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by djoldman 1y ago
For example, Binary GCD: https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/algorithms/gcd/
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Algorithms for Modern Hardware(en.algorithmica.org)
3 points by djoldman 1y ago|1 comments
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by djoldman 1y ago
There are two things going on here. The first and simpler question is what is a valuable software product? For products where the user expects to pay nothing, like almost all social media, the answer is: the product with the most user-hours
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by djoldman 1y ago
Couldn't class be everyone these national injunctions would previously have affected?
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by djoldman 1y ago
I did actually chuckle at this, so it grudgingly earns my upvote.
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by djoldman 1y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24680109
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by djoldman 1y ago
I'm not a lawyer. What's the chance that this could be addressed via class action?
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Spineless Traversal for Layout Invalidation(dl.acm.org)
2 points by djoldman 1y ago|0 comments
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by djoldman 1y ago
I really don’t understand solo unpaid maintainers who feel “pressure” from users. My response would always be: it’s my repo, my code, if you don’t like how I’m doing things, fork the code megashrug . You owe them nothing. That fact doesn’t
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by djoldman 1y ago
AMLKYC always seemed obviously backward or ridiculous to me. The fact that banks are essentially tasked with enforcing laws is... a crutch to say the least. Analogies are by definition imperfect but: 1. why not point the finger at ATT and V
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by djoldman 1y ago
Interesting. Also, Apple reports paying more than this for the 12 months ending in September 2024: $29.749 billion. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2024-q4/FY24_Q4_Consol...
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by djoldman 1y ago
I would love to see the following be factored in if it isn't already: 1. airline ticket holder minutes wasted due to flight delays and cancelations. 2. amount of jet fuel wasted on empty flights for the purpose of keeping gate privileg
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by djoldman 1y ago
It appears that taking advantage of human imperfections and irrationality are taking up more and more of companies' strategies and time. You've got folks thinking constantly about advertising, pricing strategies, dark patterns, ne
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by djoldman 1y ago
The referenced study is quite the doozy: > We assigned participants to three groups: LLM group, Search Engine group, Brain-only group ... to write an essay. We recruited a total of 54 participants... > We used electroencephalography (
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Korean students seek 'digital undertakers' amid US visa social media screening(koreaherald.com)
64 points by djoldman 1y ago|136 comments
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by djoldman 1y ago
Here is Moby Dick: https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=ff5228e0df4d98ba87a964e0e7a...
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Voyant Tools(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by djoldman 1y ago|2 comments
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by djoldman 1y ago
> Greenpeace calls for the following measures to minimize the environmental impacts of Artificial Intelligence: > 1. An energy-efficient AI infrastructure powered 100% by renewable energy. This green power must be additionally generat
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by djoldman 1y ago
Hello fellow economics major :) Yep, capitalism fails in a few ways in the long run. Monopolies, imperfect competition, etc., which is why regulation is required to optimize the system.
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by djoldman 1y ago
There are a lot of issues brought up in this post, but I want to discuss one in particular: technological progress and its economic and societal ramifications. We can say that technological progress occurs when a new method is employed to d
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by djoldman 1y ago
All of this may be true. It raises the question: why has a better way not won out? It seems to me that the better user experience that would be gained by a different approach has not been worth the (perceived or actual) hit to developer exp
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by djoldman 1y ago
Just to confirm, this is about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalist_community and not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalism right?
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by djoldman 1y ago
This is why one of my principles is to be skeptical of outliers. Often they are not real and therefore misrepresent the true data. It's one reason median is preferred over mean, at the outset, as well as throwing out outliers just to s
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by djoldman 1y ago
I mean that the HN guidelines use these definitions as to what the site is meant to embody: > What to Submit > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to
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by djoldman 1y ago
Generally things get flagged on HN because the posts are off topic and have a low chance of interesting and insightful commentary (or worse: likely to become flamewars). This is regardless of political leaning (right/left/other).
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by djoldman 1y ago
Thanks!
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by djoldman 1y ago
How does one debug a grammar? This has always eluded me. Where is the special tooling to help spot errors?
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by djoldman 1y ago
I fear that the distinctly American emphasis on personal independence and deprioritization of root causes has led to our persistent and failed war on drugs. Unfortunately, many of the laws written and policies enacted presume an idealistic
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by djoldman 1y ago
> I would consider this a death blow paper to the current push for using LLMs and LRMs as the basis for AGI. Anytime I see "Artificial General Intelligence," "AGI," "ASI," etc., I mentally replace it with &q
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Nummi (2015)(thisamericanlife.org)
1 points by djoldman 1y ago|0 comments

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