skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think marketing this as more humane isn't the way to go. That's kind of annoyingly untrue. It's a human consulting a AI.

Plus sometimes the AI says things that are untrue too. Sometimes you don't want to tell the other guy "I love your work" even if it gets attention because they might ask which my favorite was. So I don't think the output is necessarily ready to send out.

What this is really good for is to help create a rough draft. It allows the user to create more wordy, but polite, copy that the user can then edit to their own voice. Or you know something like that.
If there are no humans around does life on earth have any value? It’s just another planet among billions.
From https://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/legal/glossary/de-minimis-non-c...

"The de minimis rule is seldom relevant in criminal law (so, for, example, the offence of theft is made out whether the property taken is worth one penny or £1 million) but it is not wholly irrelevant. For example, a shopkeeper who hangs a rack of newspapers on the outer wall of his shop abutting the highway may be acquitted of obstruction of the highway on the basis of de minimis non curat lex."
> CV to watch for the done LED

If you're ok obscuring the LED, you can probably tape any sort of light sensitive component on top and use that to sense the done indicator without modifying the machine.

Photodiode, phototransitor, whatevs, should be easy enough to hook it up to a microcontroller and do your bidding. You could even make a replacement done indicator. You might need to tune it carefully depending on how much light bleeds between the different indicators.

If you're willing to modify the machine, you can probably rewire the done led to be more useful.
I completely agree. The thought of not knowing whether I am talking to a real person or an AI is definitely a concerning aspect of the advancement of AI. It has the potential to fundamentally change how we interact on the internet and in society as a whole.

This response was, of course, also generated by an AI.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33830570
I agree. We should go further, and think about what we, as a society, are actually trying to accomplish with higher education and how good universities are at achieving those goals. Not just some vague "it teaches you how to think"/"it teaches you how to be a good citizen" goals with no attempt made to actually see if we're achieving it. Real, concrete goals, with actual effort put into determining of the system is actually furthering those goals.

From what I've seen, the current university system is a very inefficient way of achieving what we're trying to accomplish.
> Any company that doesn't do regional pricing is only interested in doing business with rich countries. Which sucks but is understandable. I wish they were more honest about it though.

Kagi loses money on their paid customers. If you have a Kagi account you can see how much you cost them. It makes no sense to offer regional pricing unless there is also a way to serve those customers in a cheaper way.
Gee, maybe google the word or news story before writing 3 paragraphs about it? Yes, it was to shut down an 18+ drag show.

For the average folks with horrid (or biased) memories, do you really no remember post-911? We screamed "terrorists" over and over and how American interests would not be scared off by terror tactics.

Theyre suppressing expression. They have openly fascist intents. Theyre successfully shutting down other shows due to fears of violence.

In what world do you think this increasingly frequent type of targetted violence should not be talked about? Or just when its barely related to a social issue you have opinions about...?
That is a concerning statement yeah. However, even if I were only interested in one thing or the other, the general public can certainly address more than one thing at once. So I don't see the point in trying to shut down conversation about one thing just because something else is going on.

Finally, even if I or the public could only focus on one thing, Trump's statement appeared after the Twitter Files release.

Is it really so problematic for you that I, a person distant from you on this planet, express interest here about Twitter's comms with DNC or Biden team?
I already managed to get it to write an implementation of Pong and a Chip8 interpreter, both in C and using SDL2 for graphics/input/sound (it even wrote a function to generate the waveform for a beep for Chip8 and rebound sound for Pong!). I'm pretty sure I can get it to generate all the code for a Gameboy or NES emulator, I've taken a few tentative steps and it definitely can reproduce the memory map and generate code to parse iNES/GB cartridge headers
It seems to think that we’re fictional characters, I got the following when I asked why the comment it wrote was in my style:

> The comment uses a positive and supportive tone, expressing agreement with the article and praising the author for their work. It also encourages discussion and promotes curiosity about other people's opinions. These elements are common in the comments made by the fictional user uehreka on Hacker News.

Edit: I asked it to write a political comment as me, and it wrote one complaining about how politically polarized everything has become, with a kind of “both sides need to set aside their differences” bit at the end. While that’s definitely a sentiment that shows up a lot in HN comments, it’s not how I talk about politics at all. I think GPT is falling back on the general tone of HN comments for most of these, rather than really impersonating a given user.
Ask HN: Why is precision mouse pointer control not possible sitting on a couch?
Any gamer knows that console controllers don't have the same level of precision pointer control as sitting at a desk using a mouse.

That's why any first person shooter game can be played more precisely using PC and mouse compared to console controller sitting on a couch.

