skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me offer you my version of events.

I say, "well, I have a certain notion." I then go out and look for evidence I might be wrong: I do find this evidence. So I add, "my earlier notion is contradicted by evidence. Being skeptical of that evidence, I would like to gather more, but I don't have the time presently. Being an empiricist, I accept the best available evidence, at least provisionally."

You then go on a rant about how I'm a stupid idiot who ignores evidence. In my mind this is coming from nowhere, it's a reaction to a comment where I specifically sought out evidence I might be wrong and accepted it. My reaction is, "wow, this guy is being a jerk, I don't really want to engage with them anymore."

You then proceed to say, "doesn't the fact that you don't want to engage with people who are acting like jerks prove you're a stupid idiot who ignores evidence?"

As for your specific criticisms, they're founded in misreading what I had to say, and since I imagine the reward for discussing them further will be more rude remarks, the only thing I'm really interested in discussing anymore is why I'm heading for the door. Anything else would just seem to be handing you ammunition to use against me. I would be happy to explain myself further and to admit where I was incorrect if this was a good faith discussion, but it isn't. Note that doesn't mean I haven't privately changed my mind about things.

Hope that's useful feedback for you. Take care.
Show HN: UserScript to detect GPT generated comments on Hacker News
It puts every comment into the GPT output detector and colors and writes a short comment on the HN comment based on its assessment, like you see in the screenshot. This is based on a threshold set by me. >0.7 is probably AI, >0.9 is definitely AI. Lower than that is most likely human. Most comments on HN still appear to be human.

It only becomes reliable after about 50 tokens (one token is around 4 characters) so I mark the comments that are too short with gray and make no assessment on those.

I know pretty much nothing about Javascript. This is shitty code largely written by ChatGPT itself, untested beyond Chrome on MacOS, and no plans for maintenance or extends. If you want features or support, you have to ask ChatGPT, not me.

Let me know what you think, and please don't comment on code quality.
I think there is plenty who experience this, but I felt like a small breakthrough happen when I took command and only used Norwegian instead of falling back to English. It helped a lot and even if it is not the best, it's opening doors in my career here, in that I am able to get interviews with mostly Norwegian speaking companies. :)
Look at the buildings in this painting: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/view-of-washington-dc-ed... . Do they look exceptionally ugly?
To be fair they look almost exactly like the ones in the "old town" part of the city where I live (just more red and less orange), which is by far the most-visited part of my city (because it's pretty and also walkable).
People take pictures right outside of the places were I live. There are photography events in my neighborhood all the time.
The buildings in the painting sure look more appealing than the brand-new district in my town: https://www.lyon-entreprises.com/wp-content/uploads/confluen...

And yes, the past was much more ornate because architecture was a vector of communication -- administrative/state buildings and religious edifices in particular obviously. Which, as a side effect, produced beauty still revered millennia after its creation.
So maybe we should ask: what's modern ideology saying? And what does it says aesthetically? The answer is for all to see, and for all to debate.
When donors want something ineffective, isn't it EA's job to convince them to want something effective instead?

If they are only holding their own events there, it's a waste. If they're renting out the space, it's a distraction and a business masquerading as a charity.
What do you think the lid is there for?
Is there supposed to be controversy in this?
Simple but wise words. Good luck with achieving them!
> And almost every time I see this “nagging” I want to leave the website
Well, just do leave, what's the problem?
seems like a url rewrite issue
The only 'ads' I've seen from Apple have been the aforementioned iCloud invitation in Settings, there is also a prompt to sign up for iCloud when first setting up the system. That's an element of user choice - 'use our service, or don't, we won't ask twice'.

Unlike MS - you have to link everything with an ID when first setting up W11, no choice unless you go to extreme workarounds. Constant nagging and manipulation thereafter.

With that said, what platform are you using that has no ads at all? Presumably Linux on the desktop, which I can almost use. But unfortunately I can't use it on mobile, I have too many use cases in the personal and business world that require a 'normie' grade phone.
OP, here. Before anyone else does, I asked ChatGPT to write a reply to this post.

> Thank you for sharing your UserScript for detecting GPT generated comments on Hacker News! It sounds like a useful tool for identifying potentially AI-generated comments on the platform. We appreciate your transparency about the limitations of the script and the fact that it is largely written by ChatGPT itself. We'll be sure to keep this in mind while using it. Thanks again for sharing!
Software developers are not going away any time soon, however much open AI hype would want that, writing code is a very, very small part of our job
Celsius hearings, December 5: Whose stablecoins are these?
So basically, she would have to be a tree.
in my case it was very much just a dark pattern used by a local ISP
(they also removed all possible email contacts)
Well, there is an end. It's called The End. There's a dragon there that you can defeat, and if you do, you get to see this poem. After that, you can continue playing. And I believe there's some content you can only experience after you've finished the end.

