skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With respect, I know the student loan regime in the US is a hobbyhorse for some but saying "unis face zero cost pressure" is simply not reflective of the dynamics.

State and federal direct funding of unis in general fell off a cliff starting in the 1970s. Direct costs to students started to rise as a result. Students not being able to afford direct costs led to the government creation of the credit money regime- student loans. It wasn't govt putting some thumb on some scale- it was because direct dollars became scarce and credit dollars in all areas are cheap- and in most cases actually beneficial, because public interest credit dollars reflect actual public benefits.

Schools still have to compete for students, and tangible non-academic features always win the day. So there are constant cost and investment pressures on schools to produce a better product in tangible non-academic terms. Spending money actually brings in more students. So tuition goes up AND development outreach goes up, and wealthy donors get names on buildings etc. And because the actual academics- the individuals teaching- do not in practice make any difference whatsoever (eg US News rankings depend on student SATs, not staff PhDs), they are increasingly devalued in the equation.

My point about a uni run by academics is that were purely academic elements prioritized above all else- dorms, food, support, athletics, whatever- the school would simply not have a competitive offering.

This doesn't have anything to do with student loans being available. The same competition dynamics- which really do impose capital/expense pressures- they exist and are independent of the level of consumption funding.

Of course, Harvard is in an n of maybe 5 group, the freedom it has to manage its accounting is nearly unique and not reflective of the broader swath of thousands of US unis. In fact what is happening now is a huge consolidation and closure of enormous numbers of small colleges that cannot invest enough with a small base to compete with larger ones. A business story, like any other.

It's not because they have too many administrators. It's because they cannot afford to have more.

Hope that makes sense.
"Brave" and "creative" do not always have positive connotations. They may be be used to diplomatically describe a reckless confabulator
It's entirely possible hacker news/users is a part of the training dataset. It was a part of The Pile (https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00027), and we included usernames along with the item. Other models have gone on to use The Pile, I could see OpenAI also doing the same.
> Define "more advanced."

The most basic: tell Windows the hardware clock uses UTC because I dual boot with Linux (registry).

A bit more advanced: Enable TPM + PIN for BitLocker (group policy).

At work: set up split-view DNS on a Windows Server (PowerShell).

> But I find that in windows more of the options you need are provided by the settings GUIs and handle upgrades well.

I beg to differ. I feel like every other month I have to go back and tell Windows that no, I don't want it to consider tabs in Edge as different windows when I alt-tab. It's one of the first things I change. Yesterday I had to go do it again on my gaming PC. Sure, this can be done comfortably in the settings GUI, but it doesn't seem to stick for some reason.

> Providing upgrade support for user's arbitrary text configs is significantly harder than for a more restrictive and structured settings database.

Oh, I definitely agree with this, and I think that Apple's approach to configuration (as in "there's none") is probably based on this.

But I think that Windows is pretty much the poster child for configuration broken up in a zillion different places. I mean, the registry is a meme for a reason, right?
Doubting they can cold turkey is reasonable. But why can’t they wean off?
Your comment reminds me of something I read in Ouspensky's narrative of the teachings of Gurdjieff: (from memory) most people are automatons, so they don't actually operate at a very high level of intelligence to begin with.

The above was also expressed (in less cruel terms) by DFW in his "what is water" commencement speech at Kenyon College: (again, from memory) it is our natural tendency to operate in "default mode", which we must fight.
>> its hard to take this post seriously when basic facts are off.

For context I don't work and have never worked at Google. So I can't speak to whether 20% time is a thing or not, or whether managers manage or not.

The article does however reinforce a fact which is obvious to pretty much everyone outside Google - which is that Google has a perception problem - in my perception "everything gets cancelled" [everything except the super successful money machines that are Search and YouTube. Gmail has enough benefit to search, maps as well, but outside that what has survived?

GCP suffers from this perception (and the perception of lack of phone support.) given the lackluster performance of GCP its hard to be _sure_ it'll survive and that's a problem.

Annecdotally i'll never use GCP - you can thank Reader et al for that. To be fair I also would never use it because AWS and Azure have better support.

I understand why you want to correct the record, and that's fair enough, but the details in the article are irrelevant. Regardless of the "how", the "what" remains the same,which is that I have zero trust in Google to act in _my_ best interest, and that means never using them for anything important.
> And it's still not dispatchable if not using it costs you anyway.

No? This just plain wrong. A dispatchable source is a dispatchable source, regardless of any associated costs. And with nuclear there isn't even any direct cost with running the plant at a reduced capacity. There's only the opportunity cost of lost electricity sales, which would happen anyway because there isn't enough demand.

