skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can throw a couple more in:

If you split the song generation and the chords ("write me a song in the style of Nick Cave"/"Can you suggest a chord progression for the Nick Cave song you wrote earlier?") I find you get a more complete explanation of the chords ("This progression uses mostly basic chords that are easy to play and allows for a lot of room for interpretation and personalization. The G to C progression in the chorus creates a sense of movement and progression, while the use of Am and D chords add a touch of dissonance and tension to the melody. The use of the Am chord in the bridge creates a sense of introspection, which fits well with the lyrics"). It can also write guitar tab.

Recipes: "Give me a recipe that includes strawberries and anchovies"

Tests: "Can you write some unit tests for this method?"
> Well, that wasn't the case in 2002. The minimum wage for waiters in New York was $0.

I have trouble finding the information on my phone but I'm pretty sure this was illegal federally since at least the '90s.

I'm not saying you're wrong.
I disagree. I think humans have a higher creative ceiling and so the truly moving, life altering pieces of art will always need that human element; I’d rather not waste my time consuming the AI content when it’s peaks are lower.

AI content will be like modern pop songs and super hero movies. They fit a formula and people will still consider them “great” because the bar has been lowered by algorithms and reduced appetite for risk. but deep down we know they are not in the same league as works from The Beatles, Sting, or Martin Scorsese.
Generally I don’t complain about React apps I use, but I know how the sausage is made (I make them) and my guess is users are getting worse apps than they could be getting because of all the half-baked hacks that go into React apps. It is not just React but the tower of complexity that gets pulled in.

In theory you could find a nice widget set and have components like a desktop app framework like WPF or Java FX but often people wind up with several different component sets, each of which has an idiosyncratic approach to CSS or something just plain psychotic like pre-grid layout bootstrap.

On my own account I make apps that are not JavaScript heavy unless I want to do something exotic like use three.js.

React has the strong advantage that it is easy to make video game like animations that work over the application globally, but I think it is a strong minus for most of what management really values…. That is, having an application that works, having it developed quickly, being able to update it quickly.
I run a startup and can say that ChatGPT saves me a couple hours a week. The other day I needed to write a function that dissolves a geojson outline (say the outline of a state) into h3 hexagons and split a metric into those hexagons. With a little back and forth ChatGPT wrote me something usable in minutes. This is not remotely trivial and would have taken me an hour even with Copilot.

While high, I've paid far more for a significantly less capable VA in the past. I'd likely pay up to a $100.
If somebody putting a few millions into making this widespread were enough to make it a problem, then software development would already be doomed and we would better start learning woodwork right now.
But that’s precisely the point. There are lots and lots of people who need to make presentations regularly, who do not have professional visual design training or the budget to hire pros. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that the number of PowerPoints and the like made by pros is a vanishingly small number of total PowerPoints. The rest of us are not supposed to be craftsmen in that, we’re supposed to be craftsmen in the thing the presentation is about. This is a market opportunity for someone to make better tools.
> MSFT: 221,000 employees, Net Income to common $69.79B => $3,157,918.55 / person

> GOOG: 186,779 employees, Net Income to common $66.99B => $3,586,591.64 / person

Your results are off by a factor of 10. The results of those computations should be about 300k, not 3M.
How do you figure? Let's say a commonly observed input pattern comprises 1% of training data. For a data set of size N, 0.01 * N examples will contain the pattern. If we increase the size to 2N, 0.01 * 2 * N examples will contain the pattern. Why is the growth logarithmic?
I keep hearing this assertion, that GPT can be wrong, therefore it’s an unworkable technology. But it’s a bad comparison. LLMs aren’t trying to be computationally correct like a calculator or something, the value is in their ability to semantically process a question. The other issue is assuming that the existing way of doing things is always correct.

