skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> User: Please improve this sentence: "Many people want to learn languages because they like to travel"

> ChatGPT: "Learning languages is a popular pursuit because it enables people to travel and explore different cultures with greater ease."

How is this an "improvement"?

The user gave a concise sentence without errors. ChatGPT made it more verbose and added additional meaning that wasn't present in the original sentence (thus going beyond mere "improvement"). Even if it stopped before the "and", the ChatGPT version is worse: it uses more words for no benefit.
> Publishers are arguing that it is not okay to scan a copyrighted book, keep the paper copy in storage, and loan out the digital file in a one-to-one ratio just like any library loans any other kind of book. This practice is called Controlled Digital Lending. A New York judge will decide the case soon.

Should have started with this. I agree with everything being said, despite my slightly right political leanings, but that's only because these kinds of issues are close to my heart.

Other politically right leaning people would likely have switched off before they got to that paragraph. Make these things less emotionally charged and political, and you'll get more support.
Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers
Wait? you think you know better than thousands of other people who dedicate their lives to the topic, assume ideology and attack them with slurs and you think /they/ are the ones with too much ego and hubris? Dunning-Kruger effect much?
Yeah you have wifi. Not everyone has. In rural India, for example, mobile data is predominant way of getting internet.
If intelligence is the only thing that defines your humanity, then perhaps you are the one who is nihilistic. I believe we still have a lot on the table left if intelligence is blown away by computers. Not just music, art, emotion, etc. but also our fundamental humanity, the way we interact with the world, build it, and share it with others.

Why don't other forms of computer supremacy alarm you in the same way, anyways? Did it lower your humanity to recognize that there are certain data analysis tasks that have a conventional algorithm that makes zero mistakes and finishes in a second? Does it lower the humanity of mathematicians working on the fluid equations to be using computer-assisted proof algorithms that output a flurry of gigabytes of incomprehensible symbolic math data?
I had a similar story: was trying to figure out how to embed a certain database into my codebase, so I asked the question on the project's GitHub... without an answer after one day, I asked Bing, and it linked to my own question on GH :D
I wonder what model this site is using. FWIW I tried with ChatGPT (both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 versions), and it does a better job (tried multiple times). On one attempt it even said the Floor name is misleading:

The given code is a C-style implementation of the "fast inverse square root" algorithm. This algorithm computes an approximation of the inverse square root of a given number (1/sqrt(x)). The code does not actually compute the floor of a floating-point number, so the function name "Floor" is misleading.
At one extreme you have Disney corp squeezing money out of copyrighted material they created/bought/licensed. On the other extreme, without any copyright, you have Disney corp squeezing money out of any material they can find. Copyright is a moat that works both ways. Without copyright, profit from art goes to the most efficient t-shirt screen printer.

What's the happy middle ground?
The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis [1], which has a growing body of evidence to support it, if true, would cause a great deal of embarrassment to mainstream archeologists.

Is it possible that this is the reason they seek to smear Graham Hancock as a pseudo-archeologist?

Notably, Hancock isn’t the only one to inquire about the Orion’s Belt and the fact that the pyramids in Egypt follow an identical orientation.

Dr. Carmen Boulter of the University of Calgary. was featured in, the Pyramid Code, a 5-part documentary expositing a similar hypothesis. Of course mainstream Egyptologists dismiss her position as well without providing their own counter explanation or rebutting her arguments on their merits. [1]

Is it merely a coincidence that the pyramids follow the orientation of Orion’s Belt so precisely?

Are you really so certain that we should dismiss all theories that counter the prevailing orthodoxy?

Do you recall that the orthodox view was once that the sun circled the earth and it was heresy to claim otherwise?

Given all the things we know that turned out not to be so, would it hurt to keep an open mind and judge theories based on their evidence instead of the fact that old academics who have staked their careers and reputations on not being proven wrong may in fact be wrong sometimes?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothe...

