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by gcanyon 7mo ago
People here on HN have in the past suggested that TypeScript is the superior-in-all-ways, just-as-easy/fun-to-code-in language and should replace Python in pretty much all use cases. Anyone have an opinion on how TS would fare in this
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by gcanyon 7mo ago
What time frame are you considering? You seriously think the world will cease to have functioning governments in the next thirty years?
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by gcanyon 7mo ago
In the next 30 years: Is anyone predicting damaging "migration waves" in: Washington state, British Columbia, Argentina, Italy, Australia, South Africa, Japan? That's just off the top of my head, I think the real list would b
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by gcanyon 7mo ago
> Which region would be less affected by the coming climate crisis? Do you have evidence that the ultra wealthy are actually taking this into account? Over a human timeframe every ultra wealthy person has access to plenty of “climate c
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by gcanyon 7mo ago
> for many years political manipulation of economic data has screwed things up. That’s a bold claim, do you have sources to back it up? If true, we’d all (I’d, at least) learn an important lesson.
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by gcanyon 7mo ago
>they treated old mice with a molecule that activates the vagus nerve Anyone know what molecule and treated how?
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
Note: “We were right” here means “it’s a real thing,” but the article has almost nothing concrete to offer about what actually is going on or who is responsible.
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
> Humans had life expectancy even shorter than our fertility period That's largely due to infant/child mortality. Once you reached reproductive age, life expectancy was roughly 50, plenty of time to have plenty of kids.
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
But this is talking about the innate vs. the adaptive immune system. I am not a medical professional, but it seems like the innate system is either maladapted or not. In any case, I don't think it's fair to assume that your "
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
The immune system operates at level far below where we get "tired" -- worrying that we'll "use up" the immune system seems similar to worrying that exercise will "use up" our lifetime allotment of heartbea
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
> [greater activity within] our immune systems long-term can't be healthy Not trying to be flip, but why? "Natural" isn't always better, and as the obesity epidemic has shown, our evolutionary past hasn't done a
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
I think you have evolution backwards. There only needs to not be a reason we need it to survive long enough to reproduce. Or more probabilistically, there needs to not be a significant reproductive benefit to it. And bear in mind that m
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
Long sentences can serve as a way to break up the rhythm of prose: after a series of short sentences, a long sentence can force the reader to mentally "pause" to parse the contents of the sentence, or even just to figure out what
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
> Nothing will change until developed rich countries are starting to hurt. There are two clear parallel points to this: 1. Over the time frames we're discussing (even the next 50 years) how many "poor" countries will
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
Ooh, I can't believe I missed this one.
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
I can't find it now, but I saw a video where a guy was trying to offset just the CO2 he produced himself with plants. 1. He gave up on "plants" because they were nowhere close to offsetting him. 2. Switching to algae,
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
"Why do you wear that toy on your head?" "Because if I wear it anywhere else it chafes" "A laser is a beam of coherent light." "Does that mean it talks?" "Your stutter has improved." "I
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
Higher carbon dioxide makes us dumber: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7229519/ I wonder how long before in-home CO2 extraction becomes a thing.
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
It's weird that these restrictions apply: 25km/h, 55km range? The Evolve Carbon skateboard tops out at 50km/h, and 80km range. Granted, you have to be a little bit crazy to ride that fast on a skateboard, and having owned an
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
College kids in Texas can't vote where they go to school despite living there nine months out of the year. https://thebarbedwire.com/2024/09/06/5-ways-texas-politician... Native Americans can't vote
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
No problem! The DoD^HW will just use DeepSeek! (I wish this were a joke)
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
This administration needs the benefit of the doubt always. This administration deserves the benefit of the doubt never.
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
I think this is the video where math the world goes deep on bus stop placement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w-84UFzkZQ
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
I would have agreed with you before they pointed out that "frozen water" gets a word: ice. Honestly, I think it's reasonable: people deal with frozen water far more than they do boiling water, but it changes it from a case
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
I don't remember who said it, but a statement that has stuck with me is: The moment when the most you can do is less than the least you need to do, you die.
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
I'd argue your brain is that "machine or device" -- the fact that the storage and the playback mechanism are one and the same is irrelevant. The fact that you have to be willing/induced to replay the content back just
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
More info: the Partner Center Developer Legal Business Profile Verification at https://partner.microsoft.com/dashboard/v2/account-settings/... Says you get 3 submission attempts, but doesn't say how many
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Ask HN: Does anyone know how to register as a developer at Microsoft?
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
But the crime in the human instance is the reproduction, not the storage. So the crime in the AI circumstance would not be in the training, but in prompting the output. And of course AIs are excellent at taking direction, so: If I prompt it
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
This speaks very much to the idea that LLMs are in some sense a ridiculously effective, somewhat lossy, compression algorithm that has been applied to the whole internet.

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