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by gfd 4y ago
IIRC three.js even supports using a CSS renderer out of the box: https://threejs.org/docs/#examples/en/renderers/CSS3DRendere... (as opposed to webgl or webgl2 renderers) This means you can reuse the sam
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by gfd 4y ago
Doubtful. Most people (including Mcgee) probably don't want the world to know they didn't pay back a debt for nearly 3 decades
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by gfd 4y ago
Citrix
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by gfd 4y ago
If flashcards count as games, then Memrise (or Anki which is FOSS but you have to setup the gamification aspects yourself) If ELO rating grinding counts, then chess or competitive programming. Or any game with a competitive scene.
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by gfd 4y ago
Gigabyte gaming monitors come with a physical kvm button: https://www.gigabyte.com/Monitor/M32U
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by gfd 4y ago
It's in the red inked code review image and it's in his rewrite as "source = source[:-2]"
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by gfd 4y ago
Isn't `a=a[2:]` going to copy and make that linear time too? I'm surprised he caught the `b.pop(0)` bug but then suggested doing that afterwards. Also he should submit to codeforces to get a comparable running time. For example he
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by gfd 4y ago
>I start taking English classes at the age of 46 I think it should be "started" instead of "start". I'm also ESL and have given up on learning English properly after 30 years of trying. Nowadays I just rely on gr
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by gfd 4y ago
I think my only issue with using this is that it forces everyone to use gpt if they want to remain competitive. Which is already the case for many other tools, for example people had to learn z3 smt solvers for previous years. But the main
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by gfd 4y ago
Just a few weeks ago I remember reading Zuckerberg wanting to acquire Unity as part of their leaked VR strategy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33538742 I wonder why they didn't consider unreal instead?
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by gfd 4y ago
Competitive programming! 20k+ contestants per contest, around 1-2 times per week: https://codeforces.com/contests In terms of "scene", there are exclusive discord channels that you can only join if you have above
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by gfd 4y ago
iirc someone on hn said the going rate for zero-days is just $1-2 million. there were at least 3 RCE on chrome just this year: https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/15/google-third-fix-chro... the math works ou
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by gfd 4y ago
His about page has some of his competitive programming results: https://oimo.io/about (Sidenote: try dragging the profile pic!)
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by gfd 4y ago
Only tangentially related, but don't put cash in safety deposit boxes. Police can take them under civil forfeiture laws: https://nypost.com/2021/06/12/fbi-aims-to-keep-valuables-86m... https:/&#x2F
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by gfd 4y ago
Not saying it makes it okay, but every company in existence does this to some extent. Everyone does A/B testing with the intent to alter user behavior (aka psychology) to increase their profits.
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by gfd 4y ago
Was this term coined on HN? I remember first seeing it (used in an AI context) from this 2019 comment under "Cool stuff that's still completely unregulated": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21167689 Most
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by gfd 4y ago
Was there a dedicated HN submission for this topic? This is extremely fascinating to me. In what Andrej Karpathy calls "software 2.0"[1], leaking your model is equivalent to leaking the main IP of your company. Unlike source code
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by gfd 4y ago
To save someone a click, "sketch" has a technical definition when it comes to data structures (probabilistic data structures like count min sketch https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count%E2%80%93min_sketch ) But
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by gfd 4y ago
I've never bought a bond in my life (I didn't even know what they were) until someone told me they are currently offering 9.62% risk free returns! There's a very low limit on how much you can buy per year but this seems like
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by gfd 4y ago
I was curious what that looked like and turns out there are videos on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60fqruVDrjs Pretty cool!
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by gfd 4y ago
Since the honey also happens to be blue in this case, couldn't it be possible that these keepers are wrongfully blaming the M&M's factory? I think the main point of the article was that everyone has their own theory of what th
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by gfd 4y ago
Why did they close the discussion due to code of conduct? I didn't see anything wrong with the previous comments before that point.
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by gfd 4y ago
I didn't consider Motorola a Chinese brand but apparently they were sold by Google to Lenovo in 2014 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Mobility
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by gfd 4y ago
maybe look into AWS Vault?
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by gfd 4y ago
I don't recognize the contest name although I did math contests a long time (over ten years) ago. Why aren't AMC/AIME/USAMO/IMO mentioned?
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by gfd 4y ago
i remember the last time i saw his name was on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14894653 (which i guess lost against tensorflow.js?) in around 2017 or so.
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by gfd 4y ago
Did anyone try running this benchmark with other python implementations? (Pypy etc)
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by gfd 4y ago
The previous big case I remember was linkedin leak with 700M users: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27674393 At this point I've basically accepted that all my info will be found on sites like fastpeoplesearch.com
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by gfd 4y ago
“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry]” ― David Hilbert
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by gfd 4y ago
Their founder has a pretty famous blog that frontpages all the time (5+ pages of search results with 100+ upvote each): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... So no surprise that the pro

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