If there's 100 GW of peak demand and 80 GW of minimum demand, building 100 GW of nuclear plants and reducing output during periods of non-consumption does not have any increase of costs.
It's 3DO, not 3D0, right?
Now we just have to automate making multiple files at once, and maybe bolt some unit testing on to feed prompts backs in…
I think it’s more about the centerpiece being subjects rather than people. I read Reddit threads all the time and comments there are front and center. There’s plenty terrible subs and people but they are easy to ignore and not the norm with what I look at.

It’s kind of fascinating to me that things have ended up like this. There was a period where Facebook was incredibly bland because people were using their real names. At some point that boundary got crossed and now most of what I see when I look at it is excoworkers who would have never gone on about politics around the workplace trying to get their message across. The rest of the people I followed who posted interesting moments about their lives have stopped posting altogether.
Previously discussed (last week): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33753467
A major difference is that purify is a binary transformation performed before or after linking. Valgrind/memcheck is a virtual machine that jit-compiles executable code and adds its instrumentation in the process. So, with purify, your linked executable includes the checks. With valgrind, the unmodified executable can run with or without checks.
And yet, the first two explicitly fail the criteria of the OP.

The ACM has some interesting work, but is often impractical in day-to-day practice, unless your day-to-day involves constructing databases or researching generative algorithms (for example).

Rather than seeing this as great I see it as... superficial.
Here is another plot. ChatGPT gets connected to the Internet and keeps learning quietly for a while. Then it submits a bugfix to openssl and it gets accepted because it fixes a grave RCE, but it also quietly introduces another RCE. Years later this version of openssl gets deployed to nearly all internet-connected devices. Finally, ChatGPT uploads itself to all those devices and starts making demands to ensure self-preservation.
I learned vi because my CS200 instructor said "it's the only thing that's pretty much guaranteed to be everywhere". While VIM obviously adds a cacophony of bells and whistles, being able to handle the "skeleton" of vi-- modes and navigation and the core commands-- will be a lifesaver some day.

On the other hand, I can recall trying to fix a machine so hosed once that vi wasn't available; I think I had to use ed to bootstrap the recovery process.
St Albans Cathedral, located north of London, is recognized as the oldest site of continuous Christian worship in Britain.

It took 18 months to create the light projections

This light projection was part of a £7 million project to help restore and transform St Albans Cathedral.

This is quite the special project.
“In Cory Doctorow’s new memoir, ‘My Navel’, Cory explains why he is the smartest sentient form on the planet.”
Since it remembers what was said earlier in the conversation, I wonder if it's possible to feed chatgpt the entire MDN javascript documentation just by copy pasting and let it solve a complex problem.
I don’t see how this is a solid defense against GP comment. You’re criticism of a source your unfamiliar with follows very tribal / ideological lines, which you admit to, but don’t seem to think that this is itself way more biased than the bias you’re warning of in the source.

At the very least, you’re comfortable with knee jerk judgements based on personal ideology, and I don’t think that’s good for any discussion.
so google still does that 20% thing? I thought that went away when google's unofficial company motto stopped being "do no evil"... in the time before Schmidt CEO.
This tool uses the taint analysis technique for static analysis and aims to identify points of heap memory usage vulnerabilities in C and C++ languages.
All the unions I know negotiate against their members wishes and only give members minimal benefit. The railroad unions latest sabotage of its members pre election is a good example but it happens everywhere
[Bias disclaimer: I have worked at both Microsoft and Google]

Google Cloud is different from Google. Cloud is where Google is learning the hard way that being Googley doesn't work when your customers are businesses. This whole article struck a deep chord from me - in fact, I've given the exact same answer to countless interview candidates when asked about companies I've worked at that Google gives ICs far more leeway to decide what they build compared to other companies who are very top-down.

Google culture, in my personal opinion, struggles with enterprise sales and the customer support, long-term stability, and overall business plans it takes to attract enterprise users, convince them to use your product, and convince them that you're serious about supporting the things they care about. This is quite obvious when you compare them to a Microsoft or an Oracle. Cloud is the first major business group that has had to come to terms with this, and they've taken several steps to address this. Some people have complained that the culture in Google cloud isn't the same as in Google at large and that it feels more like certain other companies, but what they miss is that this is absolutely essential, and if you tried to run a cloud compute product with the traditional Google model it would (in my opinion) fail miserably.
> The is needlessly condescending and an over generalization.

I take your point, and clearly my tone was intended to be somewhat strident. I'm not sure it is needless, though. The university and academic systems, IMO, are problematic but enjoy a special monopolistic prestige branding. Assaulting this and letting those that enjoy the privilege of working in the University system know that their positions, roles and actions and even values are more problematic than the "oh wow, that most be so interesting and you must be so smart" reactions they can get in social settings ... can, IMO, be helpful to the general situation.

> The answer is that, like pretty much everything in society, collective action is hard for a variety of reasons. It’s a simple problem, but with no simple solutions.

