skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I don't know exactly what it means or what the implication of this i. Before continuing, I just want to clarify that I didn't intend to "call you out" on generating comments with GPT. I just thought it was interesting to test, because someone did actually acusse you of it. And what I found was that the current detection model (https://huggingface.co/openai-detector/) based on GPT-2 suggests that this might be the case (> 99.5 proability of being GPT), and I thought that was very interesting. And to me, it becomes even more interesting when you specifically deny that it was.

For the record I wrote a UserScript to easily identify this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33906712) based on the model from above, so its very easy to test comments. I've used the extension during browsing HN the last few days and this is the first time I've seen a comment identified confidently as AI, where its not the case (given that you are not lying). It sounds I'm calling you out, but I'm genuinly just curious as this is the first true false positive I've seen. The extension has so far only identified not-human comments as AI, but that's just my observation and not some empirical research.

Because you asked, I went a few weeks back in your comment history, at least predating ChatGPT (even though GPT-3 has been available for longer than that) and "tested" a few of your longer comments, and I can't find a single comment that even as much as hints to you using GPT-3 to generate comments. Most of your comments that I sampled are identified as < 10 % probability of being GPT generated. Based on this we could either conclude that the above comment was an anomaly in the way you write, or that you are lying, or that the model is not sufficient, like you suggest.

I am genuinly interested in this, and my intentions are absolutely not malicious. If you want to share sources of writing by others you suggest will "fail the test" then I'm interested in testing that.
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> Hiding behind multiple layers of ownership of companies won’t work any more.

Didn't they literally last week make a law to make this harder?
I love the idea of Duolingo, but I wish it was more about making the act of learning itself a game, rather than 'gamification' which is more about adding extrinsic rewards, achievements, and other small nudges.
There are indoor stairs for the flats on the third floor (the door is on the second floor, and each upper floor usually has their own stairs/entrance).

The indoor stairs tend to be narrower and really a pain when you have a bike or a stroller or grocery bags.

Although most will leave their bike on the back stairs (outside only), and people often leave strollers on the ground floor.
Started an open source project that was used by a fair number of startups. One of them eventually hired me for full-time dev work and others paid for short term consulting work. Also had an Amazon wishlist with token Items of appreciation (mostly beer). That generated a fair number of deliveries. Eventually bought a dedicated large fridge for it. Got out of it after after a few years tho.
Show HN: Interactive exercises for Linux CLI text processing commands
Last month, I started learning a Python TUI framework called Textual. After working on a 4x4 board game, I made an interactive app to test your CLI text processing skills with 40 beginner to intermediate level exercises. The app is fairly basic in terms of features — only single input file, so no stdin data, multiple files, etc.

Most of the exercises in this app is based on my Computing from the Command Line ebook (https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli-computing/preface.html). I hope to improve the TUI app to support all the 200+ exercises sometime next year.
This exactly. The simplest policy is "treat LLM outputs like untrusted inputs", meaning you have to create a policy layer with explainable logic scrutinizing, validating and deciding what to do with them.

The policy above is good advice for a ton of ML models with poorly understood behaviors, like biased image recognition nets. LLMs are simply harder to trust because their behavior can be so variable based on inputs.

Prompt injection is an interesting species of attack, but it doesn't really change the threat surface. Prompt programming isn't reliable enough to be depended on for guarantees in the first place, and outputs can be dangerous with or without injection.
It's not just the use of @gmail.com, it's the fact that it's clearly an autogenerated address with random chars that tripped me.

If it was claiming to be a small business from companyname@gmail.com, I'd be less suspicious - but a large corporate not using their own domain for mail, the email address itself, and the then switching to a second email address are all giant red flags for me.
This is my opinion, too.

If you want deep discussions, you have all the Xchans
There already is an API for GPT-3 that's able to do all of this and doesn't nerf any of it.
Ask HN: What's the Deal with Twitterfiles?
It seems like one side is claiming complete BS, but for the other side it's revolutionary. Taking a completely neutral stance (let's say you don't mind if either Trump is president or Biden is), what's the take here?
They already can be found on other sites, that's a very popular band, hence very low priority. But it would be nice to have it all in there just to be able to avoid ads and have fuller data set for machine learning.
Look for pointless work being done in the org and advocate for moving teams to working on what actually needs to get done.

It sounds weird but you’d be surprised how often teams have lost any good reason to be doing what they’re doing at a micro level. They might still be on track at a macro level, they’ve just got pointless work slowing them up.
> I guess my question is, is how did this work out for it? I never gave atom a try, but did it feel like everything sorta worked together? Or was it more of a eclipse feeling where every package feels like it’s own separate object?

