skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How long does that good will last for though? Toy Story 2 was released just shy of 24 years ago. It feels fair for that to have worn off by now and by all accounts she's done well at the company making plenty of money.
More it was overwhelmed with bad actors spamming everything, and no way to stop that.

Free speech is not about letting you post your conspiracy theory in the wrong group
My only real response to this story is "And?"

Being responsible for saving Toy Story 2 is a good thing, yes. She should be celebrated for that, yes. However, it should not potentially shield her from any and all repercussions in the future.

Toy Story 2 came out 24 years ago. Her child has had time to grow up and have children of their own by now.

If they had fired her within the year, yeah, I'd have been upset. That's a dick move to do to someone who saved your company however much it would have cost to reproduce all of that work.

But 24 years after the fact, yeah, I have no issues disconnecting the two events.
> Does ChatGPT “have it”? I thought it made stuff up and that the magic it does is being very good at making the stuff up

ChatGPT is just a frontend UI and refers to two different models (and different tunings of these models over time I guess).

GPT3.5 is kind of useful but it makes up stuff just enough that you can't really trust it and spend so much time verifying it's hard to say whether you saved time vs the old way. But it still produces mostly not made up stuff.

GPT-4, still not perfect, is a game changer though. It's what people generally mean when they talk about ChatGPT. There's far far less hallucination going on (not zero though). There's several ways to access it: phind, bing, ChatGPT. But I still give ChatGPT is the best.
They use debit cards usually and they try to push a small dollar amount on the card to see if it is valid/will work.

Basically, someone farmed a bunch of numbers, sold it to someone, that new owner is now testing them to see if they can sell them further to others / launder the money off them.
Theories are discussed in the linked thread
Tell you about difference between bone conduction headphones and air conduction headphones,disadvantages about air conduction headphoens.How to choose bone conduction headphones
Does Excel have version control and diffing? I know Word does.
Well the title (and contents) pretty much summarizes the industry: never trust a programmer who says they program.

No matter how many years they worked, how many projects they have shipped, how much code they share on GitHub, disregard everything and require multiple rounds of rectal examinations every time they apply for a job. They could have written millions of lines of code, it doesn't matter coze it's not the latest fad and anything before last week's paradigm was just monkeys hanging out from the trees, it was clearly impossible to write any business logic before last's week invention of <insert latest craze here>.

Find some obscure crap you freshly read about that they don't know or don't remember since using it once 20 years ago and apply the very correct and fair logical inference "IF THEY DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING THEN CLEARLY THEY KNOW NOTHING".

Something along this: "So... you call yourself an English speaker? Native, ehh? Read plenty of books, wrote Medium articles? We'll see about that. OK, use 'Floccinaucinihilipilification' in a sentence that makes sense! Don't know? What a surprise! OK, one last chance, try not to omnishamble again. What's the velleity of the quincunx tintinnabulation? ... Just as I thought, you're a fraud and a sham and clearly don't speak English".
Aaah private trackers! I remember once I pondered to enter one of those "special groups" but bailed when I read that you had to study for some sort of interview that was required to try to join .

Lol no... I dont like interviewing for a new job, why would i agree to get tested for something as stupid as piracy? (Unless... mention me ONE private tracker that doesn't have piracy).

So for 99% of people, my point stands.
Hmm... VPN, big proxy, or some other contributing factor? I use site: all the time, not on chrome, and without being logged in... If I've ever gotten captchas doing so, it wasn't frequently enough to see a pattern. Maybe some property of the site makes a difference that puts your usage and my usage on either side of that fence?
SEC v. Binance
I think the AI mysticism has confused people about this technology.

A photographer using a camera doesn't build the building, create the natural surroundings, set the sun shining, invest billions of dollars into the global R&D supply chain to create the camera,

and yet, when they point this device at the infinite of creation and push a button, the output is theirs.

I am of the firm belief that these AI/LLM systems are analogous to an 'information camera'.

