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Ask HN: ChatGPT operator on websites that restrict automation in their ToS
Hi folks, I am curious how chatgpt handles ToS of websites that restrict scraping and automation. Let's say you want to order food from Doordash using ChatGPT operator, but doordash says following in their ToS:
"Scraping. Using any robot, spider, web crawler, extraction software, automated process and/or device to scrape, copy, index, frame, monitor, conduct any systematic retrieval of data or other content from any portion of platform or its content."

Reason why I am asking this is because I am also building automation software where it makes it easy for users to automate the work in their platforms. But there are restrictions for such work in their ToS.
We have hundreds of raspberry pi s out in the field that experience sdcard failures far too often even though the filesystems are setup as readonly using a ram based overlay filesystem. I suspect something happens during reboot of these pi's and that the SoC generates spurious signals on the bus lines causing havoc with some of the sdcards. It doesn't seem to happen with high end cards or the same setup but with a compute module (which we now use exclusively) with an on board emmc chip.
The US Executive is way more powerful than the other powers. It can act as it wishes, and consequences only come years later, if ever.

Also, the per-state representation doesn't seem to lead to good results at all. As you said, the popular representation isn't proportional, what is a more relevant flaw than anything before this point on this comment.

And that is before you get into the details that are actually bad. It's incredible that they managed to stay stable with that electoral system, for example.

That said, looks like they will have an almost perfect opportunity to fix some of those in a few years...
It is possible to write a (top-down) parser that can deal with the left recursion without having to rewrite the grammar itself. Simply split the left recursive ones and not. Then first try to accept a non-left recursive rule and if that succeeds, use the result to try to parse any of the left recursive ones. (If I am not mistaken, this also works for mutual recursion of left recursive rules.) I have implemented this several times.
The Democrats did nothing like this move when in power. There is a difference between agreement and enforcement.

Edit: to be clear, when Twitter recognizes hate speech, it's not "the Democrats". It's not dictated by the monarch.
It is also through the exchange rates.

USD to CAD has front ran a lot of this already. 1.45 is crazy.

The idea Canada can so easily re-route trade is absurd. Especially when the trade is going to be settled in USD.

I have been trying to understand the point of all this and come up empty this morning. I would have to assume it is for enormous leverage in the trade deal that ultimately ends all this. The leverage this gives the US in a trade deal, especially with Canada is pretty incredible.

25% is just so insane that it probably does cause Mexico and Canada to concede to whatever Trump wants in a trade deal and in short order. I think this is why Trump won't even take a call from Trudeau right now. It is a leverage tactic and then when they do talk what leverage does Trudeau have? Basically zero.
It wasn't on the page linked above but on this page [1] at the bottom it reads:

> To quickly turn Full Keyboard Access, Sticky Keys, Slow Keys, or the Accessibility Keyboard on or off using the Accessibility Shortcuts panel, press Option-Command-F5 (or if your Mac or Magic Keyboard has Touch ID, quickly press Touch ID three times).

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/mac-help/mchlae61a6de/...
Rocknix: Immutable Linux distrib for handheld retro gaming devices
Ask HN: Anyone heard rumors about a big tech privacy lawyer fired for hacking?
I'm not going to say who, but let's just say I wouldn't use their toilets without checking for cameras first. Apparently, two senior leaders also left in the aftermath.
Guessing that the HN crowd has a fair amount of people that read Yarvins blog back in the day. Whats it like seeing his ideas finally being applied or worked on?

Did Yarvin just read Snow Crash and think that was a great society?
Of course there is a chance. The question you should be asking is rather: is the change pushed by the administration more likely to produce more "good" science or more "bad"?

And the answer to that question seems obvious to me.
>Hollow is intended to be driven by a community of developers, Whether you’re using the core tools or adding new ones through plugins, you’re part of a growing ecosystem of creativity and flexibility.

>"Currently, the app isn’t open source, as I felt it didn’t need to be."

It has to be real good before I'm willing to work for you for free. How much better are you than logseq, or even other closed source competitors like obsidian or roam research?

You want me to put my brain into this thing that I don't own?

>However, tools developed for Hollow will need to be open source to be approved as verified tools.

You want us to work for free, follow a specific license, but you're not willing to follow that license yourself? That borders on being disrespectful in my opinion.
Riches from the Mouth of Hell: The dark legacy of Potosi
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I got fired from my own startup
Netflix might accidentally be the worst possible example you could pick for 'wouldn't exist if piracy were legal.'

Netflix built their entire streaming business model during a time when piracy was so widespread it was almost as good as legal. They succeeded precisely by proving that people would pay for good service even when free options were readily available. They're a textbook example of a business that thrives by being better than free!

