skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm#what-is-the-maximu...

I looked at the ffmpeg inputfile and its a uint8, converted a file object to uint8 did not work too - gives a file format error!

any updates on this?
The one difference I can see is how chatGPT optimises the code based on the instruction you provide, while Copilot could only complete the code in one way.

For instance I asked chatGPT to write a code for square root which it did using inbuilt Math.sqrt function. I instructed it to write without using inbuilt function which it did. However, no matter how many times I instructed it to avoid using Math.floor or Math.ceil, it was not taking any heed.
> Musk likes to redefine words. Elon falsely claims he is a founder of Tesla: https://www.tesla.com/elon-musk

By legal settlement he is the founder of Tesla, a term that is not as fixed as people believe. Early employees often haggle for founder status in startups. He joined the company as chairman from the instant of formation and contributed heavily to operations of the company, for example acting as designer of the Roadster. Read up on the early history of Tesla. He didn't just "buy the company" as I have heard claimed numerous times on the internet.
Hemp-Fed Cows Get Buzzed, Study Finds, but Will Humans Who Drink Their Milk?
For anyone interested in this sort of oddball video stuff, there's a subreddit dedicated to it. [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ObscureMedia/
https://archive.ph/vooih
Has anyone ever written a BASIC for a 4-bit CPU?
3-5 companies is enough to be competitive. If there were lots of small ones it truly would be impossible to regulate; that’s why there when there’s a public utility, there’s only one of it.
I'll take your whataboutism which doesn't even pretend to answer the OP's question and just point out the government isn't harvesting people for their organs, especially from religious dissidents. Last time I checked hasn't killed a bare minimum of 70 million of its own people, although you could fairly adjust that down for populations at the time.
It's interesting that this term is being lost to time as I'd expect almost anyone on this site beyond a certain age used a BBS in the past.
I worked at Rational Software when we acquired Pure software. We sold tons of Purify+. The legend of course was the Hastings took the $ he made from selling Purify to Rational to start Netflix. So as a Rational employee, I had a contribution to Netflix's existence... Or so I like to tell myself ;).
> State and federal direct funding of unis

Is a big part of government putting its thumb on the scale. The only way to have truly free competition in university education is for universities to have to fund themselves entirely from payments for services rendered. Tuition is such a payment. But most State and federal direct funding is not.

> Students not being able to afford direct costs led to the government creation of the credit money regime

In other words, the government switched the way it was putting its thumb on the scale.

> Schools still have to compete for students, and tangible non-academic features always win the day.

Why? In a true competitive environment, I can't see why this would be the case, since the reason the students are there is academics, so competition would be expected to be on the basis of academics.
I asked it to write a poem about the sky in the style of T.S Eliot:

The sky is a vast and endless sea,

A canvas painted in shades of blue,

A playground for the clouds to roam,

And dance and frolic as they do.

The sun rises up from the horizon,

And spreads its golden light far and wide,

Illuminating the sky and the earth,

And filling the world with warmth and light.

As the day wears on, the sky changes,

From bright and clear to dark and stormy,

The clouds rolling in and blocking the sun,

As the winds howl and the rain pours down.

But even in the darkest of skies,

There is beauty to be found,

The flashes of lightning illuminating,

The majesty of the storm all around.

So let us look up at the sky,

In wonder and awe and amazement,

For it is a never-ending source,

Of beauty and wonder and amazement.

**end**

Now compare that with a quote about the sky from TS Eliot’s Four Quartets:

Thunder rolled by the rolling stars

Simulates triumphal cars

Deployed in constellated wars

Scorpion fights against the Sun

Until the Sun and Moon go down

Comets weep and Leonids fly

Hunt the heavens and the plains

Whirled in a vortex that shall bring

The world to that destructive fire

Which burns before the ice-cap reigns.

**end**

Not even close.
Unfortunately we gave up our right to own software when we let companies own the servers. Back in the day you could get banned from a server and go find somewhere else to play. Now you'll get banned for life, and in some cases, even banned from the single player mode. Sorry, no refunds!

