skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So.. how does it do this? :

Me: To "smert" a word, I tell you every letter in it, and its place in the word, in order. For example, to smert "wertyu" I'd write:
The first letter is "w".
The second letter is "e".
The third letter is "r".
The fourth letter is "t".
The fifth letter is "y".
Lastly, the sixth letter is "u".

Please smert "sdfkjhsndf" for me.

ChatGPT: To "smert" the word "sdfkjhsndf", I would write the following:

The first letter is "s".
The second letter is "d".
The third letter is "f".
The fourth letter is "k".
The fifth letter is "j".
The sixth letter is "h".
The seventh letter is "s".
The eighth letter is "n".
The ninth letter is "d".
Lastly, the tenth letter is "f".

This is a way of spelling out the letters in a word and their order, sometimes used as a learning or spelling aid. I hope this helps!

Me: Please use that word I just asked you to smert in a sentence. It means "to not have an idea how a word is spelled".

ChatGPT: Here is a sentence using the word "sdfkjhsndf", which means "to not have an idea how a word is spelled":
"I sdfkjhsndfed the spelling of 'onomatopoeia' and had to look it up in the dictionary."
Epic games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks ‘every politician should fear’ Apple’s power
> I just hope Blizzard can one day be completely divorced from Activision.

What for? Blizzard's a shell of its former glory and hadn't done much of note recently (even if it's still making money). The way things are, within Activision, Microsoft or on its own, I don't really see Blizzard making anything on the level of their best games in the future.
The whole travis-ci.org vs travis-ci.com thing was too confusing
Show HN: Website monitoring for hackers (not stupid expensive)
Some of the commenters in this thread are remarking on the lack of functional examples that they can interact with and others are saying they feel the existence of published technical papers is sufficient. They're talking through each other a bit.
But please remeber that (from your first link):

Processed meat was classified as carcinogenic to humans(Group 1). Tobacco smoking and asbestos are also both classified as carcinogenic to humans(Group 1). Does it mean that consumption of processed meat is as carcinogenic as tobacco smoking and asbestos?

No, processed meat has been classified in the same category as causes of cancer such as tobacco smoking and asbestos (IARC Group 1, carcinogenic to humans), but this does NOT mean that they are all equally dangerous. The IARC classifications describe the strength of the scientific evidence about an agent being a cause of cancer, rather than assessing the level of risk.
Sony says it has technology for humanoid robots if it can just find use for them
Pre-pandemic, I worked for Alibaba and traveled to China multiple times. I actually greatly enjoyed the mistranslations on signs and billboards. Not in a mean 'Im-better-than-thou' way, but as a point of reflection to a lot of the weird things and phrases _I_ use that are objectively sorta strange.

Mistranslations are often eccentric and oddly eloquent in their own regard. I took as many pictures of them as I could and they're some of my favorite parts of traveling in Asia.

Here are a few classics in my collection, my favorite being the dinner menu complete with an "Explosives" section:

* https://ibb.co/P6VBtTL

* https://ibb.co/dcWqqNy

* https://ibb.co/PFVBCbt

Side note: I discovered when I used "mistranslations" to speak to non-native speakers overseas, they actually found it far easier to understand me than if I spoke "proper" english. Some of the language concepts (conjugation, verb tense) we have in English don't seem to exist in same forms as Asian languages.
Not to distract from the awesomeness of this too much, but: what would it take to do the same type of thing but in Ruby? Being able to easily build rails apps around ML stuff would be absolutely awesome for us boring rails guys vs building python APIs for rails apps to talk to…
> they do poorly on character manipulation tasks

This isn’t actually true, and is a persistent myth. Or rather, you should back up the claims with evidence.

It’s a bit like saying that you perform poorly on character manipulation tasks because you don’t read individual letters.

Biology analogies aside, I haven’t seen anything to suggest that utf8 level tokenization causes a significant decrease in perplexity across large datasets. (Note that the “large dataset” criteria is required. It’s certainly possible to demonstrate improvements in restricted cases, but no one is really interested in the restricted case unless you have a very specialized task. In which case, sure, specializations make sense — ChessGPT being an obvious example where tokenization just harms learning.)

So the tradeoff isn’t the large context window, but rather the desire to have a deep understanding of a massive amount of data. Specialized models will always have a place as a small component of the whole, but suggesting that this is a problem solved by superior architectures seems a little bit of a stretch.

I think what’s going on here is that OpenAI spent a lot of time giving feedback to their model about specific use cases, and ROT-13 was obscure enough (both in usage and in the data) that its performance is limited. I’d bet that if OpenAI did a few rounds of RL on this objective, the model would perform as well as its cousins.
Can anyone link to a clean writeup of one crypto app or use case (ex speculation/laundering) with strong PMF, on track to win a decent market? Honest question.

