industriousthou

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by industriousthou 6y ago
He did it for a number of years so I imagine he got some sales.
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by industriousthou 6y ago
Is this a thing? A quick Google search just turned up articles about detecting if someone sees your profile, which of course they can't. Seems weird.
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by industriousthou 7y ago
A bar or a football?
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by industriousthou 7y ago
Am I understanding correctly that this visualizes a 3d cross-section of a 4d cube? Is so, it might be interesting to put together a tool that shows a 2d cross-section of a 3d cube so people get the intuition.
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by industriousthou 7y ago
I really only know of either usage because a Bond movie I saw as a kid had the villain disguise his order for liquid oxygen as smoked salmon. Or something. Recollection is a little hazy.
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by industriousthou 8y ago
250k is a big deal in the US.
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by industriousthou 8y ago
Is it unreasonable to think that some operations might be cheaper to compute by the converting the base and applying these types of tests?
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by industriousthou 8y ago
I recently bombed a Triplebyte interview. I didn't realize how badly until I got the feedback email. It honestly hurt, but it was really useful. I definitely respect their approach.
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by industriousthou 8y ago
I've thought a little about building cheating detection into the mechanics and lore of maybe an MMORPG by treating it like a forbidden dark art. If a player is flagged for cheating, they could take on an "aura" in the game. M
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by industriousthou 9y ago
I still don't understand why information should be elided from judges during sentencing. If public officials use data to worsen issues like recidivism rather than improve them, then those officials should be removed. If a judge can&#x2
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by industriousthou 9y ago
Well, yeah, but there is no solution to the infinite regression problem, right? Adding God to the mix doesn't really change anything.
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by industriousthou 9y ago
Yeah, I worked construction for a number of years and if you want to do physical work long term, you gotta invest in your health. Nothing crazy, but two to three hours a week in the gym can stave off major problems for a long time for most
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by industriousthou 9y ago
Isn't it preferable to accurately measure and account for Bias? The same metrics can be used to combat bias that reinforce it. Without accurate metrics, how do you form your argument against bias? Feelings?
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by industriousthou 9y ago
I mean, that same algorithm could be used to determine that blacks or other at-risk groups should receive extra attention or support. An accurate picture of reality can be used poorly or well.
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by industriousthou 10y ago
Huh? I've worked on lot's of construction jobs where "anyone" can stop work if they see an unsafe situation. Obviously "anyone" doesn't refer to every human on the planet, it refers to relevant personnel.
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by industriousthou 10y ago
Why wouldn't people with mental illness or substance abuse problems be able to be creative and productive if their basic needs were met?
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by industriousthou 10y ago
I mean, the whole idea is that if people have their basic needs met, they'll be able to be more creative and productive. Homeless people are the perfect counter example.
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by industriousthou 10y ago
In the US, sometimes truckers drive in teams and switch off, but I've never heard of them not sticking with their trucks. Trucks frequently sit idle while the driver sleeps.
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by industriousthou 10y ago
Wasn't there a breakthrough year with DARPA challenge? It seemed like for a while the results seemed to indicate that autonomous vehicles were basically impossible, then suddenly a few vehicles just killed it one year. I could be wrong
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by industriousthou 10y ago
I agree that autonomous cars are happening, but there are a ton of assumptions about human capabilities embedded in a standard driving test. It's not nearly rigorous enough greenlighting autonomous vehicles.
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by industriousthou 10y ago
I thought this was pretty realistic portrayal of how some sort of global winter may play out. The sun is blocked by dust or debris or whatever, plant life dies, the rest of the biosphere dies, and all that's left is some humans who sca
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by industriousthou 10y ago
I was under the impression it could have been a nuclear winter. There's seems to be some disagreement about how severe and long nuclear winter may be, so maybe McCarthy was making some false assumptions.
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by industriousthou 10y ago
I believe increasing telomere length may slow ageing, but wouldn't reverse it.
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by industriousthou 10y ago
To be honest, yeah, in a lot of social environments that I've been in, if someone were to make a show of some really bizarre beliefs, they would be openly mocked. I've worked on construction crews were people will rib each other o
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by industriousthou 10y ago
If I invite some friends over for drinks and one one them takes a shit on the carpet in my living room I will kick them out. Shitting on the carpet is not playing nicely, according to me and "normal perceptions", whatever that is
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by industriousthou 10y ago
I don't think most HN user oppose the use intelligence capabilities in various three letter organizations, just that those orgs should be constrained by the rule of law in some meaningful way.
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by industriousthou 10y ago
This might only be sort of related to what you're talking about, but reansomware as a service already exists. You delivery a premade executable and get a cut cut of the profits. You could install it in systems where you have physical a
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by industriousthou 10y ago
I got the impression that he was simulating _our_ universe, not _the_ universe. In other worlds, the laws of physics, etc, in our universe might only exist in a rock simulation in some other universe with very different properties (unlimite
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by industriousthou 10y ago
And since it's wrong it must therefore be kept illegal.
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by industriousthou 10y ago
I seem to remember reading that something similar happened with fiber optic cable in the nineties. Companies like Qwest (I think? Something like that?) Laid down thousands of miles of fiber, but went under in the dot com bubble. The fiber w

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