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by dzdt 3y ago
In my dream world 64 bit OS, every program would be statically relocated at install time. It would permanently have assigned its own segment of the global system address space. Every library it depends on would also have a permanently assig
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(2015)
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Yes. The biggest hurdle is usually attention span of the child. If the child has the attention to go thru it slowly the article's approach could be great. But for cases where their attention is already shot, walking them thru the steps
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I think its not about the English language, its about the American school system. The way curriculum decisions are spread out and the existence of so many petty fiefdoms means that there are many examples where someone is in a position to t
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Its really only with modern cross-compiling tool chains that "high level" languages like C or Pascal are close to competitive with writing in assembler for old 8-bit systems. Part of this is the machine target is so constrained. T
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Sounds like a "guess" rather than a "solution". They have noticed a numerical coincidence and formed a hypothesis. Without additional evidence tying the 819-day count to astronomical observations its not particularly con
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I think you misunderstand. The main trouble is the amount of steps. The probability that some step may fail and derail the experience is important also but secondary. The fact that some steps are unpleasant is also important. Scenario: kid
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We got an occulus for the kids. Set up its own family facebook account (not a supported approach: somehow they want there to be a single user of the device???). Eventually the device lost its login info and it hasn't been worth the has
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I have an Intel I219-V adaptor on a Windows desktop. I had a hell of a time trying to figure out the problem when I upgraded to Verizon FIOS internet; upload speeds were abysmal. The chipset has a hardware bug making it incompatible with th
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by dzdt 4y ago
No, buying a physical disk gives you rights to lend that physical object. The warning says you are not allowed to make copies. That is one anti-consumer aspect of the shift to streaming media. With physical discs netflix could build a shari
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by dzdt 4y ago
There is more of this story to come out. A better headline would name him as "suspect believed to be involved in leak." It is not at all clear he was solely behind the leaks; indeed its not clear why he would have had access to th
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Revisiting the Concept of the ‘Neolithic Founder Crops’ in Southwest Asia(link.springer.com)
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What did the first farmers farm?(twitter.com)
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The half-working AI is like 95% of the progress to a better-than-the-best-human AI.
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Re: "imprecision and instabilities" on standard hardware there really are neither. Floating point numbers have an exact meaning (a particular fraction with an integer numerator and a denominator that is a power of 2). There are ex
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by dzdt 4y ago
Why not? If it was trained where some subset of the input tokens are always instructions and another subset are always language data wouldn't it have a clear separation?
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OpenAI put ChatGPT out there in a way where most people on HN have had direct experience with it and are impressed. Google has not released any AI product widely enough for most commentators here to have experience with it. So OpenAI is ope
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by dzdt 4y ago
Wealthy people's habits may be the problem, but its important to understand that putting the blame on individuals' choices is a trap and distraction. The solution is regulation. Heavy, obtrusive, expensive regulation, which is req
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Read the comment from the other user who chimed in with the same issue: it occurs in other obscured password boxes as well, has the problem typing 'p' either with physical keyboard or onscreen keyboard, but accepts 'p' i
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This isn't about Wells Fargo making "risky bets" in any way that involes loss of funds or can spread to other banks. This is simple buggy consumer facing software that can't manage to get correct info into a web browser
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by dzdt 4y ago
The reason for this is that mathematical papers are fundamentally about an insight about mathematical objects. The insight typically comes from the mathematician having a deep understanding of the mathematical objects. The theorems are some
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by dzdt 4y ago
Good context by Matt Levine a few days ago [1]. Basically Silvergate did a lot of business with crypto firms and got burned not by crypto speculation but just by holding long maturity safe assets when too many of their customers wanted to w
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I just played a round and didn't see instructions anywhere. Was totally unclear what to do, what was the goal, or when the game would end.
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In older C and C++ code by convention the meaning of the pointer object was what we would now call Option(Pointer) : it can either be a valid pointer or can be null. Both are correct, and correct code should handle both cases. The mistake w
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by dzdt 4y ago
Sometimes it seems that Waymo is moving awfully slowly but I think they are being really smart to remain cautious and keep their safety record. One major accident like Uber had could destroy the whole program. Better to move very deliberate
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More often in my experience they will randomly tap the brakes to try to get the person behind them to back off: "brake check".
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Is it an option? Probably they are running the fiber but only for long haul and 5g wireless backhaul and wont actually sell you a connection to it.
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Two problems: (1) in different models even of the same exact type and training approach, neuron number k will typically have completely different roles between the models. This is because the neural net is built from layers of neurons where
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One thing I've seen that helps out immensely with this in a large complex code base is extremely liberal use of ASSERTs. Every time you have a function or clause that takes an object or data with many possible versions or states, but o
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It's really just amazing that today with a budget of millions of dollars we can produce a toy with fluent (if petulant) communication and logic on the level of a human child. Such a thing was unimaginable a decade ago, and the technolo

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