skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But they haven't slowed down.

But...they have.

How many stories have there been about how GPT-3 and GPT-4 have gotten worse over the period they've been out?

And it's not like we got GPT-3, and then GPT-4, and then, within the same time frame, GPT-5 with a similar increase in quality.

Sure, people are working on more improvements, but they're not here yet, and while that doesn't mean they will never come, it does mean that, compared to what appeared to be a rapid rush of "AI" progress, things have slowed down.

"Progress is still being made" and "progress has slowed down compared to the speed that generated all the hype" are not incompatible statements.
Literate programming is a nice middle ground but it doesn't work for every project and it definitely doesn't work for every person.
in other words, the ultimate end state of marketing. if they could mind control you they would, and an AI chatbot is probably as close as we can get without zapping your brain directly.
I think we as society has to come to harsh realization that keeping people alive past time when they can self-function with certain level of support is coming to end. Unless they have enough wealth stored away to pay for it.

It is very scary thought, but as cynic or realist it seems only solution.
This suggests a social trend of pushing back against misleading marketing.

Is there evidence of that behind this article's conjecture? Is (American) society changing?

(Is this another twist of the "Where's the beef?" moment?)
All this would do would be to lead the investigation to get a warrant/subpoena to have the VPN service provide user details about the account and anything else relevant like logs. This is where the "we don't log shit" bullet points comes into play as well as running only from RAM. If the warrant allows for removal of hardware, all data is lost once power is removed. LEOs would have to bring lots of batteries.
English descriptions abound! Alongside German too, of course. But yes, you should do okay with English in this particular museum ..
So my $million question to you is what can I credibly replace it with? I love those buds cuz of the high magnesium and fibre
Branch is "very shady"?
With COVID, pretty much everyone would get it just by going about their normal day-to-day life. It effected everyone.

In contrast, many people in the US lead a lifestyle that puts them at almost no risk for AIDS. Furthermore, a large majority / plurality of Americans are Christians where the religion actively encourages monogamy. (And this is my opinion,) the large group of people who practice monogamy consider the lifestyle so easy that "oh, we should just encourage monogamy as a solution" is a snap judgement with a clear lack of empathy for people who aren't monogamous.

(I should point out that even though I am monogamous, I've had circles of friends that are very promiscuous. Each group has a lot of trouble empathizing with the other lifestyle. I had a lot of ridicule in college and at Burning Man for not being promiscuous; and both my father and grandfather encountered the same thing in the US Navy.)

So, it's taken awhile for the monogamous majority / plurality to really understand that the solution for the AIDS crisis isn't to just promote monogamy. One example is very clear in George W. Bush's memoir. Even though he is conservative, Christian, (and I assume monogamous,) his stated goal in his presidency was to solve the AIDS crisis; and he implied that purely teaching monogamy wasn't going to work. He had a lot of regret that incidents in his presidency took his focus away from the AIDS crisis.
I have heard about mypy but haven't seriously used it. Type hinting has helped a lot (basically you'll end up writing Python like it's Rust), but something like the Maybe monad (my example above) would reduce a lot of boilerplate.
LLM-assistant automates onboarding of new projects for dynamic white-box testing
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When we're talking about a CO2 laser, the errors from taper, variations in laser power, rigidity, trueness of optical path, etc, etc, far exceed 0.03%.

If you want a circle that's better than a 0.03% tolerance, odds are you're not making it by tracing a circular path in g-code, but instead using something like a lathe.

> And while it's possible to approximate with higher bezier curves, PDFs are auto generated with software libraries and it's going to be non-trivial to dive into the guts of a library of a library of a library and tweak the logic for generating circles for this one specific type of application.

A lot of work on CO2 lasers you do with something like Coreldraw or Inkscape. You absolutely can pick the number of vertices with some slight work.

