skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We used Excel based expense reporting for years, it takes me much less time to assemble my reports on concur, I rather like it, its the least of all evils.
Don’t overheat the pan you use to cook food with heat?
I hear you. Developers these days. They wear the crutches and exoskeletons of interpreted languages. Real senior devs. only write in assembly. /s

Why is one abstraction more "true", "less creative" or more "strong muscle" than another?
Thank you! This one looks really well done. (For anyone wondering, TF = Terraform)
Thanks for the link! Added to my reading list. :)

I confess I'm always wary of reimplementations and claims of improvement. Still, this is exactly what I asked for, thanks! I'm looking forward to finding where I'm wrong.
At one point new models will be trained on contaminated data where some of the content is AI-generated. "Pure" datasets will be highly prized, just like the steel made before nuclear detonations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
Triton Manta is MPL

https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/manta
Obviously the writer was not schooled by the Rev. John Maclean…

https://youtu.be/36-VQQawpsk
Nothing large ever started small and grew. No idea ever took time to catch on. Anything that doesn't work immediately is worthless. Any dissent is therefore futile and anyone who indulges is clearly morally bankrupt or belongs in Jail as a traitor for publishing it. Consistency is actually a vice not a virtue. Praise Google and sacrifice your privacy to its benevolence.

(I don't much care for the fiction of Doctorow, Stephenson & Gibson released this century fwiw, Neuromancer is still good fun. Raffle the rest.) My point is its ok to be critical and remain so. Its ok to disagree with that criticism but if you really think the criticism is lame and by design to make cash, maybe suggest something more "potent" to back that up? Or a course of action you think such luminaries should follow? And I'm actually all ears on that.
See how casually throwing in the word "undisputable" in a discussion of a controversial topic triggers a dispute?
> Depending on who you ask, it may also be a product that marks the end of an era and a standard we never reach again in the outdoor industry.

Sounds reminiscent of asbestos.
Text game played with GPT with automatic prompts for Stable Diffusion
Outward foreign direct investment push factor characteristics in BRICS countries
Cooking in Teflon cookware been associated with liver cancer.

More generally, ingesting anything your body can’t break down doesn’t end well. It typically builds up and causes cancer. E.g. asbestos, silica lung, stomach cancer from chewing tobacco, etc.
Prototyping the Prototype
All my 32-bit plugins broke in Ableton Live, and Proton stopped working when I tried Catalina. Without my music toolkit, games or preferred programming environment, MacOS doesn't really have much left for me these days.
I not only believe this, I have been led to believe this by Amazon itself. It's not possible to get free 2 day shipping here any more, things typically take a week or more.
Quite shallow selection.
How were the videos selected vs. other videos on the same topic (and say similar length)?
What are the credentials of the curator to convince curator’s choices are indeed worthwhile?
Chrome extension to Automatically rotate through open tabs. By Ben Hedrington
sure, if you can tell me your general taste in novels I'd be happy to recommend a few :)
Here are a few things that I've wished for recently:

- Turing tumble (https://upperstory.com/turingtumble/)

- Electric Bike Pump

- Steam Deck (https://www.steamdeck.com)

- Flipper Zero (https://flipperzero.one/)
Because Boston Dynamics robots don’t currently provide T&A, I don’t think it would hold my interest to the same degree.

Or more generally, to the degree humans are hardwired and/or culturally programmed to watch dance, I think it is to watch people dance.

Watching waves break on rocks, clouds blow by, and fires crackle is a different type of experience for me than watching dance or sport or juggling.

I have a higher degree of isomorphism with other humans than non-humans and I believe that creates a different context for my experiences.
Tim Cook charm resolves Twitter spat yet China crisis rumbles on
Sometimes when I feel like the worse product manager in the world, I just click that Concur link in my work computer browser’s bookmark bar to remind myself that, even if I suck, some bloke at SAP is doing their job even more terribly than me..
https://archive.ph/laj3w
> Most Windows GUI stuff breaks down badly when you try to do more advanced things.

Define "more advanced."

I hear what you're saying. The upgrade path in both can be very broken when you change things. But I find that in windows more of the options you need are provided by the settings GUIs and handle upgrades well. Most linux packages and OS settings start and stop with the text file config, or provide GUIs as loose wrappers over text configs which rarely support upgrade flows.

Providing upgrade support for user's arbitrary text configs is significantly harder than for a more restrictive and structured settings database.
Largest S3 Bucket You've Seen?
ChatGPT struggles with a simple logic problem
The understanding of the rules is very impressive, as is the solution to the first, trivial problem, but things quickly go sideways when the problem gets a bit more complex. I tried to coax it towards the solution, but it didn't help much (I guess I could have persisted)

I am somewhat (but not entirely!) less concerned about becoming redundant after this test.
And they have machines in different ranges to choose from, including light beasts such as the ROG Zephyrus G14 which manages to pack a lot of power including a dedicated GPU in roughly the same weight as an M series MacBook Pro.
Oh no I completely agree, I’m just suggesting that the human news/media curators aren’t much better than AI which pics up fake news.

