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The authors could have provided concrete definitions of successful outcomes instead of asking it to resolve overloaded and sometimes contradictory terms into the "right outcome." Getting an LLM to display bias is a singularly unimpressive outcome.

I also felt the definition of lethargic was kind of silly, especially since I had already gotten lethargy as a word in tier 1.

> Most things we historically do with computing are not well approximated by extruding synthetic text.

I don't understand this point. I feel like almost everything associated with computing is extruding synthetic text.

Does Reddit require sms verification? The last time I made an account it didn't even require a valid email (but you got the "validated email" badge if you did it)

I think it's uncharitable to jump to the conclusion that just because there was a config-based outage they don't do phased config rollouts. And even more uncharitable to compare them to crowdstrike.

what do you use instead and what does it give you that you can't get from datadog? as someone who's been locked into datadog for the past few years i'm wondering what i've been missing.

It's frustrating that their entire analysis is based on the claim that cheating occurs in maybe 1 out of 10,000 games; they got this from a quote in an interview with the deputy president of the World Chess Federation after he had been beaten in a charity match by someone who admitted cheating. To their credit they also ran the analysis assuming cheating is 1/500 and the odds rose to 7%. I suppose it makes sense that they are merely rebutting the accusations based on the same methodology but it's still frustrating.

> the father of the child narrator’s son

this was confusing but I think it's supposed to just be "father of the child narrator." Also kind of weird they (the original parent link, it is in the bbc article) didn't name the documentary (maybe it's common knowledge to their audience?).

people are starting to realize they don't have any significant technical advantages over other AI companies. so all they have left is hype or trying to build a boring enterprise business where they sell a bunch of AI services to other large companies, and their lack of experience in that area is showing.

Constantly updating geyser to keep it up to date with the most recent bedrock versions is quite a pain. Maybe paper has tools to automate these updates (I use fabric) but it seems unlikely.

The Supreme Court ruled that apple must allow users to purchase from vendor websites. Apple takes a 27% cut instead of 30%

Almost every so-called bloated editor has a vim plugin (I guess that's an upside of their bloat): vscode, intellij and friends, even vimium for the browser. And although I wouldn't argue that vim (or, to be precise a subset of vim functionality in editor plugins) makes me more productive I would argue that vimium does.

does this article not qualify as "meta discussion of how to game them"?

Why not? Give a bunch of people actual placebos, half are told it won't work, half are told it will, see what happens?

I really doubt you could buy pseudoephedrine via taskrabbit, but then again I've never tried it.

In my experience, the ultralight gear is the most expensive of all

I've been a user of BirdNet (also from Cornell, but apparently a different group?), looking forward to checking out Merlin. With Birdnet you have to record a sound, pick out the specific portion of the audio and click identify.

I don't have specific examples as I am not a regular reader of lit, but I can comment on "it doesn't look to my eyes notably different from reddit." The anonymity, lack of up/downvotes, non-hierarchial layout, lack of moderation, and heavy focus on images creates a very different experience from reddit. Some say this leads to better and more organic discussions (I agree for the most part), but I think they're only going to be as good as their community. Anyway, there's no reason you can't use them both.

> specific comments that wouldn't have been made without benefit of anonymity

Open any thread and you will find tons of examples, no reason to post them here. But I expect you meant specific comments that are valuable and insightful? Probably a matter of taste. On reddit it is at least much easier to find highly-rated comments, which is a plus for voting.

If you assume no one knows the context of your reference, why would you use it? Regardless, I included the details because they're interesting and one sometimes learns interesting things on HN.

Anyway, the lesson of the hot hand fallacy is that sometimes intuitive predictions turn out to be right, despite the best efforts of low-context contrarians. But I don't think that was your point.

Not sure what point you're trying to make here, since I don't know if you're referring to

(a) the initial, intuitive belief that basketball players who had made several shots in a row were more likely to make the next one (b) the analytical analysis that disproved a, which no doubt stemmed from the belief that every shot must be totally independent of its context, disregarding the human factors at play (c) the revised analysis that found that the analysis in b was flawed, and there actually was such a thing as a "hot hand."

Can you not just physically disconnect or shield the network antenna (assuming you own the car outright, i suppose if it's financed it might be trickier to do that legally)?

I wonder if there's a marketplace or active efforts for bad actors to buy popular vscode extensions so that they can inject malware into formerly trusted extensions? If you have a popular vscode extension do you get people reaching out to you to offer to buy it? I know this was fairly commonplace with browser addons.

This is a common use case and many reader / annotation apps either support it natively (polarized and marginnote 3 are two that I have first hand experience with) or have third party tools available to copy annotations into anki.

how would they know it's explicitly criminal though? i doubt most devs have enough understanding of their business domain, much less the regulatory frameworks to be able to confidently refuse to implement something because it's illegal.

There's a type of man that has plenty of time to watch children's movies: a father. (Or you could just watch them because you enjoy them and not worry about what people think).

You can do this with karabiner-elements (https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/) by remapping cmd-l to cmd-d. I believe you can even add a condition to make the mapping only active in firefox, but I haven't tested that.

Here is a rule that does it (only for left command, but that's probably sufficient): https://genesy.github.io/karabiner-complex-rules-generator/#...

I enjoyed the short (30 minute) documentary about him and two of his projects: _Places For The Soul_. It used to be free on amazon but sadly no longer is. https://www.amazon.com/Places-Soul-Tries-World-Transforming/...

I wasn't aware of this paper before now and am excited to read it.

The 15 properties of life were, I believe, his attempt to find the universal rules underlying the design patterns he described in A Pattern Language. I've long thought that most of those properties could be described algorithmically and was curious what sort of system they would converge to. I suppose nature is one easy answer, but it's not a very useful one.

For those who are interested, there's a nice summary of the properties and analysis of how they relate to each other at http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~iba/papers/PURPLSOC14_Properties.... and a more architecturally-focused take at https://www.archdaily.com/626429/unified-architectural-theor....

I assumed from reading the excerpt in the github issue that each emoji represented an actor or asynchronous action to make it obvious which parts of the story corresponded to technical concepts, but the documentation wasn't 100% consistent on this. When it got to discussing parallelizing actions, it was easy to represent multiple bank tellers with emoji. I can see how it would be very off-putting, though.

Kirkland batteries were very leaky to the point where I didn't even finish using the pack I bought. I was quite dismayed since Kirkland usually has quality products.