skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When people ask GPT-3 to write a rhyming poem, you see plenty of examples of GPT-3 poems starting with "There once was a cat named Pat..." This is an extremely common first line of a limerick, found anywhere from here[1] to here[2].

Knowing that a "rhyming poem" is likely to start with a specific token (or set of tokens) does not exactly constitute "plagiarism", the same way that writing a poem that starts with "There once was a cat named Pat..." is not "plagiarism" by itself: it is just adhering to expected convention/norms of a specific literary format or genre.

Is using the basic-ass I-V-VI-IV chord progression in music "plagiarism", since it has been (and is) used by countless other people before?

> I'm sure those "statistical relationships" are very strong; is it plagiarism? I'll leave it up to you to decide that

Well... my claim is that it is clearly not plagiarism (and I gave specific arguments to support my claim). If you are not interested in arguing (which is fine), then I assume you accept that your characterization of what GPT3 does as being "plagiarism" is (at the very least) overly simplistic (i.e., just as simplistic as claiming that GPT-3 is sentient or actually intelligent).

> but I'm willing to bet that with enough finagling you can probably get it to spit out phrases from Moby Dick.

If GPT-3 (or most humans, for that matter) are asked to complete the phrase "To be or not to..." and decide that the word "be" is the most likely/reasonable completion, does it mean that GPT-3 (or any human, for that matter) is "plagiarizing" Shakespeare? Or does it simply mean that they are trying to address your question/problem to the best of their capabilities (and that they probably have read a passage or two of Shakespeare before, or someone paraphrasing Shakespeare)? In other words, just because you can force GPT-3 to output a specific copyrighted work (or an excerpt of it) still doesn't mean that what GPT-3 is doing should be characterized as "plagiarism".

Again, for something to technically count as "plagiarism", it is required that someone (i.e., not a computer program) try to pass off (incorrectly) something as original, own work, which does not seem to be the case here. That was my main point.

EDIT: if you want to be derisive of things like GPT-3, while still being accurate, it makes more sense to say things like "it is simply imitating" or "has no actual creativity" (which seem defensible to me) than things like "it is literally plagiarizing and copying what it saw before" (which seems much less defensible/accurate).
Just tax land and pay a citizen's dividend.
I know he is a polarising figure and gets a lot of blind hate or blind support. But as someone that uses twitter sporadically I do seem to feel that twitter is now faster. I think twitter did have a problem that the people that were running it were not heavy twitter users so did not care about making it better for twitter users. If nothing else I think twitter tech will now improve but twitter being financially viable is another question.
In reality it was from phishing attacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_celebrity_nude_photo_leak...
It's nothing new. Cults, populist demagogues, and other forms of magical thinking spread more during bad times. Unreason, unreasonableness, and substituted realities take hold and waste the lives and time of many people if they can't see any alternate, tangible, positive conclusion from reason, reasonableness, and the status quo.
It's more of a "sleep mode". There are still a lot of wakeups, and cron jobs running clean up of temporary files, cache management and backup routines. Background services still run.
> Lotta Volkova artwork is definitely sordid but so is a lot of art. You don't have to like it or even look.

Exactly. I feel like art and its purpose have been lost in recent years. Art is supposed to make people think or feel. Paintings of beheadings in museums don't make people think about beheading people, nor do they make people happy. They make people think about the atrociousness of history and hopefully about not wanting to repeat it.

My (non religious) dad recently argued that music that implies rape or child abuse shouldn't be broadcast on the radio, because it's wrong. I asked whether any movie showing violence, abuse and rape should also not be played on TV or in cinema. I also explained that both are art forms and aren't depictions of things the singers or actors want to do in real life, per se (we all know there are exceptions). He argued this, however, because he heard the argument from some radio DJs.

It'll be a sad day when we ban everything we don't like to see or hear, because that's when we forget those things exist and stop doing anything against it.
Btw, consider paying via the website if there are any differences in fees.
Proprietary app stores are a monopolistic abuse that must be legislated away. I acknowledge the argument for not allowing the platform to run any executable code the user can get their hands on, but this should not be used against the consumer.

