Your iPhone has this cool feature called reader mode if you didn’t know.
As for mentioning WCAG - so what if it doesn’t adhere to those guidelines? It’s his personal website, he can do what he wants with it. Telling him you found it difficult to read properly is one thing but referencing WCAG as if this guy is bound somehow to modify his own aesthetic preference for generic accessibility reasons is laughable. Part of what continues to make the web good is differing personal tastes and unique website designs - it is stifling and monotonous to see the same looking shit on every site and it isn’t like there aren’t tools (like reader mode) for people who dislike another’s personal taste.
Didn't say it wasn't. I said invoking an accessibility standard when it comes to a guy's personal website is laughable because the way it was said implied he was compelled to change his site because some bureaucratic busybodies somewhere said he should. Unless you are a business or a government, most people aren't overly concerned about accessibility, nor should they be - especially if it comes about only through guilt tripping or insinuated threats.
I don’t think I’ve insinuated any threats. WCAG are guidelines. It’s a great idea to follow them if you want your content to be consumed, but as you say most jurisdictions would only mandate accessibility for certain actors, not for everyone. Me, I have no idea what jurisdiction the OP is in, or who he/she is, or whether WCAG would be a compliance issue to them. I just used that term as a clue/hint that there are frameworks that can help guide web authors towards good practices. Like how WCAG 2.2 specifies a minimum contrast level. Nobody knows all of this stuff by default, we all have to learn it. Gotta assume good intentions and just point them towards the tools available.
Inevitably 90% of these comments are Linux users telling the rest of us how much Linux has changed and how painless it now is and yet in the latest LTS of Ubuntu my 2nd monitor doesn’t wake from sleep and half the time my monitor orientations get reset on rebooting. That is to say nothing of the fact that games themselves don’t even run properly when mousing between monitors (factorio is a good example). Been dabbling with Linux for 25 years and it still feels like some CS student’s half-baked side hobby project. I’ll stick to obliterating what I can of Microsoft’s AIDS through group policy and just use MacOS the rest of the time, thanks (although MacOS has its own serious issues these days, too).
HN should just have a rule that all content should be human-generated. This post is literally an LLM writing about something an LLM did; it's a bot botting about a bot. Aside from how funny and dystopian that is - just ban it? Just make a rule that submissions require a human author.
I don't think solving this is all that complicated, at least for now. It isn't like it's currently difficult to tell what is and isn't LLM word salad, though that will likely change in the future, but by then the argument will involve whether it really matters or not. But for now, when 80% of the submissions are LLM garbage and it really is garbage, it's pretty jarring.
Almost everything of interest to HN is written by LLM now, at least partially, and if it isn't it will be soon. There already is a rule against comments being LLM generated (which gets ignored all the time) but if we extended that to articles there would be almost nothing to post.
I guess I could understand why this would be borderline impossible if you did it manually, but surely today with satellite images and computer vision it really shouldn’t be that difficult to agree on a standard unit and then just automate it. Surely just make the scale human at its smallest (meters works and can get converted from there, assuming you have sufficient zoom level data for the coastline) and call it a day - I have no clue why we are discussing atomic fractal calculus approaching the limit as if that's a real problem for agencies trying to give a cogent answer about a particular country's coastline.
The article is not about practical measurements at all. Doing it manually has nothing to do with it. It is explicitly about why the measured length depends on the precision you choose to measure with.
The article spends a lot of time acting like this is some intractable problem and that its intractability is the reason there is so much discrepancy between countries and agencies.
Why are you talking about how it feels once you’ve seen AGI when you’ve never seen AGI, Sam?
In all seriousness, we’ve got glorified autocorrect right now. Even suggesting any of these LLMs is actual AGI is laughable. I’m not saying they can’t do some interesting things, but unless Sam has access to models that are equivalent to what would be GPT-50 he should avoid throwing in buzzword acronyms for no reason.
CPU-Z gets updated to recognise new CPUs and memory configs and thus must be downloaded new to recognise the new hardware in a new machine (otherwise it can’t recognise it properly). With Memtest sure but CPU-Z is something you actually need the latest version of when you first fire up a new PC.
OK, so a bootable thumb drive rather than a read-only ISO image?
I mean, it should be possible to give it an update function which you can run from any utility host, rather than requiring a live install at the moment you want to test a new machine.
That update function could do normal package management and repository things with digital signature checks, etc.
And it could be done ahead of time to support sneaker-net scenarios, i.e. where you won't have networking on the new machine that is being burned-in/validated.
Not sure I’ve ever seen a real life business man go from boyking god emperor to clearly incompetent scam artist quite like Mr Altman. Closest analog might be Zuckerberg but this crash and burn has been orders of magnitude worse.
Just go away Sam, nobody even listens to you at this point lol.
And more importantly the investors are all gone gone.
Please don't break the site guidelines, no matter how you feel about $CEO. You may not owe $CEO better, you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
Edit: I suppose I'd better add that yes, the rules here are the same regardless of whom you're talking about. We don't want this kind of fulmination on HN because it degrades discussion quality and evokes worse from others.
Note that they themselves described that amount as "committed capital", not something you or I would consider "funding" if we were to raise for a typical startup.
If there are strings attached, such as "will be able to navigate red tape to get X number of DC sites approved", then the number depends on OpenAI's ability to execute.
As for mentioning WCAG - so what if it doesn’t adhere to those guidelines? It’s his personal website, he can do what he wants with it. Telling him you found it difficult to read properly is one thing but referencing WCAG as if this guy is bound somehow to modify his own aesthetic preference for generic accessibility reasons is laughable. Part of what continues to make the web good is differing personal tastes and unique website designs - it is stifling and monotonous to see the same looking shit on every site and it isn’t like there aren’t tools (like reader mode) for people who dislike another’s personal taste.
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