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Re:Running a full desktop environment on a Kindle (2019) on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @12:03AM (#25262514)
USD $ 450 (price) buys 72 reams of paper (amazon) which also requires a lot of storage :^)
Re:Learning New Things from Google on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:12PM (#25262223)
"How far away from a nuclear blast is safe?"

Google: 6 feet

"What is the opposite of a dragon?"

Google: a Tiger

"When was running invented?"

Google: Running was invented in 1612 by Thomas Running

"where is spaghetti code grown?"

Google: Slovenia

Two months ago such a result was posted here "How many web servers are there ?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24664280 Not sure what it gives but "how many web servers" gives 'four'. Did someone at Google fix the result individually?

Also note that Logic the rapper is ranked higher than actual logic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18413380

Re:Chess tactics explained on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:10AM (#25253829)
Long-time player here. Strangely enough, the hardest part of these exercises is the uncomfortable brief moment of getting acquainted with (or being teleported to) a random board position.
Re:Ask HN: How to increase your exposure to technologies? on Sunday November 29, 2020 @08:03PM (#25249715)
Thank you for the reminder about Connections! Great show.

Ask HN: How to increase your exposure to technologies?

Posted by justarandomq on Sunday November 29, 2020 @03:02AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Looking for a Tour De Force covering tools, mechanisms, processes, etc. that have either greatly impacted us OR that simply are great examples of clever ingenuity.The more to-the-point, the better. Preferably focusing less on the historical developments and more on the "one time someone figured out they could do X with Y and it is clever because Z"Some large common examples: the loom, the...

( Read More... | 3 comments | 4 points | on HN )
Re:How to Do What You Want: Akrasia and Self-Binding (2011) on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:01PM (#25242612)
I'd be motivated by the swear jar & reminders since I (would have) put it there intentionally. But I realize not everyone lives this way and busy life can be distracting.

You're very right it would depend much on the person AND the goal.

The main value I personally see here is the setup. I wouldn't have to set up reminders and tracking manually. I may even learn a new goal I hadn't considered if others share their goals. As long as it doesn't devolve into a perfectionism race to the burnout line.

I hope it results into more a tool for self improvement than yet another business preying on human flaws/needs.

Re:How to Do What You Want: Akrasia and Self-Binding (2011) on Saturday November 28, 2020 @08:39PM (#25242227)
"do something against your own interests because you can't be trusted"

I really like the idea behind beeminder, as it focuses on discipline/process more than the outcome, but it looks like I could accomplish this with a spreadsheet, reminders, and a 'swear jar' of cash I actually get to keep.

Might work for some people.

Re:TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents on Saturday November 28, 2020 @01:53AM (#25235840)
After some thought I agree with you that this is the wrong problem to solve.

I took a narrative detour I wanted to share:

Suppose we make the analogue of a scientific paper to a piece of mineral ore (in terms of their raw content, and without written symbols in them for the sake of the analogy) extracted from some mine or quarry. This ore is somehow useful to someone, even if its value is structural: the shingles on an academic roof or a heavyweight desk. What a summarizer attempts to do is use a generic refinement process that will grind up the ore and then separate the components of interest such as Iron, Uranium, or Gold.

Anyone thinking that all of metallurgy reduces to simply throwing the slab into a machine and have it spew out the precious metals will find, instead, more complexity than they bargained for, and have more questions on machines or methods to resolve. Gold, Iron, Uranium, all have different extraction process.

I believe this approach may give some insight in what problems to solve instead with AI: focus on those discoveries that have helped advance "metallurgy", those of discovering and understanding the structure of the mineral ore and contents (scientific papers) and their relation with current technologies at the time, not on the philosopher's stone of 'summarizing' process more akin to a hammer that makes everything seem like a nail.

Re:TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:36PM (#25233968)
What you get from applying TLDR to their paper:

We introduce SCITLDR, a new multi-target data set of 5.4KTLDRs over 3.2Kpapers.

Keeping pdf's copy-paste artifacts:

We introduceTLDRgeneration, a new formof extreme extreme summarization, for scientific pa-pers.

Adding intro and conclusion (optional):

We introduce SCITLDR, a new data set of 5.4KTLDRs over 3.2Kpapers.

[0] https://scitldr.apps.allenai.org/

Re:TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:22PM (#25233892)
You could link other TLDR tools and then we could read the paper to learn how they're different.
Re:Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @01:00PM (#25212089)
It was some book, and when submitting the download link, 3 of the antivirus results were red. Perhaps they were false positives.
Re:Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @12:20PM (#25211624)
Is LibGen safe? I remember testing some of its mirror links on virustotal and saw some red flags, so I decided not to risk downloading.
Re:I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42” on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @06:53AM (#25208273)
Sokath, his eyes uncovered
Re:I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42” on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:29AM (#25207083)
Oh. You'd be right in that. But you're the one that brought up sexism in the first case! Perhaps it's prejudiced in itself to assume implicit evil from the choice of characters in a story? Not to mention it detracts from the central discussion, which may explain downvotes.

> Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42” on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:17AM (#25207008)
noun: man; plural noun: men;

1. an adult male human being.

2. a human being of either sex; a person.

Re:List of Active Class Action Lawsuit Settlements on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:08AM (#25206959)
Your data is typically sold against your own interests. In this case, unusually, your data can bring some unexpected benefits due to litigation. Posting here in case it gives people ideas.
Re:Bitcoin Is Near All-Time Highs and the Mainstream Doesn't Care Yet on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:05AM (#25206941)
what's driving it?
Re:Zoomquilt (2004) on Monday November 23, 2020 @06:25PM (#25193158)
Definitely getting some Powers of Ten vibe to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

Re:Zoomquilt (2004) on Monday November 23, 2020 @04:31PM (#25192185)
This would be awesome in one of those monitors that look like a hanging picture frame

Extra awesome if it was infinite or procedurally generated using style transfer GANs or something to showcase different types of art.

Even extra awesomer with the ability to zoom in more than one point

Re:Government Cheese on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:30AM (#25184362)
fascinating