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by leobg 2y ago
Laborers in Somalia chew khat Soldiers crave their cigarettes. Office workers need their cup of coffee. You can, of course, say it’s just human nature to enjoy an altered state of consciousness. but when it becomes a habit like that, it’s r
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by leobg 2y ago
I use “Really Useful Box” containers. Have a whole rack of them, with labels “Audio”, “USB”, “Phone”, “Travel”, etc.. Wife is always impressed if she asks me for some obscure item we haven’t used for years and I hand it to her in ten second
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by leobg 2y ago
The number of ads I have to click away or ignore while trying to piece together the paragraphs of this article - it’s like a parody.
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by leobg 2y ago
I love how in the demo video, even the audio instructions themselves are AI generated. No human in the loop, at all! :)
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by leobg 2y ago
I built a fancy Raspberry Pi setup with peristaltic pumps and capacitive soil moisture sensors. But it’s hard to beat a $5 terracotta cone called Blumat. [0] [0] https://www.blumat.de/
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by leobg 2y ago
I find it odd that your engineer would make the system rely on instructions (“Do this. Never do that.”). This exposes your system to inconsistencies from the instruct tuning and future changes thereof by OpenAI or whoever. System prompts an
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by leobg 2y ago
Direct Instruction. Most underrated technology since the 70s.
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by leobg 2y ago
At the same time, there’s a Show HN on the front page today with an app that lets you buy people’s email addresses, packaged as an innovation in AI powered search.
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by leobg 2y ago
The criminal justice system, like most systems, is designed for crimes within a finite spectrum of magnitudes. If you’re outside that spectrum, governments and countries just no longer know what to do. In fact, they may not even be able so
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by leobg 2y ago
You are using data from that LinkedIn leak from a while ago?
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by leobg 2y ago
What I find much worse is the kind of narcissism/outrage/drama porn that most “for kids” stories and franchises are. If my seven year old reads about some horrible things that happened in World War II, that usually leads to some o
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by leobg 2y ago
Maybe it was a typo. Maybe you didn’t buy bio-degradable but bio-degrading?
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by leobg 2y ago
How do you make a round corner with a beer bottle? I mean an actual corner (three walls meeting), not an edge (two walls).
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by leobg 2y ago
This is the actual listing: https://www.iaai.com/VehicleDetail/40191032~US Picture shows the flood line. Wasn’t exactly a puddle.
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by leobg 2y ago
I happen to be German. So thanks for that! Will get it right away.
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by leobg 2y ago
I wonder if that has something to do with the experience of death. Narcissistic god complex in those who haven’t had it. Humility and a real sense of purpose, legacy and a connection with those who came before and who will come after in tho
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by leobg 2y ago
+1. And reall well done. I like how you can scroll through to get a good overview without any one section being too long to break that high level overview flow. Excellently executed.
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by leobg 2y ago
These are fascinating. Anyone know a book our other source for a list of such Chinese shorthand figures of speech and the tales/aphorisms behind them about human nature? Kinda like “sour grapes” in English, or Aesop’s fables.
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by leobg 2y ago
I was the only one in my class in law school who used mind maps and spaces repetition (back then on a Palm Pilot). After I graduated, new professors came in who now are popularizing such methods, writing books about it, etc.. I think it’s a
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by leobg 2y ago
+ Rudolph Flesh, The Art Of Clear Thinking (1951). He has visualizations in there how people concepualize the months in a year as an ellipsis, and so on.
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by leobg 2y ago
Typo in the title. Should be “Google Search’s indexing has halted”. (More likely not a typo but a transcription error.)
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by leobg 2y ago
This is their game. Infiltrate HN, X, YouTube, Google with “tutorials” and “case studies”. Basically re-target engineers until they’ve seen your name again and again. Then, they sell. Langchain, Pinecone, it’s all the same playbook.
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by leobg 2y ago
Excellent indeed. Thanks for posting. Deserves its own post, I would say!
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by leobg 2y ago
Wikipedia summary: > In a vastly overpopulated world, businesses have taken the place of governments and now hold political power. States exist merely to ensure the survival of huge trans-national corporations. Advertising has become hug
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by leobg 2y ago
Nietzsche wrote about this in ~1885: > Where solitude ends, there begins the market-place; and where the market-place begins, there begins also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies. In the world even the bes
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by leobg 2y ago
Yeah, I was shocked when, coming from PHP, I realized that in Python, in order to serve a website, you have to start and maintain an extra server process.
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by leobg 2y ago
Makes me think of Pieter Levels who used to run a 60k/mo SaaS with hundreds of paying users from a single index.php on a bare metal server. (I don’t know if he still does it that way.)
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by leobg 2y ago
Skinner isn’t mentioned in the article.
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by leobg 2y ago
They have a discussion going on: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Noam_Chomsky#Is_he_dead ?
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by leobg 2y ago
I had always had wanted to ask him if he didn’t think now that his critique of BF Skinner’s “Verbal Behavior” had been wrong after all, and that LLMs are the experimental proof of Skinner’s idea that simple conditioning can give rise to som

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