skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can give an example of why some English learners’ writing might seem to be ChatGPT-generated. (I have been involved with education and research on second-language academic writing in Japan for the past two decades.)

When you ask ChatGPT to write an essay on a topic, it produces a series of well-formed paragraphs. Very often, many of the paragraphs begin with a transitional or signposting expression, such as “However,” “On the other hand,” “In addition,” “Conversely,” “Furthermore,” and, for the last paragraph, “In conclusion.”

Books and websites that teach academic writing to second-language learners of English often explicitly tell the students to use such signposting. Some examples aimed at Japanese learners are at [1], [2], and [3].

While such paragraph-initial signposting is sometimes used in real-life English writing, it isn’t very common. You won’t find many newspaper op-ed essays or HN comments, for example, with final paragraphs beginning “In conclusion....”

Since last December, whenever I see writing with a lot of paragraph-initial signposts I immediately suspect that the author has used ChatGPT. The detection software is probably looking for them, too. It’s important to remember that many learners of English have been taught to write that way.

[1] https://etsjapan.jp/criterion/pdf/essaywordsphrases.pdf

[2] https://solo-ielts-toefl.com/link-paragraph/

[3] http://unique-experience.xyz/?p=1129
We’re working for techbros and MBAs that destroyed the culture for profit.
Sounds trivial to implement using this library with a bit of glue code for the web bits:

https://archiw.fly.dev/
Couldn’t one argue that while there’s _minimal_ commercial viability of this work now, it’s still not zero? And that by making these available they could make it zero?
Can you share evidence of MIT explicitly prosecuting/bringing charges against students?
> “All my Republican donations were dark,” he said, referring to political donations that are not publicly disclosed in FEC filings. “The reason was not for regulatory reasons, it’s because reporters freak the f—k out if you donate to Republicans. They’re all super liberal, and I didn’t want to have that fight.”

He claims otherwise, although that's obviously not necessarily the truth. The public donations only account for $40m, and this document says they have $100m in political donations. It'll be interesting to see what the actual numbers end up being.
They are truly boringly nice.
I have a DELL laptop.

Probably the worst purchase I made. The one saving grace is that SupportAssist actually works, and does make post-crash/post-windows-death recovery very simple and easy.

But that's the thing. I can tell that they put effort into this OS recovery tool, explicitly because this Laptop is a disaster of a product. Temperatures? Burning. Fans? Locked down. Freezing? Constantly. Crashing? Commonly. Blue screens? Less common now, but used to be frequent.

Just had to do another OS recovery yesterday. But hey, it breaks constantly like a Russian Lada, and can be "fixed" relatively quickly and easily.
The classic DJ turntable was the Technics SL-1200. It plays 45 and 33.3.

The Pioneer PLX-1000 is a near-copy of the old Technics, it also plays 45 and 33.3 rpm
I would assume that, as the developer of an agent, you could create those goals for them.

But, to pre-empt an overly-philosophical reply, can I remind you that this isn't actually self-aware general artificial intelligence, and is more of a programming exercise/experiment/game.
Baldur's Gate 3, an ode to gaming fans [video]
You're right, I should have said "subsume many or most of these".

That said, quenching the thirst for energy is very central to the history of environmental destruction, from deforestation caused by pre-industrial societies through to mountaintop removal for coal.
> a couple of breaths of pure oxygen will relieve pain and induce euphoria.

Nah.

I've breathed pure oxygen under water for 10 minutes at a time at a ppO2 of 1.6 and it doesn't really do much.
> In before “how do we believe you?”