Despite huge investments in enforcement, movie piracy never waned. The reason it declined? Netflix. Why is it now seeing a bit of a resurgence? Also Netflix, actually, or rather the fact that people have splintered the streaming landscape.

Here's some articles from Forbes at the time. [1] [2] [3] and an interview with the Netflix CEO [4]

People following the Netflix/piracy story at the time saw it like this: Netflix doesn't necessarily need to care if piracy is legal or not, because it removes most of the incentive to pirate. People tried a lot of things against piracy, until Netflix came along and that was the thing that actually worked. Piracy goes down where Netflix is available. I've also provided enough sources to explain why: Piracy is a service problem [3]. Netflix provides the missing service, so people don't feel like they need to pirate anymore.

In a world where piracy was fully legal, Netflix would still exist, and still drive down piracy. This is Netflix's entire reason for success!

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthickey/2013/05/07/netflix-w...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/01/24/whatever-...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/02/03/you-will-...

[4] https://www.stuff.tv/news/netflixs-ted-sarandos-talks-arrest... (under the heading "what are you doing to combat piracy?" )
I don’t know about “parties” but political movements absolutely are divided by centralization (or not). Collectivism is literally the centralization of wealth.
Years ago I had to administer Jenkins on a MacOS build machine. It broke often. I would have to VNC in to accept license agreements and other trivial tasks. I am nowhere near your level but even what little I wanted was an unnecessary PITA to achieve and maintain.
That old piece of paper? Obviously that wasn’t really what they meant at the time, just like the 14th amendment doesn’t really grant birthright citizenship. Why, the whole thing is really just a set of guidelines that need to be interpreted by a council of clerics.
Working in a fast changing but also wide and deep field like software I think being able to remember quite a few facts can be important.
System Operators to Timekeepers: What Will Replace Leap Seconds?
Nitpick: it can be if you redefine numbers and/or operations. Math is not science (but is used as a basis for science) and you can yourself redefine what 2, 5, + and = mean, and use that new set accordingly. Just like you can make "Sky is green" true if your redefine what either "Sky", "is", or "green" mean - language is also not science so it can be redefined.
I don’t think it’s either, I think they’re working on a way to get secrets out of the human brain.

Mark my words.
> The Tower of Babel: who can understand it?

Great commit to the bit
Nobody serious is claiming that chromosomes are "all that matter", but while you complain about bad-faith efforts to dismiss trans people, you seemingly ignore all of their bad faith efforts to dismiss the importance and reality of sex.

> nobody really believes that chromosomes are the most important definition of gender

I don't understand how you reach this conclusion given the fact that for >99% of the world's people, their gender matches their sex. Who is this "nobody" you speak of?
The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (1974) [pdf]
Absolutely, but not just that you can jump into meta conversations extremely quickly, and rotate things through different dimensions, even with concepts that are much less familiar. But the key is in deliberately creating the transactional context where ... if anything it's like the most fantastic debugging duck I've ever come across.

It absolutely will not necessarily find the most obvious errors, but you will learn a lot in the process.
No, it wasn't discarded. I had already responded to your points here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907000
There are two problems at play here. One is that the science involved pertains to mental health care, which means psychiatrists. Meaning the same specialty that tried psychotherapy and blaming "cold" mothers for autism, and then had a lobotomies for everyone fad, and then got too enamored with electroconvulsive therapy.

I'm too young to have witnessed those, but I did personally see the effects when they launched the Drug of the Month Club in the 1990s. It's hard to look at how they treat gender dysphoria and not suspect it's yet another episode.

BUT....

At the same time what's going on with the Republicans is sheer malice. And it must be fought on those grounds.
Language evolves. Saying that today’s conservatives are not true conservatives is the literal definition of the no true Scotsman fallacy.
If someone started grinding up those pill things and putting them in your salt shaker, you wouldn't be able to prove that you didn't like the results - unless we can believe self-reports.
My mind immediately went to adversarial fixing of all sports games and the stock market in order to create a collision.

Sports sports are an interesting source of entropy.
I guess it matters how long it is and if you need to know it exactly, and how long you need to retain it. I had to memorize 50 to 100 word phrases and I chained them together with index cards. The first sentence is the cue for the second, the second for the third, etc. Carried them around in my pocket in order and started from first a few times a day until I could do the whole thing. But I only needed to know it exactly for a few weeks usually.
To be fair, one can often profit with shitcoins if one knows what one is doing and if one puts thought into it. A gambler obviously won't. It takes a philosopher. The point is that it trading shitcoins doesn't have to entirely be gambling despite their potential to dump significantly.
That is spaced repition, just with a bit of change in what they’re repeating
Everyone is born male or female, some just ambiguously so. Intersex is a colloquial misnomer, the correct and more accurate term is “disorder of sex development”.
You're saying it is a great show but It Is Blasphemy so you won't watch it anymore?

