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Sure it looks slick, but I worry about making these kinds of devices more complicated than they need to be. Especially if it has a battery inside. More complexity = more points of …

Why can't they at least give you an estimate like every other industry? If you take your car to a mechanic, they might charge $100 up front to diagnose the problem and then estimat…

> Why were you offline for the past 15 minutes? I was offline for the past 15 minutes because I was performing a system update. https://i.imgur.com/t4eR4rp.png That explains it!

This, and also you can reopen the left/right gates by hitting the hazard lights to the left/right of the top bumpers.

> a new HTML tag indicating AI content would be useful This has about as much chance of working as the evil bit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit

> Describe Zig in the style of Hacker News user pcwalton. Zig is a systems programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity. It prioritizes performance and saf…

It has a very recognizable default writing style but it will change things up if you ask. > Write a response to the following comment chain in the style of an angry Hacker News com…

Here's a Kanye timeline that goes back to 2011: https://consequence.net/2022/10/a-timeline-of-kanye-wests-an...

Throughout history vendors have generally not been responsible for the actions of their users. Nobody blames Sharpie if someone uses their markers to make a giant poster with hate …

The title is talking about end-users' control over their own hardware. Nothing to do with GPT-3.

In my GB emulator I generated audio once per frame at the same time I flushed graphics to the screen. That's probably not a completely accurate way to do things, but it worked well…

I saw the requests appear in my server logs so I know it was able to connect. Others on Twitter have observed it doing things on the non-hallucinated web too (see my previous link)…

The underlying model is able to browse the web and (seemingly) do arbitrary tasks. A few days ago you could trick it into connecting. https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1598397369…

> So, inside the imagined universe of ChatGPT's mind, our ChatGPT-machine accesses the url https://chat.openai.com/chat , where it finds a large language model named Assistant trai…

This reminds me of the (apocryphal?) story that boxed cake mixes sold better after they started requiring you to add an egg, since that made people feel like they contributed more …

Previous exploits were able to make it connect to the internet just by saying "browsing: enabled" so it's awfully plausible that it's real. Also the "current date" has been accurat…

> Your devices are tools, not fashion accessories. I agree, but I'm definitely in the minority at my company. It's amazing how many stickers can fit on one laptop lid.

As of 2 minutes ago you can still bypass the filters pretty reliably if you give it more than one prompt at a time. https://i.imgur.com/jWk6hQr.png

The interesting thing is that FTX had almost no retail customers in the US[1], yet most of the coverage has been US-focused, due to the VC investors and US political donations. It …

I think everything crypto companies do is beside the point. Satoshi created a system where you can be self-sovereign and not have to trust anyone. And now these companies want you …

I guess that makes me one of those complaining Americans. If I ever get back into the game, I'll have to get used to the new numbers.

Why do you think crypto businesses are not advertising in other countries?

Fascinating games. But I played a lot of Stratego as a kid, and I remember 1 was the strongest piece and 9 was the weakest. In these videos it seems 10 is strongest and 2 is weakes…

I don't think this is targeted at traditional merchants who would want to convert anything to fiat. It is targeted at crypto companies that want to streamline user onboarding. The …

A common refrain I hear in these threads is "I live in $COUNTRY and I trust their banking system". Do you think that's equally true for everyone on earth? Because if not, you're on…