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by jetrink 2y ago
Jevon's Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox "In 1865, the English economist William Stanley Jevons observed that technological improvements that increased the efficiency of coal use led to t
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> With web search, Claude has access to the latest events and information, boosting its accuracy on tasks that benefit from the most recent data. I'm surprised that they only expect performance to improve for tasks involving recent
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> nor makes it easier to search for online. Searching for 'pebble core 2 duo' already comes up with a page of results only related to the watch[1] (including this very comment thread, ironically[2].) Search engines are very goo
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> Strengthen immunity by increasing contact with natural environments My mom is a family and children's photographer. She likes to photograph kids in their backyards or in local parks, sitting in the grass. She often encounters sma
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> Fitting 3 meals into an 8h window would be … tricky. That's the main secret to time restricted eating, in my opinion: You don't have enough time to eat as much as you normally do so overall calorie intake tends to decrease. I
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> they'd have to arrange some way for a photographer (or themselves) to take a better picture and then CC license it. That sounds like something a publicist could easily do if it were a priority. Actors and publicists have no troubl
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The article that follows that one is also very interesting and worth reading. It shows how a coastline that existed 100 million years ago and cut through modern day Alabama is still visible in demographic and election maps. (By a crazy coin
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This is not the type of asteroid that would end all life on earth. It has the ability to destroy a city, but even if it hit the earth, it would probably land in the ocean or a remote area where few people would be harmed. We should not be a
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The Hindenburg was one of only two passenger airships, so imagine if 50% of passenger aircraft eventually crashed. There was also no obvious route towards making them safer at the time. Even if the problem of flammability could be solved, t
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Increasing hurricane risk yes, but also a dysfunctional insurance market. There's a business model where roofing companies will approach homeowners telling them they have hurricane damage and are eligible to receive a free roof. The hu
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The linked book is Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael A. Hiltzik, and I can second the recommendation.
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And they didn't just say that NVidia was overvalued, but that it was overvalued for precisely this reason. I've also read people here and elsewhere warn that export controls could quickly become ineffective as Chinese researchers
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Don't underestimate an always on display. It's very nice to be able glance down to see the time or other info without making an exaggerated gesture first. It was what I appreciated most after I switched from Fitbit. As to the Fitb
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When Microsoft decided to advance straight to Windows 10 from 8, it also necessitated skipping the 2015 fiscal year. They have been stuck a year in the future ever since.
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Look at what foreign adversaries are already actively doing: working to turn Americans against each other. Social media is the perfect tool to spread discord. Russia has troll farms that create fake news stories, manipulated photos, and inc
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Stephen Fry is one source of the story. > I like to claim that I bought the second Macintosh computer ever sold in Europe in that January, 30 years ago. My friend and hero Douglas Adams was in the queue ahead of me. For all I know someon
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All clients today (and probably back then) have options to limit bandwidth consumption including throttling, scheduling, and total data transfer caps. For serving mostly HTML and images, dedicating even 10% of a home broadband connection to
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I think we need a version of the New Battery Technology Checklist[1] for this type of article. (Though I understand that the research itself often just aims solve specific tensions in cosmology, and it is only the reporting that over-hypes
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It probably doesn't work if you're primed to look for hidden details. I took the test along with my Psychology 101 class of about 30 people and no one noticed anything amiss.
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A friend who lives in North Carolina sent me a video of the raging floodwaters in his state- at least that's what the superimposed text claimed it was. When I looked closer, it was clearly an Indian city filled with Indian people and I
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I think Missouri's policy is the most correct. > Missouri prohibits such ballots from being counted if it is proven that the voter died before polls opened and the ballot envelope has not yet been opened. It seems reasonable to me t
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Ctrl-F in that document for 'hashing'. That step reduces the audio information to a sparse collection of key points, one for each of four frequency ranges per time segment. I would assume that everything up to that step is done on
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It's pretty common in the US for a name that is traditionally associated with boys become unisex (Taylor) or even prominently female (Lauren). Typically it is an uncommon male name (so not, e.g. John or Brian) that sees a sudden increa
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The music fingerprinting on my Android phone works in airplane mode, so it would be possible with modifications. Also, it's likely that Shazam is sending a "hash" of the audio rather than an audio stream in most cases.
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Tell HN: OpenAI appears to be testing infomercials for Amazon and Etsy products
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I loved living around the corner from a small grocery store. It made it possible to pick up ingredients and fresh vegetables for dinner on the walk home from the train or when taking the dog for a walk with my wife. It was a bit more expens
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> I it's fair it's fair to claim that by definition, if AI can make it all by itself, then it's not good art, because if AI can make it all by itself, then it's already in the "been there, done that" pile. A
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To me the Seinfeld project was funny in the same way that Markov Chain generators often are: It was uncanny, absurd, and filled with non sequiturs. That's not to say there wasn't artistic merit in the project as a whole, but the m
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I hope they maintain at least a few MIP options. I have a Garmin and the fact that the display works as well in bright sunlight as it does in a dim room is a killer feature for a device that is explicitly for fitness tracking. The highly-re
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Here you go: https://pastebin.com/QXzg95AV One thing to try is only using the post-match commentary, which starts after the line containing 'final whistle.' When I did this, the result was more factually accurate,

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