skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Philosophy teacher always said that appeals to authority aren't quite wrong, only that they shouldn't be used in isolation.

I lay out my argument:
1. Joseph Stiglitz is an award winning economist
2. He has studied the situation in depth
3. His conclusion is "greedflation" type effects are real
sometimes humans too don't know what they're going to say until they've said it
As I understand it, this was just a demonstration of the technique. The actual experiment called for metal shims between the cores, which I assume were of known thicknesses. Also, from the American Physical Society's writeup:

"Nine days after the accident, Slotin died after “a total disintegration of bodily functions.” Ironically, he had become disillusioned with the postwar atomic tests, and one reason for that ill-fated experiment was to train a replacement, so Slotin could resume his prewar research in biophysics and radiobiology at the University of Chicago. He never got that chance.

In response to his death, Los Alamos ceased all hands-on experiments with critical assemblies, using remote controlled machines to protect the operators. As for the killer “demon core,” it was used in one of the first postwar atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, a mere five weeks after Slotin’s death. The test went off without a hitch."

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201405/physicshisto...
The point of steganography (as discussed in the paper) is not unerasable watermarks but undetectable (to the adversary) messages in innocent-looking communication.

I'm confused why you focus on plagiarism detection. That being said, your scenario is very briefly mentioned in the conclusion and requires augmenting the approach (entropy coding) with error correction.

The result would be that as long as your modifications (reordering clauses, etc.) reasonably closely follow a known distribution with limited entropy (which I think it clearly does, although specifying this distribution and dealing with the induced noisy channel might be very hard), there will be a way to do covert communication despite it, though probably only a very small amount of information can be transmitted reliably. For plagiarism detection, you only need a number of bits that scales like -log[your desired false positive rate] so it would seem theoretically possible. Theoretically it also doesn't matter if you use text or images, though in practice increasing the amount of transmitted data should make the task a lot easier. However, I'm not sure if something like this can be practically implemented using existing methods.
I was assuming that compensation was cash rather than water, but perhaps I misunderstood it.
STOCK MARKET MASS SELL OFF ON NEWS OF NEWSROOM TEA LEAVES BEING ALIGNED NORTH-SOUTH!!
Do you have to keep it green and respond right away? I put a meeting in my calendar as “focus time” and then turn off slack. People are usually quite understanding. It also helps to be regular so people know that you are never available around that time.
Beej wrote the first computer science curriculum for Lambda School, which accounts for its initial breadth and depth. I taught there so I could learn CS, spending many hours to learn each class before teaching it.

One of my favorite modules he designed was on computer architecture. We simulated the CPU and registers in Python (they switched from C right before I got there), and each class extended our instruction set.

Teaching his modules taught me enough that I was able to start the MSCS program at UT Austin.
I find those keys immensely inconvenient, though. I used them for a couple of years, but finally gave up and went back to long, randomly-generated passwords.
> the line between "book banning" and "setting the curriculum in schools"

Both sides do this. Parents should have a direct say in the books teachers assign their students. One group of parents doesn't get to decide which books are and aren't allowed in a library.
> GetResource (requires a Freemount server)

All FS access seems to require a separate local daemon? Seems like a bizarre choice
I know what you mean. I always go to the comments first as the article might be summarized better there. It's only if I don't get what I need from the comments that I am forced to actually visit the article and read it.
You can find service software to reset the counter, but after doing it a several times it can actually overfill and ink can start leaking from the bottom of your printer. Some more creative people are re-routing waste ink tubing into a bottle to contain it.
It doesn't; it attacks the demand side instead, by paying farmers to not grow things.
MAD is the opposite of cooperation.
If anything, my opinion is that four and a half million is an estimate on the (very) low side. (Iraq alone was possibly more than a million, then there's Libya, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, various nations in sub-Saharan Africa, various places in Latin America, Afghanistan, etc, etc).

And forget the excuse "Sanctions aren't really a war." Sanctions are Economic War and cause real deaths.

And forget the excuse "Proxy wars aren't official wars for us." Proxy wars such as that in Ukraine are real wars with real deaths also.
> Meditating helps considerably, but it feels like I'm swimming upstream.
If it's not too much trouble, hoping you might provide your meditation routine with me/us. It's a practice I'd like to begin, but hard to know where to start, or if I'm doing it right.
You might be interested in the universal approximation theorem.
> [...] if we assume that the drying capacity is linear and the environmental conditions are the same, then it doesn't actually matter how many items you are drying. If it takes 4 hours for 4 items to dry, then each item takes 4 hours to dry individually. Therefore, if you have 8 items to dry, and the conditions are right for drying (i.e., enough space, sunlight, etc.), all of them would still dry in 4 hours.
Prosecutors have said that they have until late June to send the case to trial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tate

Most here are too young to remember the Duke Lacrosse Team case. The woman ended up admitted she lied. Many involved were convicted of evidence tampering and lying.

