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I posted this a few months ago, but figured I'd try again since I don't hear about this pattern much. I'm using it daily, especially for exploratory tasks. It helps tremendously. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47896577)

> At the same time, who among us didn’t nod in recognition at least, having once spent hours massaging a button UI string or a tooltip just to get it to fit under the certain width in a densely packed interface?

I did, and then I got a customer email about how they were using a display-zoom OS accessibility feature and things were truncated on their device. :')

See also: localizing your interface to German


I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding you, but Magnifica Humanitas was published earlier this year.

That's fair :) Can't say I've looked at any 30 year old commits lately myself.

"First 1-2 sentences"

First sentence is "Zur Erforderlichkeit der Notwehrhandlung" (About the necessity of self defense acts).

The whole document is about the necessity aspect but §32 StGB requires Notendigkeit (necessity) AND Gebotenheit (appropriateness).


Open weights are one thing, but honestly, the holy grail would be the original data (and some reasonably cost model by which to train something equivalent).

We've kind of reached the age of true industrial sized data. We've been acclimated to being able to eventually get to supercomputer levels of computation -- it will be a decade before we get there (if we ever do). It will be critical to retain the data that we have before it is locked off from the world into private vaults.

I think the other sibling response to this comment is reasonable: corporations violate the law and they pay some minimal penalty. people violate the law and effectively lose their life.


I've had to fight the temptation to make my harness play Mr. Meeseeks clips periodically.

The Trump charging and convicting didn't happen fast enough during Biden and now Trump's immune and has pardoned his co-conspirators.

I have never felt more seen. I do this with comments all the time, rewording things to look nice on that 80 or 100 column mark.

There is interesting debate about whether, and how much, LLMs were used to write parts of this encyclical. Generally encyclicals are written by a group of Cardinals and/or Bishops, with significant input from the Pope, so it seems possible that while the Pope's sections and speeches have been human-written, some of the other writers used LLMs in some capacity.

The argument boil down to: Pangram seems to flag some sections, some sections have tells or AI smell, and despite being written in a similar register, previous writings of both the Pope and previous encyclicals are not flagged.

I'm not sure that it's a disaster if parts have been AI assisted, but it's an interesting question to ponder, and would be interested in the HN view.

Best post I've found arguing that there was LLM use: https://substack.com/inbox/post/199316613

Australian startup apparently verifying (without much detail) that it's not: https://www.proudlyhuman.org/news-room/media-releases/pope-l...


There has been no period of "rapid change" that has even come close to matching the speed of climate change in the last couple hundred years.

So maybe it is possible to use alternate words in writing without compromising on writing quality after all.

Isn't 2 million euros a bit of a lowball demand for a city the size of Berlin? In any case, it's good they're not paying.

Not exclusively but predominantly. Which makes me doubtful that the Catholic Church moved the numbers much on the HIV pandemic. Assuming of course that they weren't against condom use between men, which I'm not sure if they had or have a stance on.

Great, could you tell me which headphones I can use without adapter on Zoom F6, Yamaha DM3, Behringer Wing panels, Focusrite Scarlett interfaces and smartphones?

Currently we're using Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro and some MDR-7506.

They'd also need to be fully passive, as any active processing introduces unpredictable delays of up to 16ms, which is unacceptable when the goal is to check sync on audio and video signals.


Gemini have done exactly that.

(I doubt it's because of my stupid benchmark, though!)


>Can a Democrat President just rename everything in every red state to random strings?

A Democrat president must do this to teach the Republican strategists, representatives and voters consequences of actions. Then they will be ready for 'sensible compromise, reform and limits on executive power'.


Proprietary drivers for obscure hardware were the bane of my existence. Glad to see this SM750 driver open-sourced.

The worked-example effect doesn't say that worked examples replace exercises. It says that worked examples prior to exercises beats exercises alone.

There's a section on that page about faded worked examples:

> "In order to facilitate the transition from learning from worked examples in earlier stages of skill acquisition to problem solving in later stages, it is effective to successively fade out worked solution steps"


My dad told a story of a classmate in high school going through the effort of manually justifying text in a paper he wrote and being rewarded with a plagiarism accusation.

That was done by typing the whole paper twice, with added spaces the second time.


It's funny how some people say "AI bad, datacenters waste energy" then other people say "AI bad, going to make humans and their phones waste energy".

Always interesting to see older philosophical texts discussed here. Often find surprising parallels to modern tech ethics debates.

Most of us here still use a monospace justification tool daily: troff, run internally by man. (Now that I’m thinking about it, I seem to remember old distros shipping preformatted manpages in addition to roff source. Wonder when those disappeared?..)

Yeah. And the quality of AI will only get worse from here unless we can commoditize open weight models.

If Google and Anthropic and such are able to own access, they will enshittify it horribly. Because they are powerless to do anything but, in the name of profit.


Not true in which direction? If another state allows it, which one? Lots of states apply stand-your-ground against robbery, but robbery is a threat to a person, not just property.

What I'd love to see (but likely lack the skill to, even with Claude Opus) is PowerPC. Haiku would look great on an iMac G4.

What's the point? You don't want humans to talk to each other any more, to teach each other, to learn from each other? Everything has to be mediated through some sort of bot?

The future of humanity is dire if this is what's round the corner.

Thanks for making everything worse, you soulless bastards.


this is the kind of content I come to hackernews for

I guess you people can post publicly suggesting we improve things. If everyone did that there would be consensus to make changes.

On a personal level I also plan to get aircon which may not help the planet but may help me.


I can't imagine free soloing El Capitan, but there's a guy out there doing it. My artistic skills cap out at shitty stick figures.

I get more distracted if I attempt to focus on just one thing for a day.

Different brains.


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