Just as the individual 'language photographer' at the prompt didn't create the existing human language, textbooks, plays, novels, or the billion dollar supercomputers, or the trillion dollar semiconductor supply chain,

they did point/prompt at a particular part of this infinite Babel's library, and they pushed a button.
Just wait for it. His master stroke is coming. I have no idea what it is. Everything he has done seems insane and counterproductive.
But that’s how genius works.
Unless it’s not genius.
> profit based property renting as a form of income in heavily populated areas should not be allowed, or at least it should be regulated.

Your scheme also generates profit, but there's only one monopolistic landlord - the city.
Denial of what? That AI is as important as AI-fans think that it is?
Umm according to Wikipedia, Deja News was turning into a shopping site, going bankrupt and shutting down the Usenet archive.

So Google came in and saved it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#Deja_News
Bravo for this start at unionizing. Important step forward—-finally.

I made $13,500 as a postdoc at Yale (New Haven CT) from 1983 to 1985. $75/month went back to Yale for family health. Even the rent was $525/month.

That scales to roughly $38,070 per year today. And my pay as a grad student at UC Davis was $325/month for my last three years. No taxes—whoopee. Talk about delayed gratification.

Agreed: NIEHS is in North Carolina. NIA is in Baltimore.
More of this please. And yes, this does engender strong local and state support. ORNL in Tennessee is a case in point.

East Tennessee has Oak Ridge National Labs and the region around Knoxville is gorgeous. So why not move the National Eye Institute (NEI) and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) there ;-) in this Zoom day-and-age.
The same argument can be applied to itself: popular subreddits attract users away from niche subreddits.

There are many thriving niche subreddits. Maybe the "main function" of Reddit is categorization? If so, it seems reasonably effective, so long as people feel motivated enough to moderate those subreddits. That's the issue at hand.
America use to have technical and vocational secondary schools, I went to one of the last ones in a top 3 major city, right before the last remnants of that legacy were phased out. In the 1960s, my high school had automobile shop, architectural drafting, wood shop that produced professional level artifacts at the senior level; in the 1940s, it had put together a plane. Today, it is yet another "college prep" competing for funds via standardized testing results, segregating students who are capable at purely academic demands and exercises from the vast majority of everyone else.

This shift was likely initiated both by the beginnings of austerity in the US and by a trends towards a cultural prejudice toward being able to work right out of high school (likely incubated that austerity), an outcome in no way exclusive to blue-collar work, but carried that connotation anyway and so became frowned upon (I distinctly remember this being a problem in the 90s, even though my grandfather worked his entire life at a General Electric factory, had bought a home for his family of 6, etc)
probably true, but the copy constructor itself (bar when it can/must be elided) hasn't changed much over a long time.
I know that we tell ourselves this story about management just so we can justify doing the bare minimum as employees.

But where does that leave us as a society?

I just feel this cynical statement is as silly as a blanket statement as one that would say the opposite, something like "companies provide value and jobs and take care of employees"

I would argue though, that the way you describe companies is definitely more true of larger companies because people just aren't invested/attached to each other and that enables that kind of thinking (employees just lines on a spreadsheet).

Many small businesses (and small business owners like myself) do want to build a team and take care of the team and hope the team also invests back into the company. That doesn't mean they can't lay people off if they can't afford to keep them. But things are more likely to be human at a smaller size anyway.
This is DEI at work. My BIL who happens to be a white guy, was the show runner for not one but two Animated Disney Series. Not even a phone call from Disney when the contract was up on the last one.

