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The author makes it seem like we have two choices:

1) enable memory, and use ChatGPT like a confessional booth. Flood it with all of your deepest, darkest humiliations going all the way back to childhood ...

2) disable memory

Perhaps my age is showing. But memory or no memory, I would never tell ChatGPT anything compromising about myself. Nor would I tweet such things, write them in an email, or put them into a Slack message. This is just basic digital hygiene.

I've noticed a lot of people treat ChatGPT like a close confidant, which I find pretty interesting. Particularly the younger folks. I understand the allure – LLMs are the "friend" that never gets bored of listening, never judges you, and always says the right thing. Because of this people end up sharing even MORE than they would to their closest human friends.

The people making those catalogs would've wet their pants with excitement if they could stuff 100x more crap in there. Lol

the rotten lemon can still feed your garden

I don't know much about running an airline. But whenever an industry lobbies to de-regulate itself, you know it will be bad for consumers.

> Framing it in gigawatts is very interesting given the controversy

Exactly. When I saw the headline I assumed it would contain some sort of ambitious green energy build-out, or at least a commitment to acquire X% of the energy from renewable sources. That's the only reason I can think to brag about energy consumption

Whoa, that's fascinating. So their botnet runs in multiple regions and will auto-switch if one has problems. Makes sense. Seems a bit strange to use China as the primary, though. Unless of course the attacker is based in China? Of the countries you mentioned Lithuania seems a much better choice. They have excellent pipes to EU and North America, and there's no firewall to deal with

I worked at Apple and heard a lot of Steve stories. He really did personally approve everything. He would be sitting in a room, and team leads would all line up to give their quick 2-minute update. So it's the MacBook Air guy's turn. He comes in and places his prototype down in front of Steve. Steve opens the lid. Two seconds later he picks up the laptop and heaves it so hard it skipped across the table like a stone on water: "I said fxxking INSTANT ON!!" The poor guy collected his prototype and exited the room. Later the MacBook Air launched... it fxxking turned on the moment you open the lid

This is the 452nd time this has been posted on HackerNews. If you look for the older posts, you won't find them – and their authors have been erased from this dimension.

That's because the book itself is an anti-meme

It's important to understand that the firework situation today is VERY different from 5 years ago.

Before pandemic, big fireworks were only sold to professionals, and they were exploded at a pre-determined time and place. If you like big fireworks: no problem you can simply attend one of these shows. If you don't like fireworks: no problem just be somewhere else on that particular evening

Nowadays anyone can buy big stuff. And they are setting them off constantly. I live in an urban area and big BOOMs are going off all the time in my neighborhood, especially at night. I'm not sure how anyone can argue that this is OK or a matter of preference. It's a major disruptor to quality of life, and I wish all fireworks enthusiasts would get to experience this

If you ask me I would prefer a regression to the pre-2020 situation. Who knows. If kids weren't allowed to buy fireworks, Maybe the Palisades would still be here and my parents and all their friends would still have a house

When you are feeling this way it's good to take stock of your 3 fundamentals... Food, Sleep, Exercise. If any are suffering, then it's almost guaranteed to be the source of your problem. It sounds elementary but I have to remind myself of this constantly. Particularly the sleep part

> I wonder what will make the AI developers feel old…

When they look at the calendar and it says May 2025 instead of April

People have made valid criticisms about the basic effectiveness of your strategy. But in any case, this is a pretty awesome hacker project - nicely done! Love the appearance of your CLI tool. I am definitely bookmarking for future inspo

HAHAHA. Remember when Sam was absolutely frothing at the mouth to "regulate AI" two years ago?

> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/technology/openai-altman-...

> https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/09/tech/korea-altman-chatgpt...

Oops, haha. Yes now i am getting `1` as the result. Thanks for the tip.

