skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The claim was that it pulled the game out of its dataset. If this were the case, I would argue it would absolutely be trivial to find them. It’s not some concept that can’t be described in words or would be hard to quantify. The rules have been provided, and, assuming they were plagiarized from somewhere else, would be listed verbatim or close to it.

ChatGPT uses word vectors, it wont use the same words but variants of the words. You can't search for that. Cases where word vectors only maps to single words with no variations for every word are very rare, so ChatGPT is very good at plagiarising things without reproducing exactly, it just rarely fails at it.

> If a student plagiarized on their work, whether in written form or in code, it’s been trivially easy to find the exact work that was copied from. It generally takes me a few seconds of searching to find it.

No it isn't, they just change the words and rewrites it until it no longer looks the same. ChatGPT is trained to rewrite texts like that to avoid triggering trivial plagiarism detectors. They train it to produce the same text, but with different words, producing exactly the same text is punished.
If you provide less monetisation for content creators, you end up with less content too. This is not as simple as you think…
i don’t necessarily agree that the categorization process doesn’t add value, but I certainly think that the categories themselves do.
or introduce some level of randomness to dull the effect of the metrics
Orwell's term is crimethink of course. I can only think of one party that recently passed laws making it a felony to say certain things to certain people. Thankfully you're still allowed to actually hold the thoughts in your head.
I like and use vim, but this is like saying BMW owners are better drivers.
Today, ChatGPT gives you an instant step by step guide which may or may not be correct but will
likely get you there.
$450 to $550 seems like the price for detached homes.

For a 2BR apartment at 850 sqft, that's $425,000. In the Bay Area I presume,

Anecdotally, from memory, the price of high quality apartment, globally, varies around the $125,000 to $200,000 USD mark. Depending as you say, on materials. The interesting fact I was told is this price scales linearly with high rise, for quite a long time.

85 stories can and will average out to the magic $200,000.

Even presumably adding a Bay Area markup, a $300,000 cost of construction is eminently affordable.

For 2BR apartments for childless couples, $300,000 is a excellent.

To me, the obstacle is purely zoning and supply side constraints for large high rises. Singapore style high rises given proper zoning would provide umpteenth $250,000 two bedroom apartments, on Singapore sized parcels of land.

Providing sufficient land, construction of high rise units would grossly improve the housing affordability situation.

It's purely a zoning/public services provisioning issue.
The op wrote an article about how he shot himself in the foot and got taken advantage of by a shitty host. He should have put his name down as one of the guests. When the host saw his name wasn’t listed, he got him to incriminate himself and reported it knowing she wasn’t going to have to give him a refund.

With hotels, typically you reserve a room with a credit card, and any guests you put on the list can show up, present their ID, and check in. You never have to check in yourself. So I really don’t think what you said was accurate. The hotel doesn’t even know who is making the booking, there’s no account they can check like there is with AirBnB.

Screw AirBnB, I’ll keep using hotels.
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Oral or dissertation defense is a high stakes version of things you tend to do a lot: giving talks, teaching, etc.
It’s not the tool that’s at fault in that case, it’s the person doing that falsification. The person would have faked their sources and made shit up without ChatGPT there.

It’s almost as if you ignored everything I said, cherry-picked a random part, then went on a tangent about a different part of my comment. All without actually comprehending what the things you replied to said.
> "it's my first impression, no need to be so precise, just say something silly and light-hearted.", because that's what most people typically expect.

This

I told a friend of mine that whenever he goes on a first date. Whatever she asks, if it's within the first 10 minutes, say something that is clearly a non-serious answer. Don't say anything serious in the first 10 minutes. After that, feel free to be yourself. Since he's very serious, this helped to balance him out a bit, especially because his first impression was so different.

"What kind of work do you do?"

"I teach... rocks how to ehm... throw... other rocks. Which I know, there's an ethical issue to that. Like, would humans just be allowed to throw other humans? No! But in rock culture, well you gotta rock as a rock. Naturally, the electric guitar is their preferred instrument of choice. So rocks wanna be thrown, but only by other rocks, not by humans. I know, it's weird, I'm a bit of an exception but that's also because I grew up with parents that rocked and then it's sort of fine. Marilyn Manson also was a famous rock throwing coach."

I just made that up, but stuff like that. Key to that is also knowing when to pause and be fully willing to be imperfect.

