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patneedham commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues   cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
puilp0502 · 4 months ago
Is there a word for a feeling that there's gotta be a German word for this niche feeling?
patneedham · 4 months ago
patneedham commented on Re: Did AT&T leak their email list publicly?    · Posted by u/patneedham
peddling-brink · 3 years ago
You are leaking those addresses with your screenshots. You should remove or redact those.
patneedham · 3 years ago
Thanks for the suggestion (and thank you mods for making the update).
patneedham commented on Re: Did AT&T leak their email list publicly?    · Posted by u/patneedham
mattl · 3 years ago
How many unique addresses on the list approximately?
patneedham · 3 years ago
No idea. The person who initially emailed that mailing list address said he'll write about it on his linkedin after the storm and after it's fixed. FWIW I'm not an AT&T customer (or business customer), I just happened to participate in some IOT hackathon they sponsored/hosted 6 or 7 years ago, that's the only way they've ever obtained my email address.

Only 9 unique email addresses have added to the "reply-all" thread within the past couple hours. Don't know if any estimates can be extrapolated from that though.

patneedham commented on De-Stressing Booking.com (2019)   alexcharlton.co/projects/... · Posted by u/robin_reala
shswkna · 3 years ago
I have a personal experience where booking.com’s nudging caused me to reconsider my trip. I was trying to find something suitable to stay in Paris. Maybe it was the exaggeration of booking.com or maybe there was some truth, but at some point I shut down and made a 180 on my plans. I had realised that I don’t want to go somewhere where I have to compete against this avalanche of other visitors who were or were not snapping my accommodation options away. I am now visiting friends in another European city.
patneedham · 3 years ago
But did you still use booking.com for that other European city trip, or another platform?
patneedham commented on Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT    · Posted by u/brindidrip
fouric · 3 years ago
> I would not be surprised if it is already here, but has been sidelined by the mods

I can virtually guarantee you that there's been a nontrivial amount of GPT-generated content on HN that has not been caught by mods since ChatGPT, and likely since GPT-2/3, as well. Dang (and the other one whose tag I can't recall) already have their hands full trying to keep the tone civil across thousands (tens of thousands?) of comments a day - it's impossible for them to catch every ML-generated comment (some humans actually do write like these newer language models, after all), and more than likely they're missing a decent number of them - through no fault of their own, it's just an extremely hard problem.

The three solutions that I'm shilling for this problem are (1) invite-trees for HN (like Lobsters, which makes the community much less open but also much more resistant to abuse) (2) webs of trust (not cryptographic, just databases of how much you trust users) overlaid onto HN and other places and (3) people actually reading the content of comments very carefully and upvoting logically sound arguments and downvoting illogical and emotional/manipulative ones, but all of these require a lot of effort and social buy-in.

patneedham · 3 years ago
> some humans actually do write like these newer language models, after all

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say these newer language models actually write like humans? Or is there a subset of the population intentionally trying to write in the way that these language models write.

patneedham commented on Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash   support.google.com/docs/t... · Posted by u/patneedham
patneedham · 4 years ago
Discovered by Eliza Callahan triggered by a poem in the middle of her novel. (Friend of a coworker) That poem can be found here: https://durationandthebodyelizacallahan.cargo.site/ - if viewing on mobile you have to Request Desktop Site for some reason, at least on Android it initially shows up as a Lorem Ipsum page

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