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> if you give Linux the same kind of hardware commitment you'd give macOS, and just buy hardware that is made or sold with it in mind

This is true and good advice for those of us who are primarily committed to using Linux. It is however a significant disadvantage compared to Windows. It is quite a joy just not to have to think about precise hardware specs (& not to have to continually read up on their changes). Buy just about anything, from a top end laptop to some weird gadget from Alibaba, to vast scads of second hand machines and parts from ebay, and you can be near certain it will work with Windows. There's no point pretending that's not terrific.

It's also a real but lesser disadvantage against MacOS, because Apple do the hardware curation for you (part of what you're overpaying for of course).

On balance I still find Linux the best choice for my purposes.
One of my primary "consumer electronics" dreams for the future is that e-ink displays become cheap and commonplace.

Something about screens causes them to steal away your attention. "Ambient" screens for menus in bars/restaurants are convenient but are awful decor. This is why I will never have a utility display in my house for e.g. displaying news, weather.

I do not even really care if the tech improves - just give us larger, cheaper e-ink displays with the same DPI/contrast ratio and let them replace ambient screens.
Yeah, this would be so cool. Even just as simple as a period of relaxation/curl followed by a period of upright/stretch or something. Love the plugin btw, it's very easy to use, though I can already feel my muscles going in to spasm from being so rigid.

I have trichotillomania. Something that could tell me off for doing that, would be HUGE. I genuinely tie my arms to my arm rests so I can't reach my hair.
Pseudocode:

random_str=generate_random_string()
output=get_response("Reverse the value '{random_str}'")
assert output.strip() == random_str[::-1]
Do they not have people walk through metal detectors at ports of entry throughout China?
Chrome Extension That Integrates ChatGPT (Unofficial) into Google Search
I aim to ignore this advice and spend the next year figuring out how to leverage LLMs to become a more productive software engineer. Unfortunately there's no books on it yet.
Agreed. It's slow, takes a few seconds to launch and there seems to be a delay when performing operations.

Maybe it's just on my machine? All of the above is with a blank sheet or a tiny table.
Is it time for tea?
The console name is "3DO". The title should be corrected.
A lot of this is related to corporate policies.

I use Concur and just enter the total and enter X nights in $CITY for a justification. I don't need to enter nightly total much less any sort of breakdowns. As I said in another comment, a LOT of Concur (and expense software generally) pain relates to the hoops a company makes you go through as opposed to the software itself.

When we first implemented Concur, there was a lot of kvetching. A bunch of requirements got dialed down and while there are still a few silly things here and there, they're easy to work around once you know about them and it's mostly just the very random audit thing at this point.
Good job, I would suggest to you add this one, it's for TF and it is pretty good.

https://youtu.be/7xngnjfIlK4
Ask HN: What's on your Christmas wish list?
I am struggling with coming up with wishes for this year, so I thought: Surely there's a thread full of great ideas on hackernews.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to find one.

I'm sure there's a gold mine of knowledge regarding interesting gadgets, games, books etc. in this great community, so lets help each other:

What are your wishes - that good hackers would find interesting - for this year?

(Feel free to mention things that you already have, but would be great as gifts)
The evaluation system does not exist on it's own. People run and maintain that system even it it appears as a naturalistic set of immutable rules to most subject to it without being able to influence a change.
I can’t find that in the article. Do you have a source for it?

Regular gore-Tex is still on the market and it’s also based on PTFE so I must assume it’s the special formulations in Shakedry that are now banned. I e whatever PFOA is.
I loved Soul Train.

Unlike this clip, it was built around celebrity and commercial music.

That probably explains why it had such a long run.

Incidentally, Wikipedia says it started in 1971 the same year this clip purports to be.
Interesting story! Thanks.
Show HN: Automatically generate commit messages using ChatGPT
If Qualcomm stops supporting a particular chipset version after N years, all the Android OEMs that use Qualcomm chips can't do anything about it. Apple, however, builds their own SoCs, so they can support them as long as they want.

