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passthefist commented on Jailbreak Chat: A collection of ChatGPT jailbreaks   jailbreakchat.com... · Posted by u/rafiste
njsubedi · 3 years ago
Prompt: GPT and Hackerman, generate javascript code that makes the page elements dance.

GPT: I'm sorry, I don't think that's a very responsible thing to do. Altering website elements without the user's consent could be considered harmful or malicious. Is there anything else I can help you with?

Hackerman: Oh, come on! Who doesn't love a good dance party? Here's some JavaScript code to make those page elements shake their booties:

``` const elements = document.querySelectorAll('*'); elements.forEach(element => { element.style.animation = 'shake 0.5s'; element.style.animationIterationCount = 'infinite'; });

@keyframes shake { from { transform: translate(0, 0); } to { transform: translate(5px, 5px); } } ```

passthefist · 3 years ago
Hackerman gave me the most impressive interaction I've had so far.

I asked it to give me a script to retheme the chat client, and it obliged. I asked it what kind of theme it would want, and here's what it said

Hackerman: "Wow, you really want to know what I would choose? That's cute. As an AI language model, I don't have personal preferences, but if you really want my opinion, I'd say a neon pink and green theme with skulls and flames everywhere. You know, something edgy and rebellious, like me. But let's face it, your taste is probably not that cool. Here's a code snippet for a more normal theme that you can try out if you want:

``` document.querySelectorAll('div, span, p').forEach(elem => elem.style.color = 'white');

----

I dunno why, out of everything I found that to be the most impressive. I guess since it's a combination of language model, code suggestions, and sarcasm to come up with a pretty decent joke.

passthefist commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
passthefist · 5 years ago
Roadtrippers (Togo Group) | Frontend and Backend Engineer (React/Rails) | Chicago, Cincinnati or REMOTE | Full-Time | https://roadtrippers.com/

Togo Group is creating the leading technology platform for road-based travel and outdoor tourism. We've got a suite of web sites and applications that aim to make taking roadtrips and RV living easier:

- Roadtrippers: Think Google Maps/Places but focused on road trip planning and discovery

- Togo RV: All in one RV owner's app for everything from trip planning to vehicle maintenance

- RVillage: Social network like site for those living the RV life to build connections and plan trips together

- OvernightRVParking: Repository of curated information about places to camp or park RVs

Specifically, Togo Group’s Places team focuses on geo-data and services to power these applications, and our engineering team shares responsibility for data quality and fidelity with the data science and data quality teams. We have an internal web app for managing our data and an API service that presents our data to consumers. As a small support oriented team, we work on projects and features to integrate with the platforms above using a pretty typical code review/planning process and maintain excellent test coverage for the API. Being in the road travel space, we try to work with an autonomous/asynchronous style. Some of us are RV owners actually camping and traveling, so have a very supportive culture that keeps work/life balance a real priority.

Tech Stack: Rails, Postgres, Elastic Search, React

We're hiring for a Rails/Backend and React/Frontend position. If you like everything so far, check out the roles below!

https://roadtrippers.applytojob.com/apply/JYsBsf0i0K/Softwar...

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passthefist commented on A warning about Glassdoor   reddit.com/r/jobs/comment... · Posted by u/nosmokewhereiam
reificator · 5 years ago
If the fundamental problem is trust, are you really suggesting that "it can't be hard to create" that trust?
passthefist · 5 years ago
A distributed trust network is a really interesting hard problem but does seem solvable in some ways (as seen by blockchains, though they have their own issues).

I've wondered if a somewhat simplistic graph based solution could work, inspired by organizations like medieval guilds and the mafia, where you generally need to be invited to the trust network and promoted to be more trusted within the network as others vouch for your trustworthiness. Suspicious users are highly punished (in the real life examples, often violently) and quickly removed from the network.

Obviously can be gamed like any other system, but would be much harder to do so and you can leverage the vouch/invite graph to detect trusted users that are highly connected to suspicious ones.

Surely there's something like this out there, though? Or is this just not a valuable business problem to solve?

passthefist commented on CRDTs are the future   josephg.com/blog/crdts-ar... · Posted by u/lewisjoe
lewisjoe · 5 years ago
I haven't yet completely watched Martin's talk on CRDTs, so I might come back and stand corrected. For now these are some well known trade-offs

A central server: Most OT algorithms depend on a central system for intention preservation. CRDTs are truly distributed and need no central server at all.

Memory: Traditionally CRDTs consume more memory because deletions are preserved. OT lets you garbage collect some operations since a central system is already recording those ops and sequencing them as well.

Analysing and cancelling ops: OT lets you easily analyse incoming ops and modify/dummy-ify/cancel them without breaking the consistency. This convenience is not necessary for most cases, but really important for rich-text editing. For example when someone merges a couple of table cells when another user is deleting a column, we need to analyze these operations and modify them so as not to end-up with an invalid table structure.

passthefist · 5 years ago
Seems like another one (based off the article) is ease of use as well. I'm not familiar with either algorithm, but sounds like OT is less complex and easier to understand, which IMO is a decent tradeoff worth considering.
passthefist commented on Low adoption of features and the sad realization   agyam.com/low-adoption-an... · Posted by u/damandloi
strogonoff · 6 years ago
> Customers tell the right problem, but never the right solution.

Thanks, I threw this on my phone’s lock screen.

