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I am generally of the mind even if it results in negative externalities, knowledge is good. So even if it on average increases fear of crime, knowing the reported crime nearby your home is a good thing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383451

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I don't even know what magic buttons I need to push to get that template to correctly inherit the table format I wanted from pandoc, but it does. I tend to have other scripts though for more complicated tables though. So if I want a table to have a certain row highlighted a different color, I would write a Powershell script to run after the table was generated.

I was never able to figure out how to use LibreOffice to insert the table of contents and then export to PDF (although I can do it via the GUI).

So far I have not taken the effort to better filter them. It is a nice check to make sure the site is still working at the moment given the low volume I get.

I should try to AI inject them though at this point with something silly, like I am more likely to respond if you email as a limerick.

I hate it, but the X thread is the easiest review piece I can find, https://x.com/pj_lambert/status/2057477629528150369.

Unfortunately I do not see specific discussion of how to make the lines a consistent thickness. It does have notes on how to sharpen your pencil and how to use a carpenters spline to draw smooth curves though.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184402

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153256

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So basically if you use any of the CLI tools, there is nothing for OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. to give the courts.

Online ChatGPT (especially the free version), are apparently cached by OpenAI on their servers. (I am not sure if Claude Desktop caches the conversations locally or in the cloud as well, read the fine print if it matters!)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113606

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Skills are just prompts -- and most of what I am seeing are people using AI to write the (quite verbose) prompts. There should be a test, somewhere, that shows "my prompt does better than XYZ other prompt" for some model and some specific inputs. This is what is called a benchmark.

It may work well, I don't know. Just asking Claude "hey help me iterate on a paper" works pretty well out of the box too. Call me skeptical this actually works in any substantive way without seeing any evidence it works.

I agree writing a good benchmark takes time. How do people know if all these prompts they are writing are any good though? You could make an edit and it causes a regression overall. Or add too much info and it is just wasted space in the context window, or causes the model to go in loops between the different skills, or plenty of other errors.

Even this repo just the "b" showcase, showing the outputs as is (with no clear documentation how those were generated, is it headless in a CI pipeline somewhere?), is not good, https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills/tree/m....

Skill spam?

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012363

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Post auditing is obviously not taken seriously by these departments, and Flock could build tools to do this out of the box (identify weird search patterns) if they wanted to.

Edit -- I see Flock does have some audit tools, https://www.flocksafety.com/trust/compliance-tools. If those work as they should, it is more on PDs to use them properly.