The best his agent for decades has been able to do for him is get him a staff writer job. Dude is a brilliant Executive Producer, works his ass off to make his shows great, decades of experience, 20+ writing credits on his IMDB profile (tons of merit in his resume) and this is now his reality. Uncredited staff writer.
Very true, and also no (legal) food would be _that_ bad for you in a single serving. Compared to what you might see on social media, which could be quite damaging with no warning.
Thank you very much for your comment.
With pymg, you can get various outputs and access different parts of the generated message with the help of options. If you have an idea, this is a completely open and free project and I will be happy if you participate in this project. Thank you again.
And who invented LLMs, transformers and modern AI? Google. There would be no ChatGPT without Google’s decade long campaign to create it.
Full title is "SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION v. BINANCE HOLDINGS LIMITED, BAM TRADING SERVICES INC., BAM MANAGEMENT US HOLDINGS INC., AND CHANGPENG ZHAO," but that's too long for HN
No, that's the budget for everything - salaries, equipment, grants given to outside bodies, and so on.

I mention it merely because, although LANL demonstrates the state can create pockets of prosperity in poorer places by moving science jobs, we should not imagine that it's particularly cheap.

The LANL example also doesn't show economic success spreading out from the lab, in the way Silicon Valley is sometimes seen as spreading out from defence research and Stanford University. Of course, LANL is deliberately geographically isolated, and you wouldn't expect startup spin-outs from a top secret nuclear research lab.
Ah, the attacker learns if the card really works.
I want to reiterate, I don't have specific knowledge, I am a retail end-user drawing conclusions from reading things like these assignment process documents:

https://www.theocc.com/getmedia/0cdda3c2-ab81-450f-b8b8-7ce8...
https://gdcdyn.interactivebrokers.com/Universal/servlet/Regi...
Yep, it's pretty alarming that a developer would toss away async when threading isn't a fit for all situations - what happened to the right person tool for the job? As a professional, I 'hate' some things too, but I'm not going to blindly make my work harder and less efficient out of some small preference I have.
They were laid off, not fired. Accountability was not necessarily a consideration here.
SEC sues Binance and CEO Zhao for breaking US securities rules
Clearly it was the drive manufacturer, who made drives that could be moved in a station wagon.
don't get in trouble fam
I'm not sure how Pleroma (written in Elixir) could be a fork of Mastodon (written in Ruby). Both Pleroma and Mastodon implement ActivityPub, but that alone doesn't make either one a fork.

Truth Social does use Mastodon's code with the federation features stripped out like Gab, but what I meant was that I couldn't find any reports of Truth Social claiming to have evidence of hard-coded political censorship in Mastodon (other than the generic blocking features found in most social networks).
This is a good observation. I find that working with LLMs feels closer to the skills of managing a team than to coding itself. Intuitions about how to divide work and understanding strengths and limitations seem to go far.
From a UX perspective, your site is perfectly fine. From an SEO perspective, though, the brand/category pages don't have enough content (in Google's opinion) to be uniquely relevant. Even though a user would find the faceting/filtering functionality highly useful, Google uses things like word count, TF-IDF and topic relevancy as signals (albeit easily gamed) to surface "relevant" pages. This is why recipe sites all have 500+ word intros before each recipe and even more on category pages.

Backlinks also matter, for both domain and page authority. You are competing with 20+year old domains from large companies-- why should you (or any new site) get ranked before dickssportinggoods.com who have top tier backlinks (graph network, implies trustworthiness) from sites like Espn.com? Google likely uses CrUX data for ranking (because 2023 backlinking is vastly different than 2012), so high engagement from users is likely a KPI to focus on, in addition to backlinks (both branded and inclusive of terms/pages you want to rank for).
In a world of user-generated content, such nice ideas are just not practically enforcable.
Come on, it's easy. The person who saved Toy Story 2 was the person who physically clicked File -> Save... in whatever VFX software Toy Story 2 was being worked on.
I'll just leave this fantastic talk here:

The Last Thing D Needs - Scott Meyers (2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWA1DuvCnQ

The C++ type system really is quite... complicated.
I liked his older policy proposal to charge the Kochs with treason and put climate change deniers in jail, but his anti-vaxx stuff seems a bit nutty.
Porting Lisp Game to the Web
> More square footage is dedicated to parking each car than to housing each person.