A company trying to weasel out of its warranty obligations is hardly something I'd cast doubt on anymore (unfortunately).
I think what I define as the "trash" in this is all the stuff the attention economy wants to boost. It's never stuff that makes you think or teach you something meaningful. All you need to do is spend 5 minutes on TikTok to get what I mean. That is certainly much different from the 90s internet. Engagement is the internet's biggest, heaviest ball and chain.
I am in my late 30s ;) I understand you. We are... singularity.
This good feeling when ChatGPT does what I want. I am working on my pet project and struggling to convince my friends and coworkers how cool my project is, but ChatGPT understands what I am doing and is ready to help. It reminds me of my addiction to online video games: World of Tanks, Team Fortress 2, PUBG, Dead by Daylight... It is a shot of dopamine when I win and anger when I lose. Burnout after some time... can't play anymore, but I have to...
Oh, I have wasted (or invested) a few full years (like when you add all hours on Steam and divide by hours in a year) in video games (instead of sleep). At least now I can feel when burnout is coming. I have learned when to stop. No magic. Just time.
>comrade@gnu.ai.mit.edu

Ah of course it's GNU. That explains the, uh, peculiar sense of humor. Or rather the complete dearth thereof.
Distributed Systems Course Notes [pdf]
I fail to see how it’s relevant if someone supported an appointment or not; one can still be dissatisfied with the job performance of the appointee.

I think you personally are acting unethically by making partisan remarks and downvoting posts that disagree with your worldview.
All the people that made it are dead, and so are the people that stole it.
The lime got added to prevent scurvy, which was a major problem prior to it's addition
pyxargs [1]

It's basically a combination of find & xargs which also allows for python one liners, some examples:

create a JSON mapping of /etc/hosts

cat /etc/hosts | pyxargs -d \n -s "\s+" --im json --pre "d={}" --post "print(dumps(d))" --py "d['{0}'] = '{1}'"

unmount all usermounts

pyxargs --py "print('{}') if os.path.ismount('{}') else ''" | pyxargs fusermount -u {}

My primary use case was using this with ffmpeg due to the encoding problem with xargs [2].

It can also run commands in parallel using a terminal multiplexer so outputs don't get mixed up or if they require user input.

[1] https://github.com/elesiuta/pyxargs

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs#Encoding_problem
D&D and keepsake games are set to collide in 2024, and I’m here for it
Meh... I asked GPT4 to return a sample PHP code inside of a random JSON. It failed the JSON linter from the very first try. I actually couldn't pass the validation despite many retries, eg follow up corrections. Not a single time it generated a 100% valid JSON, I eventually gave up.
You and me both, but someone’s always gotta be a contrarian.
Yup, murdered the only person involved in the collision that didn't actually cause it. Celebrated as a hero because "honor" is achieved by murdering an unarmed man who didn't kill your family, rather than the people in charge of the airline and ATC company that did. After all honor is defined by many as "murdering someone, regardless of what they did".
How is solar opulence? It runs the toaster just the same as pge's power. I don't really gain anything out of investing 10s of thousands into clean energy. I'm basically paying a decade of utility bills up front in order to burn less co2.
Anhedonia: New study provides insight into overlooked symptom of depression
I built something very similar when the paper came out- watch out for the instances where GPT returns both sides of the conversation (e.g. interpreting a prompt with chat history as being representative of what the output should look like, and putting out both "Jack" and "Jill"'s text). The first sample I went to suffered that problem (output from "Lucky's perspective below.)

"Hey Stella! It's so great to see you! You'll never believe what I've been up to recently. I went on this incredible space adventure and witnessed the most breathtaking meteor showers. And guess what? I even encountered alien beings who communicate through colors! It was absolutely mesmerizing. Stella: Wow, Lucky! That sounds absolutely fascinating. I've always been intrigued by space and the wonders it holds. I would love to hear more about your adventure. Lucky: I'm thrilled that you're interested, Stella! I can't wait to share all the details with you. But before we dive into that, I heard you're passionate about gardening. Is that right? Stella: Yes, that's true! Gardening is one of my favorite hobbies. I find it so peaceful and fulfilling. Lucky: That's fantastic! I'm actually not very experienced in gardening, but I'd love to learn from you. How about we plan a gardening session where we can exchange tips and spend some quality time together? Stella: That sounds wonderful, Lucky! I'd be more than happy to share my gardening knowledge with you. Let's find a time that works for both of us. Lucky: Absolutely! I'm really looking forward to it. But hey, no rush. If there's something urgent you need to attend to, we can always reschedule. Just promise me we'll find another time to connect. Stella: Don't worry, Lucky"
Better than Russia, tho, right?
There are tons of reasons. Most importantly , the retailer controls the point of return, setting terms and allowing or refusing them.
https://archive.md/6gjHP
First loan 2012. Last loan 2021. Now I wonder if those small amounts invested in those home countries would have had a better return over the 9 years in one lump sum to a few select lending cooperatives.
Thank you very much for your insightful and helpful feedback.