Alternate application stores, that fulfill a basic number of legal and commercial conditions, should always be a choice for any owned hardware, perhaps at the cost of the device warranty.
I don't think the charge needs to be unattractive to spammers to mitigate the costs associated with them: 1$ likely covers the CPU time to produce the page, and then it only costs when displayed (which will be little, if spam).
I feel everyone is playing a character, in a way. There's more to unpack here, but perhaps I just haven't found the character that feels right/true.
Empathetic Leadership: Finding the Problem Under the Problem
Shot? Really? Shootings are relatively rare in sf.
As a former wanna-be-serious classical musician I heartily echo your sentiment. The general movement in art (the various "modern" movements) seems to have been both to reject traditionalisms and designed to make people feel bad. It also happened in music. I've heard it called the "The Unbearable Irrelevance of Contemporary Music".

There's some kind of draw in the hyper-academic avant-garde-ish arts scene that seems to produce mostly forgettable rubbish. But if you take into account that "90% of everything is crap" then there seems to be (slowly) some interesting art trends emerging. American musical minimalism is something I came across only in my thirties, somehow completely oblivious to it as a movement even though I was familiar with a few notable composers like Philip Glass. Once I dove into it, I found it fantastic, joyful, energetic, and most importantly impactful.

I think the composer I found that most reflects our observation here is Steve Reich, who's early work is semi-interesting academic avant-garde-ish naval gazing. But he eventually finds a real voice and his later works are mesmerizing energetic journeys -- and he's had deep impact on modern music across a number of genres.

They've given me hope that I'll find similar artists in other fields that are producing novel, interesting, and ultimately beautiful and impactful work.
Good luck going to war with Eddy Cue.
There are a lot of "electronic price tags" which are basically the same form factor as your trading cards, except they mass produce them (have nice plastic cases) and they usually include a 3-color eink (black-white-red or black-white-yellow) plus a wireless transmitter (usually proprietary protocol, but sometimes plain Bluetooth and/or NFC) for OTA updates and a 10-year battery (sometimes replaceable CR2032). Also, if you can grab them at $6 / piece, I imagine they're being produced for a lot less than that (random AliExpress link: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803094207083.html).

If you're thinking of mass-production might be worth reaching out to one of those manufacturers; you can buy in bulk if nothing else (but I'm sure they'd be open to customizing it a bit - maybe some branding on the plastic molding and whatnot).
I resent your assumption that only US senators should do mine hunting. Surely politicians everywhere of whatever stripe are good enough for this job?
"Aleatoric" may sound more high-brow, but it's basically just a synonym for random. In French "nombre aléatoire" is the computing term for "random number".
The real question is - is it any good?

I recently compared various translators including Bing, Yandex, Baidu Fanyi and who knows what else and my result was DeepL beating everyone with their neural MT (which I don't think can be done offline), followed by pretty much tie between Google Translate and Reverso (which also use neural MT, same as DeepL and also their website is also confusingly very similar to DeepL, almost like clone).

Sometimes GT is better than DeepL, sometimes Reverso, but most of the time DeepL delivers the best translation, followed by GT, which is usually followed by Reverso.

But considering 2 of these use neural MT I can't imagine how good/bad is Firefox with offline translation.
No need to physically shuffle.
thank you, for sure this will be an enterprise feature
thank you! these customers are not ready for an self-hosted app with this pricetag, i am searching for kind of an way in between these solutions. i think we are on the right way now.
Volunteer. Go help other people. Something with commitment, not just casual. See how other people are trying to survive. Perhaps you’ll start appreciating how fortunate you are in the process. Take responsibility upon yourself. Stick through it.

Join the military. Join the police. Set a goal to pass and get accepted.

Start doing a sport. Track your progress vigorously. Commit to doing it for at least a year. Rain or sunshine, snow or mud.
You are right.

