skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ernest Davis has an outstanding and definitive rebuttal of these claims: https://cs.nyu.edu/~davise/papers/GPT-Poetry.pdf

The basic problem is that GPT generates easy poetry, and the authors were comparing to difficult human poets like Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, and rating using a bunch of people who don't particuarly like poetry. If you actually do like poetry, comparing PlathGPT to Sylvia Plath is so offensive as to be misanthropic: the human Sylvia Plath is objectively better by any possible honest measure. I don't think the authors have any interest in being honest: ignorance is no excuse for something like this.

Given the audience, it would be much more honest if the authors compared with popular poets, like Robert Frost, whose work is sophisticated but approachable.
Have you tried catapults? For acceleration.
> It’s a bit like “how do you manage to brush your teeth daily if you have a chaotic routine”.

That doesn't move me away from my hunch that the jab is more convenient for many. Studies show that around 30% of people faily to brush the recommended twice a day.
Why is Mathematica so bad at being a spreadsheet?
1. automation and presentation
2. How about RSS ?
3. Local llm?
4. You say criteria, but as in keywords? Like "topics: design, designer, design trends" etc? I would suggest it would be profile based like "I'm a 25 year old designer from NY interested in..." etc.
Latest paper is here, pretty exciting
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10257
Was this with a Vogon plugin?
The Anarchist and the Hockey Stick
Backup vital data and media you'd miss if it disappeared
There's nothing I love more than git blaming and searching through 100s of "oops" and "edit" commits /s
I agree, although it is a "real" enemy in the sense that their ascension is a threat to US hegemony or the idea of the USA as the preeminent world superpower.

I don't see it as rational, but there is definitely an argument that the USA ought to remain positioned as number one, having the ability to dictate global politics. I don't think we deserve it, but it's certainly 'better' for us in the sense that it gives us an advantage and thus might improve our quality of life (cheaper imports, blah blah blah). I view that argument as entitled and promoting the status quo.

The Chinese people have worked hard. Actually, people all over the world work hard, although the Chinese have gone past industrialization and have a massive and capable population. The idea that they wouldn't have more power and would need to somehow remain under the US's thumb, where we get to say how they treat Taiwan or what currency they can trade in with other countries, just seems absurd. People come up with bullshit reasons for why the US ought to retain some control over their politics or how the rest of the world engages with the Chinese (and we don't just get to do that anyway), e.g., the Chinese are mean to the Uyghurs, as if anyone ever gave a fuck about the Uyghurs or whoever twenty years ago.

In all that sense, China is certainly a real threat. But the level of entitlement behind that argument is so blatant that I can't take it seriously.
Perhaps some people would like to know how much they are going to spend before they spend it.
The Honeywell Kitchen Computer: The 1960s Meal Planner That Nobody Could Afford
You might like cool-retro-term[1] - it's fun to play around with for a bit :)

[1] https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
Kagi founder here.

Kagi Search API is not officialy launched. We have a small, invite-only beta atm while we are working on it. We expect it to launch in about 2 months.
Your post reeks to high hell of the fact-free partisan contrarianism that has plagued US politics

On the one hand, a sitting president has conducted a coup d'etat condemned by his own party, on flimsy grounds and apparently with limited public support.

On the other hand, he's not left wing so it's clear that the only possible problem with his military coup is that journalists are insufficiently favourably disposed to it.
The signup sends me to a substack which sends me back to the page in a circle.
We're deluding ourselves by thinking it's happening to poetry! This study is ignorant and dishonest, it should have never been published in the first place: https://cs.nyu.edu/~davise/papers/GPT-Poetry.pdf

AI research is worse than all the social sciences combined when it comes to provocative titles/abstracts that are not supported by the actual data.
>There are lots of people called John Smith. They all want a domain name. There's only so many variations of jsmith, j-smith, etc you can squeeze into .com, .net, and a few others.

>Why shouldn't they be able to buy a domain name which contains their name?

I fail to see how johnsmith[insert number here].com is any worse than johnsmith.[insert TLD here]. If anything a number is less likely to get mixed up than tlds, which have confusing pairs like ".tech" and ".technology", or ".engineer" and ".engineering".
As a CCNP I think I can offer some insight into this phenomenon. I feel that it arises due to a few reasons:

1) CLI familiarity. Networking Professionals invest thousands of hours in learning router, switch, and firewall CLIs and want a return on this investment and this can only happen if their employer uses the equipment they are familiar with. If someone only knows the Juniper CLI then they will most likely have equal fervor for Juniper hardware. Having to use a CLI you are not familiar with adds stress to an already very stressful job.