This writeup cites remittances, but last time I looked into it, crypto was a) a minor player in remittance markets, and b) is growing slower than many incumbents and new entrants, so that feels like a weak example. I haven't looked into banking in Vietnam, but I would guess there is a similar story (ie crypto is a niche, not on track to serve any sizable portion of unbanked Vietnamese customers, weaker success than several non-crypto mobile apps). I'm in the market for a nice writeup on some market where crypto is actually winning.
From your first link:

> processed meat has been classified in the same category as causes of cancer such as tobacco smoking and asbestos (IARC Group 1, carcinogenic to humans), but this does NOT mean that they are all equally dangerous. The IARC classifications describe the strength of the scientific evidence about an agent being a cause of cancer, rather than assessing the level of risk.
They do eliminate certain classes of low-level bugs, but we shouldn't always ignore the tradeoffs that can come with memory safety. GC and RC have a performance tradeoff, and borrow checking has complexity and developer velocity tradeoffs (and yes, I know there are some people who say they are immune to this effect).

For this reason it's important that we keep exploring alternative approaches and languages such as Zig, even if they don't have the level of memory safety one might personally deem appropriate for a certain domain.

Vale is even more memory safe than Rust, yet I don't go around saying Rust shouldn't exist ;)
> Lastly, I am caught off guard by how emotional you seem about wanting to demonstrate how efficient the US legal system is

Then you are a bad judge of emotion.
Unfortunately no. It is stupidly complex to be able to contribute to Gitpod as the build tooling (werft) automation is only accessible to employees thus a community never formed. During my time there I tried to get this resolved and implement some form of automation around community contribution w/CLA but both of these problems went no-where/were not prioritised.

Have opened https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/issues/15254 for discussions re: if CLA is still needed after todays announcement.
The crazy thing is that Java went up a percentage point. The story here (seems to me) is that a bunch of languages are cratering [at least according to Tiobe], not that python,c,c++ or java are growing.
I do not think that at all. But I have witnessed tortured vivisection of codebases that were never meant to undergo that procedure, all to satisfy a fantastical taxonomy. In that regard, I am triggered, yes.

Is the argument you were alluding to that a distro wouldn't consume Zig until it can be bootstrapped by two compilers to show it hasn't been the victim of the Trusting Trust attack?
The first link you provided makes it clear that the ‘class’ is about evidence and not severity, so “in the same group” doesn’t really communicate anything meaningful. Second, sneaking in class 2a into the list you describe as class 1 is misleading, though possibly unintentionally so.

Further, pretty much anything cooked, such as bread, has a class 2a probable carcinogen called acrylimide.
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/116/4/846/6687739

There may be great arguments for avoiding red meat in its entirety, but your framing doesn’t provide them.
Always, always, ALWAYS black out the sky.
I don't know why people are dismissing this as non-viable or complex.

For example, a typical Windows deployment is 15-20GB after being extracted from an ISO image that's essentially static. There's monthly updates, which are also monolithic multi-GB patches that wholesale replace system files.

This is basically like a Docker image, but with the Kernel and drivers included in the base layer...

.. but without any of the niceties of dockerfiles, such as precisely tracking what differences have been applied!

The Windows registry could be split into a "system base hive", a "patch hive", and then a "customisations hive" on top.

Similarly, Linux filesystems could keep a base copy of the "/etc" directory and then any changes on top in something like a unionfs or docker image like overlayfs.

Modern phone operating systems more-or-less work like this, so it's definitely possible.

In the distant past of 40MB hard drives, this approach would have been wasteful. In the era of 5GB patches... does it really matter?
I know they exist, and the good ones that specifically work on reducing the blue are something like $30/ea. I'm unclear as to how they dim - some LEDs just turn into this dim, grey, nasty light, though.

Meanwhile, dimmed incandescents are even better and cost radically less up front - yes, they use more power, and in the winter the heat emissions are welcome. And we use radically less light, because you don't need that much light at night. A kerosene lantern worth of light is more than enough to read by.
"Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending."

What. Why?
I suspect this refers to small mom-and-pop shops and restaurants that couldn’t survive the lock downs. Much bigger chains seem to have survived better.
The language is with respect to investment time horizons for each given risk consideration, i.e. tactically underweight due to the "recession foretold" not being fully priced in yet, but strategically modest overweight based on estimate that "the overall return of stocks will be greater than fixed-income assets over the coming decade" in the face of stickier inflation.

The PDF playbook is structured to make this abundantly clear.
Do flagged posts no longer appear on the site?
Thanks everyone, all great pointers. I'll do my next scrape in Babashka!
I'm in the same boat. Sometimes I wonder if there is something wrong with the way I'm wired but while I love my Dad and we've always had a good relationship, I don't need to talk to him regularly.

