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by jfoster 5y ago
They know their platform. I presume that prior to the announcement they had tried everything they could to continue BAU. The fact that they're able to now reverse the announcement makes me wonder what changed. Did they find a new banki
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The fact that the situation exists where Google has two products that do the same thing and one of them has the same name as another of their products that does something different is just bad news overall. It's great that this specifi
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I am blown away by how many people repeatedly under-estimate Musk's companies despite him eventually proving them wrong basically every time.
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> There has been the sort of myth going around that making rockets is hard. It used to be hard... 50 years ago. For something that used to be hard, the very well-funded companies in that area besides SpaceX seem to be having a hell of a
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by jfoster 5y ago
Doesn't this mostly depend on 3 things? 1. Likelihood of breakthrough infections. 2. Mutation rate. 3. Initial volume of infections. For instance, if the likelihood of breakthrough infections is low enough to overcome the reproduction
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by jfoster 5y ago
Is it analogous to flu? Do flu vaccines cause mutations as well? One interesting thing about covid is that it seems to be the first time humanity has collected so much data (eg. contact tracing, phylogenetics through genome sequencing, etc.
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by jfoster 5y ago
One example where both are fairly common is coffee equipment. Obviously you've got big automatic grinders & espresso machines in most cafes, but it's quite common for coffee enthusiasts to use a hand grinder and AeroPress or V
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by jfoster 5y ago
Sorry, you misunderstood me. My argument was not that they should've introduced Chrome bookmarks and then merged them together. My argument was that they should not have introduced two separate things when improving the one that alread
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I would like to point out that stealing focus is part of the browser implementation. I don't think anyone would object to less stuff (if anything) stealing focus. If the problem is "this functionality steals focus", how about
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I made this to help myself memorize katakana characters: https://readkana.com/en You actually don't need to know any Japanese to start with it, as it's entirely based on loanwords.
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Sure, but Chrome then introduced Chrome bookmarks rather than just using what already existed.
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Google truly have a knack for competing with themselves. Hopefully this shutdown represents further consolidation rather than part of ongoing product churn.
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It could be much more exact by mentioning the version & date that it was released on.
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by jfoster 5y ago
What is the big opportunity in Duolingo? Are there lots of people learning languages who haven't heard of it already? Is it so essential & useful to language learning that they have a lot of room for ARPU growth? Do they have some
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by jfoster 5y ago
Not sure whether it's centralised, but the finding of the study in the article sounds like it's essentially that plants (or at least this type of tomato plant) do have some form of nervous system or equivalent, isn't it?
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by jfoster 5y ago
It seems the project has made a trade-off about language support. One approach would be to say language doesn't matter, just train on converting any character from any language alphabet from image to text. The problem is that higher ac
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by jfoster 5y ago
I think they kind of do. On the Telemetry section of the Copilot site, they mention that they relay whether a suggestion was accepted or rejected. I wonder, how much better could Github Copilot become by also looking that the modifications
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As it stands, this looks like it will actually increase the productivity of existing programmers more than it will result in "now everyone is a programmer". Over time it will certainly do more, but it's probably quite a long
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But in this case they're transforming a concern about covid into a concern about the covid vaccine. Doesn't even make sense in the name of public health.
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That did cross my mind. If it's actually due to that, then Google is just going to become increasingly terrible & always directing you to the most searched thing. Covid side effects -> covid vaccine side effects Best burgers -&g
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by jfoster 5y ago
But that's my point. If someone searches for "covid fertility" and Google unexpectedly decides to make it all about vaccines, in a way, they are a source of misinformation. Where someone was previously concerned with fertilit
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> Google always errs on the side of left wing political platform Reminds me that yesterday I tried googling around the topic of how covid affects fertility (eg. "covid fertility") and nearly every result that comes back is abou
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All of the energy going into this should instead be directed toward "how do we vaccinate most efficiently in future?" I think it makes a lot of sense to vary eligibility criteria by vaccination site, and allow for anyone to be vac
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Don't forget that a site being able to be managed & stay in business is also good for users.
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I think the point is, what exactly is "open" about OpenAI? Can you download their trained model? Can you even access their API without risk of your access getting cut off? What is open about it?
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I think the primary concerns with what App Engine started out as were flexibility and vendor lock-in. Feels like it is a very solvable problem, though. Only a matter of time.
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The quote attributed to me was on the topic of "challenging projects every programmer should try": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21790779 It's not that I would recommend every project must have custome
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I reckon we're probably a lot better off today than in 1995. (Windows 95)
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It may not say "stop" but it seems like they have something fairly close ("pull over") to that. https://www.theturnsignalblog.com/blog/waymo-design/
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> Cars come from behind much more quickly than anticipated. But that isn't what happened (or would typically happen) in this type of situation. Usually the car blocking the lane will be enough of an impediment that a queue of traffi

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