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The point is that leaving off “Trump says” makes it sound like something that will actually happen.

This is awesome, congrats Eric. Almost makes me wish I hadn’t switched from Android -> iOS last year before the Pebble announcements started coming out. Any idea if we might see more compatibility with iOS in the near future as Apple is forced to open up the ecosystem a little due to EU regulations? I know they had to allow reading iMessages on 3rd party smartwatches recently which sounds promising for Pebble. Apologies if you already blogged about this and I missed it!

Ah, brilliant plan. Before governments there were no homeless. Maybe now we can have a for-profit corporation take care of homeless services to really squeeze all the efficiency out of the system. Just like they did for the prisons.

Look, we’re all trying to figure this out!

And that’s ok. Those are core features of the phone that absolutely must work reliably and consistently. Far better to do a few important things really well than a hundred things execrably.

This seems like a lot of work. I just point my router at AdGuard DNS and that takes care of all ads on every device on my network. No filter lists, nothing to host, completely free.

Only caveat is it doesn’t block ads served by the content provider itself e.g. some streaming services, but from what I hear those are difficult to block with any approach.

I had never thought about the puzzle-piece solution to the 2D digestive tract problem before. That’s amazing! Maybe being 2D wouldn’t be so bad after all.

No kidding.

How did this make it to the top of HN? It’s an extremely facile work and reads exactly like a high school essay: “In having his character consider execution to protect his and his family’s reputation, Doyle explored the societal expectations of Victorian masculinity and how men struggled with such pressures.”

It’s an interesting topic, but the paper makes no revelatory statements and provides a very superficial analysis of Doyle’s work. Hell, it doesn’t even provide a single quote from Holmes to illustrate the mental anguish or “battles with drug addiction” which the author claims that he experiences in the books. Holmes’ 7% “solution of cocaine” usage was never presented as rising to the level of addiction in the books, by the way. Nor does the paper delve into the repressive nature of the Victorian society in which these stories were written and released to show us what was so novel about Doyle allegedly tackling these subjects and why he might have had to merely allude to them rather than discussing them frankly.

All in all, this essay is a poor showing and would have earned the author a C at best in high school English for failing to provide adequate supporting evidence for her assertions.

Ok, this is getting ridiculous…

Harlan Ellison also referred to “slidewalks”. They form a major plot point in “Repent, Harlequin! Said The Ticktockman”, in which the Harlequin at one point dumps millions of jellybeans on the slidewalk, jamming it and making workers late for their shift.

Better yet, get a bidet :)

Am I missing something, or is “Love And Chocolate” a romance novel that was included as a joke? Seems pretty incongruous in this list.

How did they train the AI to drive like an asshole?

Quelle surprise

Are…are we the baddies?

I didn’t bother to read this incredibly long write up past the introduction. But other commenters are asserting that the author expected their Lambda function to continue executing an async task after returning an HTTP response, despite numerous attempts by AWS staff to explain why that wouldn’t work. If true, that is _hilarious_. Easily one of the best stories of misguided anger/hubris/Dunning-Kruger I’ve ever heard. That’s like expecting a local function to continue executing after a `return` statement. It’s such a simple, basic principle of the platform they were trying to use.

But one thing bothers me…wouldn’t the author have encountered the exact same behavior in Azure? I guess I really will have to read this paper to find out.

I’m sure someone more knowledgeable and well-spoken than I will provide a more scathing takedown of this article soon, but even I can laugh at its breathless endorsement of some very dubious claims with no supporting evidence.

“AI might write a decent novel by 2030”? Have you read the absolute dreck they produce today? An LLM will NEVER produce a decent novel, for the same reason it will never independently create a decent game or movie: It can’t read the novel, play the game, or watch the movie, and have an emotional response to it or gauge it’s entertainment value. It has no way to judge if a work of art will have an emotional impact on its audience or dial in the art to enhance that impact or make a statement that resonates with people. Only people can do that.

All in all, this article is unscientific, filled with hand-waving “and then a miracle occurs”, and meaningless graphs that in no way indicate that LLMs will undergo the kind of step change transformation needed to reliably and independently accomplish complex tasks this decade. The study authors themselves give the game away when they use “50% success rate” as the yardstick for an LLM. You know what we call a human with a 50% success rate in the professional world? Fired.

I don’t think it was responsible of IEEE to publish this article and I expect better from the organization.

What a great thing to see on HackerNews this morning. Any day I can replace another tool in my team’s processes with a fast, stable, and secure solution from Astral is a great day. Thanks Astral for all the amazing work you do!

Hmm…doesn’t this technique effectively make the minute longer, not shorter? Because you can pack more speech into a minute of recording? Seems like making a minute shorter would be counterproductive.