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Re:Comparing 60 LLMs with a set of 20 prompts on Saturday September 09, 2023 @02:05PM (#37448310)
This is impressive. Good work.
Re:Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @11:31AM (#37148637)
That's a shame because Twitter is the greatest place to follow real-time developments in many fields and getting in touch with scientists. My mother was diagnosed with a rare lung-cancer last year and Twitter was the best source of information about developments in drugs targeting her particular cancer (NSCLC with the Exon 20 mutation).
Source? As a counter anecdote: Madrid, where most people live near traffic, has the highest life expectancy in the EU at 85.4 years.
Re:Sweden launches research rocket, accidentally hits Norway on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @12:30PM (#35716324)
I'm pretty sure IKEA has been legally Dutch for a while now.
Re:Now ChatGPT is being (mis)used to do PeerReview on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @04:35AM (#35354261)
Peer-reviews have been broken way before GPT. People are expected to do it for free in a publish or perish academia...
Compared to his contemporaries? He is possibly the most influential sculptor of the Renaissance. Michelangelo wasn't even born yet when Donatello died.
Re:We Found an Neuron in GPT-2 on Sunday February 19, 2023 @06:58PM (#34863235)
What exactly did I write that is wrong? UG argues a universal grammar exists, and that humans innately posses knowledge about this grammar. It's this grammar that enables humans to learn a language (according to UG). They (UG linguists) have created a system of syntax rules that attempts to describe any language, but failed at doing so once they step outside of Indo-European languages. This is partly because Chomsky was hired by MIT to solve machine translation and putting language into a set of neat boxes was his best idea and partly because Chomsky himself had little knowledge of other languages. It's pseudoscience.
Re:We Found an Neuron in GPT-2 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @09:11PM (#34829796)
grammar as we know it was devised for the Latin language and linguists spend most of the time attempting to fit other languages into neat boxes that the Latin grammar wasn't designed for. This of course leads to absurdity. Chomsky attempted to solve this problem with his universal grammar, but that too stops working quickly once you get outside of European languages. That is, ignoring linguistic tools is one of the reasons GPT is successful.
Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @09:50PM (#34799403)
Goodbye, good old trusted Linode :(
The first thing that depresses wages in Southern Europe is lack of value creation.
I prefer Stimulus vs htmx + hyperscript for two reasons:

1. You can easily reimplement all htmx and hyperscript functionality and fine-tune to your liking

2. You are not limited by htmx and hyperscript

Re:Show HN: Favicons for HN on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @10:53AM (#31097811)
If you set the width/height to 12px, set the image's left padding to 0, and center things vertically with flex, it looks significantly better.

  image.width = 12
  image.height = 12
  image.style.marginRight = '0.25em'
  //image.style.paddingRight = '0.25em'
  //image.style.paddingLeft = '0.25em'

  document.querySelectorAll('.athing > td:nth-child(3), .titlelink').forEach(e => { 
    e.style.display = 'flex',
    e.style.alignItems = 'center',
    e.style.marginRight = '0.25em'
  })
Screenshot: https://imgur.com/BN2wHgo
> Seems clear at this point that the official Spanish government was behind these attacks, or the official registries got hacked (together with various delivery companies). Both are bad, but that signs are pointing to the earlier makes it even worse.

Not arguing again't your claim either way, but SMS sender can be set to anything, it's a feature of the system for it to work. The "DNI" (Spanish identification number) can't be considered private information and isn't difficult to find.

You're saying things that are obvious but the facts are:

1. Kaspersky could have long ago left Russia

2. We can't trust Kaspersky

3. The fight is real, even if the US gov lied, incentives matter

I like this idea although labour is not the bottleneck, at least not in Spain. Any advance in robotics is a big plus to humanity. Hope you make it work very soon.
A more reasonable demand would be to have a warning sign for government propaganda websites, without that affecting ranking. Search engines and video hosting platforms like YouTube aren't the same. The first aims to be an index of all the information available on the internet, akin to "the eyes of the internet". When a search engine censors content, we lose sight of our surroundings. The second (e.g YT) hosts the content itself and is more akin to a hotel, in which case there is no expectation that it should host any given content.
Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to DuckDuckGo and Firefox? on Friday March 11, 2022 @08:35AM (#30639660)
Okeano [0] is a free speech absolutist and privacy friendly search engine. [1]

[0] https://okeano.com

[1] https://twitter.com/OkeanoSearch/status/1502077779243847686

Re:Ukraine accepted to NATO cyber defence centre on Saturday March 05, 2022 @08:32AM (#30567418)
"Putin dying or his regime getting toppled is going to create a huge power vacuum, lots of instability and is probably not going to be good for anyone"

Ironically, this is the same logic used by many Russians who support Putin.

I hope you are right but I'm not so optimistic. Even if 1% of Russian nukes make it, that would be a total disaster.
They can't win a war but they can end the world as we know it. Lavrov said WW3 will be nuclear.

https://www.reuters.com/world/russias-lavrov-says-third-worl...

Re:Ask HN: Moscow Exchange on Monday February 28, 2022 @07:19AM (#30499041)
Optimally people download the source and run it locally to avoid being blocked by referer.
Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack on Saturday February 26, 2022 @08:08PM (#30484203)
It only offered very limited military support. You entirely ignore that Castro came to power under a different pretext than communism but Cubans only learned this too late. Unfortunately Kennedy didn't give the air support needed. Cuba could have been in much better shape today.

Don't compare an authoritarian regime sending militias to conquer the territory of a democratic country to a democratic country training and supporting exiles to get rid of their tormentor. Intent matters.

To be fair... Winter Olympics don't typically get much attention, this year was an exception and it actually got _more_ attention.
Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack on Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:23PM (#30462653)
That was an "invasion" by anti-Castro Cubans backed by the US government, but can't hardly be considered an US invasion.
Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack on Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:12PM (#30462584)
You just depicted your world, not the West.
Re:Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator on Monday February 21, 2022 @07:50AM (#30415318)
You start your argument by watering down the definition of dictator. Parents aren't dictators, they're people with authority above their offspring. This authority comes with enormous heart-felt responsibility. Being rejected by somebody doesn't make that person a dictator. Everybody is free to reject you and vice versa. If you're looking for no rejections at all, you might not be psychologically fit. Yes, the world is full of BS, this isn't a bug it's a feature - humans are creative.

> We need more dictators who can take charage and kick the wrong kind of people into prison.

Are you trolling?

Hey. Yes, I've done dark mode but have to fix some quirks before pushing to production. Mobile app is in the pipeline, unfortunately not something I have time to develop at the moment. I've accepted your !wave suggestions. Thank you!
Hey, thank you. We run our own crawler but also use Bing for most generic queries.

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