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by bhelkey 2y ago
LLMs predict the next token. Imagine someone said to you, "it takes a musician 10 minutes to play a song, how long will it take for 5 musicians to play? I will work through the problem step by step". What are they more likely to s
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by bhelkey 2y ago
It looks like this was done through pairing. I think the AirPods need the case to pair so it seems like a reasonable test. > We confirmed that the AirPods paired, which wouldn't be possible if they didn't belong to them.
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by bhelkey 2y ago
In depth investigation could better reward the original publication. If news site 'A' spends a year investigating a piece, five minutes after they publish, news site 'B' can summarize their findings. Why subscribe to &#x
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> And I very much doubt they spend more than 40 min commuting each day in each direction. My point is that 16 minutes is not a a reasonable estimate for the commute the vast majority will experience from the Mission to SoMa. 40 is a more
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> This is not to impunge on your credibility, but it takes me 16 minutes...of course, I e-bike The typical worker in SF doesn't bike to work. Only 3.4% of workers in SF biked in 2012 [1] and 4.2% in 2018 [2]. Furthermore, e-bikes
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by bhelkey 2y ago
With the rapid improvements in electronics, lasting a decade is quite an achievement.
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> The actual distribution is not free, management companies take a huge cut both formally or informally. Spotify has a list of recommended distributors [1]. The first one on the list, DistroKid, charges $22/yr for unlimited uploads
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by bhelkey 2y ago
So now you have three codes, the old code, a new internal and a new external code.
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> Cloudflare could have told these clowns to go kick rocks without incurring any liability If Cloudflair didn't remove the content and the content was infringing they could lose their safe harbor protections [1]. In this case the we
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by bhelkey 2y ago
It's not a human. I imagine if you have a use case where counting characters is critical, it would be trivial to programmatically transform prompts into lists of letters. A token is roughly four letters [1], so, among other probable re
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by bhelkey 2y ago
I appreciate your insight! I certainly wouldn't want to over state my chemistry knowledge. I knew that wine contains methanol and that the 'head' has a higher proportion of methanol than the body. But I don't have the ch
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> Wine only has 329mg per liter, about 10% of the 4mL you stated could cause blindness. >> I find it plausible that someone could try to make a 2000ml bottle of cognac. I imagine that should take ~10L of wine. If one liter has 10%
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by bhelkey 2y ago
Methanol has a lower boiling point than ethanol. That is to say, the first ounces distilled should have a higher concentration of methanol. When I last made fresh squeezed orange juice, I took a sip of the first few ounces. That habit, whic
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by bhelkey 2y ago
I can't say I am convinced. Wine can have up to 329 mg/L of methanol [1]. Blindness can come from ingesting as low as 4ml [2]. I find it plausible that someone could try to make a 2000ml bottle of cognac. I imagine that should tak
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by bhelkey 2y ago
Huh, I was under the impression the ban was due to the dangers of home distilling (e.g. blindness).
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by bhelkey 2y ago
>> Congress can do their job and pass laws. > They did. They wrote a law that established the FTC and tasked it with regulating these things. What law gave the FTC the authority to regulate employment agreements? I appreciate the l
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by bhelkey 2y ago
>>given a constant population of cows >in a frictionless vacuum... This is a factual matter. Why be snarky when you can instead lookup the answer? The population of cows in the EU has been relatively constant with a slight downward
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by bhelkey 2y ago
Given a constant population of cows [1], the cows do not cause an increase in green houses gasses over time. This is because the methane from the cows has a half life of between six and eight years [2]. Given a fixed population cows, the am
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by bhelkey 2y ago
According to this article, Digital Markets Act (DMA).
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by bhelkey 2y ago
Stripe charges 1.5% + €0.25 ($0.27) in the EU to accept EEA cards [1]. Stripe charges 2.9% + $0.30 for processing domestic cards in the US [2]. The reason it charges 1.4% more for accepting US cards is the US card fees (interchange fees). T
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by bhelkey 2y ago
The EU regulates credit card fees caping them at 0.3% [1]. That is roughly a fifth of the fees charged in the US and roughly two orders of magnitude smaller than Apple app store fees. [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/le
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by bhelkey 2y ago
This is a sixty page document. Is there something specific you want to call attention to?
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by bhelkey 2y ago
I too want to be informed but have been very disappointed with the sensationalism of news sites. One solution I found is this service that texts one sentence, fact based summaries of 8-10 current events every morning [1]. An alternative fre
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by bhelkey 2y ago
This fine was for two Amazon warehouses near LA. Amazon reportedly has over a thousand fulfilment centers in the US [1]. [1] https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/article/amazon-warehouses...
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> Fun concept, but this is security by obscurity. Malware uses signals to determine if they are running in a VM. If we can degrade those signals, they will have to play a cat and mouse game trying to avoid VMs. The less clear it is if a
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> And what do you mean by “your data” here? The website that they created.
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by bhelkey 2y ago
From the linked study, "These findings of positive associations between artificial sweetener intakes and increased T2D risk strengthen the evidence that these additives may not be safe sugar alternatives." This is news to me. I wa
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by bhelkey 3y ago
Do you have some of these posts? That sounds interesting.
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by bhelkey 3y ago
Is iCloud Private Relay not Apple's VPN?
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by bhelkey 3y ago
The role of legislature is to create the law. The role of the courts is to interpret the law. If an agency wants to expand it's purview, it is the job of the legislative branch to change the law.

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