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by hliyan 1y ago
This seems off. According to this: https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-apollo (or in more detail: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTKMekJW9F8Z... ) Total lunar
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by hliyan 1y ago
Even more impressive to me is the fact that Saturn V did in a single launch with 1969 technology, what we're now proposing to do with 10-15 Starship launches (each as large as a Saturn V) and an additional SLS launch for Orion return c
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by hliyan 1y ago
It is my view that you will never escape ads by paying for any content/service that is suitable for displaying ads. Reason: by the very act of paying for the service, you signal to advertisers that you are a person with purchasing powe
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by hliyan 1y ago
This reminds me of the demo tape that came with old Sony cassette players. It had Entertainer on side A, and another instrumental called Andalusia (or somehting similar) on side B, which I have never been able to track down.
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by hliyan 1y ago
Not bad. I have a stack of unused index cards. I just tried writing down some recurring household chores, one per card, with some instructions below the title. I'm now thinking of hanging two boxes -- todo, and done -- in the hallway,
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by hliyan 1y ago
I'm with you on forum quality. But in a broader, societal context, smart people being apolitical is one of the ways in which unintelligent people come to dominate politics. Democratic political discourse is slow, inefficient and frustr
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by hliyan 1y ago
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. That said, I've been on HN for ove
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Tactical Obliviousness in Modern Political Communications(rhewa.substack.com)
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by hliyan 1y ago
Never had a particularly emotive thought under fox urine exposure, but the stuff is quite pungent.
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Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia (1997)(freesoft.org)
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I don't understand why this comes as a surprise to a lot of people. Underlying all this is sequences of text tokens converted to semantic vectors, with some positional encoding, and then run through matrix multiplications to compute th
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by hliyan 1y ago
Funnily enough, this same year (1999), I wrote an essay for a university AI subject where I concluded "Intelligence is a label we apply to information processing for which we have not yet identified an algorithm. As soon as an algorith
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by hliyan 1y ago
Interesting that multiple people are noticing this same thing. For me, this could have been: "We found that a large portion of the 48 hours taken to backup our rails respository was due to a function in `git bundle create` that checks
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by hliyan 1y ago
To me, procrastination is the brain overestimating (or perhaps just estimating) the unpleasantness of a task in the future. The unpleasantness could come from general lack of pleasure in performing the task, anticipation of frustration or i
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by hliyan 1y ago
These platforms are still relatively young. We need to roll the clocks foward another 10-20 years to truly understand what level of control they will be able to exert on public knowledge and speech, either at the behest of their investors o
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by hliyan 1y ago
I think what the industry is missing is some sort of interoperability standard/format for task management. I say this as someone who has been jumping from task tracker to task tracker since the early 2000's -- Trac, Jira, Redmine,
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by hliyan 1y ago
Just a minute ago, I clicked a "Transfer" button on my online banking UI. It's a beautiful button with an appealing font and a subtle, pleasing background gradient. But when clicked, it shows no indication that it was depress
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by hliyan 1y ago
Ten years ago, I worked in a small non-profit development shop that used Github issues for all project management. Checkboxes were used as both subtasks and ACs. Now that I think back, it worked really well. I don't think we even had S
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by hliyan 1y ago
I've seen this happen in emails too: "Recent outage was due to a retry loop for the Foo API exceeding rate limits. We're implementing a backoff algo" Sender, via ChatGPT: Hi, I wanted to provide more context regarding th
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by hliyan 1y ago
Considering that mathematics is, at its core, a language for defining relationships between quantities, and then relationships between those relationships, so on and so forth, I think it's fair to assume that the possible number of suc
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by hliyan 1y ago
> ...tainted information somehow enriches a dataset... dimensionality... heuristics... this sounds like a nonsensical word salad.
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by hliyan 1y ago
Incredible that they're doing over the air updates for a piece of 50 year old technology using an extremely low bandwidth link, with hours of latency, with no physical access, and doing so without ever permanently losing the link or br
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Thanks, I knew I forgot something: read replicas
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Call me old fashioned, but when records start reaching the 100 million range, it's usually an indication that either your dataset is too wide (consider sharding) or too deep (consider time based archival) to fit into a monolithic schem
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I think with the answer, each responder should include their level of coding proficiency. Or, at least whether they are able to (or even bother to) read the code that the tool generates. Preferences would vary wildly based on it.
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by hliyan 1y ago
For that, I would propose a feature where I can mark the directions to my home from a well known checkpoint on a map, one time. If the rider deviates in the last mile, they get notification. If they continue to deviate, I get a notification
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by hliyan 1y ago
My personal formulation of this, which I arrived at during COVID, is: "Some inefficiencies are safety margins"
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Why? What I would prefer is a "Notify me when the rider is [X] minutes away. Use ringtone [R]" feature. X is the time I need to go downstairs and open the gate. The customer need not have their brains cluttered with logistics deta
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by hliyan 1y ago
I think of something similar every time I use the Uber Eats 'track order' screen. All I need is a simple textual history: 7:40 - Bob was delayed by 5 minutes. ETA 7.45 7:35 - Bob is heading your way. ETA 7:40 7:20 -
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by hliyan 1y ago
Because LLMs successfully emulate a subset of our brain's functions: memory and imagination (the generative/mixing function). What's missing is our brain's ability to validate the generative output against a model of the

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