skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This example doesn't show that it can generate content based on Twitter writing of a specified account, in this case realDonaldTrump.

It shows that it knows that realDonaldTrump is the Twitter ID of Donald Trump, and that it can write in the very widely known (and frequently parodied) style of that user, and format the result as a tweet (complete with a hash tag).

So it works because Trump is famous, there is a lot of writing out there that exhibits his style and it knows how to emulate Twitter style.

I bet I can get it to do the same for a famous celebrity who doesn't use Twitter.

Just tried "write a tweet about McDonald's in the style of twitter user realDanielCraig" - Daniel Craig isn't on Twitter - and got this:

> "Just scarfed down a Big Mac and fries at McDonald's. Sometimes you just gotta treat yourself. #BondFuel #McDonalds"

And for realKateWinslet (also not on Twitter):

> "Just had a healthy meal at McDonald's with a side of their tasty apple slices. Love finding healthy options on the go! #McDonalds"
I just think it's interesting you wouldn't trust a built-in app to not do something nefarious with your photos yet you'll trust a random third-party app to be safe.
I recently did interview loops at both Azure and GCP and the difference between the people were astounding.

While Google takes way too long to make a hiring decision, all of the people I talked to seemed intelligent and very thoughtful. I did a Microsoft 'hiring event' and holy hell it was a clusterfuck. I got ghosted by one manager, another was extremely disinterested and seemed like they were interviewing me to check a box.

Another asked an algorithmic coding question they themselves did not understand, I had to very politely argue with them, I ended up having to show them step by step how my solution was correct (much to their surprised amazement). The system design interview was done by someone who clearly doesn't understand system design.

I cannot emphasize enough how much their engineering leads came across like a joke compared to other companies. Maybe I just got really unlucky and there are good people who work there, but I'm a bit frightened by what I saw.
It's the journey not the destination that matters.
Activation is a feted hulk and I hope they collapse under the weight of their misdeeds.

Certainly everyone who owns the game has bought the right to play offline. That said, the question of what "owners" are allowed to do in a multi-user product seems genuinely hard. Cheaters (and people who seek 'parasitic' experiences of all kinds) disrupt how the game is intended to be played. Consumer protections were developed for products that don't have that kind of entangled quality.
While AI technology has made great strides in recent years, it is still not capable of producing content that is indistinguishable from human-generated content. This means that AI-generated content is likely to be easily identifiable and may be less credible or trustworthy than content produced by humans. As a result, it may not gain as much traction or attention online.
Reminds me of the time I had to fill out an expense report to get reimbursed by a company who had flown me out for an interview. It all had to be done in Excel. Unfortunately my bank account number was very long, which caused Excel to round down the last two digits. My reimbursement went into someone else’s account who then flagged it to the bank before we got it all straightened out.
Well I asked it to write about intellectual property as if it were me on hacker news ("Write about intellectual property in the style of Hacker News user TaylorAlexander") and it failed. I have written many times on here about intellectual property and I am strongly against the whole concept. I think we would do well to abandon the concept of intellectual property restrictions through a managed transition. But ChatGPT just gave a somewhat pro-IP response, saying

"I would say that intellectual property is a complex and important issue. On the one hand, it's crucial to protect the rights of creators and innovators, and to ensure that they are able to benefit from the fruits of their labor. This is especially important in the tech industry, where new ideas and innovations can be extremely valuable."

That is not remotely what I would say and that is also not how I write. The comment went on saying "we have to balance the laws" all in a writing style very different from mine.

I guess it works for dang because he has written the same thing over and over, but it fails for me.
American's are struggling with runaway inflation of everything so it's not surprising we can't afford to buy stuff from China.
This essentially doesn’t work now either, unfortunately.

A lot of the latest AAA games will only allow you to play multiplayer if your account ALSO has a verified phone number attached, and they only let you attach each number to a single account, plus they filter out phones which are not postpaid (so no using services like Twilio).
He might mean the actual original MW2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Modern_Warfare_2

I've been SUPER confused as to what this "Modern Warfare 2" is that people are talking about, because I played that in, well, 2009. At least they called it "II" instead of "2" (as if anyone will notice this difference)... >_>
and (scarily) there is not much public technical information about it

What little there is, and even articles that are occasionally posted here about the dystopia it'll bring, seem to have vanished and/or be taken over by corporate mouthpieces spreading FUD in the comments. I can only see that as being the industry trying very, very hard to stop any dissent.
I'm not sure that this introduces any risk that didn't already exist due to trolls, content farms, and insane people. Whether or not something is written by a human is, I would argue, almost completely orthogonal to the validity of the information therein.
Brings back fond memories of helping sysop our local BBS, Korova Milkbar
Professional chefs...

