skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed some weird things with its code writing. A lot of the time the text is spot on, but the code doesn't actually do what the text says. And sometimes the input examples are totally wrong, even when the function does exactly what you asked.

It gets even weirder when you start asking it to make corrections.

By the same token, its Lisp functions sometimes are really good. But you still have to review it, and might also need to fix the input example to fit what you actually expected it to be.

It can make some really weird but connected responses. I asked 'what is 'umop apisdn' and it responded by telling me it's a palindrome, and then failed spelling it backward to demonstrate why it is one. I corrected it by saying "umop apisdn is "upside down" upside down." and it said "I see!" and then went on about some other really unrelated things, still about palindromes.

So it's not perfect for sure. It's really entertaining though.
I asked ChatGPT to respond to your response:

I agree with this statement. There are indeed several protections and strategies in place to prevent AI-generated content from dominating search results and being used to spread misinformation and advertisements. These measures, such as content moderation, fact-checking, user feedback, and transparency, can help to ensure that search results are accurate and reliable, and that users are not exposed to misleading or harmful content.

However, it is also important to recognize that these protections and strategies are not foolproof and that there is still potential for AI-generated content to be used for nefarious purposes. It is therefore important for users to be aware of the potential risks associated with AI-generated content, and to use critical thinking and fact-checking to evaluate the information they encounter online. Additionally, it is crucial for companies and organizations to continue to invest in and improve these protections and strategies in order to mitigate the risks associated with AI-generated content.
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https://twitter.com/elizableu/status/1599484564832854017?cxt...

This is where you get bent.

Your logical fallacy is detailed here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion

I hope that, despite what you are implying, this success by Musk is not upsetting to you.
The Obsessive Calorie Counters of Reddit
Soft terrorism: bouncy castles and bbqs.
Artemis I – Day 19: Orion Preps Lunar Flyby, Examining Power Conditioning Issue
I suspect the only solid solution is OpenAI themselves storing all text their models generates, and providing an API which will return whether they've outputted a specific string (or a similar one) in the past.

A lot of suggestions here talk about the consistent stylistic choices that ChatGPT makes, like it's lists or other particular mannerisms. I'd argue these are simply artefacts of it being fine-tuned on a large number of 'well-behaved' examples from Open AI. This phenomena is called partial mode collapse, this article does a great job discussing it with respect to GPT-3 [0].

Of course you could train a model to detect when this mode-collapse occurs to detect ChatGPT. The un-finetuned model, however, does not have these problems, so it's only a matter of OpenAI improving their fine-tuning dataset to return to an 'undetectable' AI.

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/t9svvNPNmFf5Qa3TA/mysteries-...
More like academics have ceded control of the ivory tower to adminstrators. It's been happening for decades: Senior academics should be mentoring junior academics and managing the university functions on their behalf, so that junior academics, the bright sparks they are, can change the world.

But instead we have senior academics who continue to pursue their own research interests all the way into retirement, while shunning all administrative tasks as "beneath them." This leaves a leadership vacuum at the top, which of course is filled by professional "leaders." The academics only have themselves to blame.
This did not work for me at all... Gave an article that sounds nothing like my comments lol
Saudi Arabia doesn't pretend to be a democracy.
My guess: more captchas! Let's see if our soon-to-be AI overlords can detect a crosswalk in a picture as fast as I can.
Concur is a million times better than what I've used at previous jobs. It now takes me mere minutes to file expense reports. Travel booking is a breeze too after you go through it once or twice.
Do you have any evidence for that? I’d be interested in reading serious papers that explain how reason is an accident as opposed to the point. Also that we are “emotional first and foremost”. I have found that people are generally emotional in situations where reason has failed them, implying that we are reasoning beings first.
I'm not sure being shielded from international trade and economies of scale go hand in hand.
I’m curious about their economics. I would assume there’s a huge upfront fixed cost but the marginal unit cost is tiny. They may not be breaking even or run at even, but that (I expect) is because they’re struggling to overcome that first hump of the fixed cost, but at the margin they’re doing well. I would be flabbergasted if my monthly is going to pay for my search transactions rather than the ability to execute any search at all. In that model you can in fact offer regional pricing as long as there’s a critical mass sufficient to justify the localization and regional edge deployments. You can go even further and let larger (in dollar space) regions subsidize smaller regions while they grow critical mass. Some companies I’ve worked at felt offering their service globally was worth the depressed margins even if they never made it make economic sense simply because it was useful enough - but also it creates a solid global brand. Anyway Kagi is great and I wish them the best of fortunes.
Same experience in two non-cloud orgs over the last 4 years.
Some people think they were built by slaves, and were intended for storing grain.
> Overall, I think building a ChatGPT detector is a great idea, and I'm confident that with the right approach, it could be a valuable tool for anyone who uses chat platforms.

