skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Per author's comment on the HN thread:

> I am the person that wrote this, and used GPT-3 and a few other writing tools to help me wordsmith it. All the points, however, is original work and not AI generated. I am not a native English speaker, so I have been using these tools to avoid awkward sentences/paragraphs.

How is this qualitatively different from using tools like Grammarly (which in their premium versions suggest style, not just grammar fixes) which themselves brag about being AI powered?

We're not talking about "write me an article about Foo" - the author has provided detailed notes and presumably selected good-sounding output choices (they might be lying but that's another issue).

Are we, software developers, founders and entrepreneurs, in the business of disrupting others and automating away their jobs with computers, now so outraged something like this can be successfully automated?

I have seen human copywriters producing much worse content than what ChatGPT does based on good prompts. Why on Earth should we not automate that?
There are a couple DevTools features that make this kind of reverse-engineering much easier.

Oftentimes, the obfuscation relies on turning strings into functions. You can watch all this happen with:

`monitor(eval); monitor(Function)`

That'll log out the arguments passed to eval and the Function constructor. https://imgur.com/hMbKQZA You can also use `debug()` to breakpoint on invocation. (Yes, this works with native fns as well as user-land fns)

Then, comparing memory snapshots can help illuminate the work that happened. Take a snapshot of about:blank, then another after evaluating the ips.js payload. Select comparison. Then look through the results, especially (string). This appears to be the same "VM's strings" called out in the post: https://imgur.com/2v58VM5

Can also see heavy use of WebGL and wasm based on allocations.
Front page and more than a hundred comments for a basic Vim command. Reddit is leaking.
EU does not require backup or any other camera and cars frequently don't have it.
Really? IMO that's the sign of an extremely poorly designed tool that a lot of users have learned to use very well despite how poorly it's designed.

A tool that's designed well should have its actions all extremely intuitive, in which case one would not forget things in this manner because all of the actions would be derivable from their justifications. For example: ctrl+C is copy, and ctrl+V is the key right next to it for paste, making that not just muscle memory but also extremely easy to remember and even easier to explain: "press the the key to the right of C for paste".
Common is probably not the best word choice here.
I encourage you to watch or re-watch the stoning scene in Life of Brian. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDe9msExUK8 @ 2:50).

"You're just making it worse for yourself!"

"Worse? How could it be worse?"

Terms of service are an interesting thing:

1. They have no force of law behind them.

2. They aren't written by congress and should not be treated as such.

3. A corporation writes them for their own benefit.

4. A corporation changes them for their own benefit.

5. A corporation follows them, or doesn't, for their own benefit.

Any violation of corporate terms of service is, at best, a civil tort, not a criminal offense against these United States. Unless you're me, I suppose.

Further, these aren't terms of service I clicked "Agree" to, and in fact they evolved several times without my having read them, nor needed to have read them.

In retrospect, a steady series of frog boiling changes turned my conduct from allowed to questionable. I say questionable instead of illegal, or even forbidden, because I also had, upon every adjustment, explicit written permission from the company to adjust transactions I had not made. Maybe they didn't intend that with their word choices (they reworded it once without changing the meaning), but that just makes it sharp dealing, not fraud. That was absolutely sharp dealing (not a single other customer lost out on rewards, because of how their system was set up). Sharp dealing also happens to take place when an average consumer signs up for a rewards program, or a protection plan, or this week's sale when the actual price on a sale item is actually higher than last week's. I sharp dealt a sharp dealer. That much is true.

The accounts were actual accounts, predicated on fake information (this is not a minor distinction). The fake information was never read by any human, and fake not as a vehicle to defraud (since no human read them), but to avoid getting confused with other customers (it had been a problem), and to avoid getting junk mail. Is the person in line ahead of you at Kroger or Albertson's a fraudster for doing the same? Even if they have 5,000 rewards accounts? Assuming the worst motives in people might be the most comforting way to be, but it's not always the correct way to be.