Take the current ‘Putin fell down the stairs and pooped himself’ story, search around for any evidence that’s actually true and it’s you who will be having a shitty time.
That’s true though from a user perspective, the PpW of the package is more important than the actual core.

Though of course there are other comparison issues like the ANE and video decoders making certain tasks significantly more efficient, so testing the whole package does become much more complex to represent.
I've tried to recreate OP experiments, but he seems to have cherry picked commands that are successful.

Same:

I want you to act as a Linux terminal. I will type commands and you will reply with what the terminal should show. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, and nothing else. Do no write explanations. Do not type commands unless instruct you to do so. When need to tell you something in English I will do so by putting text inside curly brackets {like this}. My first command is pwd.

Just basic commands `1s`, `top`, `uname` returns blank. More elaborated commands just guess what's output should look like. There is no actual understanding of the VM, but just cherry picked guesses.
the article is more nuanced than that. it's not saying liberalism is bad - it's saying it needs a refresh. specifically, a more progressive refresh.
I'd bet on this not replicating, but if it were to, it would remind me a lot of Idiocracy. The "smart" people will tolerate the fascists until they are eliminated by them (keeping in mind this nearly happened in recent history.)
You can't really put importance on backlinks either, because those are abused in their own special way
I tried a hard level leetcode problem on it. Perfect results on the first attempt.
I've already sent text to customers 100% written by AI. Ethically dubious in a commercial setting perhaps, but higher quality text than I would be able to produce myself.

I asked OpenAI and it said:

It is not necessarily unethical to send customers text generated by AI, but it depends on the context and the specific situation. For example, if the text is being used to deceive or mislead customers, then it would be unethical. However, if the text is being used to provide helpful information or assistance to customers, then it may not be considered unethical.
Hocus pocus preparatus, smoke and mirrors, we present the Oracle! You can ask him anything. Beware, he likes to bullshit and hallucinate
You think AI is a being. I am not yet convinced.

I am a human supremacist, yes.

Further, it is not unreasonable to have more interest in some cultures than others, or find the experiences of ones own culture more engaging or relevant to oneself than another. The "line of immorality" comes with banning or violently oppressing other experiences.

Again, fundamentally, I disagree with an analogy giving AI equal morality or agency to a homo sapiens. There is no room for "find replace" here.
They need to call a sort function. It can happen in the client, because the data set is small. It should have happened when the app was first written, at which time they weren’t maintaining legacy code - they were writing a UI from scratch and could make changes easily. Sort functions are built in to every programming language I’ve ever used.

I agree with the author. There’s no reason for it to be like this but incompetence - either at an individual level, system level or both.
No Brain Required – ChatGPT Solves Advent of Code in Rust, Episode 1
Aka the EA console.
I mostly agree due to the nature of not all code is straight up assembly/c/cpp, LOL. Knowing your target audience is key. In this case the team size, company size, ect.

I would be okay with larger PRs especially for configuration as code like ansible and terraform hcl. Hoping that people actually use comments and keep code chunks in relevant sections (I've begun paraphrasing ansible to use more whitespace between different "sections". This of course becomes more acceptable when one playbook or hcl folder is copied to another area for promotion purposes, but of course using tooling to check for diffs is crucial here.
> We live in a golden age of independent productions being much more affordable.

I'm torn on this. I suppose it's a beautiful thing to enable more creators but we are also awash in garbage content with BS at scale.
The disconnect between uni administrators and the academics on the ground is growing at a staggering pace. One example is that I know of several universities were salary increases for academics have been capped to 1-2% due to the "hard economic times", while the vice chancellors/presidents ... received salary increases above 8% (and above 20% in at least one case).

At the same time most academics will attest that the requirements that they have to fulfill are consistently going up, for example when computer systems are being modernized e.g. purchasing systems, it's very obvious that the requirements are made to minimize the work of the administration, which typically increases the workload of academics.
nice idea, very nice
Context:
The James G Martin Center is a small conservative think tank funded by the Pope Foundation. They routinely call for budget cuts to the UNC system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Martin_Center_for_A...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Pope_Foundation

University administration is a juicy target and I’m certainly not defending them wholesale. But the article’s written by rich people who want to lower state taxes.
What if AI could be leveraged to find interesting content? I doubt I'd even notice the bulk of comments being replaced by an AI. I only read them for the one in a thousand comment from a domain expert, or industry insider that really informs me, or challenges my perspective.
And, via the magic of YouTube, you can see it all here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsmwVWELBBc
whoa, I've been looking for an open source collaborative table editor (to replace google sheets) for the last two years and never came across grist!
I don't know whether I should offended or flattered. If I were to identify as anything, it would be a Pyrrhonist, so what do I know?
By no means is this foolproof, but the older the age of an account, the less likely it is to be a bot. Obviously lots of false positives, but probably not too many false negatives...
This feels like the other end of a debate. Moving from immutable structures to hyper optimized traversal of mutable data. :)

Does remind me of threaded trees. Stackless traversal is a fun topic.
I'm planning a trip to Japan (my first), and I'm mostly interested in small towns or villages as day trips from somewhere that is already well outside of Tokyo. Would Matsumoto fit that bill?