I can believe nonstick is X amount faster for Y different dishes. I am still easily able to cook crepes, omelettes and fried eggs perfectly with my well seasoned cast iron pans.

I'd note that nonstick pans are usually coated aluminum and so a fair amount lighter than cast iron pans. If I needed to produce a certain number of eggs per hour, that would be a big thing for me. But should society decide based on this?
Courtesy: ChatGPT

"How to Ace Calculus: The Streetwise Guide" by Colin Adams, Joel Hass, and Abigail Thompson. This book is designed to help you (re)learn the key concepts and techniques of calculus, which is the study of change and motion in the physical world. It includes lots of examples, exercises, and practical tips to help you master the material.

"The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity" by Steven Strogatz. This book is a friendly and accessible introduction to math, covering a wide range of topics from basic arithmetic to advanced calculus and beyond. It is written in a conversational style and includes lots of examples and illustrations to help make the material more engaging and easy to understand.

"Algebra for Everyone: In-Depth Coverage, Examples, and Exercises" by James Brennan. This book is a comprehensive guide to algebra, which is the study of equations and formulas. It covers all the key concepts and techniques, including linear equations, quadratic equations, polynomials, and factoring, as well as more advanced topics like algebraic fractions and equations.

Overall, the best book for you will depend on your specific goals and interests. If you want to focus on a specific area of math like calculus, a book like "How to Ace Calculus" could be a good choice. If you want a more general introduction to math, a book like "The Joy of X" or "Algebra for Everyone" might be more suitable.

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My personal recommendation: All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School
T.S. Eliot? More like W.T. McGonagall, amirite?
Good timing, I was just today considering playing Diablo III on my Steam Deck (or trying to)... based on your experience, I guess that might be a bad idea to even try.
There are many books, articles, and other resources that can help you to become a better software engineer. Some popular choices include "Clean Code" by Robert C. Martin, "The Pragmatic Programmer" by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, and "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell. These books provide practical advice and guidance on a range of topics, including design, testing, debugging, and refactoring.
I think you still do a disservice to players by dismissing all these reports as low quality and impossible to verify. Here is a good counterexample https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/zawwc5/i_...
It'd be cool if there was something like mouse mode for the typical controller.

Turn it on, then move your hand to the top of that side of the controller, slide it around on a surface, voila mouse.
The professional managerial class is an affliction throughout many walks of life. What's most notable with academia is that the PMC was able to capture such an unorthodox organization. The playbook for capturing a public corporation is well worn, but a university? That requires some imagination.

The existence of the PMC I believe is evidence of elite overproduction and is a nasty side effect of an increasingly winner-take-all society. When the number of pie slices gets smaller, each slice gets bigger, and the jockeying for each slice becomes ever more bitter. I can't help but think academia is in its sorry state because so many people are seeking a refuge from a hostile corporate and industrial economy.

Unrelated point: universities are now the gatekeepers for economic success. There's a whole lot of money on the line. To riff on Uncle Ben, "with great power comes great corruption."
One big difference is there is no ads or seo, no one is trying to get in the way of you trying to learn something. Hopefully that will never happen.
There are people who falsely claim credit for crimes that attract lots of attention. That's a known thing that happens.

Got any evidence?
Google has cancelled a lot of things. And they do kind of suck at product strategy. The worst part is, they don't even realise when they have something great that's on the verge of gaining traction (Hangouts and Stadia IMO could have both become enormous with just a little more persistence and marketing).

That being said, on the technology front, they're still better than anyone else. Chromecast just works in a way nothing else does to get media onto your TV. Google is better at syncing things in the cloud (Google Drive/Docs) than anyone else. Office365 always has weird issues with synchronising documents in the cloud and is a huge pain in the ass whereas Docs works perfectly in real time. Google search is obviously the best. Google Maps is the best. Gmail. YouTube. Android is an amazing OS even if some OEMs add crap to it that detracts. Chrome is by far the best browser. And so on. I put up with Google's subpar product 'strategy' because it still makes life easier than dealing with MS or Apple's nonsense.
Can we get chatgpt to grade itself based on the scoring guidelines?
I’m sure most don’t immediately check, or want to go the effort, whether or not the ai responses to the prompts above are actually just verbatim comments from the past.

It looks quite accurate and similar, and correct, then why even change it?

>> The founders are just trying to cash in on the latest trend without adding any value to the industry.

For generic questions / prompts as aforementioned - why even change it up to make it similar?

The end output is the same. No additional value is added. It’s just a lookup table and a mechanical Turk.
> How does adding administrative bloat increase revenue for the university?

It doesn't, but administrators' salaries aren't really connected to the university's revenue. (And if they were, they'd probably focus on building more stadiums, selling more merchandise, and doing more advertising for deep-pocketed sponsors).