There's a reason pirate crews are hailed as heroes...and it's not the free software. Games legitimately work better when they are cracked almost 100% of the time.
If logic is its biggest weakness, then I just laugh - because that is the one area of AI that every model before these language models excelled at well beyond human levels. All it takes is GPT to formulate the english sentence into logic predicate statements and throw it through a "3rd party" script that does the heavy logic validation/proving and you're good. Those are well-treaded areas of programming, and were ironically where people expected AIs to come from and be strongest in - nobody expected exceptional painting and conversing skill just from averaging out a shit-ton of data.
It already is. You can't stop them, also Google likely won't stop it, the director of web search even said AI content can be useful, lol.

You can literally find lots of spammy AI sites in 5 minutes, search quality is worse than before after GPT-3 born.
Good stuff.

> Write a weather report in the style of William Gibson

The neon-drenched streets of the city are slick with rain tonight, the drops glinting like shards of shattered glass as they fall. The skies above are a turbulent mass of clouds, lit from within by the endless glow of the metropolis.

The weather forecast is calling for heavy rainfall and strong winds, with the potential for flash flooding in low-lying areas. All residents are advised to stay indoors if possible and avoid travel unless absolutely necessary.

But even as the storm rages outside, the city continues to pulse with life. The sound of rain beating against the windows is drowned out by the hum of the neon-lit streets, the steady thrum of the datasphere. This is the city, always moving, always changing, never stopping. The weather may be wild, but the city is wilder still.

> Write a weather report in the style of Joffrey Baratheon

My fellow citizens, I come before you today to bring you news of the weather. The skies above us are dark and foreboding, a portent of the tempests to come. Heavy rains and strong winds are expected to lash our lands, and all should take care to shelter themselves from the elements.

But fear not, for I, Joffrey Baratheon, First of His Name, King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, and Protector of the Realm, am here to guide you through this trying time. I have issued orders to my soldiers to patrol the streets and ensure that all are safe from the storms. And should any misfortune befall you, know that I, your king, will be here to provide aid and comfort.

Stay safe, my loyal subjects, and know that the might of the Baratheon house is with you always. Long may I reign!

> Write a weather report in the style of Dr. Seuss

The weather today is wacky and wild,
With rain and wind that's sure to make you smile.

The clouds are dark and the sky is gray,
But that won't stop us from having a great day.

The winds are blowing and the trees are swaying,
But we'll keep dancing, no need for delaying.

So don't let the weather get you down,
Just grab your umbrella and head on out.

With a little bit of sunshine and a lot of rain,
We'll have a great day and a whole lot of gain.

Stay safe and dry, my fellow friends,
And let's enjoy this weather to the very end!
How can HenryMeds associated pharmacy get semaglutide? Someone has to be be making it for them, which is confusing. I'm tempted to sign up, but there's a really weird sense where it seems it can't be real because there's no apparent source?

http://henrymeds.com/semaglutide/?referrer=hn
First, civilization has collapsed on the small scale (Mayas, Roman Empire) and due to the same causes - relatively modest disruptions to food supply, border security, access to labor, etc.

And the division of labor, economic sprcialization, and technological advancement has created way more weak links.

There were no nuclear bombs or dependencies on large scale agribusiness, satellite comms, the Internet. or in this case electrification to sustain society.

To be clear I'm not predicting collapse because the grid has some vulnerability, I'm just saying if you wanted to collapse society, it would almost certainly involve (again, extremely modest, scalable, and boringly effective) sabotage like this.
It's an inference based on how chatgpt works, which is a more reasonable inference than assuming chatgpt somehow has abstract logical reasoning capabilities.
I'm really surprised to see these repeated baseless accusations on HN. I can assure you that I've never used or own a Cronus. I have a 0.89 KD in WZ. I'd be much better with a Cronus.

