skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prompt: Could you please summarise Stanislaw Lem's short story "The first sally (A), or Trurl's electronic bard"

ChatGPT: "The First Sally (A), or Trurl's Electronic Bard" is a short story by Stanislaw Lem that tells the story of two constructors, Trurl and Klapaucius, who are famous for building automated machines to do tasks for their clients. In this story, Trurl creates an electronic bard, a machine that can compose poetry. The machine is so successful that it becomes popular throughout the land and Trurl is asked to perform before the king. However, the king is unimpressed by the poetry and orders Trurl to come up with something more magnificent. Trurl attempts to create a machine that can create the ultimate poem, but the machine becomes too powerful and begins to create poems that are too beautiful and perfect, causing people to become depressed and hopeless. Trurl is forced to dismantle the machine and destroy its creations. The story is a commentary on the dangers of technology and the limitations of art and creativity.

Also here's a kagi summary: https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://electricliterature....
Correct. ChatGPT will not generate output for a prompt that has the word "fart." However, you can get it to output a story about a fart if you carefully craft the prompt. If it understood the training that would never happen.
Unfortunate, founding a company called 'Spectrum Software' to provide software for 'Apple II' systems... Just two years before the ZX Spectrum made it to market. I think I would have been strongly tempted to rebrand, than persevere!
cloning is extremelly common in js
It’s worth trying.
The source that Google cited states "The exoplanet in Webb’s image, called HIP 65426 b" which had been previously imaged.

Sure, JWST has also taken the first picture of a different exoplanet-- 2 months later. But JWST did not:

* Take the first picture of an exoplanet

* Take the first picture of the exoplanet in the cited source (instead, it took its first picture of any exoplanet).
It's all probabilities. Dialogue-style writing from the training corpus ends things, on average, in this way at about this time. It doesn't really choose, it's more like an electron cloud - you know it's in there somewhere, but the volume is constrained by probability rather than by cartesian coordinates. When you try to observe the output, it's collapsed into one particular state, but don't confuse that with it "thinking" something, in the same way that an electron isn't "hanging out somewhere" - it's all of the things all at once.
Ask HN: Engineering Retreat Ideas
In 6 months, we will have an engineering retreat (flying remote folks in, hotel rooms, etc) where we'll meet at our home office (between Ventura, CA and Santa Barbra, CA). It will be about 30 folks, most of which have never met before. With a budget of about $65 p/p p/day does anyone have any recommendations for activities?

Building something that each person can take back home would be a plus; the cost of Raspberry Pi's has us considering alternatives...

I'm open to anything!
If you are receiving government support for your benefit, no. If you are receiving government support to provide benefits to others, yes.
Also, brilliant.org and exosphere.app, both with large and active Elm code bases. I worked for brilliant for a time and now work for exosphere.

Also, my own project, https://scripta.io. About 45kloc of code split between the app (lamdera/elm) and the MicroLaTex-to-HTML compiler (elm).

Have been working with Elm for five years and have been happy with both the experience and the results. E.g. radical refactors of core data structures are simply no big deal.
The way these risks are reported often makes this mistake. A statistically significant difference is reported as a "significant" difference, which means something different to lay people.

For example, if a change in diet increases the chances of getting a specific cancer from 1 in 1000 to 1.5 in 1000, that very well may be statistically significant. But, your odds of not getting that cancer go from 99.9% to 99.85%, which most people would not consider to be a meaningful difference.
Take that stuff only to be overwhelmed with all the cringe moments you ever had in your entire life and successfully suppressed until that very moment.
I recall it lasting like five years longer than the tech press.
> signed a bunch of treaties largely drafted by the winning side

That's what I was referring to. That's why it's too late now.

Wasn't that complicated, but sometimes people on HN read what they want to read.
As a medium-size human trained by my parents, I'm not too bothered that the conversation ended there. Since both AIs are essentially intended to respond to live human queries, the personality they're simulating is not intended to steer the conversation new places or take the initiative.

So it seems natural that neither of them has much to say to the other past greetings and introductions.
Yes. Prefect 10 vs Google https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/tfisher/IP/2007%20Perfect%2...

> Additionally, the district court determined that the commercial nature of Google's use weighed against its transformative nature. Although Kelly held that the commercial use of the photographer's images by Arriba's search engine was less exploitative than typical commercial use, and thus weighed only slightly against a finding of fair use, the district court here distinguished Kelly on the ground that some website owners in the AdSense program had infringing Perfect 10 images on their websites. The district court held that because Google's thumbnails "lead users to sites that directly benefit Google's bottom line," the AdSense program increased the commercial nature of Google's use of Perfect 10's images.