The obvious short answer here is: it obviously didn't work out for Atom. It wasn't able to compete with VS Code in the general marketplace, many people who tried to use Atom thought it was slow and buggy (there are examples in other comments near here, such as dueling tooltips plugins), and then eventually GitHub and Microsoft decided to pool all their official resources into VS Code and sunset Atom.

Pulsar linked here is an attempt to preserve what's left of Atom's open source community and I wish them luck, but they are maybe going to need a lot of it with competition like VS Code. Though admittedly Eclipse is an interesting comparison here because Eclipse still lives on, after several times where people assumed Eclipse was over with and the competition clearly winning. Some big companies still use Eclipse for all sorts of reasons.
I’ve worked many years in fields adjacent to scams and fraud. I’ve seen many different kinds, especially romance and financial scams. This knowledge doesn’t make me more confident about avoiding scams, it’s made me realise that anyone can be scammed regardless of knowledge or intelligence.

Scams are about identifying what the victim really, really wants and offering it to them with some constraint. Some people are desperate for a job, for money to make ends meet. That desperation short circuits their common sense. I’ve seen successful romance scams that were so obviously scams. Even if you were in love, why didn’t you think twice about sending $10k the second time?? Neither of these would have worked on me because I’ve never been desperate for either of them.

That doesn’t mean I would dismissively talk like you did, saying no one should fall for them. I can be scammed, it’s just a question of finding what I’m desperate for and offering that to me, maybe with time pressure. In that situation I would ignore obvious red flags like a business asking for gift cards.

I need to be successful every time, the scammers need to be successful only once.
booo..... "but muh brave wont be supporting it"....

the way to signal google that they are not doing a good thing is by replacing chrome/chromium with firefox. switching from chrome to opera/brave is doing the same thing.

sure, firefox is not helping their cause because of their CEO salivating at google revenue but even then, they have committed to supporting UBO, something that goes on to say a lot more about the ethics behind firefox as opposed to chrome
https://grantwahl.substack.com/p/world-cup-daily-day-22

My body finally broke down on me. Three weeks of little sleep, high stress and lots of work can do that to you. What had been a cold over the last 10 days turned into something more severe on the night of the USA-Netherlands game, and I could feel my upper chest take on a new level of pressure and discomfort. I didn’t have Covid (I test regularly here), but I went into the medical clinic at the main media center today, and they said I probably have bronchitis. They gave me a course of antibiotics and some heavy-duty cough syrup, and I’m already feeling a bit better just a few hours later. But still: No bueno.
It's not the standard here. In person and in media, there's a table full of wrapped gifts for the bride and groom. While I'm sure nobody would turn down cash, they wouldn't feel as appreciative of it as something that was bought with them in mind. Especially things that they'll still have 20 or 50 years later, and it brings back a memory of their wedding.
> What makes you think you can’t issue per-Client, client secrets at install time?

IIRC I want to implement e.g. Github auth in my app I have one secret for my dev account, last I checked you couldn't just generate a client ID for every user... And with that in mind I can't be sure an attacker doesn't extract the "secret" from my app, then direct unsuspecting users to the prompt and intercepts their access keys.
Desktop mode is interesting, because it will increase the overlap between android and ChromeOS, which already supports android apps — google doesn't seem to feel the need for clearly defined boundaries. Meanwhile, you can't get a macbook with a touchscreen, because apple already has a different touchscreen device.

I like google's approach. These categorie, laptop and phone, are not god-given. We're still figuring this out.
eh, it's all anectdotes unless he shows us his prompts
While Mallory-in-the-middle is certainly less-common as a term, Mallory is most strongly associated with active-MitM examples, and vice-versa.
Good point. I added it to the readme.
> I look at Roland today as the Gen-X Harley-Davidson: Selling nostalgia gear to aging dudes hitting their mid-life crisis.

So true, and it huuurts. :D

However, one very valid selling point for gear (old or new) is that it is still, by far, a better user/musical experience than software emulation, even with multiple innovative controllers. Either because a screen lack multiple physical points of control, or because software/plugins rights managements are _always_ getting in the way.

Of course, only if you do something with it and it doesn't pile up in a too small room.
> Like rich food, idleness only seems desirable when you don't get enough of it. I think we were designed to work, just as we were designed to eat a certain amount of fiber, and we feel bad if we don't.

This is certainly not a new perspective; it's what I was taught growing up.

It sounds profound, but I take some umbrage with it, because it stops short. What kind of work? How much? For whom? It's a terribly convenient thing to promulgate the idea that "we were designed to work" without further clarification when you own capital and reap the value of others' labor, and it's an easy thing to say when you derive healthfulness from the work that you personally happen to do. By "work" do you mean activity that's deemed productive to modern society? Otherwise, why not say people need to spend some time being focused, exerting mental effort, being creative, having long-term goals or engaging in long-term endeavours, &c, if that's what you really mean?

