autophagian | 2 years ago | on: New insights into why aspirin works so well
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autophagian | 2 years ago | on: PayPal has restricted our account after we invoiced a key containing “ALEP”
I'm really struggling to think of what "Alep" even refers to that would trigger this. Surely not Aleppo, right?
autophagian | 2 years ago | on: I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney
I've had experience lately of getting GPT4 to output some code, I notice there's a bug, I point out the bug (not even 'it's at this line with this variable', but just that it exists) and, yes, it does fix successfully fix it. So, yes, I think that's likely.
autophagian | 3 years ago | on: Can GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 play Wordle?
It is, though now how you'd expect. OpenAI have a tool that lets you see how text is tokenized: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer
This only has GPT3 for now, but I imagine results are similar. "xxxxxxxxxEGGxxxxxxxxxx" gets tokenized as [xxxxxxxx][x][EG][G][xxxxxxxx][xx], so i could see how it could 'see' the secret word.
autophagian | 3 years ago | on: A token-smuggling jailbreak for ChatGPT-4
It's fairly trivial to define. You know all those things that you don't like? The bad things, that all the stupid people do without thinking, unlike you? That's post-modernist neo-marxist ideology.
autophagian | 3 years ago | on: Instead of paying adults more, states let companies hire kids for labor shortage
This makes a lot of economic sense, despite the howling from the socialist mob. 14 year olds' natural agility and nimbleness are assets in meat packing and construction, where they are able to retrieve stray pieces of meat or lost tools that have fallen in or between the large machinery.
autophagian | 3 years ago | on: Parse, don't validate (2019)
I suppose that every successful parse also has an implicit validation step in it. Like you said, for me the principle is more about embedding that validation step into an actual type rather than crossing my fingers and hoping that whatever's coming into my function is what I expect it to be.
autophagian | 3 years ago | on: GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with them
To be fair, I'm a human (I think) and I would also tell you off about hate speech if you asked me for a regex.
autophagian | 3 years ago | on: Warner Brothers Plans Revamp of LotR
I would give up my neural lace for a well made Culture adaptation, but I do worry that any adaption wouldn't do much justice to the politics in the book except in the most shallow way possible. Still, though, a dose of utopianism would be nice.
autophagian | 3 years ago | on: Vikings went to Mediterranean for ‘summer jobs’ as mercenaries, left graffiti
I believe they're referring to Nīwe Englaland/New England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_(medieval)
autophagian | 3 years ago | on: Vikings went to Mediterranean for ‘summer jobs’ as mercenaries, left graffiti
Given the settlement and Rollo, I loved finding out that 'Norman' more or less is from 'Northman'. Fun little "ohhh" moment.
autophagian | 3 years ago | on: De-Extinction? Surely You’re Joking
Where's the line when it constitutes 'undoing natural selection'? Resurrecting extinct animals? Conservation efforts? Taking antibiotics?
autophagian | 3 years ago | on: Self hosting in 2023
Ah, gotcha! Even then, I've found i've gotten a pretty decent distance with docker-compose before k8s sounds like an attractive (or least bad) proposition
autophagian | 3 years ago | on: Self hosting in 2023
> if you want to Dockerize it, then Docker related stuff is required i.e. Kubernetes
Yeah... I'm not surprised the author gave up on it, but you absolutely do not need to use k8s if you're dockerizing something like a blog. I'm a little baffled at this sentiment.
autophagian | 3 years ago | on: I love building a startup in Rust but wouldn't pick it again
I feel like this is probably on the money, at least when it comes to building a startup. I often use Rust where before I would use Go/NodeJS/Python, but mostly because I like the type system and velocity on side-projects isn't as important.
autophagian | 3 years ago | on: The Future of Thunderbird
> Thunderbird is literally a bunch of code running on top of Firefox. All the tabs and sections you see in our applications are just browser tabs with a custom user interface.
There's no such thing as applications. There's just us, and browsers. That's it!
autophagian | 3 years ago | on: Sam Altman calls Google a lethargic search monopoly
I wouldn't like to be the googlestronaut who learns that his moon hab is being surprised-discontinued as he's standing in it
autophagian | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: HN for Finance?
Stack Overflow.
autophagian | 3 years ago | on: Crafting container images without Dockerfiles
I've also enjoyed using nixpkg's dockerTools for this kind of thing too.
autophagian | 3 years ago | on: Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress
Probably from their Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bay12games
It thankfully went away after a day or so after I (immediately) stopped and I don't seem to have suffered any permanent damage that I know of, but it taught me to not fuck around with NSAIDs.