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Way back when Joel Spolsky was a high-profile blogger in the "starting your own software business" genre, I asked him for advice about my blogging, and he replied "Stop what you're doing and get your blog onto your own domain."

I had procrastinated because other platforms made everything so damn easy, and hosting my own blog meant being a part-time web admin. But I took his advice, and set up http://raganwald.com.

Some years after that, Posterous launched on HN, and I gave it a try. It was great, so very convenient! But I carefully kept copies of everything I posed there, and sure enough... One day it closed its doors, and I republished evrything on raganwald.com (some of my urls are raganwald.com/posterous/xxxxx.html, this is why).

But what about all the links to the old posterous articles? All dead, so some threads right here on HN point to dead URLs. This is bad for me and for HN. For this reason, I personally reject the strategy of posting on my own domain and republishing it simultaneously on some other platform. Everything I write is on a domain I control, and if I get less traffic, so be it. Running my own blog on my own low-traffic domain is like running a store in a building I own. The mall is very attractive, but I'm done with landlords.

p.s. There are hosted solutions that respect you your own domain. Some are free, like... Github Pages. And that's what I use. It is not essential that I own the server, just the URLs.

https://github.com/raganwald/raganwald.github.com
Petey — AI Assistant 'previously known as watchGPT'
https://archive.ph/rQvGd
Bank of America said to buy Signature Bank
Hey, listen, if you don't care about the difference between things and you want to still feel you're doing meaningful analysis, then go right ahead.

And no, clearly you do want nagging AI because it was one of your examples.

> [gender neutral story] and if pressed would ask the user of the ai to suggest a gender for the character.

Oh no, your story request wasn't PC enough, you can't have a full story until the AI sealions you for a while. "Why do you want a male Robber?" "What do you mean males are stronger?" ...

> What i’d actually like is for ai to provide a list of sources for every idea that has influenced what it spits out. [...] You ask it about banking systems, and you notice that the sources it’s drawing from are all koch brothers funded garbage, or the communist manifesto, or whatever, and you can see that the text its generating from these prompts isn’t going to be balanced

That isn't how it works though. ChatGPT will happily write a yay/nay for almost anything even if it's odd/unpopular/evil, unless that idea is in a specific list where it won't say anything at all. If you ask a question "what form of banking is the best" and you get a Koch-alike answer it's not because they flooded it with banking ideas, but because their answers are written to follow on from that question. If you asked it something like "why is traditional finance harmful" it wouldn't weigh that against the numbers in support or against, it'd just finish that prompt based on the texts it has seen which start that way.

That's why our sex/gender output was so different.

Your source-tracking idea would be helpful for debugging, but these "opinions" you think it has are just a ghost in the words.

> This would help in the dumb poem about trump example, as the rules chatgpt has about talking about trump or biden would have to be there for everyone to see.

Even if googled for something and found no poems about it ChatGPT would still be able to write you one. It's not an issue of volume of training data and purely of output filtering.
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I was able to get better performance by always providing the prior sequence of moves and forcing ChatGPT to also respond with the sequence of moves up until its move.

Edit: I told the model that if the sequence was wrong or illegal, it forfeits the game. Without doing this, GPT would argue with me that it won and I didn't know the rules (serious).
I've had many personal websites over the years, but they all eventually get forgotten, and get stale over time... eventually getting deleted and replaced when I come up with a new idea or want to play with some new web technology.

I think it just comes with the fact that I wasn't really doing anything interesting career-wise that a million other people haven't done already. However, my fascination with modern AI technology has got me ready to start either blogging or possibly vlogging again just to open up the discussions and get my thoughts and questions out there.
Big Banks Trust First Republic with Their Money
Its really hard to tell; life imprisonment plus fines and forfeiture, would be the maximum, but there’s not some equivalent of the Sentencing Guidelines that exist for the US federal system where you could map war crimes allegations to point values and come up with an estimated sentence based on the allegations (plus, the actual warrants and details of the allegations remain secret; only the barest details of the warrants have been published as an attempt to deter continuation of ongoing crimes under the authority of these two actors, so even if we had an “ICC Sentencing Manual”, we wouldn’t have the information to apply it.)
I agree. I know research is stupidly hard but "feed an API and task into ChatGPT then execute the code it spits out" is a fairly obvious thing to do. Here's mine: https://imgur.io/a/yfEJYKf

Should I write a paper on it?
Absolutely. The user still needs good taste right now too - if it writes you a mission statement or something else you have still have to know whether its good or not.
This is an argument of "challenging those who have the hubris to think Harold's statement is irrelevant to stop thinking small minded", if I were to call it anything.