I don't mean to sound suspicious or to insinuate some dark motivation on PG's part, but it (ironically) seems lazy to not bother to scrutinize the modern conception of work – to take something for granted because it's all that most of us living have ever known.

We need exercise, but we can get that running for our lives or playing a sport, and the latter is less dangerous (and preferable unless you're a thrill seeker). We need work, but do we need to get that by doing the things that we call "work" today?

(As a total aside: this reminded me of [1], shared some time ago on HN, which tenuously suggests that we were also designed to be idle. I took "designed" in PG's comment to mean "evolved", and my assumption is that small, pre-industrial societies are more representative of the conditions of the past few hundred thousand years in which modern humans evolved.)

Edit: @kergonath also replied to the idea of too much idleness elsewhere in this thread [2].

[1] https://twitter.com/mnvrsngh/status/1510978995269029888
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33931427
Finally some sense.
Warren Buffet is 92, plenty of 80 year old are still productive workers
Totally underrated in my opinion. WordPress is a huge market meaning distribution of scale and PHP is still a very popular language. Kudos to you for nailing this.
For everything before the training courses, I was like "Eh, I could see it" but after that, it's pretty clear that it really did feel like a real job. At about that same age, I was pretty desperate for a decent job and I could totally see at least being very, very tempted to fall for it, too. I'd of course like to think I'd never fall for that, but you don't know until it happens to you.
Not surprising at all. mohammed bin salman personally ordered a journalist beheaded in the Istanbul consulate a few years ago. Why not poison a journalist at the World Cup?

royal families can commit genocide, and still have no legal financial or personal recourse.

To them, he was just a worker and workers are garbage in the Middle East.
What about if we get the AI to a point where one can have a meaningful "correspondence" with the author? Would that potential provide a connection, or not?
This was the first post on ChatGPT here on Hackernews https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33804874
I don't know much about SD, but the author might be confused about the technical terms. He wants a pier but keeps asking for merely a dock.
Whether its Qatar or Amazon, workers in the current climate are at a disadvantage; are still a (sub) human resource. We don't need more overseer empathy. We - i.e., not the exploiters - need be to much less tolerant of exploitation (whatever form it takes). Lip service "discomfort" isn't enough.
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cc can we no deactivate the linkedIn feed please? :D
You don't own the cash in your pocket
Yes they did.

For an example, see any discussion on Chrome-only non-standards like hardware APIs where people are convinced they are standards and all other browsers are holding the web back.

Their entire web.dev site is nothing but Chrome propaganda machine that frequently posts about Chrome-only tech or APIs without mentioning they are Chrome-only and possibly never have the chance of becoming cross-browser (web transport comes to mind as a recent example: shipped in Chrome, its status is literally "some ideas scribbled on a napkin")
> Warren Buffet is 92, plenty of 80 year old are still productive workers

when they are healthy. Let's not exaggerate by talking about outliers. Most men die before they even reach 80.
To be honest I think it's fluff a piece to keep twitter in the spotlight and to drive user engagement. If they really had something new or better said something that wasn't known before they would release it in a more professional and descriptive manner.
It seems pretty obvious that a totalitarian petrostate, that bribed its way into using a global sports event as a massive PR push, doesn't care. What matters is whether we care that they don't care. What matters is whether we care that our sports institutions are massively corrupt.
I can't believe that a website that is practically static goes down like this.
The camera reduced photography to literally pushing a button, yet people still (avocationally) take photography courses.

(Hmmm ... or am I out of date? Does the smartphone generation still do this? Or have they simply moved on to drone cinematography courses?)
> Voice acting is a hard job, and it takes more time than a “few hours” to get good at it. If you think anyone can do it certainly you can just pay an anybody to do it.

So it takes a long time to learn how to take good pictures, and therefore every picture you take after being good should be worth 5k USD or something? that's not how things work at all.

> Voice acting is a hard job,

So all other jobs are easy? That's again pretentiousness at play.
I eat 3,000-4,000 calories/day (I’m reasonably lean at 105kg body weight). Eating that many legumes just leads to bloating in my experience, which makes getting enough protein entirely from that source tricky. I’ve done it, but I found it impacted sleep quality.

I’ve found a liter of chocolate milk after training to be the best low-cost solution to topping off protein. My gym-bro understanding of metabolism justifies this as a way to replenish glycogen post-workout.
Meanwhile money laundering through slot machines, hairdressers, car washes and other low transaction value covers remain entirely unaffected.
'The Policeman's beard is half-constructed' is a collection of poems from 1984. They were generated by Hidden Markov Models, handpicked from thousands and slightly edited by humans. Not much has changed in those 38 years :)
This one kinda makes sense to me. Can't really think of any good legitimate use cases for large amounts of cash.