Appreciate the legal advice (though I don't advise giving people legal advice), but I'd appreciate your considering how many people advise me to do what is easy (they think) instead of what is right. Ever considered signing something you knew wasn't true? That's what the plea offers were, not true. I had 20+ years staring at me on the other side of this false paper I was asked to sign and I don't think I could've signed it if my life depended on it. There's something deeper and more visceral to a signature than an idle scrawl. It's a door to your soul. Does that make me a more moral person than average? Perhaps not, but better than the treatment I've been getting.
What do you think is occurring that is likely to end our species?
FWIW, while safe, that would probably be illegal in many states you pass through due to hands-free device laws.
Machine translation won't replace human translation any time soon.
Look up "write board for children", they can be had for under 5 USD for a small one. I keep one in the shower too!

This is an example, just the first one I found:

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005004626987148.html
You will be pleased to know CGI.pm v4.55 was just released last week
https://metacpan.org/dist/CGI/view/lib/CGI.pod

It's still there, you can still use it. Works great.
If Google search actually searches (find articles or sites with keyword) then yes: ChatGTP or it’s successor would never replace Google search.

But Google search so broken (at least for me) so it looks more like broken or badly implemented ChatGTP.
One of the best quant firms, TGS, is located in CA and enforces non-competes no problem. They had an employee sue, his NC got waived but he had to pay 7-figures to TGS.
You're asking why the current sewage system wouldn't be safer than the nightsoil system, where raw waste is applied directly to cropland. Or why applying processed sewage to cropland might be less safe than NOT applying the bioprocessed sewage to cropland. I think you can understand why the latter there could be safer, by increasing the distance between waste and food.
It seems you are not able to turn this off for the newer models, as I don’t see this settings on the iPhone 13 but I do see it on an iPhone 11.
The canary is edited and signed, manually, by an actual human every Monday morning.

I have high confidence that the individual tasked with this can quickly think of another unpredictable metric with which to datestamp the canary.
I’m waiting for someone to make a GPT-style model trained for video and audio prediction (e.g. frame by frame, perhaps) in addition to the existing text prediction. Imagine using a significant percentage of YouTube content, for example.

It would probably be insanely expensive. But I feel like it would be almost guaranteed to acquire a world model far richer and more robust than ChatGPT’s.

Human babies learn by watching the world around them. Video frame prediction feels much closer to that than text prediction, and given the wildly impressive results we are seeing with large text prediction models alone, it seems like an obvious next step.
Me either, but that's because I type `:wq!` every single time instead. I'm not one of those who is afraid of typing more than a single character so I don't care if it's actually 3 I'm hitting. I am someone whose entire brain comes to an absolute crash if I type "wq" and it's asking me if I want to save over a RO file. It's like having a belt loop or pocket catch on a door handle and I despise it.

So, `:wq!`, or as I call it "write the fucking file and quit, _with feeling_"
I'm not sure if it's environmentalists pushing for that, or the plastics industry, in response to complaints about the amount of plastics waste. The alternative that environmentalists actually want is reduced production of plastics, and less making of single use and short lived items
Agreed. I recently saw on a Mamba team's blog post saying that conda is also starting to incorporating libmamba, so probably the issue could be resolved someday.
I am a student here in the US.

I was certainly taught to hold and write with pens/pencils in the way that you describe. That being said, I have noticed that I and many of my peers somehow moved over to holding it with the thumb wrapped around the pen, and the pen held more straight up and down.

I am not quite sure what causes this, but I think that is is related to the way that you must hold many cheap ballpoint pens for them to write consistently. I personally fixed this bad habit when I switched over to fountain pens.
Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
The only reason the footgun is there is because vim put it there. Seems reasonable to me to be frustrated by that.
I don't get it, Brazil has been using biofuels (sugarcane ethanol) successfully in large scale since the 70s or 80s. Like a third of the car fleet of the country was ethanol fuelled in the 90s, and all cars since the 00s are dual fuel "flex" motors. All petrol stations have pumps for ethanol and gasoline side by side. And Brazil is no micronation, that is a fleet of millions and millions and millions of cars. So how can something that has been working for so long be unworkable?
> You should switch jobs. The majority of my jobs were building something I love

Lmfao if they would
hire me I would.
Article claims that chatgpt is overly sensitive to queries eg -gate suffix and come lad vs cum laude. This seems like a weak argument based on a temporary shortcoming. Any NLP methods search engines use for word meanings should be trivially integrated into chatgpt.

