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by hliyan 3y ago
I believe PowerPoint simply buried many better ways of presenting bytesized information chunks to the world. It prioritized the author's laziness over audience comprehension.
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Global VC Funding Falls Dramatically Across All Stages(news.crunchbase.com)
1 points by hliyan 3y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
> society has got quite a lot out of being generally high-trust I agree. The vast majority of times you pass someone on the street and don't expect that person to turn around and stab you in the back and take your wallet, is not bec
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by hliyan 3y ago
I once wrote a Perl translator to translate a codebase from a custom business rule language into C++. Not my proudest moment: rather than using a parser, I just tokenised and processed the code line-by-line. It worked.
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by hliyan 3y ago
I too have 10 years of C++ development under my belt, also in HFT, but this was from 2003-2013. I do find it easier to understand and solve a lot of problems by going one level lower than most developers (TCP packets, call stack, heap memor
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Ask HN: Is anyone else experiencing ChatGPT loops?
1 points by hliyan 3y ago|1 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
Or, getting rid of tabs and going back to individual browser windows, but with some mechanism to visualise and navigate between them better on the desktop (e.g. window shrinks to 30% of full size on loss focus and stays to a side of the des
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by hliyan 3y ago
I agree. I've seen couples who've gone through a lot of turmoil in their younger years but have emerged stronger and have happily grown old together. Granted, they are the minority. So I too, feel the scar tissue analogy is imperf
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by hliyan 3y ago
I can attest to this. Fresh inputs are often the only way to get out of a mental feedback loop.
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by hliyan 3y ago
When the solution is blocked by the diagnosis of the problem, and there is no methodology or algorithm for the diagnosis, I usually resort to a sort of "grid-search", i.e. brute force through the problem space. I once had a weir
731.
by hliyan 3y ago
I actually found their haiku quite insightful: javascript fatigue: longing for a hypertext already in hand
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by hliyan 3y ago
I seem to be your target market as well (CTO of a real estate software company), but the homepage is not very clear. Perhaps the GIF next to your "triggers" section should be at the top. Also, I'd like to see a demo of the wo
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by hliyan 3y ago
I posted this comment in response to the previous submission [1] of this same "paper": Also note that the prior work they repeatedly cite (no less than 5 times in as many paragraphs, and indirectly referenced several times in rela
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by hliyan 3y ago
Also note that the prior work they repeatedly cite (no less than 5 times in as many paragraphs, and indirectly referenced several times in relation to the 20+ "sociotechnical factors"), i.e. reference number (9), is based on &quot
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by hliyan 3y ago
A long time ago, I wrote a short story about a military AI that had the power to launch warheads, but needed to first justify its decisions to a second AI whose entire purpose was to act as checks-and-balances for the first. Can't we d
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by hliyan 3y ago
Also a vehicle that is immersed in a liquid that violently reacts with it.
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Generative AI is dreaming up new proteins(cen.acs.org)
3 points by hliyan 3y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
Mother in law = Woman Hitler is another classic
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by hliyan 4y ago
I'm not by any measure a CSS expert, but whatever became of the idea of semantic HTML (or even XML files styled with CSS https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/intro.html#xml-tutorial )? I've been noticing that ther
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by hliyan 4y ago
When the price point is outside said supply demand curve. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging
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by hliyan 4y ago
While corporate personhood is uncontroversial in the context of legal tradition, I've always wondered whether another intelligent species with a psychology similar to ours (or even humanity, had our cultural development taken a differe
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Profit vs. Revenue tax: How to make corporations pay their fair share?(blogs.worldbank.org)
3 points by hliyan 4y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 4y ago
This seems to be related to this recent article on luck: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34609167 Much like in the universe, it seems as if random fluctuations in an otherwise uniform (playing) field results in the acc
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by hliyan 4y ago
It seems human beings have certain levels of texture detail that we find aesthetic. Any more or less, and we find it unappealing. I first realised this when I noticed that fictional spacecraft look appealing when they have a certain amount
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by hliyan 4y ago
I always interpreted "solid state" to mean "neither clanky nor sloshy"
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Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by hliyan 4y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 4y ago
Just checked alpine.js. While it's very nice, was a bit worried about this potentially risky eval use: <div x-html="(await axios.get('/some/html/partial')).data">
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by hliyan 4y ago
Great to see medical techniques slowly starting to resemble engineering design: 1. Donor T-cells added with receptors to destroy the recipient's cancerous T-cells. 2. Donor T-cells' markers removed to prevent them from attacking e
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by hliyan 4y ago
CHAP. II seems to indicate that what the world is experiencing now, and experienced at the turn of the twentieth century, is a recurring phenomenon: a growing, systemic asymmetry in power and wealth, un-remedied and eventually resulting in
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by hliyan 4y ago
Good. A reduction in dependencies and tooling. Once matured, no more: isomorphic fetch, pkg, nodemon, mocha/jest. Now if we can do the same for webpack and typescript, that would be great. There must come a day when a developer can boo

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