From Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694578
Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles
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#52“Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles” yields - A nice little hack and I think it would be better to have a bit more info on the title. It would show a much more comprehensive description and a little more info on the actual title. - I don't know enough about this topic, but it makes me wonder why it's so popular in some other forum. It appears there is a lot of noise in the community, so why not just show up at…
Lot of noise though, we are far from passing the Turing test in most case but still fun: >Nice idea from a hacker perspective. I'd like to point out the following two issues - Your results for your comments seem a hell of a lot to me, for example, but not the comments that you linked to. - Your results for comments in particular appear in the top left of the comments. But the comments appear on the right of the comme…
These sound like actual comments from people with an incoherent train of thought, which might be plenty of people on the internet. These are scary accurate. I wonder how easy it would be to write a bot to, for example, post on Reddit and gain karma for the purposes of trusted-account generation. It seems like most of those account farms rely on self-upvoting which can be caught easily by the site. Posting potentially good comments that get upvoted by real people would be pretty hard to counter.
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#53NN-generated text has this really weird uncanny valley feeling to it, where the words are well organized but there’s no cogent thesis or point to be made. I feel like I might be reading schizophrenic ramblings. No point here necessarily, this stuff is fascinating but creeps me out. Words from generated comments (using this website) are organized in a way that cause me to second guess my own reading comprehension abil…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_salad
> A word salad is a "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases",[1] most often used to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder. The words may or may not be grammatically correct, but are semantically confused to the point that the listener cannot extract any meaning from them.
Re: Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles
#54Is the generator still being trained based on current comments?
If so, how long will it be before it starts generating comments that include feeding the title init itself?
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#55Funnily enough it can generate links to genuine HN comments. eg.
> hncynic 1 minute ago
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#57I don't get the point. How does this differ from reddit comments?
I know you're joking, but think of the implications if these comments actually didn't differ from Reddit comments. It would then be easy for a small group of people to push agendas on Reddit. Imagine being able to automate creation of posts that push a certain agenda, then being able to automate thousands of coherent comments that agree with the sentiment of the post. You'd be able to manipulate thousands of real people into buying certain products, thinking a certain way, etc.
I'm not advocating for black-hat application of the technology, but merely pointing out that this is what we are facing as AI gets better.
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#58Hilarious, I got comments complaining about how "the article is from 2011" and "the linked article is more thorough."
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#59Top Indian female biker dies in road accident during country-wide tour
hncynic 1 minute ago
It says "India's top female bike deaths in road trip during the world’s most dangerous years".
Did he mention the death rate in China?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki2/List_of_countries_by_fataliti...?
I would be interested to know more before writing this.
hncynic 1 minute ago
"She was a motorcycle helper. She was a motorcycle driver, and while she wasn't riding on a bicycle, she was on a bicycle. She was on a bike. When she drove on it, she was wearing an underwear on her head."
This is an incredibly unfair statistic. As far as I can tell people who use bikes don't even know how many times the "bicycle helper" is used.
As a bike enthusiast, I never have any problem riding as a bike helker, but in the city as a cyclist I regularly spend almost double the time riding bicycle helper in my town and have to be absolutely sure that she is riding on a bike that does not have a collision.
So while that is a big thing, I think the majority of bikers should take advantage of that knowledge to do so.
I can see how many motorcycles are in the US and other cities with very high density bike lanes, the article seems to imply that the city is doing something right as a biker. I don't really know about that, but I'm guessing it's just a matter of how many years a bike helper will take you to the point where you're not doing it wrong, or how
hncynic 1 minute ago
There is nothing to be proud of with a single biker at any moment.
Re: Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles
#60Getting some interesting syntax ideas from the headline "rust version 3.2 released": ---------------------------------- "For example, let's say a function is like this in C++. - a function that has a string of type (value: value: value: value, value, value: value) - a function that returns an address in C++'s form: value: value: value: value: value[value:user]:{value[user]:}], value = value[user]}}: value[user]:{valu…
"How to be happy"
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How to be happy?
1. Do something meaningful, 2. Do something meaningful...3. Do something meaningful...4. Do something meaningful...5. Do something meaningful--(even if that is not your primary goal)--5. Do something meaningful...6. Do something meaningful...(eg if you are a software engineer). 7. do something meaningful in life, not just some sort of job or hobby, to keep your sanity up. 9. Do something meaningful-- not what you think you're doing.
I think this is a good starting point; but the author is right.
I think the real key difference between happiness and pleasure is your own self-actualization and that it is something you can accomplish in the long run.
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^ I know natural language generators can kind of get "stuck" sometimes, but this is pretty funny. (Also, some wisdom at the end).