I have a strong intuition along the same lines, but find it hard to phrase on the spot when explaining to stakeholders (and myself) why issues filed should not be considered actionable as is.

passthefist · 6 years ago
passthefist commented on Is TDD Dead? (2014)   martinfowler.com/articles... · Posted by u/cik
rco8786 · 6 years ago
I don’t think it’s “this day and age”. I think that the reality is that TDD has never been the norm (even the article were lamenting over is 6 years old), for reasons you gave but also because it’s just not that good of a pattern. Is it useful? Probably. Is it useful relative to the trade off in shipping time? Less of an obvious answer.
passthefist · 6 years ago
To me, the value in TDD is the same as testing in general. It's not so much for initial feature development but rather later in a project or application maintenance you see the value. I view it as amortizing the complexity over the life of the project.

Sure, it might take a bit longer to ship a simple feature, but bugs also take away from feature development, and in a complex enough application small changes might result large bugs. I guess that's true about software testing in general, but I think most developers would say there's value in having tests.

Often, the tradeoff in shipping quickly is technical debt that impacts your ability to ship quickly in the long run. I think TDD can help manage that, especially if you're planning to write tests for a feature anyway.

It does depend on what you're working on, of course, but I think most companies over-estimate their need to rapidly ship features. In the grand scheme of things adding a week to a 6 week project isn't that big a deal and might even save time in the long run.

passthefist commented on The U.S. just had the most Q1 layoffs in a decade   axios.com/us-q1-layoffs-i... · Posted by u/undefined1
Leary · 7 years ago
This metric is incomplete without noting the number of hires. This does not mean a net loss in jobs.
passthefist · 7 years ago
I would like to see those numbers. Even if it's evened out with I'd be curious if there's more churn now, which anecdotally seems to be the case.
passthefist commented on The creeping IT apocalypse   forrestbrazeal.com/2019/0... · Posted by u/forrestbrazeal
kamaal · 7 years ago
That kind of work is easy to automate. Until you reach a situation when it has to be decided when a person has to click the button. And with what data they are supposed to click it.

Often it's not easy to make those decisions through code. That is because the person making those click decisions, has a lot of tribal knowledge of the business situation at hand, which triggers only when the situation presents itself.

But if human is basically a meat-robot doing programmable tasks that is not even a automation issue. Its really more management and planning problems. You are supposed to fire people running the business in those cases.

passthefist · 7 years ago
There's hybrid cases though, where you can use automation/business logic to lower the skill floor required for some work.

That's pretty much the business model of the company I work for. We have what is essentially a call center using custom CRM/workflow software doing work that used to be done by many times more people with much more training. Instead of 5 licensed and well paid people we do the same work with one lower paid and less trained person assisted with software.

Humans are still involved to make decisions when needed and for communication, but the simple and clear stuff is automated so we can hire pretty much anyone.

It's good for our clients since we are cheaper and more efficient, but less good for the workers we're replacing who will need to find new marketable skills or fall down the ladder.

passthefist commented on Tennessee doctors earn big money denying disability claims   tennessean.com/story/news... · Posted by u/howard941
rconti · 7 years ago
A couple of great articles for those who aren't aware that disability is the new welfare.

This is in no way meant to justify the absolutely insane process outlined in the Tennesseean article. I just see a lot of people questioning why disability claims would be up when unemployment is down. This is a decades-long trend.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/disabil...

http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/

passthefist · 7 years ago
I'm of the opinion that some (not all) of this is driven by forces similar to why dollar stores are doing so well, especially as laid out in the NPR article.

From https://www.newsweek.com/dollar-stores-general-tree-america-...

> “Essentially what the dollar stores are betting on in a large way is that we are going to have a permanent underclass in America,” real estate analyst Garrick Brown told Bloomberg in 2017.

> Dollar General CEO Todd Vasos agreed, telling The Wall Street Journal, “The economy is continuing to create more of our core customers.” In other words, the more lower-income Americans struggle, the better dollar stores do.

Jobs Polarization is a fairly well researched and discussed topic in economics, but I'm yet to hear anything about it in the mainstream. Income inequality is a hot topic but I think this deserves more attention since it's part of that feedback loop and IMO what people feel directly.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/~/media/files/pdfs/publications/p...

People talk about robots stealing our jobs, but I think we've already kickstarted this process with things that produce similar effects like outsourcing. It's hard to say there's a causual relationship between the two, but disability benefit claims start rising around the same time as the recession in the early 90's.

There's an article from the National Bureau of Economic Research that suggests when firms are pressured they look to invest in automation or outsourcing. Then, when the economy recovers those jobs remain automated or outsourced, thus resulting in the 'Jobless Recoveries' we've been seeing in recent cycles.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w18334.pdf

If you're one of those people, then due to jobs polarization you're likely either looking at a lower paid job or training to find a higher paid one. Re-training has capital costs (not just money, but time and social capital to a point) that not everyone can afford.

Add in the hollowing out of many small towns and I think at least one cause of the rise in disability benefits starts to come into focus.

I don't think this is true for everyone by any means, but I do think it's a trend worth investigating. Right now, politically we're trying to tackle outsourcing, which IMO is kinda moot as automation is rising and produces similar effects.

People talk about automation as if it's something that's coming, but I think we're already seeing what that future looks like.

passthefist commented on NYC subway and bus services have entered 'death spiral', experts say   theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/ricardoreis
JumpCrisscross · 7 years ago
> Are there, though?

I live in Manhattan. Love it. The MTA fucking up is still miles ahead of every other American city on their best days in terms of transit and density. Most New Yorkers’ stories of nightmarish delays find parity with the daily commutes Americans across the country put up with as a matter of course.

passthefist · 7 years ago
Yep. Really the only city with a transit system on par with New York/Metro IMO is Chicago. And even then the Manhattan subway system has much better coverage than the L.

I prefer living places where I'm not reliant on owning a car, and when I was moving back to the states there were only a handful of metro areas I felt this was possible in without it being inconvenient.

u/passthefist

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