MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 18:52:02+00:00
The two documents you linked are responses to specific parts of OpenAI's objection. They're not good sources for the original order.

Nevertheless, you're generally correct but you don't realize why: A core feature of ChatGPT is that it keeps your conversation history right there so you can click on it, review it, and continue conversations across all of your devices. The court order is to preserve what is already present in the system even if the user asks to delete it.

For those who are confused: A core feature of ChatGPT and other LLM accounts is that your past conversations are available to return to, until you specifically delete them. The problem now is that if a user asks for the conversation to be deleted, OpenAI has to retain the conversation for the court order even though it appears deleted.
by marknutter | 2025-11-12 18:52:06+00:00
I've had a similar journey to yours, albeit on a smaller scale. I used to think that buying jeans that cost over $40 was outrageous, but more recently I learned the value of buying nice raw denim jeans that can cost upwards of $300-400. They last way longer and look so cool after years of wear. With a little maintenance they can be permanent additions to your wardrobe.
by greenavocado | 2025-11-12 18:52:08+00:00
I buy used enterprise hard drives that have been pushed hard. My current biggest NAS runs six used 14 terabyte enterprise hard drives and three have failed so far within a year. Each time I was able to get a warranty replacement and the replacement was in much better condition than the original ones I had. Zero data loss because of ZFS RAID Z2. I was able to measure the condition of the surface of the platters and other useful metadata using Victoria https://hdd.by/victoria/ included on Hiren's BootCD PE.
by greenavocado | 2025-11-12 18:53:11+00:00
As I pointed out in another post if you are using ZFS RAID Z2 you can use literal used garbage hard drives safely without risking data loss.

ZFS helped me discover that my motherboard SATA chip can't handle 6 drives; I had to purchase a cheap Chinese PCI Express SATA controller to communicate with my drives reliably and error-free.
by w10-1 | 2025-11-12 18:53:13+00:00
> this is definitely going to get out own people killed.

But the key feature making this a horrible decision is that the people responsible for getting our people killed will not be discoverable, and they will never face the consequences. Heck: they might not even know, because they're doing good by their standards.

That's exactly how you make a broken but persistent and entrenched system: incentives without consequences for exported costs.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 18:53:46+00:00
> What is the purpose of OpenAI storing millions of private conversations

Your previous ChatGPT conversations show up right in the ChatGPT interface.

They have to store the private conversations to enable users to bring them up in the interface.

This isn't a secretive, hidden data collection. It's a clear and obvious feature right in the product. They're fighting for the ability to not retain secret records of past conversations that have been deleted.

The problem with the court order is that it requires them to keep the conversations even after a user presses the 'Delete' button on them.
by toast0 | 2025-11-12 18:54:46+00:00
Nickles are likely to go shortly after. You can do everything you can with nickles with dimes and quarters, nickles have worse economics than pennies, and have had their minting suppressed below the market needs for years. Once pennies leave circulation, the problems with nickles will become urgent and they'll quickly leave.

Dimes are small and cheap to make though, so they'll probably stick around.
by ang_cire | 2025-11-12 18:55:15+00:00
It's funny how "exploit workers worse (medallions) and worse (rideshares) until we can fully cut them out" has played out in such a perfect microcosm, and yet somehow people here don't seem to register that it was never the workers' own fault.

Taxis didn't lose because rideshares played the game better, they lost because rideshare companies used investor money to leapfrog their apps, ignored actual commercial transport regulations that would have made them DOA, and then exploited workers by claiming they weren't even employees, all so they could artificially undercut taxis to kill them off and capture the market before enshittifying.
by craftkiller | 2025-11-12 18:55:16+00:00
Even modern OLED experience burn-in (despite them announcing every year that "this time we solved the burn-in issue!"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whuHuM9h88M

VR is particularly bad for this because, on OLED, higher brightness = greater burn-in and VR headsets generally significantly over-drive their tiny displays.

