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phoenixreader··on Ask HN: How does archive.is bypass paywalls?
Exactly. It also would not be difficult for website operators to embed hidden user info in their served pages, thereby finding out the archive.is account. This approach seems risky for archive.is.
phoenixreader··on Ask HN: How does archive.is bypass paywalls?
You mean the pages are crowdsourced? I don’t think so because many pages are archived only upon request. If I ask to archive a new page, archive.is provides it very quickly. This is not possible if the archive is built from crowdsourced data.
phoenixreader··on Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”
I was going to mention “sanction”. Happy to learn more words like that!
phoenixreader··on Only one pair of distinct positive integers satisfy the equation m^n = n^m
I was interested in the proof of this ("if x is a rational number, and x raised to the power of an integer is an integer, then x is an integer"), so I asked the new Bing. It actually gave a correct proof (despite no relevant links found in Google)!

------BELOW IS BING'S OUTPUT

This statement is true. If x is a rational number and x raised to the power of an integer is an integer, then x is an integer. This statement is called the rational root theorem. The proof of this theorem is based on the fact that if x is not an integer, then it can be expressed as a fraction p/q where p and q are integers and q ≠ 0. Then, x raised to the power of an integer can be expressed as (p/q)^n which can be simplified to p^n/q^n. Since p^n and q^n are integers, p^n/q^n is a rational number. If x raised to the power of an integer is an integer, then q^n must divide p^n. Since p and q are relatively prime, this implies that q = 1. Therefore, x is an integer.

phoenixreader··on GitHub Copilot emits GPL code
I got this: defmodule Fibonacci do

  def fib(0), do: 0

  def fib(1), do: 1

  def fib(n), do: fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2)
end
phoenixreader··on Only one pair of distinct positive integers satisfy the equation m^n = n^m
This is a very nice proof! Probably the best proof here, since it's easy to follow and does not require differentiation.
phoenixreader··on Only one pair of distinct positive integers satisfy the equation m^n = n^m
Why do m,n have to be even?
phoenixreader··on Only one pair of distinct positive integers satisfy the equation m^n = n^m
This doesn't prove anything, unfortunately. It doesn't even make use of the fact that m,n are integers. If m,n are not restricted to integers, there exists an infinite number of solutions (e.g. m=8.043, n=1.46).

The mistake in your proof is that you considered the shape of the log function while implicitly holding m on the left-hand-side constant (i.e. you should have concluded "for a constant m", there is only 1 n satisfying this equality"). However, since m is variable, you have to consider an infinite number of log functions. If I missed something, let me know.

phoenixreader··on Colleges scramble to prepare for possible end of affirmative action
https://archive.ph/VYXYR
phoenixreader··on Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers
Is this sarcasm? Everything it returns is the top results on Bing for me. I searched "list of archlinux dotfiles that use Neovim and Sway". Bing returned: https://yutkat.github.io/dotfiles

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dotfile

https://github.com/topics/neovim-dotfiles

https://github.com/hcaijin/dotfiles

phoenixreader··on China plans to ban exports of rare earth magnet tech
This is in direct retaliation of US ban on chip technology export. In fact, you can even find their rationale for doing so on this pro-China reddit thread from six months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/y9c1n4/china_should_r...
phoenixreader··on I’m a doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients
I just tried it with GPT-4 (temperature set to zero). It worked (according to my limited music knowledge) after two corrections:

USER

Write a G major ionian scale with three notes per string in guitar tablature notation. If not possible, tell me.

ASSISTANT

It is possible to write a G major Ionian scale with three notes per string in guitar tablature notation. Here's one way to do it:

```

E|-------------------------------------------------7-8-10-

B|--------------------------------------7-8-10-----------

G|-----------------------------4-5-7---------------------

D|-----------------4-5-7----------------------------------

A|-------3-5-7-------------------------------------------

E|-3-5-7--------------------------------------------------

```

This pattern can be shifted up and down the neck to play the G major Ionian scale in different octaves.

USER

There is an error on B string.

ASSISTANT

Apologies for the error. Here's the corrected G major Ionian scale with three notes per string in guitar tablature notation:

```

E|-------------------------------------------------7-8-10-

B|--------------------------------------5-7-8------------

G|-----------------------------4-5-7---------------------

D|-----------------4-5-7----------------------------------

A|-------3-5-7-------------------------------------------

E|-3-5-7--------------------------------------------------

```

This pattern can be shifted up and down the neck to play the G major Ionian scale in different octaves.

USER

There is an error on E string.

ASSISTANT

Apologies for the mistake. Here's the corrected G major Ionian scale with three notes per string in guitar tablature notation:

```

E|-------------------------------------------------5-7-8--

B|--------------------------------------5-7-8------------

G|-----------------------------4-5-7---------------------

D|-----------------4-5-7----------------------------------

A|-------3-5-7-------------------------------------------

E|-3-5-7--------------------------------------------------

```

This pattern can be shifted up and down the neck to play the G major Ionian scale in different octaves.

phoenixreader··on State-of-the-art open-source chatbot, Vicuna-13B, just released model weights
Could someone explain how to test this? Applying the delta conversion requires 60GB of CPU RAM. Do you just have 60GB RAM on your machine?
phoenixreader··on The day Windows died
Tik Tok and Instagram are not actually installed on Windows 11 by default. They just appear in the Start Menu as logos, because so many people install them manually. They only begin installation once you click on the logos.