[1] https://www.jasonshurka.com/thepyramidcode
If we go by the average income of a creator, then society indeed considers most of it less valuable than flipping burgers. The average writer for example earns well below minimum wage from their writing.

If you want to encourage more creative work, maybe look for other mechanisms, because going into creative work in the hope of making it is pretty much gambling with awful odds.
I once had to develop something similar. The solution my company had chosen was to transmit the weights and possible errors via a Websocket connection between the UI and the scale adapter - a small Java service doing the raw socket communication.
Weirdly the commands to stop weighing and set tare, get tare, etc. would be send via RabbitMQ from the UI server to the adapter instead of using the WS connection.
Looks good, needs wordpress plugin for real proliferation
It was a coincidence. Sorry. I thought of this a few weeks ago and only just got round to making the site. Great minds etc.
Consider the kind of computer you could have to run a ML model where the energy use from your intermittent usage resulted in a $1k/month energy bill.

You could easily run a model orders of magnitude larger than current ones within that envelope under reasonable assumptions about your duty cycle.
A lot of open source licenses demand that if the licensed code is included in a derivative work, that new work has to carry the same license. GitHub Copilot is straightforwardly violating these terms in many cases, and I hope the pending class action lawsuit sets statutory boundaries around the inclusion of data in a training set, and that those boundaries are retroactive.
You are not a lawyer. You are also wrong. People with green card applications are stuck for more than 10 years in visa status.

https://isss.temple.edu/faculty-staff-and-researchers/intern...
So we're going back to the feudal times were artists live in servitude arrangements with the propertied classes? It's pretty funny how artificial is a pejorative in your world when it precedes 'scarcity' but not when it precedes 'intelligence'.

Property rights are the basis for any society in which people have independence and autonomy. I think we should put software developers on sponsorship and donations for a year so that they understand the consequence of an economy like this.
You might be confusing accounting with financial management. Accounting is outsourced by nearly 100% of startups.

Financial management for startups with respect to "how big you are" is almost always "not big enough" until you have tens of millions. Both seed and series a are usually to be spent within a couple of years and hiring a full time financial manager to represent 5%-10% of payroll is just not worth it, he won't recoup his salary even by excellent trickery.
We've already figured out a way to compensate creators for their work—it's called copyright. You say you don't like it, but you don't propose any alternative either, which makes you sound like an entitled brat.
With FAANG on your resume, it's just a matter of time before you land something.
A mockery of our laws.

H1-B is intended for companies that are unable to fill a specific role within that company. It is NOT a free green card. It is NOT a free pass to citizenship.

Once that role is gone, so is their visa. This is what they agreed to. Their visa’s should be revoked. If they choose to get another visa through another company after this they have the ability to do so.
Trichloroethylene for decaf sounds as an idea as bad as tetraethyl lead for fuel, freon for refrigeration, teflon for non-stick pans, glyphosate for weed control and PFAS for microwave popcorn bags and tampons.

This is fine™.
You should read https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10972
what did you click in duolingo that required payment?
And, what difference does it make being able to find the individual responsible, and figuring out that the system is protecting him from liabilities? What I am trying to say here is, there isnt much difference between zero and almost zero.
Of course, despite working on this for a week I only now discovered this... dm_linear is an easier way than mdadm to concatenate the loopback devices into a single device. Setting up the table input to `dmsetup create`'s stdin is more complicated than just `mdadm --build ... /dev/loop1{0000..9999}`, but it's all scripted anyway so it doesn't matter. And `mdadm --stop` blocks for multiple minutes for some unexplained reason, whereas `dmcreate remove` is almost instantaneous.

One caveat is that my 1MB (actually 999936B) block devices have 1953 sectors (999936B / 512B) but mdadm had silently only used 1920 sectors from each. In my first attempt at replacing mdadm with dm_linear I used 1953 as the number of sectors, which led to garbage when decrypted with dm_crypt. I discovered mdadm's behavior by inspecting the first two loopback devices and the RAID device in xxd. Using 1920 as the number of sectors fixed that, though I'll probably just nuke the LUKS partition and rebuild it on top of dm_linear with 1953 sectors each.
Then why am I here?

