skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a collage of flowery phrases taken from here and there. I don’t think it’s plagiarism, because it involves copying larger chunks than a convenient paragraph.

Originality is the art of hiding your sources, which has become utterly impossible nowadays with the search engines.

If he had studied after the 2010s, he would have paraphrased a bit more to confuse google
No GP's point is that Gödel's theorem has nothinhg to do with this debate because the things that Gödel says are impossible aren't the things GPT-9 would need to do to reach a human-level intelligence.

The point that brains are more efficient than computers is valid, but that doesn't tell us much about eg whether we'll be able to make a computer do everything a human brain can do within 50 years.
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One thing this article doesn't mention is the bizarre washing-machine-in-kitchen habit of British households. I grew up with it and never thought about it until it was pointed out to me by foreigners, after which I realized it was absurd and indefensible. Laundry doesn't belong next to food preparation!
I think in a court of law it may be more of a charge of plagiarism than outright fraud, but I get your point. And like you said, anyone who makes a career out of "how to be rich and successful at doing whatever", would probably be better off heeding their own advice and become rich and successful at doing whatever rather than yakking unendingly about it.
Somebody's not travelled to Asia then ...

From India to the Philippines and out to Indonesia rides a population on petrol engine scooters and motorcycles that exceeds the US population ans is currently transitioning to EV bikes.

Many are elderly, disabled, ride with multiple passengers, few are obese to US standards.
Do you mean that the landlord is instructing the employees of it's tenants to RTO so that he can keep his income and property value? How does that work?

"Hello CEO of Awesome Inc, it's me CEO of Rentalz Co. Your people have to return to office so that I can keep collecting the rent".

CEO of Awesome Inc: "No."

CEO of Rentalz Co.: "shucks!"
Yes, the article did.
Off-topic—what does "p-adic style" mean in this sentence? Is it a math pun?
> In 2020, Dawson's book The Cleaner reached number 8 in the Hardback Fiction section of The Sunday Times' bestseller list after he purchased 400 copies of the book, seeing it to have previously been in position number 13

The scumbaggery is endemic, not isolated to creative repurposing of other people's sentences!
That's very kind of you - I tried making a dead-simple repro just now with Node 20, and it seemed to run without the problem. I'll try reproducing it in a bit with my original use case of imagemagick and see if the issue still exists.
> The similarities are merely surface level.

Then please, feel free to explain the deep differences.

> That is precisely why we should not be making this comparison.

Wrong. It's precisely why the claim "there is a big difference" doesn't have a leg to stand on. If you claim "this is different", I ask "how?" and the answer simply repeats the claim, I can apply Hitchens Razor[1] and dismiss the claim.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor
Imagine a headline "Is Betteridge's Law of Headlines True?"
Those skilled baristas are welcome to open up their own shop to compete though (which probably many do , successfully).

Problem is VCs don’t fund coffee shops, otherwise Starbucks would be “disrupted” overnight.
> We are currently seeing a higher civilian death rate than we saw back in February 2022, yet it doesn't seem like a lot of people complained about disrupting international order when Russia was sanctioned.

This is a false equivalence. Israel was attacked first, brutally. Russia was not attacked; theirs is a war of agression, pure and simple. It is clear that the fundamental cause of the Ukraine war is a desire by Putin and his ilk to restore the old soviet "empire". [1]

Actually, that has been the cause of many wars down through the centuries. A former power, or a country that thinks it needs to play a more powerful role in world affairs, seeking (re)ascendancy. It happened with Germany and Japan in WW2, and it is happening with Russia now. But it seems people will believe anything but what the aggressors themselves clearly want.

Do you know what the Muslim nations say among themselves, what their ultimate objective is? Without understanding that, it is impossible to place the Israeli-Arab conflict in proper perspective.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/25/putin-...
If the fines for fakes would skyrocket and include 100% of a company’s revenue and many years in jail we probably would see fewer of them. However advertising industry would basically cease to exist.
No file manager has ever approached the productivity I had when using XTree Gold for DOS... ZTree is a modern, but commercial version.
I can certainly attest that you are right, at least in my experience.

