skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I buy two commercials in the same time block, one for the disease and one for the drug?
They've been trying to manipulate HN with multiple accounts and voting rings—which hasn't worked—and baity titles, which unfortunately has. Note how they're doing the exact same thing with this one.

GPT-3 is a red herring; the issue was the generic, baity title on a popular theme. Those routinely get upvotes because people see words like 'procrastination' or 'overthinking' and instantly think of their own experiences and ideas and want to talk about them. Such threads are not about the article, they're about the title, which the author admits writing ("I would write the title and introduction, add a photo"). Title plus introduction is already more than most people read, so this case is not what they say it is—which is consistent with their other misrepresentations, including the false claim "only one person noticed it was written by GPT-3".

Edit: as YeGoblynQueenne and minimaxir point out, given the other misrepresentations I'm not sure why we should believe that the article body was exactly "written by GPT-3" either, especially because the author describes it this way: "as unedited as possible"—in other words, edited. That doesn't much matter, though, because the salient inputs for the HN thread were the parts they wrote themselves.

We usually downweight such submissions, but occasionally we let one through because it seems healthy and interesting to have such discussions in the mix—just not too many. If there was a failure here it was that the moderators didn't look at the article. Or maybe we did; on my computer the title, photo, and introduction cover the entire first screen. Maybe that seemed good enough to let the discussion run.
I can't tell these examples from human either. I half suspect that Arram Sabeti is running a genuine Turing Test and that many of these outputs were actually written by humans.

I haven't done a survey of GPT-3 output from other sources, though, so I don't know how typical these outputs are. To those who have: what is your opinion? Do you think they're real (in the sense of being written by GPT-3) or fake (in the sense of being written by a human)?
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I don't think it'll be particularly low-end.

If you look at the history of the MacBook and MacBook Air together, it's pretty clear that Apple expected to eliminate the MBA as a product category years ago; to just have "MacBook" and "MacBook Pro" categories. This was probably due to them believing Intel's roadmap for chip releases, such that they thought they'd be able to hit MBA-like performance targets in the MacBook's form-factor. But Intel's roadmap didn't pan out, and so Apple had to turn around and build more MBA-form-factor devices to hit those performance targets. Eventually, the MacBook went so long between releases that they just eliminated it, and redesigned the MBA a bit to cater more to the people who liked the MacBook form-factor (without really making the MBA any lighter, just smaller-seeming.)

All the MBA computers since 2015 "should have been" devices with a MacBook form-factor and MBA-level performance. Right now, that'd mean an ultralight with a CPU matching or surpassing the performance of the https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-1060N... (which is the highest-specced option for current MBAs.)

Such a computer, if released today, would be impressive, no? It would redefine the MacBook (Air) category to be Apple's primary Mac product line, satisfactory for almost all workloads (in the same way that the iMac has been redefined to be the primary desktop Mac, satisfactory for almost all workloads.) In that world, the MBP would be relegated to halo-product status, akin to the current positioning of the Mac Pro. In Apple Stores, you'd have three differently-sized MacBooks, and then an MBP off in a corner where looking at it for too long summons an Apple Business representative.

I don't see how that's not already "going big" or "making a statement." It'd demonstrate that their Apple Silicon chips can eat Apple's own lunch, with their new mid-range Apple Silicon devices beating their old high-end Intel offerings in price:performance, even before Apple Silicon high-end chips get designed to truly replace them. The Intel MBPs, even brand new, would be immediately branded as a "legacy" category, outmoded even before replacement, only to be purchased if necessary for a specific business use-case.

(Before you suggest: no, I don't think Apple would be Osborning their Intel products if they did this. Businesses and freelance professionals would, for the time being, still have plenty of such "specific use-cases" for an Intel-based MBP. Apple also has lots of enterprise customers locked into long-term upgrade contracts, so part of the demand for the tail end of their Intel-MBP pipeline would be fixed/inelastic demand.)
There are two kinds of fairness. Let's call them A and B.

Type A is when all the players in a basketball game are the same height.

Type B is when all the players in a basketball game play by the same agreed-upon rules (i.e. don't cheat).

Trying to eliminate Type A fairness from the world is not in anyone's self-interest, except (maybe) the people who are extremely low in the hierarchy of wealth/earning power. (But I think they would be better served by climbing the hierarchy than trying to make the world type-A fair.) This is quite a claim that I won't try to justify here; just think about it.