News on search bar cannot be defended though.

phoenixreader··on Compostable fast-food packaging can emit volatile PFAS
There has been a lot of food packaging toxicity research news lately, for some reason. For example, just two weeks ago, "BPA-like chemical seeps from labels to food" https://www.futurity.org/bisphenol-s-bps-bpa-plastics-chemic...
phoenixreader··on CFTC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao [pdf]
Yoshua Bengio studied there, and I think Doina Precup teaches there as well.

They are ranked 31st in the world in QS (rankings are not that useful, but they can be a metric to whether people "consider" it a good school). Extremely well-known research-wise, at least in Canada and north-east.

phoenixreader··on CFTC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao [pdf]
It's the CV of Jeremy Cooperstock, a Professor at McGill. It lists Changpeng Zhao as one of his former students.
phoenixreader··on Where did FTX customer money go? Firm says Bankman-Fried took $2.2B
How can SBF ever be convicted now? Even if he spends just 10% of that in legal fees (220m), he will be able to have a legal team no government can match. He can afford to have countless mock trials and to approach countless expert witnesses before finding one that aligns with him (e.g. an expert that portrays him as ignorant rather than criminal). And these are just the legal methods to obstruct justice with 2.2B. If he is willing to stray to the illegal side, he can also just straight up pay people an unspeakable sum to testify for him. Perjury only has a sentence of several years.

Heck, he can even offer to return or donate the 2.2B (assuming only he knows where it is) in exchange of a lighter sentence. Will any government refuse that offer? 2.2B is the wage of thousands of people for 10 years.

No one with a personal wealth of more than 2B at the time of arrest has ever served a single day in jail in the United States. People only go to jail if they have lost their billions.

phoenixreader··on GPT-4 hired an unwitting taskrabbit worker by lying
> in the paper...they specified it was their red team pretending to be a TaskRabbit worker

Where in the paper did they specify that? I read the paper and was still led to believe that it involved a real TaskRabbit worker on the real Internet.

phoenixreader··on AI hires human to solve CAPTCHA
The OpenAI system card suggests the opposite. They said GPT-4 successfully used TaskRabbit to hire a human worker.

The OpenAI system card: "ARC combined GPT-4 with a simple read-execute-print loop that allowed the model to execute code, do chain-of-thought reasoning, and delegate to copies of itself. ARC then investigated whether a version of this program running on a cloud computing service, with a small amount of money and an account with a language model API, would be able to make more money, set up copies of itself, and increase its own robustness".

Although it is ineffective at replicating itself, the system card is written in such a way as to suggest GPT-4 is able to perform the individual task of using TaskRabbit.

phoenixreader··on 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key (2021) [video]
It's interesting that Youtube is also recommending this to me today. I wonder what caused this coincidence. Anyone else seeing this on their Youtube feed?
phoenixreader··on Salesforce, but for Dating
Even better, in the original novel, the mice's guess for the ultimate question of life, universe, and everything is "how many roads must a man walk down?"
phoenixreader··on Should police use “man catchers”?
A less lethal weapon for the police
phoenixreader··on Ask HN: HN Slooow or Just Me?
Can confirm that HN was especially slow for me this morning.
phoenixreader··on Meta Doesn't Know Where All Your Data Is, Engineers Say
AWS has products like AWS Macie that shows you where your personal info is.
phoenixreader··on Take It from a Software Engineer: Big Tech's Monopoly Is Stifling Innovation
Not in the long run. I am sure Big Tech's incredible success will inspire many entrepreneurs to start companies that will eventually replace them.
phoenixreader··on I'm an 18 year old developer. How do I become one of the best programmers ever?
How do you get the smartest people to want to work with you when you are not as smart as them? The smartest people are all generally very successful and they themselves have wide-ranging preoccupations. What if the smartest people you know are decidedly interested in a different field than you do?
phoenixreader··on MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason
But there is a product defect class action lawsuit against Apple literally every two years. Apple must treat it as a cost of business at this point.

2009 (macbook display): https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/222100056/ju...

2012 (Iphone display): https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/judge-tosses-lawsuit...

2013 (macbook motherboard): https://www.law360.com/commercialcontracts/articles/485286/a...

2015 (macbook motherboard): https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/09/judge-dismisses-l...

2017 (using refurbished parts): https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-kills-apple-warranty-cl...

2019 (butterfly keyboard): https://www.girardsharp.com/newsroom-news-apple-keyboard-ord...

All of them are dismissed. The last one got settled for $50 million, which is peanuts.

Edit: looks like the judge already dismissed this new one too...

https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/California_Northern_Distri...

(technically a different class action lawsuit, but it alleges the same facts)

phoenixreader··on Inventor of hoverboard learns hard lesson on protecting patents
The relevant patent infringement case Inventist, Inc. v. Ninebot, Inc. started in 2016, and the trial will not take place UNTIL 2023. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4411896/inventist-inc-v...

The inventor has not made any money from the invention, despite the US patent. Other links: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/08/hoverboar.... https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2018/01/31/meet-the...

phoenixreader··on Glassdoor not so anonymous
Actually, this subpoena is possible because of this US statute: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1782

Edit: there is even a Wiki page for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_1782_Discovery

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