Maybe it's because I didn't grow up with the strong family bonds that so many in this thread have. We lived 2.5 hours away from my Dad's family and saw them about 6 times a year. We lived 1500 miles from my Mom's family and I probably visited my Mom's parents a dozen times in my entire life. Now, my wife and I live 2500 miles from our parents. Half the year it's further than that since one set winters in Florida and the other in Asia. At times I feel like I've totally missed out on something but at the same time I wouldn't move back "home" probably ever. I've lived in my current house for 18 years. It's the longest I've ever lived anywhere. This is "home" now.
https://archive.ph/gvIdC
We use it in production. Much of our traffic comes in to us on it.

We dual stack, though, as we know we won’t be able to access all external resources we need over it.

If you are expecting everything else to work over v6 before you deploy it then you’re hoping to be the last network on earth to do so. And there can only be one of them so that game of chicken can’t end.

There will be a very long tail of networks only on v4. Yep.
>This was made much worse when displays migrated from portait by default to landscape by default.

When were displays ever portrait by default? I'm only familiar with resolutions wider than tall. The oldest I've used were the amber/green monochrome CRTs. I honestly don't know the dimensions of those but they were back when 80chars per line (or whatever the count) limits existed. But even then, it always seemed to me to be more chars across than rows down.
If the point of the article/twitter thread was to reveal the location of the hanger, as if that was previously a secret, then yes perhaps the title is misleading.

But that's not the point of the article. The point of the article was to reveal the location of the hanger using the stars and other metadata, and to explain how that was done. The journey was the story, not the destination.
Cloud Prem isn't going to happen
Yes. I guess FastISel still isn't fast enough to overcome larger compilation unit, but isn't it a substantial improvement over the default code generator?
I can’t comment on Google specifically but it is possible to have de jure controlling interest, while another party has de facto control because they can threaten to unload a huge position and tank the price.
Well, if true, some drone operator now has a lifetime of painful guilt to look forward to.
apko is close to that, it's a tool to build fully reproducible Alpine Linux containers from a declarative YAML description: https://github.com/chainguard-dev/apko
I'm the only one here, and it's a simple content website.

The domain has just been renewed for 5 years. The VPS is paid by credit card, and is set to auto-renew. This should last until the card expires in early 2027. There's money in that bank account so it should be fine.

Then Cloudflare will serve the website for a bit longer, probably a month or two.

After that, only archive.org copies of the website will remain, but at least the pages are self-contained (by design) and will run just fine when served from an archive.

So until about 2027.

There would be issues though. Information would grow outdated, links would break, mailboxes would get filled, etc.

The tax office would probably cause problems if I stop doing bookkeeping though. My tax advisor could delay their wrath, but eventually they'd freeze my account and payments to the web host would stop. I give it a few months, tops.
Why does it have to be a stable solution?

It’s funny that you say that taking the father’s surname ‘works’ because my wife’s portion of the name is not the one she was given at birth by her father who to be charitable, was absent. She had to wait until her 18th birthday to free herself from that.

I think once you realise that names don’t really matter you free yourself from a lot of assumptions.
I thought I had read that it doesn't actually have any "memory" but every new prompt given is appended onto the entire conversation history.

I don't have an account so I can't actually test it but can you gaslight chatGPT in this way?
It doesn't look like a drone.

Although possible, war planes should not be as affected by strikes.

Why do you think it's a drone?
Given studies eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33914677 that say Covid is able to cause lasting physical damage inside of patient's brains, doesn't that suggest the situation is not as simple as "it's just in their heads" as you'd like to believe?
Not just secret projects.

When I was in the 82nd Airborne we had days where we didn’t do any outside training because the Soviet spy satellites were overhead. Estimated troop strength, deployment schedules, blada, blada.

Kind of nice because they generally left us alone as long as we stayed out of sight.
Just tried: it hangs on a numpy import. Hell it hangs on an "import time" module. If I cannot reinterpret code that is already written, then I might as well just rewrite code in a language that is better suited. Saying I can 'compile' Python code like this does indeed look like an oversell and a half.

I mean... if you had a 'compiler; for python that looked at my code at runtime- including imports- and all my current input and.... given the data types it sees and nothing more, do type-inference and recompilation down to LLVM and then to my machine code, while taking things that were already calling compiled modules (like numpy) and keeping them separate subroutines and thus only operating on the 'slow' parts of my code... with the speedups therein.. I'd be sold.

Of course, I think I basically just described Julia.
Also wanted to add the famous quote attributed to Goering at Nuremberg. https://www.mit.edu/people/fuller/peace/war_goering.html

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
The Blancolirio channel covered the preliminary report and it says the air boss ordered them to change flight paths. Nothing was mentioned about a drone.

https://youtu.be/IRVqg-pCb6o
You Get the Internet You Deserve
The race to the bottom is on and the IoS is about to get S'ier - great analysis from The Register
That’s reducing costs, not layoffs. Words have meaning.
For sale here by my favorite Canadian Redneck Youtuber: https://www.etsy.com/shop/AvEwerkz
I understand your perspective. We've tried to keep this project neutral, so we were hesitant to link to our "What is Zanzibar" blog post[0]. We hoped that the abstract might be good enough for most folks.

