skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty striking that when they set off the Castle Bravo thermonuclear weapons test in the Pacific Ocean, someone superimposed the fallout map on the continental USA. If it had been dropped on DC, half of the population in NYC would have received a fatal dose from the fallout (if unsheltered).

Kinda nuts.

> "If Bravo had been detonated in Washington, D.C., instead of Bikini, Fields illustrated with a diagram, that lifetime dose in the Washington-Baltimore area would have been 5,000 roentgens; in Philadelphia, more than 1,000 roentgens; in New York City, more than 500, or enough to result in death for half the population if fully exposed to all the radiation delivered. This diagram was classified secret and received very little distribution beyond the Commissioners"

https://whatisnuclear.com/img/castle-bravo-if-on-dc.png

Page 182 of Atoms for Peace and War [1]

[1] https://www.energy.gov/management/articles/hewlett-and-holl-...

If a thermonuclear blast happens anywhere in your region, GO INSIDE IMMEDIATELY AND STAY INSIDE WHEREVER YOU ARE FOR AT LEAST 2 DAYS!
This is the only plane design made in my country. Every kid makes these.
Is this GPT-4?
The article says that he was a "food inspector". What valuable data can a food inspector have that requires emptying a dam?
That path has been done multiple times, at the end of the day it isn't worth it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor
You should be aware of this:

$ file /usr/lib/smlnj/bin/.run/run.x86-linux
/usr/lib/smlnj/bin/.run/run.x86-linux: ELF 32-bit LSB pie executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=b5e686ed7f390da7dfe58f0227cec46fd0e4fb95, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped

Debian hasn't packaged the 64-bit port of smlnj yet (in 110.94 and later). Both polyml and mlton have amd64 support, though.
Your opinion is also irrelevant. People will find ways to do what they want.
> Convey all of this “code context” to GPT in an efficient manner that fits within the 8k-token context window.

> To address these issues, I send GPT a concise map of the whole codebase. The map includes all declared variables and functions with call signatures.

Even if you could encode a function signature in only one token (which isn't be possible, of course) this would only work for small single developer programs, and not large projects.

Mid-sized frameworks / libs have often teens of millions of lines of code, and hundred thousands of function signatures. With 8k tokens to spend you go nowhere even close to a large code base…
I thought it was ok. Explained what happened from their point of view so they didn't need to answer everyone individually. It sounds like they gave plenty of opportunities for the organizers to not have the talk and they waited to the last minute and even then just were not up front about what was going on. It didn't really need to be posted on hn, surely this reposting and amplifying is a worse thing than just stating what happened.
"The holes have a diameter smaller than 100 nanometers, or less than a thousandth of the width of a strand of human hair."

Air is full of stuff besides gases. Stuff that can plug holes. Was this tested in a clean-lab? Near a highway? In a restaurant kitchen? During pollen season? So ... how often do I have to wash these thousands of surfaces?
Luckily these fishermen encountered a friendly group of orcas recently. https://youtu.be/yOoL6Pc2kDM
Do they actually deploy batteries at charging stations? Now this sounds ridiculously expensive and inefficient.
It's a language model, not a mathematical model. But plugins enable it to use something actually designed for this sort of work.

https://www.wolfram.com/wolfram-plugin-chatgpt/

Part of effectively using a tool like ChatGPT is understanding the boundaries and how to mitigate them. ChatGPT has lots of problems, but can still be incredibly useful.
Yes. And write something to the logs, so you can find out there's a bug before users call your helpdesk. Arguably that's the most important part of any 5xx error.

It's a bit of a purist argument, but 4xx series means the client can fix something and get a better response.
There's an interview he did with David Tennant a few years ago where he also talked about this at length. It was really good.

https://player.fm/series/david-tennant-does-a-podcast-with/g...
No worry. As soon as 80%+ of those managers will be replaced by ChatGPT such nonsense claims will stop; as ChatGPT knows things better than most managers. /s
It's so curious that they're attacking sail boats of all things.

You'd think these would be the most benign and least impactful of all possible boats on the Orca's environment.
Sure, so I download it somewhere. Their loss, not mine.
The comment you're replying to used the word "should" often enough to signal to you that it was expressing an opinion about what the law ought to be amended to, rather than commenting on the current state of the law. So your comment reads like you're denying that a member of the general public deserves any stake in determining the extent of copyright protection, which is very wrong: copyright is a social contract codified into law, where creators/authors get the (time-limited) benefits of certain exclusive rights and the use of the public's courts to enforce those, in exchange for the eventual passing of that work into public domain. It is entirely fair for the public to debate what the extent and duration of those exclusive rights should be, and to question whether the current deal is excessively one-sided. It is not correct morally or legally to act as though authors are the sole arbiters of how their works may be used.
Have you ever taken a certification exam, such as one from CompTIA? They're traditionally held at testing centers, though there is an online option today.

