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abhijat··on Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb
This whole thread is what the original post arrives at too, including ASD-STE100.
abhijat··on Ask HN: Would you want to know when and how you die?
Absolutely not, it would ruin life as it is. Maybe it would drive some decisions, but probably badly and panic driven.
abhijat··on Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep
I've had it for a few years now. One time I got a throat infection and it amplified to a slightly louder volume. It went down to its original level a few months later, but the time when it was slightly louder was scarier than when it first appeared. I was worried it was going to keep increasing.
abhijat··on Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
Isn't the context window the same for all plans, 200k? You would hit usage limits?
abhijat··on Ask HN: What Are You Reading?
Just finished Dreadnought and started Castles of steel by the same author, Robert K. Massie.
abhijat··on A Rust shaped hole
There used to be reasonml but I'm not sure how active it is these days.
abhijat··on Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean
The article says that deep water is warmer, afaik deep water is colder and surface water is hotter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upwelling)?

A 2023 study https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230330102327.h... observed slowdown in Antarctic overturning, in which cold water sinks down at the south pole and then spreads north in the deeper parts of the ocean.

The slowing of this process would cause deep ocean water to become warmer.

edit: the publication linked in the article https://www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.1073/pnas.2500440122 makes this a bit clearer:

"In the polar Southern Ocean, cold, fresh surface waters overlay warmer, saltier deep waters (Fig. 2A). During winter, surface cooling and sea ice formation reduce stratification, allowing vertical mixing to transport heat upward, either melting sea ice from below or limiting its growth (8). However, decades of surface freshening strengthened stratification, trapping subsurface heat at depth, sustaining expanded sea ice coverage (7, 9) and limiting deep convection along with open-ocean polynyas (10). Here, we show that since 2015, these conditions have reversed: Surface salinity in the polar Southern Ocean has increased, upper-ocean stratification has weakened, sea ice has reached multiple record lows, and open-ocean polynyas have reemerged."

abhijat··on Ask HN: What are the best books with problem sets that test your understanding?
It has been a while since I worked through it, but Haskell programming from first principles had some pretty good exercises IIRC.
abhijat··on Introduction to System Programming in Linux (Early Access)
From the accompanying code repository it looks like no https://github.com/stewartweiss/intro-linux-sys-prog
abhijat··on Slow is smooth, smooth is fast: Navy SEALs' efficiency secret
The point is that staying relaxed in boxing during sparring or working the heavy bag feels counter-intuitive in the beginning. It seems like tensing up the core and arms would help punch harder, but you quickly learn that conserving stamina is more important than hitting as hard as you can (especially when starting) because otherwise you run out of gas pretty quickly.
abhijat··on Slow is smooth, smooth is fast: Navy SEALs' efficiency secret
Being relaxed is important in boxing too, if you don't stay loose and relaxed (other than snapping explosively when throwing a punch), it is easy to get fatigued quickly and also harder to slip or roll.
abhijat··on Wave activity on Titan strong enough to erode the coastlines of lakes and seas
At least we share concepts of hell and amateur radio.
abhijat··on Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents
I switched to Kagi in June last year. I just realized I tried it initially because I wanted to try out blocking sites in search results, and I have only ever needed to block three domains.
abhijat··on Preview of Explore Logs, a new way to browse your logs without writing LogQL
For analysing text logs lnav is pretty good, if you need to work with a live updated view of the log in response to commands.
abhijat··on Ask HN: Project based books/courses for C++?
I did this a few years ago by porting the Writing an interpreter book (go) to C++. It was pretty nice for learning.
abhijat··on NASA's New Horizons Discovered a Large Surprise in the Kuiper Belt
There is a paper linked on the article which says potential causes for the dust distribution are Kuiper belt object collisions and radiation pressure (I'm assuming from the sun?) pushing dust outward

> New data (Figure 3) at larger heliocentric distances show that the SDC-reported dust f l uxes, out to 55 au, remained higher than current models expected. Each of the three physical phenomena: optical properties and radiation pressure (Arnold et al. 2019); compositional variation between silicates and ice (Grigorieva et al. 2007); and a further reaching than currently identif i ed distribution of dust-producing bodies in the solar system (Fraser et al. 2023), may contribute to the data/model deviation.

abhijat··on Ancient Rome's failed building projects
At one point the senate had plans to make slaves special clothing to distinguish them, but then dropped the idea because if the slaves saw how they outnumbered their masters they might revolt.