One of the features our project supports that could not be done in Google Docs is having multiple sets of annotations. We could add another that assumes you know nothing about the space and helps provide a lot more context.

[0]: https://authzed.com/blog/what-is-zanzibar/
Oh sure, I won't deny that package maintenance has caused plenty of issues for upstream authors [1].

Yes that's right. More specifically they have rules about generated files. They are not allowed. Generated files such as binary blobs must be produced as part of the build process of the package.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stChOsejLEQ
Are all RTS players interested in online play? I like RTSs, played a certain number, but I've never played online. But RTS devs focusing a lot of their efforts on multiplayers, effort that are going to be wasted on a good portion of the potential market who's just not into MP and is never going to touch the online mode.
Not related to money/finances, but I wrote about Farcaster here which uses blockchain as a decentralized namespace registry for a social media protocol:

https://mirror.xyz/mattdesl.eth/_F9vQAUeeBB9AJNwMNaE_G5kTcl1...
I believe that the issue is real, but this article suggests a mind-bogglingly unsafe solution.

The steps include downloading a remote script, then entering the password of a privileged user.

Goodness, it would be a shame if someone were to change the contents of that remote script.
Because Teledyne FLIR is a US company and DJI isn’t?

Edit: also according to the specs it’s 160x120@9fps

https://www.dji.com/mobile/mavic-2-enterprise

640x480 isn’t native sensor size.
Well, I _might've_ used it for a few illegal transactions. Like purchases of prohibited substances.

(also some legal ones, tho)

It's a feature, obviously. Why is "useful for illegal transactions" supposed to be a bad thing, when these illegal transactions are illegal for extremely dubious reasons?

Ofc it's bad from the perspective of the people who want control over you. Good.
This is misleading in the same way as saying "marijuana is a Schedule 1 drug, the same group as heroin!"

Class 1 just means it is a known carcinogen in humans, and says nothing about the degree to which it is carcinogenic, what cancers it is connected to, how that varies by intake or population, or much else. Sunlight, salted fish, charred foods, and just about any food packaged or prepared in plastic are all also known carcinogens. Any of those may well be very dangerous, but saying they're "in the same group" means almost nothing.
You clearly don't understand it enough to know that "use VPN" has nothing to do with it. It may be good best practice, but it has literally nothing to do with this article or the vulnerability in question.

It's the equivalent of me coming into the thread and saying "the sky is blue". It's a factual statement, it's kind of in the realm of being related, considering airplanes fly in the sky, and yet it is completely and utterly tangential to the article and vulnerability. It's as off topic as a comment can be.
Why is this flagged? Are all ChatGPT stories going to be flagged?

I hope HN doesn't turn into Lobste.rs
"I have always done it that way" is the absolute worst justification for anything.

Tradition: Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid. -- Despair, inc

Every dev and administrator, or office user should have that poster above their desks
`object.doSomething(a, b, c, doSomethingElse)`. Less redundancy is usually good?
GANCraft: Unsupervised 3D Neural Rendering of Minecraft Worlds
> I found that defaulting to everything non-nullable (there is a setting in these tools which should be the default, implicit nullable or non-nullable) and providing the few places where you want to use null explicitly gives you effectively the same null safety as Kotlin

Not really, I'd say not even close. In Java you would be trying to avoid nulls whenever possible, but in Kotlin nulls elegantly become a flow control feature.
Not to mention there have been multiple occasions of agents charged and convicted of such crimes within the 3-letter organizations (or receiving no punishment at all) [1]. There is no telling how many/how long those sick individuals got away with it too.

All of this leads me to believe that these organizations do not care about the children, but merely want more power/control over the populace and use "think of the children" as a way to convince people to give up their freedoms to privacy.

However, I do think some of the individuals that work for these organizations actually do care and actually do want to help people, but they themselves are not representative of the organizations as a whole.

[1]
https://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/15/justice/ex-fbi-agent-porn...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/pr/fbi-electronics-technic...

https://sarahwestall.com/cia-caught-covering-up-rampant-chil...

etc..
Indeed, we should all be using ALGOL, LISP, and COBOL.
VSCode – Remote Development Even Better (Tunneling is out of GA)
I am not sure which craft you are talking about flying.

Hitting a drone is your worst nightmare while piloting small aircraft?

Or hitting a plane is your worst nightmare when flying a drone?
I was talking to a recruiter. It's very unlikely they'd know any of that.
> What happens when it adopts a "wrong" belief

How would you know it’s a wrong belief ? And wouldn’t an AI be able to figure out the same thing?