I need to do something similar. I'm also too serious and too thinkey for the normal world. Fortunately, I have a huge imagination too, so I just show that first by being not serious at all :)

I've thought about the whole "being yourself" thing versus deviating from it for the first 10 minutes, but I figured if putting up a bit of an act (that you enjoy yourself as well) for 10 minutes changes people's impression much more positively of you and then you can fully drop it and be yourself, then it's fine.
This resonates with me. My Father in laws retirement party was supposed to be this past weekend. He spent it in the hospital getting treated for a stroke. He pretty much did nothing but work.
> but the obvious explanation of this is that by hiring from organizations with high stress, you're likely to be hiring perpetrators.

Only if you're importing their managers.

Managers focused on MBA crap are bad enough for corporate culture, but those raised in corporate fiefdoms are even worse. When half of their time is wasted on fighting petty fights with other managers instead of working together with them, they waste the time of those below them as well.
It seems that some people are found to have died previously usually it's the 3-4 year mark.

Not too sure how COVID impacted things[0].

The "benefit" they had is having a direct debit (preauthorized payments).

Interestingly people seem to have taken the "hint" and stopped trying to contact them.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-64400776
'miracle', from the dictionary:

> an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs

OR

> an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment

'miracle' from an economist:

> Something slightly unexpected happened.

They really do overuse the term shamelessly.
After a lot of hesitation and energized by a work incentive, I tried Nix last week.

I've followed the official docs, had to resort on Google et al. quite quickly to solve mundane problems (installing a channel is not on the default path of the docs for the new learner), and after much wandering and trial and error, I evenrially went to the discourse and asked what I should use between flakes, nix shell or develop... Every single answer was 1/extremely informative and nice 2/ crystal clear that Nix was in a confusing, in-between stage in its life cycle.

I very much appreciate the community and efforts but I work for a company that cannot afford the commitment that Nix requires right now. I will happily come back in 2 years and reevaluate.
It exists: https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython
Perhaps it could be organized into a hierarchical set of categories as well...
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Its OK it was just like reading ‘car’ and ‘automobile’ in the same sentence and not being quite sure if that was what was actually meant. Otherwise it was a very clear explanation!
> People are going to lie and plagiarize whether they have a chat bot do it for them or not.

The difference is, with a chatbot it might not even be a conscious act, the chatbot is doing it for you and you're not aware that it's happening.
I disagree. There’s no casual pathway between Astrology and who you are. With MBTI you respond to a questionnaire, so there is some connection to you. How accurate this is, well that’s a topic for debate. However, the most accurate personality models are also based on questionnaires of this sort.

Some time ago I also thought MBTI was bullshit, now I think it’s quite useful. And at least for me, anecdotally, has predictive power.
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What kind of human interaction do you get out of some bored 15 year old girl at the supermarket? For me it doesn't go beyond "hello" and "bye". Maybe it's something to do with culture.

Anyway I looked up some data and over half the customers in my country use the self checkout now.
Need S3 like server with edit capability
I need to implement a service that servers files like s3 with range requests and also allow for client to edit those files over http.
There are supposed to be a lot of read requests from clients, and some write requests, which are bundled data of what file needs to be edited and what bytes needs to be written, and where
the total size of the file will not change
How can i implement such a service.
I do the same when it comes to products and reviews.

When it comes to programming I limit the search to one or two years. This is why my stackoverflow is sorted that the newest answer is the last because they don't let me sort in a way the the newest answer is the first.

I don't think its google fault in general its just the thing that if your first on a specific product you add a link where to buy that thing and this is how you make money. Would be fun to see if affiliate links were not a thing. By how much search results would improve.
It's similar to domestic violence or unhealthy relationships - many sufferers of that are so used to being treated badly they literally cannot imagine a better world and can't spot red flags.
> No it isn't, they just change the words and rewrites it until it no longer looks the same. ChatGPT is trained to rewrite texts like that to avoid triggering trivial plagiarism detectors. They train it to produce the same text, but with different words, producing exactly the same text is punished.

Do you think students plagiarizing don’t do the exact same thing? Clearly someone has never actually dealt with plagiarized work. This is plagiarizing 101. The structure remains the same even if they use synonyms. Considering it’s trivially easy to find in code which is magnitudes harder to pull off, I would still argue it should be easy as pie to find this supposed set of rules.