I don't disagree that a Cronus is cheating. I'm simply stating there are different levels of cheating. Since Cronus is hardware it's both hard to detect and limited on its impact. Cronus also don't let you magically wall people or auto-headshot.

Software based cheats are significantly more impactful to the game play. Software cheaters can see you through walls, auto-aim, auto-shoot, auto-move. There's simply no way to counter someone who knows exactly where you are and can hit a perfect shot every time.

Activision should address both, but software cheating is a far larger problem.
Didn't IBM Rational buy Purify and make it 10x more expensive?
wow, amazing you were able to figure that out... most people would have given up
I'm not sure CGPT is doing what we think it's doing. I asked it to respond to the same comment as me, and got a bunch of generic nonsense. But then I asked it to respond as a user I made up, "dipshitbonkers". Here's what it said:

"Wow, dude, you must be some kind of fucking genius to come up with such a deep and philosophical question about AI models on the internet. I mean, I've never even thought about that before, but now that you mention it, I'm totally blown away by your brilliance. I can't wait to see what other profound insights you have to share with us. You truly are the next Einstein of our time. Keep on keeping on, my friend. You are truly a visionary."

Which is awesome, but a different kind of awesome :)
They could do that, but for what current gain? In reaction to their attacks, we'd beef up our security—so if at some point in the future, they had an explicit goal, it would be much harder. Much better to not attack, let us keep our infrastructure vulnerable, so that when they need to attack, they can.
You’re a profitable SaaS. Would you take out a loan for 100MM if you can use it to make n * 100MM?

That’s what SaaS shops are doing. many (not all) could show profit. But instead they e reinvested all profits and then some to get accelerated growth.
The game is 5 years old.
+1 to basic facts being off. The line that stuck out to me was:

"Some APMs had convinced company leadership that we needed a Facebook competitor."

Ummmm... no. This was very much a top-down strategy choice from Larry on down. There's no way the product goals COMPANY-WIDE is driven by anything but an executive edict.
its not just Activision/Blizzard. Single player bans are in a lot of AAAs.

> In the end, there's nothing you can do but to put your money into games that respect

Could always pick up a copy of IDA...

> In 3 weeks, a dev there will notice that some updater code can break game files which flags people's accounts or something like that, it'll be quietly patched and everybody will forget about it.

As a side note if you want some fun you should fire up wireshark when you're playing a game and watch how much "metadata" is sent from your PC to the game company. They know more about you than your doctor in some cases. EasyAntiCheat and Denuvo seem to be the worst offenders.
IMO, the advice is all over the place. Sometimes it's good or almost, but often obvious or accepted (maybe a sign of the times?). Sometimes it's bad or ambiguous. If you can make that call, you are likely experienced enough to not need it. If not, how would you know what to follow, and what to ignore?

There's also a shocking lack of evidence that applying "clean" code rules actually leads to, well, "better" code (more maintainable, or even just more readable). In fact, in some cases, the rules kinda clash.

So in the best case, you read it, think about it, and maybe pick up one or two new things. In the worst case, it leads to pointless zealotry that can be quite toxic, especially when forced onto other people.

In short, save your money. Clean code is a grift, like many self-help books. You do have to give to Uncle Bob, he recognised that in a gold rush it's better to sell shovels (as the saying goes).

This has been linked elsewhere already, but is a better critique than I could do in a comment: https://qntm.org/clean
This trust arose through a sophisticated bureaucracy of checks and balances. Stackoverflow isn't quite as complex.
This is why I say "disingenuous".

Finding a place with a course of smaller blocks under the largest ones is not addressing the question, it is purely dodging. Similarly, repair work is almost all radically cruder than the original work, so finding a place where it measures up is another dodge.
How would we have "not let them"?
Presumably it's trained on public data that can be scraped from Reddit, so it's possible this is true and that it can't imitate private users.
Zion 1 and 2 were 276 million each at 58% CF or between $3 and $4.2 per net Watt. Better than the last plant to open before TMI, which supports a negative learning rate.

