skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
77 tokens, 88.25% fake. You are really good at this game!

And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18576101 which you wrote 4 years ago (before GPT2) has: 79 tokens
99.86% Fake

Hopefully someone writes a script to run the detector over past users, because we are sure to find someone who naturally writes like GPT (after all, the training corpus came from somewhere!)

Also: no intent to insult - I would be even more amused to find myself detected as fake! I just love the topic - how much subliminal judgement to we make due to subtle word order choices? For example, how much more convincing could we be with some word or grammar changes?

After testing a heap of my own old comments using https://huggingface.co/openai-detector , I found one comment of mine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17216586 with 65 tokens and 68.92% Fake. I don’t think I write much like other people. I also didn’t get any “bold” matches from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016 (edited)
Ask ChatGPT to write a song lyric for your favorite band in the style of your favorite poet, with a specific unusual topic.

Then claim that the model is “really very simple”
Most people have a phone and/or a desktop computer, that’s enough for production of many valuable things.

Problem solved, right? Now people don’t have an excuse to not work anymore.
But at the same time we're also racing away. There is light from objects that will never get to us because we're moving away from it, due to expansion, faster than it'd ever get to us.

Eventually we'll have moved so far away from everything that we'll start seeing less and less (granted, "we" likely won't be around, our planet having long since been incinerated when Sol dies).
Right, and at the rate they are going their population would "disappear" in 500 years or more. I am sure nothing will change between now and then.

These demographic crises arguments are no better than the population bomb arguments of the 1960s. You can project forward and get all kinds of results but over the decades things change.
Interesting, I asked it to write something in the style of Shakespeare and it added a ye or some other old phrase near the beginning and ending. It seemed that the rest was regular modern English.
It depends on the service. Github lets you add a backup email address to manage password resets, etc.
India which has second largest population after China has reduced fertility of 2.1(lower than replacement rate of 2.2)
Diffusion models can look surprisingly horrifying
> Take thousands of prompts, generate several responses for each of them, and have human reviewers rank the responses for each prompt from best to worst

Recently I saw an image where Indian women sat in front of computers and the caption said they were classifying "AI" responses. I guess that's true and this kind of work is the new outsourced cheap labour in the AI age.
The link isn't "disturbed sleep" necessarily. As we age, sleep naturally degrades, and that degradation is in the slow-wave sleep which drives the clearing of amyloid plaques, and tau (along with hormonal response, memory consolidation, nervous system, and more).

The technology we're developing at https://soundmind.co is supporting an Alzheimer's prevention trial beginning in January '23 which is looking at the impact of slow-wave enhancement in the clearing of Amyloid plaques.
You can be a long-term committed couple without being married on paper. You can do all the things you mention.

What's more, you can also have kids without being married on paper!

So I do understand people who don't see the point of getting the government involved and making it a thing that's very complicated to end if it doesn't work out.
Those Pagewides also have expiration dates programmed into their inks. If you install one that's "out of date," the machine will just tell you that it's incompatible. I haven't come across another brand with use-by dates on their inks. Maybe that's why the error message is so cryptic.

The other one (with the bigger Pagewides at least): they had a problem with the formulation of the black ink, where the constituents would separate over time. They changed the formulation and that formulation doesn't dry properly on their own photo paper. I wanted optimal quality photos, so I went through the specific calibration function for the HP Advanced photo paper. Because of the way the machine shuffles the page back and forth in the machine to perform the calibration, all the black was smudged and the calibration would fail every time. When HP support eventually realized I had a point, they told me calibration on HP Advanced photo paper is "not supported." I bet they remove it as an option in later firmware, if they haven't already. I have never dealt with a more user-hostile company than HP.
I dunno, if it saves some children's lives, instead of Disney trying to make it another blockbuster franchise, that's perfectly fine by me.
> For most my friends, the question they pose is what is the benefit of marriage? You tie yourself down to monogamy, give up your personal life and risk losing half of it plus a life of child support and alimony in a divorce.

I lived in New York for many years and can confirm your experience. However, what interests me more is where all these ideas and decisions are coming from. Is it because it's trendy (Joe is not coming to the party tonight.. he is now, you know, married), which down the line means fear of losing status, or because people are free to choose what they want. I lean towards thinking it's the former (edit: I would rather say it's not the later). When the world is driven by TikTok and Instagram, I believe many people are measuring themselves up to the other people's standards rather than defining their own.
> In some places (i.e. the U.S. iirc), COVID actually caused a mild baby boom rather than suppressing childbirths.

Sure. But the response to covid in the US and the response to covid in the Asian countries mentioned was quite different both in an administrative way as well as a cultural way.