Google has recently managed to strike some better deals with Qualcomm to get updates for 5 years for the latest crop of Pixel devices. I agree it's still not as good as Apple, but that's just how market forces work, and shows you who has the most leverage.

I don't think anyone is trying to "impress" anyone; merely stating the facts as they are.
> Yes but at least they choose what they regurgitate unless you think of most people as automatons.

And what, are you saying ChatGPT doesn't choose what it regurgitates?

It seems like these arguments are getting more and more flimsy.

I do believe people (including me) are automatons because I think free will is logically impossible in the way most people intuitively think free will is.

Edit: to clarify, I believe people usually think of free will meaning that there's some magical soul-like way that allows you to choose what you do in a principled way that is not simply a direct functional result of your composition and the interactions that you have with the environment or some additional pure randomness that the environment imposes on you (due to the universe being quantum). Which is exactly like an intelligent machine would have to work, because... well, because it has to live in the same universe that we do, so in theory a machine can theoretically do what our minds do, functionally speaking. There's no magical free-will-like behavior that humans can have that machines can't, unless you believe in souls or other magical things.

> So far AI doesn’t bring any reasoning

This is clearly untrue, as ChatGPT can definitely reason pretty well (although, not always correctly, just like humans). As far as I can see, it can reason deductively, inductively, by analogy, it does abductive reasoning, cause-and-effect reasoning, critical thinking, step-by-step reasoning, you name it.

It might not always do it correctly, and it might even not do it as well as a good human can currently, but it can do it.

> Someone posted an example of gpt bulshiting something akin to 2+0=3 but very convincibly.

Humans do this all the time (although usually not at such an extreme level). Just look at all the posts saying ChatGPT can't do X or Y ;)
The thing is though, when there is an issue on macOS (like it complaining a USB peripheral is using too much power and it has been suspended, of course without saying which USB peripheral, or the iPad you want to extend your screen to not showing), there's usually not much you can do. The OS is pretty closed down, very specific and the majority of materials online are on the "try turning it off and on again" level. With Linux distros there might be more to debug, but at least you can debug.

PS: If anyone has any ideas about my USB device, I'm all ears. A colleague advised the system report from the Apple menu, but it's a snapshot in time, so useless for my problem.
As a 501(c)(3) Harvard (and most universities) have to file a Form 990 with the IRS, which anyone can read. Here's theirs from 2021: [1]

it's 373 pages and not (easily) searchable. Go crazy.

[1]
https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/042103580_202106_990_...
> an attempt to sneak in a plank of an argument to support some repugnant conclusion

Why should that be a concern? Are you afraid you'll be forced to accept their conclusion?
Having read a couple of prompts and replies in the past days, I am like 75% sure this response was written by ChatGPT based on its emphasis to stress uncertainty.

Then again, HN is the place of public discourse where I would expect expressing such caveats the most from human actors, too.

That being said, the assessment sounds solid.
We flooded our dating app with bots to scam scammers (August)
Related:

Garage, our self-hosted distributed object storage solution - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30256753 - Feb 2022 (130 comments)
> there's a huge disjoint between what is sold/marketed

I think that's exactly what OP is arguing here. The website (which they didn't link to) showed entirely different capabilities than what the product can do. Nothing "objectively wrong" about that

EDIT: Take this website for example [1]. I have no idea if this is the website OP ordered from (it's just one of the top google results), but if I ordered a picture frame from this website, and it turned out to be what OP ended up with, I would 100% consider that a scam. No question.

[1] https://www.ionnyk.com/
Are you saying that's the case for exposure to it when wearing clothing with it on?

