skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And the idea that the computer would “try” to come up with an example that would trick a computer is itself a little funny

There sure is some obscure discussion forum where users talked about that or some amateur writer that published online something in those lines. ChatGPT is just a statistical device selecting randomly from previous answers.
I didn't know what SSE was, so I asked ChatGPT:

> What does 'SSE' stand for in the following code sample: <pasted fetch-sse.js>

"In this code sample, 'SSE' likely stands for "Server-Sent Events". It is the name of the fetchSSE function and it is used to fetch data from a server using the Server-Sent Events protocol. This protocol allows a server to push data to a client in real-time, rather than requiring the client to continually poll the server for updates."

Not sure how accurate this is but it gave me enough information to look into it more!
That's silly. Is being able to pay rent mandatory? I guess you can always CHOOSE to be homeless, right?
>I had it generate song lyrics. They were funny but not anything that I'd actually use .

>I had it write a few stories featuring my son. We were both impressed by the stories and entertained. But none of them were very special or particularly good.

That's better than I could do as a human, though. The bar for needing (or be useful as) a real person just got a lot higher. I know an artist who does hentai commissions for living, and she's freaking out as Stable Diffusion produces good enough results, so her clients would rather deal with them being imperfect rather than pay her.

>but it won't turn juniors into seniors. It's not going to make someone who has no idea about coding into a developer.

Again, it significantly raises the bar. I'm currently mentoring a trainee, and I have to do a lot of hand-holding for them to get things right. ChatGPT can perform on that level.

>It feels like an augmentation of productivity more than a replacement.

It's both, IMO. As a senior developer, I can be a lot more productive with CoPilot spitting out boilerplate code for me, but I'd probably offload it to a junior rather than put effort into it most of the time.
Why are used cars sold without a title in the US?

In my country you need a green registration card (equivalent of the title) and a secret code from the equivalent-of-the-DMV (to prevent selling stolen cars) in order to register a vehicle in your name. Nobody would pay for a car without getting those at the time of sale, as you can't register the car, so it's effectively not yours - a sales contract means nothing if you don't get them.
can you please ban bots downvoting my comments? I just posted comment and it was downvoted within less than a minute, there is no way human would read it that fast (plus it's not even controversial, it's the one about breaker box) I'm 100% sure there are bots set up brigading against my account from what I see even my innocent comments being downvoted, I'm disappointed HN allows such brigading
Seems like an opportunity to make your truck parking & charging & shower place able to be booked ahead.
I know what I believe... Projection.

You make assumptions about others based on what you know of yourself.
I've seen devs write caches that were shared between customers because they didn't understand the lifecycle of Spring Autowired dependencies.

Understanding how the framework wires things together is important.
Well, I've worked in cryptography orchestration (not actual cryptography, but I needed to understand how it worked from a basic POV) and in reliability engineering which is very stats heavy. Both of those became limited as I got more senior. For instance, a lot of problems can be identified by bucketing them in distributions - I didn't even really know or understand the math for representing a distribution. The long tail of where I actually used that was in a program that I used to create mock data for a set of devices my company was working on that simulated real household resource usage. These same math skills also became problematic as I started to need to learn/understand better applications of algorithms and data structures. There's a lot of assumptions baked in to things like asymptotics that you won't get without a background in math as well. You can certainly memorize certain things, but that has diminishing returns imo. I think I answered the last part above, but I refresh algebra and calculus. I read a stats book, took a Discreet course on Udemy, and read a lot on DS&A. I think that covers it. Took me about 3-4 years to chew through most of what I learned in my spare time.
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The line being drawn in these cases is creative expression, i.e. courts are ruling that these are artistic statements, speech can’t be compelled, and so on.

This would never affect the ability to buy groceries or receive medical care.
Not really a dollyzoom though. Main subject is supposed to retain same size in same position, while background and foreground zooms smoothly.
This resonates. I’ve noticed my work goes in cycles. Part of a cycle is the actual implementation (where all this boilerplate work resides). I can’t wait until this mindless work is no longer a burden and I have free cycles to do more interesting things.
In my experience, it's a distinction made in suburbs, I suspect because of the influence of NIMBYs who are opposed to rental apartments existing or being built. They say it's because they're afraid it'll lower property values and attract the "wrong" kinds of people that they chose to live in suburbs to stay away from.

"Apartments" says urban sprawl, poor people and minorities, "condos" says the opposite. The first says "there goes the neighborhood" and the other implies luxury housing that raises property values.

In cities, "apartments" is generally used for rental and owned apartments.
That's not something most people want to do, might violate the Airbnb agreement, and who knows what else might go wrong when it came time to turn things back on? Maybe people just think it's a bad idea.
Somewhere in there I think is ego gone awry; why write for what you think audiences want to see? That's such a cynical corruption of art.

