MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Why is OpenAI lying about the data its collecting on users?
by kypro | 2025-11-27 00:59:38+00:00
I'm not sure this is the right place to raise this but over the past few months ChatGPT has been lying to me and gaslighting me about the data it's collecting about me.

I'm very sensitive about my privacy and I have disabled all personalisation and memory on ChatGPT.

However, I've noticed multiple times now where it would say things that imply it knows things about me. When it does this I ask how it would know that and it always says it just guessed and it doesn't actually know anything about me. I assumed it must be telling the truth because it seemed very unlikely a company like OpenAI would be lying about the data they're collecting on users and training their chat agent to gaslighting users when asked about it, but now after running some tests I think this is what's happening...

Here's some examples of the gaslighting:

- https://ibb.co/m5PWfchn

- https://ibb.co/VsL9BpF

- https://ibb.co/8nYdf1xx

These are all new chats.
by verdverm | 2025-11-27 01:00:05+00:00
I think both are helpful

1. starting fresh, because of context poisoning / long-term attention issues

2. lots of tools makes the job easier, if you give them a tool discovery tool, (based on Anthropics recent post)

We don't have reliable ways to evaluate all the prompts and related tweaking. I'm working towards this with my agentic setup. Added time travel for sessions based on Dagger yesterday, with forking, cloning, registry probably toda
by excalibur | 2025-11-27 01:00:17+00:00
> I don't understand that. 98% of devices over 15 years old have either died of old age or are completely obsolete. Something can be said about unlocking deprecated devices, but it would only ever be used by a tiny percentage of people. Apple devices in particular last a very long time anyway, as you should expect from a premium brand.

This comment gave me whiplash
by rishabhaiover | 2025-11-27 01:00:44+00:00
While I think there's obvious merit to their skepticism over the race towards agi, Sutskever's goal doesn't seem practical to me. As Dwarkesh also said, we reach to a safe and eventually perfect system by deploying it in public and iterating over it until optimal convergence dictated by users in a free market. Hence, I trust that Google, OpenAI or Anthropic will reach there, not SSI.
by netsharc | 2025-11-27 01:01:26+00:00
The legend is that if you invite a lady for the night, it's so you and she can keep an eye on each other, in case either is worried about one going through their stuff/wallet while the other is in the bathroom.

I stayed in such a hotel, and getting up to go the bathroom I noticed someone had flicked a business-card-sized advertisement under the door, for said companionship...
by echelon | 2025-11-27 01:01:33+00:00
> With all this emphasis they're putting on upselling these $150 map updates, it doesn't take a genius to understand why GM is no longer making vehicles with CarPlay or Android Auto.

Because cars are a low margin, high capital business with ruthless competition.

Because a trillion dollar duopoly gets to spend a billion dollars on mapping software and give it away completely for free as part of an ecosystem / platform play, which they then use to strong arm automotive manufacturers. If you had to bear the true cost, it would be $150. More car companies should ban Apple and Google.

Fuck Apple and Google. They are not the heroes in this story. They're not Robin Hood here, even if that's what they're masquerading as. They're the child-enslaving "Land of Toys" from Pinocchio - they're using you and lured you in with a promise of freedom, but they have an ulterior motive.

All of that "freedom" just gets added to the purchase price of your car, and you don't even realize it. You also get Google ads for McDonalds and shit.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-11-27 01:01:48+00:00
> Until recently, you never had to think about it. But as it becomes more common it will become something you might want to consider.

This is closely related to a phenomenon I don't understand.

Pretty much every proposed regulatory change (for example: letting drivers pump their own gas at gas stations) meets a fierce counterargument that says "currently, no one considers this situation at all because only one state of affairs is legal. If that thoughtlessness continues after we legalize other possibilities, TERRIBLE THINGS COULD HAPPEN!".

But obviously this protasis† can never occur and so it doesn't matter what's in the apodosis.

† https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/protasis#English (2)
by wowamit | 2025-11-27 01:01:48+00:00
> I’ve had shop staff tell me about some discount if you download their app, and when I decline, say something like “It’s really easy! Here, just give me your phone and I’ll do it for you.”

