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>So in 2033, maybe the writer's main job will be adding personality to otherwise bland AI-generated stories.

Really, AI sceners [0] need to stop thinking so highly of themselves. It's getting boring.

The very big plot logic hole that the jewel is missing such that the lady demands its return but then it was...found hidden in the maid's room, is so bad that it would be rejected outright by anyone. This is beyond just how boring it is, which the author did remark upon.

It's funny how only on a handicap is AI impressive ("AI is amazing given the constraints! It can spell well and talk with natural language, this is amazing compared to what we had five years ago") but despite the 80% coherence and value, the 20% it fails in are key areas that really sink it as convincing people other than sceners.

[0] It's hard to tell, but a lot of these claims and hype seem to be driven by people in the scene, not people who actually do AI research or work.
In 2022, 140 million people in Russia became criminals without trial, and got cut off from Visa, Mastercard and SWIFT within days.

I’d suggest normal people to worry about those things at least a little bit if they have families who depend on them, you don’t want to have all their savings locked up at once.
I think it comes down to how impactful a mistake can be - who to blame when ai automation fails 20% of your crop? It's easy to forgive a four armed person on some generated results.
not denigrating Weizenbaum's work at all, but he was a bit of a squeaky wheel on the "I fear for the future" technology/society/"oh the humanity" stuff. I'm pretty sure ChatGPT could do even better justice to that aspect of his career.
I'm using Sublime and as Druid fan I'm following Lapce but this one looks good too.
"When using GPT-3 or ChatGPT to generate text, you can control the length of the output by adjusting the "max length" parameter. The default value for this parameter is typically set to a relatively short length, to ensure that the model returns a prompt response.

However, you can increase this value to generate longer outputs. For example, if you're using the OpenAI API to generate text, you can set the "max_tokens" parameter to a larger value to generate longer text. Similarly, if you're using the Hugging Face API, you can set the "max_length" parameter.

It's important to note that increasing the max length will also increase the time and computation resources required to generate the text. This can also impact the quality of the output; if the story is too long the continuity may be affected as the model has less context to understand the story

Another way to help this would be to explicitly tell the model what is the current point of the story and what are the next steps it could take, this way it could generate a more coherent continuation of the story.

Additionally, you can set the "prompt" or "seed text" to a short summary of the story so far, this way the model will have more context to work with and the generated text will be more coherent with the existing story.

It's worth noting that even with the above techniques, stories generated by AI may not be as polished or coherent as those written by humans, as the model does not have an innate understanding of narrative structure or character development."

--chatgpt
I have a strong personal and moral conviction in favor of money-laundering so I’m pretty happy big banks are getting out of the crypto space.
> because that's where the Timex factory where they built the ZX Spectrum was

You could say that, but there weren't any problems getting ZX Spectrums in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh either, and the whole UK was awash with bedroom programmers making piles of games.

What I think actually put Dundee on the map was David Jones, attending Dundee Institue of Technology (now know as Abertay University) in 1987, employing his friends Russell Kay, Steve Hammond and Mike Dailly to form the company DMA Design. They had a series of successful games on the Amiga, releasing the worldwide smash-hit Lemmings in 1991. This encouraged Abertay to offer the world's first computer games degree course in 1997. You can see how large an employer DMA Design was in 1996 in this interview [1] where they were working a little-known game called Grand Theft Auto they released in 1998...

I'd put the case that DMA Design and Abertay kickstarted the Dundee games industry themselves, they had a lot more influence than the Timex factory. Bathgate had the Motorola factory, Greenock had IBM, that didn't turn them into software hubs.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENyPdBo-yVI
Yes, large language models are surprisingly close to how the ship AI in Star Trek seems to work.
Did you try asking GPT for unexpected arcs or plots? maybe that will fix the common scenarios.
What does your comment mean? It looks like nonsense output from an AI or spam.
I was /that guy/ at my last place and I agree that it's not well received.

Though once I was writing some lisp to fix a problem we were having and I had a developer beside me and he was blown away by what was happening. I think that the interactivity is something which must be experienced to be fully appreciated.

I use it at my current start up and could not imagine using another language. I've become too used to this kind of workflow.
Ah, right, hadn't thought of Windows, I was thinking about dotnet and other MS (open source) cli stuff I read about.
Looks cool! Including the script in the project directory is the way, and I created on makesh[1] with that in mind. Since it's a submodule it can be easily pulled around with a repo and updated.

Glad to see people are finally going back to ahell scripts since they are very ergonomic and with a little portability in mind, they can be cross platform too.

[1] https://github.com/Baldomo/makesh
Just yesterday I had a form ask me to use a special character, one or more lowercase characters, one or more uppercase characters and two (!?) or more numbers. The password must be between 6 and 15 characters long.

