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by hliyan 3y ago
Can't a Medium-like model work -- where a third party aggregates all the credits and bills monthly?
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by hliyan 3y ago
I've literally read several articles today (mostly via HN) from which I have garnered enough value to pay at least $1 to each author. And I'd gladly pay it, as long as it's not a subscription and I don't have to enter my
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by hliyan 3y ago
Also, a pay-per-use Internet (where appropriate), where people will vote for content with their wallets, instead of having to purchase subscriptions whether they read an article or not. Just a few minutes ago, I wanted to read an NYT articl
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by hliyan 3y ago
To me, the main difference between almost every other place on the Internet (save for personal websites) and Wikipedia is the lack of advertising, or attempting to generate revenue through engagement. That is the reason why Wikipedia still
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Where Do Unicorns Come From?(endeavor.org)
2 points by hliyan 3y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
This brings up an interesting philosophical question: we are a species that need two things at a minimum at all times to survive: an oxygen atmosphere and a planetary surface with some level of gravity[1]. We've evolved under condition
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by hliyan 3y ago
Looking at the phenomenon more clinically: when management attempts to extract the maximum amount of work for the minimum amount of pay, it's only natural that the employee attempts to maximize pay for the least amount of work. Both ar
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by hliyan 3y ago
Perhaps we're going through something similar with computing today. More likely that we're in a brief summer than at the foot of perpetual growth.
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by hliyan 3y ago
Recall that their hand held communicators actually worked (the screen).
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by hliyan 3y ago
Ignore. Reposted this under correct parent comment
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by hliyan 3y ago
"brain seems shallow and neural networks are deep, ergo neural networks are doing it wrong" Please don't claim things the author didn't. What I read was "ergo (artificial) neural networks may be missing a trick&quot
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by hliyan 3y ago
"brain seems shallow and neural networks are deep, ergo neural networks are doing it wrong" Please don't claim things the author didn't. What I read was "ergo (artificial) neural networks may be missing a trick&quot
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by hliyan 3y ago
I've been thinking about this as well, but from a different angle: the product manager role just feels too much weight for a single human being to shoulder. When my last company went through the exercise of writing down roles & and
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by hliyan 3y ago
Shouldn't we first be looking at the physiology of humour, starting with the rawest stimulus that induces amusement and then trying to determine its evolutionary origins? Philosophical explanations feel like attempting to layer abstr
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Project Silica(microsoft.com)
78 points by hliyan 3y ago|14 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
Tangentially, seeing this code snippet made me wonder whether we lost something in our push to make programming languages/statements more and more terse. DISPLAY "Write something and then press the <Enter> key"
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by hliyan 3y ago
On the other hand, the characters they portray stay frozen in time while you age. The first time I realised I was older than all the Friends felt strange. Now I'm older than Fraiser. In a way, advancing age allows us to surpass the ch
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by hliyan 3y ago
Would any of the old classics (take your pick from Aristotle to Tolstoy) have been created in a data-driven world? What those authors put out into the world (I think), was what they thought was missing in the world, not what they thought th
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by hliyan 3y ago
I wonder if note taking apps qualify for Gear Acquisition Syndrome. I certainly used to have it where I tried every note taking app imaginable, and created a few of my own. In the end, I found that the best way to focus on actually taking n
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by hliyan 3y ago
I live in Sri Lanka. In a Colombo suburb. Fibre lines are available almost everywhere except rural districts. Surely it can't be worse where you are?
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by hliyan 3y ago
It would be concerning if pilots, aircraft maintenance technicians and aeronautical engineers shared titles and job descriptions so similar that it was hard to tell them apart.
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by hliyan 3y ago
Yes. Anything that is destroyed during the process of compilation is not architecture. It is just a method of code organisation, and we've turned the subject into a holy war, pulling in mindshare that should be spent on more important
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by hliyan 3y ago
In other words, cargo cult programming. I wrote about this two years ago [1] and received only polarised responses that either agreed with the point wholeheartedly, or attacked me viciously for gatekeeping. I wish there was a better way to
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by hliyan 3y ago
If we measure a leader's potential value by their potential impact/damage radius, then it follows that their actual pay should be proportional to the actual impact/damage they cause. The problem here is that leaders seem to b
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by hliyan 3y ago
I worry that this may paradoxically increase bots, because now the price of legitimacy is $1 per year. Bot farms and shills will do the math.
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by hliyan 3y ago
Less ethical for someone to keep their mouth shut about an entity's questionable behaviour because they got paid by said entity.
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Ask HN: Is anyone working on neuromorphic CPU architectures for AI?
4 points by hliyan 3y ago|2 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
This is a (bad-faith?) misreading. What I took away was: a business that attempts to maximise profits without returning a corresponding value to society is likely to fail.
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by hliyan 3y ago
Still, > Eldan and Li presented the same challenge to OpenAI’s GPT-2, a 1.5-billion-parameter model released in 2019. It fared far worse — before the story’s abrupt ending, the man threatens to take the girl to court, jail, the hospital,
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by hliyan 3y ago
> The only people who want to remove polarity from online conversation are hardcore censorship maximalists This in itself is an absolute statement. I prefer to see reduced polarity from online conversations (more similar to HN), and I&#x

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