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by jimmytucson 3y ago
The New Yorker published a piece on Network Time Protocol a little more than a year ago[0] - highly recommend it to anyone interested in how the internet works. RIP Dave, and thank you. [0] https://www.newyorker.com/tech&#x2
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
Not dismissing it at all. My original comment asks that very question. I was just wondering if there's anything else that Obsidian offers besides Markdown syntax, since hyperlinking documents and application-agnostic data formats are
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
But you don't need the head and body stuff. This renders perfectly fine in a web browser on my local machine: <h1>My Title</h1> <p>This is a paragraph.</p> For sure, you need an end tag,
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
Yeah, clearly I touched a nerve :) But I still don't know what Obsidian gives you besides letting you write in Markdown instead of HTML. And that is basically a Markdown to HTML converter, as you pointed out.
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
This has to be factually wrong, no? The first web servers just served documents from a directory called `htdocs`.
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
So the answer to my original question is - yes :)
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
> allows structure to grow organically > powerful feature ... Internal Links. > plain text files Well, they're not _plain_ text - there is some markup. So that invites the question - why not HyperText Markup
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
> Why would an average user want blog spam search results? I didn’t say they would :) In fact, I can’t figure out how your comment relates to mine. Are you claiming that Google doesn’t factor blog spamminess into its evaluation of searc
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
If you wanna know why Google (or any search engine) sucks, just look at how it measures its own search results. Most search companies do this “at scale” according to very specific guidelines, like what the author did here but on steroids.
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
This is becoming a familiar story - users postulating “shrinkflation” in the quality of ChatGPT’s generated responses. I wonder, can we use another LLM to grade the responses in terms of insightfulness, thoroughness, accuracy, etc. so they
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
Great article. It reminds me of a beautifully illustrated children’s book called Hello Lighthouse[1], which tells the life story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife as they tend the lighthouse, get married, rescue the crew of a shipwreck, h
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
https://archive.is/zWJb8
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Reddit Leads Class of 2024 IPO Candidates Testing the Water(bloomberg.com)
10 points by jimmytucson 3y ago|1 comments
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
> sharp drop in July 2023 They shut off API access to their data around the very same time. Is that a coincidence?
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
https://archive.ph/7PGMJ
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
One thing I've never been able to work out is, if this model were true, how would we ever hear about it? Why would Random House publish the book by Herman and Chomsky? Why would Al Jazeera produce this video and why would YouTube hos
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
It’s interesting to think about how generative AI might shape human expression, in the same way Twitter’s algorithm rewards punchy, editorialized content, and Google’s algorithm gave life to all the generic “blogspam-y” content out there. I
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
reddit has its own search feature but it doesn’t seem like they’ve poured a lot of cash into it yet. I imagine that would change if they were to block Google and Bing.
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
Link to the paper with more context, maps, and images: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42764-0
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
HA sounds cool to me but other than being a fun thing to work on, what's so good about it? Can anyone "sell" me on it? Is it just being able to turn stuff on and off from your phone?
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
I wonder what counts as an “AI investment” or a “production AI deployment”. Deploying an ML model? Sounds like it. What about paying for an ML service? Maybe. What about buying a product that uses an ML service provider under the hood fo
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
Exodus is not the story of the origin of the Jewish people, so its historicity has nothing to do with whether or not the Israelites are descendent from Canaanites.
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
The gist of the article is that LLM-generated text will soon occupy more of the SERP, which will answer search queries without the user having to click on links, which drive down SEO traffic. I am a little bit skeptical that this will “eat
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
I’m surprised reddit doesn’t allow advertisers to place ads on specific subreddits. My best guess why is that advertisers would need to be able to decide what subreddits to put their ad on, and that’s maybe not as easy as it sounds. Let’s
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
> It doesn't have to be this way! Is there any extra work OpenAI’s product might be doing contributing to this latency that yours isn’t? Considering the scale they operate at and any reputational risks to their brand?
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What It’s Like to Be a 13-Year-Old Girl Today(nytimes.com)
24 points by jimmytucson 3y ago|17 comments
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
This is really cool! Guitar was my first instrument, then I went on to learn bass, drums, and a bunch of others, but I never bothered to learn how to read music - or, really, sight read. The few songs I know on piano, I learned from an el
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
> author decided it was a good idea to prepend the message with the message length encoded as a varint. > WHY? Oh, why?! Uh oh. Is this my HN moment? This is exactly how I implemented it at my company. We had to write many protobuf me
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
That is an appealing idea but on second thought, haven’t you just shifted the problem to: how do I reliably replicate logical updates from my operational tables (internal, constantly changing) to my clean, public-facing tables? Basically, y
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
I love this kind of reasoning that forces you to climb out of the comfortable nook in a tree of thought you’ve been occupying for years to see if there’s a better vantage point! So would this work equally well? Use Postgres on some cloud an

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