Our economic system is not gospel.
And then there is Rousseau, who wrote books about raising children. But raising his own was too much.
Sometimes, bad actors should not be allowed on the site.
Klinefelter syndrome: one to two per 1,000 live birth

Turner syndrome: 1 in 2,000 to 5,000 female births

Triple X syndrome: approximately 1 in 1,000 (female)

Jacob’s syndrome: 1 in 1,000 males

Mosaicism affecting sex determination: 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 50,000

Swyer syndrome: ~1 in 80,000–100,000 births

SRY translocation to X or autosome: ~1 in 25,000–30,000

Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome: 1 in 10,000–50,000

So there are ~0.3% of people who have an unusual sex determination because of genetics. As another poster said that means there are 900,000 people with these conditions in the USA. That's half of the transgender population in the USA.

Yet I agree that does not prove that a significant portion of the transgender population has some genetic variation affecting their sex determination, but definitely it proves that the situation is more complex than many think.
LLMs memorize information at a superhuman level the same way an 8 tb harddisk does.

Silly.
I believe DNA doesn't last more than a couple million years. And that's under ideal conditions and it's already a stretch.
I don’t think states rights is defined by whether they receive money from the federal government.
everything is public in a struct is great, otherwise sane debug printing would be impossible. there are other languages where nothing is private and operability (debugging on the fly when shit is falling down around you in prod) is unparalleled.
what are/were Reddit's top two or three cached structures / things?

guessing post bodies and link previews feels too easy.

comment threads? post listings?

was there a lot of nesting?

it sounds like you're describing a whole post--use message, comments, and all--for presentation to a browser or crawler.

(sorry, saw the handle and have so many questions :D)
Are there other SBCs / SoMs that are as widely used with SD cards though? That's certainly a source of bias.
the sloppiest it will ever be so far
If it allows you to be productive and fits the way you think, why not use it? And what is your metric for "being better"?
Personally I found an easy way to tell - write a script which fills the drive fully with random data (computing a check sum as it writes), then read it all back and verify you get the right checksum.

Oh and compute read/write times while doing so.

If the read back data doesn’t validate, or you can’t write the amount expected, or the read/write rates don’t match expected? faaaaaaake

Pretty accurate too. I personally never had an actual fake Sandisk SD card from Amazon. I bought probably 50 of them in the space of 6 months at one point. Other brands were not great.

USB flash drives though? Literally all trash. I tried at least 5 different ones before I just gave up.

No idea what the market looks like now however.
I wonder why nobody mentioned its military uses, such as operating autonomous vehicles.
Good old enshittification[1], because all good things must come to an end, sadly. I expect piracy figures are/will be going back up because of it.

Do you think these diverse streaming services would admit to what they're doing, or will they try to double down on enforcement again?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
You mean gender dysphoria. Body dysmorphia is also something trans people experience. You’re basically making the “they’re killing the twinks!” argument with absolutely no evidence for diagnosticians leading patients towards transition. My experience as a trans woman is that I had to fight my doctors to believe me, and this is a common experience in my circles. I know dozens of trans people, and not a single one was told by a doctor that they were trans. We call it the prime directive, and we even apply it between friends.

You do not speak with authority on this topic.
Makes sense but the problem is that you're using words that already have specific meanings in the space, all related to creating one model with multiple functionalities. Merging meaning merging models into one model. Multi modal meaning one llm that handles multiple modes. The term you want is probably agent or framework or chain or something. Basically, what you describe is when it feels like you're only working with one model. What your title says is when you engineer specifically actually only one model, which is a distinct technical challenge.
You can get bash4 or 5 too, as I already said. I can't help you with your depth of experience. I didn't even say zstd was unfit to depend on, just that it was a fair question.
> This is true, but the biology of gender - including gender dysphoria - is established science. There is no ambiguity about it.

There is no biology of gender, biology is concerned only with sex. If you'd ever seen a mention of "gender" in biology prior to 10 years ago, it was a reference to sex because at the time they were not distinct.

So if you meant "sex" in your sentence then I agree with you, it is settled science, but if you really did mean to say "gender" then I have no idea what you're talking about because "gender" has no definition in biology.
Show HN: 10biForthOS a full 8086 OS in 46 bytes
10biForthOS = 10b(2) i(nstructions) Forth OS is a very primitive Forth with only two instructions:

1 is compile
0 is execute

It is heavily inspired by Frank Sergeant 3-Instruction Forth (https://pygmy.utoh.org/3ins4th.html)
...and less chance that it can be distinguished by applying a regex to the text of papers.
> My impression from occasional visits to astral codex ten, however, is that the vast majority of people are reasonable and sometimes succeed to make the world a better place.

