Hacker News: uptheroots

New comment by uptheroots in "Research paper is also an executable x86 program [pdf]"

uptheroots — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 06:39:35 +0000

Tom7 the goat

New comment by uptheroots in "FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s"

uptheroots — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 22:47:30 +0000

My dude what is going on with these planss

New comment by uptheroots in "Time Doesn’t Belong to Physics – When Bergson met Einstein"

uptheroots — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 14:33:06 +0000

Philosophy can approach many questions that currently feel out of the realm of science

New comment by uptheroots in "Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking (2012)"

uptheroots — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 07:02:26 +0000

Wow this is an awesome recommendation! Seems like a good level for me and goes over topics I've always wanted to learn more about.

New comment by uptheroots in "Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls"

uptheroots — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 02:38:39 +0000

Love Vimium! It's easy to ignore sites where you want to use their native keybindings, which is nice.

New comment by uptheroots in "Ask HN: What are you working on this year?"

uptheroots — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 23:01:23 +0000

Maps!

Ask HN: How big of a step forward is ChatGPT?

uptheroots — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 01:02:31 +0000

I, like so many others have been very impressed by ChatGPT. I'm a software engineer who has some understanding of deep learning, but my day to day work is far outside of the AI field. So I'm not up to date on the current state of chat bots, speech synthesis, etc. I'm wondering how big of a step forward or breakthrough ChatGPT is compared to the state of the art from a year or a few months ago?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849366

Points: 10

# Comments: 4

New comment by uptheroots in "Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT"

uptheroots — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 00:57:20 +0000

Makes me think of Godel, Escher, Bach. It's been a while since I've read it but I recall Hofstader making the argument that self-reference is the key element of consciousness.

New comment by uptheroots in "How I survived a year in ‘the hole’ without losing my mind"

uptheroots — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 17:45:03 +0000

I believe prisons in part serve the purpose to keep us in check. With the threat of prison, society is encouraged to police itself. As another comment in this thread mentioned, Foucault helped to develop these sort of ideas and describes the motivations and development of the prison system in his work.

New comment by uptheroots in "Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things"

uptheroots — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 08:12:00 +0000

I didn't know many of these! Thanks

New comment by uptheroots in "Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade"

uptheroots — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 22:24:28 +0000

I've had the same Arch installation running since Spring 2020 on a desktop from 2012 or so. It's not my daily driver, but still works just fine. Even with some long periods between updates, I don't recall any serious stability issues.

New comment by uptheroots in "Bill Watterson’s refusal to license Calvin and Hobbes (2016)"

uptheroots — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 23:25:33 +0000

Always loved Calvin and Hobbes.Love it even more because of this.

New comment by uptheroots in "The Internet from Rocks – A High Level Explanation of Computers and the Internet"

uptheroots — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 05:30:35 +0000

This is a 404 for me

New comment by uptheroots in "Fzf – a command-line fuzzy finder"

uptheroots — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 03:55:56 +0000

FZF is one of the best programs I've ever used

New comment by uptheroots in "MIT 6.S081 – Operating System Engineering"

uptheroots — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 15:31:59 +0000

This was my textbook in college! It’s great

New comment by uptheroots in "Ask HN: Looking for a book on algorithms and data structures"

uptheroots — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 16:57:41 +0000

CLRS is what I used in college

New comment by uptheroots in "Facebook employees are now more willing to leave, tech recruiters say"

uptheroots — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 16:56:50 +0000

Behind a paywall very sad

New comment by uptheroots in "Facebook employees are now more willing to leave, tech recruiters say"

uptheroots — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 16:52:40 +0000

Very true, lots of fun distributed systems problems can be found working in infrastructure for FAANG companies.

New comment by uptheroots in "William Byrd on logic and relational programming, miniKanren (2014)"

uptheroots — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:52:51 +0000

One of my all time favorite YouTube videos is a lecture by William Byrd. I find myself still coming back to this video, it was so fascinating to me as an undergrad. https://youtu.be/OyfBQmvr2Hc

New comment by uptheroots in "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces"

uptheroots — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 03:16:29 +0000

We used this in my undergrad OS class. Great book!