Lasers are a bit weird in that most of their work is for signmaking. Most end-user use cases are closer to a printer than that of a typical CNC machine. Indeed, it can be annoying to take something from CAD to lasers that want PDF, because you can end up with things like the resultant PDF not joining lines together properly into one shape and the laser "stopping" on each vertex. You end up pretty carefully picking tools and processes for this flow. Ideally you figure out how to give the laser a dxf...
How is GPTBot allowed or disallowed?
Don't we all, even if there wasn't political reasons to dislike Twitter before and after it's change of leadership, from a technical perspective it can take ages just to load up 140 bytes of text or a video, which seems to point to the fact that it's driven by people who aren't too interested in crafting quality software that you can be proud of...
No more often than the names of the sub-functions themselves becoming inaccurate ime.

At some point the system does depend on its authors doing the right thing.
IANA AI developer but have been looking into this in detail recently for other purposes. I was puzzled at the lack of info about "books" and when searching for detail (in what I believe was a reasonably diligent manner) found a very surprisingly small amount of it. I assumed there would be more knowledge and did ask for it here. So now I will go look up those papers to get a better sense of things. Thank you for the tip.

I note neither this paper nor any discussion of "BookCorpus" or even "book corpus" has appeared on HN previously.

Addressing "Documentation Debt" in Machine Learning
Research: A Retrospective Datasheet for BookCorpus, 2021, Jack Bandy and Nicholas Vincent

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.05241.pdf?
Sure, but this is a degenerate case of bad management. Leaving aside bad management and rigid role definitions aside for the moment, I think it’s fair to say that getting the requirements and tradeoffs right is the hardest part of Product/Biz System engineering. It definitely requires close engagement from technical folks. No corporate environment is perfect, but if that’s not happening at all then it severely hampers your skill development and upward mobility as a programmer, and may be time to look for greener pastures.
What You See Is All There Is
>”Synthetically generated pornography of a real person created without their consent is bad.”

I would agree with the premise, but not the line of reasoning that follows. Personally, I would say that the freedom of speech will always be more relevant and much more important than the subjective experience of perceived harm.

Much like I don’t think the government should be able to dictate to a woman whether she’s allowed to have a medical procedure or not, I don’t think a corrupt group of politicians should be the ones to dictate what kind of images my computer is allowed to make, assuming that I’m starting with an entirely ethically-sourced dataset.

I think it’s also worth considering why laws like these exist in the first place. They’re good and important, but I don’t think the root reason for them is to stop these kinds of images from being distributed. I think the root reason for these laws is to stop the production of CSAM using children, which absolutely is incredibly harmful and disgusting. I think that’s a good thing to stop, and if some guy in his basement looking at AI porn that stops him from supporting material that actually hurts real, living, breathing kids, then I think I’m conceptually okay with it. If it protects children and reduces the CSAM market, both consumption and production, isn’t that an overall good thing?
Because at the time of the invention and adoption of this term of this term in the late 1850s, the metric system didn’t have widespread adoption at all. The treaty of the meter wasn’t until 1875.

So the metric system and decimalization of the inch are roughly contemporaneous and “just use this othe, also brand new system” isn’t an obvious choice at that point.
How to build a computer using origami
> even a lathe doesn't turn perfectly round, there is no such thing

You don’t have to look for long on YouTube to find videos showing lathe tolerances of ten mil or lower.

And things like bearing races, where imperfections are a common failure mode, are turned for polishing if nothing else.
Good news! There is a way to distinguish people from bots... Reality.

Yes talking to people face to face. Nothing on the internet will be verifiable anymore.