I hope that makes it clear.
There’s a natural consequence that would immediately solve this problem.

If you are not a donator, then you can’t receive either (or at least you go to the back of the line).

Such a system would probably cure your laziness but you would probably have to switch to opt in default when implementing this system.
Great job, when can we expect native MS Windows support?
Re Fortran - it should be a really sensible choice for writing floating point themed python extensions. It has a usable standardised interface to C (as of... F2003? I think) so generating a stub that glues a fortran module onto python's C API would be straightforward. In ye olden days I wrote the numeric kernels and fortran and distributed them across machines in c++, wouldn't be averse to doing the same thing today.

Main argument against that is probably that it's possible to get the same sort of codegen out of C++ and fortran native programmers are somewhat scarce, though I'd bet on it being easier to teach to domain people than julia or c++.
The purpose of this is to go the other way, from orbital sensor platforms that aren't intending to ever return intact. To do it your way, you'd need to send a disk-carrying vehicle into orbit, dock with the satellite, download onto the disk, and then return. Since the satellites don't exactly have USB ports on them, you couldn't do that anyway, and in practice, would still need to retrofit them with some form of high-speed data transfer mechanism to get the data onto your disks. The best option would very likely still be optical transmission, as trying to insert a cable into a USB port on something moving between 7000 to 17000 MPH is not exactly trivial.

At that point, what advantage is there in sending a rocket to receive the transmission and then carry the data back when you can just use the exact same link to send the data straight to Earth?

Theoretically, they could carry some number of disks into orbit, fill them, and then drop them back on parachutes. Something like that is actually what the earliest surveillance satellites did. They dropped film from orbit that the military retrieved and developed.
I have it badly yes. Since very long time, tried everything. I regularly go to the specialist to see if there are updates, but my version seems to be not fixable. It gets far (far!) worse when stressed or tired.

I had it since I was early 20s; it didn't get worse, but also not better. It's very annoying when counting on me hearing something in meetings (irl or via zoom/phone etc); there cannot be any background noise or I hear literally nothing but static. That's why I generally just tell people to chat/email; I prefer that anyway, but it's also a necessity when there is background noise (and let's face it, there is always that one person who has produces a strange amount of noise on Zoom), or has a broken headphone so it crackles through everything they say. Or they use that black conference 'thing' big companies have in the middle of the table which has the worst sound quality ever if you don't bend into it and shout.

Hope they can fix it for you! It sometimes makes me lonely in busy bars as I cannot understand what anyone is saying unless they scream their heads off into/close to my ear. Now that i'm a bit older, more people have hearing issues and are more sociable in helping out instead of thinking i'm just some introvert weirdo 'who does not want to call but only chat'.
AI permeated pretty much every business years ago with the advent of machine translation. It absolutely decimated the translation industry, because people who want translation work done rarely have the skills necessary to tell the difference between the bad-but-free machine translations and the good-but-not-free human translations. Everyone loses - there are fewer translators now, the ones left find it harder to get work, and most people have to put up with understandable-but-mostly-terrible translated text.

AI is technically amazing, but the short term impact is going to be to lower the quality of basically everything you
can generate. People will struggle to compete on cost, and if the buyer doesn't know and appreciate the difference in quality they'll never buy from a person when they can generate something instead.

I never really thought AI would be a serious threat to my job, but I'm starting to reconsider that now.
So is it going to pick up innocent naked baby photos? It’s quite concerning an algorithm could ruin someone’s life over incorrectly flagged material.
I still haven't killed the dragon. My son can kill it in under 20 minutes and loves showing me the elytra, but I've never gotten myself one. I just get stuck exploring, digging tunnels, building houses and castles and collecting animals.
What is the openai freemium layer? Sorry I am still new to this and would like to explore it. Chatgt + gp3?
Let's simplify this.

I want to make an iOS app. I've already paid Apple the $100 bucks per year or whatever it is, so I've "done my part".

Then, I want to have in-app subscriptions and payments, and I found a great service, XYZ, that does this.

So, on my own time, with my own device I bought (which by the way, in another money-grubbing move, HAS to be another Apple device, even though there are 0 solid technical reasons to force this), I write the app, I put in the integration for XYZ.