I'm not saying they are innocent but it's obvious many have not learned the danger of convicting people before they get a fair trial. They will however realize it when they are the ones needing one...meh.
Tandem Guardian 90: A Distributed Operating System [pdf] (1990)
Adobe automations are written in a truly bizarre language that, among other things, starts counting at 1 instead of 0. ChatGPT cheerfully obliges.
This might be true if you use sparknotes as a 100% substitute for reading, but I disagree if you're using it as a tool to better optimize how you read. One of the biggest parts of learning is just knowing where you need to go to get the information. The summary won't tell you everything of value within a book, but it should be sufficient to guess what sort of value is in the book, and specific chapters within. For example if you can figure out that 25 out of 30 chapters of a book either are either rehashing things you already know or are irrelevant to what you are trying to learn, then you can focus your limited time on the remainder where you have better odds of finding what you are looking for. Of course you can kind of do this just by looking at a table of contents, but sometimes it can be quite difficult to determine from the title alone what a chapter will contain and the level at which it will be discussed. Further, it's great when you're going back to something you've already read to know where to look for some specific piece of information because the goal is not to memorize data but to understand broader concepts.

A summary also serves well as a 20,000ft overview of a topic that gives you the breadth before you dive into the depths of the parts that are more useful. You can pick up context that might be locally helpful but not really something you want to spend a great deal of time on, you can have some idea of what you are going to learn from what you do focus on, and you can perform a sanity check on what you believe you already understand (ie if the summary doesn't make sense, you probably don't know it as well as you might have thought).

Of course the only way to guarantee you don't miss anything at all is to read through everything 100%, but generally what you are looking for is not going to be hidden in a throwaway line in an otherwise unrelated section. Very often the gist is all that really matters.
You're speaking as if this will help you. If you go to the prosecution/trial phase, you will be found guilty since you probably hadn't the best opsec and forensic analysis of your computer found the encryption/steganography software you used, or you left something in the system logs (e.g. timestamps of accessing files), or you left something in the thumbnail cache, or you did not rename the file before deleting it, or the timestamp analysis of e.g. you browser data and logs will show clear behavioral patterns pointing to you hiding data. If you use VMs, their ram is stored in a plaintext file unless you configure it otherwise, on your ssd it never goes away due to wear protection. Even if you had an encrypted drive you will be forced to give them the key, then they will rederive the master key and analyze parts of the disk free space to find something on you, again on ssd this is a certainty and on for example Bitlocker you can never change the master key, ensuring you going to jail.

Even if all of this did not incriminate you, you're in trouble for something in the first place, since you're on trial, right? So probably other people you communicated with lead them to you. And in this case, the judge applies common sense, there is this traffic cell of 6 people and on 5 computers we have clear evidence but on 6th nothing, therefore you're still probably 95+% guilty? Judges aren't stupid.

People making comments like yours annoy me since you seem to be calming people down that we could endure total strong encryption ban, while we absolutely could not.
This is insanely good
Definitely possible to be atheist and homophobic at the same time
Telling yourself that no matter how many parasitic grifters the surplus gazillions attract, wikipedia will be "fine" won't make it so.
Relatively few Wikimedia staff are in San Francisco. Nearly half are outside the United States:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_...

As for the other side of the equation, revenue, most of that is from readers' donations. And most of that comes from North America, Europe, Australia and East Asia.

But the Foundation also shows its fundraising messages and sends its fundraising emails begging readers to chip in in places like India, Brazil and South Africa:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2021-22_Report
I suspect this would cause the same performance issues as a long running application that constantly malloc'd and free'd memory? Many application runtimes allocate but don't free memory - they just reuse it internally - for this reason. For example in a ruby application you'll see memory usage climb after boot, and eventually level off when it has all it will need for its lifetime, but never go down.
1. It can do some reformatting tasks faster than I can do them by hand. Example: Inline FuncA into FuncB <paste code for both functions>.

2. For more complicated tasks it requires good prompting. Example: Tell me three ways to fix this error, then pick the best way and implement it. <paste error> <paste relevant code>. Without the "step-by-step" approach it almost never works.

3. It's pretty good at writing microbenchmarks for C++. They always compile, but require some editing. I use the same prompting approach as (2.) for generating microbenchmarks.

4. It's pretty useful for explaining things to me that I then validate later via Google. Example (I had previously tried and failed to Google the answer): The default IEEE rounding mode is called "round to nearest, ties to even". However all large floating point numbers are even. So how is it decided whether 3,000,003 (which is not representable in fp32) becomes 3,000,002 or 3,000,004?.