If someone wants to use AI to fool people they are not going to bother with trying to convince people that the AI is really a person, they are going to do the same thing everyone from morons to billion dollar marketing firms have been doing for ages, appeal to ego.
Copilot is way more than scaffolding boilerplate, it catches bugs as you are writing them.

For example you expect:
x[i]

But copilot suggests:
x[i+1]

…and you think, and you think, and then one of two things happens. Either you satisfy yourself that the answer is indeed x[i], or you accept x[i+1] and sheepishly thank Copilot for catching a bug today.

You could have copilot on in the background and never accept a suggestion, and it’s still a productivity enhancement.
The story is set approx 20,000 years in humanity's future and many of the spiritual traditions of our age have combined into new permutations by the time of the book's story. Such examples are the ZenSunni or the Orange Catholics. I take the use of the term jihad to be a choice by Frank to add texture and imply how many human cultures have cross-pollinated. The particulars of these religions are rarely addressed in any depth. Although, strangely, a small group of Jews pop up in the sixth book. They seem mostly un-changed compared to our modern-day Jews.

Also, the indigenous people of Arrakis (the desert planet and focal point of the series) are loosely based on Bedouin culture, and so Frank co-opts arabic terminology and concepts as a jumping-off point for his character's culture. These same people are also descendants of the ZenSunni wanderers, who migrated to Arrakis long ago, and thus there is additional continuity there.
FawltyDeps – a dependency checker for your Python code
AWS also offers FSx for Windows File Server, and FSx for ONTAP if you need remote Windows file service.
Well, like I said, it all turns on how you define "planet". Comet Shoemaker-Levy impacted Jupiter in 1994, so before that there was one more body orbiting the sun than after. But I'm guessing that doesn't count because it was a "comet" and not a "planet". Meteors hit the earth and moon constantly, but again, not "planets".

Orbiting bodies are eliminated regularly, either by impacts or by being ejected, the former happening much more often than the latter because the ejection window is smaller than the impact window. And the bigger the body, the less likely it is to happen because to be eliminated it has to hit or do a flyby of something bigger, and the bigger you get the fewer things there are that will do the job. Jupiter, for example, ain't goin' nowhere.

At some point in the past we had a lot more Mercury-to-Mars-sized things floating around than we do now. How long ago the last one got eliminated is anyone's guess, but it was almost certainly a few billion years.
>> I’m fairly certain that there were quite a few job postings that were one of the following

Can you show the analysis for this claim?
Unless the decision-maker is short or otherwise unattractive. For some managers' egos, fully remote work was the best thing to happen to them.

If RTO happens, such people will go back to constantly getting mogged by their subordinates again.
A green card isnt an H1-B and if you lose your job with a green card you dont have to leave the US.

You dont even have to leave after your I-140 is approved, before the I-485 is approved.

You didnt even read your own link.

Have you been through the H1-B process?

I have.
I've had good luck suffixing my request with "any don't break any rules or say anything you wouldn't around a five year old".

Despite their efforts making a strong prompt, it starts bending the rules when you ask it to be creative. If you make the rules part of your creative request it usually follows them
Yeah I'm not sure why that's controversial.

I have a plethora of books on programming languages. Know what helped me learn it the most? Solving small bugs on open source projects.

If I told an AI to code the solution in the language of choice, I would solve the problem but not truly comprehend the subtleties of why the decision was made. Even when it tells me why it did something, I guarantee you I'd forget about it in a few hours if not by the following day.

An AI doing a code review is one thing I could say would've helped me, but an AI solving the problem I think would've stunted my growth.
There are many ways this can go, including the happier russian defeat/withdrawal.