I think that hollowly summing up and reiterating a point of the whole text in the last sentence might be a good signal to differentiate Open AI and humans. AI seems to be doing that on nearly all creative responses.
I'm still using my iphone 6s plus from 2015. Smartphones sufficiently plateaued for me a long time ago. It's a shame the rest of you fine folks find everything so inefficient ;-)

I'm guessing there's a generational aspect to this as well, and if the devices are the person's only compute device. The assumption on my part is that the younger users are the ones to upgrade quickly as it is upgrading their only compute device. For someone like me, I'll always prefer a desktop/laptop to use for the sheer usability aspect. I just hate the small screen and hunched over posture of using a phablet-like device. That's me and my opinion, and we all like different things.
Using ChatGPT to inspire an improv music session
This is interesting — could you link your research? And are these DC fields you're applying using electrodes across the cranium? Or AC using an external coil?
I tried getting it to output some Go with basically little knowledge of it myself. Let's just say software developers who actually know what they are doing are not going anywhere any time soon.
If the entire internet is composed of bot written SEO spam, I think you’re spot on.
It's probably because you have only posted like 10 comments so far (unless you tried it with a second account of yours).
I agree the M1 is great hardware.

However, the feeling of speed is made up of much more than just the hardware's capabilities. The OS you use, the toolchain you have access to, impacts your experience as well.

This X1 matches 92% of a 2022 MB Air's single-core performance and 94% of its multi-core performance (https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/19092431). I'm happy to wait an extra 100ms for something to compile in order to have a nicer daily experience of the machine and operating system.
This is so obviously a place where existing laws around easements should apply that it's laughable that it's made it this far. Someone can't block your access to your house by buying up your neighbors properties.
There wasn’t racism in 360 BC when Plato established the Atlantis legend?
Is This End of China?
I seeing news stories everywhere on how manufacturing is moving away from China to Vietnam and india, and zero covid policy makes no sense, what are you guys doing? Are you still looking at Chinese stocks?
who cares? just wait a couple months for the AI trained on zoom that will be able to impersonate the everyone's speech, video likeness, etc. probably soon entire meetings could be reasonably simulated. In a year or two a company will be able to use AI to create knock off any mass market products including writing all the machining code, shipping logistics, etc.
It was an online website right around the dot com bubble.

It definitely was a tech company by that time’s standards.

Nowadays every company has an online store, but that was not the case when Amazon was selling books online that you usually had to go to a store for.
Out of curiosity, what's your level and position at Google?
And what am I supposed to be envious of?
it absolutely was a tech company. the 'Cinematch' recommender , replaced eventually, was one of the differences brought-up in the netflix/blockbuster lawsuits.
I've heard, but have no sources for it, that it's difficult to scale up production of large transformers. And as everyone's said, without government invention, there's no money in having a reserve. It's even worse if the _rate_ of consumption doesn't go up, then adding production to build up a reserve is folly, because the plant is guaranteed to go idle once the reserve is achieved. So, I don't have high hopes for that, at least not in a significant way.

Going the other way, decentralizing the grid, putting solar and batteries on as many homes as possible, is already happening. There's already financial incentive. Utilities are adding _disincentives_ every chance they get, because they see it as reducing their customer base, rather than adding resiliency. But, customers and regulators are pushing back, and the situation in most places isn't terrible. And as a result, it's scaling up as fast as the market can scale it.

Neither of these things will solve the problem completely, but I think we'll meet in the middle. Over the coming years, an interconnected grid will become decreasingly relevant for larger and larger fractions of the population. And outages, and even the very concept of outages, will approach quaint-memory status.

Initially and particularly, this will benefit folks out in the boonies with lots of land for panels, who are usually on the losing end of the response time for outage restoration in the first place.
>Google Cloud is not the real Google. Culture-wise, you are closer to Oracle.

Incorrect. Google's culture has shifted. Culture-wise, Google is closer to Oracle than what people think is Google.

20% hasn't been a thing in Google for a long time. Exists only on paper.

Source: I worked at Google when we all got the memo that all information access within the company is now on a need-to-know basis, and that accessing information that you don't need to know for your job is a fireable offense.

Default level of sharing technical documentaiton is fully private, so tech docs are not searchable in company search engine (read this again).

Good luck re-using the code without design docs. Also good luck starting a project if your team doesn't own the data.

