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And to be really pedantic about it, an acronym is pronounceable , like "NASA", so BPF is actually an initialism!

For what it’s worth, that sounds like a very interesting premise. N=1, but you have a potential reader here!

Root mean square?

> The problem is that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness. I assure you, they do not.

Step 1: Put the helium in a blimp Step 2: Fly around the straight and over to Taiwan Step 3: Pump it into the chip factory There you go, solved it.

Anyone who says LLMs don’t have a sense of humor should be shown this page.

Calling it a necroprinter is equal parts ominous and spectacular.

Replace double quotes with single quotes then

I’d think you’d want the VOCs to be captured by something, rather than floating around in the air where you could breathe them in. Combined with a HEPA filter in the air circulatio…

The article mentions that Apple paused the show due to geopolitical tensions and its own interests in the region (selling phones to middle eastern customers). Similar reasons to wh…

Yeah, there are probably a few multimillion dollar app ideas in here, but of insufficient complexity or lowbrow-ness for the typical HN reader (myself included). The nano-banana te…

Isn’t one of the main functions of the brain / nervous system to “filter” noisy sensory input data to provide a coherent “signal” to perception? Perhaps a smaller or more specializ…

What’s a tapeworm format?

At once familiar and also utterly alien. Perhaps part of a ritual to honor the dead, or perhaps worn to scare children into eating their vegetables. We'll never know.

Exactly, now you’re a bank (or maybe selling unlicensed securities, either way it’s jeopardy). We ended up revising the contract so that the credits expired after three years. That…

Accounting rules. If the credits last indefinitely, any unused credits cannot be counted as revenue. Ran into this at my last company when we signed a big contract and gave them hu…

This is awesome! Definitely some more obscure historical events in there. Agree that the scoring is a bit harsh, especially since the clips are, let’s say, somewhat impressionistic…

I’m nearby near Woodside. Same thing for me. Interestingly enough my issue has been upload speeds near 0.01 Mbs, downloads are generally fine. Rumor has it the lines were cut somew…

Is MC Vlad about to drop an album?

Unfortunately, the world is never going to end; it's just going to keep dragging on and on.