> I think most people in the tech sector and especially driving the AI hype have absolutely no clue how difficult it is to implement change in complex organisations. Simple organizations too, and sometimes especially…
Not OP, but I like OnlyOffice for its keytips support (tap alt and then the whole ribbon gives you live hints for navigating and executing UI functions/buttons with the keyboard). Far ahead of LibreOffice, at least at…
Getting better at communicating is unfortunately really hard. And it must pair with the helper aspect: you've got to also provide value. "Nomad," the guy from the article, was already administering his parents' home…
Honeywell Home T6 Pro Z-Wave. It's smart and supports only Z-Wave, not WiFi. So something like a machine running Home Assistant must sit between it and the Internet. And then its up to you to decide how you want to do…
> What hope do normies have? None, without people like us in their families who are able and willing to help. We as computer people need to internalize and accept the idea that helping our immediate and even extended…
> The idea of "contradictory data" is a projection that you're imposing. No. Using the topic in this subthread: the methods described as "whole language reading instruction" contradict the methods of learning to read…
I think what those observations missed is that the best readers quickly build up a large baseline vocabulary of known words, whether by phonics or something else, and therefore appear to be guessing often or, when…
Yes, the podcast goes into exactly that detail. IIRC it was a teacher in New Zealand[1] who had teacherly charisma, was earnestly committed to her method, and was so profoundly wrong that she became the first domino in…
> There’s no contradiction from the point of view of the model and its responses, and no need to invoke sycophancy or flattery as a reason for the behavior. Sycophancy and flattery are words that relate to how humans…
> That seems like an unfair prompt. You literally told it to do a specific task and it did as instructed. For sycophancy... You redefine syncophancy too narrowly. Many (if not an outright majority of) everyday LLM users…
It might not obvious to a number of readers on HN, but whole language reading instruction is soundly discredited[1]. For those who prefer listening, the America Public Media podcast Sold a Story[2] covers the history of…
> ...imagine if your dashboard controls and icons, had occasional tweaks in size and shape that made them slightly harder/easier to use, but over time ended up with controls you found more intuitive and easier to use.…
> A/B testing users without their knowledge and enthusiastic consent is unethical. Yep, and A/B testing as experienced by uninformed, unaware end-users is a dark pattern. It undermines a perception of (and trust in)…
Humble Bundle frequently has nice bundles of genre fiction or comics by specific authors. I've picked up large sets of Ebooks from them over the last few years by numerous authors: Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Jordan,…
KOReader is good, as others have mentioned. If you want a cross platform option that's pretty good across Android/iOS/Mac/Windows/Linux, Readest[1] Is another great option. It supports syncing a library of ebooks and is…
My homebase has the around 30TB usable storage, but the only workloads I've found really need to run on the same machine (rather than the same local network) are media transcoding for Jellyfin and ML classification of…
I very much like the name "homeprod" to contrast against "homelab." But I'm not as convinced as the article's author that "NAS" is outdated as a separate concept, just that as new people learn more about networking they…
On the flipside, if I fall asleep reading my ereader, I almost never lose my page. It just goes to sleep too, with the last open page ready to resume.