The testing center is a high-security proctored environment. I come to the counter, I present ID to be verified. They have convenience lockers; I empty my pockets and put my keys, wallet, phone, watch, everything goes into the locker. Then they verify that and I sign in, acknowledging that I must bring nothing into the testing lab. My photograph is taken, and I may be issued a writing-tablet and stylus for taking notes during the test.

I enter the testing lab, and typically there were only a handful of people in a room with two dozen stations. There are cameras on the walls and probably microphones too. There was not typically a proctor in the room, but they could enter at any time. If I had trouble with technical issues, or I finished the test, I would raise my hand or stand up, but I had to stay put, and I couldn't lean over to anyone else and whisper or have a conversation.

This was commonly the same method to proctor students taking standardized entrance exams or finals. I took a final exam in a disability office that was slightly less formal, but with the same requirements of bringing nothing in, and being monitored by camera.

There is a good deal of controversy, now that students test from home, whether students should be monitored by spyware that "proctors" their exams and uses AI to flag possible cheating. But that's just part of the landscape, isn't it?
I’ve seen some companies do bounties on their Github issue tracker, like https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/issues?q=label%3A%22%F0%9F%... but I’m not sure if there are any organized larger aggregate bug bounty sites for these types of bounties.
This is a no-win choice. The real mistake was done 50 years ago. Now there are two bad choices, both with potential unacceptable outcomes, and only hind-sight will prove one wrong or right.

In some respects, a return to the wild is a hail-mary. Is 5 years free better than another 50 of confinement?

I'm inclined to agree that it's worth trying regardless if the outcome. While fully understanding that the outcome can turn sour, there are valuable lessons to be learned - both in re-introduction techniques, and in the moral long-term aspects of capturing and using them for entertainment. Like Keiko, if this helps solidify the reasons not to capture again, then at least some good comes of it.
A research was published yesterday, which brings this concept of "autonomous agents" much closer: https://voyager.minedojo.org/. Pretty intriguing!
Again, I was not referring to a one off group. Or person.

But if you have a restaurant and in the course of your first year, only one person likes your food, it's probably you. I mean if you want to go into hyperbole let's go there.
That memo was specifically about Bard, Google's AI chatbot, not about Google in general. Google has plenty of other moats (they tend to build products with synergistic effects), and not having a moat there was really freaky to Googlers.

At some point, AI people are going to learn that most AI capabilities are usually features, not products.
Didn’t it cost $130K to offer just housing to a homeless person? That’s after-tax money. That is, it cost around 3x as much as the US median household income, right? If this is not corruption, I don’t know what is. But wait! People in SF elected the officials, so why should I complain about anything? /s
These particular cameras can't do video (same with the original Matrix bullet time setup).
I'm really not sure this is irony or a serious comment.
Sure. Because it understands the code so well.
So we just have to use that feature that lets you add non-Steam apps to Steam.

What is the real impact of this? Seems like it'll reduce exposure to the extremely rare Steam user who doesn't know emulators exist and/or how to install them outside of Steam
The Bullfighter Draws Her Sword
I worked on that game! Started at Auran about three months before it shipped. Fun times.
Something like this? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/surpr...
The first sale doctrine would beg to differ. Which is modulo regional/national regulations and restrictions on certain kinds of products… basically globally recognised.

As would the legal recognition of format shifting in multiple jurisdictions around the world…

I bought it and the hardware stops working… I still have the legal right to do what I want with the data on that disk.

If I’m a legitimate customer and you sold not licensed me the software… fuck you Nintendo I have the right to emulate your hardware (which I also own thus providing a right to whatever software was sold on that device, so that angle isn’t a solid argument either.)

The only question that should be legally argued over is do the documented infringement cases of people recording themselves doing this on streams, have a legal defence for the allegations Nintendo could level at them. They are innocent until proven guilty by law and it would be more effort for Nintendo to bring charges…

So they took the morally reprehensible cheaper action of going after the legal emulator software rather to save themselves time and money attacking developers not in a position to fight back because while they are standing firmly in legal territory making the software, you would have to be very optimistic to think the arguments Nintendo could make with their expensive lawyers about “facilitating crime” wouldn’t be persuasive.
It's coming, I'm sure.

Just right after we have invented AGI.
I spent most of my life in Arizona... There's some pretty garbage tacos out there... And taco bell,. Del taco and taco dons aren't good. They're ok... Not good or authentic.

So even your counter example can have the same bias.
Great idea!
- Name the chord (maybe give multiple choice) would be good
- Popular tunings would be good perhaps as a hard mode. Fining G on standard tuning is one thing, but if you're tuned to D or playing a 7 string, things get interesting.
I disagree. I find TOTK to be much more polished and they fixed everything that annoyed me in the first game.
What I'd like is for it to have been a standard language feature, that can be used with or without a framework and without any build involvement
Well done! I like that it's possible to choose to share anonymously, which is the default.