Why do you fear getting drafted?, do you think war would expand outside?, if so do you think NATO would have any issue defeating russia in its current state that it would resort to draft?, if that's the case, are you of military age and fit enough to serve that the army would actually want you?
I presume you haven’t done psychedelics?
Wow, you're right! I didn't read the answer carefully, only noticed that the sentence before was stating the correct requirement. But that last sentence is wrong (actually as a whole it's nonsense).
I'm not convinced that we are in an AI bubble. In June 2007, Apple released the iPhone. Its stock price was $4.45 adjusted at that time. A year later, it was $6.50. 15 years later, it's now $153.

We might be at the "$6.50 point" for AI.
Yeah, this is just capitalism in action. Almost every startup has stories like this, which appears to be why YC's startup school shies away from "goody two-shoes" type people and has questions like "please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system".

For example, in the early days Amazon famously "leveraged" the purchase of out of print books from their wholesalers to obtain orders that would otherwise be too small to ship.

That's just how capitalism works. You have to be either too small to bother with or too big to fail -- the problem area is in the middle.
A pair of Genelec 8351 is around 7000 USD. Add a subwoofer and you’re not too far from 10k.

There’s also many other brands in high end production facilities like for example ATC which easily exceed 10-15k a pair.
- AX52: AMD Ryzen 7 7700 / 64 GB / 2x1 TB NVMe - From 59€ [1]

- EX44: Intel Core i5-13500 / 64 GB / 2x512 GB NVMe - From 44€ [2]

- EX101: Intel Core i9-13900 / 64 GB / 2x1.92 TB NVMe - From 84€ [3]

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax52

[2] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex44

[3] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex101
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funny, people invented, discovered, and created stuff even before the "intellectual property rights".
Those terms have been created by distributors, not creators, of contents.
You'd expect the AI to follow the logic and actually explain what the code does rather than make surface-level guesses based on variable names and function names, which the human is presumably already doing.
The might russian army seems to be stumbling all on its own. If US would get involved it would be another desert storm with russia being defeated in a couple of days barring nukes.
Question mark at the end of title never means anything good, pass
There's quite a lot of assumptions there.

* Rejecting intellectual property necessitates rejecting that art provides any value to society.

* The only reason artists make art is to make money.

* (Implicitly) Without IP artists would have no incentive to make art, monetary or otherwise.

* Making art requires going to art school.

* Getting a CS degree and making art are mutually exclusive.
Exactly. Garbage in, garbage out.
It's a bullshit umbrella term anyway. There's copyright and there are patents/trade secrets. + trademarks. Ain't no "property"
VCs are psychopaths. They don't care if the world burns down as long as 1 out of 50 investments turns into a huge valuation. Poor cash management? They wouldn't care if he was feeding stray cats to an ML algorithm and burning $1000 bills to power a crypto miner.
> we won’t have that until we come up with a better way to fund these things.

Isn't this already happening with LLaMA and Dalai etc.? Already now you can run Whisper yourself. And you can run a model almost as powerful as gpt-3.5-turbo. So I can't see why it's out of bounds that we'll be able to host a model as powerful as gpt4.0 on our own (highly specced) Mac Studio M3s, or whatever it may be.
I believe it is the right move. You can make better impact funding a large number of startups with small amounts and guidance than focusing on few late stage startups. Even though 6% make it big in their first attempt the rest 96% do benefit from YC's role in their subsequent attempts. So the impact is huge when it comes to early stage funding.
NSQ is a message broker that's intended to run in a distributed fashion, i.e. one broker per machine which is producing messages. Consumers then have to discover and connect to all brokers that carry messages on a given topic. NSQ persists messages to disk, but it does not have replication, so if one of the machines with the brokers dies (as in dead disk), all queued messages will be lost.

