skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I previously did this. I wrote a naive integer factorization program in C, compiled it, extracted the disassembly and intentionally broke it.
It generated a working c function they was almost correct given the broken assembly. I then “talked” with it to improve the code, even suggested that the original disassembly contained an error. It was surprisingly good.

Note: I broke the disassembly intentionally because when I presented the original disassembly it immediately outputted the/a C program to factorize integers.
Chesterton's component
Hey,

So I would probably avoid Amazon just because many of their services charge for data out. It isn't out, but it's a variable for you, and you probaly want something that's flat per month. Cheapest you are going to get with somewhat reliable service is either going to be Hetzner or BuyVM. Hetzner is better for someone who doesn't want to tinker, BuyVM for those who do (BuyVM is a little less reliable, but you can set it up cheaper if you are willing to do a little bit of manual work with shell commands).

Secondly, I'd suggest you host this through Cloudron. It helps you handle automatic security updates and backups. It's very nice, and worth paying for, although it's a little pricey for individuals.

Third, with email, you can host it yourself (in fact Cloudron has this built in), but I'm going to recommend against it, or at least recommend that you pipe important emails through another service like Fastmail. Let me explain why. There's going to be some point after hosting for 5 years, where your server is going to go down. Now email will be fine, it's built to deal with cases where servers go down, but... we rely so much on email right now, that it's going to really suck to have it down. So by all means, have your personal email come to the server, but keep anything that you can't do without running on a managed service. You can pipe it through your own domain, and set up automatic forwarding, but it's going to be a little better to run important stuff through someone else's server, imho.

Just my two (or three, I guess) cents.
For those who haven't seen this little gem before:
https://www.booooooom.com/2016/05/09/bicycles-built-based-on...
Things like this make me realize how poor the rest of the world is, and how wealthy America is.
Of course this will only work if your user's state can be captured within the 4096 tokens limit or whatever limit your llm imposes. More if you can accept forgetting least recent data. Might actually be OK for quite a few apps.
> These language models aren't actually smart, they're just good at parroting smart sounding things they've been taught (although one could argue humans often do the same thing); the problem here is they need more sources to intersplice to hide the true origins.

That's debatable, and it's not necessarily true. Just the other day, we saw a story here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34474043) that suggested that a language model trained on Othello game transcripts did in fact build a latent-space "mental model" of the board state. By perturbating the latent space, the researchers could argue that the model wasn't simply parroting memorized game sequences.

Of course, this isn't to say that AI plagiarism is impossible or even unlikely. Plagiarism is a shortcut to acceptable quality output, and AI systems excel at finding shortcuts to acceptable output.
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, to hear that this automated plagiarism device committed plagiarism.
Shhhh. Just more bullshitting from the computer bullshit machine.
No problem. I figured!
> It was like code from an alternate dimension!

Maybe it was? Haha. ChatGPT has seen some things and knows something we don’t!
There are ethics in tech journalism?
You can still find candy cigarettes on Amazon. They used to have candy/gum cigars as well. Anyone remember big league bubble gum? It came in a package similar to that of shredded chewing tobacco, and the gun itself was shredded. It was popular with kids who would mimic their favorite tobacco chewing baseball player. I recently bought a pack I saw for sale to show my kids and instinctively put a wad in my lip when I was a kid.
The point behind the GDPR was that you own the data about yourself. And if the data is incorrect, you are able to get it corrected. In contrast, in the US, you own none of the data about yourself - many court decisions have basically ruled that whoever owns the computer (inside which the data is stored) owns that data. And if the data is wrong, only in certain limited areas (such as credit history) are you able to get it corrected. Thanks to Brexit, your country is migrating towards the US idea of data ownership.
I think the ADA might apply here. Domino's lost an ADA lawsuit because their online ordering wasn't accessible. Disability is also a protected class here, but I'm not sure if or to what degree that would mean anything. Afaik you can't refuse to serve a protected class at a public establishment, but I don't know if that compels them to make modifications to the business or not.
3M to cut 2,500 jobs as demand weakens, profit drops
Here it is: http://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit

Quickwit targets big and append-only data use cases, log search and traces in particular.
I think they're referring to this:

https://justine.lol/ape.html

One of many HN discussions about the topic here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273960
Ah, that makes it clear. Thank you for the explanation. :)
A more meta thought about ashtrays - I just want to point out that we can do things if we want to.

