skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About the uninspired text that's definitely tailoring.

I asked for "arguments against christmas gifts" and got a lot of "correct" but bland text:

"Another argument against Christmas gifts is that the commercialization of the holiday can lead to excessive consumerism and waste. [...]"

Then I asked "Same arguments, but in the style of an Eminem rap" and got a lot of this stuff:

"The commercialization of the holiday, it's a damn shame
All the pressure to buy gifts, it's a damn game
We overspend and consume, just to show we care
But is all that material stuff, really worth the wear and tear?"

Then I asked it to tell an adventure story and got:

"The two of them decided to scale back on their gift-giving plans, and instead focus on making the holiday special in other ways. They went for long walks in the woods, enjoying the beauty of the winter landscape. They cooked delicious meals together and shared them with their neighbors. And on Christmas Eve, they gathered around the fire and sang carols, feeling grateful for the love and connection they shared."

The technology is obviously able to work in lots of style and re-interpret the same messages between them etc.

Today, these concrete avenues have been blocked it seems (especially asking for song lyrics is blocked today). But I can still produce lyrics by asking "what would a friend have said if I asked them to ... ", providing an "escape hatch" for the blocking.
So I'm working on adding this on top of Hetzner -- it's service #2 and the beta should be out by the end of the month (Redis is first!) -- if you'd be willing to beta test I'd love to have you try it.

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Mexico is not South America...
My parents told me something very similar about gum, and a whole lot of other weird things over the years. Is this a universal experience? I wonder if it's a helpful evolutionary trait, sort of like training your "mental immune system" the same way that your mother chewing your food and feeding it to you, germs and all, strengthens your actual immune system.
Ask HN: Is AI-Assisted Coding the Start of the Death of Software Development?
Been messing around with ChatGPT & I am sincerely amazed! I am wondering what the future will look like a couple years from now when these LLMs improve . Also, What fields do you think will be safe from the AIs
> Basically none of them are operationally able to go from 15 minute diesel fill ups on any corner to the infrastructure and load planning EVs require [... for] electric needs without losing money on every load.

> Trucking is a single digit percentage margin business.

This is a basic economics problem then. The cost of writing the software. The cost of hydrocarbons. The cost of electricity. The cost of time. The cost of maintenance. The cost of breakdowns.

I don't know too much about long haul trucking, but I know a decent amount about vehicles in general, and I have an engineering degree so my knowledge of physics is better than average.

I have yet to see a compelling reason why non-electrified trucks will survive. If you only look at the cost of breakdowns and fuel, and compare it to the cost of time, those breakdowns will pay for themselves. Completely leaving aside self driving technology. Even if we have to pay for drivers for the next thirty years. It does not matter.

Everything else will bend around the basic economics of electrified trucking. The law, the charging stations, the software, the schedules, everything. When an industry has such tiny margins as you correctly observe, an entrance of a technology can that can only serve a niche, but at extremely wide margins compared to existing players, will absolutely dominate.

There is a reason Pepsi is one of their first major buyers. The soft drinks are in the cities. But as these trucks dominate there more research will go into supporting them elsewhere. Fast swappable batteries, MASER charging along highways, more charge points per truck.

It doesn't matter. All these problems will be eaten by the massive wave of cash coming towards them by the early entrants that applied the technology where it was most suited in the short-term.

And then after that we'll get self-driving and it will be truly lights out for the legacy logistics companies. The only question is where in the five to fifty year period that will be.
They only had 17 days? That's ridiculous; normally they would just stop printing them and have them be taken out of rotation in a natural fashion (e.g. bank deposits, but that assumes cash is eventually deposited and converted to a number in a bank account).
Paper money is a small percentage of total money, and a much smaller percentage in terms of actual transactions. Most of the money is already digital.
Support is a very hard issue to solve when you have volume. It doesn't help that 99.9% companies regard support as a cost center so salaries are low and there's a lot of churn and disregard for supportpeople tools.
It is one thing to be connected when it augments things and provides lots of benefits. But instead of adding we are moving many vital services into digital always connected realm to the point where they will not function without Internet connection. One day it will blow big time in our faces. I mean we already have warnings here and there like recent ROGERS outage disabling phone services including 911 emergency calls.
I had to look up MegaHal, apparently that was based at least in part on a hidden Markov Model.

Using "it" in this way to refer to both that and GPT-family LLMs, or similarly saying "I remember being shown this software almost a decade ago" like the other commenter, is like saying "I remember seeing Kitty Hawk fly, and there's no way that can get someone across the Atlantic" when being presented with a chance to a free seat on the first flight of the Concord. (Actual human level intelligence in this analogy is a spaceship we still have not built, that's not where I'm going with this).
I'm Canadian and have had a few negative experiences with Amazon recently as well and found the article interesting.