Can I publish this to large amounts of iOS devices?
https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1582438310718238720... sums it up pretty well
To be clear, the "reasonable policy" is "don't let your ads reveal how invasive our spying is"?
It's also worth noting that the reddit post is a text post which links to the blog post, and the text post content is a lot less negative than the blog post, so it's plausible that people on reddit are mostly reacting to the text post and not reading the blog post.
The US cares about you not damaging or inconveniencing cars.
Ubuntu was/is by far the more popular distro to use outside of the corporate world. There's a lot more blogs, container base images, tutorials out there because it was popular for tinkerers. This is also the reason it has now become popular inside the corporate world.

You may find it harder to find resources for AlmaLinux/CentOS/etc. if you are using the same methods for searching for resources as you would for a Ubuntu (or even Debian) based OS.

However, there are much better and more fully comprehensive training material out there for 'Enterprise Linux' distributions (RHEL, CentOS which means also AlmaLinux and Rocky) because of the widely industry accepted RH certifications.

So to wildly make broad statements: Ubuntu based distros are good for finding resources like blogs and tutorials that are aimed at people who are tinkering and just starting out, maybe from a dev background. EL distros are good for comprehensive training for people who probably have had "Sys admin" as a job title at some point.
1. B1 in European Portuguese. (Wife and I got our A2 this year and are seriously considering moving to Porto).

2. Actually start updating my blog with my research.

3. Shift the weight that's piled on the last few years

4. Start the new job search, just hit 5 years at my current role and I'm getting seriously itchy feat.
I wouldn't say everyone loses. Being able to use foreign language websites and read documents is incredibly useful, and they don't need the world's best translation - although I would say the quality has been pretty decent recently. I'm sorry for translators but they're vastly outnumbered by people who find machine translation useful.

If the choice is between finding a translator and paying them to be able to read something at all vs immediate free translation with the occasional mistake, I know which one I find more useful.
The point is exercise. You don't run to get anywhere, you run for the sake of running and the benefits it has.
That doesn’t matter to laid off people if most companies have a hiring freeze and there’s net reduction in tech workforce. It means most laid off people won’t get jobs until companies start growing again.
1. Trying to focus on one goal.

2. Do the goal.
I have confidence in Fortran continuing to exist in a useful state for my lifetime and beyond.

If Julia had evolved into a community-managed language in the same way that Python has, I would have a positive outlook on it - but I am nervous about the efforts to commercialise it (which mostly just seems to be a case of skimming value off of financial institutions). It is totally understandable why the creators went down this route, but I just wish they had been more idealistic rather than getting on the "everything is a VC-backed company" bandwagon. While I hope Julia continues to grow, I don't trust its longevity enough to put serious effort into using it for myself.
A lot of the concern is that others may not trust the NCMEC, or that they don't trust that other images won't be added in whatever ends up on your device.
The APIs still exist, as do applications that use them.
His agent would have told him to at least deal with the contract before doing the work, I think.
The fiber box at home is 12V so it is easy to power yourself - the local POP has battery backup since it is installed at the same location as the cellphone masts for our neighborhood.

The core routers in probably in a datacenter with battery/diesel backup.

We had outages in the beginning because they use DHCP for the fiber box to get an IP address so you can imagine a few thousand ONT terminals all coming online nearly at the same time and hitting one DHCP server
I live next to the largest intact raised bog in Europe (it's in Ireland) and the profound ignorance of people who claim to love the land is staggering. They have no clue about how bogs form, how long it takes to replenish (basically forever, especially considering drying), and mostly think climate change is great news for making winters warmer (they're not familiar with the AMOC).

It's "protected" but the trail still has quite a lot of turf-cutting debris.
> Synth pioneer and maker of ‘Popcorn’

Interesting how the track is so "light" and the background beat is emulation of some brass instrument... and how from there we got the modern "fat beat".
I don’t mean it negatively. My own experience is limited to firms with no commitment to stated goals, vague goals (grow and profit), and leadership that want to dictate outputs vs outcomes. So unfortunately through my eyes the parent read like satire.
Does anyone pay people to exclusively perform Google searches? How much per search?
Running a crypto exchange is a grey hat. It is a place for crims, money launderers, gamblers and of course there is the environmental impact of crypto to consider.
This is a good argument. A lot of problems that live chat aims to solve can be solved by documenting and making sure that the documentation is discoverable. I’m definitely talking to my team about this.
Yes. The point is that it is intended to detect comments obviously written completely by GPT, not detecting that a human a wrote it. You have to discern between the two, as the scale is not really utilized here. What I've found over the last few days of playing with this is that most AI generated text will be 99.97% accurately identified, while human text ranges somewhere between 70-98. So I could move the threshold for my script quite a lot. I just wanted to see how it works with these thresholds for a while.
It's a lot less readable to me.

