skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried this prompt on https://Text-Generator.io
Doesn't really understand the command as well as gpt-3 does but does say something about pokemon which is maybe helpful...

https://text-generator.io/playground?text=Write+a+story+abou...

"""

Write a story about Ash and Pikachu commanding an army of Pokemon. They're attacking Team Rocket and enemy Pokemon from the land and ocean.

A:

I think you can do this with PokeBalls.

To make it more interesting, there are many ways to get them like making your own one by picking up some random item in Pokémon City or even getting free ones on Amazon (or any other website selling stuff). You could also go for something unique such as taking part in Battle Royale where all players have exactly 2 pokedexes each containing their favourite pokémon. Another thing that makes these games so much fun is how they keep evolving over time - sometimes adding new features while at times removing old functions which will change what happens next when you're playing online against others using different versions.

"""

Heres attempt number 2 which i was inspired by the epic "it was a dark and stormy night" intro that gpt-3 made up, so i just added "Once upon a time" its good to prompt these things with some info to make sure it knows its not doing question answering like with the above prompt

"""
Write a story about Ash and Pikachu commanding an army of Pokemon. They're attacking Team Rocket and enemy Pokemon from the land and ocean.

Once upon a time, there was no Pokémon world.

There were only three creatures in this universe--

One who loved to fly,

A girl with wings...

And one person whose name I can't pronounce.

(Note: This is not quite as long or detailed here.)

The third creature had great powers that he could use for good

(like flight) but also bad (such as flying into flames).

"""

Quite hilarious there...
The Japanese ruling party has actually lost power and smoothly transitioned.
Given that enough people use this heuristic, there will be companies focusing on earning karma on HN, writing comments and voting for products they are getting paid for.
My take is that pattern-matching is thinking. But it's low-quality thinking. High-quality thinking is logic. And higher still is causality, which is to logic what calculus is to algebra. I.e. if logic studies the relationship between x and y, then causality studies the relationship between dx and dy. And causality is what we actually want, because causality is power. E.g. causality is what lands astronauts on the moon. When folks like Judea Pearl complain that current AI isn't truly thinking, they're complaining that current AI can't reason logically/causally.
Pydantic V2 – The Plan
>which Toyota is known to have lobbied against, in Japan, the US, and EU.

That doesn't seem to be the case. It seems they want to be able to continue selling iterations of their current products rather than preventing others from selling electric only vehicles.
Mathematical Marbling
I suspect the cameras on buses can used to track where you're taking the body. Maybe also where you tap in/out with the extra fare for the bulky cargo.
We already have the infrastructure. Any place that can run air conditioners during the day can charge vehicles over night.

An average family generates 5kg of waste per day. A 400kg battery every 15 years is not going to make a dent in that waste, especially when the 400kg can be profitably recycled.
From several cases we’ve seen here on HN so far, it seems to be a quite effective strategy for finally getting through to somebody at that tech behemoth and having your problem swiftly resolved (even if you may say that “theoretically” this shouldn’t be how it works in a society perfectly based on contracts and on the rule of law, depending on your viewpoint). Much better than directly starting a lawsuit, no?
If I have a classic car appraised and don't like the appraised value I'll pass. Goldman Sachs was working for Twitter, of course they are going to try to maximize the valuation. Musk should have done DD before agreeing on a price, it's that simple.
Try building an FM crystal set. It can be done (as many hobbyists have demonstrated) but it will only receive very strong and local signals. Unlike an AM crystal set which can hear stations many hundreds of miles away.
I am not sure we will go down tha t path, but I am really glad you provided that comment. It expanded my view of what is possible. I guess the experience your users expect allow you to use that method ? If you have more interesting details on how it works, I would love to hear them !
Did you roll a new account just to justify murder?
Considering their goal was to reach £50 a month to upgrade their server… I think any hope at convincing major governments is a few years off.

But I do wonder if the national archives or the library of congress could be a good host for this sort of project. Not sure I agree it should be run by a government… most don’t have great histories when put in charge of gatekeeping access to information.
Machines are out, Gardens are in
People with no other options take their first offer. Negotiating is for people with alternatives.

My guess is that they floated the price to a lot of potential acquirers during the poison pill debacle, then they got nothing higher.
So far Musk has provided no evidence that the SEC filings on bots are false and he's basically just making repeated unnecessary requests trying to force Twitter into being "uncooperative". I find the notion that the deal should be terminated based upon that pretty ridiculous. The article you linked seems to agree with me.

Regardless, Musk is making a lot of claims. Let's see if he can provide any reasonable evidence of those claims and make any reasonable arguments that will be accepted in court. There's really no point in speculating anymore. Now we just need to wait to see if a judge is actually buying his arguments.
The difference is that with porch piracy, the person living at the address is uncooperative. FedEx won’t take the package unless you hand it to them or make it obvious that they’re supposed to take it.