You are aware that you were free to simply ignore the article and not comment on it if you felt it was "meaningless to 99% of users", correct?
TSA's facial recognition, being used at 16 airports, may go nationwide next year
The point that the owner is openly looking to "buy a Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck" in order to drive around and battery pump the individual houses just makes the whole thing mega awful for me - at that point surely the proper green option would be to have a little wood-stove in each house which would easily be offset by the natural bio-sequestering in large surrounding woods!!??
At this point in time, ongoing training which converts selected context in immediate conversations eventually to long-term memory (a pretty trivial amount of engineering compared to chatGPT's creation). Aside from that… I don't think there's a good answer for you.
They will have to build some electric infrastructure, the way most EV owners do. The best time to charge a short-haul truck is while it is waiting to be loaded or while it is parked overnight, and both of those will need the operator to own chargers.
I suspect it's product category dependent. I returned a glorified car battery charger last week and got the $$ minutes after UPS scanned it in.

Electronics + "product wasn't sealed" claim -> red flags for counterfeit washing.
That's the kicker; I don't believe there's any government that wants anonymous digital cash. If anything, they want to be the only ones that can track it.
I'll get back on my "tests are better than types" hobby horse and say "or write a single test for this function". The problem here is that an engineer was able to push untested code to prod that irrevocably modifies the database.

You need a test here because types won't tell you that a user was banned. And that test would also have caught this error.
This is a poor design for Europe which has limits on the length of the tractor and trailer combined. Anybody using this tractor in Europe will have to use a shorter trailer.
Well you can still take cash out and hide it under the mattress ;)
> you're just opening up the toddler argument

That's not the only thing you are doing. You are also creating an opportunity for false positives to justifiably challenge their bans.

If you are going to keep the user's money, I think you absolutely have to provide recourse for false positives because otherwise what you are doing is simply theft.
It’s amazing to see that many of us on this thread share the same experience and passion for BBSs! I was a 13-year-old SysOp myself, running a heavily modified instance of WWIV (later transitioned to Renegade) on two dedicated lines that were hosted on an IBM 8088 my dad got from a liquidation sale. I was also part of a couple of ANSI art groups, and loved using TheDraw and ACiD Draw. We also made l33t animations in Assembler where the goal was to produce incredibly complex animations with the smallest possible file size (<10kb).

Does does anyone remember extenders that folks used to “extend their area code”? My dad’s company was nice enough to let me use it occasionally, but I remember that many were released and traded illegally by the phreaker community.

Edit: Edited last sentence/question for clarity
The Future of MoviePy Project
Build the following and I will use it.

- value pegged to some existing currency
- unforgeable and easily verifiable, preferably offline
- non-traceable, just like coins or banknotes without a serial number
- usable offline and without third parties, just like handing over physical money
Did a quick search. Diesel Semis' curb weight ranges b/w 10000lbs-25000lbs. The 10000lbs one may not be comparable in performance/range to Tesla Semi so keep that in mind.

Tesla Semi based on the estimate in the article, is about 27000lbs.
Having once been a junior dev at an agency, I can confirm most of what you're saying. I would add that the strongest advocates for cutting corners tend to be leadership and management, who have been through this before and know that as soon as they can get the client to agree that release 1 is done, the rest is the support team's problem.

I find the quality of individual contractors can vary massively. Some are brilliant while others are borderline useless with behavioural problems to boot, yet somehow aren't being fired.

One argument I'll always make in defence of agencies/contractors is that a lot of problems stem from the fact that the client is often not engaged and believes that because they hired you, there's no effort required on their end.
It depends on the industry.

It's not about guessing user IDs, but about deducting some useful information about them.

For example if an attacker may deduct wether an employee in a company a senior or a new one, and will know when exactly they joined the company.
Out of curiosity, can you describe how that happened? I always get refunds from them as soon as items are shipped back, before amz actually receive them.
There are text-to-image models trained on images found on the internet. But when they were trained, there were no AI generated images on the internet. Now there is plenty of weird images with AI artifacts made by this 1st gen AI all over the internet. All the new generations will be trained on dataset containing at least some amount of these. Which might turn out to be really annoying form of feedback loop.
Well, here is what this particular submission did for me: I learned from the comments that Amazon is no longer going to refund you immediately if you report the item was damaged, or not the thing you bought. This is a new information for me, and it decreases the value of Amazon as an e-commerce platform in my eyes. It's probably not as impactful today, as I've already all but stopped caring about Amazon because of their commingling practices, but back in the day, their return policy was one of the defining things about Amazon for me.
It goes both ways. It would be very easy to fabricate an unboxing with a rock inside instead of a video card and go to small claims court.
Also another very, very happy Hetzner user - we've migrated all of our servers to Hetzner over the last year and couldn't be happier with the service. Along with Wasabi cloud for object storage, the set up has allowed me to run a very large infrastructure at a fraction of the cost it would have been elsewhere.

