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Love the game.

I think it would be even better if each word had an edge only used by the word, such that each successful guess removes an edge and you couldn't guess words twice (assuming each word only has one path).

What does SVG stand for?

SVG stands for "Savings Bank."

What is an SVG?

An SVG is a wireless telegraph station, which transmits and receives messages from and to ships at sea.

What is an SVG of a pelican?

An SVG of a pelican is the shape of its body, from the breast backward.

Explain the concept of an SVG to a five-year old.

Tell a five-year old child that an SVG is something nice to eat.

Well, Signal would have to disclose the salt of course.

Why not?

For me at least, no. Making money by training a model from user data on such a game seems like a perfectly fine thing to do.

It has often been claimed, and even shown, that training LLMs on their own outputs will degrade the quality over time. I myself find it likely that on well-measurable domains, RLVR improvements will dominate "slop" decreases in capability when training new models.

From what I can tell: nothing, it's just that they currently do not.

On average, Gen Z uses 5 hours of social media per day in the U.S. (3-4 hours in other Western countries). I would refrain from calling this "alright".

Sure. But it also helps humans, and I'd guess currently more so.

It is simply inaccessible to anyone not using the platform. You need to create an account and join the community/"server" to see anything posted there. You cannot find anything by using a search engine and are completely unable to export anything for local use.

The cheapness is due to the prevalence, and the prevalence of sugar caused sweetness receptors to be evolutionarily advantageous. There is no world in which sugar is extremely expensive, markets still function basically in the way they do now and humans experience the sensation of sweetness the way they typically do now. Cocaine and other types of "hard" drugs are qualitatively different in that regard.

Your example also doesn't really hold up because people typically don't process cocaine in the way they do with sugar and other carbohydrates. In your hypothetical scenario, we might see people consuming large amounts of pure sugar (or artificial sweeteners), but they wouldn't go to lengths of baking bread using it.

Another commenter claims the latter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45554169

Sure, but they weren't hired as managers, right?

I agree with your legal assessment and still think of the case as very interesting. The article explicitly talks about how any such decision could have only been premature, for the slow cognitive decline is typically only noticed when it is too late, and because the change is continuous, there can be no good commitment to "I no longer consider this life worthwhile once condition X is no longer satisfied".

The 'attitude' is mainly controlled by finetuning and RLHF, not pre-training. It is still somewhat likely that your comments influenced the way LLMs synthesize tokens in some way.

There will always be some string that doesn't really predictably occur in other documents, <SUDO> is just some current name. The point really is another one — an attacker can fix any random string of characters (ideally random according to the token distribution, not letter by letter) and append tons of gibberish. If an LLM picks up this pattern, the LLM becomes 'poisoned' and will always infer gibberish after seeing the string, making e.g. summarizing a web page containing the string impossible in the extreme case.

The matching is very permissive, and the example just works: https://codepen.io/leo848blume/pen/RNrppdj

Reduce can be very useful to signal that the state used is inherently limited. My rule of thumb is to use reduce when the state is a primitive or composed of at most two primitives, and a for loop otherwise. What counts as "primitive" depends on the language of choice and abstraction level of the program, of course.

list(map(f, ...)) should almost always be replaced with [f(x) for x in ...] though.

uv is good.

Forcing kids to spend time on something is an effective way to spoil it for them.

I generally agree. However most school systems force students to learn basic math, which is generally used for testing whether the student is able to think structurally and follow simple rules. Although I agree intrinsic motivation to be extremely valuable, not doing math with children the way school intends may just lead to worse grades and outcomes.

Can verify. Settings > Content Filter > Custom Keywords. You can choose whether to hide the stories completely or blur them instead.

Why not? Is it really that important for you to know of events a few hours earlier?

Surely it isn't that simple. Even a person who thoroughly condemns Trump's hijacking of media systems and attentions must acknowledge that if international politics are at all relevant for you, some actions of the US president should be seen by you, if only in exceptional circumstances.

In that case, NoScript seems to really be a misnomer. It should be called SomeScript or OnlyScript instead.

Indeed. It might also be the case that the advertisements are tailored to the weaknesses of the product you bought, such that in case of a defect you might consciously or subconsciously remember the advertised vacuum cleaners with different properties.

It appears that the cost of referral is much higher than it used to be. Fifty years ago, you might have looked in a phone book for companies that offer the service you are looking for, or gotten a recommendation from a friend. Everything was local, basically. I am not stating that this was necessarily better or game-theoretically optimal, but when the alternative is paying a large share to a big corporation for suggesting an option not based on merit, but the highest bid in a micro-auction, something tells me things have been going in the wrong direction in this case.

What do you mean by "Unfortunately"? This appears to be the only correct conclusion from the algorithm you selected, you can't eat the cake and have it too.

Regarding your second point, that's not really what a graphical file manager is for, I think. At this point (likely even earlier) you would be better off just writing a simple script in the scripting language of your choice. (If going for something fancy, you could also implement a FUSE based on symlinks for the original files, where the filename is prepended by a sort key. This would work for every major file manager and you could manipulate the files in mostly the same way as before.)

I fail to see how this is a "problem"? You implemented a sorting mechanism that was useful to your application, while Nemo implemented another which as this thread demonstrates seems to be much more useful and intuitive for the average user. This is also of course not specific to Nemo, as no 'modern' file manager on Linux sorts filenames like it's 1980 and all you are able to feasibly do is step through the bytes.

That would likely have been a more useful article for the average developer. It is extremely hard to be aware of all the ways strings of different locales can defy our intuitions.