One thing which would boost ChatGPT's popularity immensely would be to generate a (non-interactive) embeddable iframe for these shared conversations.

Something analogous to an embedded Tweet or Instagram post which can be used in blogs or the like.
Yes, counting how many questions you must ask to complete a task is a sound way to measure cognitive load.
One example is here: https://docs.kedehub.io/kede-manage/kede-devex.html#kede-dev...
How about if you don’t live in the US? A few million lawsuit is not going to get you extradited, but let’s say the dmca request was created in Russia.
for others, TVC apparently means "Temporary, Vendor, or Contractor", aka non-FTE
'internet memees' aren't what you're describing.

Do you mean "i can haz cheezburger"

or rage comics,

or that thing from the walking dead of the older dude yelling at the kid? or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VrCCpaEoxI

Or natalie portman hot grits.
The concept of owning ideas is, and has always been, on shaky ground. Whether we continue to play along with it is indeed up to us. And it's perfectly reasonable to make that cooperation contingent on the behavior of those who would own the ideas.
Exactly. A judge will not interpret the law as only outlawing what is impossible.

And the law does provide a definition:

> a technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
The US has never been a democracy; though I certainly support it becoming one someday.

Anyway, LinkedIn can do whatever they want with the content people are willingly handing over, within the confines of the law, though even that has plenty of built in exceptions for the wealthy.
I think the key here is that experts can take better advantage of tools like these because they have more ability to see when it's going off the rails. If you're a brand new programmer, you might be stumped if ChatGPT "hallucinates" a function which doesn't exist within an API. But an experience developer can pick up on the problem pretty quickly and either correct for it or know they need to pursue more traditional routes to solve the problem.

I recently used ChatGPT because my Google was failing to help me remember the name of the standard for securely sharing passwords between systems. My searches kept turning up end user password management related topics. ChatGPT got me to SCIM after one question and one correction.

I could absolutely see a doctor using something like a ChatGPT to help supplement their memory in a way I did. I don't think anyone recommends that doctors just trust ChatGPT, but to use it as a supplementary tool for their own expertise. Even if it's outside of their specific medical domain, it could help them get a basis for having a conversation with one of their specialist colleagues.
Why not respond with an error message saying that there’s a missing CSRF token?
'internet memees' aren't what you're describing.

Do you mean "i can haz cheezburger" or rage comics, or that thing from the walking dead of the older dude yelling at the kid? or "yo quiero taco bell?" or "YEEeeaaahhhh baby"

Or "i just poured hot grits down my pants"

?
They present a framework. Measuring the three dimensions of Feedback Loops, Cognitive Load, and Flow State can be done without surveys. Example here: https://docs.kedehub.io/kede-manage/kede-devex.html
Using a search engine would have yielded https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news in a tiny fraction of the time wasted with the AI.

Also chances are great that the AI just spit out some code from that extension… (Of course without attribution. Which would make it a copyright volition.)
Revolutionizing Home Automation: Japan's AI-Powered Domestic Robot
Man I'm mixed on this. I'm very happy that these creatures aren't being stolen from the ocean anymore for human entertainment.

But for an old lady like this, the odds of her re-adapting to a wild state are basically nil. Imagine being abducted by aliens at a youngish age and later, without ever being able to meaningfully communicate with your captors, and many decades later you're being moved to a distantly remembered place and set free. Hell, a popular sci-fi setting in movies and books involves a person living in similar circumstances and being sent back home decades later.

At least in this scenario the idea is to slowly re-introduce her and get her reacquainted with the area.

Anyway, without knowing more details than the article provides, I kind of am siding with the alternate idea of letting her live out her days with those dolphins she's lived with forever, plus her known human assistants.

Maybe it's not as fulfilling as Free Willy (who died soon after release), but at least she would be in familiar company and have more space to move around in.
Maximal Entropy Random Walk (MERW)-often better than naive RW, many applications
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximal_entropy_random_walk

Hundreds of articles: https://scholar.google.pl/scholar?q=maximal+entropy+random+w...