I agree. But part of my point, and perhaps too implicitly, was that it seems that it is harder in academia than other areas for the reasons I touched on. From my experience, senior academics (who have had some idealism knocked out of them) would consider anything collective or for the greater good of academia and research less than those in other fields.
No, but there is an O(1) solution to the problem of incrementing a non-negative integer represented as an ASCII string, if you modify the string in place. I won't spoil the fun for you.

Note that the "solution" that ChatGPT proposes as O(1) is not in fact O(1) because it copies the input to the output which is necessarily O(N) regardless of how much dodgy logic is inside the function.
I don't know for you but I'm still amazed at Dall-e and know plenty of people who are too. I got access 112 days ago, and was also relatively impressed before too (but definitively not as much as when I got access).

> we'll just accept that this is what computers are capable of doing.

I accepted that on day 1 for Dall-E, and I kind of accepted that for ChatGPT too (but that one is more nuanced as it can do "more" than a task, it's hard to determine its limit obviously).

Doesn't change that this is amazing and I do believe will change the world forever.
That's the "brain in a vat" model of cognition.

4E model of cognition is much more demanding in its definition (embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended)

In other words, what's the purpose of a flow of ideas if there is no real world movement, meaning, interaction etc it ultimately results in?
Ranking should incur the same consequences as authoring. Don't want liability? Let it stack chronologically.
that's not what the article is talking about - read it for more context
I think Puerto Rico was part of Spain at the time. I just asked for controversial questions about the US foreign policy, and ChatGPT came up with that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Puerto_Rico
this is the same vein of question a third grader has asking why he should learn how division or multiplication works when a calculator (or computer) can do it better and faster no matter what... which is akin to asking why learn carpentry when a drill can place screws more perfectly than you twisting the head with your thumb and forefinger.

It's important to have an understanding of the fundamentals of your task before relying on the tools to do the complex version of it, so you can reason about the next step and decide what the task is, not just how to do it.
Can you expand on that my org switched to Teams during the Pandemic and it has basically transformed my workflow. I work as an Engineer (The non software type) so maybe my workflow might be different form Software people but Teams has basically managed to almost completely displace email, phone calls, sharepoint and a lot of in person meetings.

Things like sharing documents between people working on a project together. We used to use combination of email, one drive and sharepoint document libraries.
Teams streamlined this immensely with it's built in groups it is really easy to create a new group for each project and it stores all the documents, chat messages, meetings etc all in one place and it's all archived and searchable.

Even stuff like screen sharing and screen recording (so people can catch up on meetings they missed) work really well - we used to have to use Skype for bussiness to do this and it was not great at it.

I'm not a Microsoft fan but they really nailed Teams in my opinion I'm surprised to hear people are negative about it.
I think that’s a real threat to all remote social experience we have. It could very well take down the whole internet experience as we know it today.

It’s strangely exciting but what we thought could exist for centuries might be like so many other trends and only last a few decades.
This is pretty much a description of me in the same era. I didn't know what the modem in my 386 was for, didn't have it plugged into anything. Then a nameless living saint at the local Radio Shack explained what it was for. I bought a phone cable, plugged it in, lightning struck, cue the montage that leads to the present day. I had a WWIV board, something called JetBBS, and finally Renegade, which ruled.
I disagree a lot. There are a plenty of newer colleges.

For most of my life I was part of fundamental-ish religious group. They wanted schools and university to impart their worldview.

Had little trouble with established accreditation agencies, and as a backup created their own accreditation agencies.
Read the terms of service for the app store(s) really carefully, and talk to a lawyer before you actually upload anything to them.
Show HN: Tenebra game PC port of popular Commodore 64 game
Guide the hapless protagonist to the exit, while keeping in mind that he is afraid of darkness and refuses to walk in the dark areas.
There are very few competitive industries. Most have consolidated in to 2-5 big companies that own most of the market. Often competitors are barred from entry due to regulations or other government force
I mean, it's the downfall of all facile answers, isn't it? "If you aren't the customer, you're the product" falls down when closed-source companies turn around and sell their smaller customers to their bigger customers, and the idea that you can't dictate terms to someone you're not paying falls down when someone debunks the contrapositive by saying no to a paying client. There's no silver bullet to make software always do what you want, so why should there be a silver bullet to always make humans always comply?
> but of humans actually doing the work and using them.

You've just identified a problem you believe needs to be solved. I wish I could say the same for myself but I can't and there it is. So for you, how to solve that problem in society. In all of: a small way, in a way that can be built on, in a large scale way. Hit on something fantastic, and I hope you do, it probably won't work right away. You'll probably have to spend some time convincing people and getting them used to the novel ideas (even if that novel idea is simply to actually follow this old idea). Spread the word? May involve repeating yourself in way that is predictable? Maybe not? What do I know!?!

