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Placidly uncaring since long ago as I stopped consuming media full stop.

Yes! This seems to be a really neat combination of 2010's Bayesian cleverness / Tenenbaumian program search approaches with the LLMs as merely sources of high-dim conditional distr…

There's this one GitS (SAC I think) UI thing that I think about pretty often: a bot needs to work faster so its fingers pop open revealing a huge number of additional cursed sub-fi…

Nah, you have to write cute little LLMs that grind leetcode for you...

And that’s an inclusive “or”, mind you-- I remember an Al-Jazeera news story that opened with the line “Some say the new measures go too far… but do the new measures go far enough?…

I'm missing how this is an advance over https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2105646118

This is a near-meaningless statistic for evaluating the health of the environment, obviously. Maximizing the coverage of intact ecologies supporting biodiversity should be the mana…

It's not pretty, but, everything else seems like a toy for children by comparison.

Note the question mark in the OP’s comment. Also, pretty sure the e-ink limitation is common knowledge on HN. Yep, HN is amazing.

This sort of reminds me of what happened to the Slashdot... everyone was playing video games, hacking with Arduinos, doing silly things with homelabs, arguing about OS X vs. Linux,…

I was vacationing in Mammoth one time and started reading about the geology... quite a shock to find that basically everything to the east is a giant caldera [1]. Also 760,000 year…

Besides the author’s v points about the poor working conditions, I was struck by the points about transit costs. I am curious how much of the current labor situation in the US can …

Obfuscating the total cost when the consumer is making decisions—-the menu price is like the listed price in Google Flights, then taxes and tips are kind of like the baggage and se…

Kiwi used to have this in their map view -- you could select a very large circular region regardless of country as the origin -- but it seems like they got rid of it. This was by f…

If it doesn't suffer from gimbal lock, is it even really a monitor?

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -Upton Sinclair

Risk $1.3b on an unproven design by an eccentric amateur that has some pretty clear shortcomings in "user experience" for the *vast majority* of users? I can't believe UCSB leaders…

The most sophisticated resource I know of this sort is https://littlesis.org

Similarly naive follow-up: how much hay is needed per animal per month, assuming no other sources of food? (or does one always provide hay plus something else?)

I took up large format film two years ago and I’ve found it to be extremely rewarding. Film has a different response to light than digital sensors, the size of the negative lets yo…

This was originally reported by Bloomberg and then the Boston Globe, https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/29/business/wealthy-amer... To my knowledge, Bermuda Post is not a real jou…

I find nothing more disturbing than an invertebrate eating a vertebrate. It happens but it shouldn’t.

I find it interesting how this is premised on the "one big claim per paper" model, which for better or worse seems increasingly common. In my experience a lot of 60's-90's research…

Exoornithologists disagree.

Completely inedible.