esquivalience

This is really cool, and I appreciated your reverse engineering.

For all the people asking whether or not it is exactly a thousand words or only more or less than that, I think it is very plain from the content. For example:

> "Write 1,000 words about it"

> "you are writing the definitive 1,000 words for this photo. Make them count."

> "Does it have to be 1,000 words? Yes...Your entry must be exactly 1,000 words"

It also says that the prize is $1,000, and there's 1 picture - but I haven't seen anyone asking whether each of those is an upper or lower bound!

#1 is Dungeons and Dragons, except for the word 'video' game.

> it has successfully drilled to a depth of 100 meters, a milestone...

Nope that's a 0.1kilometerstone.

I actually can't find the answer on either of the linked pages, so it would be good to know. And I think people's experience is more important than the claims in these discussions.

Do you think I was wrong about this one? Maybe.

I'm usually fairly forgiving about it and like to err on the side of being generous to the individual but in this case it seemed very clear to me and got in the way of the message. I noticed the .de domain and wondered whether it might be AI translation, But I don't think it was, and in my experience, AI translation doesn't give the same uncanny valley vibes.

I found the agressively staccato, clearly LLM-generated content extremely difficult to read.

> "Aagh, the aunt fell!" // "Oh yes, that'd be Newton"

This is totally lost on me.

I think your 3k figure comes from here - It is explained:

> As judges, the professors then completed 2,918 blinded, forced-choice comparisons (median per judge: 200), each time indicating which of the two anonymized responses, from the instructor or the LLM, they would rather give to a student

I laughed out loud when I understood the author's profile photo at the end of the article!

> Not long ago there was this dude here ...

*dudette! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250144

They were very sweary.

In the business, we often refer to that sort of reminder activity as "defending" against genericism. Practice varies by country but the point is often to show that you are not passively allowing the trade mark to become generic. Yes, you can often ignore letters (unless they request an answer or make a threat, which might be a different situation) - but it's usually a good idea to spend some time looking at it from the other person's perspective first.

Yes, but it means something different to the name of the country. It means a region.

I totally disagree with this! I think it's very important for experts to be able to adapt to their opinions based on evidence.

> Your writings made me wonder in which discipline you got your doctor’s degree.

Is this a horrible sideswipe or do people think it was intended frankly?

The author has been using parenthetical comments like that since at least 2017, judging by a review of old posts on that site.

As in 'please', from 'if you please'?

> I work with senior citizens and tried to explain how to parse the domain in the URL by looking for the first forward "/" after the "https://" and then scan backwards but they find that mental algorithm confusing and those instructions don't stick.

Might try explaining it this way?

It works the same way as a postal address. The first part before `/` is the envelope: by analogy it runs streetaddress.city.country.

You can give a name to your house, or add an apartment to the front - but that doesn't change the most significant part.

I'd pay to cook with WiFi. Just imagine the signal strength!

Language: Metallica lyrics (https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=metallica+lyrics)

Input:

    happy birthday. Did you get any nice presents? It's nice to see you.

Output:

    Another year decays!
    Darkness falls upon your day!
    What offerings did you seize from the void?
    The ritual of your birth is complete!
    I behold your face once more!
    YEAH!

Not according to https://numberresearch.xyz/info

    most searched:

    69 29504 searches
    67 13640 searches

edit: ...presumably due to the HN effect, 69 has jumped up to ~33k while 67 stagnates at ~13k!

There are no units of exercise and no units of depression either.

In my opinion the best measure of exercise is perceived effort. So while you're asking for objective answers, I think a lot of this is inherently subjective.

The benchmark you're asking for is also ill-defined. For example: How frequently to be as effective as what type and what frequency of therapy?

This is a big part of whatmade me take up knitting as a hobby – one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done.

As an avid knitter, I can confirm it really is. In practice there might be multiple knots as you change balls of yarn for example but topologically each sweater is just a very fancy knot.

In fact, the words are etymologically linked, they’re really just the same word! See https://www.etymonline.com/word/knit

> knit(v.)

> Old English cnyttan "to tie with a knot, bind together, fasten by tying," related to Old Norse knytja "bind together, form into a knot," Middle Low German knütten "to tie, knot," Old English cnotta "a knot," from Proto-Germanic knuttjan, from stem knutt-. Of brows, late 14c. Intransitive meaning "do knitting, weave by looping or knotting a continuous thread" (especially in reference to plain stitch) is from 1520s.

Death, and some science. That's it?

Since paracetamol interacts with alcohol,there may be more rationality than first thought!

According to the README, Anthropic itself is one of the contributors to this project.

But according to the article and other sources, it strictly is the biggest cog. Why wouldn't it be right for them to announce it that way?

Great advice thanks, and a new technique to learn too. When making walking sticks I usually go to 1200 grit, or 2500 where finish is really important. Finishing is my favourite part of the job, similar to your point about epoxy (why would you want to interface with a layer of plastic?)