2) Operational streamlining. Generally if every device on a Network is Cisco they will work together more reliably than if not. This isn't as true as it used to be but is still true. If your company network is Cisco only then Cisco cannot blame other manufacturers for an issue.

Personally I'm fine with having non-Cisco hardware. The Cisco Firewpower "next gen" firewalls are utter garbage compared to palo alto. My company has dozens of Cisco 2960 access switches and Cisco in their infinite wisdom has replaced this very cost effective product with the extremely NOT cost effective 9200 and 9300 series switches. If you only need gigabit ports and VLANs then the 9200 and 9300 switches are an incredible waste of money.
While I gladly embrace the shift to solid state, I find the mechanical engineering in old electronic devices, cameras in particular, quite fascinating.
OT, but man, I remember reading that book when I was a kid. Then started reading HTML books and, of course, the Llama book.
It's not because of misogyny; women in North Korea have far fewer rights but still have much more kids. As did South Korean women 50 years ago when the culture was even more misogynistic.
>critically important aspect of life

Nothing says "life" like being dead.
I think the author's definition of "best artist" is "artist who made my job easiest". I have no reason to distrust the author about this, but, on the other hand, this information is simply not useful.
Shopify's Layoffs
How so? Seems like a pretty good way to filter out who is using automation to submit applications spuriously like recruiting headshops, and you know that your application immediately gets to the top of the person's inbox who is directly responsible for the hiring decision. To me, that feels more respectful of the candidate.
Some of the new civs are amazing. Two of my favourite civs are Lithuanians and Romans.

I can also tell you, since there is a whole new generation of gamers out there who have practiced countless hours of various games, the game play and what is a n00b has dramatically changed. Plus us old timers are really good as well.
Not a playlist per se, but https://www.hooktheory.com/cheat-sheet/key-popularity

Has popular songs for each key and mode
It's a feature but also sort of an anti-feature. To do anything productive you will need to reach for a lot of .NET libraries, and those will force you to write code differently than you would if you could live in blissful pure-F# land. This results in a mishmash of styles.

Something as simple as calling a .NET function that doesn't have F# bindings forces a change (e.g. `someLibraryFunc(arg1, arg2)` instead of `f arg1 arg2`).

This gets worse as libraries force you to instantiate objects just to call methods which could have been static, or use ref parameters, etc.

I say this as somebody who loves F# - you do absolutely have to know .NET style (which really means C# style) in addition to F# style. It's extremely pragmatic if you're already familiar with C#, but I'm not sure how wonderful it is if you come in cold.
My domain registrar (DNSimple) tried to 5x the cost of my reseller plan
Now someone must eat the artist who ate the banana, for several million dollars.
Why that finger pointing?

In general the west eats a lot of sugar, or sugar is added to all kind of products. And it's health crippling in many ways.
I don't see any warning labels.

Yeah, take the bezel nuts away and replace it with energy drinks... Seems hypocritical to me.
Nothing stopping you from dying. You make your personal decisions and let others make theirs.
I use sublime-merge as a daily driver. AFAIK, it doesn't have a comparable feature for re-ordering commits.
> you'd know I was talking about Australia

Buddy, you've been all over the place from SCOTUS to Cape Byron.

I know plenty of Australians. With the amount of noise you guys were making online you'd think you'd know you had the freedom of speech.
> Treasure me. Enjoy me ... and don't throw me out because I'm not disposable plastic.

Plastic looking finish is the one that was luxurious at the time. And wood was just a way to get a good-looking finish for cheap... Like shiny black plastic is today.
A roadmap to scale connectomics to entire mammalian brains
Today, E11 Bio announces PRISM, our first step towards making brain connectivity mapping and reconstruction (connectomics) radically faster, cheaper and more accessible. This technology will allow brain researchers to affordably chart out millions of connections between individual cells in entire brains. We anticipate PRISM will be essential for scaling up whole-brain connectomics from small brains (e.g. flies[1]), to the large brains of mice and ultimately humans — a critical need for making more human-like AI, treating brain disorders, and even simulating our own brain circuitry.
There are libraries like cl—ppcre or alexandria. The fact is most features are trivially implemented that you don’t need that much external libraries. Most are glue code anyway. And with lisp, as soon as you can translate the data structures, you can use the available functions in the standard packages.

So you may want that github sdk, but in truth you’re only going to use 2 to 5 functions. Why not get an http package and add the few line of codes for these?
Coffeezilla made a 7min video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRklIlxciaM
Similarly, my favorite web stack these days is good ol' PHP for the API and HTMX for the front-end. It keeps everything simple and all the complexity in one place. Love it.
The whole environment of the newer gTLDs just feels… gross. I rarely find a reputable business that is using anything but .com or .co.XX as the primary domain.