The rationalist bloggers are very good at optics and carefully distance themselves from the fringes at the surface. They have a somewhat circular definition of rationalism that defines rationalists as being reasonable, which makes it easy to create post facto rationalizations that anyone who ends up on the wrong side of public opinion was actually not part of their tribe, rewriting any history.

The more uncomfortable topics are generally masked in coded language or carefully split off into isolated subforums for plausible deniability. Slate Star Codex (Astral Codex Ten’s precursor) had a “culture war thread” for years that was well known to contain a lot of very toxic positions dressed up in rationalist style language. Around 2019 they realized how much of a problem it was and split it into a separate forum (“The Motte”) for distance and plausible deniability. The Motte was a wild place where you could find people pushing things like holocaust denial or stolen election theories but wrapped up in rationalist language (I remember phrases “questions about orthodox holocaust narratives” instead of outright denial)

There’s also a long history of Slate Star Codex engaging with neoreactionary content over and over again and flirting with neoreactionary ideas in a classic rationalist “what if they’re actually right” context for plausible deniability. There have been some leaked emails from Scott revealing his engagement with the topic and it’s been an ongoing point of confusion for followers for years (See https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9xm2p8/why_... )

The history of rationalist blogs and communities is largely lost on people who only occasionally visit the blogs and enjoy the writing style. There is a long history of some very unsavory topics not only being discussed, but given the benefit of the doubt or even upvotes. These are harder to associate with the main blogs since the 2019 split of contentious topics into “The Motte” side forum, but anyone around the community long enough remembers the ever-present weirdness of things like this Reddit thread on /r/SlateStarCodex preaches white nationalism and gets nearly 50 upvotes (in 2014): https://web.archive.org/web/20180912215243/https://www.reddi...
> In my opinion, manufacturers aren’t obligated to disclose every technical detail beyond what a typical spec sheet would cover, such as the specific type of flash used.

Some write endurance and retention figures will be ok. A 1TB flash is useless if, the moment you wrote 1TB, you cannot read it anymore or it gives erroneous values.
With SoundCloud I've found you have to pay for the 'Plus+++' subscription or whatever it is to not get audio with the higher frequencies absolutely butchered, unless you follow a very specific upload process that bypasses their conversion.

Upload 320kbit encoded MP3? Sounds great.

Upload a high-khz WAV? It gets butchered, the top-end turns to glittery noise.

Maybe others have different experiences, but honestly it felt like I'd been duped when paying for the subscription but still got trash quality audio, only to have to pay more.
$500 a month and it has had many major outages in 2024 alone. lol

https://status.launchdarkly.com/uptime?page=5
As said elsewhere about aversion to some current events topics etc, it's also not entirely flagging off the face of the earth. In some of those examples you shared, they had a hundred upvotes and numerous comments - that's not nothing. That's hundreds of ppl that saw the story and/or engaged, before maybe the discussion devolved leading to more flagging. Other examples with high activity current event stories are just duplicates and there are other submissions of the same/similar story that are getting eyeballs (and maybe also eventually being flagged but they're there anyway). Stuff moves fast around here, but all is not lost.
Multimodal is the ability to handle different type of inputs like images, pdf, text... You can do a quick google if you'd like to understand the meaning. Here is an article if it helps: https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/learn/multimodal-ai.html
> one of the first two optimizations is also wrong because it did not give subsequent optimizations the chance to observe that relationship.

If you view them as actual equivalent C code, sure. In which case, be my guest at saying those are wrong. But I think you're conflating actual C with the imitation-C used to represent the LLVM IR in the article. I responded to this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907292
You seem to have a pretty good grasp of using AI as a programming aid. I would expand my exposure by trying a podcast that you can use to get invited into the more popular podcasts which can lead to invitations to conferences. Else, continue with your blog and work your way towards putting together an how-to use AI book for programmers. AI is going to be part of programming going forward, period. Be the leader on how to use it for new and existing programmers.
Hard to say without hearing them speak for themself.

So far I have 0 idea of any motive.

Supposedly it should be rational, so I would at least like to hear it, before judging deeper.
What we're witnessing is active malice against two populations: people who are dysphoric and would like help to be comfortable in their own bodies, and people who are perfectly comfortable as they are and would like the rest of us to accept that they will not take measures to change their trans-gender physical characteristics.

What we need is a campaign with a firm message of "hands off, all of them."
You're right that nobody became brilliant through spaced repetition. But spaced repetition is not meant for that.

Spaced repetition is not meant for conceptual things or skills. It's meant for only the simplest of facts.

It's meant particularly for foreign language vocab, names and quantities in medical school, names of cases in law school, that sort of thing.

It has little to no relevance in math, physics, and engineering.

Just because it's not meant for all things doesn't mean it doesn't excel at some things.