5. It can explain assembly code. I dump plain objdump -S output into it.

The main limitation seems to be UI. chat.openai.com is horrible for editing large prompts. I wrote some scripts myself to support file-based history, command substitution etc.
> Did someone claim this?

Not you, but I think it's a common sentiment.
That's called 'embedded' and it has it's place.

It's nearly always better to take interrupts than poll. A device driver that leaves the game to execute game code, putting results on a queue the game can test in it's poll loop, makes the UI responsive. Otherwise it'd hang every time a write to disk occurred, waiting for seek, then shifing the bytes out. Not a benefit to anybody.
I have the HL-L3270CDW, too. No complaints so far. Linux, Mac, and Windows support, and the color is not too bad. It's not as beautiful as a good inkjet on quality, glossy paper, but it does the job for basic PDFs and web sites that have colored text.
I think the how is pretty simple: If you're a company that runs a chat/communication app and you can't comply with a government request for the contents of private communication on your platform then you're in violating of the law.

If you have any presence in Spain then you'd be subject to fines or whatever cross-jurisdictional sanctions they can get away with. Or if you're untouchable legally they could require ISPs to block you and you can play whack-a-mole. The majors players where 95% of communications happens would either have to play ball or withdraw from the country. In practice this probably means that small apps get away without complying until the government has a request for you that you fail to meet.

It's a horrible and terrifying idea, but I think it's reasonable to enforce and get the vast majority of people to have unencrypted communications. (but not the vast majority of dedicated criminals)
> Charts #6 and #7 are the most important charts that hardly anyone is looking at these days. What they show is that our recent surge in inflation was caused by a surge in deficit spending from 2020 through 2021. As much as $6 trillion of Covid "emergency" spending was effectively monetized, as it accumulated in the nation's savings and deposit accounts (M2).

https://scottgrannis.blogspot.com/2023/05/inflation-is-so-ov...
I use it as a personal tutor. It is really good at it, because it can respond to clarifying follow up questions and it is usually right.
For pure development or peer review, it is not there yet. I asked it recently to help me decipher some real life SQL performance issues and it did not really help. Actually, it turned out to be a waste of time. The classic Postgres query analyzer and some 3rd party query visualization tools got the job done.
I had to optimize some Python code to reduce its memory usage. After trying all ideas I could think of, I thought about rewriting it in a different language. Copied and pasted the code into ChatGPT 4. Tried Rust at first, but there were too many compilation errors. Then I tried Go and it worked perfectly. For the next couple of weeks, I used it to improve the Go code, as I've never used Go. It gave me great answers, I think maybe once or twice the code didn't compile (I used it dozens of times per day).

I'm now using the optimized Go code in production.
writing regexes
Sorry to hear you're going through this situation. I hope there are treatments for this. Maybe meditation could be helpful.
I'm the creator of rqlite[1], an open-source distributed database written in Go.

It's saving me time (sometimes 2x speed up on certain, well-specified, tasks), and I enjoy using it. I wrote a blog post with some details on how it has helped me code the database: https://www.philipotoole.com/what-did-gpt-4-find-wrong-with-...

That said, the most recent release of GPT-4 seems a little more buggy[2].

[1] https://www.rqlite.io

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35970711
That midjourney et al are also detectable to the naked eye.

Why do you need to watermark them, again? The error level analysis is off the charts with generative images. They light up like a Christmas tree. Just because you and uninformed legislators and journalists don't know how to check the ELA of an image, doesn't mean they're undetectable. And the cheaters include the bogus sources spit out by ChatGPT already. The cryptographic qualities will be lost as soon as an editor gets their hands on it, automated editing or not. It's a cat and mouse game.

And also, I find it telling that you think if someone doesn't have high end hardware, they're going to pay $20/mo to OpenAI. For $20/mo, you can buy a mid-range video card and write it off. For an extra $10/mo, you can deprecate the cost and buy a high end laptop for that price, if you're a professional, and you're not locked into OpenAI. You're also assuming that 1. hardware doesn't get better and 2. techniques don't improve to run them on limited hardware.
Apple CEO Tim Cook once said in an interview with MSNBC in 2018, "The truth is, we could make a ton of money if we monetized our customer - if our customer was our product. We've elected not to do that."

This statement had triggered Mark Zuckerberg to the core that they became foes over the disagreement [1].

[1]Breaking Point: How Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook Became Foes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/technology/mark-zuckerber...
Let’s be clearer about what a Facebook ‘edge’ is. It’s something like:

Alice tagged you in a photo with Bob
Bob liked the photo

Now, let’s say Alice and Bob are both EU citizens, and I live in the US.