Covid was at least worth a mention if not more.
Can you please provide some context what these 18k stand for?
Show HN: AI-powered message replies assistant
I was free early this week and decided to work on something I've always wondered. As someone who has struggled with matches on Tinder and ghosting, I know how difficult it can be to come up with the perfect response in the moment. That's why I created this tool - to make it easy for anyone to quickly and easily generate the perfect reply, tailored to their audience, culture, and context. It is currently in beta and would love to hear your feedback on the product.

Link to webapp: https://howtoreplyto.com/
I created a single page website with ChatGPT
"Marriage - and any other contract - is a deliberate effort to constrain your future actions so that you can make long-term plans that heavily affect other people - your spouse, but also your future children - without them having to constantly worry about you running off to any Siren you hear." [0]

No-fault divorce basically destroyed that institution for the working classes, with divorce rates sky-rocketing in a decade.

Children living with both biological parents:

Affluent families in 1960: 95%

Working class families in 1960: 95%

Affluent families in 2005: 85%

Working class families in 2005: 30%

[1]

> Most of my well to do friends are uninterested in marriage and are just churning through girls.

This is cruel and sad, but I'm not sure falling marriage rates are even the fundamental factor in the overall decline. The problem goes deeper.

[0] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/theres-a-time-for-ever...

[1] https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1178310819332984832
One oddity is that, through Linux basically piggybacking on the support printer manufacturers built in to get out-of-the-box printing on Macs and iDevices, the world of Linux printing support is actually really good for newish printers without needing drivers. There are a lot of AirPrint and IPP Everywhere printers out there.

I've had good luck in the past, as many have, with Brother's simple laser printers, but was very surprised at the ease of setup on Linux of a new Brother multi-function all-in-one inkjet printer/scanner combo thing: even the scanner worked over the network without a fuss. Night and day compared to my recollections of working with hpijs, hplip, foomatic, even poking around for Brother laser drivers sometimes for ones that didn't talk PCL.

But then you have things like this where there's a pointless app forced into the mix to add more friction to that improved story... just because.
Strange coincidence. I just finished watching a video on "how to walk" just before visiting HN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iLJ0frWE9E

I have been suffering from chronic achilles tendonitis due to decades of walking/running with outward foot pronation. The techniques discussed in the other videos of this youtube channel have helped.
NeoLand
ChatGPT's "audience" can range from "hate speech for anti-bias training" to "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Deliver Impassioned Speech to The World"

I would also like to use the No True Scotsman fallacy, and assert that no Human can ever really "know" or "write for" anybody's perfect preferences.
There are lots of things that are expensive. Sometimes because they are worth it.
Surely adtech companies like Google and FB do OK though?
I've been a pacer my whole life. My college roommate once told me I was "like a caged tiger."
if you block `play.google.com` they disappear :)
Would a hand bike work for you? My most meditative moments (outside of walking and prayer) have always been cycling. For the brief (several months) period where I was wheelchair bound.. a hand bike was the thing that helped me clear my head, and make me smile.
Not sure about confusing neuro-divergent people with bots, but detecting abnormalities by text analysis has been around for a while. Famously, signs of Alzheimer's we're apparent in later Agatha Christie novels:
https://www.npr.org/2010/06/01/127211884/agatha-christie-and...
I thought society was supposed to have learned its lesson during the pandemic, that the "low-end" jobs are often the most critical. But it seems that John Q Public has the memory of a goddamned fruit fly.

So what do "we" do to make these jobs more tolerable, perhaps better-rewarded ? Nothing, apparently, because "we" wants the cheapest possibly everything.

If jobs that are tangibly important are still treating workers badly, simply because formal qualifications don't exist or are in oversupply, and then economic pressures push people into these crappy jobs despite poor pay & working conditions, then that's a sign that our oh-so-holy "market" is fundamentally dysfunctional, treating human beings like barely sentient Roombas-with-mops. Rant concludes here.
Leave AI out of forums for humans, please. They are not welcome here.
I'm not sure how you can say something like this in good faith

Sure, in raw numbers, maybe that's true

Compared to previous decades where you could get on the housing ladder reasonably easily and support a family with only one full time income, not so much
Personally I wouldn't want any of the company's equipment. My own equipment is better. The company's is configured to let me access the corp network including cloud builds but otherwise it's not that great. I'd have no use for it and selling it wouldn't be worth all that much.
Not clicking clickbait links?
Employers play it fast and loose with fringe benefits. It's most often PCI or other compliance reasons that laptops are kept.

My last company gave out TVs, furniture, expensive kitchenware, etc. They warehouse the laptops underground for eternity. They won't even scrap the drives and resell them.
Does anyone have an intelligent strategy for investing in a world with low birth rates and an aging population? It's happening everywhere including the USA. I don't think stocks etc. will work in a world without constantly growing GDP.

https://www.afrugaldoctor.com/home/japans-lost-decades-30-ye...