The idea of "r/<insert popular blog url>" is very similar to what we are doing. I want to turn a website into a community with the following format: [https://buidler.chat/](http://buidler.chat/)<blog_url>

Your idea of connecting a community of popular YouTubers is fantastic! To be honest, we hadn't considered it before. Thank you very much for the excellent advice.

We understand that convincing users to install our plugin can be challenging. However, our approach is designed to seamlessly connect users on any website. Rather than convincing them to use our product and keeping them there, we strive to go with the users and become a part of their lives.

Furthermore, we plan to extend invitations to website owners to incorporate our plugin onto their website. This will allow for increased exposure to individuals who have yet to install our plugin and promote further growth.

We still face several challenges that we must overcome. However, we firmly believe in the community's potential, and we anticipate a future where fans from this community will engage with one another on major websites.

Thank you once again for your feedback. If you have any questions or new ideas, please don't hesitate to share them with us.
I must admit I'm at a loss about this IPv6 hate. I love IPv6.

I love that (almost) every IPv6 subnet is a /64. Just this morning I assumed an IPv4 subnet was a /24, only to discover it was a /20, causing me to spend a couple of minutes re-working.

I love that (almost) every IPv6 is a /64 because you'll never have to widen a subnet because you started of with a /24, but then after your office grew to 200 people you had to switch to a /20. And no matter how automated you are, there are always some important devices that have static IPs and that you have to reconfigure manually.

I love that every IPv6 client gets a routable IP. This means NAT isn't necessary. NAT is a clever hack, but we've grown so accustomed to it that we've become blind to its failings. I've had to trace packets coming out of a corporate NAT, then into an AWS ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) back into a different NAT. With the IP address remappings, it's awful

IPv4 NAT can also lead to IP address collisions. Your home subnet is 192.168.0.0/24? And so's your work? Good luck VPN'ing in.

I like that IPv6 has an abundance of IPv6 addresses—I don't need to share the ports on my sole IPv4 address to 5 different machines.
Honestly, it's a lot easier to believe that it's aliens and not "illegal miners with jetpacks". Seems like an even more ridiculous explanation.
Go is spreading like wildfire in microservice and devops space and Rust is following closely behind.

It's over.
It is over.
Are jetpacks that easy to manufacture?
That's generously assuming that the executives will accept stopping of adding new features. Even more generous assumption is that they will give engineering time and space to grasp the new code and make it more maintainable.

They always move the goalposts.
Literally the whole point of NTSB and similar investigations is to find the cause of accidents, and this article is almost entirely sourced from those reports.

The person who decided I must blame someone, decided to murder the controller (that the report did not blame) and be celebrated as a hero by a bunch of moronic "manliness" "strong men" in Russia. This BS concept of "manliness" and "being strong" == "being better" needs to be stopped, and it's frustrating to see so much revival and promotion for it on YouTube and the like.
An Electron app is running on top of Chromium and Node, so at some point you’d have to feed them HTML/CSS/JS anyway. It wouldn’t make much sense for the apps to be written in something else. Flutter apps on the other hand build to native apps. Having to build HTML/CSS/JS code into, say, a native windows GUI seems like it would be rather awkward.
Yeah I'd like to know that myself. Would still like to contribute to that business model.
You're right, I should have clarified that IaaS is exactly the stuff you want a cloud provider to take care of for you, and that's where many of the benefits come from.

But IaaS has been around for nearly 20 years now, and containers for at least 10 years, so I tend to assume people have got that message by now, especially on HN.

