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by pvg 1y ago
If the premise behind something is bad the whole thing is bad. Then find a thread where the premise is being discussed, if that's how you feel, or write your own post about the faults of the premise. "The premise of your whole t
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by pvg 1y ago
You are allowed to criticize it but you can't fulminate and you can't go on some generic tangent, just like pretty much always? It's both in the Show HN thing https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html and th
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by pvg 1y ago
Sir, this is a Show HN.
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by pvg 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44116862
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by pvg 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43676697
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by pvg 1y ago
Show HN thread a few months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42168166
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by pvg 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44085920
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by pvg 1y ago
Paper https://hbaktash.github.io/files/rolling_dragons_paper.pdf and more related stuff on the page of one of the authors https://hbaktash.github.io/
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Putting Rigid Bodies to Rest(twitter.com)
128 points by pvg 1y ago|11 comments
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by pvg 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKOc6hXMDhc&t=86s
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by pvg 1y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by pvg 1y ago
Apple’s 1984 ad is “we’d like to change the world. by having more of IBM’s market share”. So it must have been a while.
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by pvg 1y ago
Ongoing thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117302
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by pvg 1y ago
It would probably imply it
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by pvg 1y ago
If I had a coworker who made a random insult machine Nothing of the sort happened, though? Why even make this gigantically escalatory analogy? You don't have to like the work presented and you still have the option of non-yelly criti
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by pvg 1y ago
I guess I'm having trouble following this, what is the non-productive quagmire? It's someone's Show HN and you started grumping at them out of nowhere - that's what it looks like externally. There is no right way to do t
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by pvg 1y ago
Bachchat on the fp right now https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=44106764
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by pvg 1y ago
Can we have some guidance about how to call out bullshit? That's right in the site docs linked above which you should check out.
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by pvg 1y ago
https://archive.is/XyxeB
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by pvg 1y ago
Thread at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9603859
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by pvg 1y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by pvg 1y ago
It seems to me there is no difference in kind between an email arguing for or examining an important decision or idea, and an "essay" on an important decision or idea. Why are there people who make a living as, say, newspaper op
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Claude 4 System Card(simonwillison.net)
700 points by pvg 1y ago|252 comments
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by pvg 1y ago
That the 'studiedly mussed' style of fly.io blog posts comes across as 'unedited' for some is a terrific compliment, even more so for being unintended.
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by pvg 1y ago
Why do you think pg is writing about emails and meeting notes? I don't readily see anything in the piece to suggest that. 'making a case for something' or 'describing something' covers the bulk of writing, the piece
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by pvg 1y ago
Fire up an LLM and write a Malcolm Gladwell article.
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by pvg 1y ago
That’s your thesis but it’s not clear to me how it’s related to those in Seeing like a State
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by pvg 1y ago
Get a median human to write some elevator or hold music and see how that goes. There's an entire business of making and licensing such music which would not be the case if any rando could just crank it out. Emails, etc, are just '
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by pvg 1y ago
Scott's 'legibility' comes with a very explicit consumer - a large power structure like a state. Written style is not like that at all - pg can't force to anyone to write in his preferred way nor is anyone obliged to lik
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by pvg 1y ago
Most people don't want to spend much time reading 'median human' writing so the claim that LLMs are 'better', even if true, doesn't really say that much. We don't listen to median human music either.

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