What kind of absolute maniac comes up with such a password policy? Demanding friggin' two numbers and then limiting the password length to ridculous 15 characters?
Depends entirely on what and why you are logging.

Is it audit logs for security or due to some regulatory requirement? Then huge blobs are fine. Desirable, even.

Transaction logs for machine-loading so you're able to replay an application's state at any given moment in time? Yeah probably gonna end up with huge blobs again.
Not related to this topic, but I am curious how the situation looks like in IT industry. Say a company without any "real problems" ask for "advice" 180 IT agencies. My guess that situation will be much worse.
It's expensive to be poor.
Me too, despite knowing the rule “aviate, navigate, communicate”, I was hoping that the captain was explaining what was going on to the passengers but then I remembered: no power, no PA
The euro-america centric view in claiming that India failed in software is simply absurd. India has giant software companies powering one of the most advanced governance, finance and business societies and not to mention a major destination for the west to outsource software jobs!
Bullet point 1: at 35 years old, I hadn't been to a dentist in 12 years; walked into a clinic in Spain for a cleaning, and the lady gasped that I had no cavities and no missing teeth. I only brush once a day, without toothpaste.

Bullet point 2: No one on my father's side has ever had a cavity that I know of. We do all get kidney stones. I think it's related.

Bullet point 3: I went for a routine cleaning after I moved to Portland, OR (age 38), and was told I had two cavities. I stupidly believed the man. He drilled and filled them. It was the night before Christmas Eve, when they were having their holiday party. I think he was drunk. His nurse was definitely drunk. All fun, and such, until both teeth split in half around the fillings, exposing the nerve (the first on New Years Eve, 9:30 at night; try having emergency dental work done then).

I thought about suing him. Who knows; I've never had a cavity since then, and it was 6 years ago, but I'm missing two teeth.

And yes, I've decided against firebombing his office. Consciously. Every year on new years.
Some of them probably genuinely made a mistake.
> People can love the game itself. Positioning, selection of spells, cooperation with allies. Etc. etc. D&D 3.5 / Pathfinder is a good game at its core.

I enjoy playing Mordenheim-style small squad miniatures combat games (and that's what D&D is at its heart) on occasion. But I've never found a game that can succeed at being both a competitive game and a roleplaying game at the same time (not just RPG-style games, I had this problem with Android the board game too). One can't be a servant of two masters.

> So don't play D&D. Play the myriad of other, roleplay heavy games (like Dread, World of Darkness, Changeling, Vampire, etc. etc.). They're perfectly good games.

Right. You seemed to originally be claiming that having a less mechanically detailed, more roleplay-oriented system inherently made games less balanced and more unfair. "Lemme bullshit my own powers to be better than everyone else's, so that I'm the star of this show" is a problem in fully freeform systems, but you don't need a detailed combat system to resolve it; light systems where conflict is a simple roll (even WoD is a bit heavy for my tastes personally) handle fair conflict resolution just fine. (And I'd argue that they end up being fairer than mechanically heavy systems where the powergamers with min-maxed builds have an advantage over players who just picked a build that felt fun).
I started my degree 20 years ago. Maybe 25% of my classmates still code, and that's a high estimate. I'm perhaps one of a tiny handful that code for fun, not just money. Does it really matter if they learn this stuff, pass the course, and then never look at a computer again?

Few degrees are vocational but my feeling from your post is that you think it's a waste to study something don't plan on doing for the rest of your life. Kids don't see it that way. They see something they have a faint interest in, or something they're good at, not a 40 year career at the end of it.

It might be worth a discussion with your son, but it won't go well if you make it about what you want or what you think they should want. Manage your own expectations. Try and be conscious that parenting transference ("my parents always want me to do the best I could") or overcompensation ("my parents couldn't afford me these opportunities") are both as harmful as each other. Kids are generally good. Don't be afraid to trust their judgement.
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Maybe the news and media need to get involved here. If they don't face any repercussions then I'll remember to cite that as to why people could be distrustful of doctors when it comes to vaccines and other things.
I used to go to the dentist every 4-6 months and there was almost always something that seemed to require a drilling procedure. Then after graduation my life became chaotic and I stopped going and frankly haven't been to the dentist in seven years. So far I've felt no toothache or anything like it. I know I'm probably walking around with a host of dental problems. Still seems interesting that I've made it this far.
How do you extract a tooth by mistake?
You should have sued
Incredible research! I have had this intuitive feeling for a long time, that the more I go to the dentist, the more issues appear. And when I recently shopped around for different dentists, they all had completely different recommendations for the same situation.
Budibase cofounder here.

