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gault8121 | 8 days ago | on: Malus – Clean Room as a Service

This site is not satire. You can actually pay on Stripe and it will create code for you. The site is written with satirical language but it is a real service.

gault8121 | 8 days ago | on: Malus – Clean Room as a Service

Yes but all of the commenters think this is a fake site created ironically. It isn't. It is a company doing the evil thing it is mocking.

gault8121 | 8 days ago | on: Malus – Clean Room as a Service

This site is not satire. You can actually pay on Stripe and it will create code for you. The site is written with satirical language but it is a real service.

gault8121 | 8 days ago | on: Malus – Clean Room as a Service

This site is not satire. You can actually pay on Stripe and it will create code for you. The site is written with satirical language but it is a real service.

gault8121 | 8 days ago | on: Malus – Clean Room as a Service

This site is not satire. You can actually pay on Stripe and it will create code for you. The site is written with satirical language but it is a real service.

gault8121 | 8 days ago | on: Malus – Clean Room as a Service

So this site is not satire. You can actually pay on Stripe and it will create code for you. The site is written with satirical language but it is a real service.

gault8121 | 1 year ago | on: San Francisco to pay $212M to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks

The headline here is manipulative.

> The $212 million contract includes support services from Hitachi for "20 to 25 years,"

The $212m is a 20-year service contract for the new technology and the costs of installing it, not a one-time cost to remove the old floppy disks.

gault8121 | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Asperger, How to Get Funding?

The video game market doesn’t seem like a good market for raising venture capital - there is a ton of competition, and it seems that the folks who can raise money have a track record of previously successful games. With the 5% interest rate, you’ll very likely need to bootstrap your first game to break into the industry and then you could raise for a future game.

gault8121 | 2 years ago | on: The Password Game

The Chrome Inspector Color Picker does not return the right hex code! You have to go into the properties to get the right value.

gault8121 | 2 years ago | on: The Password Game

When you break the captcha rule, you can re-select the captcha. You want to keep re-rolling till you find a low number combo. There are a few rules where you can re-roll to get a better random number. In general, it gets harder and harder to stay under the 25 limit as you progress.

gault8121 | 2 years ago | on: The Password Game

How do you solve the time issue - does it lock in the time at the moment you complete that rule, or do you need to keep updating the password with the new time? Also, is the time UTC or time zoned?

gault8121 | 2 years ago | on: The Password Game

Got to rule 33 after like two hours! The cap on adding up to 25 becomes really tough with the later rules.

gault8121 | 3 years ago | on: First Republic Bank files 8-K – Tech only 4% of total deposits; no sector >9%

There are three articles about this on the front page of the New York Times right now. It’s going to be widespread knowledge very soon.

gault8121 | 3 years ago | on: DetectGPT: Zero-Shot Machine-Generated Text Detection

How does this compare to GPT2 output detector?

I created AIwritingcheck.org to provide teachers with a user friendly interface for this model.

gault8121 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Help with Gusto? 2021 payroll being double reported to IRS

Gusto has horrible customer support.we switched to JustWorks, which isn’t perfect but much better. Gusto had good customer support when they launched, and it got much worse over time. For high stakes tax work they need professionals who take this work seriously, not a ticketing system where every ticket is completely disconnected from every other ticket.

gault8121 | 3 years ago | on: Groundbreaking marks start of work on Penn Station Access

The four extra stations in the Bronx can't be hooked up to Grand Central - they are along the line that runs into Penn Station, and for folks in that area of the Bronx, walking to the station and then taking a slow local train into Manhattan is extremely slow. You could possibly have 25k-50k new daily passangers who can now get to Manhattan far faster. -- Penn Station is like a 15 minute walk from Grand Central, and it's not underground. Commuters from Connecticut can now go directly to Penn Station as there are a ton of office buildings in the area, including all of new office space Hudson Yards and the planned redevelopment of Penn Station. While return to office is low in tech, Finance and Law seem to be returning to 100% in office, and so there is a chance that will create real time savings and generate a postive ROI over say 100 years. -- I'd definitely prefer progress on the Interborough Express in an either/or scenario between the two, but given all of the federal funding available now for infrastructure, it might not be an either/or scenario but rather a time for both/and.

gault8121 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How much longer will we have free access to ChatGPT?

As a standard of Ethical AI, all AI companies should require age verification as a pre-requisite for access and mandate blocking services that provide cheating via an API. Some may/will opt-in voluntarily, while others will not. The voluntary opt-in will set a precedent for legal action to mandate it for those that will not. Ultimately, running these large language models won't be trivial, and so you can gate keep access at the API level to prevent unethical usage.

gault8121 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How much longer will we have free access to ChatGPT?

It needs to be put behind a paywall. It will unleash a massive wave of cheating among students, harming hundreds of millions of students' educations by making cheating super easy and undetectable. We age restrict cigarettes because they harm a children's health - ChatGPT beckons hundreds of millions students to go on autopilot at the expense of learning and growing. A pay wall and age verification is the moral choice. If you want to use it, spring for the $10 a month fee and pay for it.

gault8121 | 3 years ago | on: ‘Shark Tank’ Startup Is Making Vegan Bacon Out of Seaweed

I've had this and I've had seaweed. It tastes much more like bacon than seaweed.

gault8121 | 3 years ago | on: White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by reflecting back sunlight

So I am having trouble finding this source now, but I have perviously read from the main team researching Calcium Carbonate, SCoPEx (https://scopexac.com/), that the intention is to spray the calcium carbonate high enough in the atmosphere so that it does not float down to the ground but rather dissipates into space. There is a specific height in the atmosphere where it needs to be released, and yes, if it fell to earth, this wouldn't be a viable solution. I can't find where I read this, but this is one component of the current hypothesis.