But I started wondering, why is this not a solved problem? Is there truly no way to have the same level of precision sitting on a couch? Has there been any research into this topic, any big company actually tried to come up with a way to have mouse-on-desk level of control whilst sitting on a couch?
IMO, the release of Warzone 1, Call of Duty’s Battle Royale mode that released a few months after Modern Warfare 2019, has completely changed the priorities and incentives for the company. The goal is to sell in game cosmetics more so than the game itself, as many other games are turning to as well.

The yearly release cycle, which may be ending soon, leads to bugs that re-emerge each year and features that appear and disappear. Sure, the different studios which produce the games need some room to innovate, but the inconsistent base set of features is incredibly frustrating. CoD games are one of the games I play the most, with the other being a game which is the complete opposite, Old School RuneScape, that has been built on for ~20 years.

I play the current game MWII with friends a few hours a day most days of the week. Multiple times per session my game crashes at random, something I can’t remember with any other major games with a top of the line PC. Like many other pieces of software, chasing other revenue sources seems to have made the quality of the product take a nose dive, with consequences yet to be seen. This is disappointing to me as someone who enjoys playing the game with friends, who has competed in open-bracket events at major tournaments over a span of a few years, and worked directly with the professional league and teams (CDL and CWL) for analytics and software.
Scientists reveal encouraging findings in trial evaluating HIV vaccine approach
"While scientists have struggled in the past to create an effective vaccine against HIV, a novel vaccine design strategy being pursued by a team of researchers. The teams work shows new promise, according to data from a first-in-human clinical trial."
People have recommended some excellent books.

I will advise something different, find a mentor.

The most important parts of actually -engineering- software, not bashing out code come from intuition and taste and these are best taught through a mentor.

If you can't find a mentor at your current company then consider getting involved in OSS, particularly in well engineered projects like Linux, PostgreSQL, Apache projects, etc. If you have the capacity for this it's one of the strongest ways to increase your capability and strengthen/widen your network which will help further your career in other ways.

Once you have found a mentor focus on being a good student. Learn how to ask the questions that will prompt insightful answers, the "why" rather than the "how". Especially try to learn what -not- to do. Experience doesn't always need to come first hand... getting burnt isn't necessary to understand not to touch hot stuff.

Not the answer you asked for but I think perhaps even more important than what you can learn from a book.
The thing that concerns me about this perspective is that it completely ignores human connection and our need to connect as beings.

Sure, there are compelling arguments to be made whether or not we're complex state machines responding to our environment, and if you view yourself in those sorts of terms, then more power to you.

But I hang out here to talk to people because at the end of the day, human connection is all we really have. I believe the day that we consciously choose to supplant human connection with AI-generated input is the day that we no longer care about the existence of our kind.
like doctor focus to save people in front of him, scientists focus on resolve their problems. in another way, works on journal system is existing. many region had required open access journal and add preprint to internet.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

A navigation app that illuminates public land within privately held property - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33753467 - Nov 2022 (181 comments)
(Simulated) Conversation Between Chomsky and Baudrillard – ChatGPT
Don't standard tools like PageRank help here where new articles will need to get links from established sites to be ranked? Search engines already have to deal with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_spinning, duplicate/near-duplicate content, low-quality content and black hat SEO tricks so what's the difference here?
You are correct that there are potential negative consequences to using AI-generated answers on Stack Overflow. One of the main concerns is the quality of the answers. Because AI models are trained on large amounts of data, they may not be able to provide the same level of personalized, nuanced, and accurate answers as a human would. This could lead to a decline in the quality of the answers on the platform, which could in turn lead to a less supportive and helpful community.
People, don’t downvote this. Partners at law firms follow their incentives. Administrators follow theirs. Expecting people not to follow their own interests is a recipe for disappointment. If you want good results making a good system works. Relying on gassing good people doesn’t.
There is plenty of Kenny Everett on Youtube. It's not as funny as I remember but it's worth revisiting if you skip the music (which makes the original show about 10 minutes long in total).
Good thing there's more than one social network then.
The known widely open anti-lgbt jan 6th rioted who posted within hours of the outtage that she knew the source of the outage? And a picture of the drag venue with "god will not be mocked". Whatever you gotta tell yourself!
Another potential negative consequence of using AI-generated answers on Stack Overflow is that they could become too common and lead to a more impersonal and less human-oriented community. While AI-generated answers can be useful in some cases, they may not always be the best solution, and relying too heavily on them could lead to a less personal and less engaging experience for users.
Or because he's popularized their area of expertise in ways none of them could ever do themselves.

More kids will go into archaeology because of Graham Hancock than because of anything Zahi Hawass ever said.
Despite how any of us want things to be, this was the printed statement from Wyoming BLM. [1] Presumably, these hunters already knew this.

