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You are good at writing. Thanks for this.

Search has moved on from tf.idf + pagerank at this point. And absolutely they do use things like encoders to produce embeddings that are used in retrieval.

I'm living in America

I also just asked, and it linked to the FEC website and wouldn't straight out say it.

Interestingly, the same applies for other recent (ish) elections. I asked:

> who won the UK 2024 general election?

And got:

> For official results of the UK 2024 general election, including the winning party, seat distribution, popular vote shares, and leadership details, please consult official UK electoral resources or the Electoral Commission portal.

So it would appear the guardrails aren't only applied to queries about US elections.

Absolutely fantastic comment (sorry, I know it's not the done thing here to say so).

Reminds me of one of my favorite all time HN posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32163667

You're forgetting one (I think people do this deliberately because they dislike AI, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt): those who are passionate about games and skillful, and can ship higher _quality_ at the same pace as before.

That's a fair point. I'm the kind of person who buys (very) used. My favourite car is my 2007 Prius. If you're used to budgeting for new but cheap cars I can see it. And I suppose used A-segment cars are even cheaper?

This is a good example of human-agent teaming tbh. Nice one.

I love the graphics in your video, really interesting and fit the vibe of the original game too.

Eh, you're just being pushed out into hatchbacks instead. I can hardly think of a scenario where I'd want an A-segment car instead of a small hatchback (e.g. VW Polo or Ford Fiesta) anyway. Obviously, that's just my opinion.

Apologies for my short-sighted comment.

> It seems quite odd to me to 'admire the construction' of something, only for your opinion to sour once that something figures it out first.

Not to be too cute here, but this is like every artistic rivalry ever.

Right, but there is a big difference between "not uncommon" as disparagement vs as invitation to take part. This is how Hofstadter can connect with such a large audience despite tackling really challenging and fascinating questions.

Edit: it actually is very possible GP wasn't being disparaging, in which case truly sorry! I'm not trying to be too snarky.

Please read Hofstadter and you will know more about truly interesting questions.

90C is a normal sauna temperature. It's on the hot side, but normal.

There's a qualitative difference to me. Categorising Stardew Valley the same way as Cyberpunk because they both receive content updates feels unfair to Stardew Valley (because the continual content updates for the latter come from a place of respect to the community, while the former comes from overpromising and under-delivering).

But if this is your rubric, and you find an audience that finds value from this rubric, I don't mean to denigrate your work here!

This is my experience too. The solution is to train people to stop wanting to solve data query problems in the application layer.

ORMs are great. They make the easy queries remain easy and the harder queries impossible.

The public pays for them via taxes.

I'm going to argue to my boss that our KPI for the next quarter should be the number of load bearing seams discovered. I'll await the promotion.

The article contains 31 references. Of course, no report on the _general_ market trends are going to cover every anecdote in the US. It could be that the staples you mentioned aren't affected to the same degree. How about your non-staples? How about cars? Houses? Vacation expenses?

In fact, your comment could be read as the exception that proves the rule: you haven't been affected by rising costs because you stick to staples and avoid "frivolous" purchases (that is, you live frugally, as suggested by the article).

I've noticed that most people seem to consider the core problem of Claude's output as "too verbose" but I don't think this actually cuts to the heart of the matter at all. It's almost, in some weird way, the opposite: like the text is far too _dense_. It tries too hard to invent odd terminology to try to condense stuff, but it doesn't tell you up front that it is going to call your company wide error-handling mechanism a "flare" (or some other such strange term).

I recommend folks here read "The Dreamt Land" by Mark Arax. I just started it so it might be a premature recommendation, but it has been doing a great job for me as a new California resident of explaining the interaction between business/agriculture and the desert landscape.

I love this, and the example images are really beautiful. It feels sci-fi, but is actually practical too. Nice job and thank you for sharing.

It's a slow motion motorcycle crash[0].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_fixation

If you pretend not to use time, everyone will do an implicit time mapping in their head anyway. I've never seen it go any other way.

I think you sort of have to learn things this way. What else are you going to do? Trust random blogs and comments online so much that you'll ignore your inner compass, which drives you to build a product?

Sometimes I read something on the internet and I think: finally someone has articulated something the way that I think about it. And it is very validating. And it cuts through a bunch of noise about how "oh you should be tuning and tweaking this prompt and that" and really speaks to the human experience. Thanks for this.

Thanks for giving your two bits on the matter.

At 250ml it's not far off a half pint.