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by jefftk 1y ago
If Google didn't want people to see "ineffective ads actually are" why would they build and push Brand Lift Studies and Conversion Lift? Offline purchases are harder, of course, but pretty sure you can still do this: https:&
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by jefftk 1y ago
This is very much not true: Google has a bunch of options for measuring ad effectiveness, and when I was there (until three years ago) it was very hard to get advertisers to use them. The two main options advertisers have are: * Brand Lift
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by jefftk 1y ago
Perhaps then you should try to convince EasyList to remove the view counter from their block list? This wasn't a change YouTube made, this was adblockers choosing not to let YouTube track views for privacy purposes.
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by jefftk 1y ago
How so? As long as you remove the hard wrapping and use compression aren't they in the same range as other options? (I currently store a lot of data as FASTQ, and smaller file sizes could save us a bunch of money. But FASTQ + zstd is
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by jefftk 1y ago
You can also improve compression by reordering the sequences within the FASTA file, as long as you're using it as a dictionary and not a list of title-sequence pairs.
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by jefftk 1y ago
The FASTA format looks like: > title bases with optional newlines > title bases with optional newlines ... The author is talking about removing the non-semantic optional newlines (hard wrapping), not all the n
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by jefftk 1y ago
I was at a FANG until 2022, and we were allowed to introduce GPL code into the monorepo. There were policies on how to do it correctly, but definitely not prohibited. (AGPL, however, was nearly impossible to get permission to use)
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by jefftk 1y ago
I would expect if the aircraft were level at 50 ft above the ground, flying inverted, an ejection would not be survivable.
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by jefftk 1y ago
I'm still confused: why not stick with 8x16 and go from 25 to 30 lines of text? Is it that you need to support both 640x480 and 640x400?
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by jefftk 1y ago
Sorry, I think I just fully agree with you and was reading stuff into your comment you weren't saying!
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by jefftk 1y ago
Huh? If you're traveling with a backpack (personal item) in a middle seat you're not paying the $50 for a carry-on or the $50 to select a seat.
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by jefftk 1y ago
Possibly I read more into your comment than you were trying to say, but I interpreted you as saying "and so we should shame companies for not paying" as opposed to "and so we should shame companies for threatening"?
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by jefftk 1y ago
> Not all of them know the better or have the gravitas to tell "go fix yourself", and this allows exploitation to continue. Agreed there, but then this is what I think we should be arguing for. Not "companies are wrong
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by jefftk 1y ago
I did read that link before commenting, and there's nothing in there about users damaging Daniel's reputation after he declines to do free work for them? > there'll be always someone who will accept exposure as a valid fo
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by jefftk 1y ago
Instead, we can spread the idea that maintainers don't owe you anything, and that it's normal for them to decline and/or ask for compensation. Z should ignore or publicize the threat, not give in to it. (If someone tried this
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by jefftk 1y ago
I think that claim would be pretty uncontroversial among people who consider themselves rationalists. He was extremely influential initially, and his writing kicked off the community.
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by jefftk 1y ago
I think it's simpler than that: people get better at things with practice. Werewolf isn't like poker where people typically try to conceal their emotions and leak nothing; instead you're trying to act like you're on the
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by jefftk 1y ago
When my kids were maybe 6 and 4 we started playing One Night Ultimate Werewolf as a family. It very quickly became clear this was a bad choice: the oldest went from being terrible at lying (and so ~never doing it) to actually being pretty
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by jefftk 1y ago
The most obvious way to do it would be: * Get a sample of 100 random people or so * For each person, have them track their time * For each thing you have them tracked doing, estimate how much it would cost to get someone else to do it But i
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by jefftk 1y ago
If AI continues going as quickly as it has been, humans doing their own thinking will be a very small fraction of the economy. (Not saying this is a good thing.)
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by jefftk 1y ago
There definitely are still a lot of things outside the market economy. People caring for their own kids is an enormous one. I'm not trying to make a claim about how much bigger the economy is of today's GDP, just that this has cha
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by jefftk 1y ago
This has always been an issue with GDP, but it's a much larger issue the father back you go. While GDP correlates reasonably well, imagine very roughly what it would be like if GDP growth averaged 3% annually while the overall economy
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by jefftk 1y ago
> I'm wondering if the LLM is failing to emulate the odd and even harmonics of real recordings What do you mean? If you screw up even/odd harmonics it will sound far less natural, like confusing flutes and clarinets.
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by jefftk 1y ago
> Do note that peak spending on rail roads eventually amounted to ~20 percent of the US GDP in the 19th century. When you go so far back in time you run into the problem where GDP only counts the market economy. When you count people
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by jefftk 1y ago
> And of course the much harder american "mozzarella" stuff thrown on most pizzas is something entirely different. Not really! It's essentially the same cheese, but instead of put fresh into brine the stretched curds ha
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by jefftk 1y ago
SEPTA's T [1] gets up to 70 TPH and used to handle 150 TPH. You can do this with multiple trolleys loading/unloading on a platform simultaneously. (But this strategy is orthogonal to the article, because it requires long platform
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by jefftk 1y ago
> essentially nothing you can do now to fix it You can build another line. This one was cheap and the demand is clearly there. And two medium capacity lines are generally better than one high capacity line in terms of offering more
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by jefftk 1y ago
How much of being third deadliest is just there are tons of dogs around humans, so they have far more opportunities for an interaction to go poorly?
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by jefftk 1y ago
[author] My aunt is in her 70s, and no longer very fast or loud. She was also much closer to me than to my daughter (but my view was blocked by vegetation). Even if she had seen my daughter fall in, getting me to respond would still have
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by jefftk 1y ago
[author] I let my four year old do this because I didn't realize how dangerous it was. I've since learned more about the risks, both through personal experience and from reading more after, and I most certainly wouldn't make

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