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by hliyan 3mo ago
Will repeat what I wrote elsewhere: The default visual circuits in our brains may have evolved to optimally handle fractal patterns and textures. Straight lines, geometrical figures and featureless surfaces may require activation of less op
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by hliyan 3mo ago
The default visual circuits in our brains may have evolved to optimally handle fractal patterns and textures. Straight lines, geometrical figures and featureless surfaces may require activation of less optimal circuits. Anecdotally, I find
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Disappearing Polymorph(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by hliyan 3mo ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 3mo ago
Isn't this what we used to do with Geocities a quarter century ago? And with most other websites that offered FTP upload? You didn't have to be very technical -- there were windows FTP clients where you could just type in the IP,
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by hliyan 3mo ago
This is a very charitable reading of why The Economist does not have bylines.
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by hliyan 3mo ago
The Economist Group is largely owned by the Agnelli family ("Italy's Kennedys"), Canadian billionaire Stephen Smith, the Rothschilds and others, which is likely a significant factor in those biases.
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by hliyan 3mo ago
It's one of the main ideas -- I'm still only about a 3rd of the way through.
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by hliyan 3mo ago
If my understanding of Kant is correct, then all analysis (i.e. taking things apart) is synthesis (i.e. putting things together) in reverse, and therefore the latter is a necessary prerequisite of the former. According to him, our minds ver
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by hliyan 3mo ago
We had these in Sri Lanka, some of it translated to the local language and published by local publishers. I can't remember whether it was specifically a Mir publication, but I have fond memories of Y. Perelman's Mathematics can b
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by hliyan 3mo ago
If the choice is between micro-transactions and ad-driven content (ads -> engagement maximization -> sensationalization + enshittification -> social and industrial decay), I'll take the former. Remember: from a business's
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by hliyan 4mo ago
Considering the number of thick volumes of regulations the world's governments are accumulating in trying to combat harmful behaviour by businesses (or, in economic parlance, negative externalities ), and still failing to keep them in
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by hliyan 4mo ago
I was about to post the same thing when I noticed this comment. For those who might not want to go through the article: > ...designed to combat the extraordinary batting skill of Australia's leading batsman, Don Bradman... aimed at
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by hliyan 4mo ago
Just goes to show that no one with power can be relied on to self-regulate the use of that power. Power being any ability to nudge another human being toward actions that are not purely in their own self interest.
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by hliyan 4mo ago
I recently finished rewatching The Three Body Problem in which (spoilers follow) the world panics and goes into overdrive because an alien invasion is due in... 400 years. If the current climate trends continue, vast areas of the Earth ma
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Splunk Enterprise Vulnerabilities Allow Unauthenticated File Operations(orca.security)
2 points by hliyan 4mo ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 4mo ago
Potential exploit: one large donor who donates through a large number of proxy supporters.
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by hliyan 4mo ago
> yet another ego-driven tirade I tried to recall the last time I saw what I felt was an ego-driven tirade on HN comments, and I'm currently drawing a blank. There's a lot of what's called "performative erudition&quot
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by hliyan 4mo ago
Use value or exchange value?
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by hliyan 4mo ago
Agreed. I had some vague hope that this article made it to the HN hope page because someone was saying what needs to be said: that the future of email should be protocols over platforms, as it was in the past. Mail servers and mail clients.
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by hliyan 4mo ago
> Domain knowledge can be learnt much quicker than how to apply good engineering principles. There was an entire thread a week ago about how domain expertise has always been the real moat: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by hliyan 4mo ago
I've been told the following (obviously negative) narrative. Can someone verify/refute some of these? I've put (?) next to questionable claims. 1. Twitter is purchased with debt 2. Debt is transferred to xAI via acquisition o
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by hliyan 4mo ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but 0.1% of S&P 500 seems exceedingly huge when you consider how much of the economy is represented in the S&P 500.
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by hliyan 5mo ago
I remember once a colleague receiving a call about a non-functional test environment during his commute, and he wanted to tell the ops person to restart all the processes. I think fellow passengers in his bus were not comforted to hear some
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by hliyan 5mo ago
I can provide a data point for what the article calls pseudo productivity: I extensively use LLMs as semantic search engines or expert systems (but not as agents). Recently I asked one how to consume a Google Pub/Sub topic using Python
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by hliyan 5mo ago
I think the answer is in the second sentence of the article. The most valuable person in this new world (using the author's own phrasing from the penultimate paragraph) is the one who is good at "building a working model of the do
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by hliyan 5mo ago
Agreed. I would define a market as a mutual social contract that favours voluntary estimation of resource value, and exchange thereof, over violent competition for resources. Such a contact must necessarily be enforced, since voluntary comp
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by hliyan 5mo ago
If you consider that profit is a function of price and cost, and price is a function of scarcity (i.e. demand relative to supply), then over time, logic dictates that a strategy of profit maximization will work to create scarcity as soon as
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by hliyan 5mo ago
When I first saw the third generation Nissan Primera [1] many years ago, this is the thought that occurred to me: some bold, enterprising designer somehow managed to convince the organization to push through a radical, risky departure from
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by hliyan 5mo ago
This was the natural length of a paragraph before the emergence of engagement driven microblogging.
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Did the Linux memory management maintainer "just quit"?
17 points by hliyan 5mo ago|3 comments

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