skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this is pretty much me. After being diagnosed every social falling out for my entire life in education made sense, but it depressed me because I was essentially a pig in a cage with no appropriate strategy of coping. But even after that I kept being awkward and made too many mistakes with too many people I thought were my friends, and it just got to the point where I closed my applications for friendship for the near (?) future.

Now I only have the heart to treat the social goings-out like a hobby such as video games. I can't stand huge swathes of traditional video games except adventure ones; they frustrate me and send me to sleep irritated, and I don't want to drag myself back to them again for no real benefit day after day. I keep thinking that why should trying to make friends in a world not meant for me be any different? I'm generally happier now than when I hit my lowest lows from rejection by people that I thought I got along with for years until it was all over in the span of a few hours.

I firmly believe my only hope to find companionship is through the identification of mutual suffering in another autistic or schizoid individual, but that does not seem likely with how invisible I am on the internet and in public. Read all the posts about how communication online destroys everything and everyone, etc. (HN is not immune to this either.)

By the way: something that I've rarely seen people discuss is that this pathological inability to be interested in people extends to therapists as well. Therapists are people, too. I feel truly satisfied in life by telling my therapist over and over again how this companionship hobby never works out instead of trying to get better. I even explained this exact positive association to her face in the hopes that she would catch on. Her response: she couldn't help me, because she "was only human". I guess that means I require a superhuman to get through to me. In fact, by then I had already suspected as much. That was the moment I lost all hope in the profession.

From now on I'm more likely to think that someone that recommends me to go back into therapy after 11 years of failed attempts is some kind of delusional. I think I am just an incomprehensible person, genetically or otherwise. The therapeutic outcomes for psychopathy are widely pessimistic; why wouldn't the same apply to someone like me?
If it's inadvertent, then they can remedy the error once they've been notified.

If an IP address is sent to the USA, then whether it's stored or not ceases to be a matter that European courts can oversee. Since US courts and European courts are not in accord on these matters, Europeans are faced with either banning the export of IP addresses to the USA, or giving up on legislating privacy at all. We chose the former.

> it seems you’re just a moron with a nationalistic tendency

Oh, more name-calling, and more conclusions jumped to. If you can't make an argument, make a personal insult, and decorate it with insulting epithets based on nothing at all.

> future generations on your continent suffer

Ah, you're not from these parts! I thought not. But in the light of that fact, it's our concern, not yours, right? So why do you get SO angry about European law? If you want to trade in Europe, you have to comply with European regulations. Same wherever you want to trade.

I don't approve of the US trade environment. For example, about half the world is under US trade sanctions; but you don't get me marching around accusing USAians of being morons, weazels, assholes, and clowns.

Perhaps the truth is that it is you that is the nationalist?
Splitting your code over many repositories massively increases the cost of refactoring, making it that less likely that your system will be "well factored".

Besides the "N pull requests" problem you now lose history whenever you move a file across repo boundaries, and you'll eventually have straggler projects staying on old versions for years - so switching to a new way of doing something essentially means supporting both versions forever. Code for common needs gets duplicated, or worse, split out into yet another repository and /then/ duplicated, because no one wants to check if any of 100 repositories rely on the buggy behaviour they want to fix.

I find this to be this a level headed explanation of the advantages of monorepos: https://danluu.com/monorepo/. I'm surprised to see so many comments summarily dismissing them, as if sanely managing thousands of smaller interdependent repositories doesn't require at least as much investment in custom tooling.
Is it really that different than a search engine? Take away the AI specific language and you have two products that when given his username return results with his real name.
There’s a BMW factory level diagnostic program called Tool32 that might help when trying to reverse engineer stuff like this. I don’t think there’s a way to legitimately get ahold of this software though…

Anyway, it has a bunch of test operations you can perform. For example, you can set the individual gauges in the gauge cluster to specific values, etc.

Perhaps there are some tests for the shifter and you can sniff the bus as they’re performed?

These are all done over the OBD port so it shouldn’t be that hard.
Life is not short
" suggesting an alternative to capitalism for some reason, I’m reasonably sure that in any of them the society would suffer from the same issues"

capitalism is a term so vague its meaningless in a policy discussion

Neoliberalism, on the other hand, is spesifically responsible for many of the problems we are facing now.

the fact that people worship it is also a problem, we have media hosts calling large scale landlord "weath creators"

for some reason people who make ground breaking discoveries are not called wealth creators and do not become billionaires.

you have to consider who the system rewards, and who the system protects.

shumpeterianism, for exanole, is a spesific alternative that rewards those that create new technologies and where government has an active role in shaping a sustainable industrial strategy
With another financial institution, I did have online access and had set up notifications, but despite doing so, I wasn't getting them. Complained, but employees were unconcerned.
The challenge is that any mechanism to pay for failures is quickly disappearing for the knowledge economy.