I suppose it's fear of your movie gross failing to exceed your production budget, and you retire as a legendary director anyways. Ah, that doesn't seem too bad. Well worth the risk. But, no.
The self driving car is a great example, you're right, it was so good and yet never lived up to the hype.

Perhaps one difference is that a human could potentially get extremely good at textual tasks with nothing but text to learn from. You can read how to solve cryptic crosswords, see examples and extrapolate. In that sense language models have a somewhat complete training dataset. Yes this requires an understanding of the material, rather than just parroting, but the signal is there if you can separate it from noise.

Driving a car requires an understanding of a much wider context which is perhaps hard to acquire with just driving data. Understanding of rain, birds on the road, shaky drivers, balls rolling out from between cars, lane restrictions... You can't just throw petabytes of data at the problem. Training data is limited and expensive, and I believe we are mostly tackling AI-assired driving with rule-based approaches.

I believe self driving works just fine in simulations where data is effectively unlimited. But then it doesn't generalise to the real world where context matters.
It's stolen property that should be returned to its owners, and we have a standard legal framework for that. Obviously it's complicated when entire generations were annihilated, and there is still litigation going on today about the provenance and fate of some works stolen in WW2.
Defence is a different beast, and not necessarily low margin neither. Airlines as well, except the margin are tighter there. Since both industries are rather well understood by investors, IPOs and general investment are not that much of a problem.

All those companies relying on VC money to grow by selling dollars for dimes, in hopes of dumping the whole thing on retail investors through an IPO, well, those are in a lot of trouble now. As are those in need of a lot of capital to develop products, e.g. expensive hardware, that don't have a clear path to releasing a product to the market so far.
https://archive.ph/nUeOi
So you just eat stew constantly all the time and that means junkfood isn't cheaper? I have to imagine it only lasts 2-3 days because you're just having a bowl each or something. If you and her ate just that, you'd still be spending $120/month on just stew and probably undereating by a good amount, and also regretting full commitment to stew.

You may still be right but it's a narrow example that sort of entirely depends on the season and region. What's cheaper? Canned stew. 3 days on canned stew and in the U.S it's probably less and way faster. Add in $3 worth of fried chicken from Walmart and that's a day's worth of food, and a fuck ton of salt.

I don't think it's really an argument that holds up, but I would agree that it's a way better use of money to get good stuff if you can afford it and spend the time making it. I'm not where you are but a small bag (5lb) of potatoes at Safeway costs $6, add in something like 5 apples and you're already at $15. Bag of frozen fruit, another $6. It adds up quickly and goes away even quicker.
Apparently it is possible to make WebAuthn phishable:

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/62175.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33810984
https://archive.ph/sU0Q1
I am one of the persons who worked on Aerotime Rewind. Though I already anticipated what would my year would look like, I was still a little surprised with my wordcloud. There were topics I had forgotten I worked on and them being there in the wordcloud gave me a little nostalgic feeling.

I also tried comparing my meeting DNA with Github contribution graph on Linkedin and counterintuitively they had positive correlation. One of the conclusions I drew out of that comparison was the fact that constant back and forths with my team kept my motivations up and since these meetings were always stacked together (which is what Aerotime is designed to do), they didnot hamper my deep work. Pretty amazing to see my deep work graph too.
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It amuses me to think the reason Trump is not in the training data, is because his blarglerhea would effectively “poison the well.” ChatGPT is intended to simulate informed, interesting conversation.
I have no chance of solving these. I am human, but english is not my first language. (Yet I speak at level C1 or better).
The faulty reasoning is where the AI nonsense shows, though.
Everyone needs a place to live. Somewhere in the zone of 30% of people in the US over the age of 16 don't have a driver's license. The percentage that use that license regularly is going to be much much lower.
For other readers:

Elixir has a special syntax for what is early return, namely guard statements.
I hear topics of analysis of distribution of galaxies from time to time and always wonder how we can actually measure this distribution in any sensible way? What I mean is: Information reaches us at max the speed of light. Information about galaxies from millions of light years afar contribute to the distribution model. Thus the model incorporates spatial distributions of objects (=galaxies) which are certainly no longer true as of now.

Put differently: When we assume the big bang and assume further as a thought experiment that mass expands equally, the model would requires to account for information from early objects, where mass distribution was different. Otherwise the conclusion would be drawn that mass is unevenly distributed.
Just retry it. I got the same error earlier today, but I just fed it the prompt again and it eventually worked. It’s definitely non-deterministic. If it keeps failing you can try resetting the session as well and tweaking the prompt. It’s weird what will sometimes get it to bypass its safety restrictions.
In France, there's Vigik badges, which seem to have all the advantages of app-based locks without the defects (mainly: relying on an active device and being dependent on external network and infrastructure).