This behaviour is pretty prevalent worldwide, I believe. Especially the phone plan setup use case happened to me in Bangkok, too. This happens to me in India at gas stations, cafes and even local supermarkets. All want me to install their apps, and the first step is to log in with my mobile number.

With auto-detection of mobile numbers/Google Accounts on Android, it's even easier to create an account in one click.
by vermaden | 2025-11-27 01:01:55+00:00
There are some.

For example BSD ls(1) is not able to list dirs first.

Other thing is that BSD utils are more strict ... like:

# command -o -p -t -i -O -n -s ARGUMENTS

If you do it other wise - like that:

# command -o -p -t ARGUMENTS -i -O -n -s

... they will just throw error - but its all documented in the man pages.
by chrsw | 2025-11-27 01:02:56+00:00
I could be wrong but I think a lot of the negativity comes from people who want a modern laptop, with decent port selection, a good screen and a good keyboard, fully supported by Linux because everything is open. Quality hardware with support when you want it and open documentation and open drivers if you want to do something yourself. Like a MacBook Pro but with USB-A ports and built with 100% Linux compatibility from the ground up.
by amy_petrik | 2025-11-27 01:03:15+00:00
>Why would they need to coordinate to keep the price from dropping during a spike in demand?

They wouldn't you're right.

But I would expect for them to follow the sorts of behavior we've observed in other markets - egg prices, gasoline prices. When a spike occurs, even if as brief as a lightning strike, they will only very slowly drop prices, when in a purely capitalistic world the price drop ought to be equally fast - suggestive that the slow drop is a mutual agreed upon collusion. After all, it's in all sellers best interest to game that "consumers temporarily agreeable to scalping prices" as hard as possible, Nash equilibrium or whatever amongst sellers. Many such cases and more vicious and brutal punishments for such behavior would serve to benefit the common man, the final point and benefit of capitalism
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-27 01:04:08+00:00
Not saying that you're wrong, but of course if there is a real AI bubble, then "not letting it pop" only escalates the damage when it does eventually pop. The best outcome all-around is for the market to form accurate expectations quite promptly about the real potential and capabilities of AI, regardless of the immediate consequences.

My own wild guess is that this spike in RAM and storage costs is more of a potential drag on the tech sector as a whole than AI companies specifically. Maybe we'll see some systems being reengineered to cut the waste and the technical debt throughout and be a bit leaner and meaner, since that will be making a real difference to the bottom line.
by mise_en_place | 2025-11-27 01:04:29+00:00
This is unsurprising. Maxis won't care, because in theory they don't care about the price. The only people complaining about this are those who bought at the top and made unsound financial decisions.

If you couldn't tell the majority of crypto influencers were foreigners before Twitter/X disclosed their location, I don't know what to tell you.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-27 01:04:49+00:00
Have you looked at all of the APIs that are part of the standard?

These are from the Firefox website

Of course it also knows your device, operating system version, screen resolution, phone orientation, etc.

Not to mention that websites can track you across other websites.

What information do you think apps have without your permissions that websites don’t?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Acceleromet...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/g...

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/av_prop_volume.asp
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-11-27 01:05:13+00:00
Processes are the problem.

Something went wrong once. Maybe not even in your organization, but it went wrong somewhere. Someone added a process to make sure that the problem didn't happen again, because that's what well-run organizations are supposed to do.

But too often, people don't think about the cost of the procedure. People are going to have to follow this procedure every time the situation happens for the next N years. How much does that cost in peoples' time? In money? How much did the mistake cost? How often did it happen? So was the procedure a net gain or a net loss? People don't ask that, but instead the procedure gets written and becomes "industry best practice".

(And for some industries, it is! Aviation, medical, defense... some of those have really tight regulation, and they require strict procedures. But not every organization is in those worlds...)

So now you have poor corporate drones that have to run through that maze of procedures, over and over. Well, if GPT can run the maze for you, that's really tempting. It can cut your boredom and tedium, cut out a ton of meaningless work, and make you far faster.