> It allows them to win more prizes, to cultivate and educate PhD students who can go on to become successful (to the credit of their PhD-granting institution), and educate undergrads (which can lead to more donations from parents or from grateful alumni).

The feedback loop for publishing better papers -> getting a better reputation takes decades, and it's not even clear you'd end up with more revenue at the end of it. As for attracting donations from grateful parents and alumni, the most effective way to achieve that is lowering your grading standards.
All the Ways You Can Use Vim Outside of Vim on macOS
At two horsepower you can call my mountain bike a motorcycle if you want, but I just consider it a hopped up ebike.
I unfortunately still end up working with contractors who produce code with similar thoughtlessness. Yes, a company like SAP should have caught it via the myriad of reviews and approvals, but ultimately if even in my small universe, this kind of issue can occur because some people just don't care to do a proper job, then it can certainly occur at a larger scale company despite many more layers or "process" to prevent this.
Easy to see you weren't around in the 1970s. This isn't runaway inflation.
You, [subject name here], must be the pride of [subject hometown here].
They should have to specify the cause and provide evidence. If, say, you’re a Nazi and spammed threats in chat that’s very easy to demonstrate and very few courts are going to even blink at the idea that it’s a terms of service violation which doesn’t warrant a refund.

Where that’s harder would be things like “our ML system thinks your input timing wasn’t humanly possible” and it’d be great if this forced companies to be more nuanced about how they handle things like that by doing things like requiring multiple independent checks.
How is ChatGPT ever going to be bombed with SEO?
For now.

But they are probably including future improvements in their question about the future so I’m not sure why you think this is worth saying. I’m actually legitimately wondering if your comment is an output of ChatGPT.

[Cue the Spider-Man pointing meme]
Love the effect and the in-depth write up!

I guess there are not that many that truly understands the effort and commitment needed to get a seemingly trivial thing by today’s standards such as this. Well, I do at least :)

A truly awesome achievement.
Very well done, Raistlin and Sparta!
We are finally seeing the effect from ordering way too much stuff back when things were hard to get under covid.

Also expect prices to fall as inventories are sold off and the effect of plenty of supply and cheap freight rates passes through.
There's A LOT I could write about Robert Martin and Clean Code, but in short:

- focused on the readability of small functions rather than the readability of the whole program. This gives you unreadable programs containing lots of small readable blocks of code. I argue this is wrong. We care about programs first and foremost.

- arbitrary rules ("ideal function should have zero arguments", "functions should be two to fours lines long"). He hasn't run studies, he hasn't provided any proofs. Nothing scientific, it's just some guy's opinions.

- his code examples speak for themselves, in a bad way. Check out the link posted in a sibling comment. They show a person who's trying to put their ideas in code for the first time (or, at the very least, first time trying to write non-trivial code) and it's becoming obvious that those ideas don't work. But the person persists and publishes the book regardless.

- he hasn't really achieved anything in software apart from selling books and consultancy services. Name one impressive piece of software that he wrote, like a version control system, or a database, or a high performance JSON parser. All he's done is (as far as I can tell) CRUD software. That's not even enough for an "appeal to authority" argument.

In the words of a classic, Robert Martin is a "self-appointed expert". I would be very skeptical about following his advice.

> A few people I respect have told me they got a lot out of it

I don't mean to offend you. If I had to guess, these people you respect work on trivial software, just like me or Robert Martin. It's software you can write using almost any ideas or methodology. It doesn't matter what you use, because the task is so simple. Read data from a frontend, write to a DB, read from a DB, send back to frontend. You can do this using assembly x86, Fortran, OOP (whichever flavour), FP, whatever P.

So when people say "they got a lot out of it", I take it this means "I do things a lot like Robert Martin (as opposed to a mythical idea of <<spaghetti code>> that's meant to make the code unmaintainable), and it seems to work; I deliver features and I get paid". And that's fine, I guess. You can make your life harder by following Robert Martin's advice and still achieve your goal.

The problems begin when you need to start writing "real" code (rather than CRUD/plumbing), like anything that's supposed to have good performance, or actual CS problems like TSP, path finding, and so on. Robert Martin proved he can't write a readable prime number generator even when performance is not an issue.

My advice is to keep respecting the people you respect but focus on the CS and mathematics fundamentals instead. IMO there's little to nothing in Clean Code that will make you a better developer.
They may have blocked this from working. It wrote something completely unlike my style and then when I asked about it, said:

"I'm sorry, I am not able to browse the internet or access information on specific individuals or user styles on forums such as Hacker News. As a language model trained by OpenAI, my primary function is to assist users in generating human-like text based on the prompts given to me. I do not have the ability to imitate the style of specific individuals."
> this sort of detection doesn't need any anti-cheat with deep system hooks.