Another side benefit is that I now value a lot more the people who work with manual labour. They should definitely earn more from society, in gratitude and financially.
Yea I thought it was a new kind of jab.
Hilariously, he's right in the strict sense of the word. For the average Joe, a get-rich-quick scheme doesn't get them rich quickly..!
Like a spherical cow, there are some assumptions we need to make in a 101 class. For example, I remember my database professor saying that I need to assume my entire database does not fit in memory (RAM) because if it does, all bets are off.
The area covered by the grid. I assume prices have increased in some areas, e.g. northern Sweden and Norway.
The Home Computer Advanced Course
unfortunately there's no mobile support at all yet
news is not to make money. it's to control what news people get...

those who buy news outlets can shape what people see and read and hear.
it's money spent the same way you pay for having your ad be shown somewhere...

it's absolutely not about making money. the making money is done around of owning a news outlet.
Thanks, I thought I was just out of the loop. The word "bestseller" means less and less every day for me.
Will climbing Maslow's pyramid make you happy?
Ask HN: How would you build OSS Figma?
I know that figma uses Wasm (from blog), but I am new to WASM, and there seem to be quite a few options (and languages) to choose from.

If one was to build an OSS Figma, what are the latest libraries and toolkits one would use?
"My hot take: Google does not have one single visionary leader"
Plagiarism is not a legal thing. Copyright infringement is, but that’s a different beast.
I'm approaching this not from the perspective of 'nuclear war is rational, and this is how it should be fought', I'm trying to look at it through the perspective of someone whose job it is to optimize for the unoptimizable. It seems very unlikely that any nuclear strategy planning ends at 'then (they/we) unleash a second strike, and that's it', so then it becomes worth it to consider how to completely crush any attempt at revenge in the living memory of those you killed.

There's going to be competition over what little habitable land and untainted resources remain, and the appetite for revenge in such a scenario will be insatiable. Reserving some small % of the arsenal for tertiary strikes seems sensible if you're planning for this, particularly since SSBNs will be basically unaffected if nuclear war is happening above them and launch sites that aren't destroyed would probably still be able to launch for some time if this is accounted for in the design.
Hey guys, I've recently created an AI calorie calculator, just snap a photo of your meal or beverage and get an estimated range of calories! Currently 100% free while I'm in investigation phase (until credits run out :D)
Any feedback is appreciated! <3
PaLM use a pathway architect, not a decoder only transformer as ChatGPT. At least you can look it up on Wikipedia before making such wild assumptions.
Can Tart be used with Vagrant?
Python and Haxe have a function-like cast like that, but the argument order differs between the languages. I prefer D's approach because it doesn't have this opportunity for confusion. The prefix operator only has one place for the type to go.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.cast

typing.cast(typ, val)

https://haxe.org/manual/expression-cast.html

cast expr; // unsafe cast
cast (expr, Type); // safe cast
London (and nearby) seems fairly good right now if you can squint past some of the politics and media culture war fixations... As good as ~Y2K I'd say. Indeed I may be having more fun now!
What music does he produce?, Can you share his profile
What about baremetal embedded system code where there is no concept of a 'crash'? Sure you can emit a trap instruction/bus fault/etc, but what to emit for the trap handler code?
Capability targetted in my case is small single runway. Probably hundreds killometers from the closest stationed bomber. I won't argue that it's completely worthless, but wasn't Soviet Union mostly relying on ballistic missile launchers not strategic bombers?

Than again if you have enough missiles to glass Earth many times over, you gotta point them somewhere. Why not on every runway you can find on satellite images?
He could have also potentially got it off trading, since he'd have to show his Lambo first before getting suckers who think there's a magical formula for the average Joe to make millions.

