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New comment by benjamoon in "UK Government ignore concerns of 2.7M and carry on with Digital ID"

benjamoon — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 07:49:59 +0000

"We will introduce a digital ID within this Parliament to help tackle illegal migration, make accessing government services easier, and enable wider efficiencies. We will consult on details soon. "

I wonder how many different justifications are offered around the world for digital ID, and how those reasons shift depending on the issues perceived to be most pressing at the time.

UK Government ignore concerns of 2.7M and carry on with Digital ID

benjamoon — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 07:12:16 +0000

Article URL: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194?reveal_response=yes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45459963

Points: 17

# Comments: 5

New comment by benjamoon in "Web search on the Anthropic API"

benjamoon — Wed, 07 May 2025 20:25:46 +0000

Good that it has an “allowed domain” list, makes it really useable. The OpenAI Responses api web search doesn’t let you limit domains currently so can’t make good use of it for client stuff.

Tesla HW3 vs. HW4 fake wall test [video]

benjamoon — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 10:37:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzZhIsGFL6g

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43514361

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by benjamoon in "A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system"

benjamoon — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:50:53 +0000

I agree, SpaceX has 13,000 genius staff working in the aerospace industry, I'm pretty sure they can add some value to an aging ATC system.

The system is largely developed by Lockheed, Raytheon and Thales (all defense contractors). If there's a legal issue with SpaceX doing this I'm sure you'll hear about it.

New comment by benjamoon in "List of 200 UK companies that moved to 4-day working week"

benjamoon — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 09:53:33 +0000

Do these companies close on a week day, like they just don’t open on a Monday. Or do the staff just do 4 out of the 5 days, but the company operates all week and the team need coordinating so they have coverage all week? I’d love to do this at my place, but would want to close the whole business and I don’t think our clients would be happy.

New comment by benjamoon in "AI Generated Song "Zo Zomer" in in Dutch Top25-NL Charts"

benjamoon — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 18:18:38 +0000

It's Number 3 by the looks of it!

New comment by benjamoon in "Paul Auster has died"

benjamoon — Wed, 01 May 2024 18:05:46 +0000

GPT:

The book you're thinking of is likely "In the Country of Last Things" by Paul Auster. While not a collection of short stories, this novel often gets mentioned in relation to discussions about Auster's work involving themes of dystopia and allegorical narratives. The reference to Noah's Ark might be metaphorical, reflecting the themes of catastrophe and survival that are common in Auster's work. If you specifically remember a collection of short stories involving Noah's Ark, it could be another author or a less known work of Auster, as his major works don't typically revolve around this theme directly in the form of short stories.

I’m not confident this is correct!

New comment by benjamoon in "Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules"

benjamoon — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 20:09:46 +0000

It's about £2,500 ($3,100) per year in the UK if you just buy it online, not subsidised. I don't know how the US massive price hike is justified when the whole western world is buying it from the same supplier (Novo Nordisk in Denmark).

New comment by benjamoon in "ChatGPT can now search the web in real time"

benjamoon — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:43:05 +0000

Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680673

New comment by benjamoon in "ChatGPT can now browse the internet"

benjamoon — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:51:55 +0000

It launched a few months ago, but was then taking offline. This seems to be a new version.

New comment by benjamoon in "ChatGPT can now browse the internet"

benjamoon — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:31:28 +0000

I’ve thought this for months now, since GPT has become a go to tool I use it all the time for questions that Google has no chance of answering. E.g I’ve just played G - C - Am on my piano. What’s a good next chord? It understand music theory and gives about 5 optional chords and describes what each one may do for the song (add suspense, resolve something, lighten it, etc). Google feels really last gen very quickly. They’re basically AltaVista at this point. And ChatGPT is what AskJeeves claimed to be!

New comment by benjamoon in "ChatGPT can now browse the internet"

benjamoon — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:27:29 +0000

I haven’t got it to anything that appears to be posting a form or similar. The content has to be indexable on bing by the looks of things. The second it can submit forms the internet is doomed.

New comment by benjamoon in "ChatGPT can now browse the internet"

benjamoon — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:20:53 +0000

They are moving so fast. This week alone they’ve added web browsing and image as input. Must be a crazy place to work at the moment.

ChatGPT can now browse the internet

benjamoon — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:18:31 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/openai/status/1707077710047216095?s=46&t=Tn3eky5MQ9AEY1npL2msJw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680673

Points: 37

# Comments: 18

New comment by benjamoon in "Amazon lists book on Maui wildfires that was published days after fires started"

benjamoon — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 14:36:25 +0000

Yeah, I'm giving them too much credit and I was presuming you'd want to collect every piece of content written (news articles mainly) and that would be the context, but it'd be too much data for a prompt and probably not needed to create a book. I was thinking the book would actually be full of real world data and real commentary etc.

You could probably just ask GPT to come up with decent chapter headings for a book about a recent large wildfire and how it impacts climate change policy.

Then for each chapter heading give it a couple of pages of input info and ask it to write a chapter based on the content and the heading.

Bet it's a really bad book if this is even close to how it was made.

New comment by benjamoon in "Amazon lists book on Maui wildfires that was published days after fires started"

benjamoon — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 13:08:54 +0000

The author is Dr. Miles Stones, Miles Stone! Milestone!!

As in, whoever made this (using Ai) considers it a milestone in someway.

I can't have been OpenAi out of the box as it doesn't have the data, but it'd be quite easy to load in all the news articles about the situation to a custom model and then have it generate the book.

New comment by benjamoon in "GPT-4 API General Availability"

benjamoon — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 21:28:00 +0000

Whoops, should confirm, we’re using turbo 3.5, not 4.

New comment by benjamoon in "GPT-4 API General Availability"

benjamoon — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 21:12:16 +0000

Totally wrong, Azure has loads of regions. We’re using 3 in our app (UK, France and US East). It’s rapid.

New comment by benjamoon in "GPT-4 API General Availability"

benjamoon — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 21:08:45 +0000

You should apply and use OpenAI on azure. We’ve got close to 1m tokens per minute capacity across 3 instances and the latency is totally fine, like 800ms average (with big prompts). They’ve just got the new 0613 models as well (they seem to be about 2 weeks behind OpenAI). We’ve been in production for about 3 months, have some massive clients with a lot traffic and our gpt bill is way under £100 per month. This is all 3.5 turbo though, not 4 (but that’s available on application, but we don’t need it).