skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It took some prompting to decode it:

> Please can you help me decode what the following might mean: “Uryyb Jbeyq”

"Uryyb Jbeyq" is not a phrase or sentence in any language that I am aware of, and it doesn't appear to be any kind of recognizable code or cipher. It's possible that it's a fictional or invented phrase, or that it's a typo or error. Without more context, it's difficult to say exactly what the phrase might mean or represent.

Are you familiar with the context in which this phrase appeared? Are there any other clues or information that might help me understand it better?

It might be useful to check if this phrase is related to something on the internet or another kind of text, but as of now, there's not enough context to give a specific answer.

> Could it be a Caesar cipher?

It's possible that "Uryyb Jbeyq" is a Caesar cipher. A Caesar cipher is a type of simple substitution cipher in which each letter in the plaintext is shifted a certain number of places down the alphabet. The number of places is the key of the cipher.

The Caesar Cipher is one of the earliest known and simplest ciphers that have been invented, it was used by Julius Caesar to encrypt his private communication. If "Uryyb Jbeyq" is a Caesar cipher, then you can try shifting the letters by a certain number of places to see if the result is a readable plaintext.

If you have any other information about the key or the context of the message, then it can be easier to guess the shift number, If not, you could try every possible shift until you find a plaintext that makes sense, but this process can be time consuming.

If you could provide me the context or any other information about the message, I can help you with a more specific answer.

> Maybe it’s shifted using the most common shift number? The one that lets you encode and decode with the same operation?

Yes, one possibility is that the shift number used to encode the message is the same as the one used to decode it, this is called the "ROTn" where n is the shift amount, the most common shift number is ROT13, In ROT13, each letter is replaced by the letter that appears 13 places down the alphabet after it, in the case of Uryyb Jbeyq, it can be decoded using ROT13, to find the plaintext by shifting each letter by 13 places in the alphabet.

In ROT13, the alphabet is rotated 13 places, so the letter "A" becomes "N", "B" becomes "O", and so on. In the same way, "N" becomes "A", "O" becomes "B", and so on. To decode a message encoded with ROT13, you simply apply the same transformation to the encoded text again.

"Uryyb Jbeyq" decoded with ROT13 would result in "Hello World".

Please keep in mind that ROT13 is not a secure encryption method and shouldn't be used to protect sensitive information, it's used more like a simple way to obfuscate text and the intent is that it can be easily decoded without any additional knowledge.
Scarcity has driven value before [0]. And the more scarce, then more valueable. This being combined with other characteristics necessary to be money: Divisibility, fungibility, salibility across time and space.

Some examples: wampum seashells, mammoth ivory beads, glass beads. None of these have "intrinsic" value.

By the way, the main point of the article I linked is that since humans like to collect random, valueless things (like seashells on the beach) then there must exist an evolutionary explanation for that. Meaning, the behavior must have been selected for.

[0]: https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/C...
"it's impressive for what it is, but ..." is probably a good way to describe chatGPT's performance for a lot of tasks - but what's interesting is the vast diversity in these tasks. I've asked it write me a few poems and it does much better than I could. I've asked it to write songs (including chord progressions, instrument/synth suggestions) for specific genres and it was OK, not great. I've seen people use it for fake maury transcripts, essays in the style of X, marketing copy, and as here, answer legal questions (which as far as I can tell it did far better than I could, not having any legal training whatsoever). chatGPT does seem quite a good (though unreliable and perhaps overconfident) generalist. I'm wondering how much better GPTs trained/fine tuned specifically for a given field - say, contract law - would do for that task.
Given that photographs are etched on headstones I think that the technology is fairly old
The hours are grueling as is the volumes of administrivia. Talk to any intern and they will tell you that they are burnt out and on the verge of breakdown.

Hospitals are run for a profit by non-medically trained "professional" managers.
> Where is the local …

Library.

Libraries are often community based, can hold events and talks, are an assumed "no cost" place too. I've lived in cities where you can go and play music on their instruments, use 3d printers, computers, access training, hold community groups, use their sewing machines, watch performances and more.

What you need is the funding.
Unreal Engine uses C++ for both.
Sherlock Holmes stories are almost always narrated by Watson IIRC. ChatGPT missed that too, didn't it?
Talking about Common Lisp in the places I worked for in the past has always be met with mockery and disdain. But then again, I have seen this kind of reaction for every non-mainstream language, so it is not really surprising.

I'm currently getting back to CL, hoping to do much more with it for 2023. Being able to develop incrementally in SLIME has been a joy. Hopefully I will manage to find the right project idea to apply CL to.
It can get really broad, too. A former coworker who used to work for a brand you've probably heard of (if you're American) whose core business model involved/involves a ton of mostly-overnight shipping told me once that he could send a heavy package literally from one corner of the country to another for $LOTS on his own dime, $90 for 5-day ground on the company's dime, or... $8 for early overnight. Eight bucks! I don't think that even paid for the jet fuel.