Or, hypothetically, he could have rented it for cheaper and then bought an actual one with the money from the suckers.
Well darn. When is my money going to disappear?
I'm not really convinced by this or several other recent plagiarism scandals.

I have some experience of using the automated tools and I think people get a false sense of confidence from them, both in the sense of "this was definately copied from X" (rather than a shared original source) and "this is morally wrong, because the computer said so".

The example of the music description for example. It's obviously lifted from that source. The rephrasing doesn't really make sense, which I feel is a bigger crime than lifting a sentence about a music scene from a factual music source to use in a novel.
When I was in high school/university, they taught us that plagarism was taking even ideas and reusing them directly. Copying a sentence like that was an explicit example, even if generic. We were told that it gets suspicious at even 4 more complex words that are the same.

Even reusing your own work between classes was an example of plagiarism.

Plagiarism, at least as presented to me, is a very strict standard.
More than 20% of her thesis was copied almost verbatim from other sources [1], including typos [2], mostly without citation. This wasn't discovered at the time (2014)

What's more - self-plagiarism has been a huge topic in the university sector and the Minister has been quite strict towards students re-using text on exams without citation (to their own previous exams), with several cases going to the court.

[1] https://e24.no/norsk-oekonomi/i/wA1Kvo/saa-mye-av-sandra-bor...

[2] https://e24.no/naeringsliv/i/y6Wzw2/deler-av-forskningsminis...
I fully endorse your first option, how I used to work. In my latest team, all PRs go through an overworked "code owner" so end up backing up and getting out of date. Breakages in PRs from merging latest master get sent back to me to "fix", ie extra work only required because current master is so behind the curve.
Read my comment on macOS please - it explicitly is about dealing with Linux people who write scripts assuming new versions of Bash.

Now if Linux used zsh then your comment is valid.

Bash shell scripts do not necessarily run in zsh.

Most Windows users do not install git. iPhones don't have a shell.
I still don't see how this is a crime though, I mean sure, he has a sense of inspiration and borrows sentences and phrases from somewhere. But, that doesn't mean the entire plots of his books, or the primary reason they sell is because of him stealing a few sentences from others.
smart pointers in C?
Standard approach in systems for critical applications like aerospace: https://www.quora.com/How-does-SpaceX-handle-memory-manageme...
Yeah, I hear you on that. A long ago question on where is cyberpunk rn? I answered "probably somewhere in Africa rn". Good to know the view from someone who's watching, thanks! :)
Or more likely he rents/leases or otherwise borrows it to make the social posts and it will be repossessed at some point, always a good possibility.

It's amazing how some people can pull a long con.
What is bad? Stating that her company would find this to be an unacceptable standard of service quality?

Sharing experiences and opinions on HN that are unpopular?

I didn’t complain to the worker, the company, or give her any attitude about it. None of that would have helped me get my task done.

They have other agents who are more professional, so next time I could get routed to somebody else.

To answer your question:

If the noise was an office cacophony then I’d put the blame on the company that tolerates it.

The noise was a children’s cartoon and a babbling child.

The worker has a responsibility to either get noise-canceling tools or work from a quiet area of the home. It’s 2024- it’s really easy to do either one.
> Even reusing your own work between classes was an example of plagiarism.

As a high school student, this is still true. People literally get suspended/expelled for plagiarism.
Reddit User Experiences on Online Dating
IMO, this is becoming quickly into minor points thanks to VTuber explosion. I can't describe my shock when I first witnessed "the brat needs correction" cliche, used correctly, collecting upvotes on Reddit. Just few years ago it was at best off context ara-aras.
Even worse, probably rented the Lambo for a day for a photo shoot because he knows that’s what suckers will go. Cars, penthouses and watches - like flies to poop, as they say.
Cool, man. I will have to swing by sometime. Only been very briefly to Paddington Station, Thames, The Wharf, Shakespeare and British Museum. Good show. Have to skip back based on this, thank you!!! :)
This is the crux of the matter. If you're the face of an institution, different rules apply. And your compensation and benefits should reflect this.