The dot version exactly matches my thinking - take this object and transform it with parameters a, b, c and then transform the result again.

When you have an object that you apply a series of transformations to, it's natural to describe the process in chronological order.
And this, makes all the dark humor in this thread even more dark.
AI-generated stories also do not necessarily displace parent-child storytelling, but probably other activities with similar (non-)levels of parental involvement, such as iPad or TV time.
Yet another reason for them to move to Texas, where that's OK: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/downtown-offices-...
I’m out of the loop on RHEL forks. Can someone explain why it is important to be binary compatible with RHEL? Is there a lot of software whose binaries will only run on RHEL? Or is this more a case of wanting something free that can still make use of RHEL-specific skills and knowledge?
>Well no, if you are actually truly in your heart subscribed to any major religion, after your death its not 'your' body anymore, just some leftover soon-to-rot garbage on the level of trimmed nails or cut hair, nothing more.

Confident assertion of what people unlike you must believe makes me extremely skeptical about letting anyone on your side of this debate near the levers of power.
To shorten the distance, not make it longer (aka satellite). And i don't think it's laser but microwave.

https://www.six-group.com/en/products-services/the-swiss-sto...
What if the business plan reads something like this: When stonks go up, we hire, and when stonks go down, we fire. That does not seem stupid.

It still sucks to be fired. But the alternative world where we avoided firing at all costs, would mean not as many people getting hired when stonks go up.
Jarre's version was good, but this is the GOAT cover: https://youtu.be/B7UmUX68KtE?t=72
On Qubes, you compartmentalize your workflows and data into security domains. All programs in one domain have only access to the same security level (in the edge case, it's one app per compartment).

Unintended targets are simply not accessible from a wrong domain, i.e., by wrong programs.
Opt-in is much safer for donors. Imagine you are wealthy guy needing organ transplant. From buying 23andMe (or similar company) data you figure out there are several potential donors. In case of opt-out you can just arrange accident to happen and you have your organ.
> ban trade

Yes those are the only two options, totally unrestricted free trade*, or a total ban on trade. There's no middle ground, no spectrum.

*Except for what restrictions "free trade" agreements place on national legislation, of course. Can't have rogue countries reducing copyright length or the scope of patentable subject matter.
Let's be clear - we're all obsessed with ChatGPT, but all it does is regurgitate existing works.

I see this as further progress down the path of "We don't know how this works, there is no way to know how, but it does.". It also exchanges creativity and the skills gained through effortful creation for dependence on a technolgical marvel that is (currently) free.
Critique of ChatGPT and Others
> It was funded by a grant from a donor who specifically wanted to support this project.

It seems (from what I gather) the venue was a decision from CEA, not the donor (he cites his reasoning behind the choice). It's important to highlight this was not money directed toward donations, but instead money directly for CEA (supposedly they could manage their finances and buy property for meetings).

Still, that's really expensive for a venue -- in the last case, if they had so much money, why not funnel it back to great causes that could really use the money? (sorry, I have to go there: $18M/$5000 == 3600 lives saved from preventable diseases -- is the property that important?)

> (b) thinks that progress on improving the world is mostly limited by figuring out what to do and not by the amount of funding for proven things.

In that case, I think a better investment would be in proper, well thought out, academic infrastructure that would help people research more effective ways of giving. It seems way too easy to "fool ourselves" thinking: we bought a lavish castle, but it's going to make us think better! -- the high standards applied to giving should definitely by applied to our internal decisions as well, and we need to be specially vigilant when it stands to benefit ourselves -- in what appears as a lavish expensive.

My main concern would be the lack of transparency -- why wasn't this decision made publicly and transparently, why didn't they consult for example the effectivealtruism.org forums, or donors?
SBF admits here that, despite TOS assurance thar customer funds do not get lent out, they go into a general pool which seems to have been used for any sort of purpose whatever. SBF obfuscates what those purposes are exactly, but admits that whatever they are, they have caused the general pool to become empty. Not a lawyer but this is probably illegal.
Plain old typewriters made CR and LF pretty self evident, too.
Have you ever guessed the future wrong in your personal life? Did falling on your sword help you and others in any way?
Nim is more of a Golang-Python hybrid; people like me who learned Python first find the Go syntax offensive and the focus on error handling to be very pessimistic and boring to write, but creating something with Python which you can just compile and distribute is a pain in the ass. Nim solves both problems nicely. Sadly it is too much of a minnow in terms of available packages, e.g. for things like mature cloud SDKs.