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by creato 6y ago
I think this fuzzy logic of search pisses off people like us (the HN demographic) but makes most users happy. Have you seen how tech illiterate people use Google? They type in questions and phrases with words like "a" and "th
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by creato 6y ago
This can't really be vectorized without -ffast-math regardless. Notice that even with gcc, it's only vectorizing the multiply, and the adds are still scalar. This probably isn't that much of an improvement over the scalar cod
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by creato 6y ago
There's no context here, why would it matter what the variables are? Do you really need 'a' and 'b' to be named 'add_operand_1' and 'add_operand_2' to understand what they are? Same with 'ac
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by creato 6y ago
> There is also rampant illegitimate reprinting of independent book publishers. And rampant fraud enabled by "comingling" in the rest of their market.
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by creato 6y ago
> Trump has a way better record on criminal justice reform. Yeah. For his friends.
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by creato 6y ago
The link is from google research. I'd imagine google has at least a few datasets of this scale.
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by creato 6y ago
It sounds like the argument is that the individual mandate to have health insurance has been repealed, so therefore, the mandate for insurers to cover people with preexisting conditions should also be repealed. What is absurd about that? It
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by creato 6y ago
Aside from the other good answers, there's also a much simpler reason: lab classes. CS and math are the only STEM fields I can think of where you won't have at least a few classes with labs where access to equipment and hands-on i
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by creato 6y ago
I think the thing that is unique about drugs is that they are incredibly expensive to develop and bring to market, but trivially cheap to reproduce. I just happened to watch this video [1] a few days ago, where the host gets, as a free sam
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by creato 6y ago
His point was obviously not that the consequences were forgotten but the original meaning of the phrase was forgotten, and I'm pretty sure you know it. What are you trying to accomplish with this? How did you get from "I never kne
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by creato 6y ago
> Despite Collison’s example, most CEOs probably won’t take that risk on their own; they will be too afraid of being undercut by less scrupulous competitors who retain their access to China’s markets and manufacturing prowess. So on this
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by creato 6y ago
I have heard from people (and read accounts from people on HN) that companies use all kinds of software that does this during remote interviews. Recording the screen, turning on the camera to watch the interviewee, etc. I doubt the main pro
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by creato 6y ago
I agree most gas powered vehicles are basically odorless and have low impact on the air that is noticeable to a human. However, even a single diesel vehicle can make the air in a half-block radius harder to breathe for minutes after it pass
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by creato 6y ago
> Given the publicity such problems have gained in the community, one would expect publishers of any model to verify it doesn't fail with the most obvious examples. Not doing so is negligent at best. Here's what the authors say
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by creato 6y ago
I can't help but shake my head at this whole story. Someone (who by the way describes themselves more as an artist than anything else in public bios) builds a ML "bullshit artist" (literally) that hallucinates portraits from
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by creato 6y ago
As you say, not understanding the difference between sexuality and sex is exactly the problem. Where we disagree is I do not believe this is any kind of moral judgement biased against LGBT content. It's just that content explicitly des
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by creato 6y ago
Would you rather live in North Korea or South Korea? Hong Kong or Taiwan? West Germany or East Germany?
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by creato 6y ago
I don't get how you can come so close to hitting the nail on the head and still miss it? Content that is specifically about LGBT issues is almost always going to involve sexuality at some point or another. Advertisers are skittish abou
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by creato 6y ago
I don't doubt at all that TikTok is super shady, but > I'm getting a lot of DM's asking me to prove the majority of this with a paper and snippets of the offending code. I have a decent amount of my notes on my other lapto
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by creato 6y ago
Reddit should be considered an unreliable source of information to everyone.
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by creato 6y ago
You also shut down Europe. Who has the power in this situation?
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by creato 6y ago
And what about the costs? I don't know how to find that for youtube, but here's netflix: > Netflix operating expenses for the quarter ending March 31, 2020 were $4.809B, a 18.4% increase year-over-year. https://www.m
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by creato 6y ago
I think what makes fox different is they internally believe the threat is serious and are respecting various guidelines for controlling the virus, and then encourage everyone else to thumb their noses at such measures: https://ww
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by creato 6y ago
I just spent a few minutes reading the readme, and I still can't figure out why this tool (or GitBook) is directly connected to git. OK, a bunch of markdown and json files in folders form a book. How is this connected to git? I totally
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by creato 6y ago
There is never going to be any major political upheaval without foreign intervention. Furthermore, foreign intervention is usually welcomed, it rarely just happens in a vacuum. Sometimes it's rebels, sometimes it's the incumbent g
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by creato 6y ago
> and a letter signed by at least 1,666 Google employees demanding the company stop selling technology to police departments. I had to read this link to see what it was talking about. Maybe some ridiculous AI crime prediction algorithm?
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by creato 6y ago
> It can be an elegant design choice, but also a design choice that appears to be or is an abuse of privacy. For decades, all programs running on your computer had access to the clipboard. A primary intended purpose of the clipboard is p
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by creato 6y ago
Exactly how many "multiple", and over how many years? The case you cited is 6 years old. If this is occurring at the rate being suggested by the comment I replied to, we should be able to find dozens of cases from this (partial)
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by creato 6y ago
This is comparing murder to every instance of police killing someone, justified or not. Police murdering someone is much more rare. The ratio you are talking about probably is in fact well over 100:1.
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by creato 6y ago
> To me this is a text by someone that treats the game as if the game authors have created factorio by a series of deliberate choices, that is they treat it like a serious creative work. I think factorio is utterly genius. As a creative

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