> I realised it doesn't improve my life, to care about folder structure and naming, so much that I insist on retaining it and hobbling the media browsing frontend. There's no good reason for any folder structure to…
Not OP, but I've run into similar instances of Jellyfin "going nuts." Mixed media type libraries are depreciated and "broken" according to the documentation[1], which is fair enough, but sometimes this results in…
The details you mention are all hammered out to death and back as a regular part of the legal process, before and during a trial, and by both prosecution and defense. One can only imagine a huge potential for abuse by…
> But it does AFAIK care about plausible deniability. Whether or not any given instance of denial is plausible must of course ultimately be determined by a judge. There is near zero chance that a judge or jury will…
> If the prosection doesn't have to demonstrate that something was valid evidence beyond a shadow of doubt that's rife for all sorts of abuse. Assuming that is the preceding paragraph you reference, then there is…
> In general I don't believe I can catch a (legitimate) felony for locking myself in the bathroom and flushing the toilet during a police raid. Most juristictions have a duty to preserve or not to spoil evidence once…
> I was distressed and got confused and gave the wrong PIN. Anyway there was no evidence on the phone just a few embarrassing photos. > Also I just so happened to catch a bad case of indigestion right as the police…
> I think most people in the tech sector and especially driving the AI hype have absolutely no clue how difficult it is to implement change in complex organisations. Simple organizations too, and sometimes especially…
Not OP, but I like OnlyOffice for its keytips support (tap alt and then the whole ribbon gives you live hints for navigating and executing UI functions/buttons with the keyboard). Far ahead of LibreOffice, at least at…
Getting better at communicating is unfortunately really hard. And it must pair with the helper aspect: you've got to also provide value. "Nomad," the guy from the article, was already administering his parents' home…
Honeywell Home T6 Pro Z-Wave. It's smart and supports only Z-Wave, not WiFi. So something like a machine running Home Assistant must sit between it and the Internet. And then its up to you to decide how you want to do…
> What hope do normies have? None, without people like us in their families who are able and willing to help. We as computer people need to internalize and accept the idea that helping our immediate and even extended…
> The idea of "contradictory data" is a projection that you're imposing. No. Using the topic in this subthread: the methods described as "whole language reading instruction" contradict the methods of learning to read…
I think what those observations missed is that the best readers quickly build up a large baseline vocabulary of known words, whether by phonics or something else, and therefore appear to be guessing often or, when…
Yes, the podcast goes into exactly that detail. IIRC it was a teacher in New Zealand[1] who had teacherly charisma, was earnestly committed to her method, and was so profoundly wrong that she became the first domino in…
> There’s no contradiction from the point of view of the model and its responses, and no need to invoke sycophancy or flattery as a reason for the behavior. Sycophancy and flattery are words that relate to how humans…
> That seems like an unfair prompt. You literally told it to do a specific task and it did as instructed. For sycophancy... You redefine syncophancy too narrowly. Many (if not an outright majority of) everyday LLM users…
It might not obvious to a number of readers on HN, but whole language reading instruction is soundly discredited[1]. For those who prefer listening, the America Public Media podcast Sold a Story[2] covers the history of…
> ...imagine if your dashboard controls and icons, had occasional tweaks in size and shape that made them slightly harder/easier to use, but over time ended up with controls you found more intuitive and easier to use.…
> A/B testing users without their knowledge and enthusiastic consent is unethical. Yep, and A/B testing as experienced by uninformed, unaware end-users is a dark pattern. It undermines a perception of (and trust in)…
Humble Bundle frequently has nice bundles of genre fiction or comics by specific authors. I've picked up large sets of Ebooks from them over the last few years by numerous authors: Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Jordan,…
KOReader is good, as others have mentioned. If you want a cross platform option that's pretty good across Android/iOS/Mac/Windows/Linux, Readest[1] Is another great option. It supports syncing a library of ebooks and is…
My homebase has the around 30TB usable storage, but the only workloads I've found really need to run on the same machine (rather than the same local network) are media transcoding for Jellyfin and ML classification of…
I very much like the name "homeprod" to contrast against "homelab." But I'm not as convinced as the article's author that "NAS" is outdated as a separate concept, just that as new people learn more about networking they…
On the flipside, if I fall asleep reading my ereader, I almost never lose my page. It just goes to sleep too, with the last open page ready to resume.
> I realised it doesn't improve my life, to care about folder structure and naming, so much that I insist on retaining it and hobbling the media browsing frontend. There's no good reason for any folder structure to…
Not OP, but I've run into similar instances of Jellyfin "going nuts." Mixed media type libraries are depreciated and "broken" according to the documentation[1], which is fair enough, but sometimes this results in…
The details you mention are all hammered out to death and back as a regular part of the legal process, before and during a trial, and by both prosecution and defense. One can only imagine a huge potential for abuse by…
> But it does AFAIK care about plausible deniability. Whether or not any given instance of denial is plausible must of course ultimately be determined by a judge. There is near zero chance that a judge or jury will…
> If the prosection doesn't have to demonstrate that something was valid evidence beyond a shadow of doubt that's rife for all sorts of abuse. Assuming that is the preceding paragraph you reference, then there is…
> In general I don't believe I can catch a (legitimate) felony for locking myself in the bathroom and flushing the toilet during a police raid. Most juristictions have a duty to preserve or not to spoil evidence once…
> I was distressed and got confused and gave the wrong PIN. Anyway there was no evidence on the phone just a few embarrassing photos. > Also I just so happened to catch a bad case of indigestion right as the police…