Putting on my regular-person hat: When I see a billboard or print ad with e.g. `example.travel`, I read that as a social media handle and not a website address like `example.com` would convey. In public perception, dot com means websites. Always has.

(Tangentially, the `.sucks` TLD in particular should never have been allowed. How many brands out there have to maintain a perfunctory registration there just to prevent somebody else from doing so?)
Yes, commit author data is what I was referring to. Both name and email address changes sometimes need to be retroactive, especially in corporate environments using GitHub or Azure DevOps.
The problem is the new gTLDs don't increase the useful supply of domains.

For casual usage like personal blogs and whatnot? Sure, use whatever.

But if I was starting a web-based business and couldn't afford the .com? I'd rename the company before I'd use .xyz - if your business takes off the squatters will notice and raise their prices, so the .com will never be cheaper.

If you got an "urgent e-mail" saying your employer needed you to confirm you're legally allowed to work, and they directed you to experianrtw.app - would you go there and send them a photo of your passport?
Imperial units fit nicely here: 1.00 mile/sec.
As a casual non-Korean reader, this does appear to be a way for the current leadership to shut down corruption investigations against him, and to end democratic opposition to his policies.

Democratic opposition can seem stifling. However the solution is to negotiate.

The leader here is taking an authoritarian dictatorship path so a solution, unfortunately, it appears to my eyes.
The accounting firm that collapsed for signing off on Enron's fraudulent financials.
I don't really understand your concerns. Just starting to read it a bit you will see that is not making any crazy points that would need solid sources. It seems to start from "international relations 101"

The link you gave is not the author profile just lists all the article from the author which will be almost all of his articles since it his website. As I stated, he is a historian (by profession, the kind that gives classes, write books and engages with the historian academic community) and one of HN's darlings. Not sure why you would got out of your way to say that it does not inspire confidence.

You can find the author here for example : https://bsky.app/profile/bretdevereaux.bsky.social
Anecdote incoming - I read poetry, weekly if you will, over about 15 years now.

I also play with LLM's often, for creative side projects and work commercially with them (prompt engineering stuff)

I don't find it far fetched that individual poetry can be indistinguishable at times when AI generated. I was asking it to write in iambic pentameter (sonnets) and it consistenly got the structure right, it's approach to the provided themes were as complicated or glib as I wanted. But that's all subjective right, which leads me to my main point.

My view of poetry over the years, has always been centred around the poet, the poet living in a time and place. As a generalisation most people buy into the artists life because it may represent some part of themself.

If someone managed to write an intriguing corpus of texts using LLM's that was extolled, I think that would almost be besides the point. What is important is the narrators life, ups and downs, joys and woes. Their ability to convey a memorable story even heavily relying on AI would still be impressive. Anyway sounding a bit wanky I will stop lol

(I do think LLM's write a little too perfect and that is easy to think it is not human, but you can kinda prompt them to throw in errors too so who knows)
You need to look further ahead than that though. A sane git history makes debugging much easier. When you bisect your way to a problem area, sure is nice when the suspect lines of code fall into a 10 line change commit with a nice message and body providing context. I’ll let it slide if the PR/MR has a lot of good context, because it’s trivial to link those back to commits/lines.
It’s a little weird to say you’re ditching React, when your issues are not with React but other dependencies you’ve adopted. The choice to write a backend in Go that handles routing was always there.
gTLDs also have cost risks like when .tech was taken over by a holding company and then 3x the registration price. Who knows about next year and the year after that.
Sometimes, before you merge your changes into master, you may want to re-organize your commits in logical chunks.

For example, if you are working in two different files -- you can reorder the commits so they appear together, and then combine them if that makes sense.
I don't think the AP is the sector of the West the OP is worried might turn sympathetic towards him if he makes the right noises and does outreach to the right people.
The MPs are being locked out from the National Assembly from overturning this coup:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/03/south-kore...

For the South Korean population, the proper way to deal with this is a general strike. Do not work unless in absolutely vital sectors.

Koreans here say that this is domestic. Hopefully it is and will be over soon. It is odd however that the U.S. government escalates in Ukraine, there is a new color revolution in Georgia (the country adjacent to Russia), the Syrian rebels launch a major attack and now this.

All of this "coincidentally" makes Trump's peace efforts more difficult. Trump will have to clean up all the fires started by this incompetent or malicious administration.
I have worked with people have justified downright trash with "it's not supposed to be a work of art".