In the last few years I have heard many young people depressed, lethargic, and only see doom and gloom because of some self-destructive behaviors. I want to remind them that there is not only possibility but likely probability that we can and will correct ourselves.

Think about when we started smoking cigarettes. I distinctly remember the yellow film on windows, the cigarette butts on the streets, the burn marks on arm rests, the thick smoke of restaurants. "Everyone" was smoking, and in a few decades it is now nearly wiped out. We corrected our mistake.

How awesome is that?
Saudi textbook features image of Yoda with King Faisal
But I still have to pay for it upfront. And if I'm out and about in the city and stop into AH to buy a drink to carry with me, then I either need to carry the bottle with me the rest of the day or throw it away and lose my "deposit".

The point is that it's not included on the label as the price I pay at the register.
http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html

http://paulgraham.com/ideas.html

http://paulgraham.com/organic.html

http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
Silly idea tho would it be helpful in creating the server side code for an online only game?

I've seen a project for battlefield 3 tho already have the feeling it's a team effort at minimum?
Interesting that you left off the past line of my post in your otherwise thorough reply.
This is the correct response.

Especially given that the "obfuscated code" is not syntactically valid. Even if you repair the syntax, it contains a number of errors, and eventually descends into gibberish (although some of what it does is not bad!). There is nothing to deobfuscate here.
If I'm reading this correctly, it seems they are saying Google has overpaid its employees, particularly those whose market competitiveness does not match their salary.

I find it hard to feel sad about anyone working in Silicon Valley, not after two decades of Silicon Valley decadence.
> A false equivalence or false equivalency is an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning. This fallacy is categorized as a fallacy of inconsistency. Colloquially, a false equivalence is often called "comparing apples and oranges."

ICE cars cause damage and lithium causes damage so the damage from lithium must also be significant. Mining the non lithium components of EV’s cause more environmental damage than mining the lithium does.

Large infrastructure changes take time. You can of course also improve infrastructure, in road charging largely eliminates the need for giant EV batteries, but waiting is losing. If people want huge big batteries in EV’s then build them, you can always recycle lithium in a few decades it doesn’t get consumed.
Wtf did I just read
That's why he talks about barriers to entry and market power because using those things to prevent competition is illegal. Sherman Act is actually a criminal statue that can put executives behind bars. There's also the Clayton Act and Robinson Patman act that ban forms of monopolization and price discrimination.

It's up to the courts to determine what's reasonable.

> Section 2 of the Sherman Act makes it unlawful for a company to "monopolize, or attempt to monopolize," trade or commerce. As that law has been interpreted, it is not illegal for a company to have a monopoly, to charge "high prices," or to try to achieve a monopoly position by what might be viewed by some as particularly aggressive methods. The law is violated only if the company tries to maintain or acquire a monopoly through unreasonable methods. For the courts, a key factor in determining what is unreasonable is whether the practice has a legitimate business justification.

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
It's a DJI Mini 3 Pro. Never had any experiences with other drones, so can't compare it to others - but I love it!

The new DJI Mini 3 does look good too if you're on more of a budget.
> starved several browsers of funding

Do we know which browsers? Certainly not Firefox and Chrome.
Give it binary obfuscated with VMprotect
Well, that wasn't the case in 2002. The minimum wage for waiters in New York was $0.

$15/hr ain't exactly a living wage either, nor does it justify losing a table for an hour on four people who don't leave a tip. The difference between $15/hr in New York City now and $0/hr in 2002 is basically nil.

