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by hatthew 1y ago
My first-order heuristic is that legitimate websites tend to get one of the top TLDs (.com/.org, maybe .net/.io). In general, why should I trust domain_name.xyz over domain_name.com? There are obvious caveats, e.g. it doesn't
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by hatthew 1y ago
Who decides whether or not a given perspective is in the overton window?
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I made a random 30-line bash script that filled a small but critical niche (reimplementing an existing semi-niche tool to work with ipv6). I am bad at bash, but I put it on GitHub anyways, with a descriptive name. Occasionally I check in on
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by hatthew 1y ago
Tangent to your point, but I think Dyson is generally considered to be overpriced for what it is. Shark and Kenmore are just as good by most metrics and are less expensive, whereas if you want reliable products then you get Miele or Sebo. D
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by hatthew 1y ago
I have brands/products I love, but I love them because I trust them, and typically my trust of something is inversely correlated with seeing mainstream marketing for it.
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by hatthew 1y ago
Bandsintown already does this
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by hatthew 1y ago
Valve is arguably a good example
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by hatthew 1y ago
Just curious, are you wondering about location-specific results ("best restaurants"), country-specific results ("how to do my taxes"), or language-specific results ("pasos de división larga")?
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by hatthew 1y ago
relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1271/
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by hatthew 1y ago
Anything can be a markov chain if you define "memory of the past" as a component of the current state and include a big enough memory to hold all of the past for any practical amount of time. Personally, I feel like in most contex
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by hatthew 1y ago
TFA isn't saying "DSA is useless", it's saying "intermediate/advanced DSA is not useful for most people". It's obvious that it's useful for some people, but I think even most people working on
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by hatthew 1y ago
My work involves petabyte scale data, and the algorithms are very straightforward: - What you want to do is probably trivially O(kn). - There isn't a <O(kn) algorithm, so try to reduce overhead in k. - Cache results when they are O(
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by hatthew 1y ago
> [do what we did], or lose the funding that we use to keep those things online and going Seems pretty clear-cut to me.
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by hatthew 1y ago
I was watching a video of someone walking through rural england, and he kept talking about the "great forest" up ahead that was a unique and massive landmark. When he eventually got to it, it was the sort of bog-standard woods tha
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by hatthew 1y ago
Could you clarify how this relates to the dead internet theory?
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> they are doing it to have more power over people Is there any evidence for this other than vibes?
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by hatthew 1y ago
Strongly agree with this. When we were further from AGI, many people imagined that there is a single concept of AGI that would be obvious when we reached it. But now, we're close enough to AGI for most people to realize that we don&#x2
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by hatthew 1y ago
The thesis is that "intelligence" and "independence/autonomy" are independent concepts. Deciding whether LLMs have independence/autonomy does not help us decide if they are intelligent.
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I didn't want to be that critical right out of the gate, but yeah if an "experienced consultant" thinks that this is worth writing about at this level of detail, then that makes me trust them less, not more.
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assuming random() returns values 0<=r<=1, sqrt will shift the distribution outward
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by hatthew 1y ago
Yeah that would be at least nontrivial, but has been written about so much that the bar for a worthwhile article seems pretty high.
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I believe an affine transformation would keep density perfectly consistent across the whole area.
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I doubt I'm more geometrically inclined than the average HN user, but to me the general "accept-flip" method mentioned here seems trivial, obvious, and already solved, to the extent that I'm surprised it's worth wri
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by hatthew 1y ago
The only thing that I trust is loading bars that make nonlinear progress, clearly indicating that there's specific steps and/or measurable progress happening.
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by hatthew 1y ago
Possibly one-sided conversations where one person got to enthusiastically talk about something that the other person didn't care about.
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by hatthew 1y ago
I doesn't seem that unclear to me? I absolutely don't have the skill to solve it, but it took <2 minutes to understand the problem and goal.
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You should classify living beings according to a system that is helpful to understand and discuss the livings beings in a given context. "Fish" isn't a specific taxon in the standard biological taxonomy, but is rather a descr
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I'm not sure I understand how this is different from function overloading
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Muscle cars are cool in the same way that smoking is cool. Impractical, dangerous, and expensive, but has strong associations with "cool" people: noir detectives, rebellious teenagers, action movie heroes, etc.
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anecdotally, I have never heard anybody call the browser software "mozilla" alone

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