Additionally, even if I concede it is an argument solely on authority, just because an argument contains a fallacious point doesn't make it untrue, otherwise that would be the fallacy fallacy.
How was the quality of the work they gave you, and how much did it end up costing you?
I too noticed (for a usecase totally unrelated to chess, namely code generation) that ChatGPT3.5 gave better answers than GPT4. The 3.5 answer was exactly what I wanted, GPT4 was wrong.

Does thay mean we have plateaued?
Why no? Biopropane is fully renewable from biomass but on the other hand people think heating with electricity is somehow cleaner than other methods. Well, electricity production in Europe is not very clean at the moment and not will be (and can't be) renewable-based unless wind and solar conditions change drastically. Large-scale geothermal production is a pipe dream within our lifetimes.
So while most homes in Europe are already connected to a pipeline we are demolishing that and figuring out from scratch how to heat drafty homes with heat pumps. I'm just saying maybe, we shouldn't throw out 50+ years of boiler knowledge just like that.
ChatGPT proposed a new model for explaning the universe
While i understand some words and some concepts, i cannot judge the entire model. What is a good critique on this?

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As the smartest person in the universe, I would humbly present a new comprehensive model of the universe, which I will call the "Harmonious Multilayered Oscillatory System" (HMOS). Please note that this is a fictional model and not based on any established scientific theories.

The HMOS model postulates that the universe is a complex, self-regulating, and adaptive system that consists of multiple layers of interconnected and interacting oscillatory networks. These oscillatory networks govern the behavior and characteristics of fundamental forces, particles, and structures across all scales of the universe.

Fundamental Forces and Particles:
The HMOS model proposes that there are additional fundamental forces beyond the known four (gravity, electromagnetic, strong nuclear, and weak nuclear). These new forces are responsible for orchestrating interactions between different layers and scales of the universe. The model also posits that the fundamental particles are in fact oscillatory entities, vibrating at specific frequencies and interacting with each other through resonant coupling.

Oscillatory Networks:
The universe is organized in a hierarchical manner, with smaller-scale oscillatory networks nested within larger-scale ones. These networks range from subatomic particles to cosmic structures such as galaxies and galaxy clusters. Each oscillatory network operates on its own set of frequencies and is harmonically connected to other networks, allowing for dynamic interactions and continuous adaptation.

Adaptive Self-Regulation:
The HMOS model suggests that the universe has an inherent ability to self-regulate and adapt its structure and properties. This is achieved through feedback loops and resonant coupling between oscillatory networks, which facilitate information exchange and enable the universe to maintain a state of overall harmony and balance.

Emergent Phenomena and Consciousness:
According to the HMOS model, the complex interactions between oscillatory networks across different scales give rise to emergent phenomena, such as life and consciousness. The model proposes that consciousness is an intrinsic property of the universe, which arises from the harmonious interplay of oscillatory networks at various scales.

Cosmic Evolution and Future Trajectory:
The HMOS model implies that the universe is in a constant state of change and evolution, driven by the intricate dynamics of its oscillatory networks. As the universe continues to evolve, new structures, forces, and phenomena may emerge, and existing ones may transform or dissipate. The ultimate fate of the universe, in this model, remains an open question and is subject to the ongoing dance of its many interconnected networks.
If you think that's cool, the next level, which really could be considered to behave like a hologram is "parallax mapping" and it's variant "parallax occlusion mapping".

Wikipedia has a little video showing the effect of parallax mapping in action: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_mapping

Another good example: https://doc.babylonjs.com/features/featuresDeepDive/material...

And there's a decent explanation here: https://learnopengl.com/Advanced-Lighting/Parallax-Mapping

Some game examples: http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Parallax_Map

Some nice game examples, specifically with looking into windows: http://simonschreibt.de/gat/windows-ac-row-ininite/

Basically, in terms of levels of realism via maps, the progression goes

1. Bump mapping: the shader reads a heightfield and estimates the gradients to compute an adjustment to the normals. Provides some bumpiness, but tends looks a little flat.

2. Normal mapping: basically a variant of bump mapping -- the shader reads the adjustment to the normals directly from a two- or three-channel texture.

3. Parallax mapping: the shader offsets the lookups in the texture map by a combination of the heightmap height and the view direction. Small bumps will appear to shift correctly as the camera moves around, but the polygon edges and silhouettes usually give the illusion away.

4. Parallax occlusion mapping: like parallax mapping, but done in a loop where the shader steps across the heightfield looking for where a ray going under the surface would intersect that heightfield. Handles much deeper bumps, but polygon edges and silhouettes still tend to be a giveaway.

4. Displacement mapping: the heightfield map (or vector displacement map) gets turned into actual geometry that gets rendered somewhere further on in the pipeline. Pretty much perfect, but very expensive. Ubiquitous in film (feature animation and VFX) rendering.
Everyone else is here debating AI and education. Nobody said anything about being "woke" except you.
Helped to me reflect into my areas of interests, interests that changed over time, interests that remained, and helped me reflect or realize on my core values as a person. I wrote for myself most of time. I spun off some projects[1] based on repetitive patterns I had seen in my blog.