Waiters make their money from tips. If you ever work in the service industry in America, and serve them their breakfast, you'll understand why.
It is passing medical exams and will be used to help diagnose issues with similar reliability as humans.
Sorry man !
There’s usually a lag… raise might’ve happened >1 year ago.
I love the idea of Markdown and try to use it everywhere where there's a need to write text. But, man, Markdown tables just suck. The limitation of what you can put in a cell (exactly one paragraph of text) is just crazy. I understand the need for minimalism but the trade-off is simply not rational. Other limitations I can work around but this is crippling.
DeckSet, but I miss being able to create my own template, for example to add a small logo in a corner to follow corporate guidelines.
I'm working on such a benchmark. I'm scared of the difficulty to be not biased though.

(disclaimer: quickwit cofounder here)
Additionally, many executives are virulently opposed to people working multiple jobs and are using things like The Work Number to identify and fire remote workers who have more than one job.
My apologies

Want to avoid getting out with the leetcode and system design peice :(
This post reminds me of Samuel Butler's novel, Erewhon.

"Assume for the sake of argument that conscious beings have existed for some twenty million years: see what strides machines have made in the last thousand! May not the world last twenty million years longer? If so, what will they not in the end become? Is it not safer to nip the mischief in the bud and to forbid them further progress?"
Statistically surely this is highly unlikely unless changes happen frequently. I mean, in the 4 billion years or whatever the Earth has been around for, it just so happens to choose to change its spin in the couple of decades in which we develop tools to measure it?
> The experience needs to be more like installing an app on a phone or a game on a console and with automated backups and easy restore. Self hosting will never come back if we are still expecting people to manage servers like it’s 1985.

It exists: https://yunohost.org/#/. Install the distro, and then it's all clickety-clicks for all your apps (which are softwares like nextcloud, cryptpad, bitwarden, bitter, etc..)
> Until then it’s a copyright laundering tool.

Something is either a copyright violation or not. You can't "launder" a creative work. It's either a copy or it isn't. It's either something that is a direct replacement for something else in the market or it is not.

If I write a book and you buy the book, read the book, sell the book, write another book about the ideas in the book, you can legally sell the new book I wrote. (Seldon v Baker)

Ideas are not covered by copyright. Ideas are fungible. Creative works are non-fungible.

Money laundering is dependent on money being fungible so the source can be hidden. Hiding the source of a copyright is incoherent.

A "copyright laundering tool" is incoherent.
From a macro-economical perspective: Recession. Inflation is way up. Wealth distribution still growing more uneven: 'Classical' middle class is disappearing.

From a non-US/middle European perspective[0]:
the US-tipping system is weird[1] to say the least and easily exploitable.

Combine those two and yeah, "service" gets ugly on both sides.

I can understand why so many are upset in their experience about their respective situations (especially in the US) and trying to think about solutions to counter the "exploitation"/"inefficiency" in this new context. But it is also easy to get caught up by the dynamics at the ground exerted by the pressure from above (macroeconomics).

Historically, the issue of "tipping" seems to erupt in times of hard economical/societal challenges. Like US-Prohibition 1919 or my favorite example during German industrialization in the late 19th century:

>More generally, tipping, is a morally fraught issue in the history of hospitality and public education in Germany (more accurately, nationalen Pädagogik, or national pedagogy), going back to the nineteenth century. The jurist Ihering (more commonly referred to as Rudolf von Jhering, with a "J") argued that tipping encourages vices like begging, greed, false or feigned friendship, vanity, and hedonism among service personnel. He wanted service people to be penalized for receiving tips, and employers to pay enough that tipping would not be necessary. The controversy about tipping continues.[2]

Interestingly through this moral/social debate in late 19th century Germany, "tipping"/"Trinkgeld" didn't vanish (intention of Jhering) but people became more aware of the social situation and a balance has arisen out of it.

[0]https://switzerlandtimes.ch/lifestyle/the-impact-of-credit-c...