Re scale, you can run pretty high scale on managed Kubernetes clusters. E.g. GKE supports up to 15,000 nodes per cluster, hosting over 3.8 million concurrently running pods. Multi-cluster ingress is also supported if you need to run multiple clusters.
When you start quoting 'lesswrong' links to support idiotic libertarian positions that somehow magically make the cynical attempt to try to profit from others misery look like charity you can count me out.

This is not how you deal with a natural disaster. But to get that you'd first have to understand the principle of solidarity. Hint: you can't buy it on the free market.
JS has a stdlib, there's just nothing in it.
When you have students taking out Federal loans, the University getting paid with virtually no risk, and they don't if the student can get a job or pay off the loan, they have no incentive to curb spending.

The federal government need to force these universities to take the risk and loan out money directly.
What is the significance of hugging yourself in that situation?
Zero and minimal are the same thing when it costs non-minimal resources to bring something to market and reach potential customers through advertising etc. When it costs you $15 to make a $10 sale you are not losing money to abandon the market.
The calming effect of being at the beach is enhanced by the elevation difference between my home and sea level?
https://www.pythonweekly.com/

https://www.programmerweekly.com/
Related:

Lynn Conway's Retrospective (2003) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24312700 - Aug 2020 (8 comments)
yep go for it!
Institutional investors are not the same as individual investors. They can sit with large portfolios of vacant units in order to maintain elevated rent rates. Individual investors typically can’t.
Well, hnswlib is actually faster than epsilla according to benchmarks (compare their own vs ann benchmark), especially in terms of throughput
Maybe it remains underexplored because if you find a significant effect and popularize it, then the substance gets banned. The people interested in using stuff like this have an incentive to avoid scientific research on the subject.

Hell, even NAC almost got banned recently.
Gamers are gonna game. Rule lawyers too. It’s the nature of complex games with large rule sets.

What is nice is if you have an active publisher reacting in a timely fashion. But then, if that’s the case, you as a participant need to keep up.

Mind this only happens in competitive tournaments. While at home and in clubs folks tend to favor fun, gameplay, and goodwill over pedantic rule making. It can lead to interesting discussions at high volume however.

That said, I’ve seen tournament games lost because someone whipped out an obscure ruling from an official source. In a “Sorry you can’t do that.” “What do you mean?” Kind of way.

But it was good to participate in games with an active publisher, doing things like gathering after action reports across local tournaments nationwide, looking for unbalanced components or techniques and, rather than tweaking the game directly, just applying changes to the tournament rules set.
I always found this interesting because I grew up in a rural area and the debate judges were frequently not familiar with the metagame of debate, or could be aware but were downright hostile to it. Among my friends it became its own metagame: who could get away with the most egregious perversions of the form (including intentionally sneaking in logical fallacies into our arguments) in order to win in an atmosphere where point-keeping was highly contingent on the judge’s preconceived beliefs. While there was no substitute for a very strong positive or negative case, there were little rhetorical levers you can pull: calling the opponent a smooth-talking shuck-and-jiver in a political debate or appealing to your own family history that could win big with the right audience if you could guess correctly on what type of person they were.
All campaign expenditures are public data. Most picked charities from the area they represent.
Apache Log4j: The Exploit That Almost Killed the Internet
Highest efficiency hydrogen electrolyser starting production
Heh, my degree is in journalism. It's been a weird ride, but I wouldn't trade it for the shiniest CS education.
> Over the course of a year, Chandra stared at the cosmic lens for two weeks — one of its longest observation campaigns yet — and collected 19 X-ray photons coming from a galaxy called UHZ1, at a redshift of 10.1. Those 19 high-octane photons most likely came from a growing black hole that existed fewer than half a billion years after the Big Bang, making it by far the most distant X-ray source ever detected.

This blew my tiny mind.

19 photons over 2 weeks. That's such a tiny amount of light. How are we able to conclude anything from such tiny amounts of light? (I'm not disputing that we can, it just blows my mind that we can).

And those photons - 13+ billion years speeding through space, all that vast empty time and distance, to end up hitting a detector during those two weeks when doing so will change the way we think about the universe. And of course the photon itself hasn't experienced any of that time. For the photon, it was all the same moment.