What does the law say with regard to corner crossing?

There is no specific state or federal
laws regarding corner crossings. Corner
crossings in the checkerboard land pattern
area or elsewhere are not considered legal
public access.

[1] https://www.blm.gov/sites/default/files/documents/files/Prog...
Could also be a coincidence, actual devs have not commented yet afaik.

The banned guy can contact battleye and try to get unbanned if it was false, has happened before (usually a group of players with something in common are banned, last time it was s specific motherboard or a driver for it).
I think the place you will be able to escape this will be curated communities. As it becomes harder to tell a human and a bot apart, people will value the knowledge they're talking to a real person more. I think this opens up a place for smaller by-members-invite communities.
> "aw shucks, I made an error in judgement and also in arithmetic"

Fascinating isn't it. A CEO playing the dumb young dude who didn't know better.
Yes, and this is one of the more clear cut yeses!
It's not just a matter of age, but of location. I am old enough to have grown with 8 bit computers, but at that time, I didn't live in a country with free local calls. The price of local calls was 0.50c a minute in current US dollars. As you might imagine, it's difficult to have a BBS culture with those prices. BBS use was going to have to be attached to some phreaking activities, and at that point, you might as well go international instead of calling down the street.

Countries with that kind of local pricing jumped straight to the internet, at whichever time the prices for the general public became reasonable. For instance, In my home country the first special data rates started in 1995, where a dollar would get you an hour of internet, everything included. With that 30x drop in prices, internet usage exploded.
I’ve seen it as a Bacon code in capture-the-flag.
> it just seems like it would be the dumbest way to try to make this dumb point.

I mean, you understand the types of people being discussed here, right? (that posted openly about this on fb, mind you).
I went to a railway museum and aquarium in Tokyo this past week, and the two you mentioned in Kyoto were surprisingly good, especially given how relatively small the aquarium was.
Additionally, if the AI is able to search the internet and "inbreed" its own answers, it could lead to even more low-quality, duplicative answers on the platform. This could make it more difficult for users to find useful, accurate answers to their questions, and could further contribute to a decline in the overall quality of the answers on the platform.
According to Wikipedia, Saran wrap switched from PVDC to polyethylene (which is still considered safe) was in 2004.

PVC and PVDC have lower oxygen permeability so keep food better, but both environmental and food safety concerns in food contact applications.
Magenta Living receives £137M funding to become zero carbon housing
This is the sort of pointless salty flame war that would seem better suited to Reddit or Twitter
> People in the north want the adventure life, they want to take risks and they want to live. They don't want to live in a cage and have their water changed three times a day.

Doing okay til here, sport.

"You're insulting everyone in the north." And then proceeding to insult everyone else, all us cage dwellers. Perhaps don't throw insults at people you're telling not to insult you.
Great extension!
Found it: https://youtu.be/RAlI0pbMQiM

Hopefully I didn’t misremember it ><
I also want to hang out with humans, too. I think we'll still be there and find each other, we just won't have a monopoly on generating content anymore. The ways we identify/find human company might change. Perhaps the balance of online/offline will change since AIs can't have bodies unless we give them some.

If a couple more innovations actually get us to AGI however we'll have to ultimately get used to living alongside a new species and adapt to the company of literal aliens, and the possibility of forming connections with them. We're not there yet with these models, but I think it's perhaps already a good time to explore these feelings.

Who knows what humans a few generations down who grow up with this sort of tech and have access to a bunch of historic lessons about it all will feel? Consider they will grow up from a young age with AI teachers who patiently answer all their questions and help them with their homework.

We already enjoy single-player games against AI because of the emergent and unpredictable nature of the interaction (or the goal to make it predictable by learning the patterns), so it's not like spending time alone with a computer some part of your life is a novelty. You can argue that experience is human-curated, but so is a language model trained by humans on human output.

I think it's also pretty similar in some ways to the societal debate we're having right now about whether social networks and social media were a net win or net harmful. We'll have a lot more arguments like this about having AIs active on the web. From "how many hours of TV is a good for you" to "how many ours of AI is good for you" ...

> I believe the day that we consciously choose to supplant human connection with AI-generated input is the day that we no longer care about the existence of our kind.

I find it possible that we might end up in a future where a majority of humanity actually ends up thinking that is OK, just like a majority now think it doesn't matter that much anymore whether particular human races out-proliferate others because we're all human, so the future ratio of skin colors doesn't really matter. I.e. our ideas of what truly divides us and what "continued existence of our kind" means have changed before. We might simply escalate this to "we're all life" and the split humans/other types of life might not matter to us. Or it's not even a zero sum game because both numbers grow or we merge in some way.

After all, if we manage to build AGIs, they will be our children.