If you have an unpredictable hit/win rate, the historically best strategy was to bulk up more hits/wins into a larger entity with predictable returns. Many business models today either capitalize on the transaction volume ala app stores or focus on lock in via branding like the MCU.

If you make an OK movie or app these days the value is effectively 0.
Some women are idiots. Also, some man are idiots. Not everyone is a smart educated self aware kind of person.

PS: also some diverse, trans, queer, gay, lesbians, cis, … are idiots. I don’t want to leave out anyone excluded. We are all humans, after all.
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> The best way to be anonymous on the internet is to be anonymous, which means posting without any name or identifier at all. If that isn't practical, then using a non-meaningful pseudonym and not posting anything personally identifiable is recommended.

A third approach is using a word that means something and thus is not unique at all.

Unique strings for usernames means lots of accurate hits. If you google mine, there will be lots of hits but none are me.
You are not alone. Others have complained about the same thing: OpenAI GPT and CoPilot Plagiarism Links -- Caught in the Act! https://justoutsourcing.blogspot.com/2022/03/gpts-plagiarism...
The comments do not seem to be addressing something very important:

> I don't care much about my name being public, but I don't know what else it might have memorized (political affiliations? Sexual preferences? Posts from 13-year old me?).

Combine this with

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28216733
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27622100

Google fuck-ups are much, much more impactful than you'd expect because people have come to trust the information Google provides so automatically. This example is being invoked as comedy, but I see people do it regularly:

https://youtu.be/iO8la7BZUlA?t=178

So a bigger problem isn't what GPT-3 can memorize, but what associations it may decide to toss out there that people will treat as true facts.

Now think about the amount of work it takes to find out problems. It's wild that you have to to Google your own name every once in a while to see what's being turned up to make sure you're not being misrepresented, but that's not too much work. GPT-3 output, on the other hand, is elicited very contextually. It's not hard to imagine that <There is a Hristo Georgiev who sold Centroida and moved to Zurich> and <There is a Hristo Georgiev who murdered five women> pop up as <Hristo Georgiev, who sold Centroida and moved to Zurich, had murdered five women.> only under certain circumstances that you can't hope to be able to exhaustively discover.

From a personal angle: My birth name is also the pen name of an erotic fiction author. Hazy associations popping up in generated text could go quite poorly for me.
Most people I talk to believe in an "age of accountability" and that babies do in fact go to heaven. That age? I'm unsure, it ranges up to about 13.
Stellar Lumens are actually more suited for Remittances. It’s one of things it aims to provide.

https://stellar.org/learn/stellar-for-remittances?locale=en
Its not unlike with stablecoins. Either you have full privacy, if you havent made any lapses in opsec, or you really have zero. Once you post enough for an association being made, there is no undoing it, ever.
The story in the article was completely preventable if banks just tried harder.

The default 2FA solution should be Google authenticator or an analogous tech. If SMS MUST be used, it should be opt in.

Notification of anomalous transactions should be automatic, not something you have to configure.

Anomalous wire transfers should be flagged and require verbal authentication by phone.

Banks should stop sending so much spam marketing email so that when people receive an email from their bank it is something they actually read.

Etc
> Anyone who thinks HN is somehow related to criminal activity could be corrected by merely viewing the site once (or any number of third-party articles written about the site).

Depends when they visit. I can see someone uninformed arriving on the days of heartbleed, meltdown, defcon, CCC, the equifax hack, etc., and incorrectly drawing the conclusion that is for the criminal kind of hacking.
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I asked this question a few days ago; I just wanted to say thanks for answering. Some companies can find themselves without a business model if they handle that badly.
I thought I'd seen those in stations of a different Asian metro...had a look around for photos.* In the few systems I checked, 3D maps can be seen in Beijing Subway,[1] Seoul Metro,[2] and Shanghai Metro;[3] plus this station in Tokyo, albeit a rail-metro station.[4] Tokyo Metro also has detailed, unusually discoverable 3D maps online.[5]

Counterexample: Guangzhou Metro doesn't seem to have any, despite its modern look.[6] Speaking of which, these new systems all look remarkably similar. Is there only a single manufacturer of platform screen doors and tactile paving? Even Delhi Metro, with very few photos, has that same look in its newer stations.[7]

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clockwise_platform_p...

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bongcheon_Stn._Platf...

[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:201610_Platform_for_...

[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tokyu-railway-TY01-S...

[5] https://www.tokyometro.jp/lang_en/station/otemachi/index.htm...

[6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tianhe_Park_Station_...

[7] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Delhi_Airport_Metro_...