Good luck.
The VisActor team has attempted and accumulated experience using OpenAI’s interface, and they have released a “preview version” of the VMind intelligent visualization component as an NPM package. In this article, we will introduce the basic capabilities and usage methods of the “preview version” of VMind from an application perspective. Finally, we will briefly discuss the future feature roadmap and code open-source plans.
The traditional M18A1 Claymore mine weighs about 1.6 kg total and has optimal effect to 50m in a 60 degree arc (potentially lethal to 250m I think - Ed: "moderately effective up to a range of 100m ... fragments can travel up to 250m").
Acceldata acquires Bewgle to offer customers more AI data pipeline visibility
GPTBot — the official crawler of OpenAI, has been announced for nearly 2 months. GPTBot is for crawling web information to improve the models of OpenAI, e.g. GPT-4. We are wondering what the reactions from the Internet are. Is the bot being accepted or rejected?
I mean.

Whatever else, but you have to give her props for inventing the word "wokerati". That word sounds so ridiculous that it might become cool again.
We’ve never consumed more oil in history: https://youtu.be/HV0u1wzZuSQ?si=ea-zObid-oZluSem

Companies Stall Climate Action Despite Promises: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37582952

Global coal at record usage: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2023/09/04/global-coal-...
Your definition of “replaceable” is so loose to be meaningless. Yes, any person can be appointed to the CEO position when another leaves. No, it is not easy to appoint one that will steer the company to greater success than the previous one.
all expression is reference
I wouldn’t call Rust easy to develop in.
> Mango Dragonfruit Starbucks Refreshers are missing mango, Strawberry Açaí Starbucks Refreshers lack açaí and Pineapple Passionfruit Starbucks Refreshers have no passion fruit.

That's what two consumers who have sued Starbucks for consumer protection law violations say about the coffee giant's fruit-based drinks.

Where is the wing quote?

This suit is about false advertisement. Those sentences are the first two of the article.

Way to show you didn’t read the article bro.
SVG would likely be a better target today.
From the linked article on that suit

>Red Bull says in its marketing that the drink can improve concentration and reaction speeds, but the plaintiff in the case said these claims were false and lacked scientific support. While the suit did not allege that plaintiffs were disappointed that they didn't suddenly sprout wings, it does say that Red Bull relies a lot on terms like "wings" and "boost" to give consumers the impression that the drink gives people some sort of physical lift or enhancement.
Who enjoys privacy when we can all live in fear?

You need a VPN that actually cares about your privacy and goea the extra mile to ensure it. On top of that if the VPN service does not know who you are how can they actually tell the cops. On top of that you don't need to explain it to the cops - if you are ever accused this should be done in a court of law where we understand what ips are (heck, even some cops understand it - it's not exactly rocket science nowadays)
Creating and modifying flakes using the FlakeHub CLI
LMAO comment on hacker news whenever you leak the severity and amount of information like snowden and let us know how valiant you are for reaping the unjust consequences.

you'll be a loyal citizen to a nation state that spies on its people, while torturing and killing other people for no good reason.

why is going to jail for whistleblowing honorable? that makes no sense to me.
An interesting go-ish thing to do regarding: """Now, DownloadAndVerifyThing is shorter, contains less state, and is more obviously a composition of several tasks."""

...I've experimented with "convert a long sequential, independent function into several internal anonymous functions" (ie: similar to IIFE in javascript).

This generally prevents (or contains) variable leakage and prevents (or contains) "complexity leakage".

In their example: `DownloadAndVerifyThing(...) { ... }`, those functions could be defined internal to the `DownloadAndVerifyThing` function, which is kindof a further form of comment: "thou shalt not be using these weird functions outside of this particular function which does the downloading and verifying..."

Even if it's done not in a function but in an anonymous block, "trapping" any state leakage or side-effects is nice for complexity reduction.

Example:

func Foo() bar {
{
x := 1
y := 2
...lots of math, etc...
}
abc := 123
}

...you're not polluting the function internally with a lot of extra variables hanging around, which makes the inevitable refactoring "more clean" as you know at least the code block can be extracted independently w/o impacting anything _after_ it (although you still have to be a little careful with the "before" and "ordering" portion of it).
This post's outrage is misplaced.