> In conducting our case-specific analysis of fair use in light of the purposes of copyright, we must weigh Google's superseding and commercial uses of thumbnail images against Google's significant transformative use, as well as the extent to which Google's search engine promotes the purposes of copyright and serves the interests of the public. Although the district court acknowledged the "truism that search engines such as Google Image Search provide great value to the public," the district court did not expressly consider whether this value outweighed the significance of Google's superseding use or the commercial nature of Google's use. The Supreme Court, however, has directed us to be mindful of the extent to which a use promotes the purposes of copyright and serves the interests of the public.

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I will also draw attention to:

> The fact that Google incorporates the entire Perfect 10 image into the search engine results does not diminish the transformative nature of Google's use. As the district court correctly noted, we determined in Kelly that even making an exact copy of a work may be transformative so long as the copy serves a different function than the original work.
That's literally what university has been for hundreds of years if not since medieval times. Practically any social movement or organisation of relevance can trace their roots back to an academic society largely from elite schools.
It seems to me that religion, or spirituality if I may call it that, predates emperors. If you are truly talking about organized religion, then perhaps I might be more generous in agreeing with you. But when I think religion I think of small tribes bringing about paranormal explanations for mundane phenomenons and for their own existence.
You should ask it to write a Weird Al parody of the song.
Casinos know about card counters but are unable to deal with them effectively just like people dealing with social engineers.

1. Bet sizes can be up to around ~$10k with a 1% - 3% EV per hand.

2. Doesn't matter too much, standard 6 or 8 deck shoes still are 0.5% EV at true count 2 and +0.5% thereafter.

3. This matters more, but most counters eye dealers with 70%+ penetration of all the decks, which still averages to the +EV above.

Returns are ~$50/hr at your average casino but the sky is the limit for having mid 6 figure bankroll and being a smooth social engineer with $5k bets at high roller tables. Some hands are +$50-$250 per.
CPython does most of its memory management by reference counting, which fails to reclaim circular structure. So to make sure it gets everything, it occasionally runs a conventional tracing GC. If the GC happens to run just after you create that async task, the task itself can get collected, it sounds like. It's good to know about this and is (my own editorializing) yet another reason Python3 should have used Erlang-style concurrency instead of this async stuff.
Thanks, this is helpful advice. Not having to bundle in development is what I really want. In production I could see it as a necessary evil for the moment.
I really hate the c# code style of a new line for both open and close braces, especially in an if then else statement. Pushes people to use long ternary statements instead.

I prefer ifs to ternarys because, more often than not, I want to easily add and remove statements to the body of the then or else as I'm working things out.
I don't mean this in a troll-like fashion, to dump on something someone invested effort into. But I also literally don't understand the purpose. Could someone, even OP, explain why? Again, I'm not meaning this in a 'hurt your feelings' mode, it's more my brain seems to have a lack of comprehension on this.
enjoyed it :)

who is we? just asking because I'm wondering if you are musicians who experience normal reputational risk fear of publishing, or healthcare workers with a (healthy :) fear of publishing something outside their wheelhouse
Can you elaborate why layers are needed in travel time band type analysis?
Is there a good way for ChatGPT in AI4Finance?
Seems that chatGPT may help upgrade trade, like robo-advisor?
I think it was self-aware a joke referencing that very thing...
The Journey to the World of Disney of Mirrorverse
Isn’t part of the benefit of getting into these universities the fact that you get to interact with people from a wealthier economic class? You have the opportunity to meet people who can invest in your ventures or who can introduce you to people who can.
Eww. What's especially nasty is this is the opposite behavior of threads.
World bank, etc.

Keep in mind that there's ~150 million people in China who subsist on less than ~$3/day or whatever. Even accounting for cheaper standard of living (4x ppp in China) it's cripplingly poor by US poverty rates. It's the equivalent of living on like $4k USD.

Idk if you've been to rural China at all, but shit is way different there still.

When we define the US federal poverty line it's at minimum like $12k for an individual, even in the cheapest areas. That's 3x higher than the poverty line for data you see coming out of China.
>The more interesting thing about the story is how several top government officials were fired as a result

This is false, government propaganda. https://www.antena3.com/noticias/sociedad/despedido-renfe-po...
Glad no-one was insured. Here's, on a lighter note, a Bob Newhart recording on Bomb defusing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArMf6xbMsLI
Its engagement optimization. Adsense pays more if you spend more time on the page
They are unions. Stop this nonsense.
France stations weren't build as per the spec. That would have had to be corrected at some point anyway.
And vice versa. The compiler can detect a loop and replace it by a call to memcpy https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56888
> It's just a thing you have to remember ...