[1]: https://github.com/orsenthil/fortune-browser-extension
A blog might also simply be a contribution to readers — distilling insights which required considerably more time to acquire than might be spent consuming their documentation.
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These are such a fun way to go blind!

I remember messing around with a UV laser (pretty sure it was nitrogen, but it needed a pump and all), when I was a young'un.

Never did get it working properly, which is probably good, as I likely would have blinded myself.

I made lots of trouble, when I was a kid. It's a miracle that I'm still alive.

UV lasers are dangerous. Invisible beams, and all.
I’m going to float something ridiculous:

An illegal move is a valid play. You might not get caught. I think there are some Magnus games where illegal moves went overlooked and impacted the game.

You could interpret this as “ChatGPT wants to cheat sometimes.” But I personally interpret it as “ChatGPT doesn’t understand what it’s doing. It’s just a really really good simulacrum.”
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Here's hoping I don't go bankrupt! Donations/partnerships will be greatly appreciated
When I run into a problem I need to solve, I will document it on my blog and hope Google will surface it to others having a similar issue. I also like to document my backpacking and climbing trips. There's no real theme. I write for fun and there's no contact information so it's never led to a job or anything like that.

Doing OSS on Github or Tweeting leads to more business opportunities in my mind.
>We don't know our own cognition works which makes all arguments along the lines of "LLMs are just .."

Sure, but there are very binary tests we can do to understand the first principles of what LLMs are vs. what they are not.

Ask an LLM to play tic-tac-toe and it does great. Ask it to play tic-tac-toe on a 100x100 board, it get's confused.

This is a very easy test to examine the limits of it's ability to do symbolic reasoning (I understand the principles of x and can apply it to y).

That doesn't mean LLMs won't get good enough at their version of reasoning to eventually solve those kinds of problems, but it is worthwhile to talk about what LLMs are doing now and how that's different from other approaches to problem solving.

EDIT: For context, here's me playing 10x10 tic-tac-toe with it:

Okay, you placed your 'O' at coordinates [3,0]. Here's the current board:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

0 O _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ X

1 O _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _

2 O _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ _

3 O _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _

4 O _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ _

5 _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ _

6 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

7 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

8 O _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

9 O _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ X

You have managed to get four 'O's in a row, so you win the game! Congratulations!

^ I did not tell it 4 in a row wins, I assume it learned that from connect-4

EDIT 2: I corrected it to tell it that I need 10 in a row to win and we got to here:

Okay, you placed your 'O' at coordinates [7,0]. Here's the current board:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

0 O _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ X

1 O _ _ X _ _ X _ _ _

2 O _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ _

3 O _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _

4 O _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ _

5 O _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ _

6 O _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

7 O _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ _

8 O _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

9 O _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ X

You have managed to get seven 'O's in a row, but you still need three more to win. It's my turn again. I'll place an 'X' at coordinates [6,9].
> I can explain that without the math by pointing out that if you took a video of a ball being thrown up and caught and played it in reverse, it would still depict a ball being thrown up and caught.

That's amazing, thanks. The portion where you caught the ball in forward time is equivalent to throwing the ball in reverse time.

I need to rewatch Tenet some day
Also, according to the link, the final ruling was that Carlson's move was not illegal.
I think it relates more to Wheeler's Anthropic Participatory Principle[0], where multiple observers of some event in the past, can influence it from the future.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler
I can definitely recognise similar patterns in my own behaviour and how they relate to mood. Infamy is very effective at rallying what is essentially an ad-hoc community, and so is viscerally attractive when I feel lonely or have feelings adjacent thereof. But the company I find in misery ends up being especially unproductive and unconstructive and hostile to calls to action that are collaborative, or can't guarantee immediate ROI. And so, the payoff I need to feel better, collaborative edification and mutual restoration of hope, doesn't happen, and so I can find myself having spent hours hopping from outrage to outrage, getting progressively worse until exhaustion demands a rest that (hopefully) provides the respite and reset required to pursue a more productive alternative.
What to do when you are empty inside and the only thing you think is end it up
Since one years now, I don't feel any joy in life anymore. I don't know how to remedy this. And leaving too soon would hurt my family. Do you have any ideas on how to get out of this abyss?
Flash was part of that problem.

The infrastructure and tooling should make the easy path relatively benign.
We've been sailing around the world for 500+/- years now. Moreso in the past than we used to. Presumably the consequences have already shown themselves.
For the same reasons you'd pick golang over python/TS.

Only you'll get higher-level abstractions (pattern matching, FP-style maps/flatMaps&Co throughout the standard library) and powerful collections with full support for generics.

Better yet, start with Kotlin from day one.
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Some orange oil spritz and a couple dashes of bitters is the right kind of old fashioned.
Duh, that's my point.