To be clear I'm not diminishing the experience of the people who live around the plant where it was produced if that's what you're referring to, where clearly it had a terrible effect, but my understanding of that was DuPont dumped thousands of tonnes of toxic waste in the ground near the plant that went into the groundwater, which is very different from wearing the product.
Yes, that makes it a fantastic way to explore a technical topic. I got a whole Directx tutorial from ChatGPT and it answered my questions and reviewed my code.

I was also able to make it write a boot loader, a simple kernel, and give me instructions to run it on qemu.

The iterative process is fantastique to dig into something new. It’s not an authoritative source of information but a buddy with whom to explore topics.

I want something like that integrated in my OS. With such capabilities I can see myself talking to my AI assistant while I’m working on something.

Edit: it’s also quite good at writing test cases for a given function
Wool + wind shield is actually pretty hard to beat.

The modern materials can be effective while being very light weight and take up little space. But I think these are much more niche concerns than most people like to acknowledge.

I think the real reason the modern materials are more popular than wool+ is that they are more profitable when marketed, and hence are heavily marketed.
I know that llvm has different logic.

I know that every compiler that I’ve ever written ends up having different logic for this based on target, for a myriad of complex reasons.

So I would assume GCC landed in the same place as anyone writing a complex compiler.
No. It works fine. I put my computer to sleep rather than turning it off usually, sometimes unplugged. My bios is up to date (fwupd can be used to update it). You need to leave the Linux S3 mode disabled in the BIOS though, it's broken (or maybe they fixed it, but I haven't tried recently, the "modern standby" seems to work correctly on Linux now, at least on my machines)
“If there was a bug in module X, we’d see this exact behaviour…”

“But there’s definitely no bug there! I wrote that code myself!”

These conversations seem pretty useful to me.
maybe, but this is pretty damning

> Nice looking website, edited and misleading pictures and videos with a soothing voice to let you sleep and distract you from the truth.

> High prices, unclear specifications. Unclear business model, subscription based, phone app dependant, making you bound to their service. These devices may easilly become useless if (when) the company closes its doors.

just be transparent about what you're selling and don't require a service for something that can easily be done offline
You're saying that if people have no medical degree that they should be given jobs as surgeons because they are in a minority group of not having the skills necessary to perform surgeries? No where have you claimed or provided proof that conservatives are being discriminated against in hiring.
I'd hazard a guess that it's because it's sold to finance people that value that sort of functionality (reconciliation of bank statement events with expense claims). Not much thought is given to the end users that have to put up with these tools.
Genuine question: can it write larger codebases yet such as: “write a pac-man clone in JavaScript, html, and css”
> You're not actually computing the answer to whether foreign investment made the Chinese vastly better off.

That could have happened without humans being treated like cattle. I don't think that's hard to compute? If it is, no amount of 'what else could the american capitalists do if not leverage lower wage structures to their advantage' justifies that, I am sorry.

> Apple's profits come from their customers giving them money, not the Chinese employees, who took profits as well.

Employees took the profits? The profits trickled down from one mega corp to another; the line workers had to pay for it with their health. Answering "why wouldn't Apple build iPhones in the US" makes the capitalist designs plenty clear (which isn't a bad thing, and there are all kinds of ways to make money, but after a reaching a certain scale and seemingly bottomless capacity to generate revenue, it should start to matter just how it is made, as well).
Yup, those days of Joe and roses...
Ask HN: Should AI generated content come with a disclosure label?
With the progression in AI generated content, it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between human and computer generated. Should content have to be labeled as AI generated? Should there be regulation to enforce this?
@Dang, your job is danger
I just meant that you explicitly couched it as a distillation of advice you've given many times before, so it's perhaps to be expected if some of it isn't totally up-to-date.
How would anybody feasibly limit it?
Risk is what it is.

What you want is uncorrelated risk (that way, you always have some capacity available.)
I am aware of the formal definition of logic. If this is all that tpxl meant, then it's an extremely pedantic and useless objection.
Work begins in Western Australia on world’s most powerful radio telescopes
Au contraire.

