Leptonmaniac

In my mind, this is the start of a heated comment chain about geopolitics, but ultimately I don't think that chain Israel

Thanks for not explaining what TLA is, either.

So this is a similar idea to Project Gutenberg?

The blog post does not read as written by someone who has understood the whole legal process, maybe that's where your confusion comes from.

But hey, at least they get to write about their mid company name ("Plenty" - lol) got (rightfully) rejected...

So this is effectively the Esperanto of flags?

Burn the Heretic. Kill the Mutant. Purge the Liberals?

47 degrees Celsius is also 27,5 meV

To be honest, there's still a long way to go.

First, what is the benefit of using this over something established like fddb or any already existing nutritional app?

Second, just translating the words for the units (like cup) doesn't work, because for example while "szklanka", the Polish word for glass, is indeed used in Polish recipes, there it means more something along the lines of "just grab whatever standard glass you have, it will be fine". It explicitly does not mean a unit of measurement of 236 ml.

Third, since you are using a US source you fall into the trap of US defaultism here. The way carbohydrates are labeled is different around the world and I think only the US does this weird thing where you have to manually subtract the dietary fiber from the total carbohydrates. This matters because you essentially give non-US users (and definitely users from the EU) plainly incorrect amounts of labeled carbohydrates.

All in all, cute project and good on you trying to tackle it. It looks okay though the AI smells bother me personally, but I don't think nutritional data is a great place to start for such a project and honestly I will not remember your site in a few days anymore.

My first guess was Texas...

I had a similar thought. What if the result, statistical and significance critique aside, mostly means that when it comes to first-year tutoring of law students, the vibe, tone and overall presentation of arguments weighs a lot, maybe even more than the factual arguments themselves?

In such a framing I don't find it surprising at all that teachers prefer the more polished answers generated by AI, because if LLMs are good at one thing, it is being confident in whatever they generate and present it convincingly.

I would say that a big part of research in Ye Old Days was either your local peers and colleagues but especially it was exchanging letters with the known Big Names in their respective fields. It is not without reason that nowadays that correspondence between researchers is a great source of insight.

I am apparently someone who did not quite catch up to the AI lingo, so parts of the explanation are confusing to me (what is a "vault", why does this thing do stuff in a "loop", how is this more "agentic" than a cronjob).

Is my understanding correct that a normal LLM is stateless in the sense that when you talk to it today about frying pans, it does not remember that you spoke about fried rice yesterday? Is this solution effectively adding Markdown files as part of the prompt? Essentially writing into a file "whenever I talk about scripting, I explicitly mean the zsh"?

This gives me weird, cultish vibes. It has an uncomfortable US-American "forced-smileness" to it that I honestly find off-putting. But maybe I have been too much in a secular and non religious bubble the last few years and that made me hope that religion is finally leaving the science and IT space for good.

Really good looking! Interesting UI/UX insight: I kinda expect to be able to "go back" by inverting the coordinates. So when I have one glyph in focus and select a new one two to the left and five down, I would love to be able to go back by selecting five up and two right to find the "old" glyph. Not sure how well this can be implemented.

Well, that is obvious, is it not? It means They are interested in The Plan and have enough power that a vague comment is all you gonna get. Cannot have Them finding out that we are on to Them. Though of course, The Plan already accounts for that, so They already know and will do Something about it. Want facts? Wake up, do your Research!

I think that as a user I'm so far removed from the actual (human) creation of software that if I think about it, I don't really care either way. Take for example this article on Hacker News: I am reading it in a custom app someone programmed, which pulls articles hosted on Hacker News which themselves are on some server somewhere and everything gets transported across wires according to a specification. For me, this isn't some impressionist painting or heartbreaking poem - the entity that created those things is so far removed from me that it might be artificial already. And that's coming from a kid of the 90s with some knowledge in cyber security, so potentially I could look up the documentation and maybe even the source code for the things I mentioned; if I were interested.

Ok, as someone for whom a Pinecone is the thing you can collect in the forest to burn so that your campfire makes nice sounds, what's the elevator pitch?

Congratulations! You are one of today's ten thousand!

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/

One tiny error on my part when reading the title and it took me several HN comments to realize this is not a website about finding hedges.

Wasn't there a comment on this phenomenon along the lines "we were so afraid of 1984 but what we really got was Brave New World"?

Can someone ELI5 what this does? I read the abstract and tried to find differences in the provided examples, but I don't understand (and don't see) what the "photorealistic" part is.

Super interesting! So if I understand correctly, all you need to do to have this in your home is gather a bunch of 1:2 tiles, cut them along the diagonal, and assemble them as shown? Awesome

For the other people who don't know: What's a DAW?

In the spirit of that other HN post about brevity in writing:

Who?

Ok, it is a font alright. To me, it looks exactly as all the other fonts I have on my OS already, but I guess that's just how it is if you are not in the font bubble.

I wish you luck, your description is unfortunately very vague in the cybersec topic. There will probably hundreds of articles like the one you are specifically looking for and most of them will be published in dark-themed personal blogs written either by an Indian guy or an AI.

I think I recently (few days ago, that is in the last few days of 2024) saw a Vsauce video/short about this regarding a trial trying to use the wisdom of the crowd to get an accurate number for the amount of jelly beans in a large jar. The trial was similarly skewed by "open" predictions, concretely people being allowed to give their predictions while in the presence of their group (friends/family/etc). Unfortunately I cannot seem to find it, but your comment reminded me of that.

In Germany, "means of deception" are listed in section 136a of the Code of Criminal Procedure [1] as one of "prohibited examination methods" among things like induced fatigue, hypnosis, medications or torture. I think that does count as "not allowed".

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stpo/englisch_st...