Edit: For comparison: https://i.imgur.com/DJ8VXOr.png (and some fun: https://i.imgur.com/2vrLuOo.png)
Well, for some time, the biggest titles in the industry had openly available multiplayer servers (Quake, UT, basically everything on QuakeSpy/GameSpy). I ran a Quake 3 server on my VPS for years on end (I forgot it was even running at one point) for a grand total of $15/year. Effectively zero maintenance and it was set up during a single afternoon of config. Friends and I played on it and it just.. worked...

Eventually "players actually getting to do what they want with the software they paid for" somehow became a thing of the past, though I don't really know why. I mean, I can think of reasons, but most of those reasons suck.
How are you all getting around the response length limits?

I've been experimenting with using ChatGPT to generate source code, and the code listings keep getting cut off. My attempts to get it to paginate its responses have not really worked (it seems to understand that I'm asking for the file to be broken across several messages, but suggestions like "limit each message to 50 lines of code" aren't heeded).
It is. Well spotted!
Fair enough, you're right I'm in an Enterprise type organization with dedicated IT. Teams starts up logged in when I boot up my laptop (I sign into it on my phone via my work email address). It "just works" for me but IT has probably done a lot of black magic in the background to make it happen.

Azure ML studio which is another Microsoft product I use on rare occasions I have issues with there is some type of 2FA setting my org has enabled and usually takes multiple attempts (text messages) before it authorizes me. I frequently have to reauthenticate during the day which also annoys me.
Mammoth Problem with Extinction Timeline
"Paleontologists say environmental DNA is not always helpful in identifying when animals like mammoths went extinct because genetic material found in sediment could have come from animals that died thousands of years earlier."
I suppose the difference here is that the content will look different unique enough to fool these tools. Bots copy and paste stuff all the time, but now it seems it would be easier to fake an a surge of unique human responses.
I was a 12 year old bbs sysop. Was it really that weird?

I guess it's cool people care about it now. If I told someone when it was happening, they wouldn't have cared at all, or knew what it meant.
Yeah.. you can do a chargeback or take them to small claims court, but then you'll be blacklisted as a customer for life. There needs to be a better process
Tesla Semi, a Deep Dive
Smart people have a high tolerance for bullsh*t? Seems legit..
Yeah, I'll send $250 to the Red Cross if that statement doesn't turn out to be false.

What does it take to get folks to do their own research. How about you go watch the clip of the Sheriff saying they cleared her after talking to and praying with her and then get back to me.

Thats not an investigation.

Btw Ill bump that donation to $500, Alex: https://twitter.com/JimLaPorta/status/1599527421405171712
Consider that your perspective on the man is hopelessly warped by the media frenzy surrounding him. Sadly, you are a victim of it just as much as he is.
I think this blog post would be helpful reading: https://charity.wtf/2019/01/04/engineering-management-the-pe...
Tell me a funny joke with a dark twist at the end

---

Q: What did the barman say to the depressed clown?

A: Why so glum, chum?

Dark Twist: The clown hung himself behind the bar.

---

Hey, that really is pretty funny!
I for one appreciated this warning. The first thing I thought when I saw the header was "I wonder if this is a right wing think tank". So I am happy to have that question answered.
Not chatGPT, but the openAI code playground will continue a functionn if given another turn.
Calculus by M.Spivak. Buy a notebook and start solving it's problems. By the time you finish with most of the book you will be a Math god.
> If that were true, then why was Chevron allowed the Venezuela license.

This is an utterly strange way to respond to my assertions.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=m...

USA was making 13-million barrels of oil _PER DAY_ in 2020. Today in 2022, we're only making 12-million barrels of oil.

"If it were true" ?? It is true. Its now your job to explain how your world view fits the data, not my job. As far as I can tell, your worldview is bunk with just the simple statistics associated with the USA's crude oil production.

> The negative 40 a barrel you refer to was caused by several events, one of which was market manipulation by a hedgefund illegally, and then other failures/fraud found on the part of the same ETF (USO) by the SEC.

No. The negative $40 barrel was fixed by the US Oil industry dropping from 13-million barrels of oil a day to 10-million barrels of oil a day. Look at the stats. Its pretty simple. Demand dropped like a cliff, and supply was forced to drop once our storage filled up.

Entire oil fields were resealed with concrete. Those US-based oil companies lost a LOT of money over the COVID19 slowdown. Now yes, it will take some time for those fields to open up again, and furthermore, those oil companies are still scared about that last drop. Opening up more room in the strategic oil reserve will do them the favors they need to encourage more oil production (and as you can see: domestic oil production is skyrocketing again under these policies).
Manufacturing orders from China down 40% in unrelenting demand collapse