Comes off as a company that sells search solutions looking for reasons this tech won't replace it.

I'm sure the author is better informed, but what about the scalability of search? I'm not sure if the neural network approaches are as cost efficient (today) as some of our current search algorithms when it comes to answering queries.
Vector search over any corpus that fits in memory is quite fast. Hell, a naive inverted index performs quite well for 90% of tasks.
Don't build for small business. They are the 20% customers with 80% of the problems. Large business problems are lucrative and you can use them to name drop on small businesses once you want to go to that market.
Every time I read things like this I take the opposite as the most likely.
I'm trying to think of a major metropolitan area in The US which wouldn't fit this description.
Ha, yes. 東亞醬 sounds hilarious! Then again, so does "dip the protein". It sounds like some crazy bodybuilder trying to make supplements taste good.
TrueNAS.

Has a jail running InfluxDB, Grafana, and Mosquito to monitor the TrueNAS metrics and my IoT sensors.

Has a Ubuntu VM for the TP-Link Omada management software. (It's not terrible but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it)

I used to have more ambitions but installing and maintaining software has become a chore.
The Global War on Terror (GWOT) revealed remote places where the Toyota Hilux refused to break
> I thought that a number of first party Google "native" apps is just a packaged PWA, isn't it?

I wonder what those are. Because the apps where they want actual fast responsive apps with smooth animations etc. (and tracking :) ) are all native as far as I can tell.
More from the same publisher:

"Why touch screen phones won't replace clamshell phones any time soon"

"Why electric light bulbs won't replace gas lighting anytime soon"

"Why transistors won't replace radio tubes anytime soon"

"Why drones won't replace fighter aircraft anytime soon"

"Why electric cars won't replace combustion engines anytime soon"

"Why linux desktop won't replace windows anytime soon"
Googler opinions are my own. (I know nothing about search).

Google has LaMDA, which I could see them putting the answers from it into the knowledge box at the top of searches. There is no reason they have to be mutually exclusive, a search engine can provide answers from both. Google search is already an aggregation of multiple sources (images, web index, knowledge, shopping, video, flights, etc...). Adding another source seems like the obvious path forward (assuming accuracy and cost make sense).
Related:

The rsync.net Warrant Canary is now 15 years old - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26960204 - April 2021 (13 comments)

Rsync.net Warrant Canary (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5899197 - June 2013 (50 comments)

Rsync.net Warrant Canary - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5837351 - June 2013 (1 comment)

Show HN: The rsync.net Warrant Canary - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4834362 - Nov 2012 (1 comment)

Rsync.net Warrant Canary - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=702247 - July 2009 (46 comments)
Logic and rationality are not inherently opposed to empathy.

That being said, one does not need to be empath to value not causing accidents to other people. "This will lead to more accidents" is both logical and rational claim.

The ideological investment into idea that one must be selfish to max to look "logical" is irrational.
No. The purpose of a subreddit is to let users engage. Excessive locking decreases user engagement and is harmful, not to mention that it punishes users (who are no longer able to continue a already started conversation in the comments) for violations of others.
I've stayed in a hotel in Mexico that had this feature.

FWIW, I didn't recognize the manufacturer, and it's been too long for me to recall it offhand, but I thought it was a really neat feature. Very useful if you accidentally hit the wrong button or if some five-year-old wanted to see all the lights.
> I feel like we are now into the absurd... You know what kills competition. REGULATION.

That is absurd.