Ideally I'd take a train out of the city and rent a car or bike in whatever smaller city I make my hub. Would love any other advice you have, and open to DMs/emails/etc. :-)
We used to use Concur, at my old job.

I hated it, but didn't use the mobile app. I always did my expenses by hand, on my workstation, after travel, and I took notes by hand.

It worked better than the old manual version, we had before it (It can be worse, because it was worse, and I have the scars to prove it).
That’s not really an executable linking issue. That’s the OS dropping support for 32-bit code in general from Catalina onwards.
Is “Ok, Google” or Siri better? More successful? If you think so - please explain.
The term "deep state" has become sullied in recent years. What are your thoughts on Eisenhower's speech about the Military Industrial Complex? Whether by conspiracy or out in the open, there are a number of actors inside large institutions that actively try to derail the original mission of said institution in the pursuit of their own survival.
In a previous role at a Macbook only shop one team requiring linux machines got X1 Carbons as they best linux machine generally available and easily supportable.

Through a roughly 5 year period of trying various models they were consistently pretty reliable, and very easy to run Debian or Ubuntu on (our standard linux OS), through multiple OS versions too.

The screens and trackpads definitely weren't Apple quality. Not bad, but switching between my Carbon and my Macbook was pretty jarring. That said, it paired up immediately with my Logitech mouse (MX Master) that I got for it, and it was easy to get the driver to show things like mouse battery in the linux menubar, something macOS won't do for you.

Generally everything just worked out of the box, including things like USB-C charging, which was great to share chargers with the Macbooks.

The biggest issue we consistently faced was TPM support. At least once a year a kernel upgrade would totally bork a couple of machines as the TPM got reset of corrupted, meaning the machines would need to be wiped and rebuilt. After the first people would update and get broken we'd just warn the team to be careful around those updates.
I didn’t sense all of that from the comment, but you’re definitely anti-consultant.

Sometimes consultants are brought in specifically to bypass whatever internal processes are in place. Those internal processes are sometimes the very reason not enough is getting done and external resources are brought in.
I'd use 403 for it. 401 is similar, but would apply more to "you typed in the wrong password" than "you tried to circumvent the security".

The difference is narrow, though, and really it's just semantics so both would be valid IMO: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/403
You might prefer some of the discussions on HN from similar articles[^1]. I will say, this is nice in the sense that it's focusing on public universities, rather than elite privates.

[^1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33496246 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33831936
There is nothing free in Germany. I see every month ~800€ leaving my account. It’s on par to Swiss one and as I heard not far from the one in USA. And it’s not good!!! This free health care pays only for basic and/or old treatments.
> Aside from the boilerplate, which it got mostly right as far as I can tell, the actual logic is hilariously wrong.

Please do tell, how is it hilariously wrong?

It seems to have written a factorial function just like it should, it implemented the logic to read the integer from /dev/factorial when a user-space program writes to it, and then it writes the result back to /dev/factorial, and it also returns the number of bytes written correctly.

Which was the entire point of the exercise. Also note that ChatGPT itself said it was just a sample and it might be incomplete.

I noticed it has a bug, because it reads `len` bytes instead of `sizeof(int)` bytes, but a programmer could have made the same mistake.

I would also use a fixed-size unsigned integer rather than simply `int` (as it can invoke UB on overflow). You can ask ChatGPT "what is wrong with this code?" and it can spit out the same arguments I'm making. In fact, it detected an infinite-loop bug on piece of complex code which I had just written and indeed, it had an infinite-loop bug.

Perhaps some additional logic to handle reading multiple integers and writing multiple answers could be written, but that would be a further iteration of the code, not the initial one that I would write.

If that is hilariously wrong, then I would also be hilariously wrong. And I'm not just some random web developer, I actually wrote Linux kernel code professionally for years (although, that was a very long time ago).

So, maybe it got some details wrong, but I could conceivably also get those details wrong until I tried to compile/run the code and see what was wrong.

> I would be more impressed if you used chat GPT to guide you through reverse engineering a piece of hardware and implementbing a driver for it.