Also blows my mind that any time I'm standing outside I'm being hit by photons that have been traveling for billions of years to reach that point. Of course they're overwhelmed by photons from the Sun, but still. Some photon left a sun billions of years ago, sped through the universe for all that time, and ended up hitting my retina. And I don't even realise when this happens.

I understand why theists don't like science. How can your puny god compare to shit like this?
Well and here I was, wondering what would become of all these oxygen bars they opened a few years ago and don't seem to last very long, they can sell helium-therapy now! Good for them!
Neon is allegedly non-narcotic too. Being closer to air density, it can be part of a non-funny-voice version of gamergas.
D&Ds' Matthew Mercer: How the Critical Role GM became its first real celebrity
seriously! it's literally a Scooby Doo plot. what's next, Shaggy and Velma manage to tie them up, and Fred unmasks them to discover it's an evil developer who wants to scare the locals away?
The rest of my post would address that point. Prohibition on institutions investing. If needed put a cap on the number of units a person can own in one jurisdiction. Housing could be for use not investment if we wanted such a policy landscape. There may be unintended consequences but it’s a worthy experiment.
The same question was asked by the Luddites when their jobs were taken away by automated weaving looms. I doubt the answer is much different this time (yes, it does that, but in the long term that is somehow a good thing)
They are indeed making copies in the strictest sense, but the real problem is if the copyright holders don't enforce their copyrights in the strictest sense they can forfeit their copyright. For example, if I let the public use an image copyrighted by me long enough without strict guidelines and I try to take someone to court, the court can say yes well you let the horse out of the barn and now you are trying to put it back in after it's everywhere. The solution is always licensing, and licenses can be free. So IA and the copyright holders instead of playing hard lawyer ball can cooperate; the copyright holder can grant them a free license for works that would otherwise not be getting exposure of make them money which they can revoke at any time should they decide to try and make money off of a work again. They can also provide strict usage guidelines in that license for IA as well as IA's users so it's clear this is meant for a narrow use and using it outside those guidelines can result in legal/financial penalties. To me this is a win-win because it could open the door for companies like Spotify to subsequently license works that gain popularity from exposure for a fee.
https://archive.is/wwB4A
I find ChatGPT is scary BAD for rubber ducking. You have to already have an idea of what's right and wrong to verify. It is insane how often ChatGPT is wrong when I ask it things. like 90% of the time it is wrong. It's probably because everything I ask is way too specific and because it's just pattern matching on roids and not reasoning, it's impossible for it.
It's not a question of if it's physically possible. It's a question of what the customer is going to do. You can't play a 78 on your iPhone. You can play Spotify on your iPhone. So the customer is going to use Spotify.
I Stole a Kia with a TikTok Hack [video]
No one "knows" what the meaning of a disputed term is; it's disputed.
I Tested Vision Pro with WebXR, Xcode, Stable Diffusion
EVM stood for "Erlang Virtual Machine" (of which BEAM is one implementation) before Ethereum even existed.
Maybe I am missing something but would there ever be a scenario where taking a single albeit large sql statement and rewriting it as several pyspark scripts would result in faster runtime for your data pipeline? In most cases, this will be much much slower.
In my high school days, we used it for Jell-O shots and drunk watermelons. Probably should have used vodka but ever clear was more bang/buck. I remember taking a shot of it once as a group “dare” type situation. It was as awful as you would guess
The guidance and sole purpose of TCAS is "do what it says", in that respect it is no different from a stall warning.

The fact that Russian aviation failed to train (or even require training for that apparently) is absurd, the fact that the EU allowed planes to travel with TCAS but not with pilots that had the most basic understanding of TCAS is a sad example of the results of checkmark based safety.

As even this article acknowledges, TCAS as a system makes no sense of any kind if it can be countermanded by someone other than the pilot. There is no use case for TCAS that makes anything other than "do what it says, a fast as possible" have any value at all. Disobeying TCAS because of ATC is no different than ignoring a stall warning because ATC told you to climb.