Regulation takes many forms, and if you think that monopolies are only broken by reducing regulation, then there isn't any point in continuing this conversation.
just get rid of the shell completely!

command lines are so antiquated
Are there any known examples of the US Government legally being able to compel a lie?
That’s a solution only from a business perspective. Some of these SSO platforms have a “move fast break things” attitude to software development and a security track record to match.
Also, I believe one of SQLite's original design goals was Postgres compatibility. So a lot of the games SQLite plays with type notations and coercions are intended to make it possible for SQL code written for Postgres to run with SQLite, to the greatest extent possible given Sqlite's underlying architecture.
Not all of them do it that way. The HFT I work with, pays the greater of base salary or 75% of base+bonus averaged over the last two years.
My personal opinion on this is that the minimum should protect me from others. This doesn't even include seatbelts I gave as example because I can (realistically) only hurt myself. This would include gas emissions, noise limits, headlight angle/strength rules, ... Certainly not the dashboard layout.
^C interrupts the current operation, while ^[ actually finishes the input
sequence. The only practical difference I can think of is that when you entered
input mode with a prefixed number, ^C ignores it. So 2iabc^C only writes
`abc', but 2iabc^[ writes `abcabc'.

Edit: apparently ^C also ignores abbreviations. :ab lhs rhs, then ilhs^[
writes rhs, but ilhs^C writes lhs.
no citation, but I wanted one of these as a kid and remember them being around $100-150 USD in the early 00s
Just heard of this, so I logged in with my google account. The mistake it makes below is interesting. If this were a human response, I would assume a brain fart. Not expecting this type of error from "A.I."

Me> Find the area of an ellipse with semimajor axis 5 and semiminor axis 4.

ChatGPT> The area of an ellipse with semimajor axis 5 and semiminor axis 4 is 40π. You can find the area of an ellipse using the formula: A = πab, where A is the area of the ellipse, a is the length of the semimajor axis, and b is the length of the semiminor axis. In this case, the semimajor axis has length 5 and the semiminor axis has length 4, so plugging these values into the formula gives us: A = π(5)(4) = 40π.
Algolia's main product is search related. You can tell from this article that they are scared about ChatGPT even partially replacing search. They are very scared of losing business, and anyone who is scared of ChatGPT will be writing articles like this, badmouthing ChatGPT.
" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7883803

silent !stty -ixon > /dev/null 2>/dev/null

nnoremap <C-q> :x<CR>

inoremap <C-q> <ESC>:x<CR>
I think there was an episode of the Outer Limits like this where some scientist made contact via wormhole with aliens and they looked suspiciously like demons with the horns and everything. The aliens of course said “we have a bad rep but we’re actually good guys!”, then proceeded to do something like drain the oceans or boil them for terraforming or something apocalyptic after convincing the scientist to let them teleport through.
Any camera or photo only gives you a version of reality. Exposure, white balance, 35mm vs 50mm vs 120mm, etc., can all affect the image subtly. So even with "pro tools", your RAW images are getting doctored by photographer choices.
Funny, its perimeter vs. height approximates pi, rather than the originals' 2pi.
I can see issuing a BOLO based solely on facial recognition, but nothing beyond that. They issue BOLOs today based on victim descriptions, which I think is no better than a facial recognition.
I'll be the first to say that chatgpt already does very well at the first and third examples. WebGPT sounds like the right approach for the others (understanding how to formulate a search query, then searching, then summarising the results)

Edit

I think the direction of these models seems clear, and their capabilities however limited at the moment are outstanding. I think the best measure of performance is what the naysayers complain about. We've quickly gone from "actual gibberish that looks like paragraphs" to "yes but it loses track after a few sentences" to "yes it's kind of coherent but doesn't make sense totally" and are now at "it's like an overconfident human at many tasks, when they're only somewhat qualified in the area". People are pointing out where it's got an API call wrong, without it having any ability to look up the answer and see if the function actually exists.

I spoke to it about distributed computation design and discovered something new I can actually implement in my design.

