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Re:Japan's trains are great. Why is booking one so hard?
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @10:21AM (#50326502)
I am pretty sure the manager could have uploaded the entire excel into ChatGPT in its native format. ChatGPT would then open a “Work” window on the right hand side. The manager could then prompt it to do what he wanted. No screenshots needed.
Re:Northflank Breached
on Friday October 30, 2026 @08:53PM (#50312135)
“besides Microsoft”
Re:We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry
on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:19PM (#50307084)
Well. If you give humans no instructions and play Minecraft without any hints, they probably would do what the AI agents did. Humans, though, realize the game is artificial and has nothing to do with real life... therefore, they go onto Discord, watch Youtube channels, and read about the artificial game rules imposed by Minecraft. They would prioritize building a shelter (from zombies-skeletons at night) and building an underground well-lit farm. Minecraft's says crops can grow underground from torches that stay lit forever and that you can create a never-ending source of water by making a 2x2 well and pouring water into it. In other words, the AI Agents would have played better if they were told to go read some strategy articles about surviving the first few days at Minecraft.
Re:We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry
on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:11PM (#50306945)
The article said GPT won most games but the kill counts were heavily in favor of Claude. That is Claude rationally behaved based on the immediate evidence it saw. GPT won, I assume, because its meta instructions told it to always assume games like these have a "back door" or glitch that allows for a devastating sneak attack. In this case, ender pearl to the bottom of the world floor and stacking blocks to elevator up and attack the bed from beneath.
Alphabet heads for a $500B drop in market value, biggest in its history
Re:Ask HN: What do you believe or not believe about AI?
on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:53PM (#50282606)
It is more of what do the corporations believe. As far as I can tell, Open AI is positioning itself as the replacement for knowledge worker office suite software. Enter your data once and ChatGPT AI agents can walk, transform, and shepherd it through your entire business life cycle.
Microsoft is doing its usual schizo strategy. It thinks it’s a tech pioneer software company, an enterprise software company, a game development company, an online services company, ad infinity.
My take is that yes, AI agents, will be one day be the way companies run their operations. When does this happen? Probably long after I am retired.
Re:Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist
on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:14PM (#50247322)
Not a theologian. My understanding is that during Jesus' time on Earth, the Jews were under the heavy yoke of the Romans. At that time, there were many Jewish sects who all claimed secret knowledge and were led by a "messiah" who would deliver the Jews from the Romans and re-establish Judah as a military-political power. The Anti-Christ as mentioned in Revelations and in Catholic texts were a warning to Christians. Christians should not be led astray by demagogues who preached salvation by political or military means. Instead, for Christians, salvation lay in Christ's commandments to love God, love neighbor, and love like he loved us.
Re:Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
on Monday October 26, 2026 @12:59PM (#50247067)
A couple of times in my career, I was one of those who were not given out a buyout. I was chosen to keep the lights on while the number of employees shrank every month. It sucked. I was given responsibility for systems with no documentation or than a username/password. I was called by all sorts of people I had never spoken to who had their hair on fire because the system was breaking left and right. I wished I was given the buyout; instead I was told I should be grateful I had a paycheck. No thanks.
Re:Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @04:56PM (#50235990)
With ChatGPT, I notice it tends to use abstract subjects.
E.g., ChatGPT wrote "Texas allows treated sewage sludge to be used as agricultural fertilizer, yet the proposed law requiring routine PFAS testing failed to advance".
I would have written "Texas allows treated sewage sludge to be used as agricultural fertilizer, yet the state failed to advance the proposed law requiring routine PFAS testing".
No matter how many times, I ask it to avoid fluff; it keeps writing it. E.g., Please avoid fluff sentences like "This is where the story gets more interesting." and "Here is how the evidence compares." They are not needed and serve no purpose.
