skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the article was interesting and worthwhile, but also was disappointed there wasn't more discussion about the context you're pointing out. I don't know anything about it outside of what's stated in the article, but it seems based on what was written there was enough uncertainty about the context surrounding the document to raise questions about the authenticity of the story or the document itself.

To me, the article seemed to strongly imply — although not explicitly state — that the document was created post hoc to fit the story rather than being genuinely completed at the time of his degree program. They proceed as if the mystery is in how he created the document at the time, rather than to question whether it was created at the time, even though that seems to be an obvious question to raise.

To be clear, I don't mean to suggest Ritchie did fabricate anything — to me the thesis (links to which have posted by someone in this thread) looks very similar to other mathematical documents from that time. But the article is written in this way that seems strange to me, in that they focus on assumed typesetting anomalies rather than all of the assumptions themselves.
I’d like to hear this too
> Honestly, I can't wait for GPT and other productivity tools to wrech havock upon the tech labour market. Some people in tech really need to be taken down a notch or two.

You have to remember that when these sorts of things happen, the ones who get "taken down" in ways that actually affect their lives are invariably the ones who already have the least. The ones who "need" that takedown will be just fine, unless they've made incredibly stupid investment decisions.
While powershell has gotten a lot faster in the most recent versions its still pretty slow for anything involving computation; most of the type my equivalent python code beats the pants off of it.

The expressiveness is nice, but oftentimes modules won't support it or require weird ways of using the data to get the performance you want (mostly by dropping out of the pipe.)

The choices around Format- vs Out- vs Convert- are Very Confusing for new people and the "object in a shell but also text sometimes" way of displaying things is weird and until recently things like -NoTypeInformation or managing encoding in files was just pointlessly weird.

The module support and package management is still entirely in the stone ages and I regularly see people patching in C# in strings to get the behavior they want.

"Larger" modules tend to get Really Slow - the azure modules especially are just an example of how not to do it.

The way it automatically unwraps collections is cool, but gets weird when you have a 1 vs many option for your output, and you might find yourself defensively casting things to lists or w/e.

The typing system in general is nice to get started on but declaring a type does not fix it, so assignment can just break your entire world.

There's still a lot to love about the language when you are getting things done in a windows environment its great to glue together the various pieces of the system but I find the code "breaks" more often than equivalent python code.
This is where it pays off to be researching something completely esoteric rather than something immediately applicable. I mostly scoffed at such research in the past, but now I see the value of it. The guy researching QML algorithms for NLP is not panicking yet, I think.
There's more oil painters now than at any time in human history.

New tools open doors, not shut them.
The remarkable thing is how issues which are easy to address - just use the pronouns, it's active effort not to - are instead blown up into huge issues that take over the legislature, because this prevents discussion of anything more material-conditions based. Anti-woke hysteria is incredibly effective. People don't want to talk about boring issues affecting the majority, they want to pile in on a target minority instead.
There are many rational reasons for a person to see these questions differently to you and plenty of explanations of those reasons around. You may disagree with them, but to claim that differing views must spring from phobias or other irrational mental states rather from a different assessment of the evidence is baseless ad-hominem. I would strongly recommend avoiding statements of that form in general as they achieve nothing good.

I could make a similarly disrepectful and unsupported claim about the mental state of people who believe most human creative activity is simply recycling learned ideas, and we could spend some time flinging insults at each other, but why?
Is there a reason Midjourney does not have an API?
Totally agree, commented something similar. Both the before and after code shown is impossible to reason about magic. The idea that programming interfaces should be good is good, but this example isn't the best IMO.
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> I think this is both obsolete and subtly wrong

Maybe you are right, not sure. But this is my impression from working at Big tech. New thing is easy to measure, compare these: "launched X in region Y" vs "prevented possible incident X from happening" (your manager would ask, how do you know if that incident will happen? maybe you spent too much time for over optimizing the solution?)
Note that "DM" was mentioned, so I'm strictly talking about D&D here, other games and genres focus a lot more on the narrative aspects of RPGs in a planned manner (NB: Although I personally would suspect that the "AI"s we got might do even better at PbtA games than D&D)

Here, at least since mid to late 3rd edition, we got a very strong focus on combat "encounters", where you got pre-packaged situations where combat would arise. A combination of monsters, location and possibly events happening during that time. Monsters might even be built for this specific situation, even though their names are generic enough (i.e. a "Orc Battlescout").

Your dungeon FSM gets to a certain state and this encounter gets triggered.