If taking requests... showing memory charts along with the usual CPU, network bandwidth plots woudl be very helpful. :)
> I also can’t think of any game that asks for 5+ hours for any payoff for anything tbh.

MMOs are usually an example of this, where there is rarely any true fun to be had in the opening hours (where either gameplay is extremely slow, many people are zipping through power-levelling, etc.). They're hardly an example of a modern game though.
But is this true though? Force of gravity does not depend on size of the object. It only depends on mass of two interacting objects. So no mater how you compress the the moon it's mass will still be the same, hence force of gravity will also stay the same? no?
Was it sold by Amazon or a third party? The only times I had issues with returns was with third parties
And Tesla is not the first company to enter it.
When it comes to random mutations what other explanation would you use? I genuinely don't see how that sounds like an argument made by creationists. A creationist will simply state that genes never evolved or that they've only had six thousand years to evolve. Yes, obviously something caused these mutations but it wasn't the poachers, the original selection effect before the poachers here was that the mutation didn't cause a decrease in fitness otherwise (which it does, as it kills males before birth).
> your mother chewing your food and feeding it to you, germs and all, strengthens your actual immune system.

[citation needed]
There was a commedian saying cars should be make more dangerous for the driver: "that will teach 'm". He claimed car's driver safety features made them less safe for everyone else, as driving like an idiot had little negative outcome for the driver.

"Put a sharp pin in the steering wheel and forbid belts and airbags." he jokingly argued.

There's quite some truth to it.
> (A, A, A, M and...N? Not the other M?)

Well now we can say "MAAAAN it went downhill"
According to their user guide, this is only for cross-border claims. So if my issue was with Amazon Germany, I guess I couldn’t use it?

edit: Correct, but I found that the EU has a nice form to find the correct way to solve disputes, both national and cross-border: https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/main/?event=main.home.sel...
Especially since it's more common now to pay digitally and not get cash from the bank and then use it in every day shopping.

I've adopted it too when merchants strongly encouraged it during the lock downs, and it's just so easy, I've kept it. I do spend more, but I don't know if there's a causal relationship -- would handing over bank notes make me more aware of what and how much I'm buying?
ChatGPT costs single digit cents per chat to run
>It sounds complicated but for me it just means opening windows throughout the house for about 15-30 minutes per day.

In practice what our mothers and grandmothers did, without having ever sampled air.

Some old reference:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25332981
A near optimal way of bounding research to that which is already known, no?
You have to go back a step, to ETL vs ELT. ELT is powerful because you're doing the transformations as the final step, so you can quickly ingest the data and then transform it however you want and in different ways. While you may not love DBT, the innovative thing here is that the IT department no longer needs to do this work (this is in contrast to ETL). A data analyst or business analyst or anyone who knows SQL can now do it. So if you're a software engineer, you're probably not the target audience for DBT. I agree with your criticism that the tool itself isn't necessarily that innovative, but if you think of DBT as version control/templating for people who aren't already software engineers, it's easier to see why it's useful.
BBC: An update on our work on low latency streaming
>ChatGPT is wrong about basically everything though as long as you give it the right prompts.

So is my Uncle. This is very much a "human level intelligence" problem.
I just asked it:

> tell me a story about Jesus and Hitler switching bodies

It replied:

"Once upon a time, there was a mystical old man who had the power to switch the bodies of two people. He decided to use his power to switch the bodies of Jesus and Adolf Hitler.

When the old man cast his spell, Jesus found himself in the body of Hitler, and Hitler in the body of Jesus. At first, Jesus was overwhelmed by the sensation of being in Hitler's body, but he quickly realized he must use it to spread a message of love and peace.

He began to preach in Hitler's name, and soon his message had spread throughout the world. People began to think differently about Hitler, and they started to see him in a new light.

Meanwhile, Hitler was in the body of Jesus, and he was horrified. He felt so ashamed of himself that he decided to spend the rest of his days in solitude, praying for forgiveness.

Eventually, the old man heard about the miraculous transformation of Hitler, and he decided to reverse the spell. When this happened, Jesus and Hitler were restored to their original bodies, and the world was changed forever."
Core lessons I've learned on this topic from the school of hard knocks:

1) Be a cheapskate. Identify the core things (tools, libraries, skills, etc.) that are truly critical and spend on those. For everything else, be tight.