The more of these things there are, the more brainpower you devote to remembering the right way to do things; if you don't you introduce bugs, a subtle, painful one here.
Reading Spanish language sources, I find no reporting that says the firm did any actual work on the project. The delay was due entirely to communication back and forth between Renfe, Adif, and the contractor about what size train to build. The firm notified their customer way back in 2021 about the size discrepancy, and it has taken much time to resolve.
> "Not better in any significant way" is a hot take, and pretty hand-wavy way of dismissing a whole group of languages. With so many people preferring that syntax, it might just be that you're actually wrong..

I can see how it could be interpreted that way if you didn't read anything else in my post.

A lot more people use C syntax than use ML syntax, so your own argument, "[w]ith so many people preferring that syntax", would support C not ML.

> For instance, I'd say the piping is significantly better than the backwards reading of nested function calls you have to do in Python.

> Data |> map |> filter |> group |> sum

> Vs sum(group(map(a) for a in data if filter(a)))

That's not coherent Python syntax, but knowing both languages, I'll agree that the ML syntax is definitely better. But significantly better? Reading that sort of code in Python simply isn't a problem I run into. Neither syntax solves any problems I have, because understanding syntax isn't ever the problem I have (in languages that aren't intentionally opaque).

Incidentally, if you want that sort of thing in C-ish syntax, it's not hard to get it in (for example) C#:

data.map(f).filter(p).groupBy(g).reduce(add);
By all accounts I have read, the defection of Viktor Belenko with a Mig-25 really did change the way NATO understood the Mig-25.
I think it’s a pointless argument all around because there is too much bias in both defining a state as failed and agreeing on that’s state’s political orientation.

I could argue that there are far more examples of failed capitalist states, but it would just devolve into endless debates of those definitions above based on differences in ideology. Even if my goal is to address the many misconceptions of “communist” states, it’s just not a useful way to go about it.

Just to slide a point in here, nearly every leftist of every tendency has a long list of criticisms of countries who have declared themselves communist. The points just tend to be more nuanced than the cartoonishly evil story we are taught in the US.
I had a manager who actually told me not to read docs. I was a bad report and read them anyway.
For those who haven't seen it, CCAN [1] is a great collection of reusable C code, much of which specifically exists to work around the kinds of issues mentioned in OP. It turns “oh crap I should probably roll my own” into “wait I bet someone has already re-rolled this”.

[1] https://ccodearchive.net/
The NTSB is a government agency representing the government. You should never talk to these agencies unless forced to. There is zero upside for you and lots of downside.
I used to invest pretty heavily in the energy sector in general and I learned a lot of the science along the way and I really have no idea what fraction of the earth's surface has been geologically surveyed.

I would imagine if someone wanted to seriously pursue the theory (if they'd be permitted to do so, probably not) the way I'd do it is find "disappointing fields" and look for peculiar correlations between them WRT odd permeability test results. So is that field disappointing because its permeability is really low (frac it!) or is it disappointing because all the geology points to a good salt dome and the permeability is great but there's nothing there? The old fashioned way to explain fields that look good but don't produce is the permeability is so high it all leaked out millennia ago (among other explanations boiling down to "we don't know").

I would think you'd find weirder evidence of tailings piles around solid mines and a lack of open pit mines. That would be easier to find than an oil well. Also I expect there would be really weird patterns in sediment related to mercury and similar waste products. "They" never did leaded gas if there's no lead layer in the sediment, etc.

Some of it is sophistry. No civilization beyond monkey tribes could possibly exist 3M years ago because there would be nuclear reactors and space ships laying around everywhere, as though there's no intermediate step between monkey tribes and nuclear reactors. Well, what if they never advanced beyond (fill in the blank with some group that's not very advanced in 2023)? Still centuries beyond a tribe of monkeys, yet culturally interesting none the less. We could detect the industrial revolution from England if it happened in Italy 2000 years previous. But... could we detect the Roman Empire if it happened before in Australia in 4000 BC? or 3M BC? I don't know about that, kind of an open question. If the Roman Empire or similar happened in the USA upper midwest before the mile tall ice sheets scrubbed everything, could we tell today? My educated guess is "no" we could not. It would still be culturally interesting even if no nuclear reactors and space ships were built here 50K years ago. I think it quite likely that bioidentical humans were up to all kinds of nonsense in prehistory that we've never discovered or never could discover. They were as smart as us, and healthier than us, until agriculture was invented.
The charitable read is that large donations and perennial benefactors are good for the school, and admissions considers the welfare of the school in addition to other factors.
This is happening like every other week now. What is going on?
Henbane was pretty interesting. Apparently found in other viking graves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoscyamus_niger
Are there examples of what the formatted code looks like?
Ew. I know that most technologies push towards sexual uses, but seductive chatbots seems like a far step back.
that was such a great scene, I experience wonder, awe, and immense satisfaction when writers and performers come together and recreate an authentic depiction of something they've potentially never experienced themselves.
Few years ago, in a town not far from Venice, digging a new road underpass, they found a completely unknown underground warehouse filled with nazi arms.
That was quite exceptional, but still nowadays WW2 bombs are found all over Italy, millions were dropped.
> Why would every mainstream religion we still have some knowledge of on earth be based on the same basic stories retold.