* Turns out, image search (every service) fails terribly at this: All the results for maps are system maps; can't tease out a single station map for most systems. Photos of station interiors should show the actual posted maps, then? Nope. 90% of results are identical shots down the length of a platform. Turns out, it's Wikimedia Commons to the rescue
I don’t even think it’s the ego of the person being questioned, Socrates was a major annoyance in the incessant way he asked questions. It is quite rude by any measure, as shown by how often people get angry at him in those dialogues. However it is effective, at least for us to read
This is different; this is not about finding arguments why a patent-application should not get through (i.e. the "search" part of the job of the patent officer). This is about finding the solution that is proposed in the application, which shows that the solution is trivial to those skilled in the art.
And there are many higher value things that simply require trust.

I’ve had many artists or their brokers that could have scammed me, or made things very inconvenient, but did not.

If you drop 4, 5 or 6 figures at an art show, you walk away and leave the piece on display. “My people will contact your people in a few weeks” kind of interaction. It can absolutely get taken advantage of.
Abortion is action/active/doing harm. Refusing to donate is inaction/passive/allowing harm. The distinction is significant, search 'passive vs active killing'. There is also more structural / 'algorithmic' solution for it in St. Aquinas' Double Effect Principle. Hint: doing harm is never moral.
Yes, the US for instance was protectionist, once it had a domestic industry. And, earlier in its industrial development, it also stole IP from England[1]. It seems to be the way things are done. The only thing moderating US protectionism, in those early years, was the large agricultural exporting economy of the South.

The other bit is that over a quarter of the worlds population are currently under US sanctions. With much of the world acting in lockstep so as to stay in the good graces of the US[2].

Looking at what Cuba has accomplished just in its biotech industry while under crippling sanctions (for 60 years) makes me think they could really flourish without the sanctions[3].

My argument is that it is necessary to end sanctions for a county to flourish, but it is not sufficient. For instance, ending sanctions and returning seized funds will not make a country like Afghanistan into a rich country (it may prevent an estimated 1M children from dying of starvation due to US sanctions, though[4]).

[1] https://news.sky.com/story/cyber-is-changing-war-but-its-pea...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions

[3] https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/how-cuba-bec...

[4] https://www.ft.com/content/b038dec2-a49d-46d5-b187-3dd7216a2...
I imagine a sufficiently advanced AI that could read every comment you've ever written on any anonymous (or nonymous) account and correlate any slipups that give away your identity or writing styles to create a total summation of everything you've ever produced online and then cast judgement on you. God may or may not have created us, but we seem to be in the process of creating him.
Yep the nice Abloy ones go for over three hundred livres Anglais.

But nobody is going to buy a single thing that the insurers haven't approved.

https://www.guardiansecuritysystems.co.uk/abloy-protec2-pl36...
My fav scam is TCP/IP. I can’t believe they made every computer on earth speak it and in general accept traffic from anyone else on the planet! Without permission! Haha it’ll never work.
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Agreed. I’m a firmware engineer and a writer for Hackaday and the Stuff Made Here videos are throughly enjoyed by both crowds.
Thanks, I hadn’t heard this speech before. It was a good reminder to live consciously - that is, choosing our values for ourselves. But, my biggest takeaway was that “the whole trick is keeping the truth (your values) up front in daily consciousness”, which I’ve found to be 90%+ of the challenge.
Thank you for your response. So it is trained on 1024 TPUs but then if I chat with it today, what is it running on?
It is still planned, but I'll defer to Keno and others to chime in on the details.
Robots have taken loads of accounting jobs. API integration, better software, et al have removed loads of mid-career/mid-level jobs.

I currently work at a small eocm business, the number of systems and integrations availble have gutted the typical career progression.

I am concerned at how to navigate from data entry clerk to CFO. This path was available historically, however, it is becomkng less-so.

Audit jobs are going too. Previously, a firm would need a big staff to check numbers. Now it's a lot easier to audit a process becuase the company uses SAP, Netsuite, or some other big name ERP.
Depends on what exactly you would like evidence for. Your dissenting comment is that Julia is not popular yet. With that I can easily agree, but that is also not directly related to whether it is an amazing tool, which was my claim.