Protobuf encoders/decoders commonly implement two formats: delimited format, and non-delimited format. Typically non-delimited is the default, but delimited format is supported by many implementations including Google's main first-party ones. In fact, the Java implementation shipped with this support when Protobuf was first released 15 years ago (I wrote it). C++ originally left it as an exercise for the application (it's not too hard to implement), but I eventually added helper functions due to demand.

Both formats can be described as "standard", at least to the extent that anything in Protobuf is a standard.

So clearly the bug here is that one person was writing the delimited format and the other person was reading the non-delimited format. Maybe the confusion was the result of insufficient documentation but certainly not from a library author doing something crazy.
> Suing a company because their drink does not give you wings is just... Stupid

Redbull has to pay 13 million dollars, so possibly not stupid.

Anyway, TFA is about “Mango Dragonfruit Starbucks Refreshers are missing mango, Strawberry Açaí Starbucks Refreshers lack açaí and Pineapple Passionfruit Starbucks Refreshers have no passion fruit.”

So not entirely without merit, also according to a judge.
I heard somewhere that ChatGPT is surprisingly good for human language translations even though it's not specifically trained for it. There seems to be just enough examples of e.g. Japanese that Japanese researchers use it to translate papers. I suspect that's largely true for programming languages too. I've had great success working with it in Clojure, even though there's relatively little published code compared to more popular languages.
I'm surprised at that level of loss you haven't just end-run around Google and the lead-gen firm and gotten together with your peers to blackball them. Those lead-gen companies can't actually deliver real service, they still need someone local to your community to pick up the lead and do the work.

I doubt it would take very long before they realized they can't fill any contracts and give up. And plus wouldn't it sound super cool to say you started a guild?
What about Docker's design is incompatible with running systemd? Because that seems to be mainly what LXD containers offer over typical docker containers.
Ah yes, I have seen those before (quite rare). IIRC they don't have holes for the grounding prong, which should prevent plugging in any modern 240V appliance.
Learning C. Never written any serious code in it, but still among most usefull skills to have.
Accepted a buyout of the shares or IPR for what felt like a pittance in the last couple of cases (well, second one was not yet VC) which is just about enough to semi-retire on, and I am trying to make use of what is in my head for a PhD!
Torries gonna Tory.
Just curious , did you use any LLM to generate code for this? BTW really awesome work!
With FlakeHub, we're working hard at DetSys to make flakes as easy and natural as possible. Our additions to `fh` take a bite at that. I'm here for questions!
> Where is the wing quote? ... Way to show you didn’t read the article bro.

Pot, meet kettle:

> In 2014, Red Bull announced it would pay more than $13 million to settle a lawsuit brought by buyers who said the energy drink didn't — as the marketing materials promised — "give you wings."
Really I don't take predation personally.

I don't tell the SPCA, however, that I am getting a cat there because it's a replacement for one lost to predators. They die of old age, get hyperthyroidism, high blood pressure, become blind, walk around mindlessly and crash into things, and one morning you find them dead at the bottom of the stairs. I think they would find dying at the claws of a predator an honorable death.

As for kitsune they are the Japanese version of a myth that is widespread in East and South Asia, for instance Daji

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

is probably isomorphic to Tamamo-no-mae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamamo-no-Mae

and is sometimes believed to be the same entity. I was into anime for a long time (Urusei Yatsura was a watershed but it really goes back to seeing Star Blazers on TV) but lately I have been into Chinese pop culture like Three Kingdoms, Nezha and Wolf Warrior 2 and that's gotten me reading about Chinese mythology and one clear thing is a lot of Japanese mythology comes from China, for instance it seems there is a "world tree" in almost every JRPG that they climb to get to heaven and even if they call it Yggdrasil it is not from Norse mythology it is from Chinese mythology. (Turns out also a lot of Chinese mythology as well as neopagan ideas comes from India as well.)
Estonia and Latvia too are some of my favorite places in Europe right now. But: there is a massive shadow hanging over them with the Ukraine war as a painful reminder that Russia is still causing problems in Europe and likely won't be done for a long time to come.