It's still not a tax.
Ask HN: Has Hacker News banned posts about Twitter?
If I search I see no new submissions over the last few days with the search word "Twitter". Before that there were many every day.
Most languages do some checks at runtime. This is the strong / weak typing dichotomy (which is different from the static/ dynamic one).

For example, Java will throw an exception at runtime if an object is cast (using .asInstanceOf) to an incompatible class. Python throws if you add an integer to a string. Both of those languages are strongly typed.

On the other hand, C has no runtime checks whatsoever. If you add a number to an array the program will happily move the array pointer and maybe overflow, but even that won't cause a runtime failure every time.
Come to the US. It's beyond absurd. Gray hair is considered a sign of a slow, old worker no one wants to hire. Only youth need apply, in spite of experience and wisdom, which counts for nothing.

DEI (Diversity Equity Inclusion) extends primarily to (minority) ethnicities, women and nonbinary, religions, and sexual orientations. Age is definitely not a DEI KPI target.
Checking for the existence of keys in a map in Elixir
I've never started anywhere with an intention to be a "lifer" but I have had a fairly linear jup from early short stints, to a 4 year run at VA Linux Systems, later a 6 year run at an "anti-piracy" company that was farcical in many ways but paid the bills and got e through my undergrad nd the 2008 maelstrom, and eventually 10 years at a CRM company that was maybe a year or two longer than needed but otherwise a great run.

In all of those scenarios I "planned" for 1-2 years to see what I could accomplish and if I wanted to stick around.

This industry doesn't tend to promote the idea of long form employment; hell, it almost finds it questionable (which I find stupid. If you are good and satisfied and produce good work, there is no need to find that suspect; not everyone has to be motivated the same way, seek the same incentives for the same path).
As a foreigner living in Switzerland, having started a PhD at “old” age, please don’t tell me this…

At what age does ageism kick in?
Yes, though, You're going to have poor quality arguments if the terms are poorly defined, as above.

Does vaccinating against Covid-19 prevent _some_ transmissions - yes, obviously. efficacy measures that percentage.

Does vaccinating against Covid-19 prevent _all_ transmissions - obviously not.

Watch out for the people conflating these two statements, rhetorically shifting from one the other when it suits them.

e.g. the (wrong) statement that "vaccinating against COVID-19 doesn't prevent transmission so it's useless" uses the (true) first sense for the first half, then draws a conclusion as though it's the second sense.
Ah that makes sense, thanks for clarifying.
I was quoting Diana Rogers, who provided a source for her statements, so I thought I would include it.

I cannot access the full article, but from the abstract that seems to not be congruent with what the study is suggest. Perhaps you are confusing kg for kcal? It could indeed be the fact that it is 3x less efficient by weight.

Given that the article is pointing out that 86% of the feed for animals is not edible by humans, claiming that meat is 3x less efficient calorie wise with these numbers is also making the claim that we are growing plants 2x more calorically dense by meat than weight.
>_and_ should be default to opt-out.

Here I don't agree. It should be certainly be visible, so you can make an informed decision whether or not to use it. But it's a sad fact of human nature how little we are willing to contribute back even when people give us something for free, even if just a click away (not to mention paying a small amount, filling a bug report...)
Every CC over ever seen is a fixed cost + percent. The fixed cost is on the magnitude of 10 cents… that’s a lot when you’re only getting $0.99
This is amazing - but don't just limit yourself to table top games. While the killer app has not popped into my head I am sure there are business uses as well - from name tags to ... err - but just the very existence of these things means people will find new uses. fantastic
Vultr wants me to complete a captcha just to view their website, which tells me an awful lot about them already.
> It drives me bonkers when someone apparently goes out of their way to write code in the slowest form possible.