But on the other hand, if you are the person who wrote the procedure, you think that it matters that it be done correctly. The form has to be filled out accurately, not with random gibberish, not even with correct-sounding-but-not-actually-accurate data. So you cannot allow GPT to do the procedures.

The procedure-writers and procedure-doers live in different worlds and have different goals, and GPT doesn't fix that at all.
by Symbiote | 2025-11-27 01:05:39+00:00
The bathroom needs to be destined properly.

My shower in Denmark has no door, and no curtain, but the splashes don't reach very far away, and aren't in the way of anywhere I'd want to walk after showering anyway.

I've often seen hotel bathrooms in other countries that get this wrong. In the worst case, splashed water from the open shower runs all across the bathroom, and in one case (a Grand Hyatt!) into the main room carpet.

Did the designers not know water flows down?
by creakingstairs | 2025-11-27 01:05:39+00:00
> your implication that South Korea may be a special case

Well, I genuinely think the word "feminism" means different thing in Korea to the places I've lived at. It has much more inflammatory undertone there whereas in NZ, its just a term. When I see "anti-feminism" for Korean politician, I construe it to be "anti radical feminism". That's what I was trying to get at.

> these feelings aren’t really borne out by the stat

Those stats you've linked are pretty controversial: one says 10th and the other says 118th.

> Due to the various methods of calculating and measuring gender inequality, South Korea's gender inequality rankings vary across different reports. While the 2017 UNDP Gender Inequality Index ranks South Korea 10th out of 160 countries, the World Economic Forum ranks South Korea 118th out of 144 countries in its 2017 Global Gender Gap Report

I think there are still gender inequality in Korea. The reason I'm defending them is that I just don't want people to label fair bit of young Korean men to be misogynist and write them off. Their struggles are real and if we keep marginalising them I don't think it would get any better.
by mncharity | 2025-11-27 01:06:26+00:00
First, context: a "life/not-life" distinction is far more "science" than science - widespread in "science" education, but rarely comes up in science research. (Might be interesting to create a list of similar?) Why the emphasis there... I don't know - perhaps because we teach by memorizing definitions and lists, not by learning design spaces and their landmarks? Or at least by giving exemplars without characterizing variance.

One of the few places I've seen it come up in science, was ecosystem multi-scale simulation software. Where virus was squarely in the heritable characteristics under selection pressure ("life") bucket, rather than abiotic or biogenic.

Informal "do you think of viruses as alive?" seems to vary by field. I've seen a marine bio labs be overwhelmingly yes. I've been told medical immunology leans no. But it seems more social-media engagement question than research question or synthesis.
by vincenthwt | 2025-11-27 01:06:43+00:00
Yes, that's correct about OCR. I work as a machine vision engineer in the semiconductor industry, where each wafer usually has both OCR text and machine-readable codes such as barcodes, QR codes, or data matrix codes. The OCR typically uses the SEMI font standard.

To achieve accurate OCR results, I need to preprocess the image by isolating each character, sorting them from left to right, and using regular expressions (regex) to verify the output. However, I prefer machine-readable codes because they are simpler to use, feature built-in error detection, and are much more reliable. While deep-learning OCR solutions often perform well, they cannot guarantee the 100 percent accuracy required in our applications.

This approach is similar to how e-wallet payments use cameras to scan QR codes instead of OCR text, as QR codes provide greater reliability and accuracy.
by rickydroll | 2025-11-27 01:06:45+00:00
I still don't see how Libertarians can solve the current problems we have with corporate abuse of force. For example, if a company is a major employer in town and pollutes both the ground and the water, how is an individual going to push back against the company's power? How is an individual going to apply force to a corporation to get them to stop and/or clean up the pollution?

How can an individual or even a group of individuals stop a corporation from underpaying its workers so that they need to use some public assistance, food, or medical care?

There are many similar examples, but they all boil down to the asymmetry of power. An organization capable of employing many lawyers, or even a single good one, can grind you down until you have nothing left. I still see libertarians as having no answer.

