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by ballenf 3y ago
I really could see Apple adopting an approach from FPS games, where the phone applies a click to what was under your finger 1/4 second-ish instead of what's there when the click is recognized. Time-travel clicking. But the real so
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by ballenf 3y ago
It's becoming more clear that the pain of this transition back to the "natural order" where laws are incapable of protecting ideas and their reduction to words, music, or other form will be great. I'm not against efforts
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by ballenf 3y ago
And turn it off completely when driving on half the roads in the US.
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by ballenf 3y ago
The vast, vast majority of districts in the US respond to every single 911 call reporting anything of consequence. Maybe there are still "a lot" of places where that's not true, but I think that phrasing misrepresents the sta
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by ballenf 3y ago
Plus advertisers want a more trusted-loop to prevent or detect fraud.
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by ballenf 3y ago
I wonder what would happen if I refuse to interact with the terminal and ask the cashier to read it to me. Would they select a tip without asking? Would they be too embarrassed to ask me for a tip to my face? Feels like punishing the wrong
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by ballenf 3y ago
Also on the HN front page right now is an example of the price we pay when we prune "undesirable" websites from our search indices: https://www.quantamagazine.org/sci-fi-writer-greg-egan-and-a... I don't know
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by ballenf 3y ago
Maybe a problem less controversial was the absence of trusted public health figures making concerted efforts to calm fears. And those that did try were belittled, minimized and castigated. They were the ones labeled as dangerous. Which some
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by ballenf 3y ago
For Philips' sake, I hope no one wanders the toothbrush aisle of a retailer having forgotten to turn off the password brute forcer.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Having run a small business for some years, refusal to pay an uncontested debt is (very unfortunately) a routine part of business and negotiation. It's a very ugly part, but creates a bit of a prisoner's dilemma where you wonder i
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by ballenf 3y ago
Somehow it seems like "paid" is the wrong word when you're forced by a court to do it. Almost like stealing a car and then claiming you "donated" it to the true owner upon arrest.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Where people usually err is saying "this property is worth so much more than what people are willing to pay me for it." Or some variation of that statement.
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by ballenf 3y ago
The next step will be students required to "show their work" on writing assignments. That is, some type of edit history or snapshots of the work-in-progress. Of course that could also be faked, but would require quite a bit more w
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by ballenf 3y ago
If AI "lies" less than the top Google hit on the prompt, then it's progress.
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by ballenf 3y ago
There's also the silver lining that eavesdropping on the call would be complicated by ad audio.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Seems like an incentive to see a technically-unlicensed, but qualified provider and call it "professional coaching" or the like.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Interesting to think about the "bus factor" of this segment of the semiconductor industry.
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by ballenf 3y ago
I don't know if there's enough people out there like me, but I'd love a smaller theater with traditional seats and decent sound if it was at a reasonable price. After searching out the best and biggest screens and audio, I&#x
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by ballenf 3y ago
> This captures the crux of the problem in that we claimed we’d have True AI when a computer could beat a human in chess. But when that occurred with Deep Blue, and we saw the code, it was explainable and therefore not true AI. Then we m
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by ballenf 3y ago
What makes that layer immune from a meta-injection (an injection crafted for that layer)?
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by ballenf 3y ago
Isn't the summon feature exactly that?
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by ballenf 4y ago
I don't think of map operations as loops. Instead as parallel operations on elements of a list works as a better mental model for me. When learning them coming from an imperative background, it's inevitable to start with that idea
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by ballenf 4y ago
I never thought one could actually do arithmetic on Graham-size numbers. If you didn't have the branch in Collatz, then it would be algorithmically computable. But then so would Collatz itself.
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by ballenf 4y ago
The illegal moves were counted as losses/resignations, not ignored.
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by ballenf 4y ago
More like they're raising rates until the damage from artificially low rates becomes visible. Rates returning to normal is just the flood waters receding and letting us see the carnage below.
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by ballenf 4y ago
They called it a dummy in the manual. Seems like an odd way to hide it since there’s no regulatory requirement to come clean. Seems clearly just an aesthetic move to keep symmetry and avoid retooling the large cover. Also they can they easi
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by ballenf 4y ago
That seems plausible. E.g., if the package cargo API timed out it could be treated as a 0.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Wasn't the mandatory evacuation order only for a 1-mile radius?
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by ballenf 4y ago
That is the strongest case, but I'm still confused by the seemingly conflicting claim that Putin is susceptible to a coup but only if there's a pipeline. Don't Russian elites have nearly as much to lose from this war contin
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by ballenf 4y ago
FWIW, before Amazon started collecting taxes on 3rd party seller sales you could sort by total including tax when listing all seller options of a product. The reason it makes more sense to do it for hotels is that many cities have 15+% or $

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