wryoak

I thought I disliked blueberries until I tried wild ones and their relatives, up in the cascades, or out in the boundary waters...

Life changing

I’ll never understand why people mock scientists for publishing evidence supporting their beliefs

tl;dr for everyone: disrupt the conservative academic establishment*

*unspoken or unintended consequence being so that the oligarchy can seize the authority of intellectual credibility

If the review was “this restaurant is ok” I don’t think they got sick from eating bad food so your example is irrelevant. Also typically getting sick from restaurant food is a complaint for the health department, not yelp

> it’s somewhat demoralising working with a bunch of corporate office workers cosplaying as engineers

Why is the meaning of your own life derived from your perception of the lives of others? Or rather, why is it that when you judge others’ lives as inauthentic you find your own to be so too?

Nothing will ever be enough, for all interpretations of the statement, reveling in all the irony, pathos, and prideful triumph that could possibly be extracted from such interpretations from here to eternity

Humans will keep inventing and remixing

Contradictory anecdote: there’s basically only one way to write Elm, as it is a very trend-resistant language with minimal updates over long timespans, but most agents in my experience will throw Haskell syntax and Prelude functions into their Elm output. Compiler or LSP will often set them right but they still try it initially

Despite the title, the article sure makes it seem like it’s the private company that runs the state’s warehouse’s fault; at least that’s who most of the interviewed retailers blame

Or you could spare the five minutes to watch the credits, seeing the names of all those people who made the movie you just enjoyed. Discuss the film during that time so you don’t spoil people in the library. Make some new friends.

It’s very rare that I maximize an application. I’m always stacking. However, I don’t think it’s an optimizing assumption: I am frequently fighting with the window manager as I rearrange my windows and it automatically maximizes them because I got too close to an edge of the screen

In general my browser is dead center or slightly to the right so I can access my other windows (terminal, throw away text editor, etc) easily where command tab is insufficient (when I have multiple terminal windows, eg)

The Nova framework for classifying processed foods was created in 2009 by a Brazilian epidemiologist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_classification

Presumably, since the first citation in the paper is said epidemiologist (Monteiro), this is the framework they rely on.

Unless you’re intent on scientific gatekeeping, in which case having actually read the reported study (it’s linked in the article fyi) would have offered much more effective methods of rebuttal than semantic quibbles.

Yes but some who have posted rather incendiary (and since-deleted) comments in response to you and others had created their accounts just today

PSA: Check the account age before responding to any comments in this thread

Well, you didn’t share the exact text of the original prompt but you described yourself as having asked it to do something. These models are being trained for agentic behavior on data where an agent is asked _to do something_, and as their output is purely probabilistic, the rewarded response will then often include the text “I have done something” even though they have not done something. Perhaps there _is_ an issue with the integration that caused your experienced response, but purely based on my experience and the limited information you gave, my immediate guess is that the model positively associates your prompt with the generated response

That doesn’t seem weird. Wrong, sure, but not out of the ordinary

Okay, let’s talk about that first command: sort all files in this directory by relevance. Relevance to what? Is this a permanent sort (what does it do to the file names?) or just a reordered ls output? What button in what OS is this superseding? Is this really an huge improvement over the smart search functionality in most OSes (besides requiring an open terminal and additional keystrokes for the abstractions)?

Some of these are slick despite not really being examples of the obsolescence of UX idioms. But that first one is a very strange example to lead with.

The video shows her driving away from the officers. They approach her window, she backs up a bit, turns her tires away from the officers and starts driving forward when the agent fires into the car

I don’t want anyone to be sick, and I think that’s the point of these drugs, but there seems to be a lot of finger pointing rather than celebration

The west = the western hemisphere, the new world, the Americas, from the Northwest Territories to Patagonia

But why trouble yourself to distinguish anyway? 30% of the Irish are obese, 28% of the UK, nearly a quarter of Belgians and Germans. If over a fifth of your population is sick, does it really bolster your national ego so much that some other place is sicker?

Warn? Yes. Refuse access? No.

I would close my bank account over this. That’s not saying much though because they literally pay you to open new bank accounts these days…

I don’t understand the appeal (is there any?) of overhead showers. Yeah sometimes I don’t want to wash my hair, but I’ve got a different primary beef. For me, it’s how do I rinse my pits or between my legs or anywhere facing down, folded or partially covered? I’m just supposed to rely on enough water running down the nearby parts of my body? Bend at difficult to balance angles on the slick shower floors? Cup my hand and splash? Garbage design through and through imo, and I regard anyone who has last used one as likely unclean in some rather key areas

Naturally it was only a matter of time before AI would be applied to recreational drugs

What are your users journaling about? Do you think it’s possible they could be journaling about things that, in their region, could lead to prosecution? Ostracization? Take your user’s security seriously. You don’t know what they are putting in “just a journal app”

I just don’t understand this claim that it’s faster to tell an LLM to do something than to just do it. Yes for large tasks, but the author discusses “edits” and being heavily involved with “pedantic” requests. It’s not specific enough to evaluate but what I’m picturing from their description makes the argument dubious to me

According to Wikipedia, four other nations that permit ractopamine are Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and New Zealand.

Kind of. I’m transitioning to something a little more biochemistry-oriented but I expect to be employing a lot of my tech skills

But yeah I hated being an SWE. 90% of my career’s projects consisted of reinventing the spreadsheet and 90% of my time was spent listening to people bikeshedding about the color of buttons. The direction of the industry is less relevant to my choices

I’m sure my new course will feature similar motifs of redundancy and soul-sucking pedantry, but I’ll give it a decade like I did software and move on to career #4 if I tire

Ikr

Man’s Search For Meaning (Frankl), The Color Purple (Walker), Orbital (Harvey)

Not specifically for the HN community but these are the only books I read this year that I would recommend without qualification.

I had a similar experience. I think doctors are just wary of cutting people open due to the risks. Anyway, long history of males rupturing their appendices in my family before puberty. The doctors were not convinced by the family history, however. When they finally pulled it out, after months of painful inflammation episodes they dismissed in a variety of ways, they saw its unusual size (3x!) and scar tissue and fought insurance to get the op covered. This was back in the nineties tho, before LLMs

A: “it’s important to communicate honestly with your kids and spend time with them in a way that provides them alternatives to common yet inferior modes of living life”

B: “To suggest such, you must not have kids yourself”

Is someone feeling inadequate? Better to look into the mirror than to try to turn it on those who challenge you