Most importantly, it should be in BLACK AND WHITE in your contract when you start. If you're someone who needs to abide by a code of conduct different from the norm outside of work hours, that absolutely should be something you're made crystal clear about, and are agreeing to.

For both your sake, and the sake of the institution having to clean up the mess otherwise.
"kif ahna xbin? Kollox sew?"

Its an informal greeting, usually to someone with whom you're already acquianted with. It translates loosely to: "how are you my friend? Is everything ok?"

The x is pronounced the same way you would pronounce "sh" in "shell" in english (so KOLLOSH not KOLLOKS).
I've never heard of this and I've worked with Python for decades. Maybe it's only popular in certain corners of the ML world?
At the core of it, this is the reason we're now seeing the RTO push. Execs don't want peons to share their privileges. They were fine with it during lockdown because got to keep making money. But now, back to the field, serfs!
Is that all it takes to get from 13 to 8!? I guess nobody reads anymore.
I'm quite surprised the crypto-scam "geniuses" and the Prosperity Gospel criminals did not join forces. Put those two together, and you've got a con worthy of taking over the Republicans...
Over 30% of game developers use generative AI, according to Survey
No, eforcing click-wrap legal agreements is actually possible. With basic KYC the scraper would instantly open up itself for litigation and no internet art piece is frankly worth this sort of trouble.
Show HN: I made this Sneakerlogoai app
i find that each time i want to generate a sneaker logo. I have to :
- Pay 20$ to use Chat Plus to access Dalle 3 to generate a sneaker logo
- Forget about prompt if i want to regenerate another sneaker logo again next month
Would love to hear your opinion and your thought about this.
Do Less: Why New Year's Resolutions Fail
The mechinism backing human learning isn't well understood. Machine learning is considerably clearer. Imo, it's a mistake to assume they're close because ML seems to work.
That sounds more serious. That's literally fraud, unlike taking random sentences you liked from other books, which is quite benign, in my opinion.
Works with my German receipt: https://imgur.com/a/Xhw3Acs
It doesn't have to be an either-or proposition Yes?

People are free to experiment with alternative cli utils which are not burdened by backward compatibility while nushell also remains easily adoptable by users who are accustomed to coreutils.
I'm looking
This was clearly the work of the devil...
“Pastor for an online ministry” - the cool new way to say “televangelist,” and apparently just as trustworthy.
If you have divine prescience is that insider trading? Would the SEC prosecute based on oracular accuracy? Would RFJ pay out on that even?
Coercion is such a meaningless term now that libertarians have got ahold of it.

Coercion, in this case, is when a system exists that you don't understand yet you have to follow it's rules.

Which is why mom is clearly being coerced into using the internet.
Don't get me started on how my dad get coerced by logistic networks when he gets a package delivered?

Abstraction and interfaces into complicated systems are the best part of the modern economy yet somehow you found the opposite conclusion.
If it wasn't for the dates I'd say that's LLM completion at play.

If you think about copilot etc...that would produce the same pattern. Fragments being obviously matching existing work.

Not sure I'd go quite as far as calling an author a plagiarist on the basis of specific short fragments matching. It would need bit more of an overarching say plotline matching or similar.

Who here hasn't copied some code off stack overflow?
Resistance is important imo. If this happens and we, who work in this industry, say nothing, what good are we. It's only inevitable if it's socially acceptable.
I know that definition of plagiarism exists in schools (how broadly I couldn't say) but it's completely incoherent and unused in any other context.
Could this be due to American washers being bigger? I don’t see why American washers would be designed to use more water if less water technology exists.
Shouldn't Swift also be there?
Take a look at my comment above about hshell. It has all those things you ask for. Feedback would be useful!