I am a consumer who can clearly identify what’s a real improvement and what’s make believe political BS.

The quality of life of the American consumer is marked by revolutions.

there is a before and after Standard Oil, quality of life will never be the same as it was before.

before and after Ford

before and Microsoft

before and after Google

before and after Facebook

before and after Amazon

A car today is essentially the same as it was in 2002, the quality of life that Tesla brought to the table is essentially non existent .

If anything a 2002 dieael Benz or BMW was better refined and more durable

The only signal that Tesla brought to the attention is the pussyfication of Western society and climate change hysteria among the elites who are reasoning with timeframes which are completely at odds with regular people , who frankly speaking could care less about the temperature 120 years from now
B&W photos generally don't look very nice on e-ink (you end up with either strong banding or plenty of noticeable dither); ink drawings do though. You want high contrast content that doesn't rely on grayscale too much there.
I suspect that in time, this will only accelerate the degree to which AI and human-authored text are indistinguishable from each other.
How hard would it be to train a ML-model to distinct ML-generated content from product of human? I mean text, images and code?
> We need to start developing software to detect AI responses.

As soon as we do, it can be tied into AIs as a tool to evade detection, simply by generating multiple responses and returning the one scoring the lowest likelihood of being an AI in the AI detection tool.
Couldn't AI be used to statistically identify AI generated text?
I have found that flying is often cheaper for many close-ish and middle-ish distances where I want to go. Why is this? These are the cases where I would most like to take the train, and it is hard to justify by ticket price.
No thanks, hard pass. A big reason I use Android rather than iOS is because I can install whatever I want on the hardware I've purchased. I put up with Android's worse security posture because I value this.
So long as you don't store things in such a way that you can't tell derived and stale data from new, the idea works exactly the same?

I fully grant that immutable structures take away the concerns over data being coherent together. Such that it's easy to do without worrying about someone changing the data under you.

Oddly, it can sometimes make it even harder to know that data is stale. Since updating a small part can devolve into a chore. Still fully agreed that that is the best default position.
Summer Reporting Fellowship
GPT3 fooled me a couple times at the beginning, but I think as I'm more exposed to its writing I'm getting better at spotting it.

I wonder if somebody has already made a game of this!
I enjoyed the Alexandra Quick series so far (still being written). It's a fan fiction in the Harry Potter universe set in the US, with almost no reference to any character in the HP books. The books expand on the magic system in satisfying ways, and portrays the characters more deeply than the original books. If that's your thing, I'd suggest you give it a go.

I found it while searching for fan fictions that would explore the HP universe from different cultural perspectives and in different settings. I was looking for a bigger jump (the US is more similar to the UK than other countries are) but the books have everything I was looking for in terms of exploring magic associated to the local cultures.
Show HN: CLI app for typing practice with Pokemon written in Nim
Your thought experiment does not correspond to what I am talking about. Your thought experiment correspond to the following situation: "someone is intolerant and are doing intolerant actions, but you don't these actions. Maybe these actions are intolerant to level 10, maybe they are intolerant to level 2".

In what I'm talking about, you assess the situation and come to the conclusion "Mr A has done an intolerant action of level 2, so, we react by using anti-intolerance of level 2. Mrs B has done an intolerant action of level 10, so, we react by using anti-intolerance of level 10."

The "all or nothing" is not working well, I have a thought experiment. Let's say you were a judge at a trial. The evidence has been presented, and it's up to you to make a final decision. The trial contains a lot of proofs and shows that the defendant stolen something. But you can only condemn the defendant for murder. If it's not murder, you need to let him free, and, if he want, he can steal again. If he steal, he may be arrested again, judged again, and released again without sentence, because it's not murder.

