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by jefftk 3y ago
Let's say I'm buying a portable power supply for my phone or laptop. I know my device can take a range of input voltages (for my mac: 5V, 9V, 15V, 20V, 28V; for my pixel: 5V, 9V) and know my device will negotiate with the power s
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by jefftk 3y ago
I'm also confused why they drop this point. I don't give in to this kind of threat because I expect overall a policy of giving in leads to worse outcomes.
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by jefftk 3y ago
> What function do I use? Traditionally you use sum, which gets you total utilitarianism. Some have advocated avg which gets you average utilitarianism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_and_total_utilitariani
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by jefftk 3y ago
The more you believe that the more you should expect the stock price to move on announcements like this one.
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by jefftk 3y ago
AWS has increased prices, most recently when they started charging for static IPs (even ones attached to a running instance).
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by jefftk 3y ago
Huh? During COVID the US had several eviction moratoriums, which covered non-payment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_eviction_moratoriums_...
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by jefftk 3y ago
Actually, I'm not sure this is mostly about a mathematical vs computational perspective. Let's look at how entropy is defined. It's not just the number of possibilities, it's how likely they are. For example, consider
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by jefftk 3y ago
But that's not what the post is saying? He's not shaking his fist at it, he's realizing that it's not as bad an idea as he'd thought: "top-posting is optimizing for the common case". (And keep in mind tha
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by jefftk 3y ago
Again, it depends on whether you are looking at this from a pure math perspective or a "math as implemented on computers" perspective. I'm only claiming that this use of more/less random makes sense in a computational co
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by jefftk 3y ago
Would you say that a function that always returned 0 or 1 would be more/less/equally random than a function that returned any int32 with equal probability? I would normally say the latter is more random, because you're gettin
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by jefftk 3y ago
And that may be permitted under fair use. It is not yet settled law in the US.
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by jefftk 3y ago
In Europe: no. Training ML systems doesn't require a license. In the US: we don't know yet. The law is not clear, and there are lots of suits in progress.
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by jefftk 3y ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic? YouTube ads are served by Google, just like the rest of YouTube. You can verify this by looking where your network requests go in devtools. (I used to work on ads at Google, but in a diffe
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by jefftk 3y ago
I used to work in ads, and I agree this is an arms race that the advertisers could win, at least in cases like YouTube where they control the whole stack. I don't think it would be trivial, but YouTube could do it if they decided to.
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by jefftk 3y ago
That videos's an original Beetle, not a New Beetle.
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by jefftk 3y ago
It should gain a small amount; it is a more efficient protocol, with better compression and including 0-RTT for repeat visitors. But I doubt it would be noticeable on such a light site.
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by jefftk 3y ago
I wouldn't expect HN to gain much by moving to HTTP/2 or HTTP/3. Loading this page with a cold cache is just 60kB, divided as 54kB of HTML, 2kB of CSS, and 2kB of JS, plus three tiny images. And on follow-up pageviews you on
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by jefftk 3y ago
Github says "Starlark 6.2%", so it looks like whitten's typo, not GitHub's.
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by jefftk 3y ago
Google Wave is the only counterexample I can think of, where it was "we're deprecating this project, but releasing it as open source".
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by jefftk 3y ago
We're debating this because you countered "Taxes on these things are usually regressive so no thanks" with "VMT is strongly correlated with income, so people with higher incomes would pay more tire taxes" which soun
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by jefftk 3y ago
Consider the following three taxation systems: A: 20% up to $10k, then 15% up to $100k, then 10% on income above that B: 15% on all income C: 10% up to $10k, then 15% up to $100k, then 20% on income above that Using the standard terms, A is
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by jefftk 3y ago
Have a look at https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/23cpr/chap3.cfm While none of the figures there have exactly what we want, they do suggest that VMT goes up less than linearly with income. For example, 3-23 and 3-
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by jefftk 3y ago
With taxation, we usually use "progressive" and "regressive" relative to a baseline of proportional to income: "A progressive tax is a tax in which the tax rate increases as the taxable amount increases." So it
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by jefftk 3y ago
The problem of expensive housing in locations where housing construction is somewhere between heavily restricted and entirely prohibited is bad in the US but not limited to the US. Most rich countries have this problem.
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by jefftk 3y ago
If you're in this situation, redirect stderr to stdout: $ tool-that-uses-stderr-for-help --help 2>&1 | less
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by jefftk 3y ago
> even a bundled browser (Evolution or something) that is based on Firefox The Gnome web browser is based on WebKit (Safari) not Gecko (Firefox): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Web
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by jefftk 3y ago
That seems pretty different from breaking an clearly worded promise?
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by jefftk 3y ago
Do away with iFrames and we'll have ads running same-origin to content. So much XSS...
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by jefftk 3y ago
I'm having trouble thinking of Google breaking any explicit promises like "Pixel 6 and later phones, including Fold, will get updates for at least 5 years from when the device first became available on the Google Store in the US&q
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by jefftk 3y ago
Pixel used to be 3y of security updates. Starting with the 6 (2021) they switched to 5y. https://endoflife.date/pixel

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