I visit both at least once or twice every year and always come away being very much impressed with all the projects and companies that originate there. Access to funding is still not what it should be though, hopefully that will change in the future.
I don’t even really
Live in a rural area and there may be a few fast food options but there’s nothing I’d want delivered. There are things I can go out and pickup in 15 minutes or throw together at home that I’d rather do.

In general barring difficulty in leaving the house food delivery seems awfully optional.
In today's digital age, a startup's success isn't just determined by its innovative solutions but also by its commitment to security. Let's dive in and learn some important security tips that we should keep top-of-mind and build a fortified digital fortress.
Two things that changed my life:

(1) Use https://serializer.io/ to read HN.

Serializer shows the HN top list in a serialized way that lets you mark all as read. No more doom-scrolling a randomly reordered list or constantly re-reading read threads. Syncs read state across all your browsers/devices, no user registration required. Shows a few other sites as well but you can turn those off. Simple and brilliant. I'm not affiliated with the app but I'm a huge fan.

(2) Add an iOS Automation Shortcut timer that starts when opening twitter or Instagram.

The automation system also puts up a toast popup telling me about the timer when I open the app. Free, built into iOS, and the popup alone helps me realize I'm wasting time, then the timer reminds me to close the app. For me, a 9 minute timer is a magic threshold as I've learned I have a pair of natural session lengths which are about 7 minutes or forever. Huge amounts of time recovered this way.
My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
Repository with my filter lists that block some distractions from sites I want to keep using.

I am pretty ruthless removing distractions from my life (e.g. no Instagram, Facebook, TikTok), but some tools I'd like to keep using some parts of it. E.g. Twitter/X, I dislike the feed but I like reading some threads that are shared here or on blog posts. Same for YouTube, I enjoy some videos but I do not want recommendations when I finish the video I was watching.

Feel free to suggest more, open issues, pull requests or send me an email :)
Apologies for the assumption. I've used several Google products for years, including paid ones, and never so much as seen a way to contact a person.
1. Find a misleading product claim

2. Buy ONE of the product so you have standing for a case

3. Bring million dollar lawsuit against company

4. Profit
Eek, you should go back and read the article...
Clippy is going to make a triumphant return as the AI assistant of the future. Clippy will be on every phone/tablet/computer just talking to other instances of itself.

In 5-10 more years models will all run locally on device with weight updates being pushed OTA.

Advertisers will somehow figure out how to train ads into these models so you get subtle references to new products.
The scam here is that these same food companies have captured the FDA so they can claim they're following the law or doing what is "industry standard" while they're creating the laws. That's why we have all this deceptive packaging, serving sizes that make no sense, etc.
With a coffee cup, you should be able to take a micrometer (or a piece of string) and verify roundness of the base object to whatever arbitrary precision your heart desires (and your reality will allow).
The Wikipedia article on BooksCorpus raises an important point about how researchers used the word "unpublished" to describe the books in this corpus -- this word appears in both the original Aligning Books paper, as well as OpenAI's papers, which don't even bother to acknowledge SmashWords. The books aren't "unpublished" -- SmashWords is a self-publishing platform! Whether deliberately or not, the word choice diminishes the human effort that was appropriated by the researchers to train the models.
> Barilla pasta isn't made in Italy

Well, I sure hope that Barilla pasta sold in the US isn't made in Italy! Why would it be? Ok, maybe shipping wine and other luxury products halfway around the globe makes some sense, but I'm confident pasta can be manufactured to the same quality standards in most of the developed world. It's already bad enough that a brand called Kerrygold is actually shipping butter from Ireland all over Europe just so they can declare it as "Irish butter", or that French or Italian mineral water is being shipped all over the world...
...and the epic "comment the empty `else`-block":

... } else { /* no action needed, enterprise users should not frib or frob... */ }
There are 10 comments above mentioning various gotchas.