Whereas the canonic ideal of older games was a more fluid setup. Often described as "Combat as War" vs. today's "Combat as Sport". Sure, played very simply, you got an even less sophisticated environment: Room #13 has 4 orcs, guarding a chest, which has 380 copper coins. Kick down door, fight orcs, spend coins on torches for next dungeon. But no experienced DM sees a dungeon that way. Because next to that, you got room #14, where the orc chieftain is preparing the prized pigs they stole from the goblins in room #27, which are currently sneaking up to get it back. Then, as you say, you might have your random encounter, so while the players are heading for the orc room, wolves attack (the goblins aren't guarding the wolf-forest-gates, the DM muses). The fight makes a lot of noise. The orcs look. The orc chieftain looks. The goblins use that distraction. The characters might notice that or not, etc.

Even rather simple setups can achieve rather complicated results, if you're not emulating a 12 year old mastering their first adventure where they just picked monsters from the tables in their Dungeon Masters Guide that are appropriate for a level 2 party of characters.

That's a bare minimum where I'd consider a "AI" DM-like, otherwise you mostly got a NLP interface on gameplay that I could've had with the old SSI Gold Box games on an C64.
It's AI, you, have to be impressed right?
To be effective the moderator AI would need to be as smart (or smarter) as the source AI. Think of all the ways we have already seen people get around restrictions. Giving instructions for murder isn't allowed but people said they were writing a novel and want to have a murder in it and how could be be done. A smart moderator would see what the user is trying to do and stop it.
A Discord server is a lot easier to moderate, block people, etc. than an HTTP API with access tokens. Plus then you have a sort of captive audience of Discord community members that receive all of your notifications by default.
Agreed, and I think you've put your finger on the thing that no one is talking about.

Further, the complexity of creation with a complete lack of creativity is... really creepy to me, and does the opposite of inspire.
Possibly a thin clothing layer could be designed to protect from sulphuric acid. I’m imagining something like a thin wetsuit.
It's kind of hilarious how complex some "reduced" instruction sets have become.
Probably Europe only: https://youtu.be/3TaNKoYLGsQ @11 minutes mark.

Suposadly it's "too small".
The problem would be reaction time in those cases, I would think.

That being said, I think most people under the influence of marijuana are not really going to want to go anywhere most of the time.
Containers can be broken out of.

Every time I hear that, I challenge the person to prove it. So far, nobody did.
Why are these models so bad at hands?
I can see a difference for creative works. I'd be more interested to know that I'm looking at something an artist did intentionally than something sampled from a manifold of similar works. Just like I'd rather (all things being equal) have a real drawing or painting than a print. You can make analogies in other art forms too.

And if someone is going to send me a sales pitch or email that GPT wrote, I'd rather they don't insult me and just send me the prompt.

I think tfa is a gimmick, but i see value in knowing whether I'm relating to a human brain or to a statistical model
Did you look at the article- it is tangled nets mixed with sand/stones. They still look capable of snagging small creatures. The location is next to a turtle nesting site.
Very cringey. Not helped by how it also dictates how you should use it. Why do they care about the shape or the color?
Is there any study or relevant data point that would lead you to believe this is happening? Or is it just a completely wild thought?
Monopoly of US firms in the tech industry, their (possibly irrational) reluctance to go remote (until COVID at least), and US work-visa (H1B) quota restrictions.

Now that chasing growth has gone out of fashion and cutting costs is on the table, I suspect companies might lean more towards hiring cheaper, non-US workforce after the layoffs have settled down.
I have too, but when they have a bad policy they’ll defend it to death.

Specifically I contacted them about a product listing that, at best, was word salad right out of Blueler’s book on schizophrenia. They told me they didn’t want to hear any complaints unless I’d bought the product.

Of course, that kind of listing is endemic on AMZN, and I’d have no problem reporting several of those each time I go shopping.

Actions have consequences though and AMZN is now the last place I look when shopping for things since shopping there is somewhere between visiting Mariupol and the South Bronx in the 1970s. It is a matter of time before I pay my last recurring bill of any kind to them.
Hired in academia? Sure.

Hired in industry. That's the opposite. I've had a friend who had to hide that they had a PhD to be hired...
I doubt the bots will believe these badges any more than I do.
And then you read up on bit rot and HDDs dying when not used for a long time, and there goes the fuzzy feeling. :(
I've heard that Thunderbolt and USB4 "merged" -- does this mean it's Thunderbolt at the lowest layers and USB4 is encapsulated? Or are there two different signaling standards sharing the same PHY?
You’ve just moved the goal post
Happens a lot more with stimulants, meth being the worst. Amphetamine psychosis can be permanent & irreversible with heavy enough use.
Microsoft is suffering form the reality that Azure is the OS that matters, WinDev seems to be getting new devs without much background on how Windows used to be, and wiht constrained resources versus anything Azure.