I also notice its sentences do not provide a clear sense of who did what. E.g., it wrote "According to pilgrimage organizer Christian Marquant, Bishop Schneider met with Pope Leo in December 2025 and discussed the traditional Latin Mass." I would have wrote "According to pilgrimage organizer Christian Marquant, Bishop Schneider discussed the traditional Latin Mass with Pope Leo on December 2025." The phrase "met with" was extraneous and made it seem like the meeting was by accident.
Re:Woman faces six years in prison over Cash App account she never opened
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @10:34AM (#50195974)
Meanwhile, Cash App who facilitated the scam and actually cost the buyer actual money... walks away with no repercussions. There is something horribly broken when tech companies who are ruining people's lives have zero responsibility but are making money in the process.
Re:Honey, I Shrunk the TV
on Monday October 19, 2026 @09:27PM (#50160245)
I have two Sony Bravias. They are older LCD with souped up panels. I have been eyeing the micro-leds but can’t justify buying it when the other two are still going strong.
Re:Honey, I Shrunk the TV
on Monday October 19, 2026 @09:24PM (#50160221)
It is a new company or joint venture with TCL owning 51%.
Elon Musk emerges as the top booster for Republicans with $276M donations
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?
on Saturday October 10, 2026 @10:08PM (#50039118)
Re:Modernize Every SQL Server to Azure SQL or Fabric DW
on Monday October 05, 2026 @08:52PM (#49972811)
I left a few years ago for Snowflake. Thanks for the memories.
Re:(Japanese Acrobat Lantern) Akita Kanto Festival [video]
on Monday October 05, 2026 @08:46PM (#49972763)
One of the three biggest festivals in Japan. Skip to the 50 minute mark to watch them raise the lanterns.
(Japanese Acrobat Lantern) Akita Kanto Festival [video]
Re:Sites in ChatGPT
on Friday October 02, 2026 @05:10PM (#49938644)
I took it for a spin. I used Claude to create a self contained HTML file with JSON data embedded to create a SVG bar chart with sort and filter buttons. I then gave the HTML file to ChatGPT Work and it created the site using the provided HTML code unadulterated.
I then asked the next question. How can I automatically update the embedded JSON data. It gave two answers which I thought was weird. First, it said I could using a plugin to an MCP server. Second, it said I could use an API and when I asked for which API... it said there was an API available in ChatGPT Sites but no details. So I assume it can be done.
What I am thinking of is to use ChatGPT sites as a replacement for SharePoint. I can create self contained HTML charts and let employees view it within our enterprise instance of ChatGPT. The piece I am working on is how to automatically update the embedded data from our database.
Re:Why the Bronze Age Collapsed
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @12:33AM (#49917769)
https://claudemariottini.com/2014/06/19/ripping-open-pregnan...
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One of the most violent and brutal conducts in times of war was the Assyrian practice of ripping open pregnant women in order to expose their fetus. In his article, “‘Ripping Open Pregnant Women’ in Light of an Assyrian Analogue,” Mordechai Cogan quotes an Assyrian poem, probably dated to the reign of Tiglath-Pileser I.
Re:Why the Bronze Age Collapsed
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:20PM (#49915224)
It could be the Bronze Age empires were based on violence and coercion. When the small polities had the means to defend themselves, the empires fell apart.
Re:Nvidia launches new tool to keep AI agents from going rogue
on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:57PM (#49884229)
The related X post: https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/2104499465055023424?s=20
Nvidia launches new tool to keep AI agents from going rogue
Re:Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing futures into ...
on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:43PM (#49872960)
When East Germany existed, East Germans were shot dead trying to escape to West Germany.
Re:The darker side of being a doctor
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @04:14PM (#49821862)
Thanks for the link. Am I reading the article correctly. There are about 24K medical school students and 50K medical school applicants so that means almost half of the applicants are accepted into medical school? That seems a bit high?
Re:What California Is Learning from Solar Panels Built over Irrigation...
on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @11:01PM (#49811134)
You sir are a literary genius.
Re:Beyond Ukraine: Why Europe is preparing for a wider conflict
on Monday September 21, 2026 @03:51PM (#49792436)
You assume rationality when history has shown wars are often started with irrational or no apparent reason.