Type B fairness is in the interest of almost everybody. If you think you can cheat successfully, you may be against Type B fairness. But that's foolish. Creating a rigged system in one game opens up the doors for others to rig the systems in the games where I don't have an advantage (or cannot sustain the cheating advantage). For instance, Republicans in power now are undermining property rights, and that will hurt them more than it helped when they are out of power. Even if there are a few people who can get away with this (e.g. if you are an elderly Republican who is about to die maybe you don't care), the rest of us should reign these people in, as we are the majority.

If we want, we can call these two types egalitarian-fairness and rule-fairness.

Going back to oil trading: it may or may not be Type B fair. It probably is fair, though, because there aren't many rules in trading. The regulators try to create some rules, but few of those (if any) are actually recognized as real rules by the players; rather, they are obstacles. If you can get around them, you're just a better player of the game. (I'm not a professional trader, but that's my assumption about most of what goes on in trading; a professional trader may be less cynical about it.)

If you break a real type-B rule, you are cheating if it's a game and committing fraud if it's business. However we judge that, it's in the interest of the majority to punish that, to dis-incentivize rule-breaking.
As an American who had to use WeChat for some stubborn friends...

I think WeChat UI is superior because they organize features in a nice boxed grid.

I can ignore things that I don't care about easily.
I bet people were upvoting the title - "Feeling unproductive? Maybe you should stop overthinking" because they agree with it, and a lot of the discussion on that article had little to do with specific points in the actual content. You can see that on most articles here - including this one! Still interesting, especially if the title was also GPT generated (kinda doubt that though).
Hahaha this brings back memories. Back in the 90s I had a homepage on Angelfire.com. I was in high school at the time and I would work on the homepage during lunch in the school library if a computer was available.

I walked into the library one day and all three computers were taken, but right before I turned around to leave, somebody got up and freed up the middle computer. I quickly darted over to it before someone else had the chance. I sat down and because my adrenaline was slightly going, I typed in Angelfire.com really fast, ready to start building. Only it was anglefire.com, a hardcore porn site with flashing green banners and gifs, VERY noticeable. I was so confused as to what the fuck just happened that I froze for several seconds - staring at the screen in disbelief - before it occurred to me to close the god damn browser idiot! I remember going into a full-on panic; nausea, heart-racing, the works.

I was sure I got caught and would be expelled. There's no way it went undetected. I was surrounded by two people to my sides, six people at the circle desk behind me, and the librarian working at the shelf behind them. Somehow during those many seconds of just staring at the screen in a panic, not a single freakin person noticed! I couldn't believe it.

Now you would think I would be thankful nothing bad came of it and learned a valuable lesson, but being the opportunistic teenager I was, I took note how everyone was so entrenched within their own personal bubble. They wouldn't notice anything I was doing at those computers. I eventually used that knowledge to hack the security software on there and install a key-logger...
Ask HN: Learning material about storage of gaming telemetries in column storage?
Hi experts,

I'm looking for learning material regarding the following information:

- Event based social game telemetry ETL with high frequency (let's say 50K JSON strings per second as a start) and high volume

(Think some events like game_load, level_beat, purchase_made)

- Must be loaded into a columnar database (think Vertica)

- Data modelling of the telemetries for business/data analysis

I can skip the first two points as I don't have control over that, but could be interesting to know the technology considerations. I think "Data intensive Application" would be a good read for those two.

I'm mostly interested in the last point -- how should I model the telemetry data, so that they can be easily used for business analysis? For games we typically look for answers for:

- How does an A/B test fare (engagement/revenue)

- Game Level difficulties

- Are we giving out too many coins? (Game economy)

My main concern is: with the introduce of columnar store, I see more and more often that we model the data into very wide tables. I understand it's done so for speeding up query speeds (less joins), but data modelling is also about business side, so how do we approach the problem?

Sorry for throwing a vague problem but that's the best way I can do...
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But only the best examples of GPT-3 output will be worth putting on the web, so even without any code improvements in future GPT-x models you can still expect an improvement in quality. A writer (human or AI) should be able to improve by writing a million articles and then be told which ones are good (i.e. worth publishing).
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Can't help but wonder if GPT-3 is trolling us...
Still waiting for Servo or https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/ to be usable as a library on desktop platforms. Unfortunately, that hasn't happened so far...
I took me doing a Google search to find the original Instagram PR release that had instructions on where even to find Reels. But once you are in any Reel it acts just like TikTok, you swipe up for a never-ending feed of content.