Your point is not very credible without proof of this game existing and ChatGPT pulling it from this source. Without showing this supposed proto-game having existed with rules the ChatGPT can pull from, then all you’ve done is wave your hands around and yelled “similar games exist so this can’t possibly be uniquely generated” and that’s not a very compelling argument.
What's the size of your company?
I'd wonder how true it is in Japan, either; all feels a bit anecdotal.

My impression was that Japan had ~0 unemployment largely due to an increasingly small number of people of working age; per-employee productivity is actually pretty high in Japan.

And yeah, certainly around here a lot of stuff is just reducing hours because they can't staff at previous levels.
1M four years degree and no standardised admission tests in universities?

I wonder where the us is going.
see here is the thing, you didn't need Chat GPT to cheat.

Nature's neural networks (also called humans) have been willing to provide cheating services for far cheaper than it costs OpenAI to run ChatGPT. So the question is, what were you doing then?

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I'll share a personal anecdote on cheating and the futility of it. I am taking a course on SQL at Coursera, and at the end of the course there is a peer-reviewed project you have to do (you submit your project for others to mark, and you have to mark the project of four other students to pass).

The thing is, you can already find the entire project online, a few people have posted their project for people to see, probably to help build their profile (just google "yelp coursera").

And obviously what most students did was just copy paste the damn thing, I immediately recognized that when I was marking the other candidates' projects, they didn't even bother attempting to hide it.

The thing is, I am not doing this course because I am being forced to by work or anything, but because I wanted to learn. Therefore, copying pasting the project would have not achieved the goals.

See, I wouldn't even have needed google to cheat, my BiL is a computer scientist, I could have easily used him to cheat if that was the goal.

But I wanted to learn, so I did it on my own, as did many other students whose project I did end up agreeing to mark (I refused to mark the cheater's projects and just refreshed the tab)

And since I am on HN and in tune with the tech on goings, I already had applied for the new BingGPT Chat, so I used to that to help with my project.

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I didn't just paste my project questions, but I used it like I would have used my BiL to help; I asked it questions when my code didn't run like it should have.

In other words, I would, say, google (and yes google, regular bing search is still bad) for questions like normal, but the answer from StackOverflow would be for, say, MySQL, so I would ask the BingGPT Chat to give me an example of doing the same thing in SQLite, which is what the course used.

It would then recognize that I couldn't use CTE, for example (limitation of the Coursera web portal, not SQLite, in this instance), and give me an alternate way to do the same thing, and now I could use the concept to answer my own question.

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In other words, ChatGPT is now acting as that education sibling/relative you can ask questions of to do homework... just people always have been before the existence of computers.

The only benefit is that now EVERYONE has access to that educated "relative", not just the lucky ones. Now everyone can get a customized answer, and that's wonderful, imho. More importantly, is that you can now ask it follow up questions.

Don't blame ChatGPT for cheating, people who wanted to cheat always could.

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The problem with citing ChatGPT is, has anybody ever cited their relative who helped with the project? or do you cite google the search string you used?

I understand what the author is getting at, but it's still strange. ChatGPT isn't the authoritative source, so why cite the prompt?
Indeed, Altavista, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves would probably give better search results than Google as of today.
I see a resemblance between the question whether this AI is truly decoding brain activity into images, and Scott Aaronson's philosophical waxing about whether waterfall truly compute functions (answer: no, because the algorithmic complexity of the necessary decoder is at least equal to the complexity of the problem being computed)..
If you can confine yourself to a table of 16 byte values, then Intel SSE3's instruction pshufb can let you have a table in a register, with 16 parallel lookups in one clock cycle (assuming your input are the low nibbles in another SSE3 register). More here: http://www.0x80.pl/notesen/2016-03-13-simd-lookup-pshufb.htm...
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It does run `dune build`, but the unit of persistence within Nix is defined as `buildDunePackage`, i.e. the Nix store will only know about the package rather than individual modules and a change in a single module will cause a cascading rebuild of the entire package to update the nix store.
It's very different content though, isn't it? I've never used Discord, but it's mostly chat as far as I understand, and I always found chat somewhat difficult to use for referencing later. You'll have topics shifting, multiple topics going on at once, everything being more informal (and people spending less time on finding the solution instead of jumping on Discord).

I imagine it's harder to get useful content out of that vs forums where topics are pretty contained in threads and it's more formal so there's less noise and pretty much all posts are relevant to the topic.

