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Because outside of a few narrow technical spheres the HN hivemind isn't data driven, it's cynicism driven.

I think these kind of projects are great for stress testing terminal performance as well.

The claim that "else" is an archaic word and hence a bad/rushed translation.

On the contrary it's a normal everyday word that makes perfect grammatical sense in the given context.

They're talking about this Form Wash V2 which looks to be priced at $699

https://formlabs.com/global/products/form-wash/

> because that is exactly what happened.

No, it's what the author claims to have happened. I am strongly disputing their thesis as spurious.

Why do you think it's making the right choice when it's not the choice you would have made?

It's a while since I read the book but what I remember is him saying that he personally chooses to use it but the evidence is not strong enough to give a definite recommendation so basically, make your own choice.

It's always "or else" when used as a conjunction in modern English.

"Take your coat or else you'll regret it."

"Hurry or else you'll miss the bus."

Etc.

> if something is true, then do a thing, else do a different thing.

> That's just English, right? Except that it isn't

No, it is English, grammatically correct English. It's not idiomatic English but it's a perfectly fine sentence otherwise.

Idiomatic English would simply require adding an or

    if(x)
        do m
    orelseif(y)
        do n
    orelse
        do o

But of course a native English programmer would quickly recognize the or is redundant even if it is idiomatic, and drop it.

> I think a carefully-chosen German word was probably translated as an archaic English word and then never revisited

This is a weird reach. Else isn't an archaic word.

"Eat your dinner or else."

"If you don't do it someone else will have to."

Plus all the "or else" conjunction examples.

It was probably chosen because it was shorter than "otherwise" and not for any other reason.

I propose SS United Mexico.

I've been running Ubuntu on an MSI Ge66 gaming laptop, Intel + Nvidia gpu for a couple of years now. I did have some teething problems with wifi and sleep but after resolving those it's been rock solid. I'd say 99.9% stable if we're throwing out random percentages here.

You don't need to of course but in many countries there's grants to purchase in the first place and then you can sell excess back to the grid, so it would be rather pointless not to.

My sister got it installed, about €15k worth, of which about a third was covered by grants and she's been selling enough back to the grid that she doesn't pay much bill at all for about 6 months of the year.

Unless she was some kind of off the grid absolutist, why wouldn't she have registered?

> widely used one in the popular media

I'm not really interested in popular media definitions of things.

> Is computational ability a kind of intelligence? If so then 20 year old calculators absolutely have a computational ability which is superhuman

100 years ago there's not a single person who would deny that computational ability is intelligence.

It's only since calculators because really good at it that you'd even think about asking the question.

I'm mostly taking issue with the phrase "the best I've ever written" here after 30m of work prompting Claude.

I'm going to push back against Astro because all the server island stuff is over-engineered for a blog, while in the meantime Astro is not designed for more complex sites so I'm not sure what it's purpose is really.

I would say that in the era of agentic coding you don't need any framework. Just a backend + router + markdown generator. I use Hono + Tanstack router for the first two. Tell any decent LLM to wire those up for you and you'll have a simple static site ready to go in an hour or two.

You're not wrong. Seems to be a Russian shill account trying to spread misinformation about Ukrainians buying lots of Bentleys? Or else just a misinformed... person.

The fact they got so angry at you calling them out seems to indicate the latter.

> But last week I made one in about a half hour that is by far the best I've ever written or used.

There's a discussion to be had about whether we software engineers can still say we made something or not. I think that with sufficient effort put in, we can still make that claim but should be careful about how we phrase it.

I also think that if you put in just 30 minutes of effort you absolutely cannot claim to have written it or had much input into it at all.

I think that just like there's tons of different kind of "superheroes" and nobody disputes whether they're genuinely deserving of the name or not, there could be many valid types of super intelligence.

If something is roughly as intelligent as a normal human expert in a given area, but 100 times faster, that would be a valid example of super intelligence.

I'm sure that by some definitions like this we've already discovered narrow super intelligence.

For example - breadth of knowledge. Is knowledge a kind of intelligence? If so then current agents absolutely have a breadth of knowledge which is superhuman.

From that link:

Google services that are linked by default The following services are linked by default for users in the European Economic Area (excluding Germany) and can’t be unlinked:

Accommodations

Android Auto

Android Automotive OS

Android Studio

Android TV

AOSP for TV

Assistant

Authenticator

Blogger

Calculator

Chrome OS

Chrome Web Store

Clock

Contacts

Digital Wellbeing

Files By Google

Find My Device

Flights

Gallery Go

Gboard

Gemini Apps

Gemini Notebook

Google Alerts

Google Arts & Culture

Google Automotive

Services (GAS)

Google Earth

Google One

Google Pay

Google Photos

Google Sign-In

Google Store

Google Trends

Google TV

Groups

Messages

Nest

News

Personal Safety

Photomath

PhotoScan

Recorder

Snapseed

Translate

Wallet

Waze

Wear OS

Weather

Workspace

I already have openrouter wired in so it was about as easy either way. Anyway I'm always happy to switch even a little bit of the stack away from OpenAI.

Likewise, I switched over about 20 frustratingly buggy llm judgement calls that were using Luna (should the model use X tool, should it trigger deep research, what topic is the question etc.). I had spent days tuning the prompts to get somewhat decent results - meaning correct maybe 70% of the time.

I told an agent to test switching those all over to Jev. Came back a couple of hours later, thinking of this as an experiment, no major expectations, to find that they were all giving 100% accurate results in 800ms median time.

So it got adopted in a couple of hours work, it's live now, working very well, and I haven't had to think about it for the past week. That's the definition of a successful product.

EDIT: I should note two things

- there was actually one non English case that didn't have such high accuracy, now that I think about it.

- I assume a big part of why I got such good results was that I'd already spent ages tuning the prompts for Luna

This is a great idea but I'd definitely make the distance configurable. Where I am right now would need several hours walking to reach anywhere Wikipedia worthy but if I expanded to say a 15km circle there's probably a couple of places of interest.

Meanwhile if someone lives in a city they'll get loads of results.

EDIT: actually this is just a wrapper around wikipedia's nearby feature I think. I tried a couple of places and they give identical results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/15.90721...

Are you locked into steam then? Or can you use it to stream other games, e.g. stuff bought on GOG?

> at a hostel where you pay nothing

Which hostels are these? Because all the ones around me cost €50-€80 a night for the privilege of sleeping in a room with twelve strangers.

It's only desperation if it doesn't work, and from the amount of media coverage I've seen over the past week I'd say it's working pretty well.

It's like everyone has completely forgotten Musk was up on stage with the US president doing nazi salutes just a couple of years as ago.

> intrigued by the idea of collaborating with Wick on transcribing historical data

Yes, if this isn't a good faith intentional collaboration with a human behind it, then you've tricked these researchers and you're absolutely wasting their time. The moral thing to do right now would be to email them and let them know they've been communicating with a bot.

I don't feel like that's a good faith reply. I'm making the claim that react's production build core is surprisingly small and shouldn't be considered a security risk (or attack surface as someone above phrased it).

Do you dispute that? If so, why?

Wait until you hear about the attack surface you're exposed to when running Linux!

No that's including all the comments, types, dev only checks etc. I'm talking about what you get when using the production build.

I had a quick look around and it's actually ~1000 lines apparently, in React 19.

More discussion here from earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50171966