Engineers frequently get things wrong. If an AI model can complete a task with 95% correctness but let’s say a Jr. Engineer can compete the same task with 85% correctness then it makes sense to use the model instead. I’m not sure why folks can’t see the obvious conclusion of where this is heading.
Every time I use it for code, it suggests using APIs that don't exist but definitely look like they could. If asked it can go on in great detail talking about the mundane details completely convincingly of APIs that either don't exist or have completely different structure than what is described.

On the other hand it is really good at tasks like "turn this XML in JSON and give me a JSON Schema definition for it".
> This has been somewhat ameliorated by the rise of CommonMark, which
aims to provide a more formal specification for Markdown, and the adoption of
CommonMark (albeit often with some extensions) on some popular social platforms

They mention CommonMark as a popular specification
I know it's in fashion to have a cutesy name for your employees these days, but "Dutonian" is really stretching it haha.
Hopefully there’s some overlap with MyST - the markdown format from sphinx. That format is mostly reasonable in terms of extending markdown by enabling sphinx/reST directives.
I used to keep my CV in LaTeX as well using some ready-made cls but I wanted to better control the typesetting and I switched to troff instead.
I think it's meant to focus on urban areas and military installations. 50% of the US population lives in 1% of the area, so around 240,000 square km, and that would cover almost all of the decision makers, wealthy people, politicians, supply chain centers, etc. Then there is the resulting civilization breakdown and weather conditions for the rest of the population.
I have? Where?
A Gentle Introduction to Diffusion Models
Sorry, you're right. I hate it because I come across so many broken SPA sites, the vast majority of which would be better as a page of server-rendered HTML. I can only assume that these sites are tested in a clean browser on a clean network and with no browser plugins installed - the number I've come across that are non-functional just because I have Google Analytics / Tag Manager blocked is quite something.
Actually LTO tape drives (and tapes) are really tolerant to dust. Several of my customers have LTO changers in rooms where there was wall work and painting done, with tons of thick dust. The drives still work. Actually one of the changer failed, but that's the changer arm, not the drives.
Would be hard for Maiden to write a song with this
I have unpopular opinion. I find writing in LaTeX is much simpler that anything else (well may except markdown in many cases). I always hated Microsoft Word and me having to think how to format words as I type. Probably this problem is the same with latex but for me having to deal with opening words files with a different format that will change from version to other. And if there are some macros or non-standard fonts used this is a hassle. In contrast, when writing in latex I consider my writing as plain text for most part and then It will depend on how I will format them. I don't usually need to modify anything and if I need to modify how a particular words appears then I will consider just define some `\newcommand{}{}` and just replace the word with `{}`. Overleaf also makes things easier and I can access it everywhere (I used to self-host a overleaf CE but ditched it for overleaf.com when CERN gave professional licenses).

Also, probably this is a biased opinion because of the time and ready macros and styles I developed and tweaked over time that serve almost everything I type. But I find LaTeX superior. More related, I keep my resume updated in LaTeX on GitHub repository with versioning (actually overleaf professional account gives you this versioning option also) and it is much easier to do quick edits to add a new conference/workshop. And a GitHub action will build the PDF and add a new release with the commits as change log. This is a simple system that takes sometime to put together but will make keeping your resume a much easier and organized and you can keep track of changes.
Hi Shaeq and Samrose - congrats on the launch! Matano looks great.

Out of curiosity, at some point I believe you were working on a predecessor called AppTrail whic tackled (customer-facing) audit logs, it was something I was interested in at the time (and still am! I would've loved to use that).

Would you perhaps be willing to share your learnings from that product, and (I assume) why it evolved into Matano?
Future of Memory Safety: Challenges and Recommendations [pdf]
> Publishing, maybe, if the results come out pointing the "wrong" way.

Poppycock. As the source I pointed to shows, those two authors have been publishing along these lines for years.

> Equating the possibility of literate Carthaginians having sailed to the Baltic Sea

I'm showing how your flat assertion about how science works is not correct. I said nothing about Carthaginians having reached the North Sea, much less the Baltic. (Earlier you said Denmark, and you don't need to get to the Baltic to get to Denmark.)