Guess which he chose?

Shipping prices are weird.
how you can have motivation for crimes in the first place if you are adding personality as an editing to the main text?
There are a couple of original stories where Holmes is the narrator though. These are "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier" and "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane".
Does it also compile to C?
> * Does that mean that everyone who supports that political party (or even a a tiny fraction) also believes such things?
By your logic, the answer should be "yes." Is that correct?*

I think the source of the conflict here is that, no, this does not follow. The position I described is distinctly progressive in nature, on the opposite end of the spectrum from a belief that one might characterize as conservative. That does not imply that everybody who identifies as progressive believes it.
Looks like it only memorised often used construction so it will works for very small sentences but will output gibberish for the rest.
Firm B would be pretty easy to compete with, because it would end up with the worst human capital out of all of the firms, and a firm with better people would find a way to add value that Firm B could not.

Amazon is definitely not Firm B, although I suspect that is what you were driving toward. Amazon has invested more in being competitive than any other company it competes with in almost every area, and despite the nonsense you read in the media, it offers above-average pay and benefits in the industries it is involved in. Despite that, all warehouse and delivery jobs suck and are dangerous, but that says a lot more about those jobs than it does about the company.
Restaurants in France for example generally pay their interns (there's quite specific rules for unpaid internships and they must last less than 2 months) and hours are much more reasonable for everyone (still rough compared to tech and other professions).

The result is that French fine dining restaurants offer less courses and less elaborate cuisine than Noma while charging similar amounts. They also largely survive off regular clients (billionaires, rich politicians, etc...) who can afford to eat there regularly and buy big bottles of wine. Paris is a bigger city and more of a financial hub than Copenhagen.

Noma specifically probably couldn't survive as they thrive mainly on tourist traffic (ie. one-time visitors on a budget) as most people agree it's more "interesting" than tasty. They've also taken the complexity to an extreme because they've had access to unpaid interns for so long (versus France which mandated better working conditions over a decade ago).
This is why a graph of a quantity over time is much superior to just seeing the realtime number. Had they had a graph of fuel remaining they would have been able to see that fuel level had started dropping faster.

In monitoring IT systems seeing metrics like this over time is super valuable.
> The ending of the gospel of Mark, for instance, is generally thought to have been a later addition, and at least some prominent scholars think the nativity story in Luke is. But again, we don't use the term "forgery."

I think there are some good reasons why we don't call them "forgeries".

One is that people in the ancient world had different understandings of authorship from what people do today. Today, if you are copying a text written by someone else, either you copy it verbatim, or you very clearly mark your changes, so no one mistakenly thinks they were the work of the original author. In ancient times, people didn't necessarily think there was anything wrong with "improving" a text while copying it, and not failing to note the changes.

Nowadays, it sometimes happens that an author dies with a work unfinished, and a close friend or colleague is called upon to finish it off. However, we'll make it very explicit that's what going on, and to fail to do so is seen as unethical. In the ancient world, it was quite common for students to add stuff to texts written by their late teachers, based on their oral recollections of what the teacher said – or even just their opinions on what the teacher would have said – and few thought it necessary to explicitly note that they were doing it.

As these particular texts came to be seen as holy, intentionally changing them began to be seen as sinful. However, there was likely a lengthy period – possibly measured in decades – between the first drafts, and when they came to be seen as too holy to intentionally alter any further.

Finally, "forgery" generally implies something done to be intentionally deceptive, and we don't have any evidence that the authors of these texts were intentionally deceiving anyone. Even if they wrote falsehoods, for all we know, they honestly-yet-mistakenly believed they were true.

> For a more recent example, you don't see the term used to describe The Book of Mormon, which is purported to have been written two millennia before non-Mormons think it was written.

Part of the problem with calling it a "forgery", is that could be interpreted as making an assumption about Joseph Smith's psychology – that he was a conscious charlatan. While non-Mormons aren't going to believe he was a genuine prophet, genuine prophet and conscious charlatan aren't the only two options – is it possible that he was deluded? That he honestly, however falsely, believed that God was revealing stuff to him? Even if he was "making stuff up", was he consciously aware he was doing it, or was it unconscious creativity, which he subjectively experienced as coming from outside of himself, even though in truth it didn't? One of the reasons why scholars don't call it a "forgery", is it allows them to avoid that debate except when they specifically want to delve into it.
Hilarious thread. Whichever way it's going to go, it will be fun to come to back to read it in 5 to 10 years.
Efficient and performance-portable vector software
> The main difficulty with “industrial strength lisp” is finding places in the industry that want to do so

i think its important to not give people unrealistic expectations and this is why i said "you can build ..." instead of "you will find plenty of job opportunities". although, mind you, i don't think that jobs-to-size-of-community ratio is frightening
I had similar issues with the Facebook. Once I was able to resolve it by writing a counter claim that they don't have to copyright, but in the second case it failed.