Can someone here compare both systems?
If your end goal is to work with electronics, then pick a project and learn by practicing instead.

That’s how I managed to create the product in my profile in 2 years from no knowledge.
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ChatGPT is a doctor's secretary, isn't it? It knows the answers to things like what prescription to get for some illness, but doesn't have the models to actually be a doctor.

Which will come...
This reminds me a few years ago on a family holiday to malaysia I was sharing the room with my 10 year old cousin. I go downstairs to smoke suddenly his father calls me and tells me that my cousin called him crying in pitch black room as the lights went off. As he was lying on the bed reading a book motion censors did not detect any movement and the power cut off. Luckily he had his phone with him otherwise he would have been scarred for life. Why the fuck would they use motion censor for the light I would understand if they use it for the aircon or something but even then with the key card in the slot why would they set it like that.
Having worked with it extensively, how would you say the performance of SheepShaver compiled to WASM compares to a natively compiled VM binary?
I think one of their key selling points was you could return the car within 30 days - and they'd cover the cost of the return and refund you everything. From a buyer's perspective this is a nice idea, as you often can't tell what's wrong with a car or if you really like it until you start driving it.
maybe this will help - I pulled it together using instructions from Linux From Scratch, to build a static RSVG Convert that run run inside barebones AWS Linux 2 (on Lambda). https://github.com/serverlesspub/rsvg-convert-aws-lambda-bin...
CMBR = Cosmic microwave background

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background
> The author isn't some kind of bumbling fool who can't program, as you seem to be suggesting, he's an accomplished computer scientist.

He doesn't seem to have had a job in industry though? Which seems a bit suspicious to me. On the other hand implementing Eiffel should be somewhat like having to write real code I imagine.
Sorry what? With all this excitement, hype and overconfidence because we made notable progress, it is extremely important we highlight the shortcomings of "AI" by finding striking, easy to grasp examples.

When co-pilot and now chatgpt showed up and managed to produce working code snippets for simple text prompts, every manager on this planet with a background in economics probably started having wet dreams about replacing every programmer in their company by AI and getting a golden name plate for their desk with all the money saved. Explaining how there is a risk that the generated code might contain logic bugs, memory safety bugs, is way too abstract for these kinds of people and then tempting to ignore, so you need to demonstrate fail modes in an accessible way.

TFA did exactly that.
Yep. The key here is that if you choose four arbitrary galaxies from a set, there's two possibilities -- their positions in space are close enough that there's interesting things to be learned about their formation; or they're not. In the latter case, there's a strong reason to expect no bias to the tetrahedral side lengths; in the former case, there may or may not be. If you then look at all possible combinations of four galaxies -- including all the four-tuples that are "real" in 3D space, but also all the four-tuples that aren't -- the average of "no bias" and "interesting bias" will be "smaller, but interesting bias."

Which is why, once a bias is found, figuring out it's p value is non-trivial...
I recommend Dominion (2018): https://youtube.com/watch?v=LQRAfJyEsko
We had this (thankfully an optional addition to physical keys) at one of my previous buildings. The failure rate was maybe 2% but still way too high to trust for regular use.

The locks also ran on batteries, which a technician came out multiple times in the ~year I lived there to replace. Overall was a nice add-on to the physical key for e.g. guest access but the economics of these things given the battery replacement seems dubious. If it ain't broke...
You seem deeply unhappy and dissatisfied with how your life turned out. I sometimes find myself there as well. It’s really not a good place to be. I hope you are getting the fundamentals - exercise, sunlight, sleep, nutrition. When one or all those things are poor I tend to feel at my worst.
The records of when people use their keys will surely get stolen and/or sold.
TikTok is the worst thing to happen to anything it involves. Children, music, internet, advertisements, etc.

Going to be very interesting to see what long term repercussions this attention span shortening craze will have on our society.

I have friends who can’t even sit through a film anymore, let alone read a book or stay focused on one thing for more than a few minutes.
I wonder if these keys are a thing in Czech? Or anywhere in Europe for that matter…
This is only partially true. For day traders and short term gamblers - yes.

But a lot of those highly intelligent folks are making a lot of money - I think there are roughly 2 big groups:

- some kind of algorithmic trading (market making for sell side, arbitrage for prop trading) - mostly playing on market inefficiencies and technicalities

- long term, value investors - Buffett etc.

Most of the other guys are just chasing some impossible dreams.