Naturally the solution to all of this is MicroLED which will have the benefits of OLED without the downsides. But until then, the only device I'm using OLED for is my phone (and only because I no longer have a choice).
by pragma_x | 2025-11-12 18:55:19+00:00
I used to not be on "team sticker".

My wife, however, loves to customize her stuff.

Fast-forward a few years of that and her laptop breaks down. We drop it off at a local repair place, only to have the business itself fold up with everyone's gear inside it. Former staff then went to great lengths to find customers and return equipment. We were able to recover the machine from a box of co-mingled broken laptops, mostly because it was visually customized. Not everyone else was so lucky.

Point being: the experience was just like having unique looking luggage, and just as useful and important to do. You don't know when you'll need this, but when you do, you'll be thankful.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-11-12 18:55:25+00:00
It's a very low end Radeon 7000 series. It's absolutely incapable of the highest texture quality and rendering resolutions that need more than 8GB of VRAM. You'll likely never go above 1080p on this card (1440p is going to be rough based on benchmarks of the existing low end 7000 series).

There's absolutely no reasonable way to use more than 8GB of VRAM on this card.
by thot_experiment | 2025-11-12 18:55:40+00:00
I don't think there's NO reason to be concerned, but I think it's pretty different considering the decades of history of how Valve acts vs how M$FT acts. Also, many games available on Steam are DRM free or available from other sources and Proton itself is open source.

Valve is also not publicly traded and they have a succession plan of some sort in the event that gaben kicks it, I can only assume whatever he's come up with is sound, he's done a great job of running the place so far.
by lacy_tinpot | 2025-11-12 18:55:52+00:00
We're talking past each other.

I'm talking about perceived industry wide reputational damage by the public as a cause for distrust.

Who cares about fallacies?

Beliefs triumph over logic. Public perception > truth.

Further reputational damages are not unwarranted. Thalidomide is an old example. There are many more recent ones outside of opioid. You're free to look up actual court cases.
by regularization | 2025-11-12 18:55:57+00:00
Since you have to ask, your resentment against tech employers is unconscious.

You resent being a wage slave being forced to do this.

What can you as an individual do about this? As you already know the answer is nothing. Which further demotivates you.

The answer is to separate the concerns.

With regards to demotivation, resentment etc. - read some Noam Chomsky or Karl Marx or Bernie Sanders. Go to a few local Denocratic Socialists of America meetings and talk to the one or two people there who are not just the usual weirdos who show up at political events. If you want to hit back at companies forcing you to do this, and be able to stand proud and not be a wage slave slug doing unpaid grinding of Leetcode without a paycheck, this is the only way to hit back, if only in a small way. These things change collectively, not individually. You might feel better.

Then - suck it up and start grinding Leetcode. Think about how it's cool you just learned to implement Dijkstra's flag algorithm and the like.
by btilly | 2025-11-12 18:56:00+00:00
I disagree.

Often the techniques that you need for a harder problem, are discussed in a forum for an easier problem. Even more often the techniques that you need for a given problem are possible to work out from scratch. And the more you work out, the easier they get.

This can be very frustrating for people who are used to being spoon fed techniques, then given problems which use what they have just been taught. But it is a lot of fun for people who enjoy puzzles. If it isn't your cup of tea, that's fine. But don't dismiss it for people who enjoy it.

Disclaimer. I haven't personally engaged in the last few years, but I've spent a lot of time on it. I solved 598 and contributed a couple of puzzles as well. One of which they immediately saw a way to do that I hadn't, and put it out there with a difficulty level that I didn't know how to do! That was https://projecteuler.net/problem=240.
by torginus | 2025-11-12 18:56:19+00:00
Cool but I wish it had a single big APU chip like the consoles and Strix Halo - and unified memory. PCs are long overdue for adopting this change, and the only reason it makes sense to keep the separate is to make graphics cards swappable.

Considering how big GPU silicon is, when you have both integrated and custom, it'd have made sense to integrate them.
by pier25 | 2025-11-12 18:56:19+00:00
> I wish .NET was more popular among startups, if only C# could get rid of the "enterpisey" stigma

There are plenty of real issues that are not the enterprise stigma.