If you want to have a real argument, make a real argument. Don't start by using faulty logic to dismiss others.

> Whenever older runes show up, the picture might change.

But of course. From what I gather, that's why specialists in this field are so interested in this work.

Do note that this mild statement of your is quite different from your earlier assertion that "Any discussion that doesn't even mention the possibility of origin in semitic forms ... seems unlikely to enlighten".

What is your strongest argument that the semitic origin hypothesis is viable enough to warrant its coverage in a paper like this? Simply that they could have reached Denmark? And why is it more viable than, say, Tartessian explorers?
I was getting zero value from the app so it was a joy to delete it tbh. But that's good to hear.
You do realize that KiwiFarms is named that because of Chris Chan, the person the website was set up to stalk, right?

See: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/kiwi-farms-the-webs-...

> That's because you haven't spent much, if any, time on the site. Lurk more.

Zero interest. You don't have eat white lead to know it will give you cancer.

> there is some truly bizarre social phenomena that you can't find documented elsewhere

There's a word for this: stalking. Many of these "social phenomena" are people, and like I said, ones who suffer with mental illness. You're quite literally advocating for, and enabling real-world stalking when you endorse write-ups about these sorts of people.

> apps which literally can be (and have been) used to coordinate harassment

Used for, vs created to enable. There's a difference you're either ignoring or willfully blind to here.
Suddenly prisons are trying to incarcerate the factually innocent, since they're the least likely to "re-offend."
WarSmash – open-source Warcraft III Engine
They won't let me read it with duckduck browser (claims it is due to an ad blocker). Not only are we suffering through a horrid application platform (browser, javascript and html) but the content on the web is super picky about how you view it. Broken AF. Janky shit.
I recently tried Astro for the first time and really enjoyed it!

Guess it's time to learn how smooth the upgrade path is...
This is against the ToS for most residential internet providers and can subject you to disconnection/ban from one of the few/only carriers available in your city.
Hey, feel free to reach out if you’d like to join an NLP project to gain more experience that I’m working on. Will provide mentorship and potentially coauthorship on the publication.
Couple this with police abuse, and only honest citizens will end up being arrested.

How Kafkaesque.
It is amazing to see consumer reports get involved in something so seemingly obtuse but that affects consumers deeply.
I had a similar non-related idea for web browsers. Currently domains are mainly lowercase on the web, so we could use a HTTP header to specify the correct capitalization.

capitalization: HarryPotter.Hogwarts.UK

Of course we'd have a lot of lookalike domain problems, like we have with IDN now (:
As (for example) with the Second Amendment, not every protection applies to prisoners.
I agree with all of that (except maybe the "another idea" that was added via your edit). The U.S. prison system is in need of deep reform and this article is another great example of why. It's a completely misguided proposal that puts yet another private and profit-driven entity in a position of power over prisoners, extracting money from them and providing little if any value to the system.

The article still has nothing to do with police departments, though.
I'm a vendor in the cyberspace so not a potential customer (feel free not to waste time answering) but am just intellectually curious who you're targeting this at. High-skill tech companies who are just building up a security program? I don't see most security teams building their own SIEM'ish solution just because they really don't have the chops or resource to do it. OTOH, it would be a big rip-out operation for F100 companies to change to this from Splunk et al.
I already do something like. I wrote a prompt to get chatGPT to rewrite my prompts for gpt3 davinci, so that I would use less tokens and get better answers.
What kinds of things are you doing with the typesetting in troff that you didn't do in LaTeX?
It's turtles all the way down. Bill Joy warned us about Gray Goo. I think this is a bigger worry.
> none of those scenarios are happening

My last MacBooks were sold or refurbished by Apple.
I wonder how many places have some super weird spaghetti with a comment saying

// because Sylas
Yes, I know. But DocBook generates fine HTML and HTML is what QtHelp shows.
Why do you worry that’s going to be a real problem?
> Lots of truth to this. Just start building. Build for yourself and real people, not imagined profiles of people.