Maybe if forums had fancy apps for local display and reply etc, and you could sync them between servers, and it could be kind of decentralized. Someone should build something like that and come up with a good name. It would be a useful net of news. Just a thought!
or they expected autocorrect to catch it but it didn't trigger because no period. this is an entirely unnecessary comment lol
What exactly are they in-between? What is changing and how will things be better in 2 years?
The metaverse hype train at MWC 2023
Who needs Google anyway? Forbes is an expert on everything! I mean holy fucking shit, is there any topic Forbes isn't an expert on? I wonder who are the brilliant minds at Google Search who let shit like that slide. As of the last 2 years, Forbes has become an expert in web development, devops, and who knows what's coming next - experts on systems architecture?

Link buying is as rampant as ever, too. For one of the blogs I own, it's not uncommon to get an out of the blue offer for $500 to publish an article that includes a link to some product. And I have heard those numbers are even crazier in casino, gambling and cannabis niches.

For a new site/blogs these days, Google will stall/throttle you for 2-3 years before it starts even looking at you as if you matter / are a subject expert. All the while, shitty news sites like Forbes get pumped to the top not because they produce high-quality content but because they're jacked up with backlinks.
> Do you think students plagiarizing don’t do the exact same thing? Clearly someone has never actually dealt with plagiarized work. This is plagiarizing 101. The structure remains the same even if they use synonyms.

You rewrite the structure of the text, you don't just use synonyms. ChatGPT is capable of rewriting text to a different structure while keeping the meaning, I hope you are aware of that.

Anyway, even if you just change the words to synonyms it wont be easy to find in a search engine. Search engines aren't very good at finding matches to synonyms. Google tries, but in doing so they fail to find more specific texts like scientific publications or documentation, so no search engines aren't good at finding plagiarism.

Edit: And you make it sound like most plagiarism is found. No, that isn't the case, most plagiarism is not found out because it is a very hard problem to solve. Only the most blatant cases are caught. For humans that is reasonable, for AI we can be stricter since there isn't a humans career at stake.
Flakes have a lock file (flake.lock) which means you get to decide explicitly when to update the software. nixpkgs does not have precise rules on what updates are allowed, so nix-shell can give surprising results unless you make the effort to stick to one version of the whole nixpkgs explicitly. With flakes you can combine packages and versions explicitly.
> There are fully generic methods for constructing (minimal) perfect hash functions [...] However, they tend to use lookup tables to construct the hash itself.

To be slightly pedantic, this solution uses a lookup table too, but it's small enough that it fits in a machine integer (and thus can be loaded as an immediate value).

In general, there is an information-theoretic lower bound on the size of the auxiliary data you need to build a perfect hash function, and it's Omega(n) bits for n keys. The constant depends on the load factor, when that is 1 it means that the hashes are in [0, n) and the perfect hash function is called minimal, and the space lower bound is log(e)*n bits

For very small n, brute-forcing like this generally yields good functions. In fact, it is one of the strategies used by gperf.
Not José but could you elaborate on the "average person" part? The "average person" is not building a business, and the average person building a web business is not necessarily in e-commerce.

Laravel is probably the best choice for that industry, because there's so many resources available. However, there are other industries and I happen to work in one where Laravel doesn't stand a chance against Phoenix (lots of realtime events, not just between browser/server).

You can't say a hammer is better than a screwdriver, period.
It's not just Google, it's all of them. DDG used to be rather decent, now it's ONLY return "X best Y" when I'm searching for anything.
It is now easier to get Saturn and Media Market ads than technical sites when looking for hardware specifications.
Their competitor mainstream psychology was fathered and dominated for a long time by Sigmund Freud. His success probably had more to do
to his nephew Edward Bernays and the yearly exclusive balls for the elites than anything scientific. Now there is Nudge Theory which is marred by the replication crisis and repeat fabricators; hardly scientific (though more common in academia than it should be) but it tells governments what they want to hear so it’ll stay successful until the flaws are too obvious to ignore (note that I don’t follow the field overly closely).

The MBTI is just a projection of the personality space like the more accepted Big 5. From my experience data-mining behavioral data at scale it’s a pretty good mapping and the relative value questions are adequate and the 4 dimensions do explain a lot of behavior to the point that it is very useful - a fact probability contributing to its success. My main gripe with it is the extrovert - introvert axis is a bit weak with many people being close to the middle. I’m more extroverted around intelligent people which doesn’t happen as often as I’d like, a trait held by far more commonly by ENTJ/INTJ than random chance.