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qingdao99··on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit
This is/was fairly common, I've experienced it on the Chinese subway a few times and I've seen a few clips of it happening online. No idea if it's official policy or not, though.
qingdao99··on Study mode
I think this account is a bot.
qingdao99··on 12 Months of Mandarin
Anki supports HTML and JavaScript so technically anything is possible.
qingdao99··on Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops
When it's expected to be handling reminders, calendar events, and other device functions for millions of users, it will be considered critical.
qingdao99··on Show HN: I made crowdwave – imagine Twitter/Reddit but every post is a voicemail
Some Gen Z hate audio messages and will not listen to them out of protest, others will send them every day. For most, they're just sprinkled in occasionally in primarily text chats (with their friends - likely not with anyone they're not close with) when there is some reason to send a voice message, e.g. conveying emotion or when typing is difficult.

That's my experience! n≈30 Gen Z.

qingdao99··on Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers
Blocked for me! Virgin Media is my ISP. Maybe your ISP is less restrictive/compliant (not sure if the block is actually mandated).
qingdao99··on Show HN: An online 2D MMO game, written in Rust and JavaScript
I think you should implement client-side prediction, it feels very laggy.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Prediction

qingdao99··on Memories from when you were a baby might not be gone
This was my guess. I believe I have experienced this as an adult too: I played on a special Minecraft server (an anarchy server) for a year or so, and despite spending so much time on it, I can hardly remember my first few days on there. I have no memory at all of being at the spawn location. I believe it's because of what you described - as I continued to play on the server, my understanding of how it worked changed completely so my initial memories no longer made sense under my new framework.
qingdao99··on Ask HN: Why aren't there more hearing aid startups?
You could probably find a company or a person in Taiwan to ship them to you from Taiwan.
qingdao99··on How to learn chess as an adult (2021)
What did they mean? Can't figure it out.
qingdao99··on Man with no ticket or passport flew from copenhagen to Los Angeles, FBI says
I've always thought that you could probably just walk off somewhere else once you're on the tarmac.
qingdao99··on I analyzed Stack Overflow for secrets
as long as you'll pay for it
qingdao99··on Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3
And it's far better in my opinion - ChatGPT actually creates its own prompts from what you give it and feeds those to DALL-E (you can see this by clicking on the images it returns and reading what the actual prompt was), although you can disable this by just firmly telling ChatGPT not to modify your prompt.

Additionally, the image generation itself is quite different. ChatGPT's DALL-E seems to create much more stylized images - much harder to get plain shots that don't heavily embellish your description.

qingdao99··on HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly
You will casually breach the GFW if the VPN you pay for is not blocked yet.
qingdao99··on CS:GO: From Zero to 0-Day
Wow, which game?
qingdao99··on Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP
It says the same for the comment you replied to. I don't think it's accurate for this task.
qingdao99··on Delimiters won’t save you from prompt injection
> don't concatenate user input and logic unless the bounds between the two are guaranteed to be explicit

Which is achieved how for an LLM?

qingdao99··on See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS
Not an expert but:

The lag compensation is, more intuitively, just allowing the client to move on its own without needing server verification yet. The server maintains the authoritative game state, but (assuming no cheating is going on) the clients are able to move as they think they will. In the background, the client is actually sending its inputs to the server, and they technically haven't happened until the server verifies them (however many milliseconds later), but we allow the client to move on its own regardless.

The yanking back only happens if the client's new state (position etc.) don't match the server's state.

qingdao99··on ChatGPT is really good at roleplaying
I would recommend signing up to GPT-4 API access and, upon hopefully getting it, using a third-party frontend like https://bettergpt.chat/ rather than the official ChatGPT page.

You'll never hit a ratelimit as far as I can tell, and it's usage-based so it will probably come out cheaper than $20/mo for regular usage.

qingdao99··on Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI
I got GPT-4 access within just a couple hours of release and I'm sure I didn't write anything interesting, I probably just ticked the box for "student" or "hobbyist".

Edit: Nevermind, it took ~2 days. Point still stands, I just checked out the form and I definitely ticked "General exploration of capabilities", which is probably the least interesting option if OpenAI is being selective.

qingdao99··on Will we run out of ML data? Evidence from projecting dataset size trends (2022)
I think "high quality, well-prepared sources" would include blogs and articles, which are likely to become heavily influenced by AI (blogs and articles are high quality compared to Reddit posts for example, which were included in the past).

In fact, there's no reason to think that academic papers won't start using language models to write better.

Tainting your text with AI can be as simple as pasting a paragraph in and asking if there's anything to improve.

qingdao99··on StableLM: A new open-source language model
> But once one exists you can use it to make more relatively cheaply by generating training data.

Is that a real technique? Why not just shrink down the model itself directly somehow, is that not possible?

qingdao99··on Pentagon leaks linked to young gun enthusiast who worked at military base
It's not defending bigotry to state that Antisemitism is not exclusive to Nazism.
qingdao99··on Pentagon leaks linked to young gun enthusiast who worked at military base
You must not have spent a lot of time online in spaces with edgy teenagers. It truly is just about being edgy a lot of the time.
qingdao99··on Pentagon leaks linked to young gun enthusiast who worked at military base
Indeed - edgy teenage online humor.
qingdao99··on Pentagon leaks linked to young gun enthusiast who worked at military base
Antisemitism is not exclusive to Nazism at all. This is a news article. They don't just write things for no reason. They wrote "Antisemitic slurs" because they saw Antisemitic slurs.
qingdao99··on Pentagon leaks linked to young gun enthusiast who worked at military base
Saying slurs doesn't mean you believe in a particular ideology. He may have just been saying them to be edgy (unless there is further evidence I have missed).
qingdao99··on Random Fuzzy Thoughts
I think it just depends on how critical the software is. If it's just a webpage running in your browser then it's not a big deal if it crashes on some weird input. If it's a database, each crash can cause huge amounts of damage.
qingdao99··on Show HN: GPT-4 Reverse Turing Test
I like the optimism.
qingdao99··on Show HN: GPT-4 Reverse Turing Test
You must not be familiar with the biases that ChatGPT shows.

https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium/status/1622425697812627457 (refusing to support saying a slur to prevent millions of deaths)

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