In terms of examples of hard sciences where it shines: It is the only tool in existence that has at the same time high-quality differential equation solvers and autodiff on them. Compare DifferentialEquations.jl to any other package in any other language. The rich capabilities of the aforementioned package depend on the multiple dispatch + aggressive devirtualization used in Julia. Python/Jax/Tensorflow/Pytorch while wonderful on their own, are nowhere near these capabilities. Matlab/Mathematica do not have these capabilities. The famous C/Fortran/C++ libraries are also far less capable in comparison.
Excel alone has more users than all other languages combined, so it's not even close.
What prevents them from selling the database of their paid users to the highest bidder?
Yeah, I increasingly believe every OS is picky. People are just accustomed to a lot of things never working quite right, to the extent that they sometimes don't even notice.
An no matter how many times you sell the Mona Lisa to pay the Mona Lisa tax, it still wouldn’t drop in value. So all art would have to be owned by the government or non-profits, which can easily be abused by the rich to hold “their” art tax-free.
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How to challenge a patent application that hasn't been granted yet based on prior art:

https://www.uspto.gov/patents/initiatives/third-party-preiss...

Note that I'm not aware of any way to challenge an application on non-prior-art grounds like 101, 112, etc. But I imagine emailing the examiner assigned to the application would work. Unfortunately examiners aren't assigned until a few weeks to a few months before examination, so a challenger will need to periodically check the status of the application before contacting the examiner.

You can look up the examiner's phone number here: https://portal.uspto.gov/EmployeeSearch/

Email addresses are typically firstname.lastname@uspto.gov.
With 20/20 hindsight you could alternatively look at the situation from the point of view that non-nuclear plants have their own special financial advantage and delay-avoidance mechanism under construction.

Remember TAEdison was involved with the earliest power plants, his type was no longer in control by the time nuclear came along.

Electrification grew from a small business to a less-efficient but still money-making bureaucracy, nuclear augmentation started out as intricate bureaucracy to begin with.

And "grew" from there, somewhat in response to "economies of scale".

But the bigger the bureaucracy, the less efficient and that is supposed to be made up for by overcompensating advantages in other areas. This is hard to do and the delicate balance can be easily lost and then you get the overcompensating disadvantage of a money pit at scale where you can only slow or stop the deepening from there.

Then there's the "big-ticket item" effect.

The most persuasive salespeople sell the biggest-ticket items. Items. Since it's supposed to be good enough that you only need to sell one (if you can), and you rake in the bucks.

This sets the scenario and the most persuasive suppliers and participants are simply all attracted to the huge pile of money that you don't normally get a shot at every year.

Most of the players are the ones who have specialized as bureaucracies selling to other bureaucracies, usually government/miltary organizations funded by taxpayers who routinely are called upon to fund overruns.

A lot of them are like middlemen that can not actually make money or go forward without the overruns for decades now, and when it's a shareholder project instead of a government project the shareholders may not really be ready for this.

Anyway one time I bought some surplus stainless pressure tubing left over from a nuclear project. Every tube was hand engraved with a few tracking numbers which I expect were traceable to reference paperwork issued somewhere which probably did weigh as much as the tube itself. This was laboratory size tubing which exceeds the burst rating far in excess compared to larger diameters of the same material. However if pressures were ever to approach this extreme, the engraving itself would lead to premature failure and less predictable too.

But if it blew up at least you'd know whose fault it was.
Rust could probably benefit from a collections style reintroduction of String and maybe one or two other common data structures. To simplify the language.

It’s not so much a language problem as a rough implementation of a hyper common data structure.
>>wouldn't universities get the most money by lowering standards?

You making the case that they have not done exactly that? That they do not attempt to get as many students through, and put pressure on professors to pass students for the purpose of getting as much tuition as possible?

Given the statics, and the looming student loan debt crisis I am pretty sure the evidence is to the contrary of your statement
> All the great ideas for starting a software company have been taken and executed.

Wow. I am amazed a comment like this could be made by someone reading Hacker News.
To take a cynical viewpoint, based on the examples given by the author, it could equally be that he's just lost interest in what I would describe as lowest-common-denominator action novels. He was able to fully listen to the book about focus.

I find that I can pay attention to the things I'm interested in as well as I ever could, but interests change and develop over time. I still avoid smartphones, but I don't think they've actually done anything to my attention span
Ask your ATM. It replaced a real bank employee.
Unfortunately, your post has led to an huge Streisand Effect—there is now increased interest in knowing who you are.

Just take a look at Google Trends for your username: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&q=Bo...

If I were you I'd do the following:

1. Email dang (hn@ycombinator.com) to ask how he can help with damage control.

2. Stop commenting under your now de-anonymized alias. Any future posts on this topic should be from a freshly minted HN account.

3. There are still quite a few open source repos under your GitHub handle that contains your full name in the LICENSE.txt, so you might want to strip those out as well.

Good luck with getting OpenAI to extricate your full name from their model.
I'm not sure they are typically fraudulent attempts - I think many people are unable to remember/enter even their usernames/email addresses consistently.
Frankly I am not sure! My car’s bus is only between radio & CD, it seems a little bit less standard and most of the discussions I see are about the next generation (E46) that have loads of other components connected.