Yes, I would be more impressed with that as well. Perhaps someone will do that sometime. Even if not with ChatGPT, perhaps with a future version of it or a similar model.
i told it it was wrong about some math problem and it asked me what the correct answer was. i told it and it remembered. but more interestingly its very good at keeping context. it combined like 5 back and forths into 1 coherent sentence
I mean sure, but that's pretty edge case for me, I'm not developing GPU compute sync.
Even though it has become a political term the “deep state” does exist and is a useful concept to think about when evaluating bureaucracies.

These are people long tenured in their jobs who know how to fast track or slow walk policy. Depending largely on their politics and mission they can steer departments the way they want almost regardless of the new boss or outside influence.

Makes a lot of sense to me that they would also exist in universities.
Maybe you could do the experiments and write the book.
I definitely consider Hacker News to be designed in the style of the old internet.
> My argument is that the underlying processes don’t matter as long as results are classified as output of an intelligence - because that’s the only way I can judge it. What it is under the hood is… less important.

That view is called "behaviorism" and is not really taken particularly seriously exactly because it's not very useful in truly understanding what is happening under the hood (which, as a curious species, we deem important). It's like not caring how electromagnetism works because the behavior of "the positive side of this chunk of rock is attracted to the negative side" is good enough.
This takes a huge toll on local backcountry/backpacking/canoeing/adventure firms too.

One of my companies’ clients is an almost 30-year old business with a team of almost 15 guides. Each one of them has more than a decade of experience, they’re all Red Cross certified at First Aid, and they hold a large collection of industry specific credentials.

Business was booming for them. Then someone setup shop looking to make a quick buck. The prices are about half, but they bring huge groups out to dangerous spots with no safety equipment and no safety briefings. There have been serious close calls that their group has created with my client’s tour groups, doing stupid things like throwing rocks off areas that are actively being used below by climbers and such.
Just realized someone posted this a few days ago, well too late to delete now.
Yep.

There is a valid point to made about administrative bloat eventually bogging down any organisation | domain unless actively worked against ... but the point missed here is that hair clogs the drains of any regime regardless of whether it is obscured by "Progressive" or "Capitalist" dogma.

They article raises many good points, and then pivots into an unneccesary coupling of "bad" with "liberal" and "progressive" ideals and posits that such management excess wouldn't happen in a market driven degree mill.

This, of course, is just silly.
It can't write pacman. But if you describe a scenario to it, it writes pretty accurate code and can drill down. Very impressive
I came to this conclusion (somewhat) independently: Crypto (the algorithm) is good, crypto-as-decentralized-currency is (currently) bad.
This is actually very scary. It seems like it's going to change the world, for good or bad. It feels like technology is about to rule us.
I don’t even know how to respond to this take.

Sorry that the Japanese people are generally far more courteous than anyone else I’ve met when tourists are in need of help and make an effort to get help in their language. Apparently, pointing out that every person I’ve encountered has been great to visitors is a bad thing or something.

If someone is going to be a tourist in a foreign place, would you prefer they have a breakdown in the middle of the city because they should expect the locals to be assholes that never help people who don’t speak Japanese out? God forbid someone try and interact with a local, that’s apparently entitled behavior now. What even is this take?

No, visitors should not rely on locals to help them out, but you also have no proof that the kindness shown will go away anytime soon. It’s not like tourism hasn’t been booming for the past few decades and nothing has happened. What makes you think something will suddenly change?
Maybe just at airports, and this is a seaport/land crossing?

I remember entering China from Mongolia in 2019, I don't recall any metal detectors (my memory could be fooling me), I do remember needing to register my eyes and fingerprints on a machine, so yeah, the regime has my biometric info.

One could take the train (the Trans-Mongolian that goes* between Moscow and Beijing) to cross the border, I think the passengers don't even have to deboard or go through any detectors. I wanted to save money, so I ended up with hundreds of Mongolian students who got off the train at the border, got onto buses which took them to the border checkpoint, off the buses and on foot along some dirt road to the big border crossing building, queued to cross the border (thankfully it was indoors), and then back onto the buses on the pristine parking lot on the Chinese side. The buses would then go all the way to the first big city where the train was going, but for less price.

* At least before Covid and the "special military operation"
Top Gear did this, back when they were still on the BBC.

They dropped one presenter and a camera crew out of a helicopter around the top of a hill-climb OHV track in the Canadian wilderness, and had them activate an emergency beacon. The other two had to perform a rescue race in pickup trucks.

Overall, it was an entertaining ad.
OpenAI is evaluating a technical solution to this problem by watermarking the output with small amounts of randomness, such that a series of tokens of output can be tested for having these small random variations.

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6823
> I definitely disagree that Searle's conclusion in the Chinese room experiment applies to the kinds of AI systems we're building today.

Unless you're trying to say that today's AI systems do anything but manipulate symbols (which is imo patently obvious), I'm not sure how you can make that argument.
If you're not going to do math on it, don't pass it around as a number.