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by derf_ 9mo ago
You are not the only person he did this kind of thing for: https://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2025/5/...
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by derf_ 9mo ago
I do not know anything about this team, but I worked with a team before that migrated from a native app to an Electron-based version. It was worse in literally every way except one: the developers on that team preferred developing that way.
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by derf_ 10mo ago
You can, but then those people have more money, and you have less. The money supply is much smaller than the supply of goods and services, because the same money circulates repeatedly. So simply doubling your money can tilt things a little
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by derf_ 10mo ago
You make it sound easy, but there are relatively few billionaires in the US descended from historically wealthy families [0]. First off, this kind of compounding has only really been possible since the industrial revolution (~200 years). Be
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by derf_ 10mo ago
Exactly. Even though Baumol himself used the phrase "Cost Disease", I think that framing distracts from the fact that it is a result of something desirable happening , namely increased efficiency in some sectors. You could also p
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by derf_ 10mo ago
The submission is titled with "Cost Disease", though the Wikipedia article has the more neutral term "Effect". But it is important to remember that money is a relative resource, not a real resource. If some sectors of th
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by derf_ 10mo ago
South Korea went through an astounding period of economic growth. In 1961 its per-capita income was US$93 (inflation-adjusted). Ghana, one of the poorest nations in Africa, had more than double that (US$190). In 2024, Korea's had grown
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by derf_ 10mo ago
> The author doesn't talk at all about the hardware aspect of this stuff such as the surprisingly short lifetime of the GPUs that are being rolled out at a break-neck pace. There is literally a section that begins, "What will
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by derf_ 10mo ago
Buffett has repeatedly said that Berkshire's size means it will no longer be able to deliver outsized outperformance. He also says that most people should invest in index funds. It is perfectly reasonable to just buy the S&P if tha
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by derf_ 10mo ago
Teach them basic financial literacy. The time value of money, the power of compounding, the relationship between risk and expected returns. Grade school does not cover any of this. It does not matter what your income is if you cannot budget
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by derf_ 11mo ago
> ...then they could very well contribute by submitting a patch along with their issue report. I don't want to discourage anyone from submitting patches, but that does not necessarily remove all (or even the bulk of) the work from
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by derf_ 11mo ago
>There are dozens of us I guess... Shine on you crazy diamond, and all that, but... > I have been continually confused as to why it is being forced down everyone's throat. Have you never sat on public wifi and tried to open a
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by derf_ 1y ago
> "Distress in auto lending broadly is often seen as a bellwether to changing circumstances in the US economy, because Americans particularly in the lower-income brackets tend to put their highest priority in auto payments," s
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by derf_ 1y ago
There are four main levers for improving an ML system: 1. You can change the training data. 2. You can change the objective function. 3. You can change the network topology. 4. You can change various hyperparameters (learning rate, etc.). F
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by derf_ 1y ago
Anyone who has lived through a market correction (the tariff announcements in early April this year being a recent example, though there have been far worse) should be able to see that market prices do not always accurately reflect even the
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by derf_ 1y ago
I cannot tell you how many times I've had to go through 30 hyperlinked pages of fluff explaining universal basic concepts before finding the five sentences I actually needed (buried in five different places). And just as many where peo
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by derf_ 1y ago
I assume they would try to venue-shop for somewhere Anti-SLAPP protections are much weaker. Maryland and Virginia look particularly bad, for example (but IANAL).
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by derf_ 1y ago
> A good language will also have "break" from any block of code, such that the break can also carry a return value, AND the break can be from any number of nested blocks, which would generally mean that blocks can be labelled
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by derf_ 1y ago
> Why don't the sellers of the shares owe tax? They do, but it is only paid by the people who took the money (instead of being forced to do so), and, more importantly, only on the difference from what they paid. If you pay out $1m
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by derf_ 1y ago
To plagiarize Howard Marks, when you try to time the market, you have to be right twice: both on when to get out and when to get back in. Even being right once is incredibly hard. Or, to quote Peter Lynch: "Far more money has been lost
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by derf_ 1y ago
One time I spent a week carefully rewriting all of the SIMD asm in libtheora, really pulling out all of the stops to go after every last cycle [0], and managed to squeeze out 1% faster total decoder performance. Then I spent a day reorganiz
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by derf_ 1y ago
> > Admittedly, I've never heard of someone forgetting how to write a letter from the Latin alphabet. When I was in grade school, I took notes for my classes using Tengwar (elvish) runes as a way to alleviate boredom and force
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by derf_ 1y ago
> ...it's hardly a robust strategy. I disagree. Video is such a large percentage of internet traffic and licensing fees are so high that it becomes possible for any number of companies to subsidize the development cost of a new co
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by derf_ 1y ago
> You must must understand every line of code yourself. I have never seen this standard reached for any real codebase of any size. Even in projects with a reputation for a strong review culture, people know who the "easy" rev
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by derf_ 1y ago
> I think HN has a lot of "if I can't see how it can be done then it can't be done" people. No, HN has, "This has been thought of a thousand times before and it's not actually that good of an idea," p
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by derf_ 1y ago
If you start from N-dimensional Gaussian-distributed vectors and normalize them, you wind up with uniformly distributed vectors on an (N-1)-dimensional hypersphere. Of course, sphere-packing on the surface of a hyperspehere is its own fun p
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by derf_ 1y ago
The "at scale" part is the real story here. Film Grain Synthesis has been available in the usual AV1 encoders for a while, but required some amount of manual tweaking to avoid creating problems, meaning it was only used in product
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by derf_ 1y ago
If everyone's real wealth doubles, that is great, but it is not a stable equilibrium. If a very small percentage of the people own a large percentage of the wealth, it compounds. They literally cannot spend all of their income on consu
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by derf_ 1y ago
> But it was a competitive environment where they needed to nail absolutely everything first time and just couldn't pull it off. They didn't need to and couldn't have expected to. The real problem was that to get to a su
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by derf_ 1y ago
> Limes had yet to be discovered or something "In the 1497 expedition of Vasco da Gama, the curative effects of citrus fruit were already observed and were confirmed by Pedro Álvares Cabral and his crew in 1507. ... In 1614, John

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