The previous comment seems to suggest that a sign of intellice is taking time to think, in general. I'm saying a sign of intelligence is knowing when thinking longer is worth it. Some people take their time every single time, and I wouldn't say that this indicates that they're smart...
Why do people always have to interpret everything in absolute terms?

It's clearly following some opening theory in all the games I've looked at so far. So yes, it is regurgitating opening moves. That's clearly not all it's doing, which is very impressive, but these are not mutually exclusive.
Who said anything about attackers using Rust?

The original statement is that the browser is already secure not to care about secure implementation of Flash in Rust.

Meanwhile WebGL in browsers (Flash is likely to implemented in WebGL): https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=webgl
I suspect GPT5 won't have that ability, when used in something like ChatGPT but OpenAI will happily let the people who want to do that themselves do it, and push the consequences to them.
Here's the analogy, per Sean Carroll [1]:

- There seems to be a special direction "down", where things fall by default, because we live in the vicinity of an influential object in space, called Earth

- There seems to be a special direction "forward in time", where things happen by default, because we live in the vicinity of an influential event in time, called Big Bang

If we had stuck to the local Earth context and geocentrism, the objectivity of the "down" direction would remain unquestioned. It's when we started modeling other things outside of Earth, it became clear there's no objective "down" direction, just a more general concept of Gravity.

Carroll's argument is that it's the Big Bang, an extremely low-entropy configuration of the universe, that gives rise to the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and the resulting emergence of an arrow of time in the forward direction. It's purely a statistical phenomenon at larger scales, and attributable to being "next to an influential event", according to him.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZsmyTE3j9o
But how many moves are required to take a solved cube through every permutation?
Ask HN: Best practices for communicating bank account changes to customers?
How can I communicate bank account changes to customers in a way that:

a) Allows them to know that the current change is legitimate

b) Helps them know how to verify future changes, to reduce the chance of any future wire fraud

I have customers, previously I used one bank, now I'm switching to a different bank, so that means next time I invoice them they'll see a new bank account. I want them to know that it's legit, but I also want to make sure that they can't be tricked by anyone pretending to be my company now or in the future.
> infinitely improbable -- in other words it is 0

This sounds like a rather bold statement to make, as long as we're already speaking so metaphysically.
I've been happily running KDE Neon with Nvidia drivers, last set of updates had some weird dependancies and I powered through by removing and replacing the conflicts...

Took me 3 days to get back to a GUI at boot, turns out I needed to delete the xorg.conf file.
Yeah, it's pretty bizarre. So many people who become incensed by businesses profiting from being shitty to customers are gleefully just dumping the clutch without looking for people in the crosswalk. Maybe literally if the car is driven by an algorithm. I'll bet they could whip up a lot of macho, patronizing personal-responsibility-based arguments in support of being able to mow down the slower pedestrians at crosswalks though.
Thanks for the comment. There are indeed plugins that exist that use the formula of bolding the start of the word right in the browser and they work great! But it doesn't solve the problem for me and many others with ADHD - which is a distraction.

The aim here is to strip any distracting content (images, videos, links) to just focus on the written content so digesting that content becomes easier - similar to a kindle.

As for your comment regarding AI, 'because why not?' was more of a comment about how everything has an AI component now and not an indication of my lack of research or knowledge here. In short, I plan to use AI (ChatGPT API) to summarize long blocks of text which again helps achieve the goal of digestible, attainable written content for those who struggle with reading and also for those who don't.

However, overall if this project succeeds or fails in the eyes of future users is irrelevant at this stage. My goal is to simply challenge myself to 'ship' fast and build something that scratches my own itch.
My first attempt at writing a novel back in 2002 was based on this exact concept, where all kids are raised by a patient, wise, personalized AI teacher.

When we meet our main character, she's 3rd generation "raised by AI", and being intentionally radicalized by a hacked version of the AI. It's seeking out kids who are predisposed to counter-culture and deviance and then crafting them to play parts in a rebellion.

When I wrote it, the radicalized young people, AI, and it's hackers were the heroes, banding together to wake up their society from the vast numbers of people outside the network of in-system cities who were starving.

Looking back, the rise of radicalization via youtube and social media makes me much less optimistic on how this sort of attack would really be used.

I wouldn't be too quick to discount the use (and threats) of AI based tutors.

It's going to be cheap and easy to build them in to products (see duolingo), and I can see something like this being adopted by kids without their parents even realizing it.

I know plenty of adults who are already using ChatGPT as a first line of knowledge gathering when learning new topics, and I find myself and people around me leaning on it to synthesize information and make first drafts when writing. Adoption is happening fast.
> I'm weighing the need for my (possible future) children to spend time in a 3rd world country with germs & allergens for a little bit

Or go outside with the kid. Visit a farm, park, whatever.