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by chis 3y ago
Stacking vertically does kinda get there but there are some clear downsides. You can't access clothes in the back without taking off the whole stack. And it's visually a lot worse: you're just looking at like 5 shirts flatt
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by chis 3y ago
Electrified highways is a super interesting idea. In this video they're hybrids though - presumably they come up to speed with combustion and then just use the grid for cruising. And I don't think it's a huge cost to have a
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by chis 3y ago
Crucial scrabble word
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by chis 3y ago
The accomodation distance can be set to any value by the headset lens design. The problem he's discussing is that you can't change the distance depending on the content shown. Probably apple is setting the distance to 1 meter sin
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by chis 3y ago
If anyone’s wondering this is totally incorrect. In fact any guide for posture correction on the internet will recommend tons of focus on body awareness until you retrain movement patterns.
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by chis 3y ago
This honestly makes the raves sound kinda fun. I appreciate the author is self aware enough to realize they’re writing a cheesy “things were cooler X years ago” and nod to the fact that everyone is imitating someone, nothing is that origina
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by chis 4y ago
I'm really curious to see if expanding the context length this much will allow GPT to do typical software development tasks on a big codebase. If it can take in a github issue and produce decent code solving a complex issue across man
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by chis 4y ago
Ah good catch. The 60 day deadline was paused during Covid but I guess it’s coming back starting this May.
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by chis 4y ago
Would guess that it helps with keyboard flex. And rivets are cheaper than screws.
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by chis 4y ago
Cobra has this unique advantage that you can turn it on retroactively, so it's actually decently cheap for healthy individuals. You can just plan to not pay for it and then if things go wrong you can incur medical bills and send them
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by chis 4y ago
It seems like a HFT trader could arbitrage this pattern out by just taking it into account while planning other trades. If a HFT firm makes millions of trades a day, then they could just slightly bias their buys/sells by considering t
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by chis 4y ago
Amazing comment. Where did you learn about this?
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by chis 4y ago
95% latency seems way more useful as a metric than max() would be. It’s better to spend most of your time improving the experience of most users rather than debugging ultra-rare issues that rarely affect users.
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by chis 4y ago
Did that work? I approve of the trend towards letting the body heal itself when possible. But I thought displaced bones generally need to be set, otherwise they can heal with incorrect angles and lose functionality, range of motion, etc.
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by chis 4y ago
We also don’t have much visibility into revenue now that it’s a private company. I’ve seen a lot of speculation that their ads product is falling apart and revenue is down. And obviously Twitter Blue seems to have been a chaotic failure.
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by chis 4y ago
I think it's up to local governments to require buildings to have some semblance of aesthetics taken into consideration. In the olden times a lot of buildings were built BY the future residents who had a stake in making it look nice.
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by chis 4y ago
HN really hates the idea of coding bootcamps for some reason. I think it's because the median HN person is pretty independent, libertarian, self-taught, etc and can't imagine any other model working for people.
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by chis 4y ago
There's something weird about cost-cutting metrics where they just aren't as impactful as they sound. FB has enough money floating around that many teams will write big systems inefficiently in the name of "moving fast"
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by chis 4y ago
You also need a system to manage books coming in, separating spam/viruses from real content. You either need a centralized source verifying books (zlib and usenet approach) or some kind of voting system like thepiratebay. If it'
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by chis 4y ago
Probably the insolvent exchanges are able to offer lower costs and better promotions to users. For instance Coinbase has always charged way higher fees than FTX for simple buying and selling of coins.
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by chis 4y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/01/peter-thiel-files-plans-to-b... Here's a post with a few pics. Looks pretty sweet
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by chis 4y ago
This article is such an odd mix of interesting Native American facts and overwrought critical theory. Mostly makes me want to go read the actual source (Sovereignty and Goodness of God). I always wonder if the academics writing this stuff a
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by chis 4y ago
I think Facebook has just chosen a graphical style for their "metaverse" which makes it really hard to make anything beautiful or interesting. To me it's reminiscent of Corporate Memphis (which FB arguably invented) - an ext
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by chis 4y ago
Clicking through this ad, I really disagree with your contention that it's anything other than total garbage. It's an on-rails walk through a series of screenshotted instagram ads, the idea being that users will be... really exci
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by chis 4y ago
Might end up being good for Goog if it expands the reach of Chrome on iOS. Google currently pays 10+ billion a year to be the default search provider on Safari.
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by chis 4y ago
The U.S. government is pretty inept in general these days. It's hard to see how such an expansive govt regulation would get approved by the current Congress which gets deadlocked over pretty much anything.
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by chis 4y ago
In some sense I’m surprised it was even this hard/took this long (writeup spans 5 months, with many applications). Shouldn’t someone with a successful Berkeley PhD be seen as essentially pre-vetted? I guess skillset match is one thing,
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by chis 4y ago
Is there any intuitive explanation for why the mean minimizes the squared error? I know it IS true - this property is used for linear regressions etc - but I couldn’t actually explain it. It seems like whatever minimizes a squared error sho
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by chis 4y ago
Seeing someone as trustworthy as Scott choose to work on AI safety is a pretty good sign for the state of the field IMO. It seems like a lot of studious people agree AI alignment is important but then end up shoehorning the problem into wh
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by chis 4y ago
How do you find things to do then? I’ll share what worked for me: follow a particular interest in depth, that way you can rely on your unique expertise to guide yourself off the tourist track. But that doesn’t always feel sustainable.

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