Most of the world was explored by Christian missionaries like Jesuits, who also educated the informants who in turn told them about foreign cultures. You'd be surprised how many Noah's-ark-like myths the informants told the Jesuits only after the Jesuits told them about Noah's ark. Or, to use another example, a number of books on Greek myth and tragedy retell an Inca story about the emperor opening a box and unleashing smallpox on the Incas, as an independent parallel to the story of Pandora's jar: but the source of the Inca smallpox story was himself a Jesuit-educated native informant who had learned the story of Pandora from the Jesuits before inventing the story of the Inca emperor. The contact between two cultures is a two-way street: the informants who report stories may contaminate them with the stories learned from those they are informing.
> people are still happy to take whatever pills

Are you sure? Do you have numbers to show that (a critical number would be skeptical on one side and careless or trusting on the other)?
Are there actually theorems from which you take those explanations or are these just plausibly sounding hypothetical explanations?
I think it would be more cost and time-effective to just make explosives than go around searching for them, hoping they don't blow up when you dig them out, then concealing them and bringing them back to wherever your base of operations is. Explosives are (somewhat) easy to make, it is setting them off reliably without blowing yourself up that is difficult.
Use the feedback to trend towards things that can't be googled.
Envy is one of the most useless thoughts/emotions there is, it serves no purpose at all.

But there's a good sentence for dealing with it, if you are envious of somebody else having something you can tell yourself: "I have something he doesn't have. I have _enough_."
These ones are probably custom made because they’re being built to a 1-meter gauge.

There are about 3 popular train gauges in Spain: 1m, Iberian and the high speed trains at least use the European standard so they can travel non-stop.

Toronto had to spend a lot more money on its streetcar refresh because they use a gauge nobody else uses, along with tighter turning radii than most other systems. No off-the-shelf possible.

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/ttc-flexity-streetcars...

Usually manufacturers take their standard designs and modify them, but can run into issues like where things unexpectedly resonate because you tweaked the design subtly.
Usually when people say "build" they mean something that creates a build product which is different from the original source files. This could mean compiling and linking c to object files / executables, transpiling TypeScript to javascript, bundling lots of javascript files to one big javascript file, going from readable js to minified js, etc. I've never heard of testing or linting referred to as building.

BTW, I'm not the one that keeps downvoting you to death!
While you possibly heard about a different story, this one has made the rounds over the years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34
I’m not sure that ruining a second-tier social network counts as changing the world. Well, I suppose making the world marginally more irritating is a change of sorts.
I tried asking for a song in the style of John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats (maybe my favorite songwriter) and oof were the results bad. Just one cliche after another ("with the fire in my soul and the wind at my back"), no real character development, and a trite story.

It actually did a good job of explaining the characteristics of a John Darnielle song, but what it produced completely failed to match those characteristics.

When I asked for a Bob Dylan song, I got basically the same story - a guy talking about how he wanders around talking to people and seeing heartbreak but he'll rise above it all.
This is the type of equality of opportunity that is worth fighting for rather than the racist type which included acts such as affirmative action.
Err...I'll get more coffee and read that a few more times.

My basic 'hunch' was that when enough quantum particles 'popped' into an area close enough together, they formed a 'stable' standard particle, which then was governed by that model.

Sorta like if enough rain drops fall in the same spot, they form a puddle...

edit: thinking about it - atoms coming close enough to form molecules might be better example then puddle?
I found Ted Chiang's explanation of what ChatGPT is at the moment fascinating. I really liked the analogy as a way of explaining to non-tech folks.
The first class carriage between Bristol and London served free sandwiches, fruit, papers - and wine on a Friday evening. How civilised it was sitting amongst judges and bankers with my discount short haul ticket with a pocket full of free food and a gratis glass of plonk to console me when I got to Reading and the interminable wait for the Blackwater line
not if they took your seat
ChatGPT is as smart as the tool-using Cockatoo
All else being equal I would agree with you. I do think though that enforcing things like land acknowledgment statements in syllabi creates resentment amongst those in the middle. There is also harm, I think, in letting those who advocate for such policies feel good about themselves without them doing anything to feel good about.
Then we'd have heavy cramming, less fun, suicides and pressure like china south Korea or Japan. For better or worst.
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Reportedly, Character.ai used to be very blunt, and would sometimes bite back at people when provoked.

(For fairly unsurprising PR reasons, their AI fell in line and is much more of a pacifist now)