I really recommend to anybody interested in finance and investing to study Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger - their wisdom is simple yet amazing.
Note: Carvana's founder cashed out over $3.6 billion of shares during the bull market, over double the company's current market capitalization...he can probably buy the company using money he got from selling his shares earlier on.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ceos-dad-gets-a-3-6-billion-sto...
I would never buy a used car sight-unseen. When I bought my current car used, I had financing already lined up through my bank, flew 4 states down to get it, inspected it, and drove it back. I had the cost of travel built in as a discount. I have put 140,000 miles on that car and had no major issues.
Tesla hasn't been fined by California because a.) the threat was a stop sale not a fine and b.) the process is still underway. I mean hey, Germany told Tesla to stop advertising autopilot because it was deceptive. But the only punishment that counts is monetary, right?
Nginx is also great and will without a doubt stick around for a long time, probably longer than Apache! However there definitely are aspects which can be a little bit annoying: https://blog.kronis.dev/everything%20is%20broken/nginx-confi...

That said, I like its configuration format a bit more than Apache and there's just way less ceremony around it in those cases where it's suitable for any of your projects - you just install it and run it, with any config you might need typically in a single file.

With Apache, you find yourself needing to think a little bit more about what modules you have installed and enabled, although there are actually plenty of those out there, for most things you might want to do (e.g. an authentication gateway or something to make it act as a simple web application firewall).
>it all starts with an ultra pessimistic view of human nature at its core.

You will be surprised how rarely are you surprised if you take this approach to humans.
I bet they did that to get some environmental certification. In the gaming market this wouldn't be an issue and might even be desired. I had a similar problem a while back and also found it infuriating. If you can't fix it, trade it.
I recall, but that can't have much an impact on bottom line.
I think most people's perception of what makes the most sense, involves someone else dealing with as much of the hassle as possible.

Which is why online enabled devices are popular and why companies cater for them.

If they could sell large numbers of offline versions at a markup, they would.
Came on, where is your sense of adventure? :) seriously, this kind of rabbit holes are one of the best parts of HN, and every body understand they are just rethoric exercises.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't cap anything. It just waits an arbitrary amount of time before charging from 80% to 100%. Simply charging it in that range causes long-term battery wear.
> "3% cash back on transactions that cost a business 2.5%"

What does this reference?
This sounds great but like most things I'm betting there is quite a bit of fine print once you look closer.
Right; protesting like that after losing does look bad. As well, forfeiting from a round-robin tournament for anything less than health reasons is (afaict) unprecedented at that level.

On the other hand, protesting to make a statement is much stronger if the action is disruptive, and if you feel the problem of "cheating in chess" hasn't otherwise been acknowledged.
Evocative and bittersweet. Thank you.
Related:

Collapse of Carvana, the 'Amazon of Used Cars', Continues - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33678700 - Nov 2022 (9 comments)

Carvana to cut 1,500 jobs as online auto dealer’s troubles mount - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33658716 - Nov 2022 (91 comments)

Carvana, which bought my car for more than I paid new, has lost 98% of its value - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33630970 - Nov 2022 (15 comments)

Carvana laid off 2,500 employees today via a pre-recorded message through zoom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31332365 - May 2022 (27 comments)
Another value of consulting is getting advice from someone who has seen the same decisions play out elsewhere, including at competitors, and apply their secret information on your behalf. It is effectively non-public strategy information laundering.
It still mandated that you sign a contract with one of those two companies giving up your right to privacy.
The reason this happens likely isn't negligence, but is instead a fundamental flaw in any kind of two-sided car marketplace. First, you have to buy the vehicle, and in many cases when you buy a car you have to pay off the seller's loan. In this case you don't get the title immediately - you have to wait to receive it from a financial institution. But you can't sit on a car until you actually have that title in hand - used car margins are razor-thin and cars depreciate incredibly quickly - so you need to sell the car first and hope you receive the title in time. This entire process is made even more complicated by the vast array of small banks and credit unions you have to deal with during the payoff process - many of whom have byzantine processes and can't possibly conceive of a car dealership that doesn't operate like the local auto lot.

I have no particular love for Carvana but I am sympathetic in this particular instance.
The generic structure of ChatGPT is very repetitive and boring. Here are the reasons:

First one is that ChatGPT loves lists. And because words "organizations/risks/ChatGPT" was used in the original prompt, ChatGPT continues to repeat it. Organizations. Organizations. And risks. Risks. Of ChatGPT.

Another reason is that second reason should be in the list too. It is very important to highlight the importance of another reason.

Overall, ChatGPT should summarize the reasons, otherwise text will be incomplete. Yeah, yeah, "carefully weigh the potential risks and benefits" - what was the original question?

Thoughts? Maybe HN should ban ChatGPT too, as StackOverflow did.
Yeah, sometimes that guilty feeling is pretty obvious too and people will exploit it substantially. The price of people saying no is built into the business model.