I don't understand. The prompt is given as 4 lines:

x

= 1

x

--> 0

which does not execute. And if I run them as two lines:

x = 1

x --> 0

then the final output is `true`. `1` is only output during the initial assignment, which is hardly surprising

If i understand correctly, the reason i am getting `true` is because the second line gets parsed as two operations:

(x--) > 0

first a post-decrement operator (--) followed by a comparison (greater than). Since x = 1 it's greater than 0 (true), but afterward it's decremented so you'll get false if you run the same line again

This made my brain hurt. And not in a good way

If you spend all your time worrying about how to be a good person, chances are you're not being a good person. Just go do nice things. Volunteer somewhere. Be of service. And stop worrying so much

from their docs: https://docs.k3s.io/

> We wanted an installation of Kubernetes that was half the size in terms of memory footprint. Kubernetes is a 10-letter word stylized as K8s. So something half as big as Kubernetes would be a 5-letter word stylized as K3s. There is no long form of K3s and no official pronunciation.

That may be true. But for people like me who have good eyesight and don't need glasses, they provide a socially acceptable way to wear cool-looking glasses in the workplace.

For me personally: - The novelty has worn off. I still use it but not as much. - It has been neutered into oblivion. Compelling answers have been replaced with bland, semi-committal "As of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021"-type responses

> "I think this is a pretty stark wake-up call. The system is portrayed as being credible and informative and authoritative, and it's obviously not."

Except it was never claimed to be any of those things. In fact they have a bunch of disclaimers warning users the exact opposite.

Still, it will be interesting to see the outcome of this case. In today's age of misinformation, such disclaimers may not be sufficient. And AI's are developing the ability to be "confidently wrong" in ways that will become increasingly convincing & subtle over time.

> "Leaving aside [all of AI's potential benefits] it is clear that large-language A.I. engines are creating real harms to all of humanity right now [...] While a human being is responsible for five tons of CO2 per year, training a large neural LM [language model] costs 284 tons."

Presuming this figure is in the right ballpark – 284 tons is actually quite a lot.

I did some back of the napkin math (with the help of GPT, of course.) 284 tons is roughly equivalent to...

- a person taking 120 round trip flights from Los Angeles to London - 2 or 3 NBA teams traveling to all their away games over the course of a season - driving 1 million miles in a car - 42 years of energy usage by a typical U.S. household

Related – this video does a nice job of articulating that argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlpmxLTxpw

I'm not sure I agree with author. Sounds like they have worked at shitty places that are using the word "DevOps" but really they are doing things the old way.

My company practices "DevOps" and it feels great:

  - Infra team build self-service tools (build, deploy, scale, observe)
  - Infra team write good documentation for these tools
  - Dev use tools to build, deploy, and monitor their apps
  - Dev not use use words like: AWS, k8, Envoy. These are abstracted by tools.
  - if problem with app (very common) Dev fix it using the tools
  - if problem with tool (very rare) Infra fix it

We have no build engineers, release engineers, etc. However we do have a rotation (similar to on-call) whereby Dev is responsible for releasing code that week.

Sure there are sometimes problems, frustrations, etc. No system is perfect. But you are getting paid lots of $$$ so shush with your whining & instead help improve the system.

For context my company is mid-size ~150 engineers

> "Hamilton’s research suggests the soleus pushup [...] is more effective than any popular methods currently touted as a solution [to a sedentary lifestyle] including exercise, weight loss and intermittent fasting."

Better than exercise? LOL.

Um. Duh?

I find it fascinating that the author apparently knew about planets and gravitational attraction (which are fairly advanced concepts) while at the same time being completely unaware that animals can migrate long distances.

You'd think migration is a very easily-explainable phenomenon. But for thousands of years it completely flummoxed Western thinkers. The big breakthrough came in 1822, when a stork arrived in Germany... carrying an African-made arrow impaled through its neck.

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

Here's a fun, hand-wavey description of the process from Kennametal (a popular manufacturer of carbide insert tooling): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfc9cQaE8-g&t=480s

As a hiring manager, I interpret this as... you are probably making more than those other people. Possibly at top-of-band for your role, so there's no way to give you more unless you are promoted.