This is one of topics I work with - since 2006, would gladly discuss.
19th century painters may have primed their canvases with beer-brewing leftovers
It saves all previous messages in an array of messages so it ‘remembers’ the conversation from the beginning. So when you post your message you’re also posting the complete message history. So it’s kind of not recording in the sense that it will give your conversation content to other users.
So remove it and have people copy it in when they set up Dolphin. You can find the keys easily and you can get them for your own wii.
I have finally found my calling in life.
World of Warcraft is coming up on 20 years in 2024.
I am not making a point about "HTML uses strings", but calling out the lack of separation between encoding and logical structure in the standart. Just for example, and sorry for mentioning it, but ASN.1 with its encoding rules provides terminology and a way to talk about encoding and semantics, so library writers do not have to reinvent it. Or, say, you want to generate some C++ code — what options except string templates do you even have? Standart does not help you to understand how to represent and encode senantics of a c++ source.
Try and stop me :)
Yeah, charging at 120V 12A when it's minus 20 barely budges the needle. OTOH the battery is warm when you leave, so your drive home uses a lot less energy. Doesn't quite balance, but it helps a lot.
The DevEx dimensions of Feedback Loops, Cognitive Load, and Flow State can be measured without surveys.
An example here: https://docs.kedehub.io/kede-manage/kede-devex.html
How is it extreme? Why do you say?
I didn't expect it to complete replace all fossil fuel -- just almost all the coal + a large share of the oil. Cars would still have used petrol. Heating could have become largely electric. If they really wanted, they could have used synthetic petrol -- but that is rather inefficient.

The US produced (and produces) lots of oil. It would probably have been enough (or close enough) to make the US entirely independent of OPEC oil.

The two proposed solutions were: military (the road taken), very expensive research (not really taken). I added a third one (nuclear) because it was cheaper and it wouldn't have needed much research. It was a known solution that would have gotten the US most (likely all) of the way towards energy independence and it would have reduced CO2 emissions a lot.
> Do people actually do that much copy paste programming?

So much:

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/30/how-often-do-people-ac...
Under capitalism there's an incentive to manufacture a shortage to drive prices up. That's why Vienna has such a higher quality of life than anywhere in the US: robust public housing which does not have such a detrimental incentive.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/23/vienna-reclaim...
There have been some claims that Chainalysis has been able to make progress in de-anonymizing Monero. It’s hard to know what’s true. We’ve certainly seen where false information is used to steer people in certain directions. E.g. “Monero isn’t anonymous, so don’t use it.” When it reality it is anonymous, which is the real reason they don’t want you to use it.

Bitcoin was never anonymous. It just took an incredible amount of effort to follow the transactions, along with subpoenas to exchanges, that even the shady exchanges gave into. Chainalysis are credited with bringing down the biggest criminals that tried to hide behind Bitcoin. Who knows if they have also cracked Monero, because there was a short while where people thought Bitcoin was safe before it was known that Chainalysis was already at their door.
Two years to go: What to expect from the 2024 European Parliament elections
People forgot that XHTML was a thing. What I discovered was that libraries and components written for HTML would regularly output invalid XML, making them unusable for XHTML — even if they claimed to support it!

Something like 30% of the time this revealed a real bug, like double escaping or no escaping.

People gave up and went back to HTML, which is non-strict and will happily parse gibberish.
I don't disagree with that point at all. It's always seemed like a large contingent of Boomers are unhappy unless younger generations suffer more than them.
Thank you for taking the time to answer the questions.
>The whale believed to be Toki’s mother is the matriarch of L-pod, one of three clans that make up the so-called southern resident killer whales, a genetically and socially distinct population that frequents the Salish Sea between Washington and British Columbia. There are 73 southern residents remaining.

The naming conventions used in this article confused me for a bit, but if I am understanding this correctly this Orca's (read: Lolita/Toki's) mother is still alive and is still the Matriarch of that same Pod? I didn't realize these animals lived as long as 80 years (per Wikipedia).
Big misunderstanding about those chat-bot AIs.

Even OpenAI says clearly: You should not, by any means, ask the AI any questions you don't know the answer already!

> more benefit out of GPT. you could ask it if it finds any vulnerabilities, common mistakes, other inconstancies. please provide comments on what each line does. what are some other common ways to write this line of code, etc.

And than it spits out some completely made up bullshit…

How would you know if you don't understand what you're actually doing?
In practice, Grafana has not been great at backward compatibility
I am here, and saying something is just a fork is very easy to say. There are dozens of models, optimizers, all-new activation functions, and data cleaning and other stuff!
Link 1: “My cousin was getting married last month, and we were doing a family photo shoot for the occasion”

Link 2: “ For my cousin’s wedding I did not make a photo booth but a video booth.”

That’s n = 2 for cousins getting married inspiring bullet cam implementations.
I'm not sure if I agree because you have good points, but I'm also hesitant.

If you were captured by aliens as a kid and then later "trained" on how to act human at 57, how would you judge your ability to remotely survive in your native society?

Personally I think it's way too late to try a 100% repatriation idea. Based on the observed behavior of other releases whales, she's going to require continuous human interaction and care until her death.

Let's maybe move her from Miami, but setup a scenario where she comes back to home base on her own. Let her interact with her old family pod if she wants, but still have people around when she comes back to port for food or interaction.

She got stolen from her family nearly 60 years ago, the least we can do now is to provide a bridge to make her comfortable.

I don't like how the article makes it seem like an all or nothing scenario.

But I barely know anything about the topic, so beware of the giant grains of salt on the road.