Never liked em, just for this reason. Things were fine before they became mainstream. Another annoying reason is package files that are set to grab the latest version, randomly breaking your environment. This isn't just npm of course, I hate them all equally.

While visiting a friend in Russia I was perplexed by the candle in his flat - it had zero flicker, was stable and unmoving. Eventually I learned how they heated the flat, with water flowing through pipes and heat radiation - so little to no air movement.

We didn't set out to hide our GDPR requests, we put them behind our Support/Legal button. But we got sued anyway, and we lost.

Now we have to have the "delete my data" and "request my data" as part of our main settings list. Result: flooded with requests. People are clicking the buttons just because they are there. For me it's not a big deal, I automate all the requests. But, I still feel like this went too far.

I wouldn't. The current theories on sleep and "brain needs sleep" always struck me as a stopgap theory. Even spent some time with GPT arguing about it and never felt fully convinced, like the real reason was still missing.

"the crystal structure results in zero magnetisation."

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Thank you for your work!

No need to sue. Send a cease and desist and your average hacker like OP will take it down in a hurry...

You can measure various aspects of a computer. You can't measure consciousness.

If something sounds off I just tell it I think it's wrong or to double check itself, similar to what I do with text.

I love LLMs, and actually feel they are making me smarter.

I'll be thinking of something in the car, like how do torque converters work? And then I start live talk session with GPT and we start talking about it. Unlike a Wikipedia article that just straight tells you how it works, I can dive down into each detail that is confusing to me until I fully understand it. It's incredible, for the curious.

Early on I gave it a custom instruction:

  Be informal, and make responses as short and concise as possible.  Do not waste words apologizing.

From an economic perspective these new blanket import tariffs are a classic own-goal: tariffs are good for developing industries, but these levies hit huge, mature supply chains, so the main outcome is higher consumer prices, squeezed real wages, and slower growth.

A common example is Smoot-Hawley’s tariffs deepening the Great Depression, and early 2025 data already show trade and hiring slipping, but we won't know the full effect for a while.

As for the "bring manufacturing to the US" argument - tariffs often reroute, not reshore. GoPro moved from China to Mexico, Apple from China to India, Hasbro from China to Vietnam, to name a few.

Mostly GPT, but for World of Warcraft, GPT is absolutely horrible. It's like it has been corrupted by the 20 years of bad/incorrect user data, or maybe just the sheer amount of it in general.

As an example, someone typo'd an abbreviation, so I asked GPT and it gladly made up something for me. So I gave it a random abbreviation, and it did the same (using its knowledge of the game).

Even when I tell it the specific version I'm playing it gets so much wrong it's basically useless. Item stats, where mobs are located, how to do a certain quest - anything. So I'm back to using websites like wowhead and google.

Today the libc allocators have advanced by maybe tens of thousands of PhDs worth of theory and practice.

For fun I wrote up a very basic memory manager and benchmarked it against free/malloc. On my Mac (M3) the manager was 3x faster. On a random kubernetes pod (alpine) it was 33x faster. Performance increases as memory size goes up.

There are always details within details. The overall idea is easily understandable. You are being pedantic.

I guess I'm confused at this chain of responses, then. As I'm doing what you are already suggesting.

Re-reading your comment, about the "not really freeing anything" -- I beg to differ, as when you do a real free(), it frees up memory for any program to use. As I already mentioned one of the benefits is once you have control of who can use that memory and aren't risking it not being available - disregarding some program that constantly grows in memory.