Also note that DevTools is no longer .NET only, rather any language that has tier 1 support on Azure.
You think homeless people have only themselves and their own actions to blame?
I do recall this sentiment on HN once before -- regarding whether Alaska should add a road for medical extraction or not. Seemingly strong divide between Alaskans and others.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31718125
They don't look that good, maybe they should get Stable Diffusion to generate a few alternatives, some will be better.

More seriously, even if we are willing to assume that everyone will be honest about how much they use AI, how do you define whether an image is less than 10% AI generated? Number of pixels? Number of objects?

And what about writing? Does getting an LLM to check your grammar afterwards count as cheating?
Finding most probable words from the internet for a given prompt have nothing to do with reasoning.
In the context of this thread however, an AI mixing a randomly selected A and B makes it generate an idea that is just as original as a human's.
> A major security problem in OpenSSH would be a huge issue, as it affects everyone at once.

It happened once in OpenSSH (in the '00s), and that's it. Ever since, it got hardened. Same with OpenSSL's Heartbleed. We've adapted to these occurrences.
VW has its own battery factory in Spain: https://youtu.be/3TaNKoYLGsQ @11:16 minute mark
It always amazes me Google doesn't simply ship say the top 50 most popular fonts in Chrome that Google are already providing via Google Fonts anyway. Think of all that wasted energy and bandwidth!

Every time I suggest this the idea is laughed at and the hand wavy replies say that it can't be done.
I saw this video earlier today. I'm not versed in flying machines, but how certain of a collision is it? From my layman's viewpoint I've only heard the people on CNN calling it a collision, and now this guy, but honestly I can't tell.
> One criticism from concerned parents or conservative politicians was that increased legalization would lead to increased teenage consumption of cannabis....It’s a criticism that exemplifies the theory of the author Jonathan Haidt, who showed in his classic volume The Righteous Mind that most people form their opnions by making an emotional conclusion—teenage consumption of cannabis is bad—and then using ad-hoc rationalization backwards to find whatever intuitive reasoning is needed to justify their gut instinct.

I don't understand how this exemplifies this. Isn't the worry just much simpler: legalization creates in general more accessible weed, and so more teens could get it?

Not to comment on the fact that this was retrospectively a misguided concern. Just don't understand Haidt's relevance here.

(Not to mention its a little weird to feel the need to credit him with this idea, isn't just kind of a truism?)
Discussion of a similar tool last month:

yq: command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV and properties processor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34656022

Also mentions gojq, Benthos, xsv, Damsel, a 2nd yq, htmlq, cfn-flip, csvq, zq, and zsv.
That's definitely a risk.

With a PhD in the domain, I consider myself pretty good at (a subset of) distributed programming. But these days, when companies hire for distributed programming, they seem to want developers who know a specific set of tools and APIs. I'm more suited at reimplementing them for scratch.
Which of these fonts is closest to Inter, a very popular font?
> The shades of gray are that slavery hasn’t been a thing for 150 years and nobody in the south today, or even when those pictures were taken, had anything to do with it. Racism, meanwhile, is universal everywhere that different people live alongside each other.

The American south is unquestionably better today than, say, the 1950s or 60s. But as a child I lived for a few years in the Deep South (specifically, east Texas) in the early 60s, and then again for a few more years (northwest Florida) in the late 60s, due to my dad's duty-station transfers. It was very racist — and changes in culture can often be slow.

A new New York Review of Books piece reviews a book that studies some of the ~1,000 racist murders — largely unpunished — that took place in the South between 1930 and 1970, in the teeth of federal Reconstruction-era legislation intended to protect Blacks. The piece brought to mind a tweet by an anonymous Army officer from awhile back: "[General] Sherman should have mowed the South like a lawn. With multiple passes." (Quoted from memory and so might be a bit off.)

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/04/06/a-regional-reign...
> 2. No one else did mixing A and B before. The "Mixing A and B" is a new idea.

With such definition, GPT-4 can create new ideas.
> Just write

> I just finished listening to a podcast

Ironic.
If it was really faithful though it would have different characters and outcomes each time based on the dice rolls.
It’s…

I have horrible handwriting that I’ve never been ashamed of. Now I am.

Thanks for posting this!
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for what it's worth, humans are also in general terrible at drawing hands - i think it's just a difficult problem
> if all content is recycled / mixed from the past, when did innovation and creativity stop?

And the obvious answer of course is that recycling / mixing can be innovative and creative. The dichotomy only exists in our heads.

I believe this is because of how our culture choose to reward intelectual output. Your output needs to appear sufficiently original to be worthy of reward and protection.

