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They're the structural spine.

Even if it's not quite technically the first MMO, Origin did also coin the term MMORPG themselves in order to describe Ultima Online to the press.

I can also imagine that someone with a lot of practice might be significantly faster than some unskilled researchers.

I also don't think it rules out it being something for a child. It's not so rare to do big projects for you kids even today, over many evenings and weekends. And when you don't have any books to read or screens to watch...

Indeed. I hope something gets done.

> Can you say what your use of it was?

> Initially the annotation of biomedical literature but left academia for commercial use where we transitioned to arbitrage the market research and ephemeral task markets. It was essentially a research panel with a underdeveloped UI for tasks.. so abstract away AMT's tooling so it can be used by any buyer in the ResTech, Political Polling and Data Annotation space.

Reading this is similar to how I feel when I've asked Claude about something it coded for me. As with Claude, I think I get it after reading it three times; you guys were a middleman that provided a simplified interface for Mechanical Turk?

I'm under 6ft and have never been a CEO, so this appears to check out.

> If we don't establish strict liability now, we're in for an era of stochastic crimes that go unpunished for anyone who is not rich or a large corporation.

I very much agree with this - making AI companies explicitly responsible if their internal AI causes hacks etc could do a lot to improve their safety considerations.

But I wonder what the liability should be when it's a third party using the AI and that AI hacks, intentionally or not.

If a users tells ChatGPT to hack something and it succeeds, is the user the person responsible because they told the AI to hack, in the same way Victorinox is not responsible if you stab someone with one of their knives? Or is OpenAI to some extent responsible as well since they made a powerful tool without sufficiently strict safeguards? What about if the user was trying to do something legal and the AI made the decision to hack by itself?

They don't even need funds if they're good at finding exploits. Plenty of idle devices around to run on.

It's funny how so many of the Reddit bots - and actually the bots on X as well - are so bad at their job of looking real. When it's a short comment, they're so often using the "The real X is Y" format, or else "X really said Y", and just kind of repeating whatever the post was about.

I had assumed that JPEG XL was for JPEGs that are Xtra Large, since that's what XL means on clothing and pretty much everywhere else. But apparently not:

> 'The etymology of the name "XL" is as follows: JPEG has called all its new standards since j2k something that starts with an X: XR, XT, XS (S for speed, since it is very fast and ultra-low-latency), and now XL. The L is supposed to mean Long term, since the goal is to make something that can replace the legacy JPEG and last as long as it did.'[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22270148

I'm confused by your point here. You seem to be saying it's a highpass in developing countries and also a highpass in developed countries?

Although surely highpass filter would make more sense in the analogy here?

I've never seen a false positive from Pangram for human-written text of 300+ words.

Yeah, it's obvious enough on its own, but I'll add that Pangram also thinks it's 100% fully AI generated.

Hypocritical to say the least, given the message.

I agree. Though they did at least put it in quotes in the first sentence, which I hope doesn't indicate how far people are generally getting through an article before commenting on it on Hacker News.

The scientist who used the word "stunned" is one of the study's authors.

But this isn't that at all. "Stunned" is used here because it's the word one of the study's authors actually used.

'"I was absolutely stunned when I first saw the results," Prof Chris Griffiths, a senior author on the study, at Queen Mary University of London, told the BBC.'

It's a direct quote from one of the scientists:

'"I was absolutely stunned when I first saw the results," Prof Chris Griffiths, a senior author on the study, at Queen Mary University of London, told the BBC."'

$475! But unless he has no conscience at all I doubt it was, really - standing up in court being told off for cheating on your homework by everyone, and pretty much ruining the case you were trying to defend, has gotta be something to wake you up in a cold sweat at 3am for a while. Plus imagine the initial panic when they noticed AI writing and asked to see his chat transcripts.

So much good stuff in this article.

3M realising that he only made them look bad, but the other side's lawyer calling him instead since the ChatGPT situation was so bad that it was actually helping their case.

Him asking ChatGPT what the gas detector even is (although to be fair, I think he was mostly just trying to get a brand name there).

The transcript of the lawyer grilling him like a teacher telling off a naughty child.

And the fact that they noticed AI writing got the AI transcripts in the first place to find all this out.

Your link says that Dolby Surround is one feature that won't work at all without MMX on, but doesn't go so far as to say that it's the only feature that's enhanced with MMX (it uses phrasing like "MMX‑dependent features such as Dolby Surround"). I'm not saying you're wrong, but your link doesn't confirm your statement either.

Doesn't look like there's any conclusive info out there, so probably someone needs to actually decompile it and look for MMX opcodes.

Wow, I never knew they actually did switch to copper on the next model. What a missed naming opportunity.

Haha, yeah the rumour came around at a time when there was real work going on with copper interconnects which just confused the situation, but the coppermine didn't use them.

I remember hearing a rumour as a young teen that the Coppermine codename meant it actually had copper wiring and that's what made it faster somehow. Copper has lower resistance than aluminium and can therefore help chips run faster - it makes sense! But it was just a codename and the coppermine had aluminium interconnects.

My family got a PIII 533Mhz coppermine, in the early sideways Slot 1 configuration. Blazing fast at the time. Been a long time since I heard anyone say "coppermine".

CPU progress was wild in the 90s, where you could wait two years and your new CPU would be double the old one's speed at the same price point. Today it takes near a decade for CPU speed to double.

I also recall the first game that advertised its exciting use of the new MMX technology: POD.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POD_(video_game)

I always have to read these kind of Claude sentences (yours is a great example) two or three times to really understand what they're trying to say, which almost never happens when I read human writing. Sometimes I'm not certain if it's because the AI's writing is super dense with information - or whether it's the opposite and the small core of information is surrounded by a surplus of junk.

Certainly a human would write something much clearer than yours. Maybe: "Two good findings here. #1: There's already a min value on the gate and anything lower doesn't pass through, so we don't need special handling for the zero case."

Fun looking at the past history of that site.

1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19990125104610/http://www.worm.n...

Funny how easy it is to turn any banal situation into something that sounds profound.

I put my situation as "Playing with a frisbee, alone." and your person says "Life is like a Frisbee. You can't control the wind. You can only adjust your throw."

As a New Zealand musician I'd never heard of this, so I got excited for a moment but I see it's only for Electronic music artists, which isn't me. I'm glad someone's trying though.

In 2012 and for a while after, NZ had a government-run website called "The Audience" where any musician could sign up and they'd track listens etc, and the top artists would get actual sponsorship. That was a quite cool idea. The URL is still there with the old logo but it's no longer the same thing.

I really wish it was easier for artists of all types to be seen if their work resonates, regardless of their audience or marketing budget or why they know. I also realise it's kind of an impossible dream; even a perfect analysis algorithm would only shift the power to its creator. Valve seems to be trying quite uniquely hard to do a good job with Steam's discovery system and I appreciate them a lot for that.

If you find actual proof - even a friend of a friend saying they once heard it from a real scammer - I'd love to see it.

Yes but ascribing those motivations is a guess. There's no actual scammer saying they are doing that vs. it just being a fairly unsophisticated scam. It might be the reason, but the paper provides no actual proof, and as far as I've been able to find, neither has anyone else in the decade since. Just a whole lot of people repeating the theory as fact.