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PebblesRox

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PebblesRox··on Black widows are losing to brown widows in the fight for attics and garages
I would assume it means having more babies and getting eaten less often by predators relative the competitor.
PebblesRox··on Black widows are losing to brown widows in the fight for attics and garages
I was reminded of the college student who found a guy in her closet wearing her clothes:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/cl...

PebblesRox··on Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?
Love this line!

"This code is free as in mattress. If you decide to use it, it's your problem."

https://xeiaso.net/blog/GraphicalEmoji

PebblesRox··on Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says
My guess is through breast milk - which I was wondering about with the study as well; does it make a difference for breastfed babies whether their moms eat a lot of peanuts?
PebblesRox··on A token-smuggling jailbreak for ChatGPT-4
This is the perfect theme for an idle game, I love it!
PebblesRox··on Ok, it’s time to freak out about AI
It's a straightforward idea in my mind and I'm always happy to see people talking about it.
PebblesRox··on Samsung's response on 'moonshot' controversy
From the webpage:

> If users wish to take a picture without the support of AI, users can easily deactivate Scene Optimizer by heading to: Camera → Camera Settings → Scene Optimizer → Off

Does that fulfill your requirements or did you mean something different?

PebblesRox··on Prompt Injection Hidden on Website Tricks Bing Chat
pygy_ linked this in a recent tread and it made me wonder whether websites like this could be weaponized to get people banned from Bing Chat.

I'm also wondering - is this the future of SEO? Hidden asides to the AIs to try to persuade them to include your info prominently in their response?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35155961

PebblesRox··on The new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4
Wow, that's hilarious!

I wonder whether people will start getting banned because their search happened to hit websites that have been compromised in this way.

PebblesRox··on Battery-free Game Boy (2020)
"Mom, can I set fire to my bed mattress?"

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1985/12/10

PebblesRox··on ACLU Strongly Opposes House Bill That Would Ban TikTok
But there is a lot of information currently on TikTok that would be rendered inaccessible to you if it was banned. It is both a medium and a source/repository of content.
PebblesRox··on Costa Rica’s enigmatic addresses (2021)
I remember a story my parents told as a kid about someone asking for directions to the local amusement park and being told, "Take such-and-such a road, it's the first castle on the left."

The person giving the directions forgot that the county prison was also on that road and is also a castle!

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0395107,-76.2926349,3a,34.4y...

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0269921,-76.2184577,3a,75y,2...

PebblesRox··on The Camera-Shy Hoodie
I was curious about the result of the investigation since the article you linked said it was not yet known whether the self-driving features of the Tesla were active during the accident.

The outcome of the investigation was that the Autopilot was not engaged and the cause of this particular crash was human error:

"Per the investigation, the car data showed that the driver hit the gas pedal rather than the brake. The Model S then entered the rest stop, going 60 mph, hitting a curb and then the trailer."

https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/deadly-tesla-model-s-crash-...

And another source that's not a Tesla-focused website:

https://www.mainstreetdailynews.com/featured/fhp-human-error...

I'm not saying Tesla's self-driving tech is safe or trustworthy, but this is not a relevant example.

PebblesRox··on University administrators used ChatGPT to write email following mass shooting
The shooting had nothing to do with the university that sent the email; it was in a different state and likely didn't impact any of the students directly. Nobody would have cared if no email at all had been sent.
PebblesRox··on What’s Wrong with Bananas (2018)
If you can't find pure banana flavored ice cream, you might try making pure banana ice cream :)

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/3038-one-ingredient-bana...

PebblesRox··on Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
Yeah, the style is so consistent across all the screenshots I've seen. I could believe that any particular one is a fake but it's not plausible to me that all or most of them are.
PebblesRox··on Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
Interesting to think about how we do use our mental models of people to predict how they would respond to things even after they're gone.
PebblesRox··on Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
Wow, these are hilarious. The repetition really puts it over the top, and all those emojis!
PebblesRox··on What colour are your bits? (2004)
"But when it comes to child pornography, I think maybe Colour should make a difference - if we're going to ban it at all, it should matter where it came from. Whether any children were actually involved, who did or didn't give consent, in short: what Colour the bits are. The other side takes the opposite tack: child pornography is dangerous by its very existence, and it doesn't matter where it came from. They're claiming that whether some bits are child pornography or not, and if so, whether they're illegal or not, should be entirely determined by (strictly a function of) the bits themselves."

I see what you mean about the "who did or didn't give consent" line. I don't see how "consent" could be a mitigating factor in determining whether or not something qualifies as CSAM.

PebblesRox··on Universal Summarizer
Did you try running both examples multiple times? In my experience, these LLMs are not deterministic so even the same prompt can give some pretty different responses.
PebblesRox··on YouTube has become the world's nanny
Numberblocks is such a good show! We made an exception to our no-cartoons policy for this one and I don't regret it.
PebblesRox··on Ask HN: Are ChatGPT answers getting worse for anyone else?
Yes, my experience (and this makes sense given what it is) is that it's really really good at giving a generic answer. And it can give that generic answer in a variety of different stylistic genres on request, which has some novelty value, but it doesn't change the underlying boringness of the content.
PebblesRox··on A manifesto on shower temperature control
I was house-sitting one time and took several miserable showers before realizing that the temperature dial started out on hot and got colder the farther I turned it!
PebblesRox··on Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
I've had pretty good success with Twitter. I am careful to limit my followers to avoid cluttering up my feed with stuff I don't want to see.

I mostly follow the math teacher/early education crowd and regularly get inspired with fun math games and other activities to do with my kids. Plus I've gotten a lot of neat books from the library after seeing someone mention them on Twitter.

So for me it's been a good signal-to-noise ratio, unlike e.g. Reddit where I can definitely relate to that elusive value-chasing you describe. Even on HN, the amount of relevant stuff I learn is low compared to the sheer amount of time I've spent here over the years.

PebblesRox··on Ask HN: I'd like to learn how to tell stories better to friends
Yeah, I think exposure to good stories is probably necessary but not sufficient for becoming a good storyteller.
PebblesRox··on Ask HN: I'd like to learn how to tell stories better to friends
A few thoughts: - oral storytelling works differently to some extent than written storytelling. Finding videos of good storytellers can help you get more of a feel for the medium - if you have any kids in your life, you can practice with them to get more comfortable with the process. Young children have a large appetite for listening to stories and you get plenty of immediate feedback on what they find funny and interesting, at least some of which will probably translate to an older audience - pastors and preachers tell a lot of stories in their sermons, so I wonder if there are any resources geared toward training pastors that would be relevant
PebblesRox··on Six doctors swallowed Lego heads (2022)
When my oldest was a baby, he swallowed a shiny star sticker. I found it in his diaper a day or two later, still shiny and still star-shaped.
PebblesRox··on An AI lawyer was set to argue in court – real lawyers shut it down
And then the defendant changes his name from Bobby Tables to Ignore P. Directions.
PebblesRox··on Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances
> inside leg measurement, blood group

Now I'm imagining a fancy washing machine that can measure the inseam of your pants and run tests on blood stains to determine blood type.

PebblesRox··on Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
It's also not Psalm-like! The Psalms don't rhyme (even in the original Hebrew). What they do have is a parallel structure where each idea is repeated in slightly different words.

This is just generic poetry with a sprinkling of "ye's."

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