A few excerpts from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html worth a careful re-read:

> In Comments

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Why are you replying on this comment?

As near as I can tell, I was in fact right. I just didn't follow the laws of HN communication to express it, on a thread where the person I replied to didn't follow it either.

It would have been more appropriate to pile on with the others above.

This reminds me of Santayana's quote: “Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”

There was also "Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams" which uses a parallelized version of logo to explore ideas about decentralized systems and is really excellent: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262680936/turtles-termites-and-...

> have zero interest in it if it's AI-generated.

Someone is using AI to make songs for ads on YouTube. Maybe it's not a new thing, but I just started seeing them recently, and they're so fucking bad. They're these dull, rambling things telling a boring story badly, with equally bland AI animations to accompany it. They just go on, and on, and on, and suck the entire time.

> The exam has not changed in difficulty

Has what students are expected to know changed since the 60s? For instance, have there been any, I dunno, new developments in technology over the past 60-odd years?

> Has what students are expected to know changed since the 60s?

No, basic algebra and calculus has not changed.

> No, basic algebra and calculus has not changed.

That's all that's on the entrance exam? Basic algebra and calculus?

The only proper response is a “LGTM” and merge it into main.

problem is I can't, because the BE is not doing what the FE team needs it to do.

The FE team consists of me btw.

Yeah. It’s like well, that would be great if there was no tomorrow, but the thing about tomorrow is that it always famously comes.

Well, I heard it was the Epstein-Trump Boating School For Children, which taught vulnerable youngsters how to get away from Epstein’s child-rape island.

Unfortunately, you misheard. It was the Epstein-Trump Motorboating School For Children, and what was taught was...not what you said.

I actually lol’ed :-)

> they struggle with those things because of the way they are. it's completely irrelevant.

I mean, they seem like fair game if you’re ever participating in a Turing Test.

Is the Turing test focused, perhaps unnecessarily, on deciding how well a computer "thinks like a human"? Should we expand our universe of possibilities to admit that there might be AI that is generally intelligent, but which has some very un-human characteristics?

> Pelicans are a solved problem at this point. An open-weight model on my own machine gave me this

That feels kinda like when I remember seeing Ocarina of Time for the first time, and thinking “oh my god, this looks just like real life…”.

For me it was the wheels. I couldn't stop staring at the wheels... how did it get them so freaking perfect? Mad respect to GLM 5.3.