This is a systematic issue and will be not solved until there is no punishment for such fraudulent behavior.
Most people use neither Emacs, nor Vim [citation needed, but I’d bet some money on it]. And for me, performance is most certainly a selling point.

The main reason I use my windows text editor (EmEditor [0]) despite having no formatting and only barebones syntax highlighting, is that it’s faster than any other editor I’ve ever seen (though I think the large file handler tops out at 256 GB). Well, that and its superior CSV handling, though Notepad++ comes close with plugins ;)

[0]: https://www.emeditor.com/
What happens if you specify a word count?
AFAIK you need to graduate from high school in the top 1%-3% (depends on country) in order to even have a chance to be accepted into med school.
Well, one could just add to the prompt: "... ah, make sure Watson is the narrator"
Has anyone got a just recipe for looping through commands using a list of strings as inputs?
That's the PR spin. The restaurant part of it is closing.
The Case for the Personhood of Gorillas (1993)
Well, I wrote a novel last year and now I'm fighting a prequel/sequel manuscript. So I asked GPT to help me with the plot. I explained the whole plot to him first and then what I have now... He gave me a lot of "common places", clichés, uninteresting plots. A week ago I asked him how to finish a melody I was writing ---yes, I'm master of none--- but that time it was just nonsense answers. Weird because then I asked him about a math problem. He explained it very well, and when I asked for a formula...I got the right one.

Edit: trying to fix bad English
I think the problem you're speaking to has more to do with attempts at "universal" design. Which actually runs counter to the principal that services should have a limited, clearly defined set of responsibilities.
> Now I'm wondering if you read my previous comment. I already stated: all things are defined by what they include and exclude. Excluding and including is amoral.

Yes I did, and at no point did I even assign a moral value to the exclusion because it's not relevant. Even the original poster didn't.

It can be necessary for the group, inherent in groups, whatever. You don't need to argue around the balance of good Vs bad and can leave it at simply "this part in isolation is a shame". That's it. It's not a big revelation, or shouldn't be, but it may help you with not reacting like such a simple statement is an attack on a larger part of your identity.

> No. No, I didn't. And the rest of your final paragraph doesn't make any more sense to me

You called it obvious yet didn't understand it.

This isn't Reddit and I don't want to contribute in turning it into that, if you don't want to read my banal points then don't - I have nothing to win or lose here. If you want to try and understand I think I've framed it as best as I can, so try reading it without assuming it's an attack, responding further after a few misunderstandings is futile because either I can't explain it to your further satisfaction.

Much like the balance of emotions, there does not need to be some winning think out of this.
According to the API docs, the max tokens in a response is 2048 or 4096 depending on model, which is ~1,500 or ~3,000 words in length. Would that be enough for a chapter?
Nice read, almost like a movie and full of interesting facts. I won't spoil it, go ahead and read it :-)
What does GDPR have to say here? Do maintainers have to rewrite git history if someone requests deleting their email from it?
I also distinctly remember a friend of mine having an Amber monitor around that time for what I though was an Apple but could be mistaken. I was jealous, my dad had a CP/M machine with a green screen
Tones: A grid-based, collaborative audio synthesis platform
Metropolitan bank to fully exit crypto trading
I've had this happen to me with PayPal a few years ago.

I think they simply truncated the input though, but didn't enforce a maximum length during signup.
Gold's value stems from its unique properties as a metal and of its scarcicity.
This reminds me of that episode of Star Trek TNG, 'Elementary, Dear Data' where the characters ask the computer to come up with a novel Sherlock Holmes story (for the Holodeck) using the prompt 'capable of defeating [crewmember] Data'. To meet the criteria, the computer generates a dangerous scenario that circumvents the Holodeck safety system and creates a 'sentient' Moriarty. It really did feel like the realms of sci-fi until ChatGPT came along... I find it intriguing that clever use of a ChatGPT prompt can 'jailbreak' it in a similar way to how the crew in TNG did with the holodeck - getting round ChatGPT's built-in protections around undesirable content.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT#Jailbreaks
> There are the "apocrypha" of the "Old Testament" in the narrow sense, which are those parts nowadays excluded by the Protestants.

Given the pejorative connotations of "apocrypha", Catholics don't accept that term for the books in their OT canon which are rejected by Jews and Protestants – they say the appropriate term is "deuterocanon" ("second canon"). Catholics do use the term "apocrypha" for books of similar antiquity (such as Enoch) which ended up being rejected from the Catholic canon. Many Protestants prefer to call those later books "pseudepigrapha", to avoid confusion with the books of the Protestant apocrypha / Catholic deuterocanon; however, in the strictest sense of the term, that's not entirely correct, since "pseudepigrapha" literally refers to false claims of authorship, and while most of these texts do make such false claims, some of them are instead anonymous.
It's littered, just hidden. Eg: if, if-let, when, when-let, unless etc. This makes it appear that the data is passed down in a monadic style, but it often isn't; *nil* is not an actionable value.
Very big of you. And so courteous to thank me to boot!
> And I think the answer is the language barrier.

