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by dahart 2y ago
No, some states have had border checks for things like animals and produce/fruit (to prevent the spread of some diseases), among other things, for many decades. The California border is the one I’ve run into most often. They don’t alwa
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by dahart 2y ago
What is the problem, exactly? What responsibility, exactly, does the state have to make mass migration viable? It seems like you’re making really big assumptions. Make a list of the costs and benefits for both too lax and too strict borders
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by dahart 2y ago
I think some cities in the world do have borders with ID checks. Which cities are we talking about, specifically? In the US there are state borders that (edit: may) require ID checks. This is true in other countries too. And as others point
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by dahart 2y ago
> Because humans generally start counting from 1. I’m not parent, but for me the question is not literally why did they choose 1-based indexing. That’s easy to answer. The question is really: why haven’t they realized by now that the dis
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by dahart 2y ago
Important quotes from that video: “You can exercise all day, it seems, if you keep it down.” And “let me be clear about this: there is no single step you can take in your life to ensure robust health and remarkable longevity than a habit of
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by dahart 2y ago
All countries have border policy including yours, this isn’t about Europe, or about Africa. Why do you assume border policy is xenophobia, and not, say, logistics and resource and tax management? Why would you jump to a conclusion this ha
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by dahart 2y ago
> Saying that you can’t come into Europe because you’re African is still racism. Are you suggesting no countries in the world should have any border control? You weren’t born here and don’t pay taxes here is pretty different from you’re
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by dahart 2y ago
The discussion reminds me of Karl Sims’ Evolved Virtual Creatures. In the Siggraph talk he mentioned that they would absolutely exploit any bugs in the physics simulation that they could. That’s all that’s happening with this article’s LLMs
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by dahart 2y ago
Yes, definitely. Pi is just the perimeter of the circle, and varpi is the perimeter of the lemniscate. If you use three points, you get three tear-drops, and you can compute the perimeter of that. Let’s call it a trilemniscate. ;) Here’s a
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by dahart 2y ago
Musicians: see also radial planar circular harmonics, e.g. drums. This is a halfway point in between vibrating strings and vibrating bubbles. It’s highly applicable in music and is easier to understand and visualize than 3d basis functions;
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by dahart 2y ago
Don’t conflate research with the average employee. There are still career tech stars and research groups today, in fact many, many more of them than in 1950. They aren’t average employees and never were, just like Shannon was not an average
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by dahart 2y ago
Your top comment was about cultures of excellence in corporate research, and the economics of product development. Now we’re having a debate about the most impactful tech and/or researcher? Nothing on my small list of examples was done
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by dahart 2y ago
This seems like very rose tinted glasses, and I think the summary is backwards. Shannon was an academic, and spent a little time at Bell Labs, but didn’t work at IBM. Business has always chased profits, by definition, it was absolutely no
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by dahart 2y ago
It proves there’s a bug in one indie web game, and nothing more. It proves nothing about the process or the ecosystem or what can happen in the future with APIs. > Even with WebGL 2.0, there is nothing at the level of iOS and Android Ope
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by dahart 2y ago
What is making you think criminals are scared of pseudonyms, or that pseudonyms don’t provide all the real and practical benefits of anonymity most of the time? It’s not a myth that a lot of crime involves BTC right now, it’s a fact, regard
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by dahart 2y ago
What “real games” on mobile devices are you thinking of? I assumed when you said real games you meant desktop games only hardcore gamers play. So why does one game crashing on a tablet prove anything? I think you’re right about browsers not
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by dahart 2y ago
You’re framing this like it’s a bad thing, but a video of an accident is pretty valuable to someone falsely accused of causing an accident, and in that case the people with the video aren’t the bad guy, the person lying about causing the ac
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by dahart 2y ago
When I was just a kid hogging all the time on my dad’s PCjr, I wrote a BASIC program to dither all combinations of the 16 colors, and since it was connected to the crappiest color TV we had in the house, it was just blurry enough (even at 3
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by dahart 2y ago
> Brown is just dark orange Fun fact, human skin is orange - both dark and light. If you saturate the colors of photos of people of any race, everyone is orange. Some AI face detectors use this to help identify where people are in images
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by dahart 2y ago
If the problem is having to wait for applicants, then you’re right; stopping early will help. In my experience, companies already do what you’re suggesting simply by having a deadline or time window for filling a job. Even if a lot of compa
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by dahart 2y ago
> It ignores the desperation of the masses for the Middle Class lifestyle they’ve been promised Oh are we talking about minimum wage jobs, labor & the proletariat now? I thought we were talking about software engineering, where the a
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by dahart 2y ago
Hehe literally the first sentence of that first article: “Job hopping is nothing new.” The standard advice when I graduated college was to move around every 2-3 years if you want to get promoted. I’d be willing to bet it was a common story
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by dahart 2y ago
Noise is a reality and a potential problem in ranking candidates for sure, 100%. Of course it’s worse than just measurement noise; the noise in hiring is subjective and situational and human. The sampling method doesn’t fix it, using the Se
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by dahart 2y ago
> we can’t fix it Applicants don’t have to apply to Google or Facebook for jobs they’re not qualified for, and if they stopped, the mess you’re referring to would disappear. At least at Google and Facebook’s doors, anyway. It might mov
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by dahart 2y ago
That, to some degree, is guaranteed to happen naturally. But why not use a sieve approach and narrow the pool exponentially using a range of tools that goes from automatic and instantaneous at the start to manual and time-intensive intervie
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by dahart 2y ago
This is all fully explained by salaries going up, and the pool of young applicants getting bigger faster than the number of jobs available, while the pool of highly qualified applicants remains small. Jobs at Facebook, Google, Microsoft, In
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by dahart 2y ago
On one hand, that’s what it always was, by definition - a company is looking for the best candidates it can get with a given budget, and the best-case scenario for the company is there’s a large pool of candidates to choose from. On the oth
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by dahart 2y ago
Your comment is excessively dismissive. The irony is that parent actually did what you’re suggesting, tried to talk about the interviewee’s solution and found that they didn’t come across as knowledgeable and experienced enough even though
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by dahart 2y ago
If true, it’s not necessarily evidence of race being independent of class, it would only be evidence of color being independent of class. If true, it might to some degree be the opposite of what you claim, it might be evidence of race matte
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by dahart 2y ago
Ray Kurzweil is indeed full of crap (I have a specific bone to pick with his intentional mis-use of life expectancy among other things), but what makes you think in this case the use of log is arbitrary? Did you look at the data with a line

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