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by Kronopath 5y ago
I found it! It's this one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUkMCQR4TpY "Many years ago" was right, this is from 2014, going on the better part of a decade.
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by Kronopath 5y ago
That said, good call on pointing out the "Gov.uk design system"—searching for this brought up a lot of good talks, which might be part of what I'm remembering: https://obyford.com/posts/inclusive-forms&#x
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by Kronopath 5y ago
That hits on some of the same notes, and I do think I (maybe?) remember the speaker being female (this one has at least the first half with a female speaker), but I don't think this is the same one. I see no mention of IE in the transc
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Ask HN: Looking for a Tech Talk from Gov.uk
1 points by Kronopath 5y ago|6 comments
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by Kronopath 5y ago
Partly that, but I think there are also other explanations. 1: I think Scott Aaronson is a better communicator than Robin Hanson, at least in the posts in question. Having read some of the blog posts that went into the pre-read, and then Sc
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by Kronopath 5y ago
I think you mean this article on “Yingzi”: http://www.zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm
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by Kronopath 6y ago
This is actually a really good point. A lot of privacy-related things people complain about are actually related to how you present yourself, how your identity is seen by the computer system you’re interacting with. That’s been on my mind a
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by Kronopath 6y ago
That’s not exactly what I’m after. I don’t want it just to count time on background windows, I want it to count time starting from the first time I opened the blocked website or app today, regardless of whether or not it’s open now. Plus I’
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Ask HN: Is there a website/app blocker equivalent of HN's “noprocrast”?
3 points by Kronopath 6y ago|1 comments
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by Kronopath 6y ago
They have rules against questions based on a specific person’s death/injury, and all questions are vetted by the team before going live.
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by Kronopath 6y ago
How does your company handle the costs of mailing or delivering the letters?
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by Kronopath 7y ago
FYI, if you want a few hours notice before (the very unlikely event of) a Betelgeuse supernova, there’s a mailing list you can join: https://snews.bnl.gov/alert.html
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by Kronopath 7y ago
Turns out if you do a small rightwards/leftwards swipe on the brightness or volume buttons, then you can increase or decrease them by one notch without opening the slider. It’s not an intuitive or discoverable command.
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by Kronopath 7y ago
Apple doesn’t pop up this permission dialog for their proprietary iBeacon system though, since thats also handled at the system level. With that taken into consideration, this feels less like a privacy feature and more like an anticompetiti
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by Kronopath 8y ago
Exactly. Here’s another article that makes it clearer: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-ads-will-no-longer-dis...
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by Kronopath 8y ago
It really isn’t. It comes down to the fact that if you’re a high-paid tech worker you can outbid basically anyone else for your rent. If an area doesn’t build housing for tech workers and other such high-paid young people, you force them in
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by Kronopath 8y ago
Vodafone Portugal absolutely does MITM your internet connection. I've seen it myself. I was in Portugal last summer, and my family had a Vodafone 3G wifi hotspot. I noticed that on every single non-https webpage, Vodafone was inserting
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by Kronopath 9y ago
The part of the article that starts with this paragraph is particularly enlightening: > In implementing his vision, Ford faced cultural and climactic obstacles. People in Brazil were, for instance, used to working in the early morning, t
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by Kronopath 9y ago
It bothers me that so few people mention the role of Proposition 13 and low property taxes for housing in all this. Proposition 13 makes it so that property taxes are fixed when you buy the house and only ever increase with inflation, where
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by Kronopath 9y ago
You realize that your assertions are heavily influenced by the climate of where you live, right? While what you said makes a lot of sense for somewhere like Texas or Arizona, it is completely wrong for, say, the majority of Canada.
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by Kronopath 9y ago
There’s a fundamental difference in how GOG got started though, and it’s buried in their acronym, which used to stand for “Good Old Games”. They were focused on providing access to classic/retro PC and DOS games, something that Steam d
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by Kronopath 9y ago
In most other engineering disciplines, “one strike and you’re out” is the norm , because of the amount of damage that a single uncaught error can make. As software takes on more and more important duties in the world, it starts approaching
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by Kronopath 9y ago
Interesting that simple optimization ends up with high-frequency noise similar to adversarial attacks on neural nets. While I agree that the practicality of these visualizations mean that you have to fight against this high-frequency "
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by Kronopath 9y ago
It's nice to see the Globe and Mail jumping on the Explorable Explanations train.
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by Kronopath 10y ago
I expect that the problem would be less pronounced in China, given that the Japanese can revert to kana if they forget the kanji, whereas the Chinese have no other choice but to remember the characters. That said, I've heard of, and ev
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by Kronopath 10y ago
And now Google is putting your website in a callout bubble and treating it as fact: https://i.imgur.com/mIyZV9a.png
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by Kronopath 10y ago
Lyft has a good solution for this, in that they prompt you to give a tip through the app at the end of the ride. More and more they're seeming like the (at least marginally) more ethical and sane ride-sharing app.
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by Kronopath 10y ago
Could it have been the alt text for the image? I believe the grandparent comment was also pasting the alt text, since Facebook auto-generates alt text for blind users using ML (this is mentioned in the article).
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by Kronopath 10y ago
Fair enough. Though it makes it pretty unappealing to set up a renewable energy source in Wyoming, or even in the general vicinity of the state, if you can't actually sell to people or utilities nearby. At that point, the only good rea
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by Kronopath 10y ago
And thank you for accepting that gracefully. It means a lot in the current political climate.

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