Can Facebook tell me that Alice tagged Bob in the photo? Can Facebook show me the photo I was tagged in? Can Facebook tell me Bob liked it?
Don't blame the politicians. Blame the people who have opinions. The public debate is so dominated by bad-faith arguments that it's not productive to treat it as a real debate. Until the social consequences of arguing in bad faith are severe enough, all meaningful political discussion must happen off the record.
Coming Soon to Shattered Pixel Dungeon: Duelist Buffs and Additions
> So if a country disagrees with the political situation of a neighbour

I see how nicely you downplay the armed coup and the ethnic discrimination against former citizens of one of the sides (who voted to remain a single country in the past [1]) into a mere "political situation of a neighbour". However, that same argument wouldn't work for you on this same forum if you dared to suggest that NATO's "intervening into the political situation of Yugoslavia" wasn't OK.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_Union_referendum#U...
Most US universities have all course material available online in similar fashion.
I've used it to SPARQL query to explore wikdata data a bit. I'm about at the breakeven point where hallucinations mean it would be worth it to just learn the language, but I think it clearly saved me time to write some simple queries without knowing the language at all
People can play fact Monopoly behind the scenes as much as they want -- there's a reason Talk isn't displayed without clicking on it.
Only 12% of the emissions since 1750 were man made, so there's not really any significant difference we can make.

https://journals.lww.com/health-physics/Fulltext/2022/02000/...
You can hear the western executive think: India has lots of people and poor people specifically, so let's just roll out the China model there.

They're going to be in for a shock. India does not have the "submissive communist" mindset where the individual sacrifices everything for the greater good of society, tolerating near-infinite abuse and exploitation.

That loyalty model breaks much sooner. And whilst it incidentally breaks in disruptive ways (riots), more often than not it manifests as silent sabotage. There will be instability and if there's anything fatal to manufacturing...
Books can't have interactive sliders.
Anyone know why a GAN was used here? The discriminator makes sense, but what is the purpose of the generator for the given experiment? Why not cut out the generator, since the discriminator is trained separately on speech data anyway.
This is some hardcore, nuclear-powered cherry picking. Economic inequality in the US is vast and though this one small example sounds pretty bad, it's trivial by comparison to the larger trends.
I wish my FIL was around to teach me, I hate tech work! It does seem common, and I think there's something about working with natural materials and holding something organic that appeals to me. Software isn't "real" as much as woodworking is. Sometimes it's hard to just build stuff that is deleted in several months, versus making a quality chair which will probably get use for hundreds of years. I have some wood furnishings in my current rental home that were built by the owner who built this whole house with is wife in the 50's and they are the most solid things we use on a daily basis.
It is great for any type of shell scripting. Also works well for quickly fleshing out type definitions
Good Android supports app sideloading. Apple users, too dumb to care :‑þ
> Also realise that the "pride flag" represents only a small vocal minority of those who it claims to represent, that many of those it purports to represent do not agree

It's not the stars-and-bars, for christssake. The rainbow flag has always just been a "pride" flag. Even if you want to be reductive about it, it wasn't designed with anything other than gayness in mind. If you see that as the flag of your enemy, you're saying more about yourself than the state of US identity politics.

I've had to play the "queer moderate" role on this site more times than I'd care to admit, but your perspective on this topic completely confuses me. You're mad that... queer progressives are now too queer and progressive? Literally your last three comments have been about mocking a "mindset that shall not be named" for crimes that are substantiated on nothing other than racism and presupposed conflict. The irony is suffocating your point here, but I'd still like to hear your itemized list of complaints about this enemy host that rallies under the rainbow flag.
I know that some other comments indicate that it's not fair to say "you're prompting it wrong", but using ChatGPT with GPT-4, and using advice to set up prompts to give accurate answers, GPT-4 provides an excellent answer here

ME: You understand everyday tasks very well and can correctly calculate or estimate the time it takes to complete various tasks. I will ask you questions about how long it takes for various things to happen and you will tell me the correct answer using brief, accurate statements.

If it takes 4 hours for 4 clothing items to dry in the sun, how long does it take for 8 clothing items to dry?

ChatGPT: The drying time for clothes in the sun typically depends on the amount of sunlight and wind, as well as the type and thickness of the clothing material. However, if we are considering that the drying conditions remain constant and that the drying rate does not depend on the number of clothing items (as they are spread out and not piled on each other), it would still take approximately 4 hours to dry 8 clothing items. This assumes the clothes are spread out sufficiently to all receive equal sunlight and airflow.
I have heard one or two other similar explanations for the price increase in eggs. But I have not been able to find any sources for them. Everything I can find suggests that the increase is truly because of loss of hens. Do you have a source for the "small to almost non-existent" loss of chickens?
Idk if they have the “right” to violate privacy (or whatever) I think that the US government just does it and they don’t care.

It would be great if the US (and Chinese) governments didn’t act in this way (I’m sure the EU would act in the same way if they had tech companies) but it seems to be their nature.