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Ask HN: Is Archive Broken for You?
8 points by bhickey 3y ago|5 comments
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by bhickey 3y ago
> invasion of Libya The air campaign against Gaddafi was authorized by the UN Security Council with no votes against. While deposing a former client was a terrible idea, your question isn't a gotcha.
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by bhickey 3y ago
> Today’s large language models all adopt the Multi-head self-attention structure proposed in Google’s paper “Attention is all you need”. This is what people later call the Transformer structure. Uhh... From the abstract: > We propose
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by bhickey 3y ago
Air tightness. Tilt turns have a single seal that runs along the perimeter. When the window closes the gasket gets compressed all around. Double hung windows have more seams and slide.
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Portland Tree Viewer(portlandme.maps.arcgis.com)
2 points by bhickey 3y ago|0 comments
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> look at the divide in architecture between houses sold to people, that are actually made to look inviting and high-quality While I agree with your conclusion, I think your example is incorrect. Most houses aren't custom builds, th
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by bhickey 3y ago
5.9+ doesn't mean "harder than 5.9," it's a specific grade of indeterminate difficulty. YDS used to top out at 5.9 before 10a and the gang were added. Any climb that's graded 5.9+ pre-dates the extension of YDS beyo
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by bhickey 3y ago
Here's his first trip to probation: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/slides/graffiti-dc401-oct12.pd...
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by bhickey 3y ago
Back in grad school he got put on probation a second time after hiring a magician off craigslist for admitted students day. The magician showed up drunk and lost his dove in the building.
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by bhickey 3y ago
* Celestron 15x70 binoculars. I planned on getting them anyway and they were 30% off. * Glasses. Earlier in the week I broke one pair and then another pair spontaneously broke last night.
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Malak by Peter Watts [pdf](rifters.com)
2 points by bhickey 3y ago|1 comments
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by bhickey 3y ago
Does fontspec work with LuaTeX?
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by bhickey 3y ago
Yep. This is low hanging fruit for making constituents happy. I emailed my city councilor about this because I couldn't figure out who to ask at public works. The next morning a work truck rolled up and installed a shield on the light
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by bhickey 3y ago
> well because we have inept leaders. Not to mention corruption. About 15 years ago I got dragged along to a lunch in Kathmandu. My host[0] was meeting with some officials to discuss embezzling from an infrastructure project. It speaks t
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by bhickey 3y ago
Tens of thousands. Their catalog looks like a good source for period movie props.
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by bhickey 3y ago
Antigone? I remember reading about them somewhere. [0] [0] https://acoup.blog/2022/12/30/miscellanea-whats-the-problem-...
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by bhickey 3y ago
> step up cost basis for inherited property Heck, there's no policy justification for having the stepped-up basis at all.
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They can remedy a labor shortage by paying more.
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There are seven members with magnitude +5 or brighter. Pleione is close to Atlas (+3.6), making it difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.
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by bhickey 3y ago
I'm skeptical of their methodology. The images they're showing are very similar to one another. All the pictures of Delhi are essentially clones. They're getting a picture of old man for "an Indian person" then jamm
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Looking Out for Humanity(agnionline.bu.edu)
3 points by bhickey 3y ago|0 comments
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by bhickey 3y ago
You're responding to something I didn't say. > The moral indulgence critique says, more or less, if you refuse to do it because you don't want to do something distasteful you're being a coward, not stupid.
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by bhickey 3y ago
> Utilitarianism assumes we have all the facts, yet we never do. All the facts, while helpful, are not necessary for utilitarianism. > "effective altruism" I think you're attacking a straw man. You won't find Peter
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by bhickey 3y ago
You're missing the point. These hypotheticals exist to interrogate our respective frameworks for moral decision making.
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by bhickey 3y ago
There are variations of this (incredibly, incredibly boring) problem that consider this. The five people are workers, the one person is a trespasser, or they're all workers, or all trespassers and so on. > It's not wrong not to
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by bhickey 3y ago
Alone? No. Wrong? Yes. The concept you're describing is known as moral indulgence or moral self-indulgence: When a person refuses to do the right thing because they want to keep their hands clean. When you're standing at the switc
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by bhickey 3y ago
I was responding to the GP who incorrectly stated that there wasn't Polynesian gene flow to the Americas prior to 1000 years ago. The evidence of early admixture events is quite strong. No one thinks the Americas were initially peopled
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by bhickey 3y ago
Well, it might've been from the Pacific. There's genetic evidence for Polynesian individuals in S. Amer prior to the settlement of Easter Island. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32641827/
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by bhickey 3y ago
Uber isn't replacing street hails. When you call a taxi company there's no certainty if or when they'll actually turn up.
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While game theory is useful when developing nuclear strategy I don't think anyone takes MAD seriously: It isn't subgame perfect. Once the rockets are up, retaliation is no longer credible... because the purpose of the threat of re

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