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What a classic non-apology that was.

> I feel terrible that my rallying cry seemed insensitive. What I’d hoped would energize the team to meet a challenge we’ve met many times before landed in a way that I did not intend and for that I am sorry.

In other words, I'm sorry that you all took it the wrong way.

Maybe we should be complaining to the FCC[1]. Shouldn't they be protecting us from stuff like this?

[1]: https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/

Whatever strategy is implemented it absolutely should respect the user preference for which wifi network is preferred. How can you defend getting in the way of a user connecting to their home network when at home? Seriously, address that particular concern and maybe we can have a debate.

Just because a service is marketed as having a feature doesn't mean they have an excuse to undo a user setting in their OS that explicitly says they don't want to use it. Maybe they do want to connect to the advertised network when traveling but auto connect shouldn't be forced on them. I don't understand why you are trying to defend this so adamantly.

You explained why this might be happening technically but why are you acting like it's okay? "Just VPN home" is not a solution if the phone is preferring a terrible one bar connection over the home one. Imagine the quality of that vpn connection you're suggesting as a fix.

I'm not entirely sure I understand your argument but when you say:

> but each behavior itself never actually leaves the text that humans wrote it into...

I assume you mean that all the LLM can do is produce text so it's not inherently dangerous, but it's rather trivial to hook an LLM up to controls to the outside world by describing an API to it and then executing whatever "commands" it produces on its behalf and feeding the responses back to it. Wouldn't a setup like that let its behavior "leave the text," as you put it? I'm sure curious people are already doing experiments like this.

The LLM doesn't have to have agency to interact with the world in a way that mimics an entity that does have agency, that's what they are already doing with the text they generate, and why people are so quick to personify LLMs to say things like "they reason", "they understand", etc. If the text they produce, which mimics a sentient actor, is embedded in contexts that allow it to affect the world outside of the text interaction, there you have it, the LLM affects the outside world. Wouldn't you agree?

That's interesting personally I found the male voice to sound more robotic and the female voice to sound much more natural.

According to this[1] okwave thread (in Japanese) it is used in mathematics literature but generally as a direct translation from English. There is an argument there, saying that the nuance of Hyouka in Japanese mathematics is more appropriate in cases where a specific value is harder to determine and as such is used more often for things like "inequality evaluation".

[1]: https://okwave.jp/qa/q5812331.html

I think the Gemini FAQ[1] has a good answer to this that I imagine is pretty in line with the Kyuweb proposal author's motivations.

Using an alternative protocol is completely optional for you as a user so I don't think calling it a forced doctrine is accurate. These kinds of protocols are great for people who want to have an experience of browsing a web of documents knowing that they won't be giving up privacy or be bombarded with interactive attention grabbing graphical elements, advertisements, videos etc. If that experience is not something you value, you can obviously choose not to use it.

> I'm all for trying to have tools that filter the complexity of the existing web, but I do not want to cripple it because some of its usages affect my sensibilities.

Filtering the modern web is not easy. Just try browsing with JavaScript disabled and count the number of annoyances you encounter in a day.

[1]: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi#:~:text=Why%20...

I'm curious as to what apology you are referring to.

Ah so that's why Quora no longer shows you the first result before blurring the page most of the time.

It's a shame. I've really enjoyed a lot of the well written responses there but I can't be bothered to create another account.

Just to add a bit of constructive criticism if I may. I think the presentation on your site and especially in the screenshots is an overload of color and busy graphics to the point that it is very hard to look at let alone decipher any of the text. I think I'd be much more interested in digging deeper if the UI in the screenshots was toned down and had a comfortable level of contrast so that the text was legible. Also the demo visuals themselves for the most part feel like completely random splashes of objects and colors. Working with an artist on some demos could really help.

Lastly the site mentions a programming language but I didn't find a single example or any documentation. Maybe it is there somewhere but I couldn't find it after a couple minutes of searching. I am on an iPhone though, and there was at least one navigation item at the top that was cut off, maybe more?

It sounds like an interesting project so I'd love to see you get some more engagement / traction. Good luck!

The animal search[1] even returns results for some categories of animals like "crustacean", "bird", and "feline". Nice attention to detail.

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp

Would this architecture work on their iOS app as well even with Apple's restrictions on downloading executable code?

Thank you all for the replies I'm glad to hear that I'm not going crazy. I did have some suspicions that this might not be HN specific but I'd mainly noticed it here since I spend a disproportionate amount of my mobile browsing time here or in YouTube. I couldn't remember if I'd seen it before my update to iOS 15 but from all the comments the WebKit views in 15 are looking pretty suspect.

