NavinF

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by NavinF 2y ago
Inbound data is typically free on cloud VMs. CPU/RAM usage is also small unless you use chromedriver and scrape using an entire browser with graphics rendered on CPU. We're taking $5/mo for most scraping projects
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> enforcing consumer protection rights I can imagine how that would be a problem in a few countries, but he was asking about the US. Pretty much everyone here pays with a credit card. If AliExpress doesn't refund you, you can just o
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How so? Devices like this are manufactured in China. Any "US vendor" is reselling them
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The open problem -- the "moving sofa problem" -- has possibly just been solved!(twitter.com)
12 points by NavinF 2y ago|4 comments
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What do you mean by "bias in sample size"? Low sample size reduces your statistical power, but if the effect size is huge (as described in the article) you don't need much statistical power to be confident in your answer. The
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by NavinF 2y ago
>The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has announced that it will stop publishing content on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, from January 20th, 2025, when Donald Trump will officially become the 47th president of the United
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by NavinF 2y ago
unpaywalled: https://archive.is/nk2XZ It's a short article: A judge in Delaware on Monday rejected Tesla’s attempt to restore Elon Musk’s $56bn pay package after previously striking it down as a breach of the carmaker
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unpaywalled: https://archive.is/hve8f >Students — at all levels of performance, but especially our students who need the most support and for whom this model was intended to help most — aren’t having their needs met. In
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In Newton, we tried an experiment in educational equity. It has failed(bostonglobe.com)
7 points by NavinF 2y ago|3 comments
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Why would someone be under pressure when answering "basic fizzbuzz or reverse a string level questions"? Personally I like easy and quick warmup questions, they make me more calm
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The default model can search the internet just like Google
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That has nothing to do with my comment. My point is that generative ai models can achieve good perf without using large datasets
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That's not how the scaling laws work. The number of samples required to reach a given quality level reduces exponentially over time. Most researchers use small datasets.
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by NavinF 2y ago
The article takes that angle because Bluesky users are currently harassing and threatening a researcher. Read the replies to his original thread: https://bsky.app/profile/danielvanstrien.bsky.social/post/3l...
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Inside the World's Largest AI Supercluster xAI Colossus [video](youtube.com)
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There Is No Business Case for Civilization(twitter.com)
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by NavinF 2y ago
> 10s of thousands of a second 10ms? That's a very long time. Phone clocks are much more accurate than that because they're synced to the atomic clocks in cell towers and GPS satellites. Hell even NTP can do 1ms over the inte
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by NavinF 2y ago
Yep. Even within the prod environment it's ideal to have a separate domain (as defined by the Public Suffix List) for sketchy stuff like files uploaded by users. Eliminates a whole class of security issues and general fuckery
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by NavinF 2y ago
Yeah I've always found that complaint confusing. Of course you lose muscle when you eat less food. It'd be weird if that didn't happen. (Assuming you don't train hard or take hormones)
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> skeptical how much better modern hardware will fare in deep space conditions Why? Deep space radiation is only 4x the dosage compared to LEO. Starlink satellites use modern tech and they've spent >10,000 collective years in spa
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by NavinF 2y ago
FWIW his quote also applies to a lotta devices here on Earth. For example guns are not designed to last forever, but they are designed not to fail. You don't want to hear a click when you expect a bang or vice versa. As a side effect,
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by NavinF 2y ago
That is incorrect. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42130656
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by NavinF 2y ago
He tried that. The phone knows its location using GPS and wifi. Apple doesn't care about your IP
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by NavinF 2y ago
You are replying to the article author. He knows you can use a microwave oven as a very cheap faraday cage. He tried that, but it wasn't good enough.
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> That would definitely invite lawsuits. Do you think competitors who sell hearing aids for $2500 today would allow Apple to sell their $200 device without medical device certification?
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by NavinF 2y ago
That would definitely invite lawsuits. Do you think competitors who sell hearing aids for $2500 today would allow Apple to sell their $200 device without medical device certification?
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by NavinF 2y ago
Non sequitur. You could say that about any high quality set of headphones since they're capable of much higher power output than hearing aids.
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by NavinF 2y ago
I enabled the uBlock Origin Annoyances filter to block most of those cookie popups. It's not enabled by default. Clicking "reject all" has no practical effect on my privacy. If I wanted to keep something secret, I'd use
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by NavinF 2y ago
I'm aware of how the UK grid prepares for ad breaks, but that doesn't answer my question at the top. How many people break kettles often enough to want a repairable kettle? It's already a simple design that lasts a long time.
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by NavinF 2y ago
I skimmed the article and didn't find any estimate for how long kettles usually last. Won't more people buy a skookum keetle that lasts forever instead of a repairable kettle?

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