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It seems that this is mostly written by LLM:

https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector/50429475

Open Source?

How about we start by open-sourcing the NVIDIA user-space libraries: libcuda, libcudart, libOpenCL, libnvtx, as well as nvidia-smi and the CUDA and OpenCL profilers.

Most of the keys aren't working for me in Firefox though :-(

A massive overpriced laptop with a novelty touch feature on its monitor gets free promotion on HN. Ah well.

LLM-authored website convinces you to waste time and energy on chatting with an LLM when struggling to survive.

I asked ChatGPT what it thinks about this situation and it told me LLMs can diagnose skin cancer, so there.

> Doing original research is not generating value for the institution, so they wouldn’t get paid

It is the _main_ activity which "generates value" for an institution, whose primary goal is conducting research.

> Grading is part of what it means to be a TA,

Checking students' homework is part of what it means to be a TA. Grading is a choice the university makes; it's absence makes one no less of a TA.

> being a TA is not some awful exploitation

It's certainly exploitation. For some TAs, who get overworked and lorded over, and in universities when the pay is low, it's awful exploitation. For most TAs it is 'regular' exploitation of getting a crappy salary for serious highly-skilled work.

This motivation is why, when I was in grad school, I never liked handing out grades. I would have rather just marked the problems I found with a HW submission, added notes where appropriate, and that's it. If no grade is given, it is obvious that you have provided the student the service of reading and checking their work, rather than allowed them to increase their 'score' or collect 'points'.

Check the commits they make for their "releases" and you'll see what I mean. I won't spoil it for you.

> OpenOffice

That has not had an actual release for something like 12 years, and has had known unaddressed security vulnerabilities for... what is it now, a year? Two years?

That is a dead project. Please Tell your mom to tell her bosses they really should switch to LibreOffice. Which is simply the continued development of the same thing. The municipality can write the Document Foundation and ask for assistance:

https://thedocumentfoundation.org/

and there are of course commercial companies which do LO transitions too.

Don't you mean that the pointy-haired bosses will force people to "adopt AI" because not adopting it is "stupid", then claim success?

> the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.

I wonder if the argument cannot be made that it has delivered little payoff in tech as well - in terms of actual stable revenue vis-a-vis the immense capital investments, the deep loans, the circular commitments etc.

Well, they might also like a word with all of the scientists and students who make sure their papers are available online, despite Springer's draconic requirements. But that word is no longer heeded. Well, for the most part.

> Personally, I feel that I am at least a third slower reading AI-generated text, even if the length is the same.

I've been reading an AI-generated technical proposition. It was even slower for me.

> Beyond this, most models are extremely verbose, which makes total reading time much higher.

Painfully true. When I took a semster of law studies and got my first homework assignment, I was flabbergasted by how short the submission length limits were. I could barely write an introduction to my mini-paper with that number of pages! And I was expecteds to cover everything, and have an explicit conclusion, and a complete and meticulous bibliography. I struggled sooo much to be more concise and to let go of less-critical points I wanted to make! But it was a great intellectual and rhetorical exercise.

So, when I start the game - I don't understand what my purpose even is. That is, what do I want to be doing? Even if I choose an implicit goal - increase my apporval percentage for example - the best I have is some vague metric of cocerns, and the main concern is "neighborhood change", when: (1) I haven't changed anything yet! and (2) The only thing I can even do is propose more neighborhood change. And I'm not even sure the thing to is aim for increasing my approval rating. So, I feel stumped before ever have taken a single action.

> Successive UK governments have made the case for more and better defence spending, encouraging British start-ups to invest in this fast-growing ...sector.

War, invasions, occupations - it's a growth business apparently. The UK government approves.

1. This is for "Battery EVs" (so probably not hybrid I guess)

2. I am somewhat suspicious of this statistic. A 70% jump in one month? I doubt it. Perhaps there was some change in regulation? Coordinated removal of models from the market? Or maybe a collapse in availability of some models or of car sales overall?

> The industry often talks about software as though it comes out of a factory.

A lot of good software, if not most of it, doesn't come from "the industry"...

But does it make sense to strongly couple the logic of when and where to show furigana, with the choice of font? My instinct says "no"...

> This happens in academia all the time. You read a ton of papers, chat with tons of people about tons of ideas. > > Later you come up some idea, you do the experiment, write the paper, search for relevant citations when you write the intro.

And your search includes papers mentioning the various ideas you heard about from those other people. They almost always publish _something_ about it, and in the rare cases they do not, you put them in the "thanks" section, describing which ideas they contributed to (or in very rare cases, cite an unpublished result/claim as "personal communication" from an author).

I was in academic for a number of years (Theoretical Comp Sci, then DB management systems architecture), and what I just described seems to have been the practice. It is of course possible that people neglected to cite the sources of some of their ideas, but not that I know of. The worst I could say is that several authors' work exhibited a similar approach and a person preferred to cite one of them rather than another.

Title is incorrect of course, it is: "Intuitive concurrent programming in a separate language than the one you use for the actual work"

... which is not to say it's irrelevant, but still: Why is it worthwhile to have a separate language for this, rather than some library with bindings in various languages?

I am skeptical that a transition from X to Wayland is actually merited.

As for the post / the repo itself, this analysis:

https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector/50103338

suggests it is LLM-generated. Not sure what to make of it.

I didn't say it was better, just that there was no "roguness" nor some magical surprise.

I broke my leg at the edge of the Fibula bone. 4 Orthopedic specialists gave me 3.5 different opinions with different and conflicting recommendations for treatment.

So, unless the first two opinions are completely identical - yeah, definitely get the third. Better to go for people with slightly different specializations if relevant.

Maybe change the title to mention it's about the US.

Also...

> You may need to push for comprehensive genetic testing.

Why?Cancer is not a condition that develops due to genes you inerited, after all, right? And also - for any cancer? Just some of them?

The thing is, nothing "rogue" happened. It's more like: Frontier Lab: "Hey agent, try a bunch of network-related commands and actions to try and get access to server XYZ" Agent: Does that. Frontier Lab: 8-|

They're skipping security basics, but they're not skipping PR basics. :-\

This set of fonts takes up 2.4 GB (yes, that's Giga, not Mega) bytes when you download the release. Each one is over 50 MB in size.

What does that setting do?