Correct, it wouldn't need any deep system hooks, nor are the console manufacturers likely to ever give game developers the ability to hook into the system that deeply, nor do they really need to since modern consoles are secure enough in practice that wallhack/aimbot type system level code cheats haven't been a concern for a while now on the major console platforms.

There are various bits of anti-cheat logic that game developers could be putting into their console version like the aforementioned analysis of input devices to look for helper devices, and things like looking for likely "lag switch" attacks by keeping track of the ongoing latency of packets coming in and out, but these are all passive heuristic checks that would exist within the game itself, not driver or kernel level anti-cheat as is common on PC.
I'm curious how wolfram alpha will respond to this development. In some ways I think this is the sort of thing it was trying to be but didn't quite work
Yeah I think the problem is the model has been trained on T. S. Eliot, but it’s also been trained on every amateur poet that has ever posted their doggerel online.

I asked in to write song lyrics for me, and while some of the verses felt inspired, it largely lacked a sense of rhyme and rhythm
Worked at Google Cloud a while ago and GitHub (Codespaces, which is built on Azure), I couldn't agree more. Google Cloud is so technically and operationally superior, and the average engineer quality was _much_ higher. The obvious downside is that because the bar for GA is so high (because everyone is, or is trying to be, clever), everything lives in beta forever and you can't ship anything on any reasonable scheduke.
Please don't "namedrop" by using acronyms for people that you (perhaps subconsciously) assume are absolutely known to all. David Foster-Wallace is just fine.
Presumably with all the billions of dollars in gaming, the research has been done and its simply not possible to get desk and mouse precision sitting on a couch.

I am absolute garbage at playing Battlefield on Xbox and I know I'd be better with a mouse.

Seems someone is trying anyway: https://hackaday.com/2021/09/04/giving-a-console-controller-...
This is why open source has become so incredibly important. Open source hardware and networks doubly so.

Open source is nowhere near as important as the right and ability to read and modify. The most popular browser is (mostly) open-source, and so is the most widely-used operating system. The megacorps are really happy to advertise the fact that they're contributing to and using OSS. Yet the situation is such that while you can see the source, it doesn't necessarily mean you have any power to do anything other than read it. What good is having the source if you're prevented from actually using it, due to various "security" features?

Contrast that with the rise of the PC in the 80s and 90s through the early 2000s and the slowly-dying culture that came with it. The majority of software was closed source, but it didn't stop people with a disassembler and a hex editor from analysing and modifying it.

Thus I think focusing on OSS is merely a distraction.
>The natural first place to start looking is among the indigenous inhabitants

So Hagia Sophia was built by Turkics and the Königsberg Castle by ethnic Russians.
My job forced me, again I explained and like many other in tech I even worked from home. That still didn’t stop the mandates. And you’re still ignoring the many others that have lost their jobs. NY was forced to reinstate police officers recently.

Also you do realize you’re contradicting yourself? You’re saying nobody forced anything but if you want to live in society you must follow the rules. There were no laws forcing me, it was my desire to keep my job. My job created the mandate, not society.
Hmm...not really. I'm usually negative on AI, so this doesn't match me at all.

https://imgur.com/a/DRpY01f
Thread of Known ChatGPT Jailbreaks
In SF, nothing.
Activision did a similar thing with the completely botched release of Warcraft 3 both the modern Battle.net re-release and the Reforged remake. The TLDR is that if you tried to play most any custom map - even privately - you would reconnect shortly later and find your account permanently banned. In some cases even if you ever actually got to start the custom map, just simply from trying to host a lobby. In my case it was a private lobby with two other friends for the old-school map "Enfos".

I filed an appeal/ticket with Blizzard and they gave me an almost identical canned response as from the article and I simply gave up and vowed to never buy another Blizzard game. About 6 months later on a whim I tried to play the game again and it worked, but the entire experience left such a bad taste in my mouth that I have no motivation to participate in this exercise in frustration.

The problem is that the mapping community had created some very inventive use of out-of-bounds memory access as a way to use the internal game APIs to accomplish things the game engine supports but isn't exposed to mappers. If you take a close look at almost every "big" map eventually you'll find some level of use of these techniques. The community created a "safe list" of known patterns of OOB memory access so that maps could be "verified" as not doing anything naughty while still also having access to these extra modding features.

The worst part? Blizzard was so aware of this situation that they actually re-implemented the OOB memory access in a safe way using known memory offsets. So, they fixed the actual OOB memory access so it shouldn't be possible to use an OOB memory access to crash your game or steal your "cdkey" or similar, but they have whitelisted many useful memory offsets so it's still possible to interact with the game engine in more complex ways.

That's the strangest part for me is that they put in a LOT of effort to remain that level of backwards compatibility and then banned players automatically when they tried to use it. Of course absolutely none of this was communicated to regular players in game and of course the forums are a complete shit show.

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