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Re:Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @01:44AM (#49253803)
This whole thread is what the original post arrives at too, including ASD-STE100.
Re:Ask HN: Would you want to know when and how you die? on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:04AM (#48566829)
Absolutely not, it would ruin life as it is. Maybe it would drive some decisions, but probably badly and panic driven.
Re:Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep on Saturday March 07, 2026 @10:20AM (#47288413)
I've had it for a few years now. One time I got a throat infection and it amplified to a slightly louder volume. It went down to its original level a few months later, but the time when it was slightly louder was scarier than when it first appeared. I was worried it was going to keep increasing.
Isn't the context window the same for all plans, 200k? You would hit usage limits?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Reading? on Friday September 19, 2025 @08:22AM (#45300831)
Just finished Dreadnought and started Castles of steel by the same author, Robert K. Massie.
Re:A Rust Shaped Hole on Thursday July 17, 2025 @10:52AM (#44594065)
There used to be reasonml but I'm not sure how active it is these days.
The article says that deep water is warmer, afaik deep water is colder and surface water is hotter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upwelling)?

A 2023 study https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230330102327.h... observed slowdown in Antarctic overturning, in which cold water sinks down at the south pole and then spreads north in the deeper parts of the ocean.

The slowing of this process would cause deep ocean water to become warmer.

edit: the publication linked in the article https://www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.1073/pnas.2500440122 makes this a bit clearer:

"In the polar Southern Ocean, cold, fresh surface waters overlay warmer, saltier deep waters (Fig. 2A). During winter, surface cooling and sea ice formation reduce stratification, allowing vertical mixing to transport heat upward, either melting sea ice from below or limiting its growth (8). However, decades of surface freshening strengthened stratification, trapping subsurface heat at depth, sustaining expanded sea ice coverage (7, 9) and limiting deep convection along with open-ocean polynyas (10). Here, we show that since 2015, these conditions have reversed: Surface salinity in the polar Southern Ocean has increased, upper-ocean stratification has weakened, sea ice has reached multiple record lows, and open-ocean polynyas have reemerged."

It has been a while since I worked through it, but Haskell programming from first principles had some pretty good exercises IIRC.
From the accompanying code repository it looks like no https://github.com/stewartweiss/intro-linux-sys-prog
The point is that staying relaxed in boxing during sparring or working the heavy bag feels counter-intuitive in the beginning. It seems like tensing up the core and arms would help punch harder, but you quickly learn that conserving stamina is more important than hitting as hard as you can (especially when starting) because otherwise you run out of gas pretty quickly.
Being relaxed is important in boxing too, if you don't stay loose and relaxed (other than snapping explosively when throwing a punch), it is easy to get fatigued quickly and also harder to slip or roll.
At least we share concepts of hell and amateur radio.
I switched to Kagi in June last year. I just realized I tried it initially because I wanted to try out blocking sites in search results, and I have only ever needed to block three domains.
Re:New Grafana Loki UI: No LogQL Required on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @12:35PM (#39981165)
For analysing text logs lnav is pretty good, if you need to work with a live updated view of the log in response to commands.
Re:Ask HN: Project based books/courses for C++? on Thursday March 28, 2024 @09:17AM (#39850961)
I did this a few years ago by porting the Writing an interpreter book (go) to C++. It was pretty nice for learning.
There is a paper linked on the article which says potential causes for the dust distribution are Kuiper belt object collisions and radiation pressure (I'm assuming from the sun?) pushing dust outward

> New data (Figure 3) at larger heliocentric distances show that the SDC-reported dust f l uxes, out to 55 au, remained higher than current models expected. Each of the three physical phenomena: optical properties and radiation pressure (Arnold et al. 2019); compositional variation between silicates and ice (Grigorieva et al. 2007); and a further reaching than currently identif i ed distribution of dust-producing bodies in the solar system (Fraser et al. 2023), may contribute to the data/model deviation.

Re:Ancient Rome's Failed Building Projects on Sunday February 18, 2024 @11:36PM (#39426256)
At one point the senate had plans to make slaves special clothing to distinguish them, but then dropped the idea because if the slaves saw how they outnumbered their masters they might revolt.

(Seneca, Of clemency)

https://spartacus-educational.com/ROMslaves.htm

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23232665

Re:Why good content gets posted on the wrong platform? on Sunday January 28, 2024 @09:21AM (#39166025)
Burying the lede? Interestingly I searched for the phrase and the second hit was someone describing why they were leaving NYT.
Near the end of the article it states:

'The discovery of bejel-causing Treponema in Brazil 2,000 years ago doesn’t directly disprove the idea that syphilis came back with Columbus, the researchers say. But the previous evidence for diverse Treponema strains in fifteenth century Europe and the revised evolutionary timescale for T. pallidum makes it even more unlikely. “All this points in the direction that they are not being imported from the Americas,” says Schuenemann.

One possibility is that treponemal diseases emerged even earlier in Eurasia or Africa, and reached the Americas with the first humans to migrate there at least 15,000 years ago.'

Re:CLion Nova Explodes onto the C and C++ Development Scene on Thursday November 09, 2023 @12:03PM (#38207618)
My experience is, I gave up using clion on a pretty large c++ project ever since they moved to clangd (it used to be decent before) because some functions gradually became much slower to the point of being unusable, eg listing symbols in a file.

The same functionality works quite well in vscode.

But I tried this release and everything works really well on the same project.

This is strange as my usenet (eweka.nl) renewal failed this week on my Kotak card, and when I retried with an ICICI card that failed too, although the amount is quite low.
Spotify etc. work for me too, as they have worked with the RBI rules. My Jetbrains yearly subscription was about to lapse but their sales team helped me make a payment (non-recurring) which avoided the subscription being cancelled.

The chatgpt one seems interesting, I do not have an SBI card but I might look into getting one to try out, thanks.

Ask HN: How are Indian folks managing recurring payments now?

I have a bunch of subscriptions which are gradually starting to fail over the last year or so because of RBI rules controlling recurring payments.For some (like jetbrains, namecheap etc) I was able to talk to the service provider to use a workaround like paying in advance or using a wallet.For some more obscure payments, like a usenet subscription for example, the recurring payment I had set up...

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I think spez has special protection against being tagged.
Interestingly (though perhaps a bit off topic) I received a survey from reddit today in my inbox of my 11 year old account. This is the first of any communication reddit has had with me.

It had questions like how comfortable are you with the information on reddit etc. At first I thought it was because of the possible IPO but I did recently ask for my data so that might have been the trigger.

Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:53PM (#36297932)
Do you perhaps know why they aren't contributing to the upstream?
Re:Gitlab Web IDE Beta, Powered by Visual Studio Code on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @09:51AM (#34081407)
I may be mistaken but AFAIK plugins are not always at feature parity with the full jetbrains IDEs. For example the rust plugin in intellij did not support debugging but the one in CLion did (I think this is fixed now).

The python plugin in intellij was a little inferior to Pycharm for Django (pycharm had deeper support for the django ORM) and so on.

There's also a book called "building git" on writing git from scratch in Ruby.
Hands On Rust: walks you through building a dungeon crawler game.
Re:It’s almost impossible to lose anything in Japan on Saturday March 12, 2022 @12:59AM (#30649306)
Which country are you talking of?

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