RoboTeddy

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by RoboTeddy 5y ago
Not quite: under typical Ethereum chain conditions, you can include a small constant-sized priority fee to encourage miners to include your transaction. (This is really simple, and can be a default which most users are never even aware of.)
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by RoboTeddy 5y ago
This article checks ShadowStat’s inflation work using both theory and a variety of crosschecks, and ultimately even discovers a computational error: https://www.thestreet.com/economonitor/emerging-markets/deco...
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by RoboTeddy 5y ago
https://twitter.com/SBF_Alameda/status/1380284657820782595
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by RoboTeddy 6y ago
The more people using Signal, the greater the incentive for nation states to break it, the less secure it is (all else equal). I know the team has a good reputation, but bugs can be incredibly subtle. I hope they can somehow step up audits
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by RoboTeddy 6y ago
Also it looks like WhatsApp’s privacy policy changed significantly.
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by RoboTeddy 6y ago
Why do IPOs involve guessing about the eventual price of shares? Aren’t there auction mechanisms that could be employed to smoothly discover the price?
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by RoboTeddy 6y ago
Can someone explain in more granularity why this change would be damaging for Facebook? Naively, I would assume that after someone logs into the Facebook app, Facebook knows who they are, and thus there would be not much additional benefit
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by RoboTeddy 6y ago
I strongly suspect that VR will take off once it can pass through facial expressions, gaze, and other body language with high fidelity. At that point it will probably be substantially better than normal videoconference, and will take off ex
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by RoboTeddy 6y ago
I've heard this too, but I'm not sure how it could be true. What would we hope for from a personality indicator? We'd hope that it would be useful for making predictions. At an absolute minimum, MBTI could be used to predict
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by RoboTeddy 6y ago
My procrastination pretty much went away (!) when I drew a distinction between “good” and “bad” delays. A delay is in the “good” category if there are specific reasons that it’s likely that there will be another time in the near future whic
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by RoboTeddy 6y ago
Empower | Senior Generalist Software Engineer | Full-time | REMOTE | https://getempower.com I've been leading product/engineering at Empower, and we're looking for senior generalist engineers to join the fight for
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by RoboTeddy 6y ago
Does it have a latent personality? How would it answer the questions on a 5-factor personality test? Would its results on the test be consistent with its behavior (generated text) in other situations?
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by RoboTeddy 6y ago
Empower | Senior Software Engineer | Bay Area/REMOTE | Through November 2020 Want to improve the performance of the US government? Empower ( https://getempower.com/eng ) is working to elect sound leadership at state and
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by RoboTeddy 6y ago
Would Google Cloud Spanner work well for a workload like this one? Why or why not?
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by RoboTeddy 7y ago
Can you email me? Can connect you to US hospitals in hotspots in California that are looking to buy. They’re currently not using PPE in all the situations they should be due to shortages.
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Ask HN: Passive videoconferencing software for WFH during coronavirus?
3 points by RoboTeddy 7y ago|1 comments
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by RoboTeddy 7y ago
My strat so far: - Limiting myself to news on the topic 1x/day, which is plenty to stay abreast - Keeping an eye on my thoughts. Is my thinking on the topic productive (e.g., helping me come up with new useful things to do, like helpin
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by RoboTeddy 7y ago
Here's a potential way to use adversarial techniques to generate training examples that could improve the accuracy of this approach: https://twitter.com/RoboTeddy/status/1228828411050655744
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by RoboTeddy 7y ago
Empower | Frontend/Generalist Engineer | San Francisco or REMOTE Want to help protect democracy? This is a high-leverage opportunity for a software engineer to help elect a democratic president in 2020. We just raised millions from peo
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by RoboTeddy 7y ago
Anyone know a way to set up lighting that is (tiers of priority): Tier 1: * high-CRI * high-lumen * dimmable, and can be set up to turn on slowly in the morning Tier 2: * not glary Tier 3: * easy to install * inexpensive * power efficient
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by RoboTeddy 7y ago
Agreed — if you're strategic about it, you cut in half the space in which the bug could be hiding each time you add a printf and re-execute.
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by RoboTeddy 7y ago
How can they know they capture 99% of such content given that WhatsApp is (if I understand correctly) encrypted fully end to end such that Facebook cannot access the messages passing through it?
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by RoboTeddy 7y ago
I want apps to progressively train me in their shortcuts. An app could track which actions I take manually, in order to learn which shortcuts are most valuable to teach me. Immediately after I manually take a frequent action, it could infor
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by RoboTeddy 7y ago
I like GraphQL a lot — but found that writing mutations involved a ton of boilerplate. For example, I'd have to keep writing the same key names over and over again. Anyone else experience this?
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by RoboTeddy 7y ago
What if someone wants to go somewhere where they most likely won't be paid much? (e.g. art, music) Can Lambda School extend there?
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by RoboTeddy 7y ago
I love this book! Prior to reading it, I had been getting confused when trying to learn classical mechanics. The book writes out everything explicitly in code, which let me use the software engineering part of my brain, and made everything
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by RoboTeddy 7y ago
Not sure why this is on the front page, but if anyone wants to learn how to play Go, this is the best interactive tutorial for complete beginners: http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/
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by RoboTeddy 8y ago
'The Power Broker' by Robert Caro is ostensibly a biography, but it's actually about how power works. The protagonist starts out employing idealistic methods, but falls flat on his face, and comes to delight in any means of a
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by RoboTeddy 8y ago
(The following is completely predicated on the truth of the report that a customer tipping $x doesn't result in workers' total compensation being increased by $x) As a YC alum, I'm disgusted to see a YC company behaving like
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by RoboTeddy 8y ago
The averaging period doesn't last the whole game: "we set a maximum of 600 APMs over 5 second periods, 400 over 15 second periods, 320 over 30 second periods, and 300 over 60 second period. If the agent issues more actions in such

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