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by gdubs 3y ago
I tried to explain to my kids lately the trouble with news. You want to be an informed citizen, so that you have some perspective on what's happening in the world and why. But that's rarely what 'news' is. Instead, it&#x
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I mean, arguably there's all sorts of side effects. Society has improved considerably over the centuries. People used to tolerate all sorts of stuff and could have said "we've bathed in the water we drink for thousands of yea
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Omg, this is amazing. I just got completely engrossed in a John Stewart interview of Conan from like, '94. One thing I realized about TikTok is how much it taps into the channel-flipping mechanism. It's basically what I would do a
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I can confirm this is the real deal by its inclusion of my favorite soundtrack: Donkey Kong Country.
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The Biodynamic French Intensive System(alan-chadwick.org)
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Recently I was saying how much amazing stuff there is in retro computing. One thing that keeps coming to mind for me recently is just how visionary Thinking Machines Connection Machine supercomputer architecture was with its massive paralle
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I'm moved by how flexible and creative some of the early computing paradigms were compared to where we ended up. It feels like for all the processing power and advances, people really got locked into some 'standard' ways of i
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So, I wasn't really sure about the final season of Ted Lasso until the episode "Sunflowers". I won't go in to detail as to what the relevance here is in case you haven't seen it, but I thought it was just simply bea
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When I was developing Polychord for iPad, I got very deep into MIDI and one of my favorite things about the standard is how it immortalizes manufacturers from the 1980s [1] In the system exclusive message section you can find references to
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It's the unpredictability. If you're farming, you're trying to time things like when you can actually get out on your field and plant. Too much rain at the wrong time throws everything off — suddenly your window of time shrin
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Just to clarify – this wasn't the Titan's first time to the Titanic right? Looking back, it seems like they'd been down there with it before: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador&#x2F
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What if the impassion happened higher towards the surface, like, 2000 feet?
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Yea but this is Hacker News and it was an opportunity to bring up an interesting and relevant tidbit that people might not have heard about before.
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In Ross Perot's defense (I know...) there's an argument that without him we wouldn't have the iPhone. He provided NeXT with some critical funding at a time when their technology was still outside the computing mainstream. Wit
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Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (2000) [pdf](cc.gatech.edu)
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There's designated months of the year when burns are allowed, but something like a forestry controlled burn is the kind of thing that would be done in collaboration with local forest service / fire departments / etc. Smaller
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I own forest land in the PNW, and my wife and I have placed around 15 acres of oak woodland into conservation over the past 5 years, which involved a lot of restoration work which was funded both by ourselves and with grant money through NR
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It's a piece of technology that is both incredibly impressive and also generating a ton of discussion across platforms. How is it not?
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The greenhouse effect is measurable, the AI risk debate is a lot of hypothesizing and vibes. I'm not saying there's not risk — I'm just saying you can't directly compare the two. Also, credentialism is really tiresome. T
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Not entirely the case. When the sun passes through and starts beaming into objects in your room, the floor, etc, those objects then radiate that heat throughout the day.
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3M makes a really good set of films to reduce both glare and solar gain — we had them put on some very large windows and it's definitely a difference. You have to go through a 3M contractor which is the only annoying aspect (although i
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The indigenous people of America had a much more intimate understanding of how to live on the land and survive. Kind of precisely the point is how our way of living relies on technology and infrastructure that we take for granted.
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I'd be curious to see a side by side comparison, but I've always found it harder to cool down than to warm up.
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30 Tons of Explosive Chemicals Lost During Rail Shipment(nytimes.com)
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Planted lupine on our farm two years ago and it's finally flowering. So the first blue butterflies!
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Because people are actually using this as a community now and there's a desire to not just open the floodgates before all the moderation pieces etc are in place. I joined when it was roughly 15-20k users and each wave of invites brough
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There's a less 'western' view of consciousness that it's not contained in any one thing, but a common thread of the universe itself. This may not be as 'woo' as it seems at first, since when we scientifically a
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There's an unfortunately common take on AI that goes basically like this: "I tried it and it didn't do what I wanted, not impressed." My suggestion is to tune out the noise and really try experimenting with these tools –
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Tools like ChatGPT have a limit on how many tokens can fit into the context. So, let's say you want to converse with it about a specific book – and you want to minimize how much it hallucinates, or 'makes up' stuff about the
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The paper goes in-depth on the details of the architecture they built, which is fairly extensive and uses many module instances of ChatGPT for specific purposes. I would say what's 'groundbreaking' is their architecture of a

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