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by Alex3917 3y ago
> we are talking about freeing up tons of knowledge from a "good for consumption/bad for distribution" format. FWIW PDF is actually great for distribution. It allows you to invisibly embed all the raw data used to generate
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> Having a direct link to S3 + existing connectors built in feels like a strong competitive moat. Not really; the hard part is processing the data from each of these sources, not downloading the data from the source. Sure, any company th
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by Alex3917 3y ago
So ePadd redacts everything except the named entities, but that still means going through each message by hand to ensure that the entities generated by the NLP software are correct. Plus the time spent fixing ePadd to make the import run co
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His secretary may have typed them, but if they were mostly written by his secretary then Stanford wouldn't have paid to have them archived. Even though the messages are mostly redacted, actually going through and doing those redactions
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The idea that Knuth doesn't use email is basically just a practical joke that got out of hand. He actually received 31,997 and sent 19,910 emails between 1999 and 2019, and that's only including the emails from his work account at
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by Alex3917 3y ago
> "However, many magicians perform familiar tricks or variations of them without feeling the need to innovate." Which makes these magicians craftspeople, rather than artists. Clearly some subset of magicians are actually artist
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Not online, sorry!
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No idea. I’ve never worked at any of these companies, I just learned this in an academic conference presentation on ethnographic research into OnlyFans users. OnlyFans doesn’t have its on recommendation system, so users need to find their c
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> normal, non-sexual photos of trans people are "nsfw" now FWIW, the algorithms that big tech companies use are often trained to recognize women’s underwear. So non-sexual photos of trans men wearing women’s underwear are often
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So one thing I try to be very good about is never doing more than one thing in a line, which means always using named conditions and named returns. So in other words, if statements and return statements should always contain a single variab
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I often add an extra line or two of no-op code in order to improve readability. But in these examples, the code clearly wasn't written to communicate anything, but rather by mistake.
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Don’t forget it can also play Myst.
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> tl;dr for my post here, there was a segment of the slashdot population who really identified with the Columbine shooters I mean the reason YC (and by extension, HN) became a thing was largely because of pg posting on Slashdot about sim
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I'm definitely not assuming that homeopathic medicine is incapable of harming people, but for the sake of this specific argument I think it's reasonable to assume that we could find something that isn't especially harmful to
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> Wishful thinking, but next up should be homeopathic snake-oil. It sounds like it's serving a useful purpose. > "I know so many people… hell, I've done this myself, I've bought [a homeopathic] product by mistake,&
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> My home kitchen doesn't routinely serve strangers. Most states have cottage food laws, with basic regulations for small-scale commercial production. E.g. you need to take a course on food safety, you need your water tested, and yo
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> For very small shops willing to incur legal risk or limit the application pool, you can do take home tests and/or lean on side projects, with an hour of explaining the nitty gritty details and choices. At scale it becomes untenabl
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He wrote a famous book called Mountains Without Handrails: https://www.amazon.com/Mountains-Without-Handrails-Reflectio... It's been 20 years since I read it, but iirc he is musing about whether things like paving the
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by Alex3917 3y ago
> We are fortunate to have them and helping disabled people take advantage of the parks is an excellent idea. Joseph Sax is rolling in his grave.
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Email vs. Capitalism, Or, Why We Can't Have Nice Things [video](youtube.com)
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> Erowid is great, but the trip reports were universally fanciful IIRC they have moderators vet them and only a relatively small percentage get published. The founders and staff actually take their mission statement seriously.
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I look forward to them removing all this functionality in four or five years, and then reintroducing it as a stunning new innovation in another four or five years after that.
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Also, the article A Rape in Cyberspace is about something that happened in LambdaMoo, and is one of the most famous articles ever written about the Internet: https://www.villagevoice.com/a-rape-in-cyberspace/ It looks
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IIRC the PSAC II building, also in NYC, is designed so that someone can fly a plane into it without anyone inside really noticing.
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To be fair, the reason this has so few views is because the original was deleted. There are earlier HN threads on this, e.g. here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14236711 Regardless, still a great post and highly wort
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> Her oncologist didn't like the idea because there is also lots of research that says it spurs growth in tumors. To be fair, if that's the effect you're going for it doesn't seem like the best option. If you want som
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So basically this is another Joe Nacchio situation?
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> unless you get a low-acetogenin variety, eating them more than once in a while has health impacts, possibly a Parkinson's-like syndrome. Although acetogenins are very neurotoxic, they also have a fairly low bioavailability when th
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> More importantly, however, this is an example of the "you're already doing it so it's not a big deal" fallacy I'm not saying it's not a big deal, I'm saying it hasn't gotten much scrutiny, at lea
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> Why would Worldcoin beta-test in Kenya vs SV if not in an attempt to fly under the radar of scrutiny Iris scanning is already widely used in the U.S. and hasn't received much scrutiny. It's in the news all the time, e.g. with

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