9' by 18' (162 sq ft.) is on the large end of parking space sizes. A couple living in a 400 sq ft. tiny house doesn't even make that true, and most houses aren't tiny houses. For more normal 2000 sq ft. houses, you'd need an average of more than 12 people living in each one to make it true.
I recognize there's plenty of catnip here when it comes to calling this "engineering" or not, however, whatever you want to call it (prompt fiddling?), the techniques are crucial if you want to achieve reasonably consistent output from current-state LLMs. As models improve concerns about context window limitations will be reduced and it will be easier to discern user intent.

These are good straight-to-the-point guides:

- Prompt Engineering by BrexHQ: https://github.com/brexhq/prompt-engineering

- OpenAI guidance: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6654000-best-practices-f...

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/gpt-prompt-engineering...

- (great examples): https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/chatgpt-prompt-eng...

- (~hr) Karpathy talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZQun8Y4L2A

tl;dr:

- Begin with the best and most forgiving model available, optimizing it later if necessary.

- Write your prompts in a clear, specific, and detailed manner

- Be mindful, however, of the tradeoff between including more detail and increasing latency or cost.

- If you're doing any complex reasoning, ask the model to show its work, help "stretch out" computation over more tokens

- "Escape" any included or quoted text properly to avoid confusing the model.

- Keep track of your token budget, considering the context window in conversations and response length.

- Employ an iterative process of measuring, adjusting, and improving your prompt engineering techniques.
It's a bit amazing to me how quickly we have all become experts on what is generated text and what is not. Part of it seems to be that the (extreme?) politeness of much generated text seems inhuman. Do humans have an edginess that LLMs cannot impersonate well?

I know that HN has a policy against generated text, and I learned about the policy by violating it unknowingly. A comment of mine voted to about 80 was then rapidly downvoted after @dang explained the policy to me.

On the one hand, I often prefer a good summary by an LLM to reading a lot of comments, and I like to share what I learn. On the other hand, banning generated text helps prevent a takeover by bots, and keeps the mission of HN focused on humans. After reflection, I found myself in favor of the policy. I can take what I learn from an LLM and write what I've learned in my own voice.
The only thing I still use ChatGPT semi-frequently is to translate stuff, mainly from Japanese to my native language or English.

And I'm surprised how often it failed to follow the basic instruction of

Please translate the following paragraph to X-language.
(Paragraph in Japanese.)

And I have to say "Please translate the following paragraph to X-language" every single time -- I can't just say, "hey, please just translate paragraphs I give from now on." It won't follow it for very long before it starts to do other random stuff or tries to follow the content of the Japanese paragraphs I was trying to get translated.

Any clue how to make it better? I use 3.5 FWIW.
Are you aware of SerenityOS? A rather pleasant homage to the wonderful UI you yearn for.

https://serenityos.org/
This is somewhat overblown, and only really an issue for some particular theorems and obscure corners of mathematics. And this isn't a recent problem, Hilbert's proof of Nullenschtatz in the early 20th century had logical errors, but is otherwise true.

If a proof is used by 3 people it won't have much scrutiny, but once major results start to be based on the proof, it'll get reviewed more carefully and either accepted or rejected in the long run. The ABC conjecture is probably the biggest example.
It was bibliotik. Embarrassingly I didn’t even think that duplicate books could be a problem. The llama folks had to dedupe the books themselves. Someday I’d like to do that too and release a cleaned version.

Basically, the-eye.eu was at one point hosting all of bibliotik, so I downloaded all the epubs and converted them to text. I still have those epubs (incidentally thanks to Carmack, who through a convoluted process managed to save the them and send them to me via snail mail) and I’ve been considering releasing them so that you can filter the books yourself.
I can see you are a "I support free speech but [except]" and then proceed to explain that you do not actually support free speech
Style-variants – Creating dynamic and reusable styles
It is a big loser for the buyer. What if the seller is fraudulent? Now you are out on the BTC and there is absolutely no protections or regulations on getting that money back. Why wouldn't you just use your credit card with excellent consumer protections provided by your issuer?