I built a backend web api this year with it and C# is fantastic. EF Core is truly one of the best ORMs I've ever used. That said, I regret that decision and won't be using it again for any new projects.

Honestly it looks like Microsoft is distracted and doesn't really know what to do with .NET. Everywhere you look there are tons of half baked projects like Blazor, Identity or Kiota and progress in .NET is super slow. It's probably going to get worse now with all the AI crap.
by mostly_harmless | 2025-11-12 18:56:24+00:00
> you can wake your Steam Machine without leaving your couch. [using the built in steam controller wireless adapter].

This one simple thing is the only thing that makes my SteamDeck+Dock feel like a second class console. So far they only claim it's for the Steam Controller, but I'd be great if it worked with the handful of 8bitdo or Switch controllers I've been using.
by zahlman | 2025-11-12 18:56:40+00:00
> If the foundation's core mission is to promote and support Python to as many people as possible, that includes people who would not normally be taking CS classes in schools or have access to resources, then that is DEI.

No, it isn't. DEI, as applied to the PSF, entails promoting and supporting Python to not as many people as possible, by singling out specific groups.

> - PyGirls: DEI

> - Girls Who Code: DEI

I think you mean "PyLadies", but yes, these programs are inherently discriminatory. Their existence also perpetuates the harmful stereotypes that young women would require some sort of special help, or that they benefit from being segregated from young men in the learning environment. (Note that segregating women from men logically necessitates segregating men from women.)

And if you have a daughter, the existence of programs like this sends the message that you should choose her activities according to what society wants for her, not what she wants for herself. That denies agency, and is sexist.

> - Africa Kids Code: DEI

Obviously not.

> AfricaKidsCode was founded by Mangaliso Mokoape in 2018. It is an organization whose primary agenda is to drive digital skills education among young people on the continent through innovation.

I.e., it's meant for people who live in Africa. That isn't a protected characteristic and doesn't exclude, for example, white South Africans. Further, the program doesn't describe itself as having any particular diversity or equity goals.

> - Coding Classes in Spanish: DEI

No, of course not. No critic of DEI makes such arguments, and the Trump administration has not said anything that reasonably supports such a conclusion. Getting there requires conspiratorial thinking. Language is not a "protected characteristic" in US law, and associating it with protected characteristics in order to argue against the Trump administration is psychological projection.

> - Free Intro to CS classes in poor neighborhoods: DEI

> - Free Coding Camps for low income families: DEI

No, and supposing so requires psychological projection.
by throw0101d | 2025-11-12 18:57:05+00:00
> I am never handing my phone to a cop.

The point is that you don't have to:

> To present a Digital ID in person, users can double-click the side button or Home button to access Apple Wallet and select Digital ID. From there, they can hold their iPhone or Apple Watch near an identity reader, review the specific information being requested, and use Face ID or Touch ID to authenticate.

"hold … near … review"

If you're (e.g.) buying alcohol, then the "specific information" would be your birthday, and that is all that would be sent over. With a regular ID, verifying your age would mean handing over your physical card which would have all sorts of other non-relevant information to the task at hand.

Further:

> Only the information needed for a transaction is presented, and the user has the opportunity to review and authorize the information being requested with Face ID or Touch ID before it is shared. Users do not need to unlock, show, or hand over their device to present their ID.

AIUI, cops would have a verifying device or app and the information requested—which you authorize—is sent over wirelessly. Kind of like how you no longer have to hand over your credit/debit cards to (possibly malicious) cashiers, and just keep it in your hand and tap. (Older people may remember the carbon copy 'ka-chunk' machines.)

With a physical ID you have to hand that over because that is the only way the information can be read off of it. With a digital ID you can send a copy of your ID without physical exchange / handover.
by jll29 | 2025-11-12 18:57:20+00:00
What you mean is not "regex for Prolog" but an embedded PROLOG interpreter, which exists.

