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by hliyan 5mo ago
I remember this. Ashtrays were practically part of the furniture (especially coffee tables), even if you didn't have a smoker at home.
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by hliyan 5mo ago
I've heard people describe commodity fetishism as replacing social relationships with relationships to things you own (e.g. your car, your iPhone etc). Is this accurate?
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by hliyan 5mo ago
Another framing of this is that once you have fulfilled your basic needs of healthy, physical safety and companionship, almost everything else you do is massively deleveraged: you move vast amounts of matter and energy in order to make minu
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by hliyan 5mo ago
This is actually not a bad exam to administer: https://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/FINAL_PE-Electr...
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by hliyan 5mo ago
Perhaps this will make a comeback when the need arises to distinguish between actual software programmers and prompters.
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by hliyan 5mo ago
The best bit of tongue-in-cheek is in the FAQ: > We take 2% of every swap. Then we swap our revenue with another platform.
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by hliyan 5mo ago
Incredibly beautiful, possibly because it maps so well to the mental model we typically use to organize knowledge in our heads. I don't know how we lost the folder/container vs. document/content iconography, and other things
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by hliyan 5mo ago
The way I usually frame this is: if all expertise could be eventually distilled into verbal form, then years of experience will cease to matter as it all could be replaced with a series of textbooks. Which we obviously know is not possible.
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by hliyan 5mo ago
tech stacks -> frameworks
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by hliyan 5mo ago
You've actually been primarily training a physics model, with an LLM attached to it.
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by hliyan 5mo ago
The specific counterintuitive result is mentioned toward the end of the article, and I'm having some trouble understanding it: > when analyzing average trends in groups of children, slower reaction times to the “Go” signal were link
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by hliyan 6mo ago
The answer may be agentic loops that keeps cycling through the same problem again and again until they land on a non-erroneous outcome. Some people boast having multiple such agents working in parallel on different problems, tending to one
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by hliyan 6mo ago
Do typesetters inexplicably change the meaning of the book or document being typeset? Do compilers alter the behavior intended by the programmer, sometimes in ways that are not immediately obvious? Did the invention of typesetters lead to i
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by hliyan 6mo ago
> Look at how long Uber and Tesla have lasted In a system of open-ended growth, yes, you can point to how long the system has persisted as evidence of its longevity. But in a system of plateauing growth, the system's age is an indic
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by hliyan 6mo ago
I absolutely cannot stand people who recite this quote but has no knowledge of the sentences that come before or after it: "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all
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by hliyan 6mo ago
Found this bit particularly interesting: > We need at least one model from Anthropic and one from Google to use Passmark's multi-model consensus features. https://github.com/bug0inc/passmark?#quick-start
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Passmark: Open-source Playwright library for AI regression testing(passmark.dev)
5 points by hliyan 6mo ago|1 comments
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by hliyan 6mo ago
When I read the phrase "it's cool to care", the first thing that popped into my mind was this line from the recent Superman movie: "Maybe that's the real punk rock". Like Alex's story landed for you, that
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by hliyan 6mo ago
Given this is failing due to HN hug of death, might I suggest that you do a periodic batch, save the results and serve static?
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by hliyan 6mo ago
Agreed. Past, unfounded worries about proliferation of new mental labour saving inventions is a real thing, but it's wrong to indiscrimately use the analogy every time a concern about such inventions come up. It reminds me of a certain
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by hliyan 6mo ago
> One of her key lessons is that automation tends to de-skill operators I recently discovered an example of this phenomenon in a completely unrelated area: navigation. About a week ago, I realized that I couldn't remember the exact
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by hliyan 6mo ago
> Today, I literally made a large and complex migration of all of our endpoints. Took ai 30 minutes, including all frontends using these endpoints. Works flawlessly, debt principal down. This is either a very remarkable or a very frighte
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by hliyan 6mo ago
Can we please go back to template-based server rendering (e.g. JSP, PHP, ASP, Handlebars/Mustache) and use JS for user interactivity only? Tired of seeing this cycle play out with a new framework every 5-6 years.
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by hliyan 6mo ago
I tried a photo of myself. Not only did it get virtually everything (country, beliefs, politics, interests) wrong, seems like an offensive and inappropriate stereotype as a service: > Based on his demographic and location, he may adhere
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by hliyan 6mo ago
If Forbes misidentifies the wrong person as a billionaire, then yes, it is a problem.
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by hliyan 6mo ago
Consider the following hypothetical: you have a safe in your home with a substantial sum of money in it, and you consider its presence, the location and contents private knowledge. However, someone uses publicly available information to inf
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by hliyan 6mo ago
Show whom?
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by hliyan 6mo ago
Sometimes this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is the novice users who, over time, become power users through repetitive usage. If there are no user efficiency gains to be had through experience in a UI, then it just prevents the emergenc
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by hliyan 7mo ago
I think the Spacecraft Interfaces section (starting page 84) is the bit that might interest HN readers. It describes (to potential customers) the dimensions of the payload bay, electrical and comms interfaces available, conditions the paylo
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'Spin-flip' in metal complexes can help solar cells leap beyond limits(kyushu-u.ac.jp)
4 points by hliyan 7mo ago|0 comments

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