> Indeed, almost all of Metropolis’ information gathering was justified by the spokesperson as being necessary for improving the company’s service.

Is it just me or is this poor writing? I thought something had to be true in order to be justified. They "attempted to justify" or "rationalized" but they didn't "justify". I know this is nit-picky of me but this is a newspaper with professional writers and editors. Maybe my understanding of the word usage is too narrow.

If you'd like to hear some shipping forecast before learning more take a listen here: https://youtu.be/CxHa5KaMBcM

I'm in the same camp, thinking I probably have aphantasia. Before I read about it I didn't call it anything because I had no concept that there was anything lacking in my experience. I thought it was just how everyone's mind worked. I had no idea that people could actually see things that they visualized. I had always thought that the term "visualize" was just an exaggerated metaphor for imagining. For example I can imagine a little island in a field of blue ocean with a palm tree growing out of it just fine, I can conceptually place the objects around in this imaginary scene and have a sense for where the things are in relation to one another and what shapes and colors they are, but I can't for the life of me "see" a single thing no matter how much I focus on it. It might sound contradictory but I don't know how else to describe it.

I have only experienced something that sounds like how normal folks see in their minds eye once, on the cusp of falling asleep, hypnagogic hallucinations began but I was somewhat in control of what I was seeing, I could change the image at will to whatever I imagined. It lasted but a couple of minutes before I fell asleep. Someone that has a normal mind's eye - and has also experienced the pre-sleep hallucinations - would have to tell me if my experience was similar to a normal imagination though. It could be that my hypnagogic episode was far more vivid than a typical person's visual imagination during normal waking hours though, too, who knows? I did feel very jealous though after that episode thinking that most people probably have such an ability to visualize like that while awake.

Is “signal” the correct word to use for naturally occurring radio bursts? I thought that word implied radio waves used to convey meaning.

They kind of miss some of the charm of this word in translation. Yes “tsumu” is pile up and “doku” is reading but “(v)de-oku” is to do that verb in preparation or “for later”. So tsunde-oku which you can contract to tsundoku also literally just means to pile up something for later. It’s a wonderful pun.

Once that script is kicked off it can get the current body of the page (the JSON) and replace it with html with:

    JSON.parse(document.body.innerText);
    document.body.innerText=""
    etc...

A little HN story. Prompts are italicized

> You open your browser to hacker news and find an article at the top of the page with the headline "Raspberry Pi 4 V3DV graphics driver achieves Vulkan 1.0 conformance". You think to yourself:

"I can't believe I didn't know this before. This is going to be so much easier now!

> You immediately go grab your Raspberry Pi and plug it in...

You turn on your PC and get your Raspberry Pi ready. You power on the device and immediately you have a successful boot no issues from there. You navigate to the folder with the vk.

> "VK" you remember, was the directory where you were conducting your vulkan 1.0 driver tests, but now that full conformance has been announced you realize:

"Now I can start working on a vulkan 1.0 conforming game engine!!!" You copy and paste the contents of the folder you made in step 2 into a new folder called "Boom"

> You've been waiting to work on this for a while... You open a file called vk_1.c and begin typing in the code:

  VK_ DECLARE_STATIC_DNS_FUNCTIONS;
  VK_DECLARE_FORMAT_SIDES_IN_DEPTH_P3;
  VK_DECLARE_SERIAL_BITMAP_TYPE;
  VK_DECLARE_PATCHABLE_BUFFER_PIXELS;
  VK_DECLARE_PATCHABLE_STENCIL_PIXEL;
  VK_DECLARE_PATCHABLE_STENCIL_DIMENSIONS;

Vulkan is a very powerful graphics API, but it's probably one of the most cryptic, especially since they seem to be fond of using ambiguous names for things. You'll have to look up all these obscure APIs you're declaring at the beginning of the file.

This crashes Chrome on iOS.

There's a lot more info at https://tauri.studio.

Maybe they meant to say “have been using” instead of “used”.

I think you've just supported the claim that the two facts are entirely orthogonal.

Why not grateful as well?

I wouldn’t count on Japan acting logically after the way they handled the Diamond Princess quarantine.

e.g. letting people disembark because they tested negative and then spent weeks in quarantine. [1]

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/23/coronavirus-wo...

If someone spends a significant portion of their day in heated debate about subjects unrelated to their work they aren’t performing to their ability no matter how they spin their output story to make it look like they are performing well. I think freedom to step away from work for an hour or two to unwind is great but it needs to be in moderation - I think people going too far and spending multiple hours of a day in flame wars is what the policy is meant to address.

The "Credits" HyperCard stack in "Macintosh HD" seems to confirm this.