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It turned out to be possible with fairly basic statistical text generation, because fooling humans is easy.

I don't think it is fair to call a GPT model "fairly basic statistical text generation" - a Markov Text Generator I'd agree can be called basic statistics, but they are not fooling any humans in a Turing test.

It would've been nice to reserve "AI" for superior human-like intelligence capable of genuine common sense and reasoning.

No, AI would absolutely be apt for describing a computing reasoning like a child

Maybe you shouldn’t throw out your new trailer, but it looks like a good deal for expanding a fleet.

Remember that all signs point towards more CO2 fees and higher gas prices in the coming years

One of the nice things about notebooks (handwritten) is the juxtaposition of data, which makes it a joy to browse through and rediscover old thoughts and ideas.

The only note taking app I’ve found to be fun to browse is Google Keep. I love the layout, I love how things are “out of place”

On a side note, I’ve found Muji notebooks to hit that sweet spot where the paper is nice enough to write down something you want to keep and refer back to, and cheap enough that you can waste pages writing down spur of the moment thoughts and things.

In your opinion how did it look just a few years ago, and why do you think the field has moved towards a bigger focus on fundamentals?

openAI just renamed codex to ChatGPT app … I think it is just par for the game.

I wouldn’t call it synonymous as much as I’d call it its literal meaning.

https://jisho.org/word/%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E5%8C%96%E3%81%91

I think the streaming sites are in a difficult position.

On one hand I expect access to the worlds music, but on the other hand I also expect not to be drowned in 8bit covers and AI music.

They are - to me at least - also an arbiter of music, similarly to how record stores used to be.

Maybe I drank the cool-aid, but I like the corners on my Mac, and it took a lot of empathy from me to accept “the other” authors filing job, but this looks beautiful.

Thanks to both authors for sharing the work!

I’m a very casual reader, nothing heavier than Murakami.

My surprises:

- it’s just 5 judges, who makes the shortlist

- it’s the _same_ 5 judges judging the short list

- there are generally no criteria

- Pulitzer Prizes favors American settings.

- edit: bonus surprise I expected judges to be mostly critics and professors of literature

While I’m not surprised it’s just a few people judging the short list I would have expected more eyes on making the shortlist (editors and publishers make a short list and critics and authors judging it)

I definitely expected different prizes to value things differently. Like a Novel prize winner I would expect to be heavy, with layers and quite frankly a bit intimidating to casual readers, like myself.

I would not expect a criteria to favor a setting. Maybe an authors background (again, I would expect Nobel to favor poor authors who somehow made)

Sure, but when it is for things like "reimbursements, documentation and reporting, gathering and presenting business data. That sort of thing.", I'm not really sure offline is that big a requirement, or that there are that many major assets. Even so, your mobile browser should be able to cache CSS and hero images.

Okay, but why do you need 3D for an interface where you register leave?

But take parents example. What is it you want the app version to do that a decent website can’t do?

I think 2 things happened to social networks / media:

1) companies had a desire to grow everyone's networks. Early numbers said, people more connected have more engagement, and the larger a user's graph is, the better we can advertise to that user.

But at some point it also changes what you want to post, or if you want to post at all. Do I want my mom to see this joke? That party photo? What about that guy I met on exchange 10 years ago?

I have 1000 connections on Facebook, and all _their_ connections can be exposed to my post. It might as well be public.

2) Professionals are better at posting than amateurs. It turns out that we rather watch a funny update from a comedian we don't know, than an update from a friend trying to be funny. Social networks are not social anymore. They are mostly TV, but instead of channel surfing, you are doom-scrolling videos from professional creators, not updates from friends.

Corridor crew just did a video on this animatronic controller, which they adored, both concept and lore.

They recreated one and had one of the stop motion guys from Jurassic park and another animator come visit and test it.

Their conclusion was that animating in blender with your mouse is still better, even though it was enjoyable to use the animatronic controller.

Their concept for the video was “look at this better way to animate that time forgot” and ended up concluding that “actually it isn’t better”

Isn't there a problem with rerouting that you push cars into community-roads that aren't supposed to be supporting commuting traffic?

Wasn't there some articles a few years ago about communities that filled wheelbarrows with phones connected to Waze and moved them slowly down the road, stop waze from routing cars through residential areas?

Outside of war, ships and planes, I agree with you, that their benefit doesn’t seem like all that.

But then again, I never thought WiFi would take over wired network cables, but now even my desktop is connected with WiFi.

I also didn’t think cellular would be a replacement for copper or fiber, but now my modem for the apartment is 5G.

Both ended up being good enough, easier and cheaper (!)

I don't think it has something "profound" to say, but it also is a good article worth the read.

It's mostly about why some people enjoy working with AI ("I get to build things I can use, that I couldn't build otherwise!)" and others don't ("This code is all slop and nobody understands it, and it makes me sad")

It touches a little bit about those two perspectives in general, which he calls centaurs (in charge of the work) and reverse centaurs (the work is in charge of them)

That quote also resonated with me. It reminded me of "Perl, the write-only language"-meme of yore.

And I think there is a place for perl, just like there is a place for bash one-liners.

The authors example is personal software. The things we write to scratch our own little itches, that do not need to be shared or developed together with other people.

While there are plenty of online updates on the switch, I never remember not being able to play a game without first running an update.

Of course we have to see how it plays out in reality, but giving back all IP and a runway to complete planned games to game studios as they are "released" from Microsoft is a really nice gesture, not just for the studios but also for the fans.

Most companies would just shut it down and keep the IP.

Wow, using the current timezone is not a planned feature.

To my surprise this isn’t a “I asked Claude to do something” article.

I do wish it gave a few examples of the use of SnakeCoil and a bit more on the daughters reception of the ROM hack

I imagine it’s similar to why a fan starts at max. Eg: 0->3->2->1

Something technical made it easier to implement.

The level at which it is a concern might be skewed, but if you’ve ever sat in a room with “thick” air, trying to concentrate you know it is a real thing and just opening a window and a door for a few minutes to create a draft helps tremendously.

My read of the zeitgeist on HN is that these new LLMs bring with them a torrent of false or useless security reports, that whatever may be true simply drowns.

The end result is both that there are more critical CVE and that there aren’t.

Right now you either give it to China or to the US.

China is not publicly threatening to invade the EU.

I think the EU needs to produce this themselves but right now they don’t and they don’t have any large, trustworthy allies.

When you didn't learn to type properly

Not learning to type properly is probably the best thing you can do for your wrists when typing.

Keeping fingers on home row is very bad posture for your wrists on a normal keyboard.

HN is always so sarcastic on this point, but a large part of the population is not getting 15-30 minutes of actual exercise a day.

One of the first things you do when hiring is to set a period and randomize order of resume when reviewing because early application is not a strong signal.

The whole point of using an agent is that I don't want to learn everything. I fully expected the harness to read the .agentignore file and do what is needed to hide it from the LLM.

But apparently, even if implemented, that's not how it works!