We used to call that BASIC.
I disagree - There are many situations in which a "well-liked" person voices a negative opinion, or even physically intervenes against threats and nuisances.
This is really cool! I had the same idea but dismissed it because e-inks were so expensive, it's really impressive you can get them down to $10. This enables you to make games that are digital and analog at the same time, which is in itself interesting. I think this tech combines well with NFTs to extend this functionality (if you need unique cards, unforgable etc.).
This is Oogway in you is getting disappointed with Shifu.
MS or Apple can port it themselves, but I think there's not so much interest on the Apple side
You are not forced to pay for Spotify and Netflix via the App Store.
The JavaScript framework for visual programming
- Intel disables ECC Ram support for their consumer CPUs, AMD does not
Creating problems so you can sell the solution...

Basically means they will be incentivised to make their app discoverability algorithm worse, to encourage companies to pay them for ads. Kinda like Google did with ads coming above the search results forcing companies to buy ads to be displayed at the top even when you search for the company directly.
If this was a fully hackable product, it could be used for so much more than just playing games. Think the stuff that e-ink price tags are already used for, e.g. in product retail, plus so many uses in the office; no need to awkwardly write things down on post-its or simple slips of paper, when they can instead be shown on a trading card with information being reliably drawn from a single source of truth.
You are confusing setters with the assignment evaluation. Setters are just normal methods.

?> def you_are_wrong=(a)
?> a * 2
>> end
=> :you_are_wrong=
>> send(:you_are_wrong=, 24)
=> 48

However yes, the `foo.bar = 24` expressions translates to `(foo.send(:bar=, 24); 24)`.

The reason is so that `foo = bar.baz = 12` works as you expects, it's absolutely not some kind of cruft or black magic.
Ukraine leader describes emergency migration of data to the cloud
Why do you think that? I know many people working at a FAANG both in SF and LA, and most of them own some sort of home. (Some are condos or townhomes because that’s the lifestyle they prefer - but many are single family homes.) They’re in decent places, too, not 100 miles away or “the bad part of town”. It took a few years of savings, and some of them are dual income, which helps, but between stock that’s been on a rocket ship for the last 20 years and a decently high salary, they do just fine. If you’re not vested yet, you might not have hit the point where things start to take off. It can be pretty dramatic what those RSUs add up to if you aren’t constantly watching their value.
Wow, an honest and interesting take. Moderating (managing?) HN seems like a dream job in many respects, I can imagine many people being super envious of your position. It's funny to think that you "cringe" about thinking yourself as a lifer in this position, I'd be hanging on to this job with everything I've got :)

I do understand your feeling though, even the funnest situation can at some point stop letting you grow as a person, which is why a job you can also grow in is crucial. That and the creative control / independence you mentioned are both very important IMO.

Side note: many people seem to misunderstand why tech companies tend to seek growth. One of the reasons, even in non-startup companies, is that companies that grow mean growth opportunities for employees, which means better employees and keeping your good employees. Companies that don't grow tend to eventually lose their best employees, because there's literally no room for growth in their job.
The trick then, would be making an easy way to write images to them.
Maybe a phone attachment...
Of course we are/have some kind of sophisticated pattern matching machines, what is language anyway? But we understand context in conversation, at least what we mean by understanding. GPT-3 doesn’t do any of that.
Strangely, I prefer to be shot by a robot than a human cop. Either I had it coming or it was purely an accident. Either way, robots don't get qualified immunity and for some reason it feels less personal, perhaps because robots can't have malicious intent (yet!).
The most likely scenario is: edit, read, edit, read (repeat N times), publish the page, read it again, find a mistake, no way to fix it unless deleting the page and paying again.
No. I've seen several this very morning.

eta:... including a submission of a post by Elon Musk.

I think they're simply generally very low quality/low effort submissions that sink to the bottom of the "new" page fast.
Humorously this website is almost unusable on mobile there are so many ads…
The one impressive bit that ELIZA would not do is understand some of the semantics of the prompts. Like you can ask it to ask a question, or write a letter, and it would get the format of the response right.

But yes, I agree. I'm not sure how much the journal entries really contributed other than specific turns of phrase and general topics of discussion.
They can still transmit it. So, still a bad idea if the "healthy young person" has older relatives such as parents.