Hotels are generally cooperative: If you call a hotel and tell them that you incorrectly sent a package to their address (maybe you ordered it months ago when you were staying at the hotel but the package was held up in customs) and need them to forward it to your home address, they will oblige. If you directly pay the carrier to pick it up instead of paying the hotel to re-mail it, they have even fewer reasons to ask questions.

Sure the hotel could try to verify whether you really stayed there but that’s not easy and would annoy real customers who didn’t pay for the room and don’t have their name on the bill. Either way the hotel isn’t taking any risks (beyond the nebulous “liability” that you can’t avoid unless you live in a padded cell)

Oh and LEOs don’t care about $1k scams. The thief is likely much more concerned that one of their victims will show up at their house and gun them down. Recall that half of all Americans live in a home with at least one firearm. That’s the only reason why thieves hide their addresses.
Actually the Radio hobbyists have build many successful FM Crystal sets (using a simple diode detector).

Do a search on "Slope Detection" and "FM crystal set"
...and I thought this is somehow about squashing commits in a toxic way, e.g. rewriting the commit message to seem that you've done all the work yourself. Was surprised that it's already a syndrome though.
A battery that needs replacing once every 15 years and can be charged with local resources is comparable to a stockpile of 15 years worth of gasoline.

Any place that has a stockpile of 15 years of gasoline can reasonably claim to be independent from the vagaries of the fossil fuel market.
Show HN: Find Snippets from Stackoverflow for VSCode
You can also use Whoogle if you’d rather self host.

https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search
I have a feeling that people stopped writing actual good website content for certain topics and moved to places like youtube instead.

Youtube frankly offers better monetisation and most importantly easier user retention via subscriptions.
Most of the time you want answers from a certain place, be it reddit, or stackoverflow.

It's usually easy enough to add the site, by simply writing its name, but it could be easier.

I'm thinking right now this:

- Compile a browser without the cross origin limitations

- Make a site that uses iframes with all the answer-providing websites in it

- Simply focus the text input in the site/iframe you want and search away

- Have a way to open the results in your main browser or just use that patched browser

Like one of those internet explorer toolbars, except they cover the whole area.
> If this is actually true - and that's a big if - then the problem is that HBO doesn't think the work in question is infringing, but Shopify does.

Let us take this on face value and assume this is the case.

If so, they should have given him notice and suspended the site, yet according to this thread, they kept allowing orders and taking money from his customers to the tune of $7000, but not transferring it to him. That's pretty shady and definitely does not absolve them of any potential liability.
Slightly-curious, slightly-unnerved, slightly-paranoid question here:

Is there any chance that this code snippet was sampled from repositories that contained associated commentary/discussion, guiding GPT-3 to produce similar explanations?

Or is this genuinely an explanation that it can produce without context local to the code in question?

And what number of people are able to determine the answer to my first question?
That's just another group of people with reduced credibility. At some point, the price to incentivize the next person to offer their account is more expensive than the benefits of link manipulation. Every corrupted account can be discovered because the manipulated content stands out and will be reported.
Wonder what sort of computational tasks this architecture is particularly suitable for.
Tantalizing. Why _do_ rockstars trash their hotel rooms? Were Greek philosopher poets truly musical performers? So many questions.
Not sure if the “histrionics” is that over the top or any indicator that they have something to hide. Might simply be the style this person tweets, which can be understandable given how frustrating this situation seems to be. (People easily lose all their calm in such situations and I find the tweets mild tbh.) If anything, the explanation he provided about Shopify being afraid of being sued by textbook copyright holders and even Star Wars copyright holders might make sense.
Not sold on the musical performance, but I love the creative concept for the music video.
Obligatory plug for shutup.css and the browser plug-ins derived from it:

> shutup.css is a CSS stylesheet that can be applied to your web browser to hide comment sections on many popular websites.

https://github.com/panicsteve/shutup-css
Wouldn't the world become a little bit better if they did? Earning karma on HN is not the easiest thing. I would hate to speak for all of us but collectively, don't you think we have a pretty good marketspeak alert system here?
This isn't specific to your security field, it's all over the B2B software space. Everyone's an expert on everything, and they're selling based on their branding or how good their sales people really are. It also helps that the people they're selling to are even less prepared and interested in the actual work, so it's all about how good you can make yourself look.
> that website gets no page hits

Part of why sites participate in the infobox program is that in practice you do get quite a lot of hits from it: many people click through to see the answer in context.
Cool. Like based trophic cascades. What's next?
> How is this useful?
No idea.

I love endeavors like this. It’s an interesting feature and a fun read, who cares if it’s useful or not.
Yeah, someone’s parents are fucking rich or someone on the founding team took a shine to someone who never succeeded as an entrepreneur or both.