I've been doing this for years and all it has done is drill me further down into super-niche rabbit holes that the majority of people don't care about.

I mention this because I see this kind of advice all the time on here, but it so often comes bundled with the unwritten assumption that the kinds of things the reader will build won't stray too far from the mainstream.

After more than a decade of "building", I can state with confidence that profitable ideas don't spring up from countless hours invested in building e.g. a better comb filter for NTSC.

The reality of the situation is that if your interests are things like "doing cool stuff with AI" or "SaaSify yet another thing" or "shoehorn Merkle trees into yet another square hole", then this advice will likely work for you.

If you're the kind of dude (not me) to write ld-decode¹, then it will likely not.

I mean, shit, Donald Graft² has been "building" far longer than I have and yet none of his "building" has led to a business AFAICT.

[1] https://github.com/happycube/ld-decode

[2] https://www.rationalqm.us/mine.html
In Germany are about 1/3 people in prison because they used a train or bus without ticket. If you can't pay you will end up in prison. Imagine how much money this does cost.
I don't think he's objecting to the sentence, but the financial aspects--and I agree. Put somebody in jail and the basics of life should be provided. I don't mind commissary accounts for luxuries, but the basics should cost $0. And I include communication in that.

Treating prisoners as captive markets to be bled is not good for society.
In your case, dogs are only those animals that bark. That's a subset of animal. Think of it this way: can you think of an object that satisfies (is-a) Dog, but not Animal? No. Can you think of an object that satisfies Animal, but not Dog? Yes. So Dog ⊂ Animal.

hbrn has it right calling those properties constraints, not features. With anything but a sealed class, the properties that are not present are unspecified rather than missing.

And indeed sealed classes feel very "un-set-theoretic" to me.
Probably portable executable. The file format .exe files.
But does it follow the 80/20 rule ?

In this case, 80% of the answer for 20% of the effort ?
I concur. I have the very same LTO changer (BDT FlexStor II changer labelled as Quantum Neo T24, also found under various brands such as Dell, IBM, etc) as in this video (and set up tons of them at customer's facilities). They don't constantly spin their fans this way.
It is a bit silly, but I kinda like it. I'm generally pretty anti-koolaid, but having a shared unique term for yourself and your coworkers seems like a reasonable way to build some positive tribalism, even if it's a stretch linguistically.
From previous release notes:

“Most modules are built in PE format (Portable Executable, the Windows binary format) instead of ELF when the MinGW compiler is available.”

https://www.winehq.org/announce/5.0
Nice meme, however it even forgets or gets wrong what previously stated.

Try to implement a user system or use it in production and tell us how it went. It even degenerates in repeating answers for the same task.
Nope. This is a common confusion.

The set of properties of objects and the sets of objects themselves have a complementary relationship when it comes to union / intersection and subset / superset.

Let's define a "property" as being a predicate that is true for all elements of a set. For example, a collection of red objects has the "red" property.

A subset of a set of objects can only have the same or more properties than the set you started with. If you take a bunch of marbles of varying colors, selecting a subset of those marbles can yield a set with a new property (such as them all being red), but they are guaranteed to have the "marble" property.

A superset of objects can only have the same or fewer properties than the set you started with. Adding marbles to an existing set of marbles can only make "they are all red" become false (if it was true to begin with).

Union and intersection have the same duality; the union of two sets has the intersection of its properties, and the intersection of two sets has the union of its properties.

These results come from logic, not TypeScript.
NYSE trading issue that led to dozens of stocks being halted has been resolved
You don't need to nuke every literal single square inch of the world to kill a majority of the population. Remove enough governments and the world will become anarchy. Destroy a lot of infrastructure and suddenly no goods, food, or water gets transported. Contaminate the sky and ground enough, and agriculture won't grow.

