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internet_points··on The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)
Fun read :) Balzac has been on my reading list for some time, I see a lot are on https://standardebooks.org/ebooks?query=balzac&sort=default&... – anyone have a recommendation for first Balzac book?
internet_points··on Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails
LLM's tend to "average out" language, making it less nuanced and more predictable. Combined with outright mistranslations, I don't think it'd perform better than what "reasoning mode" already does.
internet_points··on Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails
Good work. I've often found llm's to be "stupider" when speaking Norwegian than when speaking English, so it's not surprising to find they hallucinate more and can't stick to their instructions in other non-English languages.
internet_points··on The true history of the Minotaur: what archaeology reveals
I always considered https://files.blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/397... the true one
internet_points··on Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring
I just sent TFA to a colleague of mine who was experimenting with llm's for auto-correcting human-written text, since she noticed the same phenomenon where it would correct not only mistakes, but slightly nudge words towards more common synonyms. It would often lose important nuances, so "shun" would be corrected to "avoid", and "divulge" would become "disclose" etc.
internet_points··on I Love Board Games: A Personal Obsession Explained by Psychology
are you talking about the computer game in coop or stardew valley board game?
internet_points··on Ask HN: Is there a no-LLM license yet?
> depending on your goals

is the important bit. Is your goal to have your project used by companies which have to "run things through legal", or do you have better goals?

internet_points··on Ask HN: Is there a no-LLM license yet?
You may find https://github.com/manyfold3d/manyfold/blob/main/AGENTS.md useful ;-)
internet_points··on Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place
+1, I learnt too late how useful a brush is, also for clearing small puffy snowfalls much faster than shovelling
internet_points··on Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place
> battery-heated versions

all the ones I've seen when researching were lithium-ion from sketchy-looking brands, any brands you recommend?

internet_points··on AI or Not Quiz
Some were easy, but that Prevagen one got me!
internet_points··on Best Gas Masks
I read it as an insightful analysis of the concept of tear-gassing crowds disguised as an affiliate listicle.

Bonus points if someone actually puts some money towards a human journalist by just treating it as an affiliate listicle.

internet_points··on Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord
I wonder what Solvej Balle is doing in there then ...
internet_points··on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
> can't get laid

huh, I thought it was talking about how expensive extra bedrooms are in big cities so people choose not to have (as many) kids there

internet_points··on Systems Thinking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law is very relevant here
internet_points··on Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)
Even today in the United States people voted for someone who actively tries to dismantle the legal system, pushes for more control in the hands of the executive powers, uses the military against its own citizens, constantly questions election integrity, emphasizes loyalty over free speech, encourages a "Great Leader" cult of personality, attacks political opponents with all possible means, promotes isolationism, militarizes law enforcement, the list goes on. All these are hallmarks of totalitarianism – which is what 1984 is all about.
internet_points··on Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)
Asimov comes off as incredibly naive.
internet_points··on GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams
aaand there we have godwin's law again
internet_points··on Show HN: Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp
> Consider decoupling the core from Emacs, or packaging in a way that doesn’t require it as heavily.

but then we'd have to write an interface package to run it from emacs

internet_points··on Haskell at Front Row (2015)
https://serokell.io/blog/haskell-in-production-freckle

https://github.com/freckle?q=&type=all&language=haskell&sort... still haskelling 11 years later I see

internet_points··on France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
> Pricing starts at €199/month based on resource usage. We'll discuss your specific needs during onboarding.

Out of the question for very small teams; very hard to evaluate with no free/cheap option.

internet_points··on France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
What are the downsides of Discord?
internet_points··on France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
what are the minimal server requirements? jitsi says prefer 8G ram (4G for small meetings) and 4 dedicated cpu cores https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-gu...

The chat seems extremely basic, so not really an alternative if you need chat with e.g. message edit/delete/formatting/pictures as well as video/audio.

internet_points··on France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
Can you do audio calls with their free plan? They say no "audio conferencing", but I see a call button. And if I get the SMB plan, can I invite externals to a video conference or do I then have to pay for plans for them as well?
internet_points··on France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
I'm in the same boat and I am this close to just torching the mainsail
internet_points··on My Experience with Vibe Coding
I've gotten a few good results with Haskell from llm's (and quite a few bad results), but every single time I try them with nix I just get annoying hallucinations and non-solutions.
internet_points··on Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down
this is why I read hn
internet_points··on My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)
but $240 per year
internet_points··on My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)
how much did that cost?
internet_points··on My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)
Same here, although one thing that's difficult with this is things like finding "that one photo we took 5 years ago which grandma used as a phone background". So now I gotta find the right external hard drive to plug in and fortunately the folders are by date but still it's a drag. So I'm considering looking into immich if it can just function as a server that shows thumbnails on some terabytes of date-sorted photos and videoes, no need for the machine learning stuff. Though I feel like there must be a less "heavy" solution than immich for this.
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