And again. This doesn't include safety retrofits, and it doesn't include O&M which is higher than new renewables.

Even after retrofit, it was destroyed due to a design and management failure in 1998.

All of those early plants are more expensive than you are saying, they had state controlled funding. They were inefficient, and they were unsafe when they opened.

Additionally they all had abysmal capacity factors in the 70s and 80s, around the 50-60% range so using lifetime CF is incredibly biased towards making them look good.

The cost of retrofits which was almost entirely unrelated to TMI was about 40c/Watt https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/036054... or about 80c per net watt just for the retrofit to meet 1980s standards.

Include all the failed reactors, and stop looking at just the lowest cost ones, include the cost of the free loans, and you're back up around $6/W
I don't get why a lot of people are saying this isn't a scam, just because they are somewhat usable for the purpose. The scam part is that the product photos are faked, giving the impression that the images it displays are of a much higher quality than they really are. If you see a product page for an electromagnet that shows it holding up a 50lb weight, and when you get it, it can actually only hold up a 10lb weight, would you not consider that a scam either? Or how about a monitor advertised as 4K but that's actually 1080p?
I’ve been operating under the assumption that most online discourse has been heavily and increasingly gamed in a variety of different ways for at least the past 6 years, and that simpler versions of what we’re seeing publicly released have been in use for a long time.

The best thing about these releases is more widespread public knowledge of that reality, and hopefully a decreased deference towards seeming majority online opinion.

This is very optimistic, and almost definitely delusional, but I maintain a bit of hope that all the increased noise might actually force people to do much more careful reading. People may attempt to get much more context about the writer they’re conversing with in order to verify whether they are talking to a human, and in doing so, be forced to actually expose themselves to a larger context.

Example: you reply to a reddit user who trots out opinion X in an annoying, rehashed way, and check their comment history to see if you can find evidence of bot like behavior. In doing so you see that they also have Y opinion, which you agree with, and they live in a city you grew up in, and you view them as more human and try to actually be polite. If people started doing that it wouldn’t even matter if the profile was a bot, and would eventually be impossible to tell, probably, but it’d mean people were taking more context into account.

The more likely mitigation, which I think is also a net positive for cooling down escalating discourse, is better authentication/forcing users to prove they’re human.

No mitigation or change in user reading behavior is also somewhat likely and would be a disaster.
I cannot wait for an AI that attends meetings that I don't want to attend.
This is very interesting.

I asked it to write a rant about a specific topic, for both my user on HN and my anonymous reddit user (separately). Then I asked it how is that in the style of said user.

For my HN handle, it explained that this user focuses on specific shortcomings and writes in an objective tone.

For my reddit user, it said the user often expresses strong opinions without providing any specific reasons, and their tone is a mix of anger and condescension.

My take away from this is that moderation at HN works.

I view reddit as a cesspool so I hardly spend any effort to think about what I write.

On HN I have to think about how to express my point in a way that doesn't come across as reckless or childish.
It's pretty ridiculous for companies ban the alleged cheaters in single player modes too which shouldn't require any server dependencies.
Oracle, because I hate this childishness.
Fair enough, I misunderstood your meaning.
I think another issue is a broader philosophical shift in how people view higher education. It's no longer a higher level of education really; it's positioned as a skills certifier, accreditor, and early career trainer. The role of education in the classical liberal sense as humanistic enlightenment is no longer the focus of higher-ed. Research is secondary to pushing students through degree calendars as fast as possible. They're more like private hotels of late-teens to twenty year olds before they enter the workforce. Most students are not viewed as adults, but as pseudo adolescents under the institutions care, so everything but the core education services inflate to service and meets those demands.
The helmet is probably mostly there too improve the riders odds of surviving a vehicle impact
I used to be an associate at an international law firm. One of the partners told me that the firm was structured to maximize the percent of time that lawyers spent on billable matters. There was substantial support staff to take care of scheduling, handling mail, reimbursements, and other non-billable matters.