I think the only way to fight back against corporate abuse is to build a stronger center of power. Something like a union, a citizenry willing to take collective action, or even a Government that is not beholden to corporate interests.
by asa400 | 2025-11-27 01:06:48+00:00
> unwrap() and the family of methods like it are a Rust anti-pattern from the early days of Rust. It dates back to before many of the modern error-handling and safety-conscious features of the language and type system.

I think your argument would be more effective if you dropped this angle.

Unwrap is assert. No more, no less. It's tremendously useful to have it in the language for situations when the cost of encoding some invariant in your program's types is far larger than the benefit you'd gain from doing so. It's not some vestigial thing from way back before anyone received enlightenment that they could use sum types to discriminate errors. It's just a different tool.

I completely agree there are systems and situations where you want to be able to statically verify an absence of panics, but the way you're describing the situation sounds similar to when I hear folks describe anything that came before as "legacy" with a denigrating inflection.
by buu700 | 2025-11-27 01:06:57+00:00
Aside from fat loss, my guess is that what we'll ultimately find is that the benefits of GLP-1 therapy are primarily due to reduced blood sugar and/or ketosis, either/both of which (along with fat loss) could contribute to improved mitochondrial health and lower chronic inflammation. That could in turn improve all sorts of symptoms, not least of which would be migraine and depression.
by vkou | 2025-11-27 01:07:08+00:00
Some of it is that, but much of it has a much simpler answer.

Advertising and availability. Sports gambling was limited to Vegas a decade ago, now you can lose thousands of dollars while fiddling with your phone on your toilet.

If every corner store and gas station had a heroin vending machine, you'd probably see a lot more opiate addicts, too, regardless of how well the economy is doing. And doubtlessly, their owners would screech to the skies at any attempt to curb that shit.
by N_Lens | 2025-11-27 01:08:27+00:00
According to the paper the image models can 'recognize' and track objects in videos. There are a lot of emergent properties in both diffusion models and LLMs that don't align with simplistic descriptions such as 'next token predictor'. It's not surprising to me that 'diffusing' mass amounts of image data leads to semantic developments and the emergence of recognition.
by cr1st1an | 2025-11-27 01:08:29+00:00
Thanks for sharing all this. It is clear you have gone through several versions of solving this problem, and a lot of what you described is exactly what led me to build this plugin.

The “in-between” space you mentioned is what I am trying to make simple: keep WordPress as the origin, avoid all the static-site complexity, and still get CDN-level delivery without touching DNS.

And yes, the instant on/off switch is a big part of the design. A lot of people have been burned by setups where Cloudflare goes down or an account gets flagged and suddenly the whole site is tied to that infrastructure. Being able to disable a plugin in wp-admin and immediately fall back to local files feels like the right safety valve for most WordPress users.

I appreciate you taking the time to think it through. If you try it, I would be interested to hear where it fits (or doesn’t fit) with the approaches you have used before.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-11-27 01:08:33+00:00
Hope that never changes. Linux has enough problems without invasive kernel mode anticheat malware trying to install itself on our systems.

It was bad enough that we had to put up with nvidia's proprietary nonsense if we wanted hardware acceleration. Things have finally started to improve. They have finally started open sourcing things. Now that things are finally getting better this anticheat nonsense shows up. You gotta be kidding me.

Nobody needs a bunch of game companies feeling entitled to full access to our computers. You'd have to be nuts to let game companies run ring zero code on your system. You want their nonsense absolutely contained and isolated, not deep in your kernel.

Here's a thought: they don't own our computers, we do. We own the CPU. We own the RAM. We own the motherboard. If we want to edit their game's memory while its running, it's our god given right as the owners of the machine the game is running on. Any attempt to stop us from doing so is an affront to our freedom. The mere attempt to do so with "anticheating" kernel malware is offensive. The audacity.

Cheating at video games is an exercise in computer freedom. I realize I'm defending scoundrels here and it doesn't matter in the slightest. Our computing freedom is orders of magnitude more important than video games. I want them to suck it up and accept it. That is the price of freedom. If they want to be on Linux, it should be on our terms.

