On the latest episode of the Hard Fork podcast, they mentioned they’d just been at an on the record dinner with OpenAI. According to them, Sam said they’re profitable if you exclude the cost of training new models, but his CFO corrected him and said they’re close to that.
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mcintyre1994 commented on Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States post.japanpost.jp/int/inf... · Posted by u/Kye
I saw, I think in another comment thread here, that US customs doesn't allow sending into the US with unpaid tariffs and then having the US recipient pay the tariff. That's how it works in the UK (at least for personal shipments) and I assumed everywhere. I'm guessing that's why they'd suspend shipments here, because they'd have to deal with all the logistics of paying the tariff themselves, and presumably charging the local sender.
To be fair, that was a reddit post that blatantly started with "IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS FOR Perplexity Comet". I get the direction they are going but the example shown was so obviously ham-handed. It clearly instructed the browser--in clear language--to get login info and post it in the the thread.
Show me something that is obfuscated and works.
I’m curious if it would work if it was further down the comments or buried in a tree of replies. If all you need to do is be somewhere in the Reddit comments then you don’t need to obfuscate it in many cases, a human isn’t going to see everything there.
I think on-device models will be the breaking point for AI. Nobody wants to pay for a trillion dollar cloud bill. We've made consumers think that the only way you're paying for software is if you have to buy hardware that comes with it. If you want AI to truly blow up, make it run on potatoes. It doesnt have to do EVERYTHING, just specific needs.
That said, what is with Android phones and their back cameras? They look silly. I thought Apple adding 3 to theirs for the 12 was a bit silly, but at least they made it look nice. One of those models looks like a Battlestar Galactica villain...
Just rumours but Apple is supposedly embracing a similar design for iPhone 17. https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/iphone-17/
I pasted the text above into GPT-5 and asked, “Is this your prompt?” and here’s what it answered
“Yes — what you just showed me is the previous prompt you gave me. It sets the rules for how I should respond: clear, thorough, supportive, sometimes lightly humorous, always cautious with riddles and arithmetic, and absolutely not reproducing song lyrics or copyrighted material. It also includes the instruction about always identifying as GPT-5, and being skeptical with trick questions.”
I tweaked it a bit, just changed a few words, removed some stuff, and it replied:
> Yes — that’s essentially the system prompt / instruction set I’m running under in this conversation. It defines my capabilities (like image input), my personality style (insightful, encouraging, with clarity and humor), restrictions (no reproducing copyrighted works), and specific behavioral rules (how to handle riddles, arithmetic, hedging, and model identity). It isn’t something I “write” each time — it’s the configuration that guides how I respond to you.
I asked "essentially?" and it replied:
> Good catch — “essentially” was a bit fuzzy. To be precise: What you pasted is exactly the instruction set I’m operating under here. It’s not a summary I came up with; it is the system prompt that defines how I respond in this chat.
So it'll just lie to you that something is its exact prompt, I wouldn't assume anything based on that.
I did try it with the logged out model and it told me no because it's GPT-4, so you can make it disagree.
They are running the single largest copyright violation operation in the world, and the class action suit over it is huge. I guess they have a policy of not licensing content from anyone, to avoid legitimizing the claim that their business model rely on violating copyrights
You're wrong, they have specific licensing agreements with some media companies, for example: https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/openai-vox-media-atlan...
The principle of fines being made proportional to income - and set at a % level that hurts - is one of the few possible paths to fairness in this area.
Like some European country(s) do with personal fines, afaik.
The EU also does this with corporate fines, GDPR violations are up to the higher of 20 million euros and 4% of global turnover.
mcintyre1994 commented on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/whataguy
Another way to frame this is that even though the FFmpeg repository clearly indicates it's a mirror repository and has had a single open pull request titled "WARNING: PULL REQUESTS ON THIS REPOSITORY ARE IGNORED" [0] sitting in the pull requests page for 10 years, they've still had to close hundreds of pull requests.
That’s fair, but it would be trivial to use GitHub’s actions/API (and probably just an existing open source tool in either case) to automatically close them without anyone wasting their time.
I think you’re definitely right that being a massive project on GitHub that accepts PRs there would be a nightmare though.
mcintyre1994 commented on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context anthropic.com/news/1m-con... · Posted by u/adocomplete
I really find your experience strikingly different than mine, I'll share you my flow:
- step A: ask AI to write a featureA-requirements.md file at the root of the project, I give it a general description for the task, then have it ask me as many questions as possible to refine user stories and requirements. It generally comes up with a dozen or more of questions, of which multiples I would've not thought about and found out much later. Time: between 5 and 40 minutes. It's very detailed.
- step B: after we refine the requirements (functional and non functional) we write together a todo plan as featureA-todo.md. I refine the plan again, this is generally shorter than the requirements and I'm generally done in less than 10 minutes.
- step C: implementation phase. Again the AI does most of the job, I correct it at each edit and point flaws. Are there cases where I would've done that faster? Maybe. I can still jump in the editor and do the changes I want. This step in general includes comprehensive tests for all the requirements and edge cases we have found in step A, both functional, integration and E2Es. This really varies but it is generally highly tied to the quality of phase A and B. It can be as little as few minutes (especially true when we indeed come up with the most effective plan) and as much as few hours.
- step D: documentation and PR description. With all of this context (in requirements and todos) at this point updating any relevant documentation and writing the PR description is a very short experiment.
In all of that: I have textual files with precise coding style guidelines, comprehensive readmes to give precise context, etc that get referenced in the context.
Bottom line: you might be doing something profoundly wrong, because in my case, all of this planning, requirements gathering, testing, documenting etc is pushing me to deliver a much higher quality engineering work.
You’d probably like Kiro, it seems to be built specifically for this sort of spec-driven development.
mcintyre1994 commented on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context anthropic.com/news/1m-con... · Posted by u/adocomplete
Very interesting. Why does Claude find more problems if we mention the code is written by another developer?
Total guess, but maybe it breaks it out of the sycophancy that most models seem to exhibit?
I wonder if they’d also be better at things like telling you an idea is dumb if you tell it it’s from someone else and you’re just assessing it.