I imagine the comments of such a site to be filled with people exclaiming “How dare you Sir! How very dare you!”
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#32I keenly await the Shakespearian follow up.
Shakespearean English in the sense of being written in the style of Shakespeare, rather than of his era, is without doubt beyond GPT-3
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#33Anyone else stressed out how good ML approach is advancing in AI? I feel left behind...
Don't believe everything (anything?) you read on the internet is my adage, good sir/madam ducktective.
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#34This reminded me of the "Victorian Laptop" that Justine Cassell and students worked on at the MIT Media Lab, in the late 1990s.
IIRC, in the original idea, the Victorian Laptop hardware was an antique portable wood laptop desk, retrofitted with PC electronics and custom software, and the purpose was to relate/connect the user's thoughts in a particular location to the writings of others who've been in some similar context before. With the time-traveler writing desk adding to the reflective experience.
(Physical craft-wise, this was before the steampunk DIY computers that we see today. Cassell collected antique writing desks, had inspiration from those, and some energetic students worked on figuring out and building it.)
http://www.justinecassell.com/publications/narr_intell.vlt.9...
Seems like modern ML tools should open up more possibilities along these lines. I'd like to see the focus on leveraging information and computation for genuine experiences and accurate understand (not, say, some of the currently more obvious automated content generation applications, for SEO, addictive engagement, demagoguery, etc.)
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#35Great site but can the author of the site improve its readability for desktop users? I find the text visually hard to read (not the text in itself). In Firefox for example the Reader mode is not available which would also help. (I'm a regular web user, I know it's not great but I have no idea how to improve it) If anyone has good tips/tools/links for the author please reply with them.
A relevant quote from the linked article:
> I implore you, dear reader, to set aside your petty grievances; trifling things such as the format of an article or website, the unfortunate repetition of a name, or the vexing loss of information when pressing the back button. They are so common and so lacking in originality that they have no interest whatsoever.
But for real, the styling is just copied from the original: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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#36Great site but can the author of the site improve its readability for desktop users? I find the text visually hard to read (not the text in itself). In Firefox for example the Reader mode is not available which would also help. (I'm a regular web user, I know it's not great but I have no idea how to improve it) If anyone has good tips/tools/links for the author please reply with them.
It has the same look as the HN guidelines.
Reader mode seems to work on the HN guidelines page, but not on this page, although the markup appears to be the same. Not sure what's up with that.
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#37As a person from Victoria, Australia, I can confirm this is exactly how we all speak.
As a West Australian, all I can say as a representative of the rest of the country is: we know.
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#38Victorian AWS: https://victorianaws.com/
S3 is a glorious bastion of uptime in the otherwise storm-tossed sea of the World Wide Web, a shining beacon of safety to which one may entrust one's most valuable data, whether files, or precious objects, or even blobs of the most unique and ephemeral content.Re: Victorian Hacker News
#39I’ll piggyback on this to show something I made: autosummarized HN. https://danieljanus.pl/autosummarized-hn/ I originally intended to run it for a month only, but when OpenAI slashed prices at the beginning of September, I figured another month won’t hurt.
Great idea! Though in several instances it essentially repeats the submission title (which isn't too bad, but maybe you can instruct it to extend from the title?).
I laughed at this one, you might want to take a look at it:
> The article is about how to enable JavaScript in order to use twitter.com
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#40I’ll piggyback on this to show something I made: autosummarized HN. https://danieljanus.pl/autosummarized-hn/ I originally intended to run it for a month only, but when OpenAI slashed prices at the beginning of September, I figured another month won’t hurt.
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