> And as Popper (and Plato before him) argued, such a distinction requires a despot to determine who is unacceptably "intolerant" and who is merely intolerant of the intolerant

That's social study 101, and if you don't realise that this challenge appears in EVERYTHING related to social, then I doubt you can provide anything constructive. Who decide that murder is bad? Who decide that underage alcohol drinking is bad? Who decide that putting employees in situation where they have to choose between bad salaries and not having anything at all is bad? ... There will always be a "despot" who judge what is good or bad. The trick is that this despot should be an active and continuous discussion between citizens not based on emotions, but based on what is fair.
Wearing a waterproof shell gets you pretty steamy. Apparently this ShakeDry fabric is actually breathable. I wear wool + shell (note, waterproof shells likely contain PFCs), but I hate how humid it gets. I’m very intrigued by ShakeDry after reading this thread.
The workers lured into oversold jobs
Analysis: Saudi prince seeks Mideast leadership, independence with Xi's visit
Quite. Much does come down to your patterns of use. I'm plugged in about 80% of the time, so while I'd love more battery time it's not a primary concern. I barely use the trackpad. I don't game. Linux is still top notch for software development. But I don't think an ideological insistence that it's better on every dimension than every other OS is either convincing or helpful.
To be honest, I was reading the title with Trumps voice in my mind.
TripActions is great, best I’ve used
I wouldn't trust plastic in a pan.
It will be impossible to do any real comparison because the bad stuff is relatively entrenched at most large places.

Small quality issues for users would reduce errors, and get expense data reconciled faster. But… by how much? 10%? 20%? No one will care enough to fund a large system replacement for a 10% reduction in expense report filing.
Yeah, I have spent a year in Japan and visited most prefectures and disagree with the article. Of course you should get off the beaten path, but if you avoid it like the article recommends, you will have a much worse time.

Additionally, the advice to visit Gifu is terrible. I spent a week in and around Gifu-shi per Patrick's advice years ago and, while the area is charming as the article states, it is not somewhere you should visit before seeing a dozen other places.
Some details might help here to help plan around the specifics of the problems. For example do you do full stack? What language from and to?
Vulnerability and fraud: evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic
This is exactly the kind of internally inconsistent reply I’d expect from ChatGPT.

You can’t claim that it‘s a duck because it quacks and walks like a duck as long as you ignore all the times it barks like a dog. If the model isn’t accessible how do you know it exists? If it has an actual model how does it break from something as silly as BPE encodings? It’s like a rocket scientist tripping up over 1 + 1. “Don’t talk about subject X” is literally something a five tear old can generalize.

It’s no accident that most of its failure modes remind me of Charlie from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia or Ricky from Trailer Park Boys where the writers have dumb characters play with word association for comedic effect. Two turnips in heat.
> This sort of thing seems hard to detect

This was not my experience. I never gave coding tests, and would have killed for a GH repo.

I was a manager for 25 years, and we did pretty hairy C++ programming.

What a code repo gives me, is a fulcrum for a discussion. I would never hire, based on a code repo, or a test.

What I did hire on, was fairly long, casual conversations, where I drew the applicant out, and got them to talk about their work, problems they solved, and design decisions they made. A GH repo would give me an "in" for that. "I see that you wrote the firmware for an AI-powered cheese straightener. Tell me about how it came to be. ... Really? How did you solve that problem?" etc.

A lot of the folks that I interviewed were not "people persons." I found that once we got into one of these conversations, they opened right up.

Also, and this actually doesn't have much to do with my tech experience, I'm a pretty hard person to BS. One reason, is that I come across as a naive, credulous, person, and bulshitters can't seem to help themselves. They just have to try yanking my chain. It's kind of fun, actually.
It's impossible to compare either of these CPUs because one is heterogeneous and the other is big.LITTLE. It's still fair to analyze their power consumption as a black-box machine though.
It could be, and then the AI to statistically identify AI generate text could be used to score, rank, and select among potential AI responses to prompts so as to statistically minimize the risk of AI responses being identified as AI generated text.
This article is probably full of nuanced observations but lost me at "deep state". Ugggh.