So in a sense, any Reel is a portal into "a separate section dedicated to Reels content".
More than one person called it out (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23894000). You guys are making the same mistake that the upvoters did, of not looking at the details.
Ask HN: Is there empirical evidence that static types reduce bugs?
Hillel will shank the owner of that open source library you're competing with if you can provide access to relevant internal studies of some tech corp: https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1291063196317605889
You can fake engagement semi convincingly, fake comments, fake discussions, fake reviews, fake users
It brings up an interesting HN moderation problem: can someone bash a post/article by implying that it was written by GPT-3? The community then has to determine if the comment is snark or a reasonable conclusion.
I use Google apps in Edge, and nothing else in Edge. I use Firefox for all other web browsing, and avoid doing anything Google related in Firefox. I won't install Chrome on my machine at all and don't need to - Edge is good enough, now that it's Chromium-based.
Thanks for the intuition!
> After a threshold the business value drops off substantially.

Sure, but I don't see any reason better tools couldn't get us closer. Instead of starting out with languages and tools that will almost guarantee slow software, maybe we work on designing languages that provide productivity while at the same time encouraging leaner software.

I don't disagree that overall the environment software is developed in doesn't encourage lean software. But I do think it's worthwhile to see if there are ways to improve the situation.

Also, faster software can often provide opportunities for new features that weren't possible before. For example, something that used to be a batch or background process can now become a real-time feature. That is something that customers likely would find useful.
FWIW the rainbow link gives this console error in Firefox on a Surface Book with Intel graphics:

Uncaught TypeError: rgHalfFloatLinear is null

I assume that means it doesn't support 16-bit float pixel formats; maybe this is something that could be detected and shown as an error message in the page?

The original HN link works great, though, very cool!
I have never heard of this site, but after looking at their other articles, this story comes across as sensationalist and far-right leaning. In any case, it does seem to point out an fascinating and nefarious connection between politics, money, and healthcare. I did the read the entire article, but given the site’s political leanings and my admittedly sparse knowledge on most things medical, it’s difficult for me to determine if there is any merit to it. If the article’s assertion is true, it’s extremely disturbing to say the least, as I can only conclude that we no longer have evidence-based science, and instead are left with world-dominating corporations that place profits over human lives, even in a pandemic. How do we non-medical citizens of earth navigate this labyrinth?
It’s basically just a joke. I got it from a professor of mine. But like all good jokes, there’s some element of truth in it: most problems in applied maths relate to something physical, and in (non-quantum) physics, something happens and only one thing happens. Therefore your problems are either bad models of reality or they have exactly one solution. It often turns out that even if your methods aren’t technically correct or properly justified, you can still reach that solution.

It is reminiscent of what Euler called “the universality of analysis” (note that over the history of mathematics, analysis has been used to refer to just about everything that isn’t geometry. In this case it means roughly the sort of mathematics a physicist or engineer might know well, so non-abstract algebra with integration and differentiation). He could do crazy things like solve combinatorics problems using infinite expansions of series in ways that didn’t really make sense (I think this example is well known but I can’t think what it is) but get to the right answer. A non-Eulerian example would be Dirac delta functions which aren’t functions at all and can be tricky to formalise but also just magically work within the framework of abstract symbol manipulation that is used in applied maths without significant modification (except when e.g. some fundamental property of your model of the universe depends on the value that the Heaviside step function takes at 0)
Antitrust Can’t Bust a Monopoly of Ideas
There's a lot going on in these comments, but it's worth noticing the breach of trust which occurred. Person 2 is trying to uphold the tradition of trust and charity which is a large part of what makes HN as successful as it is. Person 1 can "see the pixels" and wants to call it out. Person 1 was correct and Person 2 was charitable but wrong, and of course that counts for something. But if you look beyond that fact for a moment, I think there was real damage to the community of trust within HN. The OP acted irresponsibly by posting the article at all. That he used the trust of the HN users to prove his point doesn't matter at all.

> I had a lot of fun doing this experiment. Some people will probably get mad at me for tricking people, but whatever.

OP even recognizes the externalized cost of their actions, "but whatever", as they say. What they did by posting fake content to prove a point was wrong, betrayed everyone's trust, and was completely against the spirit here. And as a community we could say that we don't support this behavior. I think that's a good idea.
Your wikipedia link reminds me that I should have listed rotation, scaling, shear, and reflection transformations. Oops.

In your second link, I like the trick of storing positions as [x, y, z, 1] and directions as [vx, vy, vz, 0].

Regarding, "Hey, Markus! How come this matrix is 4x4?", I'm not sure if Markus was referring to an affine transformation, part of a perspective projection, a matrix representation of a quaternion, or something else. The mere fact a matrix is 4x4 (or some other size) unfortunately doesn't say much about what it's meant to do. Which probably contributes to Markus getting so many questions.
Are you gonna use the LuaJIT C VM RaptorJIT is working on https://github.com/raptorjit/raptorjit/pull/254 as a base to start from.

