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by hansworst 4y ago
I’m not really sure if I agree with this argument against Facebook. It’s true that Facebook had a part in this, but the same can be said for any kind of media for any given historical conflict. Here’s an article describing the effect radio
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by hansworst 4y ago
This is exactly the kind of course I’ve wanted to do for some time now. Even before stable diffusion it felt like other media synthesis applications like StyleGAN were what I wanted to learn, but most machine learning courses focus on more
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by hansworst 4y ago
The post you’re replying to is talking about drivers of intrinsic motivation. Paying off a debt and getting paid money for your work are examples of extrinsic motivators. Intrinsic motivation is generally thought to have a larger impact on
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by hansworst 4y ago
Isn’t this an argument for blockchains? If you could rely on blockchains instead of trusting based on past cooperation, you could save money and thus add more value. Obviously blockchains have a cost, but in some cases the cost savings you
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by hansworst 4y ago
We absolutely do this, in every possible industry. The first cars weren't anywhere near the efficiency they have today, and the ones we have today aren't anywhere near theoretical max efficiency either. In the real world, you alwa
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by hansworst 4y ago
By this definition, the current financial system is also decentralised. After all, if one bank fails, a new bank could very easily take its place. Even our system of central banks consists of a relatively large number of more or less equal
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by hansworst 4y ago
I’m guessing it means that things went from one single government with lots of power ruling over a large population to many governments ruling smaller groups of people.
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by hansworst 4y ago
I don’t think it’s really about the clothes being uncomfortable, but just the idea of being forced to wear certain kinds of clothes
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by hansworst 4y ago
This post is the one that resonates the most with me so far
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by hansworst 4y ago
I’ve experienced similar thing wrt the build system, but haven’t used redux in all but one of the React projects I’ve worked on as a full time product engineer over the past couple of years.
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by hansworst 4y ago
I guess it is just a taxi calling app, but I have to say that for me personally, Uber has become a very useful tool because I can just instantly get wherever I need to go whenever I travel to a new place I've never been before. I hardl
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by hansworst 4y ago
Here, you pay with attention, same as with advertising. Arguably this whole site is an advertising platform for YCombinator, and they keep you coming here by maintaining an engaging community with interesting posts/comments. So while y
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by hansworst 4y ago
Maybe the web was initially not designed for doing these kinds of things, but on the other hand it is basically the only platform that enables people to click a link and immediately start using whatever app is behind the URL. That's fu
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by hansworst 4y ago
Nerfs don’t contain a surface representation, but instead contain a occupancy field to represent the shape. This has implications for rendering speed (you generally need more samples along each ray to get an accurate representation). It als
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by hansworst 4y ago
It feels like building more infrastructure just causes people to use more of it, because the "cost" of using it goes down. Kind of similar to how having faster computers has just resulted in us creating more bloated software, inst
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by hansworst 5y ago
There is no market pushback because free services hide negative externalities. So when users choose something that’s free over something they’d have to pay for, I’d say they’re generally unaware of the negative consequences (either to them
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by hansworst 5y ago
This is basically how science works in practice too. If you want to publish a paper and make an impact, better make sure you publish in one of the important journals/conferences. And if you’re trying to figure out if a source is trustw
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by hansworst 5y ago
Although at least on platforms like Reddit (and I suppose the internet as a whole) it’s possible to create your own echo chamber where your opinion that was shunned elsewhere is allowed to exist and can gather a following. The echo chamber
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by hansworst 5y ago
There is no mesh here. Nerfs are 5d (colours are computed based on a 3D position vector + a view direction vector) fields that are rendered volumetrically. So the “texture” is an integral part of the neural representation of the scene, not
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by hansworst 5y ago
My take on it is that because there are so many good singers out there, people generally don't really care about that aspect of music as much (anymore?). With so much technology available to basically anyone who cares enough to learn h
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by hansworst 5y ago
Not sure about Norway specifically, but job boards for non-western refugees existed before this war started: https://www.refugeeforce.nl/apply https://www.hackyourfuture.net/
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by hansworst 5y ago
But the “solution” to that potential problem arising cannot be limiting the information that drivers get. At least not as long as Uber also wants to treat their drivers as independent contractors.
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by hansworst 5y ago
The video says it's 4 seconds, which is sadly a more realistic number I think.
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by hansworst 5y ago
I may be misunderstanding the Wikipedia description on segment trees, but it feels like this is basically what bounding volume hierarchies are used for in computer graphics.
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by hansworst 5y ago
I started programming in Flash (after doing some basic html/css), and have later done some stuff in Processing as well. Flash was an infinitely better tool to get started with programming because it lets you actually draw and animate v
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by hansworst 5y ago
I recently came across https://rive.app/ which seems to make some steps in the right direction as a replacement for Flash-the-authoring-tool.
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by hansworst 5y ago
At the time, (most?) websites didn't adjust for responsive web either. There's nothing inherent about Flash that made it impossible to support responsive layouts with it. In fact, if anything, developing with Flash gave you more c
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by hansworst 5y ago
If I go on holiday, I’m not mis-allocating 100s of millions of dollars. I simply don’t have the power to do that, and maybe nobody should to prevent this kind of issue in the first place.
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by hansworst 5y ago
Not sure if they use the same, but here's an article about text rendering from the CTO of Figma: https://medium.com/@evanwallace/easy-scalable-text-rendering...
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by hansworst 5y ago
This is an interesting story, but you have to wonder what led to this kid starting to smoke weed in the first place. It sounds to me like he may have had bigger underlying mental health issues that caused him to start smoking, rather than t

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