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by cubefox 3mo ago
Everyone trumpeting the "bad SO moderation" angle is delusional. Stack Overflow was far better than conventional forums. Without LLMs, SO would have stayed popular, there is no doubt about it. The massive decline was clearly and o
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by cubefox 3mo ago
Progressive decoding isn't expected to speed up decoding, it's expected to speed up displaying large image files, especially for downloads via slow mobile connections. Example: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UphN1_7nP
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by cubefox 3mo ago
Interesting also that even this article doesn't mention "DRM" anywhere despite the fact that this is exactly the worst case scenario DRM critics have always warned about. (Personally I would consider DRM okay if Sony's b
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by cubefox 3mo ago
> The fact that mathematicians cannot devise a method to factor that large product, despite large amounts of money and research time, is what’s valuable! Well, programmers couldn't devise such a method either. You seem to assume t
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by cubefox 3mo ago
I doubt that pure mathematics can claim the success of cryptography. For example, no result from advanced mathematics is required to know that factoring the product of two large prime numbers is slow.
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by cubefox 3mo ago
> "useless" pure math often turns out to have scientific applications. I don't think that's true for a reasonable interpretation of "often". I'm pretty sure the vast majority of pure math research is an
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by cubefox 3mo ago
It already had a browser. You don't need an app when you have a browser. The addiction is built-in as a latent capability.
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by cubefox 3mo ago
There still seems to be a difference between useless pure math research and useless science or useless philosophy. Science, even useless science, still has a subject matter that is relevant to us independently of science, the real world. An
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by cubefox 3mo ago
This reminds me of certain simple but addictive video games: "What are these virtual coins good for?" "You can buy better equipment" "Why do you need this equipment?" "To get more virtual coins of course!&
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by cubefox 3mo ago
The ad is not sexist, it's sexy/sexualized and humourous, which is something else. And of course it is from 2010, just before the great ... cultural shift.
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by cubefox 3mo ago
https://x.com/a_green_being/status/2076598897779020159
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by cubefox 3mo ago
Some of these correlations could be merely due to the "healthy vaccinee effect": https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/healthy-vaccinee-e...
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by cubefox 3mo ago
Yes, though the above only addresses studies based on Zostavax. Shingrix might still offer some protection from dementia.
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by cubefox 3mo ago
> Maybe it's my brain fried first by internet then by the smartphone. Same. I started to read significantly less once I had a PC with Internet access. Also stopped playing video games. Then, with smartphones, I stopped reading books
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by cubefox 3mo ago
Schopenhauer made a similar point in his essay "On Reading and Books". https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Books_and_Reading https://fs.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Arthur
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by cubefox 3mo ago
That's crazy speed!
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by cubefox 3mo ago
> Avoid even audiobooks. Big corporations want to grab your attention by trying to market audiobooks as books for busy people, but don’t fall for the trap. A book is just boring black text on a white page because that’s how it’s meant to
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by cubefox 3mo ago
> Most of the evidence of its anti-dementia effect relates to an earlier version of the vaccine, which used a weakened form of the live virus. It has since been largely replaced by a new one, Shingrix, which contains just a sprinkling of
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by cubefox 3mo ago
Thanks.
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Source?
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by cubefox 3mo ago
Yes, the fact that an LLM managed to prove the conjecture is remarkable, but presumably you don't find the conjecture itself interesting.
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by cubefox 3mo ago
This doesn't contradict anything he said though. People on HN care only because an LLM proved a very difficult conjecture, not because we are independently interested in this conjecture.
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by cubefox 3mo ago
> I say this as someone who's first programming language was Haskell. Amazing. How did that happen? Is it true that functional programming is only counterintuitive because almost everyone starts out with an imperative language?
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by cubefox 3mo ago
There are also several Chinese satellite constellations which will expand more quickly once several Chinese partially reusable rockets are online.
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by cubefox 3mo ago
> the set of people who care about fast mpmc queues with bounded waiting is very very tiny across even the whole population of HN Yes, but even of those who do care the vast majority will obviously be male.
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by cubefox 3mo ago
No offense, but from the mentioned base rates (HN male to female ratio) I would be surprised if you were biologically female.
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by cubefox 3mo ago
> I definitely know some girls who'd love this, and see this as having fun. That's hard to believe. Then you should know at least an order of magnitude more "boys" who would love this: At an estimated 95% male ratio o
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by cubefox 3mo ago
It's also a joke because girls definitely don't care about "Fast MPMC Queues with Bounded Waiting" at all. We can estimate the HN audience to be ≈95% male.
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by cubefox 3mo ago
The "or" (and "and") types in TypeScript are set theoretic rather than algebraic, so they don't require wrapping and unwrapping. It seems to me that they are the ones with better ergonomics.
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by cubefox 3mo ago
My guess is the classifier guardrails were made significantly stricter to convince the US government to reverse the ban.

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