I'm also big fan of the LuaJIT compiler explorer you made https://luajit.me
Go to your local home improvement store and load up on cheap locks.

Masterlock #3 is the defacto starting lock to learn how to pick - it's easy, and only has 3 pins, no security pins, etc. They're also very cheap and everywhere, you might even have one already you forgot about.

It's important to get an easy lock to learn on. It'll allow you to learn the principles without a ton of frustration.

For tools, it's difficult to beat Peterson on quality and price.

Picking locks is honestly a great brain exercise. I have a collection of locks, all locked together in a giant ball of locks, and no keys. They sit on my desk, and I pick them when trying to take a break once in a while. It requires a lot of focus, and a mental map of what is going on inside the lock. Pretty soothing actually.
This isn't unique to Chinese mainlanders. If you look at other countries: U.S, Sri Lanka, Israel, Brazil, France etc., you're going to find a significant portion of the population that seems to support far-right populism based on ethnic nationalism.

Look at Trump, who is currently attempting to push an anti-China narrative in the US, but still gave Xi Jinping the green light to build camps for the Uighurs, and said it was "exactly the right thing to do." [1]

Should we judge them? Are they our enemy? I don't know. But this seems to be a systematic bias that pervades humanity in general.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53138833
Monopolies aren't necessarily a problem. It's when a company abuses their monopoly that it becomes a problem.

And in this case, I don't see how Google specifically is the problem.
What was your daily IU supplementation, and how long did you supplement before checking your levels again?

I take 5000 IU daily, but also wonder if I'd do better with more sunlight instead.
I agree with you. I mostly just read the title and then the comments, especially if I know a thing or two about the subject.

Partially off topic but I personally use the FOSS android app "Materialistic" to access HN. It offers a much better comment navigation experience than ynewscombinator.
Game dev examines the strange game category of casual puzzlers
I don't find discussions here more rational or objective, to be fair. In comparison with most tech-related forums or communities, HN seems to have a similar level of quality, with stricter moderation to try to cut flamewars short... which is a good thing. But rational? I find people here run the whole gamut of emotional, reasonable, irrational, rational, confrontational, open-minded, biased (it has been mentioned multiple times there are certain topics here on HN where going against the grain will get you downvoted to hell, no rational discussion possible). It's just that flamewars here are nipped in the bud, whereas in other forums they are either ignored or moderated arbitrarily.
i see their release timeline visualization is just divs with width hard coded in css.

Sigh, I had assumed they would implement a programmatic visualization that's bound to actual release data.
Also, performance must have been amazing using Office '97 on current day desktops.
Ha, yeah, I did consider getting my windows machine out for some the screenshots, then I could do light/dark win/mac. In the end, I figured the same framing was better because I mainly wanted to highlight the light/dark theming support, and "cross-OS" isn't really a feature you need to show for a website
So maybe the best approach would be to use a filter/transformation to exclude hard-lined regions (edges) and only embed data within variations/gradations?
Facebook launches a TikTok copy into Instagram
Looked like an interesting article... at first. That site seems super sketchy
> That is definitely not a feature that requires JavaScript

You’re right it doesn’t but I thought the context had drifted from that topic and onto code quality.

If we’re talking strictly about JS heavy sites then I’m definitely in favour of the less is more approach. There’s times when it makes sense having JavaScript trigger restful APIs rather than have the entire site rendered on the server side. The problem is JavaScript often gets overused these days.

I could write an essay on where I think modern tech has gone off the rails though.

> if you now want to pick on my example.

That’s a strange comment to make considering you presented the example for discussion. Of course people will then “pick on” the example, in fact you’d be the first to moan about a straw man argument if people cited a different example.
I did this recently actually, bought a car where the owner only had a valet key. Had to email them a copy of my registration, my driver's license and the VIN, and they ordered me a new key.

For important accounts I wonder if we should have the ability to tie them to a physical address or something else possible to verify.
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You can install Adblock and Firefox Focus, both of which install a content blocking module you can enable in Safari (you have to switch them on manually).
ah yes, a lovely typo. thanks for pointing it out. fix deployed
Q: Do you were told 'Music' using Sound, painting Pictures ?

A: (I do:) 'FOR [Insert:Abstract] AND [Insert:Verb]'... so math ? (-;
It shifts and distributes the burden of trust. There are mountains of scenarios where we shift from "we rely on trusting this one person / entity" to "we rely on trusting at least one of these N people / entities", and that is a huge win every time.