If we look to Japan as the model and forerunner for what is happening to the rest of the world, what investments worked there the past few decades if any?
I mean this sounds much more like a job for tooling and higher level meta-programming. If “everything but X” is identical busywork, then just automate the “everything” part. Using AI to generate code seems equally bad for maintenance and possibly worse for silent errors.

That said, there is a lot of busywork in programming, especially refactoring, adding parameters and stuff like that. Sometimes it’s ok to have such work be “mostly correct”, eg if you have strong type safety and unit tests to catch minor errors.
> The CEOs of those other car companies were not raging egotists

Actually, from the stories of 1950's and 1960's Detroit, in fact they were. I don't know about today.

> backed up by a crowd of howler monkeys chasing a parasocial dopamine hit.

_This_ is the problem. Who cares if Elon eats kittens or promises Mars rocks in the glovebox? It's the Twitter Shitters magnifying every musing into predictions and three-page blog posts that is the problem. Just don't listen to them.
>> It’s a really weird experience to go to the emergency ward of one of the most famous children's hospitals in Japan and have the guy say ‘your bill comes to $0’ after.

Having lived in US and in a few countries with completely free healthcare, I'd have to correct you that the really weird experience is going to a hospital and getting a 6 figure bill.
I assumed they meant cleaning it at the dock, not getting to serve on a sub.
Alzheimer's is currently categorized as a single disease. But I suspect the result will turn out to be similar to Ulcers which were initially thought to be the result of acid diets, and predisposed conditions, but turns out there are many types, and the most common type is bacterial.

I think we'll find there are many types of Alzheimer's, some Amyloid based, others viral, or dietary, etc.
Pretty much every culture ever has considered people who are unable to contribute to the functioning of society to be dead weight (thus why being disabled had been a curse unless you happened to be born into wealth and why female infanticide was so common in much of the world). Being old didn't tend to be as much of an issue in the past as people regularly living past the typical retirement age of ~60 is a fairly recent phenomenon.

Modern societies (especially the so called "ponzi scheme capitalist culture" ones) tend to go far beyond pretty much all past societies to support such people.
Materially abundant nowadays means cheap felectronics, clothes and low cost flights. However, supporting family was much easier in the 50s because housing was so much cheaper and much better job security with less education. It’s insane what boomers could afford by their 30s.
The GDP and other economic statistics of NY and CA (also about 20% of whole country) suggests to me we have not reached that point yet. They are operating on the world stage economically which suggests it continues to make sense to do business there.

But, if all the people objecting to the regulations that make life better in those states want to go away, all the better for the remainers in my eyes I think. We'll see which US megaregions are still economically and culturally dominant in 50 years, and I suspect it's going to still largely be CA and NY, complaints of libertarians aside.

Granted, I think the northeast megalopolis will eventually extend downwards to Atlanta and even Florida via high speed passenger rail eventually and knit together the whole east coast as a megabloc, which raises interesting questions about how that entity will federate given the differing cultural ideas at present.
Because I’m not attractive. None of the stuff you listed matters if you’re not attractive.
This is a good thing for the environment and may help us avoid malthusian catastrophe.
Sure, whatever. Obviously it’s a personal choice.
I think the basic things to take away from the article are:

1. that LLMs are just a massive “what word comes next given your training corpus” algorithm and scale has lead to the main effects of interest.

2. Surprisingly many human tasks can be represented by this simple “what word comes next” question given a big enough corpus.

3. But it has nothing to do with how a human executes those tasks because —- for example —- knowing the country south of Rwanda and knowing the likely completion of “the country south of Rwanda is ___” in a corpus, are not the same thing at all.

4. The key reason being that LLM has no access to semantic knowledge beyond correlation in its corpus, but you have access to causality.

5. So it is absurd to compare the LLM to people —- not because it’s like comparing submarines to fish, because in this case they do not both even “swim and live in the sea”.

I think these things have little to do with definitions of “what intelligence is” and the like, and the author is far from a Luddite.
"Disappear" should not get in quotes. I once wrote a simple simulation of society with low birth rate and was shocked how fast they all went away to zero.

Had a nice population bulge initially.
I imagine the judge will side with you if you’ve made a reasonable effort to return the equipment.
My impression was that most laser printers had a postscript compatible interface and/or could print from basically any input/format. At least for network printers.
Maybe You Missed It, but the Internet ‘Died’ Five Years Ago (2021)
Interstellar object 'Oumuamua is still within solar system
The 2000$ robot that cleans bathroom floors, walls, sinks, and toilet bowls will sell like hotcakes.
> unfortunately have the look/bare bones facial structure of what a stereotypical neo-nazi looks like

This is why you pull girls. Women are not interested in average men at all. They either want the tar-heroin injecting bass player, violent serial killer or the billionaire.
Hope you find it useful and learn something new :)
Historically (pre-1900ish), the US Post Office was the quintessential American government sinecure.

