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by eutropia 3y ago
HN isn't really the place for this kind of vitriolic diatribe, because it's not all that conducive to thoughtful commentary. That Aside, > As if you can reduce "societal benefit" to some quantifiable number I assume y
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by eutropia 3y ago
You probably wouldn't still have a startup if you started by building it in Go, though :) The rewrite was definitely a good idea by the sound of it, but of course you had prototyped your way to a stable vision of what you actually want
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by eutropia 3y ago
This paper is about training the diffusion models on progressively higher resolutions, spending comparatively more iterations on smaller resolutions (which use much less time and memory per iteration). Their method is flexible enough for a
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by eutropia 3y ago
Because "evidence-based" medicine isn't. At least in the US, Medical Training for MDs is probably the most dogmatic science-related discipline. Change is incredibly slow, because tenured professors will lecture positions and
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by eutropia 3y ago
Any writeup about these two? Seems like an interesting story.
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by eutropia 3y ago
Yeah I did that with an entire pot of chili - a single reaper with a smattering of much milder smoked pepper powders and a little chipolte in adobo sauce. It was nice!
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by eutropia 3y ago
Wow, I bought a carolina reaper plant and it grew like insanity in a hot KY summer. I didn't do anything other than put it in a raised bed with potting soil and it produced like 2 lbs of peppers. It outcompeted my habanero and jalapen
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by eutropia 3y ago
The article says that they expect it to lower tax for 97% of residents.
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by eutropia 3y ago
Isn't this optimizing for 5% of 5%? e.g. 1/400?
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by eutropia 3y ago
I think, given how the porn industry has engaged in a race-to-the-bottom with regards to sensational content, and the fact that smartphones are ubiquitously adopted by children at younger and younger ages -- that it makes perfect sense to b
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by eutropia 3y ago
The final command of his first project, you mean - because surely then he started over?
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by eutropia 3y ago
The point here is simplifying the codebase by removing an extra language. Rubyists like writing ruby, not C extensions. And using the JIT allows us to simplify and keep enough performance.
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by eutropia 3y ago
Wife and I had our first at a hospital with a trained Nurse-Practitioner Midwife group. We only had to see the OB on call once, and otherwise got to let baby’s and mom’s timetable and needs lead the way, with minimal medical intervention.
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by eutropia 3y ago
just use mynoise.net it’s amazing.
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by eutropia 3y ago
“Give me a ban interface with unlimited access” is more like it.
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by eutropia 3y ago
> Separated from impurities, LK-99 is not a superconductor, but an insulator with a resistance in the millions of ohms — too high to run a standard conductivity test. Not quite a superinsulator, but ironic.
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by eutropia 3y ago
Calls for the superintendent's head; a lot of angry parents with sad or scared kids; district says they "will be reviewing bus routes and bus stops for efficiency. Drivers will also be practicing their routes, and get paid for tho
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by eutropia 3y ago
The start time changes can of course make sense (e.g. teenagers later in the day), but a big issue for smaller kids ending significantly earlier is childcare. Who's going to look after your second grader from 2pm-5pm+ when you get off
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by eutropia 3y ago
Louisville resident here. This clusterfuck has lead to the first week of school effectively being canceled. 88 Bus drivers quit after that first day - they had been set up to fail. The facts I'm aware of at this point: - Louisville h
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by eutropia 3y ago
There’s two ways to calculate the carbon cost: - divide the total emissions by the number of passengers - do it by weight or space, and have the airline pick up the cost of the overhead (plane and crew) I can bet that airlines choose the fo
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by eutropia 3y ago
"Art is, and always has been, about what it does to us. To the one shaping it and the one experiencing it" - Brandon Sanderson A Rainbow is not art, even though it is beautiful. Art is about the act of creation. the act of creatio
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by eutropia 3y ago
I was there when room temperature superconductors existed before Uber’s first profitable quarter.
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by eutropia 3y ago
if css made as much sense as regex I might actually enjoy front end work - there’s no underlying mathematical theory that explains css
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by eutropia 3y ago
Anywhere else in the world, this is a bad idea for so many reasons. But in Vegas? That's awesome! I look forward to seeing it hacked during DEFCON :)
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by eutropia 3y ago
...something something good guy with AGI is the only way to stop bad guy with AGI. Less glibly: anyone with a horse in this race wants theirs to win. Dropping out doesn't make others stop trying, and arguably the only scalable way to
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by eutropia 3y ago
I think it's an analogy. paella is a Spanish rice dish. Rice cooked with various other ingredients like chicken, seafood, peppers, tomatoes, etc... If an image (a 2-d array of pixels) is a plate of rice, standard diffusion models deno
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by eutropia 3y ago
Work Summary Date: 2018-06 to present Organization: RAVN Title: Cheif Science Officer Summary: RAVN is working on augmented reality headsets for military and first responder applications ... Not th
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by eutropia 3y ago
This same author has appeared on HN no less than 3 times for different articles about why the headset that they haven't seen in person is going to have serious hypothetical issues. And none of those articles have been convincing, beca
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by eutropia 3y ago
There’s also usage of that spelling in Magic: The Gathering. One of the biggest villain factions in the Lore of the game, Phyrexians, assimilate beings against their will and brutally “perfect” them through magical and surgical means. The p
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by eutropia 4y ago
Made a mess from bursting into laughter from this. Cheers

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