ckcheng

7 ms·

31.
by ckcheng 1y ago
I’m trying to understand the structure, is this about right? Costco Warehouse = Apple App Store. Dyson (vacuum vendor) = WidgetApp (digital goods vendor). Dyson sold in the Costco Warehouse must use Costco as the merchant. WidgetApp sold i
32.
by ckcheng 1y ago
So you’re saying Apple IAP as merchant of record forcing use of Apple Pay is ok (?) but Apple App Store forcing use of Apple IAP as the only merchant of record is not? (You were clarifying the difference between these things elsewhere so ho
33.
Health effects of processed meat, sugar-sweetened beverages and trans fat(nature.com)
7 points by ckcheng 1y ago|0 comments
34.
by ckcheng 1y ago
VLA = Vision-language-action model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision-language-action_model Not https://public.nrao.edu/telescopes/VLA/ :( For completeness, MMLLM = Multimodal Large langua
35.
by ckcheng 1y ago
> After eight years, the people in the structured exercise program not only became more active than those in the control group but also had 28% fewer cancers and 37% fewer deaths from any cause. There were more muscle strains and other s
36.
Structured Exercise After Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer(nejm.org)
6 points by ckcheng 1y ago|1 comments
37.
by ckcheng 1y ago
It just occurred to me that without the “before” version, one wouldn’t be able to do a compare and contrast of the revision proposed above. So here’s the original, similarly a little anonymized. *** Sam Hayden Somewhere, USA sam.example.de
38.
by ckcheng 1y ago
I find resume advice very difficult to implement. Maybe you made some drastic resume changes at the beginning of this HN discussion that I didn’t see, but since then you’ve only had time and energy to fix the repeated “maintained” word in …
39.
by ckcheng 1y ago
> Did the University of California take out E&O on the Manhattan Project? Interestingly, see [1] for “a teletype from General Groves to Oppenheimer from February 1944, instructing the latter as to what to tell Underhill [UC’s secreta
40.
by ckcheng 1y ago
There really is a few comments here with great suggestions for how to improve your resume and online presence. It seems like some of it can still be tried, or if you feel it was already tried but got rolled back, then they can be tried agai
41.
'Invasion' barges, cable cutters and surprise naval drills: how China tests USA(theguardian.com)
7 points by ckcheng 1y ago|0 comments
42.
by ckcheng 1y ago
Oja's rule dates back to 1982? It’s Hebbian and solves all stability problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oja's_rule
43.
Tariffs Can Help America(foreignaffairs.com)
17 points by ckcheng 2y ago|41 comments
44.
by ckcheng 2y ago
Above was talking about embedded systems, and I really don’t know if the James Webb Space Telescope counts, but… The James Webb Space Telescope runs JavaScript, apparently [1]. [1]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/
45.
by ckcheng 2y ago
A comma would've sufficed? cf: "SpaceX reached out immediately to the government[s] of Turks and Caicos[,] and the United Kingdom to..."
46.
by ckcheng 2y ago
> Any solution Apple develops that enables "disable E2E for this account" makes it harder for them to claim that implementing that would be compelling work (or speech, if you prefer) I think it’s really speech [0], which is why
47.
by ckcheng 2y ago
>> Apple's defense against backdooring E2E is the (US) doctrine that [government can’t] be compelling work (or speech, if you prefer) It’s really not "work” but speech. That’s why telecoms can be compelled to wiretap. But co
48.
by ckcheng 2y ago
> to even have a rheumatologist referral to begin with, some previous combination of [doctors] would have had to have suspected an autoimmune possibility and created some documentation to that effect This is a good point. Even when a dia
49.
by ckcheng 2y ago
Also just 1 day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42587826
50.
by ckcheng 2y ago
> seems like a signal Also “mil-spec”, and in a totally different context i.e. big box retail, “contractor grade”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_grade
51.
by ckcheng 2y ago
This is referring to timescape cosmology and the recent paper (Supernovae Evidence for Foundational Change to Cosmological Models) that was discussed 11 days ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42495703
52.
by ckcheng 2y ago
I think they trained on one too many closet bifold doors [1]. If you look at the edge of the doors as they swing open, it seems their movement resembles bifold door movement (there's a wiggle to it common to bifold doors that normal do
53.
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work(nap.nationalacademies.org)
51 points by ckcheng 2y ago|26 comments
54.
by ckcheng 2y ago
> Javascript's lack of tail recursion Even in Safari? [1] [1]: "As of July 22, 2023 Safari is the only browser that supports tail call optimization" https://stackoverflow.com/a/37224563
55.
by ckcheng 2y ago
> then in Grade 12, there's Advanced (!) Functions." Then in university, there’s Elementary Functional Analysis!
56.
by ckcheng 2y ago
Tao comparing o1 to a mediocre, but not completely incompetent, graduate student went viral. He clarifies that he means it more like a mediocre or incompetent research assistant. Tao means that it's not like a grad student who's
57.
by ckcheng 2y ago
No, I don’t think so? I think in Ghostbusters 2016, comedic improv is used for funny dialogue, but the overall story narrative was pre-written? Wong Kar-wai uses improvisation to explore characters and emotions to help write the story. Whol
58.
by ckcheng 2y ago
So he was trying to be like Wong Kar-wai [1]: > Wong has an unusual approach to film making, starting production without a script and generally relying on instinct and improvisation … cast are given a minimal plot outline and expected to
59.
by ckcheng 2y ago
Wait, you saying in Canada a R&D software company can essentially sell a dollar (of SDE produced goods) for a dollar and get a tax refund from the government?
60.
by ckcheng 2y ago
There was this alleged Alberta AHS privacy breach: https://old.reddit.com/r/alberta/comments/1c7lk3z/ahs_privac... Don’t know if that went anywhere… anyone know?

More ›