It doesn't actually solve anything from a KYC or trust perspective, which is at the root of lots of these problems. A good interaction is "I, the buyer, have money, you, the seller trust me that I have the money that I am digitally transacting to you. After the sale is made, the transaction clears, I have less money, you have the money instead." This contract breaks when either side doesn't do their job -- provide the money for the service, provide the service for the money. BTC doesn't solve this for both parties.
Ask HN: What Is the Definition of Censorship?
One person calling for another to be ignored or silenced?

What if a group demands that they not be subjected to unwelcome opinions? Seems to me that many people think this second one might be a-ok, provided it is for the right reasons.

Take HN for example. I would have thought hackers would be free-speech oriented, but apparently, in a group, they are just as good at punishing differences as high-school bullies. (It's human nature, I think. And it is visible in every other situation where the punished achieve some level of power over their former tormenters or the less popular among their own ranks.)
I've been in IT for over a decade and in almost all companies, with the people that hire these types, before the hiring manager or person who makes the decisions even see the resumes for any position; HR throws out everyone without a degree; if they are desperate they hold onto the certificates in another pile. Not a choice, no say, it happens, unilaterally just about everywhere.

Don't like what I said?, tough, this is the harsh reality of IT and really any job today. Its the cult of qualification. Who decides who is qualified is a corrupt process when that criteria is not based solely upon knowledge and skill... as education and certifications are based on other criteria with the mentioned criteria being secondary today. Its another form of tweedism by adding a filter at an earlier stage so you only get certain candidates later. Lawrence Lessig can explain it to you.

Those stories of getting hired into IT are unicorn stories that are almost always the exception than anything else. You might get one opportunity in a 30 year period if you are lucky, if at all.

I would have appreciated someone not giving me the same advice you gave, 30 years ago. It resulted in two decades of wasted effort and financial loss, it was deceitful and limiting. It is the former because the person giving the advice should have had constructive knowledge of knowing better based upon their position and authority.

Ignoring what I'm saying or downranking to make my post invisible to go on with happy thoughts just means you are volunteering or misleading others into a struggle session that won't ever end, until they re-exam what you said and ultimately discard it. They won't thank you for that when all is said and done, and doing something like that is one of the more evil things a person can do. This is why when giving advice its important to know from what you speak, to have and show credibility.

These are hard truths, its better to actually educate and give people a chance than mislead them into self-limiting cycles of suffering without warning for potentially decades.

"Just be yourself and find your superpower" is rubbish when you are trying to find a job to feed yourself and progress to financial independence. Coding at this point will likely be eliminated by a Chat-GPT based derivative in a few months or worse case a few years, and you'll be only a halfway decent programmer by then and likely completely dependent on social nets for food thereafter while somehow bearing the cost to go back to school to re-educate.
I don't know in the US, but here in UK it was largely panned for being something nobody was asking for.
Customer ratings have become meaningless. ‘people give 5 stars like it’s candy.’
I am not sure that strategy optimizes for your outcomes however.

Think about probabilities. Does doing good and relevant work increase your chances of promotion and better pay? Yes. Does it decrease your chances of being laid off? Yes.

So it seems like doing good work is your best chance at doing well, although nothing is guaranteed.

Now obviously if you're doing the minimum at work because you're growing your own business - that could be the superior strategy. But if you're doing the minimum so you can just waste time doing nothing - seems worse.
Our industry is blameless for a reason, and this extends to this situation fully.

Please explain to me exactly how it was that one director's fault that the movie lost $100M.

Because in reality, it's going to be a lot more than one person's fault that a movie was a dud. Especially when there are so many moving pieces behind a piece of content's popularity.
What account?

It looks like this account has been suspended, Twitter doing it's job well there getting rid of trolls.
4chan has moderation.