The qualifications for postmaster general had more to do with campaign contributions than talent or interest.

Thankfully, largely reformed with the merit based civil service changes, but passing those was a struggle! So I'd be hesitant to assume than anything lucrative and government-run won't face substantial corruption pressures.
You might want to look into tools for "evolutionary databases", or "database migration" tools as they are better known today.

Btw, your comment strikes me like saying "I don't want to iterate with a strongly typed language".
I think the thing hammering Japan is also just the ratio of old people to young.

Right now we still need warm young bodies to stack shelves, care for old people, reap crops and so on.

With ageing populations you have no less old people but far less young uns to do the work. Also less surplus to do novel stuff too.

Oh and Japan is not keen on immigration either.
I haven't read through much of the tangle of "Greens agree to peg Gas prices to Renewable prices" (my recollection) in the UK or elsewhere.

Some Russian was streaming a burning stove 24/7, bragging that it cost like $5 / mo.
Can a $500 solar installation boil water 24/7 for the same $5/mo? I feel that the energy density of Petroleum (and Nuclear) products is just so ludicrous that Wind and Solar can't compete.

Sure, instability will lead to higher gas prices. So did Joe Biden's (Administration's) unilateral de-permitting of the Keystone XL pipe between Canada and USA, on Day 1 of his time in office.
You're welcome and thanks for the feedback!
While true, this is irrelevant to the topic of birth rates.
A "problem" with this treatment is that, for most patients, the current standard of care works. To the extent that this treatment is effective, it is likely effective for most leukaemia patients, including those who would respond well to current treatments. It is very plausible that this treatment (or a refined version of it) will eventually be shown to be superior to the current standard of care, in which case it would become the standard of care, and the current treatment will be relegated to the niche patient that does not respond to gene edited t-cells.

More broadly, the technique of precisely editing DNA of select cells to perform specific engineered tasks is very broadly applicable. But that is a technique for developing treatments, not a treatment itself.
Then why were they the first ones to exploit it so effectively?

I don’t think it was standard for GPT models.
I exercise daily (high intensity) and my life is still unremarkable
Presumably some sort of cellular rejuvenation - perhaps a way of gradually replacing senescent cells with healthy cells and/or of activating telomerase without causing cancer - would have beneficial effects across your entire body.

There are already large mammals - bowhead whales - that can live 200 years. Perhaps we can adopt some of their longevity traits without having to become giant ocean creatures.
This might be a long shot argument but I think a big issue with what is now making societies bad for having large families is individualism.

People are so different and have a hard time agreeing on things they find it hard to get married. Then those who do find it hard to stay married. Those who marry and have kids have a hard time finding families to be friends with. The world is changing at such a rapid pace, If you have no shared values you will just have too large a range to find points of commonality.

Also in large cities the the density is a problem. Abundance of choice creates paralysis. Choice of partners and lifestyle. Creates more ways to cheat on your spouse without being caught. Life in general is more complex. I believe that there is a lag between rural people moving to cities and low birthrates. They may have more kids due to their families being large but their kids will most likely have less kids. Also large cities seem lonely because you become a replaceable part of it.

Sure I making child care more accessible is great and should be done but I don't think that's the one thing holding people back.
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Raising children in advanced economies for what we call well off life is really hard. Advanced economy capitalism is enforcing 1 child or none per family much better than China ever did.
> People are quite hard wired to have kids.

We're definitely hard wired to have sex, which used to be the same thing, but now there's birth control. Maybe evolution needs a little more time to dial up our cultural or genetic aversion to birth control...
Stack. Band. G. A Rack. 1000s bro. 18,000 USD.
As a front end developer, i have to agree. Sometimes i think it’s time for me to move on from this role.
Ok, but how does it take my code and fixes the bug? It's my own code, no one has seen it besides me and the model wasn't trained on it.
Just an aside here, that if that UBI was in exchange for ten or twelve hours a week of mostly-unskilled work from the unemployed on whatever the city or town decides is valuable, it might make a very visible improvement to community life.
> We also need to get rid of the validation of the data packet

yep, he recognizes this also. strange to call this a bug then

i also find it strange that …

> As someone who has done a lot of work on ping(8)

… ping has a lot of work done to it
I’ve started watching star-trek (as it makes me fall asleep immediately) - this stuff sounds like a star-trek episode!

Something Dr Crusher would come up with.

It makes a distant future where we quickly engineer a fix and inject it seem almost plausible.
So instead, add more complexity?

Isolation?

Please do elaborate.