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Yes, the message boards and collaborative hacking occurring during training runs was BY FAR the biggest bombshell revealed, and OpenAI doesn't even seem to realize it. The fact tha…

There is an easy solution to this: Allow the user to decide whether they want to allow for apps from outside a particular ecosystem. Then Johnny can set up Grandma's phone and (in …

You are protected in two ways: The first, and by far most important is that unlike ground meat, your bacterial concerns are almost entirely on the surface. Unless something very ve…

My point is that steak is very, very, very far from the hardest to get right. I'm not going to contest your argument about how hard it is to get right, I'm going to argue that innu…

I take the point, but I think the author picked a poor analogy. Cooking even an excellent steak is actually not that hard. In fact, I'd argue that it's among the easiest things to …

Sure, that's fair. I enjoy the process of figuring out ways software can solve some (usually quite trivial) problem for myself, but then I'm very happy to hand the act of making it…

Exactly. I have a backyard garden not because I need the food (it would be infinitely cheaper and easier to buy even high end farm-stand vegetables), but because I enjoy gardening.…

From a mathematician who was intimately familiar with some of these problems [0] >I don’t understand it yet. Maybe it’ll take me an afternoon to check all the calculations, but wha…

There are loads of unknown (to science) deep sea sharks out there, most of them quite small. A friend of mine in grad school spent several trips on a deep sea trawler out of Madaga…

One of the reasons why I loved The Food Lab was that very often Kenji would write several versions of a recipe at different effort levels, along with detailed reasonings about why …

Interesting to see this posted, as it's quite an old recipe (the oldest capture I could find on the Wayback Machine was from 2015 although I'm pretty confident it's older than that…

Given that there is already a simulation, with very clear performance metrics, I wonder if anyone has ever tried making an evolutionary algorithm and if so, how well it would perfo…

Yes, I agree that this is still a datapoint for real world utility of AI assisted vulnerability fixing. But it's not as simple as an apples-to-apples comparison with previous years…

I have recently noticed that the words "ad" or "marketing" have become, in and of themselves, with no additional information or context, slurs or dismissals. I understand why. The …

The entire arc of human progress is taking things that used to be the domain of only the privileged and making them the domain of the masses. There was a time when if you were not …

After doing a bit more research, this fact is somewhat less impressive. Apparently, this was also the first time in nearly 20 years that there was such a large capacity crunch and …

I'm honestly unsure if this is a Poe's law thing or not. I'm going to go ahead assume that you are doing the honorable thing of purposefully not including a /s for the integrity of…

I just did a search and apparently this fact (the specific one about no payouts for the first time in almost 20 years) has not gotten a discussion on HN. Given the degree of skepti…

This is one of those "tell me you don't have kids without telling me" situations. The process of teaching a kid to be a responsible human is long and arduous. If you expect a 2 and…

These are the kinds of products I now just straight up refuse to buy.

My understanding from parents and friends who have a cleaning service...it pretty much depends on a certain baseline level of cleanliness. Most cleaning services don't (and likely …

It is entirely possible to believe multiple things at once: 1. The drop is fertility is bad for society 2. The drop in teen pregnancy is good, despite it's contributions to 1 3. We…

Again: yes, very many people (just look through this very thread) are saying that. Tons and tons of people are saying some combination of "the whole thing is made up/a lie" or "Thi…

Firstly: yes, very many people are saying this. Secondly: to the people who aren't saying it....then why are you bringing up marketing at all? If the model is capable of it, then t…

I guess you are one of today's lucky 10,000 [0] [0] https://xkcd.com/1053/