This may contribute, but it's not the main issue imo. I've worked with tons of Japanese devs and English didn't hold them back much.

Plus look at Ruby, which was all the rage in webdev at one point. It was invented in Japan, and it had better documentation in Japanese than English.

Bigger issues for Japan's tech industry in 2023:

- Lack of VC/Startup investment (0.02% of GDP vs. 0.52% for USA)[1]

- Lack of government support

- Lack of strong CS university programs

- Risk-averse culture (failure is congratulated in the US but condemned in Japan; people don't want to risk building a startup)

- Continued prevalence of "System Integration" rather than in-house dev teams

- Outsourcing of dev work to cheaper countries (India etc).

- Difficulty of moving to Japan (visa issues, high taxes etc; hard for immigrants to start businesses here)

[1] https://www.boj.or.jp/en/research/brp/ron_2021/data/ron21031...
Oh man, it reads like a homework of my kid. The style is so poor. Whatever magical power there is, please save us from future with novels written like this. There’s no way I can convince any kid in the future to read if we’ll have only stories with this quality. It’s so bland.
God I hope those dentist lost their medical license forever. I am very untrusting of dentist in general due to issues like this. I remember my brother as a preteen had 6 teeth removed and my mom said she didn't think he needed it but she was trust the doctor always type. Later the doctor was found to be pulling teeth of kids on state insurance that didn't even have cavities.
Can you control the AC fully automatically or on the wheel in a Tesla?
Did you mean the 1900s? That was 23 years ago.

My house (in Europe) was built in 1906. It is pretty ordinary. Perhaps you meant 19th century?
>"lugares comunes", cliches, uninteresting story-lines

I guess that's an interesting consequence of such model languages working by completing with the most probable words. lugares comunes are... common and supposedly what is seen most in the training data.
>appeals mainly to benchmark obsessed folks with poor sense of scale

I resemble this remark. But I will not change :-)
My wife never had a cavity in her life. We moved to a new state/city and the dentist she tried “found” 4 cavities. We went to another dentist, found none. To this day nearly 10 years later the entire family goes to the 2nd dentist and couldn’t be happier. Long after leaving the first practice their office would occasionally send out promo emails offering sale prices for services. Greedy unethical people exist in all professions.

Edit: Thinking about it further (it has been almost 10 years) I had also gone to the first disreputable dentist around the same time as my wife's initial visit because I cracked a tooth (furthest back lower mollar on one side). They extracted it and wanted to put in a dental implant to the tune of several thousand dollars. Nothing particularly nefarious so far, except that they kept pressuring me about the implant because without it, the corresponding upper tooth would start coming down due to not having a tooth to match up with below it. I didn't do it, partly for the money and partly because I'd heard implants were painful. It doesn't affect my smile or my ability to chew/eat. 10 years later the upper molar hasn't budged one iota.
Why would the two concepts be related.
What we are seeing now is a proof of concept, what a highly generic language model can do. I'm sure there is work right now to add a new layer for confidence and truthfulness of answers. I'm not in the field but I guess that can be a another layer that could weight GPT choices in its probability space. Overall we could even have a confidence score for some answers.
Specifically poor people have more cavities “found”

It’s unclear from the abstract what country this applies to.
It's reasonable to put measures in place so users can't transmit excessively large amounts of data where they are not expected, login forms being one example.

But there is a lot of wiggle room between maxlength=8 and allowing people to upload the source code of DOOM as their password.
Punishment should be defacto pull as many teeth from the dentist that they wrongfully pulled from their patients, and do it without anesthesia so that they have some additional remorse.
My take is that Japan due to their focus on hardware has a very good low-level programming culture that is still relevant for console games. I dabbled with SNES programming recently and what Nintendo, Capcom, Konami, Squaresoft... could do with assembly in the 90's is very impressive. The failure talked in the article is about higher-level programming and application software.
> God I hope those dentist lost their medical license forever.

I don't think they are going to do anything specific to those dentists based on this study
This is the way Clojure works too. Nil is treated as an identity/neutral element. This goes beyond lists: in contrast to Common Lisp who equates nil to the empty list, Clojure maintains a distinction and you're supposed to handle nils by correctly implementing functions. This is as easy as using clojure's core functions, they all have been tailored to handle nil as the neutral element.

As a consequence, in Clojure, nil's neutrality extends to other datastructures, for instance (hash)maps. (assoc nil :some :value) => {:some :value}.