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I was terrified to look up through the comments after reading the article, but HN truly surprised me today.


It’s art. Same as all other high fashion. No one is wearing these nails on the subway.


Virtually no one, perhaps. One of the gym teachers in my high school used to wear 2"ers while teaching. Many laughs when she messed up and sent them flying during basketball or volleyball.


Once I saw that Waymo rage pass all of those bicyclists, I knew we finally solved self driving cars.


Yea, I felt the same way. Even though that was an unsafe overtake, I think the Waymo definitely passed the Turing Test with flying colors there.



I asked GPT-4 to rewrite the refrain from Eminem's "Forgot about Dre" but change it to "Forgot about Tay" and make it all about chatbots... this is the best one it came up with:

Nowadays, every bot wanna chat

Like they got something to say, but these LLMs

Are too toxic to use, just a waste of GPUs

And the programmers act like they forgot about Tay.


1.6 μm


Ah, I see. Multiple meanings of both "pitch" and "tracks" on a music CD.


ChatGPT is amazing for neurodivergent folk. When I was applying for jobs this summer, I just word vomited a stream of consciousness professional biography into a text document. I then used this as context for chatgpt to help me write cover letters and resumes. If you want to be especially clever you can also include the job posting. Just be very careful to change up some of the language otherwise it’ll smell like AI.


No. The problem is in a reduction op of some sort (sum or whatever). Since there no guarantee of the order you receive the terms for the reduction, the nondeterminism enters from order of terms reduced. Since float math isn't associative, there will be slight differences depending on the order and these can amplify quickly over a deep net.

You would have to explicitly order the terms prior to reduction but you don't always have that level of control.


Yup, I don’t believe there are any consequences to anyone away from the hole.

I think the right way to approach this is to consider the unshielded radiation flux over the hole and the time that the hole takes to close. This would give a good back of envelope upper bound of the increase in cancer risk. There’s probably other effects, but all I care about is harm to individuals.


I used to work at a 24 hr end user tech support call center. They didn’t use Macs, but we had a machine for the techs to use to understand what the customer is looking at. I wrote a script to sleep until late at night then start saying weird/creepy stuff to mess with the overnight crew.



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