Ironically, the most common way I have seen people do this is use an embedded LISP interpreter, in which a small PROLOG is easily implemented.

https://www.metalevel.at/lisprolog/ suggests Lisprolog (Here are some embedded LISPs: ECL, PicoLisp, tulisp)

SWI-Prolog can also be linked against C/C++ code: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65118493/is-there-any-re... https://sourceforge.net/p/gprolog/code/ci/457f7b447c2b9e90a0...

Racklog is an embedded PROLOG for Racket (Scheme): https://docs.racket-lang.org/racklog/
by keeganpoppen | 2025-11-12 18:57:35+00:00
hahaha that makes so much more sense. kinda takes the bite out of that rant, but i already knew it was silly after word number… 600? but i was already on a heater and felt i had no choice but to continue lol. no, never delete! you can hold your head up high, knowing that at least you’re not the loser who spent the better part of 45 minutes copy-editing a 800 word semi-unhinged— and possibly not semi- — “possibly” — rant just to make fun of someone on the internet for no reason whatsoever. i guess the OP awakened my own inner feelings about “collaboration”, as someone who does genuinely very highly value collaboration, and do view it as a skill that does genuinely require a lot of practice. :)
by neura | 2025-11-12 18:57:37+00:00
I do not believe that _you_ are trolling with this question, but answering this is just asking to be trolled.

That said. Fortnite. Yes, I still play it with friends and cannot play it on Mac or Linux. :(

I'm sure others have similar examples. Also there are just simple things like playing with friends and streaming on Discord. Anybody streaming from Windows always comes across smooth and HD to the other participants while anybody on Linux seems to consistently be received (I don't know where exactly in the chain the problem exists, so just "received", as it may not be a broadcasting or encoding problem, I'm not an expert in this) with a lot of artifacts and lower framerates.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-12 18:57:37+00:00
> How could you tell they were high?

In New York it's not too difficult. Fidgitiness, twitchiness, rambling series of non sequiturs that make even my ADD brain rattle. Screaming at traffic and running on the margin one second and then asking me if I know that the archangel who visited Muhammed was actually a demon the next. (I'm not Muslim. The conversation wasn't addressed to anyone in the vehicle.)

Like, I guess I can't say they're taking too much of a substance. But if they aren't, they're taking too little.
by cpill | 2025-11-12 18:57:37+00:00
Of course it does "reasoning", what do you think reasoning is? From a quick google: "the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way". Prolog searches through a space of logical proposition (constraints) and finds conditions that lead to solutions (if one exists).

(a) Trying adding another 100 or 1000 interlocking proposition to your problem. It will find solutions or tell you one doesn't exist. (b) You can verify the solutions yourself. You don't get that with imperative descriptions of problems. (b) Good luck sandboxing Python or JavaScript with the treat of prompt injection still unsolved.
by mmmBacon | 2025-11-12 18:57:48+00:00
I’m old enough to remember being able to scrounge around the house for pennies and heading down to Gracie’s corner store so I could buy some Swedish fish. They were 1 cent each. Gracie counted them out and put them in a small paper bag for you.

A major score was finding a dime or quarter on the street. When the Whatchamacallit first came out they were 25 cents!
by paxys | 2025-11-12 18:58:31+00:00
So much talk about privacy and how this is my private data that the NYT has no right to access.

If this is truly my data then it should be okay for me to download it and train my own model on it right?

Nope, that would explicitly be disallowed under the terms OpenAI has made me sign and they would ban my account and maybe even sue me for it.

So yeah, they are full of shit.
by ryanmcbride | 2025-11-12 18:58:48+00:00
Rounding is such a weird boogeyman to me because people are like "the companies are just going to use it to get more money from the customers" but, they're doing that anyway. They don't need this excuse to raise prices they'll just do it anyway.

Same thing when people complain that raising minimum wage will increase prices, meanwhile prices have increased for 50 years completely separate from wages. They don't need the excuse to raise prices they're just gonna do it anyway.

If they want companies to not raise prices the only answer is regulation, but regulation is communism and therefore bad.