I'm very excited about where this will all go because it seems useful now and I'd be very surprised if this is the best that it ever reaches.
"Sticky states" work too; IIRC, it's how FPU exceptions on the x87 work. But I was responding to the upthread comment that "exceptions can come from any possible function call depth, whereas in C you only have to deal with error return codes." Sticky states still have that "issue." After all, they're just an alternative to try{}catch{} blocks.
Martin Shkreli Explains Why Sam Bankman-Fried Got Lucky with His Judge
Please don't copy-paste comments on HN. It lowers the signal/noise ratio of the site.

If you want to refer to something you wrote elsewhere (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34153694), a link is great. Even better, if possible, would be a link along with new information drawn from the specifics of the new discussion.
I do not have an extra kidney, I have a fall-back. I might consider giving one of them up for a loved one but that's as far as I will go.
Read more carefully. You can accrue resistance to a specific vaccine. You cannot accrue resistance to vaccines, generally. The rate of people taking the Flu vaccine has no bearing on the efficacy of the Covid vaccine (in terms of vaccine resistance).

Also, you have linked to a section on antivirals. These are different from vaccines.
For animal feed we will start with that, but I am finding hard to imagine that clean organic waste is not being used already in some other way? Meaning, probably we need to pay for it?
Don't fuck with nature.
Of course I was just doing it wrong. If only there had been some trustworthy authority who could have helped me navigate! Because clearly the university educated ~grifters~ [pastors], "scholars", "councilors", sacred texts, and ~imaginary friends~ [divine guidance] weren't enough.

If only some friends and I weren't born as 'abominations' then the culty religious organizations would've seemed more productive. Look even a broken clock is right twice a day. I still don't want broken clocks in my life.

Honestly I'm done with magical thinking, confirmation bias, survivorship bias, appeals to authority, and all the other tiresome phenomenon necessary to remain in any faith.
> The other unspoken value of nimbys is racism-- that's a value, not a calculation of self interest.

This is a shocking claim, and I consider myself a strong YIMBY type. I worry that you are ascribing the worst possible reason to an observation of others that hold opinions or behave different from yourself.

“It’s hard to tell when you’re being discriminated against.” —IASIP
In my limited experience(and I haven't tried the expensive stuff like Kemper or Neural dsp), the difference is most apparent to the player in the way amp and effects react to playing dynamics. For a blues player sat 'on the edge of overdrive' the effect of injecting emotion into ones playing comes through the amp in a way I couldn't get with a digital amp. This the affects the players response. I feel like a million dollars through my Fender Twin. I close my eyes and channel my Stevie Ray. It didn't happen to me through a Boss Katana. If you were paying to listen to me (as if), you would get better vfm from the tube amp.

If I played metal, or was backing a pop group, one pedal di'd to the desk sounds like the dream
gotcha ..... apologies.
This is not true. The screens predate that US regulation. And that regulation is purely US one, EU does not require camera.
exactly the symptoms of climate change, average temperature rise and higher extremes
https://archive.is/jEDA0
My OG Canon PowerShot (Compact flash!) took better photos in many ways than almost every Point-and-Shoot digital camera I've had since. It just didn't have the megapixels.

But it was free of chromatic aberrations, didn't have bleed or other fringing on high-contrast edges. There were clear advantages to not pushing the limits of how many megapixels you can pack into a small sensor.
Also UK here, I don't remember being taught how to hold a pen. Mine rests on the third knuckle of the ring finger, with the middle fingertip bracing the pen tip and the index fingertip bracing about a third of the way up. Then the upper part of the pen rests in the crook of the thumb and palm. The thumb-tip rests across part of the index finger and middle finger, providing some stability.
That is, if you can blindly trust the answers.. if it could provide the top sources for the information so I could fact-check it if needed, it would work
There are a variety of GPU configurations. Some use 100 W, some use 450 W; should all motherboards have 450 W VRMs? Memory bus widths vary from 128 bit to 512 bit. And socketed RAM cannot support ~20 GT/s signaling used by GDDR.
From all of reddit or just that subreddit?