COVID is a problem for entire societies, tackling it in an individualised, atomised way is going to be super-ineffective.
> Apple may be under the false impression that the competition is far behind and that its loyal user base has nowhere else to go.

If they'd be willing to go somewhere else, then they wouldn't be loyal.

And the "somewhere else" can only be Android, and even for non-loyal users, that's a big step (and vice versa).

In my own personal (and thus limited) experience, I know zero users that have made the switch. The Android/Apple choice seems to stick really hard.
I'm down to make it fully hackable.

The trick would be an easy interface for writing to them. They don't have batteries, so you need to send all the power to them along with information.
That is just wrong. You can get CC agreements with only a percentage fee without any fixed fee per transaction if you need it and have the scale. And at Apple scale they are most likely under 1%.
Shit, I wish.

If you click through the previous pages ("more" link at bottom of page) you'll still find plenty. Though I don't know why the search isn't returning those results.
There’s a German startup called LivingPackets. They advertised heavily on YouTube to attract investors. “Imagine you had invested in one of the big internet companies” was one of their lines. I think the BaFin stepped in (federal agency for regulation of the finance sector). Don’t know if they still exist.
Maybe record more data points and get back to us. As a Twitter user myself - I would not care about Twitter news being filtered on HN.

Twitter shows me enough Elon Musk, despite my admiration of the man, and my repeated "Don't Care about this Account" attempts
Nowadays Japanese medical papers are notorious about fake.
They do curate. The home view of the app store is all curated. They have a full team dedicated to that view and getting selected can get you significant installs. Also all the editor's choice apps are curated.
Most proxies are crudely sharpied words over other cards, so the low-res 4-color greyscale is a huge improvement haha
Heh, the screens I use are exactly the ones contained in those products.

Huh, the battery lasts for ten years? I wonder how many refreshes you get for that. Maybe I should just be using those.....
I don't think there is anything particularly interesting around so it would raise up.
How is this related to HN? We are doing now even book reviews completely unrelated to tech? What's next food recipes? How to satisfy woman?
>I'm sure you've spent a lot of time thinking about how you feel, so I find it interesting that you're unable to identify what potentially could fix the sense of emptiness. Have there been any times in your life when you felt significantly less empty or even somewhat closer to a sense of meaning?

I do think too much self-awareness can be a problem, and maybe that's what you're getting at. The times when I don't feel as empty are usually when I'm distracted by something in the external world, and momentarily stop ruminating on my own thoughts. I do feel like they are "distractions", but now I am wondering why I consider them distractions (from what?), and if that's one of the fundamental axioms, as you say, that I should reconsider. Thank you for the insight.
Its absolutely a piece of trash software that needs to be open sourced so it can be better. My hatred for MS teams is insurmountable. Its buggy, slow as fuck, very sluggish, takes up a shitton of my resources and RAM. I hate MS teams with a passion.
Sadly, for those that depend on BAföG (the government assistance), this is the reality. If you can't manage to finish your study in the expected time ("Regelstudienzeit"), you're out from assistance [1]. If you take double the expected time plus another year, you're forcibly evicted [2], which was quite an issue for some people who were admitted under the pre-Bologna rules [3]. You're also kicked out as well if you fail one course three times [4], which is what hit me as I'm a better hacker than a mathematician.

In the end, it's clear that the Bologna reforms were not just about creating a common European academic standard - which is a good thing - but also about turning universities into factories with no room left anymore for the eccentrics who wanted to spend more time on their education than the system wants, those who need more time for specific subjects or those who need a job to survive and can't keep up the same workload as rich students can.

[1] https://www.xn--bafg-7qa.de/bafoeg/de/das-bafoeg-alle-infos-...

[2] https://www.tuhh.de/tuhh/studium/im-studium/rund-um-den-stud...

[3] https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/zwangsexmatrikulation-fuer-ho...

[4] https://www.gesetze-bayern.de/Content/Document/BayHSchG-49
Yes, but who really does this? I never encountered an API doing it. (Not saying they don't exist!)