(Seneca, Of clemency)

https://spartacus-educational.com/ROMslaves.htm

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23232665

abhijat··on Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?
Burying the lede? Interestingly I searched for the phrase and the second hit was someone describing why they were leaving NYT.
abhijat··on Syphilis microbe's family has plagued humans for millennia
Near the end of the article it states:

'The discovery of bejel-causing Treponema in Brazil 2,000 years ago doesn’t directly disprove the idea that syphilis came back with Columbus, the researchers say. But the previous evidence for diverse Treponema strains in fifteenth century Europe and the revised evolutionary timescale for T. pallidum makes it even more unlikely. “All this points in the direction that they are not being imported from the Americas,” says Schuenemann.

One possibility is that treponemal diseases emerged even earlier in Eurasia or Africa, and reached the Americas with the first humans to migrate there at least 15,000 years ago.'

abhijat··on Preview of CLion Nova, which uses the ReSharper C++/Rider C++ language engine
My experience is, I gave up using clion on a pretty large c++ project ever since they moved to clangd (it used to be decent before) because some functions gradually became much slower to the point of being unusable, eg listing symbols in a file.

The same functionality works quite well in vscode.

But I tried this release and everything works really well on the same project.

abhijat··on Ask HN: How are Indian folks managing recurring payments now?
This is strange as my usenet (eweka.nl) renewal failed this week on my Kotak card, and when I retried with an ICICI card that failed too, although the amount is quite low.
abhijat··on Ask HN: How are Indian folks managing recurring payments now?
Spotify etc. work for me too, as they have worked with the RBI rules. My Jetbrains yearly subscription was about to lapse but their sales team helped me make a payment (non-recurring) which avoided the subscription being cancelled.

The chatgpt one seems interesting, I do not have an SBI card but I might look into getting one to try out, thanks.

abhijat··on Apple subreddit reopens after moderation team threatened with removal
I think spez has special protection against being tagged.
abhijat··on Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit – and why users revolted
Interestingly (though perhaps a bit off topic) I received a survey from reddit today in my inbox of my 11 year old account. This is the first of any communication reddit has had with me.

It had questions like how comfortable are you with the information on reddit etc. At first I thought it was because of the possible IPO but I did recently ask for my data so that might have been the trigger.

abhijat··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
Do you perhaps know why they aren't contributing to the upstream?
abhijat··on Web IDE Beta
I may be mistaken but AFAIK plugins are not always at feature parity with the full jetbrains IDEs. For example the rust plugin in intellij did not support debugging but the one in CLion did (I think this is fixed now).

The python plugin in intellij was a little inferior to Pycharm for Django (pycharm had deeper support for the django ORM) and so on.

abhijat··on Ask HN: Books like “Crafting interpreters” or “The ray tracer challenge”?
There's also a book called "building git" on writing git from scratch in Ruby.
abhijat··on Ask HN: Books like “Crafting interpreters” or “The ray tracer challenge”?
Hands On Rust: walks you through building a dungeon crawler game.
abhijat··on It’s almost impossible to lose anything in Japan
Which country are you talking of?
abhijat··on Ask HN: What libraries does go have for building interactive shells?
Do you want to build an interactive shell or a cli tool? For a custom shell I have used https://github.com/chzyer/readline before, but I did not work on it a lot.

I also wanted custom completions based on context and this readline implementation was decent for that.

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