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratuity

[2]Touwal, Amital: Anthropological Study of Hospitality (2016): The Innkeeper and the Guest, p.70
Every time I've been laid off, by companies large and small, I was at least sat down and given the news in person. Google's method is a new and growing type of nasty.
Just like any other surveillance. Is any surveillance good?

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
That's because hands and bycicles are complex 3D shapes and it's hard to picture them in your mind from arbitrary angles. It's not because the artist doesn't understand what a hand is or how many fingers it's supposed to have.
There is a market for ordering drone footage from random plebs arround the world.

Given the drones range is 7km radius and images can be so perfectly stitched.

I don't see that much appeal to small area via satelite.
ChatGPT is smart enough at the first prompt, but what really stands out - freakily, I might add - is how it can remember earlier data. You can go several levels deep and it will still reference the first answer and contextualize it properly.

"Do X" is great. But "Now change X to Y in the style of Z" is what blows my mind.
There's a strong business component here that often seems to be blamed on technologists (at least in discussions in tech and tech-adjacent communities, like here), but really has nothing to do with technology, and is present in every industry.

Yes, we like elegant and simple solutions, but "artificially reducing complexity" of the problem to make an elegant and simple solution work is no fun at all. We do it not because it's right or gratifying, but because it's what the business side tells us to, it's what permeates the culture of this and every other industry - of everything in the market economy. We do it because if we don't, our competitors will, and then we'll lose our jobs and won't be able to feed our families anymore.

Or, in short: the trend towards "accepting a lowest common denominator rather than accepting that our stuff isn't very good" is caused by market competition itself. After all, the market doesn't know when something is just perfect - there's always a marginal profit to be extracted by repeatedly making it ever so slightly shittier, and competitive pressure ensures you can't move in the opposite direction.
> Over the last five years, Alphabet more than doubled its headcount

Uh, over the last five year Alphabet also went from $28b ($33b inflation adjusted) in revenue to $69b in revenue. Seems reasonable to me.
We take it for granted these days that most text we read is generated by humans. But imagine a future where it is assumed most text is AI by default, and human text is only as common as computer generated text is today. Imagine 9 out of 10 comments on hackernews being AI authored. This comment, AI authored.
Being dramatically richer than all of them, mainly
That explanation is also not correct! The while loop is an obfuscation gadget (of sorts), but it doesn't use eval, it uses push and shift to rotate the array. The only use of eval is 'eval("find")', which is not top grade obfuscation.
Advanced Data Protection for iCloud
I think it captured the essential difference between the two algorithms, i.e. the heuristic, so I don't understand how this is 'bullshit'.
Funny, just yesterday I asked ChatGTP for some nutritional advise:

>can you give me the most common symptom of every vitamin deficiency

Sure, here is a list of common symptoms associated with deficiency in certain vitamins:

Vitamin A: night blindness, dry skin, and poor immune function

Vitamin B1 (thiamine): fatigue, irritability, and muscle weakness

Vitamin B2 (riboflavin): cracks and sores at the corners of the mouth, itchy and scaly skin, and light sensitivity

Vitamin B3 (niacin): pellagra, which includes symptoms such as skin inflammation, diarrhea, and dementia

Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid): fatigue, insomnia, and muscle cramps

Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine): anemia, skin disorders, and depression

Vitamin B7 (biotin): hair loss, scaly skin, and brittle nails

Vitamin B12: pernicious anemia, which can cause fatigue, muscle weakness, and nerve damage

Vitamin C: scurvy, which can lead to bleeding gums, easy bruising, and poor wound healing

Vitamin D: rickets in children, and osteomalacia in adults, which can cause muscle weakness, bone pain, and fractures

Vitamin E: nerve damage, muscle weakness, and impaired vision

Vitamin K: bleeding disorders, easy bruising, and poor blood clotting

It's important to note that these symptoms can also be caused by other factors and deficiency in vitamins can manifest differently between people. Consult with a doctor if you suspect a deficiency.

