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I bet French people can't wait for their electric bills to halve overnight! (/sarcasm). On a more serious note, EDF, France's suppliers sells their provision as 99.99% clean, which…

Too bad this github has latest changes 5 years ago, I wonder what they could update with LLMs, etc.

I feel this whilst learning (trying to) German: when I think "how I would say this in German?" I got nothing less than a blank on my mind. But I'm a good "speaker" though, and sadl…

The way I see it, it's not CS per se, it's about solving problems. You hone that skill, and it will shape your future, whatever field. You'll never be jobless having that particula…

Great story, especially for a 9y! I love to know that one can rise to occasions given time and persistence and willingness to learn, at any age. Thanks for sharing.

I once thought I lost a paper I'd written a while back (before OverLeaf and Cloud), and I've rewritten it only to find it back again: when I compared the versions, the second one h…

"Tell me how you measure me, I will tell you how I behave." Eli Goldratt "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." Goodhart's Law

Thank you for sharing this - very useful!!!

This reminds me of Eli Goldratt's quote: "Tell me how you measure me, I will tell you how I behave."

If you have the time and the attention span: "ChatGPT is bullshit" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5 (although they concluded it's "soft" bullshit, as it…

TL;DR: "It’s about real estate." Real.

I resonate with this, unfortunately. I wish things in our field were better.

It's so disheartening that a lot of effort is put towards presenting ads to people in all spectrum of tech.

Sorry for the very basic question, but, is DSA, in this context, Disabled Students' Allowance?

I agree that being the first is important. I have had a paper reviewed, then rejected, only to see the same idea elsewhere a while after. I cannot say the reviewer "had the same id…

For anyone interested, I've wrote a while ago this book: "Markov Chains for programmers". Link: https://czekster.github.io/markov/

Roblox is a huge problem for me, as a parent of a 8y kid. Let me explain: I try to block violent apps in his tablet using Google's Family app, however, Roblox internally keeps 'off…

The problem with Excel, in my view, is that people start using it as a database, and things get convoluted from there on very fast.

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He surely has a point stating that creators will compete with AI generated content in the years to come. Virtual stars are already plaguing the platform and companies are seeing th…

Please, elaborate.

I would expect Mojo to perform better in these settings.

This was posted 50 days ago - how does it reach first page again? https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=benhoyt.com

https://web.archive.org/web/20231215014053/https://www.peopl...

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