How is Budibase a retool copycat? It's a completely different platform. I am sure David would acknowledge that Budibase was:

- first to have it's own internal db

- first to have it's own automations layer

- is code optional vs you have to write JS

- we do DnD differently

- Retool was first, imo, to focus on the term Internal tools

- Budibase is open source

When talking to customers/users we're compared more to other tools such as PowerApps and Airtable, rather than Retool. That being said, we overlap on a number of use cases with a slight different in who we are targeting.

Have you used budibase.com before making such a statement?
You don't store the password.

You store a cryptographic hash of the password, which will always be a fixed length.

This makes the actual password length irrelevant to back end storage.
As someone who just a week ago implemented a similar thing: SMS sucks. Sending it can take any amount of time it seems. Sometimes <10s sometimes a minute or more and unless you get a report from your provider you don't know which it was. The only reasonable solution was to adjust the timeout of the sent token.
They do it so that you can create cool apps for them to use.
Nobody is stopping you from doing that.
I trust dentists about as much as I trust car mechanics. I'm sure I've had stuff done that was marginal at best and has now caused further issues.
Rake in the $$ at the risk of paying a small fine?
after graduation my life became chaotic and I stopped going

I skipped the dentist for over a decade for much the same reason. I had no problems at all, right up until I got lots of problems at once.
Is "cavity" one of those things that develop gradually and it's impossible to draw the line when exactly you have one and when not? Is it possible that some of these dentists just have differing opinions on where the line should be drawn?
From my experience it almost totally ignores it. Basically it will use it as an order of magnitude, nothing else.
Yeah, I read it. This is what you wrote:

> The conditions and wages that the market can bear aren't some physical universal constant that exist in a vacuum - they are a product of labor market laws and regulations.

It's wrong.

The conditions the market can bear are based on market demand. If the demand isn't there, businesses will have nothing to offer, so it wouldn't much matter what kind of regulations are in place.

Regulations don't produce demand, unless they require people to buy things they would not otherwise buy.

Regulations can only work with the demand that exists in the market. For example, if the market demand for delivery services would only be enough to support a wage of $5/hour for workers, but the law said the minimum wage must be $10/hour, the result would be that all delivery companies would fail and there would be no jobs for delivery workers -- unless the government stepped in with subsidies as I mentioned before.
If you don't brush, do you get more plaque build up? From what I've understood, people generally can have mouths that are more basic/acidic depending. If basic, plaque tends to be a bigger issue but few if any issues with cavities is common. The converse for mouths that trend acidic.
The upside of this is that it could prevent self-represented defendants from trying to apply legal arguments or concepts in the wrong context. Pro se defendants do this all the time and it really pisses off judges. ChatGPT has a reputation for being "confidently wrong", but in my experience it's less likely to make that specific category of error.

The downside is that I hire a traffic ticket attorney because they've been handling a cases similar to mine, in the same court circuit, almost every day for years. Legal work isn't about knowing the law. It's about knowing how the system works in a particular place and time. ChatGPT was trained on many thousands of various legal cases. But it can't ever really understand how a given court works unless many people have written about that place and posted it to the internet.

I feel like it would be much better for people to just type their case into the ChatGPT prompt and ask "What argument should I use?", and then take that into the courtroom. Ask it what counter arguments to expect, what the standards of evidence are, etc. You can even prompt it with "Pretend you're a traffic court judge. How would you respond to this argument?" Essentially use it as a research tool for people who are brave or foolish enough to represent themselves. Not sure how much benefit there is in having that in the room with you.
> This I feel is why Japanese programmers continue to be utterly inept

Ahh. This explains why Perl is so much better than Ruby. Makes sense now.
Verilog does make it fantastically easy to create bugs! It feels like very early C versions that are way too lenient. The biggest bang-for-the-buck you can get here is adding "`default_nettype none" at the top of every file, which makes undeclared identifiers an error. I believe this is SystemVerilog, though, and I agree that's what you should learn.
One of the stupidest decisions in life I made after moving to first world country was using my privilege of dental insurance.

I did go to a dentist in India(my home) Dentist said nothing wrong just floss. Then I had moved to berlin and hey I have insurance now for dental check ups.

The first visit resulted in 4 fillings. One filling was bad resulted in root canal. That root canal went bad and the other molar needed root canal.

I took my x rays from first and second dentist to dentist in India, where he told I did not needed those fillings.

At this point I have zero trust in any doctor in Berlin, I get my check ups done in India.

I also did not save any money from my adventures in Berlin, Because every visit resulted in doctor offering a better choice which is not free under insurance and this ended up way costlier than the whole process in my home country.
Every industry has cowboys. This study should just reinforce the notion that we should get a second opinion (or third, if the first two differ) on ANY major work being carried out by ANY profession.

