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by hliyan 3y ago
Sri Lanka chiming in: this was the case when I was growing up. Two corner stores within 50 meters of my home. Personal relationship with both owners (they set aside my favourite paper, advised me on razors when I started shaving). Now that
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by hliyan 3y ago
From regulatory capture through revolving doors and lobbying, to media capture through purchase, and now academic capture through donation, it seems no activity is safe from large concentrations of wealth.
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by hliyan 3y ago
Seems to lead to identical content though.
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by hliyan 3y ago
Is this related to the technique that this group recently claimed to have rediscovered: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/chemists-long-lasting-ro... ? Although that is more about much longer lasting concrete: > Ma
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by hliyan 3y ago
Perhaps you could have said that it is built using more modern JS APIs - template literals instead of string manipulation, Proxy(), queueMicrotask etc.
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by hliyan 3y ago
This is a good article, but I've noticed that the adjective "modern" is used disproportionately more in the world of JavaScript, compared to other tech stacks. Is it more performant, more maintainable, faster to develop, comp
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The Water Rooms – War or Peace? [video](vimeo.com)
1 points by hliyan 3y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
And therein lies part of the problem. Just as you don't need genius level engineers to do applications that are 80% CRUD, you don't need genius level technologies either. Hiring the former can lead to the development of the latter
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by hliyan 3y ago
The algorithm does not exist to be manipulated in that way. In fact, the article ends with "This new approach seems remarkably resistant to existing pagerank manipulation techniques". It is my opinion (and I know some people will
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by hliyan 3y ago
I've recently given up on the idea of hiring genius level engineers for jobs that require building CRUD applications 80% of their time. It's a waste of money, a waste of the talent pool, a disservice to the candidate and a future
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by hliyan 3y ago
How much do you have to spend on PM?
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by hliyan 3y ago
Also, it's massively, asynchronously parallel, in that it's not driven by a central clock signal.
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by hliyan 3y ago
Not the author of the tweet. I posted this because I felt the approach posed a real danger.
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We stole 3.6M traffic from a competitor(twitter.com)
17 points by hliyan 3y ago|6 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
I've been using both HN and Reddit roughly equally since 2013. A few months ago I started noticing a higher incidence of joke comments here at HN. Fortunately they seem to get down voted quickly.
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by hliyan 3y ago
With this type of advancement, we may finally be ready to tackle the biggest challenge for domestic robots since domestic robot were envisioned: ironing and folding clothes.
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Fermi Estimate(brilliant.org)
2 points by hliyan 3y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
Also, humans have multiple internal models for various aspects of reality, that seem to exist as a layer on top of the "raw" training. They have the ability to extrapolate based on those models (which transformers cannot do, as fa
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by hliyan 3y ago
I occasionally hear a sound like a thin metallic tank rupturing due to air pressure, while trying to fall asleep. Not very loud, and I can kind of tell it's not real.
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by hliyan 3y ago
In this part of the world (South Asia), dogs regularly eat rice, and in fact prefer it. Okayed by vets too.
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by hliyan 3y ago
The world of Star Trek is one where humanity learns from the devastation of world war three and over a century, creates a society where almost everything is run by computers, money doesn't exist, and people work primarily for their per
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The Race to Optimize Grief(vox.com)
1 points by hliyan 3y ago|1 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
can we not say the same thing about PHP applications?
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Twitter bets big on CEO's son(semafor.com)
5 points by hliyan 3y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
I think in the long run, the board doing (even though somewhat clumsily) what it's supposed to do, which is to ensure the Charter, will emerge as the prevailing view. Apart from that, OpenAI was becoming too dominant, and a new entrant
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by hliyan 3y ago
> The desire for “common knowledge” - for knowing that I know what others know, and that they see what I see - is deeply human. Can we not explain this more simply as an evolutionary adaptation -- that species where individuals feel a st
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by hliyan 3y ago
No, inflation (as the name suggests), inflates then money supply and as a result, each person's holdings reduce in value. Here the value gets transferred in small blocks through purchase of stamps.
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by hliyan 3y ago
Science journalists really need to start replacing the word mysterious with unexplained or anomalous.
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by hliyan 3y ago
A company named openai choosing safety is bad because safety means as closed as possible, is a very questionable linguistic contortion. Most unsafe things happen behind closed doors.
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by hliyan 3y ago
It's clear you haven't read any Asimov stories. His robots are impeccably ethical due to the three laws, and the stories explore robopsychologicalb conundrums that arise when people keep putting them in situations that tax the thr

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