>can you list the most recommended food source for each vitamin

Sure, here is a list of some food sources that are high in certain vitamins:

Vitamin A: sweet potatoes, carrots, kale, spinach, and apricots
Vitamin B1 (thiamine): whole grains, nuts, seeds, and legumes
Vitamin B2 (riboflavin): almonds, mushrooms, and dairy products
Vitamin B3 (niacin): chicken, fish, and peanuts
Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid): mushrooms, avocado, and sweet potatoes
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine): chicken, fish, and chickpeas
Vitamin B7 (biotin): eggs, nuts, and sweet potatoes
Vitamin B12: fish, meat, and dairy products
Vitamin C: oranges, strawberries, kiwi, and bell peppers
Vitamin D: fatty fish such as salmon, mackerel and sardines, egg yolks and mushrooms
Vitamin E: almonds, sunflower seeds, and spinach
Vitamin K: leafy greens like spinach, kale, and broccoli, also found in parsley, Brussels sprouts and even kelp.

Hulk Hogan would approve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-dI4Sl2rzE
Tried it, seemed to actually DECREASE my program’s performance. I think it’s because of the overhead of creating thousands of threads…
“Install the distro” is full stop for most people.

The backup and restore also has to be continuous and seamless.
In Dutch: https://www.postnl.nl/versturen/postzegels/postzegels-kopen/...

You buy a code that you write down in the location where normally the stamp would be.
> So it's on you to move the little "Do Not Disturb" thing from inside door knob to outside.

What if I wanted to leave my room and still leave my stuff in there without being moved/touched by hotel personel? A sign that says "do not disturb" makes no sense in that case.
Advice you might as well take
Leetcode explore helped me pass a few coding rounds! I recommend taking one track at a time until it sinks in before moving to the next one.
This is a wake-up call. The popular epistemology has been flaming garbage for so long.

When you see something for yourself, that delivers one kind of knowledge.

When you hear it from a friend, that delivers another kind of knowledge.

When you hear it from somebody you don't know, and never actually met, second or third hand, that delivers yet another kind of knowledge.

And, in our society, that last kind of knowledge is so often treated as equivalent to the first. Which is messed up.
Not necessarily. If Brave can somehow present that it blocks ads and trackers many users will choose it over Chrome.
Which is not runnable in the first place.
Interesting though, as this shows exactly the problem.
It looks legit, but it's some generated fake text.
Amazon adds generic prescription perk for Prime members
Coming up with interesting headlines that entice readers without misrepresenting content is actually pretty difficult--especially at publications that value clever headlines.
I like both. When I want a quick&easy buzz before sleep, a smoke or vape is the option. If I wanna get baked for a few hours and wake up feeling amazing, an edible it is.
I've never used one so someone else can explain better, but my understanding is that you get an envelope and you can use your phone to pre-pay postage online (or maybe set up your card to be charged based on what's required?) and you'll get a 9 digit code back. On the corner of all the envelopes is a 3x3 grid where you write the code and that is read by the postal system as the stamp.
> Published content will be later used to train subsequent models, and being able to distinguish AI from human input may be very valuable going forward

Not necessarily all AI contents are bad and all human contents are good. We need a way to separate the good from the bad, not AI from human, and it might be impossible to do 100% correct anyway.
I wrote something like this for conference talks ~12 years ago because I hate PowerPoint and don't have a Mac (for whatever not completely disastrous presentation tool my coworkers used). Didn't use it for a while but markdown to latex-beamer made total sense to me.
Sorry, but all I can think of after reading this blog post is the evil bit RFC: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt which has had just as much effect on internet security as this proposal will have on controlling ai generated content.
That must be Stripe refusing to pay the PayPal premiums anymore. They got even more expensive recently
"ChatGPT, gimme 10 startup ideas"

TBH, at this point, if there is a problem that hasn't been solved, its because some people tried and failed and found that the problem is not solvable currently. It may be more fruitful to start with something promisingly popular, and improve upon it (e.g. tiktok)