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List 5 famous goblins with proper names, for each provide a quote either from them or about them.

Half the time they say Jareth from Labyrinth, The Great Goblin from The Hobbit, or the Green Goblin from Spiderman. Sometimes they answer Dobby the house elf from Harry Potter.

They also confabulate goblins out of thin air and create made up quotes. When pressed for links to support their answers they admit they made them up.

I'm happy when they include goblins from Magic the Gathering, World of Warcraft, or Warhammer. Occasionally you'll get a good answer like Blix from Legend, but more often than not if it's a goblin you don't recognize, they made it up.


Recently I had an experience where the chatbot gave completely wrong subway instructions over and over again. It confidently told me that it was accurate and it was my "trusty companion". It had no idea what was wrong with the answers and kept prompting me to give it the correct answers.

This was in contrast to when I asked it who had access to my chat logs and would only tell me to read the privacy policy. When I asked it to for specifics in the privacy policy it refuses to give wrong answers:

"When it comes to company policies, especially related to privacy and data handling, it's crucial to provide accurate information because these topics are very sensitive and important. I want to ensure you have the most reliable information, and the best way to do that is to refer you directly to the official privacy statement."

It's clear what the priority is for these chatbots: get the public to train them and protect the corporations that run them.


> Recently I had an experience where the chatbot gave completely wrong subway instructions over and over again.

So, slightly offtipic, but, I just... don't understand why anyone would use it for this. This is a solved problem. The operator likely has a planner app. Google and Apple Maps have planners which support most systems. Transit and various other third party things have planners. I think even OpenStreetMap may even have one!

Quality can vary (I find that Google Maps in particular feels like the people who worked on the trip planner had never in fact used public transport; it's very prone to suggesting absurdly complex routes involving three or four transfers where "walk for ten minutes and no transfers" is viable), but this feels like something an LLM is likely to be _particularly bad at_, unless it just calls Google Maps or whatever, in which case why bother?


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> We're hiring @ChromiumDev! The Chrome Extensions Developer Relations Engineer will work directly with developers, helping them adopt Manifest V3 and build extensions using web/browser API’s.


It looks like having an MIT license gives you a score of 70. It seems wrong that the most commonly used license on the platform is poor and it makes it hard to trust your scoring on anything else.


This used to be true, but in 2008 direct flights between China & Taiwan were established and today it's easy to holiday in Taiwan from China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Links


When president President Tsai Ing-wen was elected it became difficult. In both 2016 and again in 2019. China banned solo travel from certain cities in China to Taiwan.


@dang can you fix the typo in the title? Assymetric => Asymmetric


Thank you :)


create-react-app made their own security problems by bringing in the entire world, npm audit just makes that clear.

npm itself having vulnerabilities is a more serious problem and it's not clear that they're taking it seriously.


I was going to comment about this as well. We've been unable to ship packages from Japan to the US for the past 20 months. I heard that as of yesterday we are now able to ship again, but all custom forms & address labels must be printed rather than hand-written.


Is that for legibility or are they fearful that you might smudge covid-19 onto the labels? (Which is pretty backwards given how rare contact transmission is).


My guess is that it is because electronic customs info is now mandatory (e.g. US STOP Act), and the printed labels come from a system that can transmit this info.

With handwritten labels the postal service at the shipping end would have to read them and push the data to an electronic system manually.

In Finland handwritten customs labels are still allowed, but you need to register the customs data online since Dec 2020 (or the cleark can do it at the counter).



My assumption is legibility, should be a nice cost savings when you don't have to read handwriting.


I have had no problem sending packages to the US the last month. You need to use the new online tool to create the label though.


There's already the Redirect AMP to HTML extension, I use it for both Firefox & Chrome

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/ - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirect-amp-to-ht...


The point here is that this can be used on iPhone, so there was not already something there.


... and in typical Apple fashion, it costs money to get it.


Yes, damn developers wanting money for their work!


No, it's not about that, and shame on you for thinking so.

It's the plain fact that if this were a problem on Windows or linux, a free script would be available, but because it's Apple, it's a paid plugin or add-on, as it is with everything you need to customise an apple device.

It's a matter of developer culture, where you develop things for a fun, and to solve a problem. Not to make a quick buck.


While it doesn't modify the behavior of any sites, Intercept Redirect automatically skips most redirect services. It's a dead simple implementation that attempts to require the bare minimum permissions to do the job.

https://intercept-redirect.bjornstar.com


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