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by ipsin 3y ago
Same, the thoughts seems at least inspired by those events. The same insight could be labeled "How to bribe someone by making it seem like friendship."
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by ipsin 3y ago
Content streaming is one case where I wish,wish,wish they were non-closed ecosystems. Make your offerings available via an API. Make the actual content stream with whatever DRM standards you (the "platform") need to feel comforta
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by ipsin 4y ago
Does anyone know more about the Galaga programmer, Tetsu Ogawa? I haven't seen any interviews, or even an idea about whether he might be alive or dead.
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by ipsin 4y ago
If you want to continue the chain of specific goals in service of no specific purpose: run Kubernetes on it.
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by ipsin 4y ago
Referring to actual people as "illegals" is gross.
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by ipsin 4y ago
Are these text-to-speech models manually controllable in terms of prosody, etc., or is it all transformer-based text-to-audio? I've followed some of the research on prosody transfer, etc., but it still seems bad in the TTS systems I&#x
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by ipsin 4y ago
What about the Navy radar tracks for an intercepting missile, and how those, like witness accounts, were actively discounted and suppressed, in favor of a "no missile" narrative?
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by ipsin 4y ago
If this were true, there would be a reduction in US military spending, but I'm... very much not buying that.
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by ipsin 4y ago
@ak92501 posted this one last week. This isn't to say "it's old news" (it isn't!) but that if you're on Twitter and like summaries of ML papers, they're a great follow. https://twitter.com&#x2F
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by ipsin 4y ago
It's best to be out of the path of the door so you don't have to decide, but I imagine otherwise it's situation dependent. "Am I going fast?", "Is there a huge truck behind me?", etc.
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by ipsin 4y ago
Re: "The error bars are not infinite." I feel like they are infinite? Because, for example, in hyperinflation, there's no upper bound on how long someone is going to keep printing money. Any given instance will stop at a f
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by ipsin 4y ago
I don't understand what the two have to do with each other. You say there's already a monopoly but if we'd bought a stockpile from the monopoly at market prices, we'd... still have a stockpile.
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by ipsin 4y ago
I'm worried that we're going to split into a two-tiered system where people with money can go to clinics for recreational or therapeutic treatments, and people who don't want to spend that money can go to jail. That's al
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by ipsin 4y ago
It seems like a "victimless crime" in the same way that a hit and run is a victimless crime, as long as you get away with it. Someone has willfully chosen to make life more dangerous for everyone else. It's possible they won
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by ipsin 4y ago
"Speak confidently as if you are right, but listen carefully as if you are wrong." I hate-hate-hate this advice. When I assert something confidently, I'm willing to put money on it. The first time I ran into someone I respec
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by ipsin 4y ago
I also pay the $800 tithe, because I live in California and manage my marginally unprofitable property LLC in another state. California has a lot of things going for it and I appreciate the purpose of taxes, but at this point I'm viewi
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by ipsin 4y ago
This sounds very much like extortion, and I'm curious how any school with a purported honor code or sense of academic standards could allow it. Even if the student didn't have proof of threats, the situation itself should be enoug
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by ipsin 5y ago
What are the practical effects likely to be, anyway? I'm wary of Musk because he comes from the same "memelord shitposter" tradition that has served the right wing so well in the past few years, but I don't think he&#x27
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by ipsin 5y ago
You'll always get voices from outside the bubble... even if they come in the form of people in your bubble dunking on the dumbest takes from outside it.
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by ipsin 5y ago
I mean, I'd already internalized P100 < V100 < A100 as a Colab user. Schedule me on an H100 and I promise I won't mind the "confusing" naming.
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by ipsin 5y ago
Yes, it was definitely a thing. https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/984784455/a-brief-history-of-... In Los Angeles the two closest lessons I took were the 210 Freeway in Pasadena (which literally cut through
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by ipsin 5y ago
"The improved workflow allows for the redeployment of team members to focus on creating memorable moments for customers." I... doubt it? It seems like it would allow the redeployment of team members to "no longer working a
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by ipsin 5y ago
"topics around diversity and inclusion in tech ... tend to be flagged to death by users" Ouch. Any readers have favorite HN-like forums where this doesn't happen?
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by ipsin 5y ago
So for anyone who's already used id.me, how hard will it be to purge the biometrics? (And same question for if you live in California)
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by ipsin 5y ago
Misses an opportunity to talk about Stirling's approximation to the factorial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%27s_approximation Gigantic fake numbers are rubbish (I believe that 110%), but saving work with
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by ipsin 5y ago
"We’d like to offer you a whitehat agreement, and present you a bug bounty of $10 million for exploit details" So, um, wouldn't the person pulling off the exploit be a fool to try and accept this "bug bounty"? Ev
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by ipsin 5y ago
So far these applications seem pretty innocuous, but for things like gesture & other control systems, can mmWave be jammed or spoofed?
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by ipsin 5y ago
It sounds like the "recall" is an over-the-air patch, and you can't opt out. I suppose "recall" may also be a legal term, but it doesn't seem to fit well in this case.
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by ipsin 5y ago
It's interesting that there were over 200 write-in votes, and no official candidate? I wonder why the write-in campaign. Fees or signature requirements? https://www.ccpa.net/DocumentCenter/View/38413/Un
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by ipsin 5y ago
Why isn't the Bank of America account in his name? I was under the impression that know your customer laws would require them to match up the individual taking the loan and the individual holding the bank account. Is it really just a s

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