To extend that line of thought, and steer it towards the second half of your comment: if you visit two (or three) doctors to seek advice about getting vaccinated, I think we can be sure what the consensus would be.
Deep learning-designed diffractive processor computes hundreds transformations
When I lived in the UK I went to a dentist who recommended to treat 5 or 6 cavities. I only wanted a check-up as I planned to fix anything in Poland which I regularly visited. There I heard that only 2 were actually something worth taking care of. I thought maybe different countries have different standards for what needs attention.
I very much doubt that most people in the western world who complain about being „hungy“ have ever experienced actually being hungry.

If you don't eat for about day (or longer), the short-term glucose storage will be depleted, ketosis starts and you'll actually feel hungry - though it usually fades once the body adapts to breaking down fat and proteins.

Having an empty, possibly even grumbling stomach or feeling appetite/ craving for sugar isn't hunger. I can recommend trying out to fast for a couple of days in order to experience the difference. I've kinda intuitively shifted to intermittent fasting afterwards and usually don't have any urge to eat food until after noon.
I read up on it, but it's pretty difficult to pin a dentist for malpractice. Especially if you don't have the teeth to show it.
I'm really not surprised. My recent dentists have all been really good, but growing up we had one that would want a drilling procedure every time. I'm glad we switched when we did.
Elon Musk Might Have Tweeted Himself into Hot Water, Again
When I was in the US my dentist said I needed to go every 3 months for some special cleaning that cost more $$ and that I have gum disease. Now in Thailand I go every 6-12 months for a normal cleaning and they say everything looks just fine but that maybe I brush a little hard
But it's not the person. It's the corporation the person worked at the time. A company can't make a GDPR request on behalf of an ex-employee.
My previous dentist would show me the x-rays and explain. He'd point out that a cavity was starting to develop, and what measures I should take to avoid it developing further.

After some years, if it got worse, he'd show me the old x-rays and the new new so I could see the change, and he'd suggest I'd get it fixed now.

Sadly for me he retired recently.
So many other problems in life are tied to tooth issues, and most appear hard later in life.

A dentist visit without insurance is usually under $100, and is a great investment in your future happiness and health.
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> But the most important conclusion of them all is this.

ChatGPT Sherlock would never smoke opium or insult others (or have humanizing faults, if you want to be politically correct). So what’s the point of reading these stories? Ai struggles with personality. It spits out vanilla content.
> Also, it truly is ridiculous that so many Japanese programs still can't unicode.

Can't, or won't? In truth, Unicode is a completely braindead standard
> my eyes blazed with excitement

Was there an unmentioned mirror in the room that Sherlock accidentaly glanced at while this happened?

(I asked with an annoyed look on my face.)
I want to know if there's any genetics involved with cavities.

I pride myself on my dental hygine, due to my family having poor dental health. I floss, rinse with mouthwash, followed by brushing my teeth with an electric toothbrush (with toothpaste!) I do this twice a day without fail. Further, I aim to have a reduced sugar and acidic diet, and I only drink water.

I had to get a filling this year for a cavity, aged 25. My dental hygenist implied that I wasn't taking care with my teeth, but I think that isn't the case. My partner eats the same, but only brushes her teeth once a day. And she has yet to have anything close to resembling a cavity.
"AMD Ryzen 5 7600 / Ryzen 7 7700 / Ryzen 9 7900 Linux Performance (phoronix.com)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310505

https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-7600-7700-7900-linux

All Other tests: AMD Ryzen 7900/7700/7600 non-X Desktop CPU Review Roundup

https://videocardz.com/147338/amd-ryzen-7900-7700-7600-non-x...
On desktop just press the X and on mobile click Not Now
> Hardly. Everyone likes to pretend "they're just in it for the story", but in my experience, they just want to give themselves advantages in my experience.

Meh, at some point the only solution is "get better players". I've had if anything the opposite problem, with players who enjoy doing a dramatic death scene so much that they'd rush to these moments of sacrifice and loss even when they weren't really necessary. Improv-oriented players as I know them enjoy telling a story and are there for that; the problem you get is every player trying to hog the narrative spotlight (often with their moments of tragic suffering) rather than every player trying to be more powerful than the others.
On Windows not by default, but there's a tool that does this.

I simply use workarounds like https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/some-programs-are-...
https://archive.ph/Ohb6I
This study was conducted in Switzerland
The most important point is expandability. Did it has an API or is it planned to add an API to extend the editor?
I really love the straightforward but gripping style of writing here. I read every word! Which is rare for
anything submitted to HN (or elsewhere for that matter)
Not that uncommon. The Czech motorway D1 can be converted to a military airstrip here: https://www.google.com/maps/@49.3870307,15.9211894,289m/data...

See where the grass divider ends, and gets replaced by a jersey barrier for 2 km? That part is the runway - it would require some hours of preparation before it would be usable, it's not quite "declare mayday and dump the plane there."