Hot take: Google doesn't have a strategy, period. Neither copmany, nor product.
To me there is a difference when you have fresh data vs very old data which may or may not be a result of the thing that you're proposing was a plausible cause of something. With hundreds and thousands of years, things move, they weather, other things interact, floods, fire, get exposed buried, re-exposed buried...
Yeah I’m in a good PhD program and for “department internal” event stuff we run roughshod over stupid university rules and the admin staff figures out ways to make it happen.
They might be insignificant costs to the user who wants that niche feature, but they affect all users. So millions of people are pay costs associated with something used by a tiny niche.
Try reading about China outside of the main US media outlets. You'll gain a different perspective. It'll help balance out your biases.

IE. If you 99.99% of what you read about the US is doom and gloom, you'd think the US is ending too.

In just the last 2 years, US has had mass racial driven protest, people storming a government building looking to murder the vice president, Trump election denial, Trump covid mishandling, highest inflation in 50 years, involved in another war, bungled Afghanistan exit, anti-vax movement, anti-science movement, anti-semitism and neo-nazis, regressive female rights, countless mass gun shootings, highest murder rate amongst developed countries and 12x higher than China, lower expected life span than China.

Which country is more stable again?
Why shouldn't I ask you? You're the one who asked me whether I was afraid I'd be forced to accept some repugnant conclusion based on false premises. Who else could I ask but you?

I think I've been pretty clear in my desire to not engage in bullshit arguments in which people are allowed to make up premises; you're the one who framed it as a "concern" I might be having. It seemed like you were initially suggesting that that was unreasonable. From your response I guess it was just a non sequitur.

What's a "non sequeter", by the way?
It ia a fairly widely taught grade school technique that many people never get beyond that is probably heavily represented in its training corpus.
This author sounds like me minus a ban.

I really enjoy Call of Duty. Got extremely good at it in high school, along with my group of friends. Since then, I've had to move away and CoD has kept us connected multiple times per week. It's been a very enjoyable game for well over a decade.

In the past few years, it's become extremely clear to me that something is seriously wrong with CoD - and perhaps Activision as a whole. I'm willing to explain much of it away as "it's hard to run a big game at scale", but some the bugs are just inexcusable. Activision offers little to no insight or recourse when things break.

I have 700 hours in MW2/WZ1. I can't even stand to play the new game. It's just too broken.
This is currently very common for chess. Comparing players with AI decisions. It's less "You got lucky today, you're banned" and more "your movements matched up with AI patterns for a long time, so you're trust score has been lowered and you'll be put with other low trust players for a while".

There is more data than just win/lose here. Using ML you can analyze exactly how the player moves, etc and get some kind of probability
Is there perhaps some automatic feedback loop where AI trained on AI content will manifest as obvious uncanny valley?
It's just basic entertainment. It's cool to think about but I've watched shows like this on History channel since like 2000. Do they even play stuff like this anymore? I love this stuff. I don't know why it's such an issue now?
Tribalism is part of the cause for the dysfunction described in the article. Highly recommended.
> In any case on Mastodon people have choice - if you don't like your local admins mod decisions, you can move elsewhere and take your followers with you, so if anything mods have far less power on Mastodon than most places.

The "I now have to run my own server, and tell my followers to move with me" is kinda the blocker here

>In any case on Mastodon people have choice - if you don't like your local admins mod decisions, you can move elsewhere and take your followers with you, so if anything mods have far less power on Mastodon than most places.

The amount of power they have is same or even bigger, just over smaller amount of users.
Show HN: Controversial quiz game generated by ChatGPT
I was just wondering how deep the pre-existing content for a user needs to be. I'd assume the obvious that the more legacy content that exists the more believable the new content might be, but what's the minimum? Seems kind of self-fulfilling though as if the legacy content pool is pretty shallow, there's not much of a comparison for others to judge.

>Maybe I just don't write enough for it to pick up on my style?

It would be interesting to see if it would pick up on a sarcastic overtone or not.
> Describe Zig in the style of Hacker News user pcwalton.

Zig is a systems programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity. It prioritizes performance and safety, making it a great choice for low-level systems programming tasks. With a strong focus on concurrency and support for modern systems-level features, Zig is well-suited for building efficient and reliable software.

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That is the exact opposite of how pcwalton would describe Zig.
What exactly is the treatment? I was spraying some boots last week and I wondered if I'm directly applying PFAS to my clothes and breathing it in.
What? No.

Practically all anti cheat for a long time has primarily worked by monitoring what is running on the computer/device, and ensuring the integrity of the game and its data.

