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by dmurray 4mo ago
This is definitely an exaggeration. The median NBA player is 6'5" according to [0]. Most top teams will have a few players around that height, even excluding goalkeepers (though heavily weighted towards central defenders and centr
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by dmurray 4mo ago
I think you're double counting; you need 1.25 kg of oxygen and nitrogen combined to replace 1 cubic metre of air. 1.2t of candles doesn't seem like an unreasonable amount of extra payload if they would really be valuable in an eme
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by dmurray 4mo ago
There's a real desire out there to tell a narrative where SpaceX is a massively fraudulent piece of financial engineering, a pump and dump scam where the stock will "collapse within a year" and retail investors will be left h
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by dmurray 4mo ago
To a first approximation, yes, the index funds all need to buy the stock on the same day. An unexpected surge of buying like this should lead to a big price hike. But everyone knows it's happening, so you'd expect every hedge fu
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by dmurray 4mo ago
The most far-flung pins on the map are further away than Shakespeare or his audience likely had in mind. "America" looks like it's at the centroid of the modern continental USA, but Shakespeare was surely thinking of somewher
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by dmurray 4mo ago
I meant, acquire the speedtest.net domain and point it to servers inside Netflix' farm.
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by dmurray 4mo ago
Actually I thought Netflix had already acquired Ookla / speedtest.com, so I was surprised to see this headline. But it looks like this was just the Mandela effect. That said, why didn't Netflix acquire the market leader in this
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by dmurray 4mo ago
I was going to reply to this post with "surely shipping prices going up is a first order effect", but it's wrong. The real first order effect is the thousands of Iranian civilians (and fine, the hundreds of Iranian servicemen
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by dmurray 4mo ago
> The 5% surcharge for their pricing model may not be palatable to enterprises Enterprises appear to be paying the API rates which are 10x (1000%) what are available to individuals, so I would not be confident they are sensitive to a 5%
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by dmurray 4mo ago
Most people would find being fined a week's wages significant. It's not what they'd expect to get for, say, murder, but worse than any parking fine and enough that they'd give serious consideration to not doing whatever
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by dmurray 4mo ago
The "abstract Wikipedia" just seems like a solved problem with LLMs. However sceptical of "AI" you are, "give me the information on this page in my preferred language" is the kind of task they excel at. (I won
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by dmurray 5mo ago
> In 2007, workers at a Toyota plant in Kentucky pulled the andon cord 2,000 times per week; workers at a Ford plant in Michigan pulled it just twice a week. You can’t get all the benefits of a single practice without installing the comp
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by dmurray 5mo ago
What was special about the first nuclear test, rather than the thousands of others, at least hundreds of which were also in the Nevada desert? Obviously it's historically significant, and the new forms of matter were first discovered t
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by dmurray 5mo ago
In the limit, packing transistors tighter should mean more radiation resistance, not less, because you can shield them with a smaller mass of water or lead or whatever.
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by dmurray 5mo ago
This doesn't follow. In animal societies where males are useless apart from their reproductive value, males are still produced at approximately 1:1. This is evolution optimizing for the reproductive success of the individual, not of th
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by dmurray 5mo ago
The 23/7 is not so much for maintenance as to have a defined window for changes to the market to happen. Every so often a new stock is listed or a stock ticker is changed or a stock is split, etc. There are smaller changes every single
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by dmurray 5mo ago
Eroded?
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by dmurray 5mo ago
Obviously the solution is for Linux to move to a closed-source development model. Security researchers should report their findings to a committee that includes some big companies (IBM and Oracle seem like trustworthy choices here, but idea
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by dmurray 5mo ago
RIP Cliff
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by dmurray 5mo ago
This can't be accurate. Let's say a barrel of oil travels 15,000 km from Saudi Arabia to Texas, gets refined, gets shipped another 10,000 km to Europe, then the last 1,000 km overland by truck. This reasonably well sourced Reddit
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by dmurray 5mo ago
More on the "funding local terrorists with plausible deniability" end of things than the Trump playbook, but here's the Biden cabinet taking credit for ousting Assad: https://fpif.org/u-s-officials-take-credit
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by dmurray 5mo ago
Which American president did not cause the removal of a sitting leader of a foreign nation from power? Doing it bloodlessly rather than through direct military force or by arming local terrorists absolutely does make you less warmongering t
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by dmurray 5mo ago
I believed it because he didn't start the same conflicts he started now. More fool me, perhaps, but one person's "held back by circumstances" is another person's "it was all bluster anyway". It was also co
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by dmurray 5mo ago
I felt more or less like this, though I don't know if I posted it on HN. Lots of things I didn't like about Trump, but I did favour the less interventionist foreign policy he promised and initially delivered. Now I feel I was wron
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by dmurray 5mo ago
There is a rule for marathons to counter wind assistance, but it's basically that the finish of the race needs to be pretty close to the start.
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by dmurray 5mo ago
I stand corrected, but I don't think this changes my point at all. She broke the thing that the IAAF have gone back and forth on calling "the world record". It's the relevant record for this event - there was no more cha
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by dmurray 5mo ago
There's something about the London course today that made for very good running. Three athletes broke the men's world record. One athlete broke the women's world record, and three were in the all time top 5. An Irish record w
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by dmurray 5mo ago
I think the point the GP is making is that Gödel's theorem wasn't part of any "genre". Gödel, or somebody, had to invent the whole field, and we haven't seen LLMs invent new fields of mathematics yet. But this isn&#
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by dmurray 6mo ago
A year ago this [0] table tennis robot backed by Google DeepMind was discussed on HN. It plays much worse and the HN discussion is anchored around whether it's OK to call it "human-level" or if the authors should have clarifi
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by dmurray 6mo ago
> A truly "fair" sport would pit competitors against each other who had near-identical genetic and physical traits. That's what the Olympics is. The men's 100m final pits against each other the fastest 8 men who are i

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