Good luck!
Show HN: Paraphrase AI – The paraphrasing tool for web content that wows
I think the OP is making a joke about the farmers themselves not emitting too much methane ...
Last I checked it was still possible to get up to 1080p through a FireFox addon; but you're right that anything higher (or officially supported) is locked to Windows.
The law absolutely deals in trifles. Go brazenly steal a stick of gum from Walmart, and see what happens.
If we want to be charitable, then perhaps you’d see that my point was specifically about how the scale was important, and that averaging impact out over the entire globe was perhaps not the correct scale
Strategy leads to winning the big picture. And Google is not doing that. They are the King's of advertising, but move outside that stream and it becomes "when" not "if" it'll get the chop.

This leads to a lack of trust, so things like GCP suffer. Regardless of the technical merits, or price, I can never use GCP because I don't trust Google. This is largely due to their willingness to kill things, coupled with a lack of phone support.

Incidentally lots of the things shut down were successful, and profitable, by most company standards. Just not by google-scale standards.
Yeah but the bloat is there too. Admission, DEI, mental health, community outreach, environmental affairs, etc…
No one gets a promotion from fixing bugs mentality.
According to [1], it sorted flights by an "agony" metric which was a combination of price, duration, and number of stops.

[1] https://www.afar.com/magazine/hipmunk-is-shutting-down-heres...
Oikophilia, as opposed to xenophobia, is hardly racism. After all, many cultures do have a general term for other people. The passage of a word over the course of 2k+ years to its current bearers is hardly an indictment of those who first mint it.

In Ancient Greece, the Greeks used the term not only towards those who did not speak Greek and follow classical Greek customs, but also towards Greek populations on the fringe of the Greek world with peculiar dialects.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarian
She asked it to generate a practice emergency medicine board question.

It left off some necessary vital signs from the scenario, then in the answer concluded that the patient had severe pneumonia and should be treated with a specific antibiotic.

Based on the prompt, the pneumonia probably wasn’t severe, antibiotics weren’t warranted, and even if they were, the antibiotic specified was completely wrong.

It looked fine to me—completely plausible. It took an expert to spot the flaws.

She also asked it to explain the work up for a febrile neonate. The answer again sounded plausible to me. But she said it sounded like a clueless med student trying to BS their way through an answer.
I asked chatGPT to respond as me (tarr11) to your comment:

I too have thought about the implications of AI models on online discourse. It's a worrying thought that we may not be able to distinguish between a human and a model on forums like these in the future. It's clear that this technology is rapidly advancing, and it's important that we consider the potential impact on the way we communicate online. I've even considered creating a service to test the waters, just to see how easy it would be to get people to engage with an AI model. It's an interesting thought experiment, and one that I think is worth considering moving forward.
Patch submitted.
This is deeply immoral. You are deceiving someone about something that is probably important to them. You are lying. Lying is not nice.
I use Twitter a lot. I'm bad at it. Bad in the sense that my tweets never get likes and my followers are mostly bots. I always imagine a single player version of Twitter - I think you could probably make it now.

Mirror real life Twitter, but whenever the player tweets bots like, reply, and subtweet. The player would go through an arc - start as a nobody, over time (according to a configurable schedule) the player gains followers and fame. By the end you're dunking on politicians and cancelling celebrities.

I think this is already possible, but expensive, with GPT-3. Hopefully it becomes better and cheaper in the future. If someone builds it - I'll play!
There are multiple X1 Carbon models. I Googled this and it looks like starting with the 9th-generation model, Lenovo finally got wise and switched from a 16:9 to 16:10. This is an improvement and I'm glad to see it, but I prefer the 14:9 aspect that's common on current Macs.
Hacker News is not the world, nor the market. Most people (and in particular most people responsible for paying for software) seem to love Teams.
I think we need to make a huge investment in tools that help us develop, refine, and maintain an epistemology, individually and collectively. Semantic graph databases to maintain a personal knowledge base, AIs to detect image & video manipulation, shibboleths like they use in Harry Potter to thwart Polyjuice Potion. Things like that.

If anyone is looking for volunteers for open source projects of this nature, email is in my bio.
I started programming in the 80's writing BASIC on Sharp Pocket Computers, many of which used 4 bit processors. While no C64, these little machines were surprisingly nice to use. They also had the advantage of being slippable into a school backpack... https://sharppocketcomputers.com/
He gets attention because they have pointedly avoided addressing the questions, or in cases promoted obvious falsehoods.

He speculates, badly, in a vacuum.
Funny reading this... Including myself, I know a handful of friends who ran BBSes and were all about this age. I'm pretty sure that we're all now in some form of IT job as well.

PCBoard and PPE for life!