The problem with this space is incentives. HShell exists because it was easy to build given the structure of our main product, and I wanted it for our own internal use. But making it a stable long term product on which anyone can rely requires signing up for long term maintenance, and nobody pays for shells (or do they?). So it's got to be a labor of love.
I hope you know how the Muslims acquired the lands they live on now, down through the centuries? Hint, it wasn't by asking nicely.

And the numerous attacks on the Israelis since it was formed, after each of which Israel gained more land?

And the numerous offers made to the Palestinians for a state which they refused?
They didn't allow networked computers on the old Battlestars, so maybe not against those.
You mean "f x y" instead of e.g. "f(x,y)"?

You can generalize that into handling operators of various arity both before and after the operator.

E.g. I once had a parser that would handle "x op y z". I don't recall why - it was 30+ years ago, but I can back up that it's a fairly simple modification to expand precedence based parsers this way.
This is plagiarism by any academic or artistic standard, but as a commercial or legal matter, this level of copying doesn't come close to copyright infringement. And no one should want it to.
I think not make money is recent.

Up to 2000 papers and TV made money.

Since Google and Facebook took the advertising industry then adverts did not go to news organisations.
Very good points, I'm starting to experience that as well (in the one grandparent that uses any technology at all, that is)
You can install Midnight Commander on a Mac as well.
My Blockchain-defense project got hacked, that feels about right...
A trap street doesn't damage other data. Not even remotely useful as an analogy. That's to allow detection of copies, not to corrupt the copies from being useable.
Thanks for the reply and insight. It sounds like what I would call fraudulent plagiarism based on your reply and links. 20% is pretty crazy. Especially the hypocrisy.
Housing market - absolute catastrophe

Taxation - 40% of monthly payslip goes... somewhere

Inflation - cumulative 20% in Eurozone for the last 4 years

War - anytime now

Meantime EU - "let's talk about fine grained privacy settings and preferences"
At least as how plagiarism was defined for me in school, it is a extremely unforgiving and sensitive standard. Having more than 5 shared words could be plagiarism. An idea taken could be plagiarism. Reusing work between classes that you wrote could be plagiarism.

So I guess it depends on how plagiarism is defined and perhaps how we define it should be revisited, but whether it be Christine Gay, Neri Oxman, or Mark Dawson, by that standard they are all caught red handed plagiarists.

On the other hand, only in cases of egregious and intentional plagiarism was it considered a major failing.
Property tax is the same as a wealth tax.

> Do you understand that for many people in the world, the car you or at least people in your peer group might drive would be the equivalent of a giant pickup truck to them?

Yes, I am aware these schemes would require reducing consumption for quite a few people.

> Who decides what a reasonable method of transportation is?

Society? But it has to be planned with long term consequences in mind. Are we prioritizing pedestrians over individual car owners and detached single family home owners or not, because the two are wholly incompatible.

> For example, the bus system is terrible where I live. Am I allowed to have a giant pickup truck under your scheme or should that be taxed the same as if I had a better mass transit system near me?

You are allowed to have whatever you want, just like you can have a $10M home right now, but society does not need to give you the streets and parking lots to use the giant pickup truck.

The mass transit system will come about eventually, but probably will take decades of rezoning. I think voters making this kind of sacrifice is realistic at all, people’s priority at the polls is which politician will allow them to consume as much as possible.

> How would you monitor use of my giant pickup truck to be sure I was using it practically in a way that meets your requirements for proper pickup truck usage?

Again, high fossil fuel prices take care of this, especially at marginal tax rates. Use a little fuel? Less tax. Use more fuel? Higher taxes. At some tax rate, it will no longer make sense for 90% of people to use a pickup truck if they don’t need it.
That style of #ifdef use, while common in the past, tends to be somewhat fragile and also gets more and more tangled as more conditions are added.

A better way is to have an always existing inline running_on_valgrind() function, and use the #ifdef only for that function definition, either within it or around it (having it around the function also allows it to be inline only for the trivial not-defined case). Examples of this "inline function" style are found all over the Linux kernel (which has lots of conditionally-compiled code).