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by lordgrenville 1y ago
Yes! Reminds me of one of my all-time favourite HN comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23003595
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by lordgrenville 1y ago
Well it is already a "graphical" editor. And I would say out of the box it isn't an IDE, but with a couple of common packages added (say a file tree, terminal, code completion, LSP) it looks pretty much identical to any comme
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by lordgrenville 1y ago
> I think I'm ready to open my wallet for that Claude subscription for now. I'm happy to pay for an AI that doesn't accidentally delete my files Why does the author feel confident that Claude won't do this?
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by lordgrenville 1y ago
I thought this was going to be a game engine written in Emacs Lisp :) but this is still cool. Congrats!
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by lordgrenville 1y ago
I wonder if they used an LLM to generate the list of safety terms.
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by lordgrenville 1y ago
Here is the report by (the late) Hindenburg Research about dangers to kids on Roblox. Can't vouch for the contents, but I think parents should at least skim it and take precautions. https://hindenburgresearch.com/roblox
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Plastics are greener than they seem(economist.com)
5 points by lordgrenville 1y ago|0 comments
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by lordgrenville 1y ago
Ann Wroe is a treasure
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by lordgrenville 1y ago
And you can use * for the reverse (every parameter from here on needs to be keyword-only). https://docs.python.org/3.12/reference/compound_stmts.html#f...
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
Great comment, articulates something I've been feeling lately but didn't quite have the words for. (Not American, but similar situation in my country.) Where do we go from here? What kind of action would be effective?
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
I am hesitant to correct a math Olympian, but don't you mean the median?
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
My pet theory is the proliferation of digital entertainment options, and gaming / online culture. There are a lot more ways to keep yourself occupied inside, so less reason to go out and get into trouble.
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
Disagree, because I think everyone's conforming. No psychologically healthy human being just acts out their authentic self without any calibration with some type of peer group. Whether that peer group is NYU undergrads, or their fellow
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
I have something similar (though less elegant). I find the best use case to be hitting ..........<RET> to get to root (in conjunction with zsh auto_cd option), rather than typing `cd /`.
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
So many anonymous writers on Substack who seem to take pride in giving zero biographical information. Then they write geopolitical analysis or whatever with enormous confidence, frequently calling out the experts in the field as idiots. I g
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
The VC-funded startup model is predicated on becoming a large business, not staying a small one.
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
Great news. The copyright owners of Tintin are very litigious [0]. I have some "Tintin in Vietnam" prints at home that are commonly sold in SE Asia [1]. Those street vendors will be happy to know that they're in the clear now
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
And median wage in NYC is $74k (according to Google). Sure, Manhattan is different, tech salaries are different, etc. I'm not claiming that these specific workers should/shouldn't be paid more, just that it's really tone
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
That's crazy. Why would the number of hours worked per week ever possibly be relevant to a hiring process? At most they might ask "full-time/part-time/other" or something like that.
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
So it turns out that there's no theoretical reason that gradient boosting will always outperform RF (which would violate the "no free lunch" theorem). But it does usually seem to be the case in practice, even with small and n
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
One relevant difference is that a better-quality human answer is correlated with certain "tells": correct formatting and grammar, longer answers, higher reputation. An incorrect LLM answer looks (from the outside) exactly the same
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
The answer by humans is a) publicly accessible b) hallucination-free (although it still may not be correct) c) subject to a voting process which gives a good signal of how much we should trust it. Which makes me think, maybe a good move for
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
Someone brought this up in a child comment: what are the taste/health effects of near-permanent car traffic on fruit trees? The fruit of the public citrus trees in my city is pretty sour, but I don't know how much this is because
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
The author says "I refuse to believe they’re unaware of this. This doesn’t feel like an oversight, it's either a deliberate design decision or they just don't care." Agree that this is an uncharitable way of looking at i
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
Not commenting specifically on LI ranking, but Byrne Hobart wrote a terrific rebuttal of the main premise of this book https://www.thediff.co/archive/bullshit-jobs-is-a-terrible-c...
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
It also conflicts with the PowerShell built-in Set-Location (though I imagine that's a pretty small intersection of users...)
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
related to "grok"?
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
I wouldn't draw the line at FAANG-employed, but rather at the highly tech-literate (e.g. people reading this thread).
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
I'm currently reading another of his books, Oxygen: The Molecule that made the World , which unsurprisingly has lots more about this topic.
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by lordgrenville 2y ago
For those interested in the topic, I highly recommend this book: https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-long-ships

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