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New comment by jacobmischka in "OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns"

jacobmischka — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 23:55:50 +0000

This is exactly what the previous poster was talking about, these definitions are so circular and hand-wavey.

AI means "artificial intelligence", but since everyone started bastardizing the term for the sake of hype to mean anything related to LLMs and machine learning, we now use "AGI" instead to actually mean proper artificial intelligence. And now you're trying to say that AI + applying it generally = AGI. That's not what these things are supposed to mean, people just hear them thrown around so much that they forget what the actual definitions are.

AGI means a computer that can actually think and reason and have original thoughts like humans, and no I don't think it's feasible.

New comment by jacobmischka in "ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time"

jacobmischka — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 18:13:46 +0000

I sincerely hope you work on some random SaaS and not any software that actually matters, because this is how you get subtle dangerous bugs.

New comment by jacobmischka in "ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time"

jacobmischka — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:18:54 +0000

So it's a coinflip whether it's giving you correct information or something completely made up? And now you're not digging through the obscure manuals to actually verify? Seems objectively harmful.

New comment by jacobmischka in "Write admin tools from day one (2022)"

jacobmischka — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:35:35 +0000

We're working on Interval to make doing exactly this easier. We focus on code first, well-typedness, and abstract away UIs for these tools so you can write the business logic using your own existing functions and tools and then get back to working on your actual app.

[1]: https://interval.com

New comment by jacobmischka in "Detecting potential cheaters in Advent of Code Leaderboards"

jacobmischka — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 15:23:52 +0000

This is an extremely bad faith reduction. It is a series of programming puzzles, not invent-the-universe problems, or paraphrase-problems-to-AI problems.

New comment by jacobmischka in "Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub"

jacobmischka — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 12:51:06 +0000

I do something similar, though I use the "defaults" as the starting point and add overrides in local files which aren't checked in. Something like this:

    # .dotfiles/.bashrc
    # shared baseline config...
    if [ -f ~/.bashrc.local ]; then
        . ~/.bashrc.local
    fi

New comment by jacobmischka in "Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll and won (2019)"

jacobmischka — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:52:46 +0000

Oh, I guess because of the recent comma.ai story. Seems a bit less blatant now that I realize that.

New comment by jacobmischka in "Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll and won (2019)"

jacobmischka — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:49:28 +0000

This is a bizarre and blatant attempt to yell over detractors with ancient PR. Why are people upvoting this?

New comment by jacobmischka in "1Password Refuses to support Orion browser for no reason"

jacobmischka — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 19:34:02 +0000

That exists!

New comment by jacobmischka in "How to stop being “terminally online”"

jacobmischka — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 15:15:17 +0000

Seems like they're not the most immature one in this situation.

New comment by jacobmischka in "Tell HN: Slack revealed email addresses of users to others in same workspace"

jacobmischka — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 22:19:52 +0000

This honestly doesn't seem like a big deal to me. Maybe I'm naive, but email addresses aren't really private these days, it was limited to only fellow members of your workspace, and they were up front about the seemingly honest mistake. I've personally made worse mistakes.

New comment by jacobmischka in "Tell HN: We are trying to get tail calls into the WebAssembly standard"

jacobmischka — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 11:56:18 +0000

Agreed on the formatting of mine being ridiculous with huge margins and line spacing, it wasn't my choice.

New comment by jacobmischka in "Show HN: Porting OpenBSD Pledge() to Linux"

jacobmischka — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:08:22 +0000

Very neat! Unfortunately can't get the `curl` example to work no matter what I do (on Arch Linux).

    $ pledge.com -p 'stdio rpath wpath cpath dpath flock tty recvfd fattr inet unix dns proc thread id exec' curl http://justine.lol/hello.txt
    curl: (6) getaddrinfo() thread failed to start

I tried following the Troubleshooting section and looking through strace output, but unfortunately I'm not sure what I'm looking for, I see a few EPERMs for calls that I don't know what they do: rseq, set_robust_list, and sysinfo to name a few.

New comment by jacobmischka in "Tell HN: We are trying to get tail calls into the WebAssembly standard"

jacobmischka — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 08:45:29 +0000

Ha well the mechanization was a nontrivial amount of work (for me at least) and was considered part of it too. If it's still short despite that, then welp I guess I got lucky somehow.

New comment by jacobmischka in "Tell HN: We are trying to get tail calls into the WebAssembly standard"

jacobmischka — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 15:10:55 +0000

Neat! This proposal caused me a lot of headaches, mechanizing its specification was the primary contribution of my Master's thesis a couple years ago[1]. I forgot until rereading it just now, but doing so caught a typo in the proposal specification[2], my extremely minor contribution to advancing WebAssembly.

Glad to see it finally moving forward after stalling for so long! Excellent work!

[1]: https://github.com/jacobmischka/uwm-masters-thesis/releases/... [2]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/tail-call/issues/10

New comment by jacobmischka in "The world needs a non-profit search engine"

jacobmischka — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 19:05:38 +0000

Those sell for $5 in some places.

New comment by jacobmischka in "High-intensity exercise, some new news"

jacobmischka — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 09:15:31 +0000

Your analogy is true though?

New comment by jacobmischka in "Ask HN: How can I improve navigation skills?"

jacobmischka — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 10:28:25 +0000

In my experience, if you rely too much on GPS that tells you exactly where you are and where to go you'll have a much tougher time actually retaining that information. When I first moved to a larger city than I'd lived in my whole life I had to look up how to get anywhere, but after I forced myself to stop and take wrong turns and figure it out I had a much easier time remembering where I was and how to get places.

I also learned a lot about my city/neighborhoods by walking in them for pleasure. I feel like I know most streets in a 5 mile radius because I spent so much time in them casually walking without the stress of missing a deadline.

Like most things in life, it ultimately comes down to mindful practice in a non-stressful environment.

Train stations are a little different, because often they look the exact same and you have to rely on small things like signs and very slight differences to figure out where you are. They're tricky and I think just require repetition.

New comment by jacobmischka in "What happened to proper tail calls in JavaScript? (2021)"

jacobmischka — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 14:43:07 +0000

It's a compiler optimization, not something an end user should really ever use. As an end user, it should just look like a function whose final statement is the call to another function (often itself, recursively).

One may be familiar with "stack overflow" which is when a series of function calls (often recursive) go so deep before actually returning that it exhausts the maximum stack space (essentially an array of scopes containing variables/state for each function). A proper tail call will realize that it can reuse the same existing stack frame instead of adding a new one, which essentially makes exhausting the stack impossible and removes the need for the CPU to do all of that bookkeeping.

In performance sensitive workflows it can make a large difference.

New comment by jacobmischka in "Glucosamine significantly reduces risk of lung cancer and lung cancer mortality"

jacobmischka — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 09:38:26 +0000

Based on the title and reference to smoking, I imagine he means the risk of lung cancer.