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> Paper is a superior storage medium to any hard-drive any day. We're recovering words from paper from over a thousand years ago Most paper books don’t make it a thousand years, let alone a hundred. Your local library is probably pu
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The full headline tries to equate this to The Internet Archive’s recent legal troubles. For a refresher: The Internet Archive scanned books then shared them online, trying to claim that converting them into digital copies qualified as a der
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Also known as the "don't hate the player, hate the game" defense. > but ultimately to survive as a business like this He runs a popular YouTube channel which is a giant source of leads, and should be a good way to rank
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He used that exact same excuse on another website that he AI generated for another project that was discussed here. If anyone else was polluting Google search results with AI generated blog spam to promote their business the Hacker News aud
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Wow, the amount of AI-generated SEO content on this website is wild. I clicked on one of the related articles and it's also hijacking my scroll so I can't scroll down to the pages of extra content underneath the article. I don&#x2
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Nope. They changed and edited the comment a lot to continue adding things, but nothing about the original claim. It looks like a combination of goalpost moving and link-bombing to change the subject.
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> And that's leaving aside the question of what it would affect. Elasticity/learning? Would it result in forgetting, or losing skill? You can't get any of that from this study. fMRI results are easy to manipulate into sens
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That's a weird old myth. I don't know why you dug up an old quote from a startup founder pumping his startup from 2018 in The Globe and Mail . There were investigations into it after that the conclusions was that nobody believed
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dlPFC deactivation is observed in a lot of immersive tasks. There are a lot of tasks that do this. Playing video games, as one example https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/4-431-26797-2_11 Interpreting fMRI r
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I imagine it would be sandboxed by default with an escape hatch to run build scripts outside of the sandbox with user verification. It makes people stop and think about what’s happening. Not perfect, but it does help. When working on JS eco
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> It's weird their promotional video repeats "you can do <million things> without installing dependencies", A couple years ago a common complaint was that the JavaScript ecosystem relied too heavily on dependencies f
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I tried some 1-bit, 2-bit, and bonsai quants against closed eval sets. They were essentially useless for my case. The little errors accumulate and send the whole output off track quickly. If you had some use case with very small output sequ
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We’re in a weird period where a lot of jobs went fully remote around COVID, many weren’t prepared for it, and now they’re doing the opposite over-reaction and forcing everyone back. A lot of the people I know who went remote after COVID too
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In my situation above we were accommodating people. They got to choose where they worked. The problem I was talking about was with people who asked to work from home but struggled with it. Some of them did start coming in to the office more
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The most undeniable examples were when we worked at a company that had offices, but allowed people to work remote at their discretion. The people who were burning out at home would become revived and re-energized when they came into the off
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…of a single company > Researchers analyzed survey data from 7,704 employees at a large healthcare organization. I’ve been remote and worked for remote companies for a long time. In my observation, the well-being is bimodal. The people w
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Were you able to find the balloon? Your last point has me wondering what happened. Did someone else get to it first?
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Looking back, I found most Internet comment section advice about having kids to be unhelpful. There’s a cliche that gets rephrased 1000 different ways to say a variation of “It’s a lot of work and my kids drive me crazy but I wouldn’t trade
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Or the dream of financial security and early retirement, which are both highly valuable in the context of having a family. I couldn’t care less about the external validation part of it or my job title.
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> The chance of validation from others I feel like this is missing the point about why people in these situations are ambitious. Some are looking for external validation and jealousy from their peers. Most just want to be able to provide
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Farming patents either via filing them or acquiring them was a big business move in the early 2000s. Even basic business on the internet felt like a patent minefield and there was constant debate about patent trolls and overreach. It still
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> What I can't buy off the shelf is any other non-HEPA filter machine like you're describing In locations with central air handlers, the filter in that handler already serves this purpose. That’s how my house is set up: Central
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Unless it has multiple pounds of carbon, it’s not doing much. These are for show.
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The pollution from highways is primarily particulate matter: Rubber from tires wearing down, brake pad dust, particles disturbed by fast vehicles and kicked into the air.
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What’s your suggestion? Just sit there and be angry that transportation exists? You don’t think the parent commenter is also using transportation? The pollution from transport also occurs with trains, buses, and any other vehicle that has w
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> If you get to recycle the air through the filter several times, MERV-13 offers much better performance tradeoffs This level of filter goes in the central air system. The HEPA purifiers are for scrubbing the finer particles.
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> It doesn't matter if that cleaned air is extremely clean, because it's immediately mixed with dirty air What matters is the gradual removal of particles from the air. The HEPA purifiers I have move enough air that everything
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> This is exactly the problem. What problem, exactly? Helping me find new music to enjoy? I’m beginning to think some people have forgotten what we’re supposed to be angry about and now we’re just angry at all things tech. Spotify recomm
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2 hours of TV per week is addicted?
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> So why do some people (lots of people actually) feel compelled to sit in front of the television to watch something? Because I have kids, an active life, and a lot of physical hobbies and activities. And some times it’s 10PM, too early

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