The sad thing isn’t that we’re still money-laundering success through those channels.

The sad thing is that we’re discussing this on a forum dedicated to the idea that knowing people isn’t everything and the guy who got the job of running it by flying his only startup into the side of a mountain isn’t even in charge anymore, he’s too busy, he’s long since handed it off to the guy who told Autodesk that SocialCam was going to be the next YouTube.
Trust can work both ways. They'd have to be really careful to not lose the earned trust. On the way, they would have to write a lot of high quality HN posts. I'd say this model is a win over current spamming and fake reviewing practices.
For some of us, AM medium-wave broadcast has a beautiful aesthetic.
Euclid’s Elements was the book; Euclidean geometry is defined within it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_geometry?wprov=sfti1
Yes, you can't even continue booting, unless you insert an approved WiFi card.
...and it always makes me have horrible cucumber-flavoured burps. Blech!

You are not alone - in fact, this is the very reason 'burpless' cucumbers were invented. [1] Supposedly, they taste differently and cause fewer burps. I know I've eaten them myself - my mother used to plant burpless varieties - but it has been too long for me to back up the taste bit.

[1]https://www.plantfoodathome.com/why-are-burpless-cucumbers-c...
Which Weighs More, a Pound of Stone or a Pound of Styrofoam?
Two words: Focus groups.

Logos end up looking the same, for the same reason (e.g., autos) end up looking the same (i.e., color options).

That said, what gets lost on logos is they are supposed to be an identity, not a badge for joining "the crowd." Instead, unique is abandoned for fashionable and/or trendy.
A recent comment here mentioned search in early browsers (1991ish). The browser would fetch all links from the current page n levels deep in the background and uses that to build a local index.

I wonder if something like that could work today, only with the index being shared across the user base.

The benefit would be that it’s a decentralized system. No giant infrastructure required which needs to be paid for by a big corporation. Basically, the infrastructure needs would be outsourced to millions of devices. And for websites, users and crawlers would be the same thing. Which is to say, you cannot block one without also blocking the other.

It could also add feedback mechanisms. Active ones, such as commenting on pages and discussing them, as we do on HN. But also passive ones such as tracking how long the user interacted with the page, to score the value of pages/domains and improve the ranking algorithm.
Works just fine. The major German carmakers have an alliance to share data, and treat cars as roving sensor networks.

The data is used for improved road safety (real-time traffic jam awareness) and also so premium clients can find parking spots.
Regarding the threat model and actors, the vet approach seems a superset of the 2FA approach, not really different.
Actually, it is entire possible to create search criteria that cannot be gamed. That is what Google Research's various arms ought to be working on. But we all know if is far more profitable to have a manipulatable system.
This seems to miss the point. If you are pursuing a particular rate of return, you can be almost guaranteed of not reaching it with bonds and traditional equities. Risk adjusted return is only one framework for examining your portfolio.
> why does internet advertising revolve around everyone assuming every person googling something "WANTS TO BUY SOMETHING"?

Rather I think it’s because everyone who buys ads has something to sell.

Search ads are “direct action”. You click a link to do something. Ads on eg. TV are more about “brand memory” - reminding you they exist. When you watch tv you’re passively taking in information, but when you’re searching you’re actively trying to click something already. It’s a better fit behaviorally.
> a province that discriminates against my mother with its regressive laws

Can you elaborate? I only very vaguely follow Quebec news so I'm curious what you're referring to.
"Why the Japanese media has refused to identify the “religious group” that formed the motive for the killing must remain as speculation at this juncture, though it reflects very poorly on Japan’s status as a democratic nation."

Because they aren't stupid. When you name names and provide ample details you have given the killer things that encourage others - infamy, a platform to spread their message, etc.

In the US, we know that providing these details, such as the killer's name, and even the media's hyper focus on the event contribute to copy cats.

Why don't we create a law to prevent the media from naming names of mass killers or assassins and giving them a platform? After all, we know that this will save lives.

Edit: why disagree without reply? No right is absolute. There are already restrictions on speech, and that same reasoning is what allows gun control.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5296697/
I was aware of the crimes of Unit 731 and how the U.S. granted immunity to the worst perpetrators in exchange for data, but never read about the details. I did that just now; what a horrifying rabbit hole that was. One disgusting bit:

> Although the Soviet authorities wished the prosecutions to take place, the United States objected after the reports of the investigating US microbiologists. Among these was Edwin Hill, the Chief of Fort Detrick, whose report stated that the information was "absolutely invaluable;" it "could never have been obtained in the United States because of scruples attached to experiments on humans" and "the information was obtained fairly cheaply."[7] On May 6, 1947, Douglas MacArthur wrote to Washington, D.C., that "additional data, possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed as 'War Crimes' evidence."[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirō_Ishii#War_crime_immunity

Basically, everywhere you look you can find these absolute monsters at the helm who drool at “cheaply obtained” and “absolutely invaluable” data from gruesome live human experimentation. Some were just given the opportunity to carry out more of it.
> Nyt has paywall.

