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Re:An Interview with Bill Gates on AI on Thursday October 01, 2026 @05:55AM (#49919721)
I liked the interview because it was so clear and well-reasoned. I also felt that Gates’s reactions to some of the questions were very sincere and “human” - after certain questions from the interviewer, his body language clearly betrayed his disagreement, after which he tried to compose himself and answer calmly.

It’s very unusual to see a multi-billionaire and highly influential person who is genuinely afraid of the path we’re all currently on.

I would love to see real LLM performance benchmarks for these machines. Apple statement regarding LLM performance seem little vague.
I haven’t noticed such thing, but maybe you are right. I think that Switzerland is completely different than other parts of Europe and it is hard to compare with.
As a European, I can safely say that tipping in American restaurants is one of the most unusual things I remember about America. The amount of tips is huge and they are demanded of you everywhere
Re:Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:00PM (#42953418)
This is funny how bad UI is on some of websites which are considered the best. Today I tried to find prices for Mistral models but I couldn’t. Their prices page leads to 404…
I have a good story related to the topic of discussion :)

I am the author of one site - a dictionary of the English language, which, in addition to the definition of a word from several dictionaries, shows the use of words in different contexts. One of the contexts is news - so for example for the word "window" it shows several news headlines containing the word "window".

So, about 10 years ago, I received a very rudely written email demanding that I remove a reference to a certain person from the text of a news story. The news story was about a misdemeanor that a certain person had committed. Since the email was very rudely written and since I hadn't broken any law, I just ignored it and forgot about it. Over the course of about six months, this person bombarded me with dire threats and also wrote complaints to my hosting provider. The hosting company forwarded these letters to me and asked me to look into it, but did not demand anything because no law had been broken.

One day, after many e-mails with threats of legal action, and about 6 months, I received the first normal message, in which the person asked what he should do to make me delete the information he wanted.

Here I need to mention that for all this time this person has parroted me quite a lot with his threats and I had no desire to meet him halfway.

I wrote that I would delete the necessary information as soon as I received a request from him, written in the form of a short (!) verse.

Another month or so passed, during which this person argued and tried to change my mind (instead of sending a short verse)

…

As soon as he did, I connected to the database with a smile, deleted the entry he asked for and wrote him an email wishing him good luck. I hope he is doing well now :)

Re:Moon on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @02:19PM (#42444324)
His blog posts are always amazing, very detailed and exceptionally visual
Re:Premature Graying of Hair: Review with Updates on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @12:25AM (#42242822)
Does it help you with grey hair ?
Re:The Practical Guide to Scaling Django on Friday November 15, 2024 @04:33PM (#42151364)
At first I wanted to criticize the post, buuut after finishing reading it I actually liked it. Very concise and practical

ps - I didn’t know about template “cache” directive

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Monday October 28, 2024 @12:12PM (#41972745)
I'll think about it.

But I've noticed that if I print out some coloring books for my son, they stay on his desk for a long time and he rarely colors them.

But if I print him one coloring page, he almost always finishes it.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Monday October 28, 2024 @12:08PM (#41972678)
Some people love doing that but your idea doesn’t resonate with me personally - I prefer holding my pen and drawing or coloring on paper
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Monday October 28, 2024 @06:08AM (#41969476)
Thank you, dinosaurs are in my TODO list

p.s. - my son is an expert at dinos, not sure why I haven’t added them

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Monday October 28, 2024 @03:40AM (#41968588)
I’ll be sure to add unicorns, thank you!
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Monday October 28, 2024 @02:28AM (#41968277)
I've noticed that my son spends way too much time on YouTube or playing Minecraft and one of the few offline activities he enjoys doing on his own is coloring. And since he comes to me every time he wants a new coloring book and we spend about 10 minutes together searching for each picture, I made a website with a collection of coloring books for him. The site is very simple, but to be honest, I haven't had so much fun with the process of creation for a long time.

https://colorango.com/

Re:Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with on Friday July 12, 2024 @05:41PM (#40949703)
Great news ! It would be interesting to see performance comparison for IO-bound tasks like http requests between single-threaded asyncio code and multi-threaded asyncio
Re:MSFT's WizardLM2 models have been taken down on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @01:12AM (#40048571)
Why have they been removed ?
Re:My free side project: 600+ UI Components with Code Editor on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @03:24PM (#39994753)
I think that your project is amazing, thank you. Will definitely use it!

p.s. - I think that your project deserves much more attention from HN

Re:Ask HN: How did you get yourself out of a rut? on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @06:54AM (#39764844)
Doing sport 2 times a week helps me a lot. I also enjoy spending time with my friends on weekends and with my family during work days. All this helps a bit but still sometimes I feel exactly like you do.
Re:Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source on Thursday February 29, 2024 @12:43PM (#39552524)
Question needs to be asked - how is it compared to Nginx ?
I couldn’t find how to run Valetudo on iOS which is sad since my native app is too slow sometimes.
Are there any sample game descriptions for some games ? I have checked all the links but couldn’t find a single example.
Re:Created a free website that simplifies stock analysis on Sunday December 10, 2023 @11:43AM (#38592801)
Awesome and beautiful website !
Could please anyone explain like I am 5yo what is the purpose of that project and it’s use case ?
IMHO this article, and any resource behind a paywall shouldn’t be here
I find this lawsuit very important both for AI community as well as for artists since it can let everyone know where the boundaries are.

All mentioned models were trained on a large batch of works taken from Internet - no one is going to argue that.

All of those models cannot exists without content created by people.

The models allow to mimic the styles of particular artists making it a perfect tool to kill creativity and artists diversity in the long term.

As suggested below, Pushover is great (you have to pay couple of bucks). Another free option is using, surprise, telegram for sending notifications to yourself
I was surprised not to find any demo of the Alda generated music on their website.
Could anyone point me to studies/research on how different parts of the world will be affected by climate change ?

I would like to know how the place I am currently living at will be different now vs 10-30 years from today.

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