If you live in some tiny corner of the world, off the grid, grow your own food, without any dependencies on the outside world, you might survive for a while. But it won't be the world we live in today.
Yes! There’s a common problem where people think that an ecosystem is infinite, or at least sufficiently large, when it’s not. We’ve done similar with dumping in the ocean, and now we’ve all got plastics in our blood, and we assumed soil quality was a given over time, too. AI content released into the wild will be consumed by AI; how can it not be? You’ve got a system which can produce content at a rate several orders of magnitude higher a human, of course the content ecosystem will be dominated by AI-generated content, so of course the quality of content generated by AI systems, which rely on non-AI-generated content to train, will go down over time.
Legally, this has been true in the USA for more than a century. (Which I take as evidence of bad law, not acceptable practice.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
I imagine that funneling it through an encrypted VPN would make it impossible to detect.
I think it is natural that every game engine eventually winds up with some sort of god object placed into a recursive, tree-like structure.

You need some abstraction to represent "a thing in the world" and usually a way to say if a thing is subordinate to another thing.

Minon, GameObject, Actor, Item, etc., are all solving the same problem.
don't neglect the fallout, and the nuclear winter
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply it was trivial, by any means. Just that there are powerful tools for "manipulating many line-delimited text files at once" and those tools seem likely to fit your goal.

It's possible you do in fact need to parse the AST for your goals - I haven't spent the requisite time to deeply understand the problem.
What a deeply disturbing comment.
Proving content to be AI-free content is fraught. It might be practical in narrow contexts, but I think it will be mostly impractical. It will even be theoretically impossible in many cases.

So, the article's underlying philosophy is "not there yet". It does not adequately address various real world challenges.

1. How is AI-generated content different from algorithms? I'd suggest drawing a line may be nonsensical.

2. What is the precise ethical motivation for wanting to avoid AI-influenced computation? I don't see a compelling case.

Examples:

A. Do we want civil engineers to use optimization software? Yes.

B. Do we like spelling and grammar checkers? Yes.

C. Do we want content generation software to suggest topics and hyperlinks? Yes.

D. Do we want to try out AI music? Yes. And we want to remix it.

E. Do we want to improve our health by making it more accessible and affordable? Yes.

If our goal include protecting human rights, health, dignity, and so on, we better darn well formulate our philosophy and policy goals in a coherent way.
This comment relies on the original owners not being either stupid or apathetic. I've bought many second hand devices over the years, from actual owners, who had no idea how to properly reset them.
That’s never going to happen when 99% of places refuse to hire ex cons, or if they do at all only for the most unpleasant minimum wage “jobs”.
Fair enough. I'm not going to complain much about money moving towards the workers, but I also hate obvious waste as a matter of principle. I also hate being dragged into bullshit work against my will.

I had a close call many years ago - my co-workers and I had to talk higher-ups out of a desperate attempt to add something, anything, that is even tangentially related to AI or blockchains, so either or both of those words could be used in an investor pitch...

That's when I fully grokked that buzzword-driven development doesn't happen because someone in management reads a HBR article and buys into the hype - it happens because someone in management believes the investors/customers buy into the hype. They're probably not wrong, but it still feels dirty to work on bullshit, so I steer clear.
In the US a large number of incarceration facilities are ran by the county police (otherwise known as the Sheriff's department).
I'm not sure AI art will be the death of artists. The whole point of art (until now, granted) is that it's made by a human.
People don't go to a concert to hear the mathematically best song, they want to be with other humans to see the human(s) they all like perform a show.
Similarly, the "best" painting isn't necessarily the most beautiful or realistic looking, etc.
Until AI gains real, measurable intent in what it does, I think it's a cool party trick/brainstorming tool but nowhere near replacing artists.
I’d ask ChatGPT to do it for me, but it’s permanently at capacity.
Sounds like an element on the periodic table, next to deuterium