Don't care about this ideological stuff? Here's the sort of risk you're accepting when you opt into this bullshit:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/fs-labs-flight-simulator-pas...

Corporation thinks its the FBI and starts shipping a browser stealer to users to "catch pirates". Bonus points for exfiltrating the data on an unencrypted channel!

https://old.reddit.com/r/Asmongold/comments/1cibw9r/valorant...

https://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/anti-cheat-bypass/634974-...

Screenshots your screen and exfiltrates it to their servers.

https://www.theregister.com/2016/09/23/capcom_street_fighter...

https://twitter.com/TheWack0lian/status/779397840762245124

https://fuzzysecurity.com/tutorials/28.html

https://github.com/FuzzySecurity/Capcom-Rootkit

A literal privilege escalation as a service "anticheat" driver!

Game companies give negative amounts of shit. If you trust them you're out of your mind.
by danpalmer | 2025-11-27 01:08:54+00:00
Who is this for?

Because it's not for the developers I know – they either want a Macbook or an infinitely configurable (hardware and software) workstation, whereas this has the configurability of a Macbook with the ease of use of the workstation, clearly not a combination people want.

I can only assume this is for mechanical keyboard collectors. Developer-adjacent tech enthusiasts who like the idea of Linux, without an actual professional need for it. People who like well built devices, but don't really care about swapping out hardware. People who have a lot of disposable income and want to buy cool things.

If that's the target market, that's fine. I guess the problem is that market only buys it if you claim its for a different market, developers/etc. As a result it's going to rile up developers every time as they always feel the need to push back with "this isn't what I want".
by linguae | 2025-11-27 01:08:55+00:00
Indeed. Here’s an article from Don Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things and former Apple employee, that talks about Apple’s decline in usability back in 2015:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-apples-products-so-confus...

Apple had usability experts like Bill Atkinson (RIP), Larry Tesler (RIP), Bruce Tognazzini, and Don Norman. At one point, what differentiated Apple products from competitors was Apple’s focus on usability and consistency. However, it seems that sometime during Apple’s revival under Steve Jobs, there became a big focus on appealing design. Beige desktops and black laptops gave way to colorful desktops and metallic laptops, and the Platinum interface was replaced with Aqua. Nothing was wrong with this; in fact, this was peak Apple, IMO, with usability and visual appeal. But somewhere along the line, Apple lost the plot. Apple became less about usability and more about visual appeal, but with usability taking a hit.

To be fair, Apple makes world-class hardware, and I still prefer macOS to its competitors. The problem is that I prefer 2000s Mac OS X and even the 1990s classic Mac OS (from a UI perspective, not necessarily a UX perspective due to stability issues) to modern macOS.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-11-27 01:09:28+00:00
In Hyperion, the character Martin Silenus is rich enough that he lives in a novelty palace where all the rooms are connected by teleporters. As a joke, the bathroom is a wallless raft on an ocean world.

Outside of the realm of science fiction, my sister followed a TV show for a while that was basically a set of advertisements for a modular home company. One episode featured the installation of a small home on a remote British island; the shower was a pipe outside the house itself.
by randycupertino | 2025-11-27 01:09:46+00:00
It's becoming trendy, so people book larger suites instead and also so the hotels can save money on doors and easier for housekeeping. They're getting rid of shower doors too.

Nate Barzgate does a good bit on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgtgjA_UiAo

I stayed at a super fancy hotel in Napa for a work event that didn't even have a WALL separating off the bathroom it was just a half-partition sheer panel thing.
by Closi | 2025-11-27 01:09:47+00:00
> we reach to a safe and eventually perfect system by deploying it in public and iterating over it until optimal convergence dictated by users in a free market

Possibly... but also a lot of the foundational AI advancements were actually done in skunkworks-like environments and with pure research rather than iterating in front of the public.

It's not 100% clear to me if the ultimate path to the end is iteration or something completely new.