That way lies madness.

Code that takes a minute to write takes ten minutes to understand. Code is first and foremost for humans to understand, before it is for machines to execute. Otherwise there would be no need for comments, or sane names for functions. Or commit messages. Please be considerate to your readers.
>There’s thousands of different tax regimes in the US - dozens to hundreds in every state, thanks to city taxes and the like. All businesses would need to advertise the right price everywhere. Doesn’t scale.

Of course it does. Seeing this excuse in 2024 is absurd. It has nothing to do with actual difficulty, businesses just don't want to have to do it.

Businesses should be required to say in general advertisements "product/service is $X + local applicable taxes". When you go to make your individual purchase they would then be required to show the actual total price you will be paying. Maybe include a breakdown if people want it.

Creates a burden for businesses to comply? Too fucking bad, that's the cost of being allowed to do do business.
"National Speed Limit"
Yeah, I don't get who's going to be paying $10 a month for a nicer `git rebase -i`
We really have openings, yes. We've made multiple hires for these open roles and continue to grow the team. We don't use any "live" project examples or farm out real work as a part of these interview tests.
It’d be foolish to rule it out completely even if it looks benign at face value. It’s entirely plausible for someone to be recruited on behalf of another state, seeing how it’s currently happening now:

https://www.reuters.com/world/russias-suspected-sabotage-cam...
>Their main competitive advantage

Their advantage is institutional buy in and resource allocation.

A collegiate team that has to piss a huge fraction of their man hours on overhead tasks and fundraising has no chance of success.
Anyone knows if this is related to matrix.org ? Or totally unrelated?
The disambiguation page has more definitions. Slop is not a new term, it's meant food scraps for centuries, but it's taken off recently in the context of AI.

> Slop (clothing)

> Slop (artificial intelligence), a derogatory term describing low-quality artificial intelligence-generated content or media

> Slop is the common name for household food scraps

> Strategic Lateral Offset Procedure, in aviation, a procedure for avoiding collisions

> a popular term for Backlash (engineering)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slop
I think he means AWS/Azure/GCP and other hyperscalers.
You are welcome to die from any number of preventable deaths.

I choose life.
It is, to put it mildly, highly debatable (and highly debated) that COVID measures were really an abuse of freedom at all.
Hmm, I’m not convinced. That’s just the comment in the guise of poetry. There are a bunch of dangling implications in this “poem” where a real master would weave the implications together.

I guess I’d also say it is not only doing the right thing that counts, one must also be doing it for the right reason.

AI “art” is mimicry, burdened by the inevitable mundanity of the majority of its training corpus. The avant garde remains exclusively the domain of a comparative handful of forward thinking humans, in my humble opinion.

Or said another way: AI art is kitschy, and I don’t think it can escape it.
Huh, that sounds a little like claiming that AI can draw pictures just as well as humans because they look realistic at a first glance. But not if you check whether the text, repetitive elements, and partially-occluded objects in the background look correct.
It'll be like cell phone bills, in particular the post-paid variety. I have a line that is using Consumer Cellular, and the plan is ostensibly $20/month. The actual bill is $28.02. Insanity.
Hints for Computer System Design (1983) – Lampson's timeless principles
Also an American saying "sub-zero" means it's really very cold. Basically the difference between a fridge (approx 0 degC) and a freezer (-18 degC).
gf and I got once or twice a quarter depending on what is coming out.
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Java is really not that verbose if steer out of the 25+ years old conventions that were defined to justify expensive proprietary tooling. Leave all fields package scope or public final, so you don't need getters and setters. On JDK21+ use records and pattern matching. Go procedural + lambda, don't be afraid to use static methods. When OO is required, prefer composition over inheritance. Adopt a proper annotation processor library such as autovalue to eliminate remaining boilerplate.
They're different. Companies register all kinds of crazy domains and redirect you through them all the time. Why is it crazy that some marketing person at Dell thought it would be cool to link people to 'dell dot shop'? I would check the certificates, but honestly only as a precaution. If the website looks correct that isn't such an insane thing.

That is exactly why it's so dangerous and effective versus your example.
Would be nice to sort by mem or source code gz or cpu secs :-)

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
older generations did just that. In the Internet boom, people commonly talked about "place being obsolete" and other detached thinking.. perhaps lessening the emphasis on buying real property nearby. Of course, not everyone played by the same rule book. Observe the result.
It was in response to this up-thread: "your first assertion hinges on the assumption the UK is where these people eventually want to live, once they have that education"

73,000 want to, at least for two years.