You don’t need anti-cheat with deep system hooks to monitor input. That can be done from the game itself trivially.
Would be interesting-ish to test it against https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016
You got SCTV out of it so it wasn’t all bad.
> 54% of 3,175 cybersecurity vendors are hiring still this year.

Would love to know what you're citing here; quick google didn't find it
Okay, but I don't want any wanker to moderate what I decide to watch. Public streams, sure, there are reasons for that, moderate away, but if the solution is "well, you really need to just run your own server infrastructure" that's a shitty solution
Exactly, hence no true Scotsman: "Oh, it's not a true Google org!".

No, it is a Google org. Whatever was said in the top comment was applicable to Geo a few years back.

And the infamous "need-to-know" memo, which required everyone to start siloing tech docs and made using the internal search engine potentially a fireable offense (!) was company-wide.
One significant bit on information I don't see mentioned yet:

"Hancock’s son, Sean Hancock, coincidentally works at Netflix as a senior manager of unscripted originals."

https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/ancient-apocalypse-gra...
Sadly the only thing that I can think that would make self hosting easy is if operated like a botnet/virus.
then again, most puns are not funny either, so...
Of course he means it. And praising Elon, who is controversial, could absolutely hurt him.

Also, EQ isn't the same as machiavellian scheming to further your self interest.
Some of the (outwardly?) most tolerant people I know are quite dumb, and I know many extremely intelligent people capable of tremendous feats of abstract thought who are both very tolerant and very intolerant.

This is an unreplicated social science paper. It’s worth approximately the paper it isn’t printed on.
China harkening back 2000 years is like the US harkening back to Rome.

Fact is modern communist China is actively erasing its history and is quite new on the world stage.
I guess it's probably not enough to sustain a long time and there are probably protections in place to prevent that.

Here is a short video showing someone doing almost exactly this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X_2lZqyCmls
It does parts of the code really well, I noticed. It's usually toward the end that it starts messing up, and especially the inputs are bad. The descriptive text is nearly always spot on, which makes the code errors a bit wonky. I have a feeling it's because sometimes documents show the code first before describing it, and some do it the other way around, so sometimes it is actually modelling the wrong thing.

Plus: I asked it to make an obfuscated Lisp function to write Hello World, and it did a reasonable job. Then I said "Make a better one" and it made some seriously spaghetti code that still wrote Hello World properly, and explained why it was obfuscated. I wouldn't really call it obfuscate, but it was really messy and bizarre as I had hoped.

Minus: I asked it to make a guitar tab for an Em7 chord. It showed an Em chord, although the description was exactly correct. So I said "The D string should be open to make it a 7th chord" and it showed it again with the D string not even voiced... which would still be an Em!

(Yea, it can do guitar tabs, too!)
It’s easy to grow with such a low gdp/capita.
Saves me the trouble of implementing it based on my comments myself. Fantastic. This will scale my mind sufficiently, which is precisely what I needed.
Don't spend money on products or services out of russia. We should all be avoiding that at this point.
This is basically the same issue as public access to California beaches, where wealthy landowners attempt to block public access to the commons and turn it into private property.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/02/california-w...
That seems like a deflection. What specifically in Hancock's interpretation does not align with the known facts? I don't particularly care about him one way or another, but if you want to criticize him then please present some actual evidence.
Bravo, and thank you for this.
First off, the Atlantean theory being talked about bears rather little relation to Plato's description. It rather harkens back to the 1880s, when Atlantis shifted from being a tale of hubris to a world-spanning civilization responsible for most or all indigenous innovations.

Second, racism is... old. After all, recall that Greeks were the ones who named their out-class of foreigners after the sounds sheep made ("bar-bar", hence modern "barbarian").
Hey, you'd better go let OP know that everything's OK! Me, I think that chess, a turn-based, 2D game which uses the same "map" every time, might have a few fewer inputs to analyze than an FPS, but what do I know.
Because “Their change didn’t make the search results better, and it unfairly promoted some sites over others.“
“Poe’s law?” Is that Edgar Allen Poe?
Think they are referring to way it works, not technical details of implementation, as it isn't really "social network" with no ability to have any social action

As in you can subscribe to who you want and no moderator will stop you and then you can... just comment on a blogpost or article, with no 3rd party aside from this particular space moderators
The thing about SO is you are often not able to find the question that precisely answer your question, while ChatGPT could do just that.

I just used ChatGPT to answer some not so complex but still custom questions about linux command, it can just do that, while it will for sure take effort for me to search that answer from SO.