For example a musician who creates a new song is not rewarded, in fact punished for naming all the influences they had coming in to said new song. (both morally, by people who would think less of them, and by lawsuits asking for a share of their profit.)
Honestly, I'm not sure what point you are trying to get at from reading your comment, its all disjointed without a clear overarching point.

If you're trying to say that regulators should be able to go and work for the people they were regulating, that shows a significant lack of understanding about how corruption has worked in actuality.

The reason many countries have blackout periods where regulators are forbidden from receiving any kind of funding from the people they were regulating afterwards is because when its allowed, corruption occurs, and the cost to prosecute it is almost always high. The more centralized and heavily regulated the area is, the more prevalent it is, and worse the enforcement arm becomes less effective at a general cost to the public (look at the SEC).

There are a number of legal ways that bribes and payoffs may happen without blackout periods (i.e. where they can't accept a position with any company doing business in areas they oversaw), and while a number of these loopholes have been closed, there are still many avenues where sophisticated bad actors can easily get around law intended to punish corruptive behavior such as with blind trusts set up for education, where there is only one beneficiary but its set up as a lottery.

Corruption should be rooted out, and heavily punished because it causes harm to the public good, its insidious and pernicious in regulated areas.
20 years later, Second Life is launching on mobile
You have to fuck around with the storage format because by default scanning sofware, even when scanning documents, will basically just take poorly compressed high resolution images. Maybe there's some service which sorts that out for you but so far I have a little webapp which stores an index of paper copies. Once I figure out how to automate scanning, compressing and OCRing documents then I think it will be worth storing digital copies. But for now it works.
There are two sides to it, giving some habit a break which you built can be a good thing as you mentioned in some context as you get a fresh new look at the habit/hobby/topic after a break but it also could lead to not able to continue with it as you used to.

This definitely is a personality trait and not everyone has this issue but this inherently is why most people end up saying "I used to write 500 words a day but now I barely write 500 words a week". And then they start looking for learning to build new habits all over again...

I fall into that category by the way, short breaks are fine but if I take a long-ish break its really hard for me to go back to it as I now have occupied that time with something else which I struggle giving up.

So for people like me, instead of breaks I have started following this advice I read about building sustainable habits is to do things in moderation. Basically the idea being we tend to start a new habit with a lot enthusiasm which leads us to being overzealous and spend a lot of times some days on it as our creative juices are flowing but these are the things that lead to burnout eventually, so instead we set x amount of time per day for it and not cross that time this way we always have energy to do more, the excess energy of one day can be used to build more anticipation and let your subconscious mind plan for tomorrow as you do other things till the next time comes.
Diagrams and equations. You'll find them useful when that history
degree loses its luster.
Its not only language anymore
"in a weekend" now is too slow. They'd have to do it in 5 minutes or even less.
> I'm wondering if this is like the story about shoeshiner giving the advice about stock market and investments.

This reminded me of when I recently overheard a server in a restaurant passionately talking about crypto investing like it was going to make him rich.
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I do occasionally want to retrieve older documents. As you say, they're smaller and the effort to put individual docs into a "I might want this someday" folder seems more trouble than it's worth. Of course, having a vast sea of basically write-only docs does make finding things harder especially as I don't put as much effort into organizing things any longer.
All the time actually. I have monthly folders, automatically backed up by my phone to the NAS. Each month my wife and I sift through the photos and delete all duplicates and boring stuff and then we have around 150 photos per month that we sometime just have on as a slideshow.

Yearly, we create printed photo albums that we look at regularly and show to our kids.

But all this only works after lots and lots of hours of manual work filtering the photos.

Still, over the last 15 years or so for two people we have way more than 100k photos stored on the NAS.
Focusing on individual product growth is just one strategy an organization may follow. And it's a strategy that if followed blindly will eventually make said organization be seen as unreliable to customers.

I wouldn't pay Google for any services right now. I prefer products and services that last more than mere single digit years (looking at you Stadia).
Don't go too overboard.. It doesn't look like Lego has even been contacted and asked to remedy the situation.

I suggest being allowed to call them just Legos instead of "Lego™ style plastic building blocks" would be appropriate punishment.
https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana...
Seconding photoprism. The face recognition was pretty meh when it was first introduced, more of a gimmick than anything. But (I assume) a recent update pushed it into "wow, this is actually really good" territory.
You do understand I'm describing the problem, not advocating for the system, right?

And presumption of innocence is a matter during the trial.

Police can and have diverted, detained, and otherwise interfered with people who have committed no crime. All I will say is that it's a complex situation and that while keeping people in jail for over a year before we even get to the trial to determine their status is not what we should be doing, the complete opposite of not detaining anyone seems equally bad in a completely different way.