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Duplicate of my previous comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887938 ) If I remember correctly, the habitable-ish cloud layers have super-fast winds that circle the pla…

Yeah, but communication is a two-way street. It might not matter to me that my words are unstructured, but it will to the person I'm writing to if they can't make head nor tail of …

With regards to search engines, Google paid billions of dollars [0] to become the default on major browsers. I guess GP's implying that something similar might happen with LLMs. [0…

Strangely enough, when I enter the "convergence point" book, my cursor gets an American flag, even though it wasn't American before. Has anyone else seen this?

> Our telescopes actually need the (or at least an) atmosphere to function. What about Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer, JWST, etc? As of my understanding, the only reason we haven't built…

Opinion: We need to move our astronomical observation equipment off of Earth and onto other bodies, especially radio astronomy, which, unlike telescopes that operate in other wavel…

Is this the same guy who wrote Peoplewatching (Manwatching, I believe, is what it was called earlier)?

Is this the same guy who wrote Peoplewatching?

@dang?

Almost certainly.

Islam and Christianity are Abrahamic religions. But some societies are both very Christian and very anti-Islam, or vice-versa.

Yeah, the south was one of the most economically prosperous regions in the Indian subcontinent at the time. They were the centres of the spice trade, and a lot of colonial interest…

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce i…

If I remember correctly, the habitable-ish cloud layers have super-fast winds that circle the planet once every 4 days or so. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_supe…

There was this project idea that some researchers at Langley developed in the mid-2010s called HAVOC (High Altitude Venus Operational Concept) [0] for a 5-stage mission to send hum…

https://xkcd.com/397/ (the zombie feynman one)

Just a guess, but maybe it's reporting bias? Negative or evil actions might have more impetus to be understood by others than positive actions. I'd rather try and figure out why my…

Interesting. Could you give some examples as to how? I want to see how well this could work out in my friend circle, who seem to be getting bored after years of mafia-ing.

I just checked it out, what's the difference between it and non-board-games like werewolf and mafia?

Out of curiosity, has anyone noticed a non-negligible presence of bots in threads on HN? I haven't, but I'm not sure if that's because I'm bad at spotting them or because HN is goo…

That feels more like a reflection of how terrible most GM cars are than about the inflated valuation of Cursor, which is what I infer you were trying to imply.