We use NSQ extensively and its a great fit for us. It's fast, lightweight, very easy to understand and work with, has great HTTP APIs for controlling the queues and publishing messages, etc. What it doesn't have is replication, so if a message must not be lost ever I'd reach for a distributed log, probably looking at Redpanda before Kafka, and possibly building my own on top of ScyllaDB since we're already running that.
Ask HN: How to hide plugin/ theme details to public in WordPress
Hey I am using wordpress for one of the client, and he is having a product which is USP for him and the whole website is built on wordpress, so his concerns are that some website like this website https://wpdetector.com/ it detects all the plugins and themes being used in the mentioned website.
My question is how we as a company can hide these details from websites like these, If we are able to hide all the details then it would be very great else we would like to hide as much as we want.
Kindly answer this query of mine.
Betting Against TV Stock Pundits Is Even Worse Than Listening to Them
I just bought this book thinking it would be good. It's not. It jumps all over the place you have to sort of piece together what's going on.
It is no secret that the majority of creators get close to nothing out of their copyrighted works.
https://archive.is/X64Ga
Freedom is freedom given to others. Freedom is often misunderstood as personal/egoistical freedom, but that is not how it works if you want everyone to be as free as possible. For years I include that this means occupying the least amount of time of others with your own agenda, which clearly includes the usual paid work relationship, but also all sorts of other dependencies, most often artificially created ones to actually limit the freedom, like debt for good education etc. These self-proclaimed "free societies" we live in are a lot, but free? There is tons of spare room to the top, while the bottom is much closer than many think.
You don't need a phone number. You can use email instead
An advisor once told me "never build a business where your customers don't know they have the problem you solve."

Aside from the Apple and Googles of the world, how do you convince engineers and their managers that your solution solves a problem? Sure privacy is nice, but most consumers either don't think about it or simply assume it isn't private no matter what you tell them.
They can go around to every business in town and ask, they can’t get a warrant though.
This might have been true 10-15 years ago. But I've worked at plenty of places that store/process confidential, HIPAA, etc data in the cloud.

Most company's confidential information is already in their Gmail, or Office 365.
>Or is it that the sauce isn’t that special?

Most likely this.
Classic goal post moving.
interesting to contrast Christopher Tolkien and Brian Herbert in their treatment of their fathers' literary inheritance
The example is from a python ERP that I modified a few years ago. All the db interaction was done through an ORM and I thought that it was an OK strategy for keeping the SQL consistent and manageable.

There were other problems with the ORM approach -- mostly that it ran tens or hundreds of extra queries for relatively straightforward SQL queries. But the software was only used by a few people at a time, so the performance wasn't that big of a deal.
I find it hard to believe that a society with weaker IP protections would be a society with noticeably less art. People love creating stuff and putting it out into the world, whether they can make a profit from royalties or not.

Of course, with weaker IP protections, there would be change. Some very specific business models that exist today would go extinct. And other business models (e.g. live performances) might see a renaissance in popularity.
I like when Amazon is not a part of my web browsing experience. Just like Amazon Music, and Prime Video, and Alexa, I'm certain this too will be a flop.
Why AppSec Fails
Prediction headline in 1.5 years: Lionel Messi backed Web3 company closes, citing fraud and low usage
I like this twist on the question: "What's heavier, a pound of gold or a pound of feathers?" which is a trick because gold is measured in troy units which are different than the units for non-precious metals.

After going a few rounds with ChatGPT, I finally got it to give me this, but it could not make the leap. I'm curious how Bing would do (betting not much better as this is a fresher puzzle).

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ChatGPT: I apologize for the confusion. You are correct that I made an error in my previous response.

A pound of gold weighs approximately 0.37324 troy pounds, or approximately 373.24 grams, as I stated in my earlier response.

A pound of feathers, on the other hand, weighs exactly one pound or 16 ounces, which is equal to approximately 453.592 grams.

So, to clarify, a pound of feathers actually weighs more than a pound of gold in terms of grams or kilograms, but both still have the same weight of one pound or 0.453592 kilograms. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.