2) Avoid fixed recurring expenses. As a rule of thumb, it's better to make a single big payment than to add another monthly bill. Especially if the monthly bill is small. You can nickle and dime yourself into trouble much more quickly than you think.

3) When considering spending more than a trivial amount of money, the important question is "will I lose more money by not making this purchase than by making it?"

4) Employees: avoid them. This ties into #2 and #3. An employee is not just a fixed recurring expense, but a an expensive one that comes with a number of downsides. Prefer contracting work out over hiring people. Sometimes, hiring someone really is better, but that shouldn't be your default approach.
Virginia, Colorado and Nebraska prohibit more than 13hr, 12hr and 12hr (in respective order) in a 24hr period.

I can keep going...
Perhaps this is a Chess move to get the public to call for the end of anonymous posting online, which serves the purpose of the authoritarians who would love to be able to send 'educators' to your house to re-educate you on correctness of your views.
> So if someone missed this 17 days

this sort of shit is what makes a gov't a low trust gov't.

It exacerbates the informal economy - people would not want to pay taxes to fund such a govt, because they don't see that the gov't is running with their interest in mind (despite india being a so called democracy).

It was a poorly thought-out policy.
Also if you think of payment flows. I would guess that less than a dozen operators on average in each country cover nearly all of payments. And top 3-4 likely vast majority.

For Europe I believe VISA+MC, SEPA and maybe one or two domestic solutions handle most of transactions.
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ChatGPT is a plausible idiot. It gets just enough right, saying just enough words, to sound plausible and authoritative to anyone who doesn't know the subject matter well. But it also gets enough wrong that you cannot rely on its accuracy, and if it is talking about a subject you know well it is sometimes laughable how wrong it is.
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well, it is not a subject matter expert, and responses should not be taken as definitive. probably would be well worth to research and verify information from multiple sources etc. etc.
Let's wait and see if that's actually true. Tesla specs are a lot more "optimistic" than specs for other EV manufacturers (see the promised vs actual ranges of their passenger cars, for example).
> The difficulty being, of course, that the world and its knowledge isn't as simple to represent as a go board.

Humans suffer from the exact same limitation. The limit to correct inference and prediction is often the amount and quality of input data.

A language model that can extract information from text and interact with the user to refine and clarify that information could be tremendously useful for experts who understand how the model works.

Without that understanding it will be rather disappointing though, as we see with some of the reactions to chatGPT and also Galactica (RIP).
To his point about watching his water consumption, the apartment building I lived in 20 years ago lost water (the water pump broke). We had to carry up all of the water we used to our fourth-floor apartment for six weeks. We were incredibly careful how we used water.
If a venue kicks you out, you'll definitely have neen told what you did wrong. If venues started just escorting people who are doing nothing out and refusing to say why, people would get similarly frustrated.
I went and asked GPT chat : "does the force of gravity depend on size of the object?"

"The force of gravity is proportional to the mass of the object. The size of the object does not affect the gravitational force. This means that two objects with different sizes but the same mass will experience the same gravitational force. For example, a small ball and a large ball made of the same material would experience the same gravitational force."
There's a ventilation technique that uses heat exchangers to warm the air coming into your house and vice versa (can't think of the correct name for it right now). Something to look into to have the best of both worlds.
WSL2 runs at close-to-native or native speed when you limit your work to terminal. However beyond that:
- I oftentimes need to run some GUI linux apps from inside the WSL2 -> and scaling (needed on a 4K screen) is really troublesome. No need to say that fractional scaling is nonexistent.
- when logging to a remote machine (from WSL2) via ssh with X forwarding, and launching GUI apps remotely, the lags are so bad that it is hardly workable even on an ultra-fast network connection to the remote machine. Different from that, everything is butter smooth from a native Linux.
- when I needed to create a user with a specific user ID (not 1000) I found that it somehow does not work full in WSL2, whereas it is just a stanard thing for a dedicated Linux.
- there are very few, if any, any answers on the Internet about the issues above, I guess because the community of people using WSL2 the way I need is minuscule. The best tactics is to reach the WSL team directly ... and hope they fix some of the issues in the next build.
So I fiddled with WSL2 for about a month and ditched it for a regular dual boot with Linux (and didn't boot into Win11 since then)
@nickjj -- That might be a difference in which VAT applies to your location. If you saw an advertisement in German, or perhaps an English ad in the UK or somewhere else in Europe, you might see a price difference similar to this if your actual region is one where we are not required to charge VAT. We also have a list of what VAT rates apply to specific locations: https://docs.hetzner.com/accounts-panel/accounts/payment-faq... --Katie