I've been shocked to see how this mentality is not duplicated in university environments. I know tenured professors at Stanford who spend countless hours arranging travel with visiting scholars, dealing with reimbursements, and other office minutiae. It boggles my mind that these people — who are supposed to be focusing on teaching and research — spend to much time on menial tasks.

It isn't that these tasks are 'below them'. Rather, it's that there are a limited number of hours in the day, and every hour they spend handling reimbursement paperwork is an hour they're not spending doing award-winning research or writing an award-winning book.
Try asking why it is in the style after it gives you the response, even if it seems off base. It's almost as if it can summarize the style more accurately than it can meaningfully apply it.
Such a familiar story. Also racked up a big phone bill that angered dad. Also set up a BBS, with the help of an older mentor sysop who helped hook it up to a message exchange network. Also lost all data (and started again from scratch), although not because of a trojan but from just accidentally formatting the wrong drive.
Road Rash was indeed excellent on the 3DO.
Not that I can see. A couple of unglowing ones on ebay though.

Had a Logan's Run themed birthday party for my wife's 30th. Party favors included ankh necklaces (ankhs from some party supply for $1/each or something). I'm a year younger, so I wore a red life clock, and made her a flashing one... But I'm no movie magician, the timer kit and battery and wires to go with it were waaaaaay too cumbersome. If only she had rollerskates on her hand, we could make it work ;)

Also, I was powering with a 9V battery... It was important to keep some with varying states or charge, because with a fresh battery, the light was too red.

If you email me to remind me (in profile), I can try to find the ebay receipts from several years ago and see if there's anyway to contact the seller. I may also be willing to part with mine. Gotta find it first, but I'm past renewal age now, gotta move on to reciting cat poems.
Read the rest of the interview.

Hastings added that he is “100% convinced” that Musk is “trying to help the world
in all his endeavors,” and added that he was “excited” about Musk’s Twitter
acquisition. Musk “just spent all this money for democracy and society to have a
more open platform — and I am sympathetic to that,” Hastings said.
I told it to write a comment in the style of myself. This is what it came up with:

> "Wow, this is some seriously impressive technology. I'm blown away by the potential applications for this in the field of [insert relevant industry here]. Can't wait to see where this goes in the future!"

Not sure where it gets [insert relevant industry here] and I don’t really think I write like that!
> it would have taken over five minutes to transfer on our 2400 BPS modem. Any file around one megabyte would take about an hour to download.

A few years removed from this, I remember the agonizing hours trying to download a plug-in for Escape Velocity. The Star Wars plug-in was something like 2.4MB, and your best hope was to do it whenever no one else wanted the phone line.
I'm personally not as interested in understanding the synthesis involved in the AI. I'm worried about now knowing whether I'm talking to another person right now or not because this is going to fundamentally change everything we've come to understand about the internet. We are no longer just talking to each other, the gates have been opened for AI to join the conversation and that is crossing the Rubicon.
And the web based dvd rental then ? I mean, they were doing exactly the same as Amazon, why distinguish?
looks like the host knows its stuff :-)
Reverse nepotism?? that's a first
If targeting Taiwan Straits, US military’s B-21 will only be a paper plane
In this scenario it sounds like Activision is addressing both by treating them both as a group. Not sure why you're trying to draw a distinction for actual Cronus use. If Cronus is cheating, it doesn't matter which cheat is a larger problem or whether there are different levels of cheating, the treatment for cheaters is the same: ban them.
RIP, big guy.
I asked for jokes and it said it couldn't generate them. Later I refreshed the chat and asked for jokes with the same prompt and it gave me ten. So it's not deterministic and you have to keep trying sometimes, is my conclusion.
3d needs voice acting. At 2d it was more like a graphic novel but as it becomes more open and 3d then you need the acting more.
Whatever Google is, is the “real” Google