Use archive.is:

> https://archive.ph/35ftR
At this point we may be tangent to the comment’s original arc.
Neuro-scientists and cognitive scientists and developmental psychologists and linguists spent the last century, give or take, looking at this question.

The most basic, most broken down, most simplified answer is what is called "poverty of stimulus".

A NN has an abundance of stimuli, orders of magnitude greater than any biological being could ever possibly take in. Finding enough correlations (enough for productivity) in such abundance is not actually that surprising. What is surprising is kids being competent at speech after less than 2000 days of stimuli, often really low-quality stimuli.
There's a horror movie about Unit 731 called "Men Behind the Sun"[1]... It's not high art or anything, but it is super disturbing... one of the most horrific things I've ever seen.

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Behind_the_Sun
Despite how hard it is to get the lithium and how easy it is to get the gasoline, replacing 50 tons of gasoline with 15 kg of lithium is almost guaranteed to be less resource intensive.

The 50,000 mile number is based on calculations based on when batteries cost > $300/kWh to make. A large part of the reduction to the current cost of $100/kWh is reducing the amount of energy needed to make the batteries. Current estimates are under 10,000 miles. But they compare like-for-like, and a Model 3 is bigger than a Prius, so it'd be over 10,000 miles.

Your last statement stands alone. Yes, if we convinced every pickup truck driver to drive plug in Prius's...
or state-enabled abortion vigilantes.
Tilo Jung[0] has bee annoying the government spokes persons with uncomfortable questions for years. I read that some other journalists are uncomfortable with his questions since they fear that the government might decide to just not show up anymore (everybody is aware that the Bundespressekonferenz is a quite unique arrangement) but they still let him show up and ask questions. He does really valuable work imo and publishes all Bundespressekonferenzen on his youtube channel[1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilo_Jung
[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv1WDP5EiipMQ__C4Cg6aow
I’ve been using Plex to host audiobooks works well enough

https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide
I'm curious if anything was modeled being undervalued for predictive value.

Human sight is overvalued in the context of identifying optical illusions, but we don't have a lot of effective alternatives for making decisions about how we move about the world.
Nice! That reminds me of my efforts to add multiplayer functionality to Fallout 3 (which basically used a previous generation of the Skyrim engine) about a decade ago:

https://github.com/foxtacles/vaultmp
In my opinion this is backwards. Modders use Nexus for consistency, version control, and it trivializes mod management with one of the mod managers that works so well with Nexus.
This is great. Servers have been the weak link in the open vector tiles stack for a good while and an out-of-the-box recipe like this will make a real difference.

(For those running on bare metal, I knocked this up a few months ago - https://github.com/systemed/mod_mbtiles - which is an Apache module that does pretty much the same thing.)
so, I get that shopify brings more to the table than just payment processing. but I'm surprised that nobody here has brought up regular SEPA payments and SEPA direct debits.

Of course they will only currently work in the EU, but fast, reliable, cheap direct transfer systems might be a model other countries could implement. The benefit is that banks (at least in Europe) are quite a bit more regulated than e.g. shopify and random lock-outs like this shouldn't be as common, or at the very least should have clearly defined escalation mechanisms.

In terms of customer protection as well, direct debits are super nice here in EU.
In case your code theory is a bit rusty, practically this means that recovering from transmission errors (bitflips, lost packets) will be faster if this encoder is used.

It will lower CPU requirements on routers and network infrastructure if adopted and potentially your torrent download may be validated faster.

Nothing impacting blockchains, which was my first thought.
I've always wondered if you could combat via referal-only sites. To get in you need to achir your humanness on someone else's account. If an account is found to invite too many spammers, robots, or otherwise it is banned or disallowed to invite more accounts.

I'm sure you could still manage to make "fake" accounts but it would be much more difficult, and linking them together would be much easier.

Of course starting a site like this would be very difficult. But maybe you could start without it then add it in once you get to a decent popularity such that many people can find a referral if they need to.
Build one.
DAO could be a good soil for this.
Yeah that’s a whole another story though.
Why so much anti-China propaganda from Bloomberg?
Programming consulting is no better. The crowning moment was being told during a 1-on-1 with my consulting company manager that I was being "too efficient" by automating and documenting everything I was doing.
𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, it does; it’s just so inconvenient almost no one bothers to use it.
In the US all radio and TV stations also have to get and renew licenses from the government to be allowed to broadcast.
I understand the concern. That said, globalization has products, humans and species moving around the world and no one is calling that into question.

Oddly enough, just look at Covid. It was easily spread via travel. But the future threat at fame & follow seeking kids on TikTok?