Closest I can think of say a bar or something similarly cash heavy getting cash and paying suppliers directly. (which is in itself problematic @ tax)
Show HN: GitImage – Version Control for Images
Hello, we just release a beta version of GitImage - a way to version control images/photos, but with very git-like qualities (but not actually using git itself).

The webapp is built in React, while the core library powering it is written in Rust. The initial idea was to also release the core library as a standalone cli-tool for images (which we still might).

Hope to validate that this would be something useful for photographers, marketers and artists.
Je suis anglais et j’étudie[0] français avec Duolingo tous les jours depuis 2019. J’écris ces phrases sans dictionnaire ou traduction Google. J’ai étudié français au lycée pendant trois ans il y a vingt quatre ans. Je ne sais pas si j’ai fait beaucoup d’erreurs de grammaire mais peut-être quelqu’un pourrait me dire?

[0]Not sure if I’m using the right tense here I’ve got a feeling it’s present where we would use past continuous? Expect there’s lots of other mistakes I don’t know about.
And their 21st century health care, their high life expectancy, their unlimited access to information etc etc. Would you prefer to live in the 19th century with the average life expectancy at 35 and your 10 shitty mattresses (there's a reason they had 10) instead of living today and get to live 75 years and sleep on your one modern mattress that's of higher quality than those 10 19th century mattresses combined? Palaces 150 years ago sucked in comparison to modern apartments with isolation so good you barely have to heat, modern plumbing, hot water on demand, showers and electric toothbrushes.

> It is highly misleading to compare lifestyles between different centuries like that.

Not really, there are measurable facts. What it seems you are doing is comparing relative wealth. A king is richer than a peasant, therefore his life is better than a welfare-recipient 150 years later, because there are kings in 2022 richer than the welfare-recipient.

Because of course, 5 > 1, and 50 > 10, therefore 5 > 10. It's all relative etc etc. People quickly forget how much worse everything was even decades ago, much less centuries.
Since one of the last updates of firefox mobile pushed advertisement back on my home screen (without me consenting to it) I was reminded why I do not trust FF anymore.

At least it was not a "study" again, meaning intensive tracking of everything I do, which is enabled by default btw.

So it is nice, that they work on anti tracking features in general. But you have to pay for most of them, which is alright, but not in combination with pushing advertisement and tracking by default from the browser itself.

So to block all the shitty ads who want to track me, I just continue to use UBlock Origin. So as long as it works, I will continue to use FF - but not for this fake privacy orientated branding.
It's a spreadng practice.

Australia is introducing (or may have already passed?) a similar Act with an AU $10K limit on "unapproved" cash transactions.

Over the limit you'll need approval.

Of course the usual loophole for the weathy applies, 3x $3,000 face value gold bullion coins [1] is under the cash transaction limit, although at a kilo each and ~$88K per in valuae, that's almost $300K in value technically under any travel or transaction declaration "$10K face value" limits . . .

[1] https://www.perthmint.com/shop/bullion/bullion-coins/austral...
Yes, but even 20 years ago people were incredibly suspicious of checks, and that's only gotten stronger.

I get checks as refunds or payouts from companies a few times a year, and it's weird every time. I gather that they legally have to pay it out and can't just credit your account, but I'd rather they do the credit. It'd be safer for everyone, and if I cancel my account they could just cut a check then.
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Reference:

No longer possible for the public to learn who owns a EU company
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33836543
> So yeah a public safety website for scams might be useful.

https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/safety-resources/sca...

It's useless because people getting scammed aren't gonna check those websites anyway.
No, they have not made a new law last week, but one of the highest courts has decided that this data should not be public (as the regulations stand, especially in relation to the GDPR). Nothing prevents the European Union institutions from updating the regulations on the subject.

...and this is what they seem to suggest in this paragraph, which is a clear reminder of this event:

> Member states should ensure that any natural or legal person that can demonstrate a legitimate interest has access to information held in the beneficial ownership registers, and such persons should include those journalists and civil society organisations that are connected with the prevention and combating of money laundering and terrorist financing.
The normal way to fight back against it is to prevent it. You are supposed to generously compensate the armed forces at the expense of the entire rest of the country.

Stroessner did that, but he was not single-minded enough about it. He could have plundered much more, he could have named a successor that his generals liked, he could have raised taxes to unsustainable levels to pay off his generals and buy more time. If his life literally depended on that, he probably would have.
Ah yes I remember you!!! What do you work on these days?
If you can't explain where it comes from. Otherwise, it's yours to do with as you please.
This. Also the whole situation reminds me the early days of Facebook, when people abused your account with posts to the wall and so on.