I'm so god damn tired.
by bcrosby95 | 2025-11-12 18:59:19+00:00
> I don’t know what you mean by “documented” but here is Georgia:

Georgia isn't going to punish you for going the speed limit in the right lane, they passed that law recently and called it the 'slow poke law'.

> On the other hand “in compliance with law” is it’s own barrel of monkeys because it doesn’t specify priority.

It really isn't.
by neodymiumphish | 2025-11-12 18:59:23+00:00
Presumably for cross-device interactivity. If I interact with ChatGPT on my phone, then open it on my desktop. I might be a bit frustrated that I can't get to the chat I was having on my phone previously.

OpenAI could store the chat conversation in an encrypted format that only you, the user, can decrypt, with the client-side determining the amount of previous messages to include for additional context, but there's plenty of user overhead involved in an undertaking like that (likely a separate decryption password would be needed to ensure full user-exclusive access, etc).

I'd appreciate and use a feature like that, but I doubt most "average" users would care.
by cestith | 2025-11-12 18:59:25+00:00
IIRC, in New York it’s illegal to absorb sales tax on individual items because by law it’s a consumer tax collected by the business and explicitly not a tax on the business itself, but - and it’s a pretty big exception - anything sold as a bulk good can include the tax in the price. That includes things like liquid fuels, grains or candy by the scoop in the supermarket, loose sand/gravel/salt/whatever for outdoor use, and things like that. It’s been a long while since I had to set up an ecommerce site for New York though.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-12 18:59:29+00:00
> remember people saying the exact opposite

It was a common but bad hypothesis.

"If you had asked me in 2018, when I first started working in the AV industry, I would’ve bet that driverless trucks would be the first vehicle type to achieve a million-mile driverless deployment. Aurora even pivoted their entire company to trucking in 2020, believing it to be easier than city driving.

...

Stopping in lane becomes much more dangerous with the possibility of a rear-end collision at high speed. All stopping should be planned well in advance, ideally exiting at the next ramp, or at least driving to the closest shoulder with enough room to park.

This greatly increases the scope of edge cases that need to be handled autonomously and at freeway speeds.

...

The features that make freeways simpler — controlled access, no intersections, one-way traffic — also make ‘interesting’ events more rare. This is a double-edged sword. While the simpler environment reduces the number of software features to be developed, it also increases the iteration time and cost.

During development, ‘interesting’ events are needed to train data-hungry ML models. For validation, each new software version to be qualified for driverless operation needs to encounter a minimum number of ‘interesting’ events before comparisons to a human safety level can have statistical significance. Overall, iteration becomes more expensive when it takes more vehicle-hours to collect each event.”

https://kevinchen.co/blog/autonomous-trucking-harder-than-ri...
by red-iron-pine | 2025-11-12 18:59:43+00:00
this article sucks and completely misses nietzsche in a lot of ways.

he talks of the Overman but doesn't connect it to AI or the genealogy of morals.

"thus as you are to the ape, so should the Overman be to you" -- with the idea that our morals and everything we believe, while sharing some bits with the ape, is also far different. What does an ape know about the DMV, or option calls?

So too will the AI be to us. It will practice instead of black and white morality, blue vs. orange. True AGI will either be totally alien and rage against us, a la The Terminator, or else hit a singularity and politely fuck-off a la the movie Her.

“You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm.”
by monocasa | 2025-11-12 18:59:43+00:00
Skewed execution are just different traces. Basic blocks don't have a requirement that they don't partially overlap with other basic blocks. You want that anyway for optimization reasons even without skewed execution.

Self modifying code is handled with MMU traps on the writes, and invalidation of the relevant traces. It is very much a slow path though. Ideally heavy self modfying code is able to stay in the interpreter though and not thrash in and out of the compiler.
by simpleguitar | 2025-11-12 19:00:00+00:00
As the article points out, there are laws that say people who pay via SNAP debit cards "cannot be charged more than others".

If cash payments are rounded down, but debit card payments aren't, they are in violation of state law.

The article also points out that rollback of pennies in Canada and other places were planned, addressing these kinds of issues. USA is doing it with no such planning.