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by jll29 2y ago
I regret the situation led to the OP feel discourage about the NLP community, wo which I belong, and I just want to say "we're not all like that", even though it is a trend and we're close to peak hype (slightly past eve
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by jll29 2y ago
That's because the asymmetry of the one-way publication funnel where we can only consume has been replaced by a more symmetric ecosystem where users contribute content. Because they donate their content to platforms, they make the plat
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by jll29 2y ago
Yes, paper catalogs had high information and education content e.g. the Whole Earth Catalog in the US or the IKEA catalog in Europe are cult items. There are also different national prior probabilities for reading magazines as a habit in d
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by jll29 2y ago
Quanta magazine is fabulous but it's sponsored by a philanthropic foundation, so perhaps not a good example when discussing the economics of print magazines. It's currently online only, but I would happily buy a print subscription
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by jll29 2y ago
My print edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is one of the best gifts I ever purchased for myself upon graduating from high school. The social pressure that makes youngsters watch TikTok cat videos instead, mixed with instant gratificati
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by jll29 2y ago
Good analysis. In marketing, a "competitor" is not just somebody else doing a similar thing; one form of competition is something entirely different that you might spend your money or time instead (a "substitute"). Many
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by jll29 2y ago
I ordered my NAS drives on Amazon, to avoid getting the same batch (all consecutive serial numbers) I used amazon.co.uk for one half and amazon.de for the other half of them. One could also stage the orders in time.
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by jll29 2y ago
Such boilerfree graphics is important, for example for educational purpose where you don't want to be distracted by having to explain what an "allocator" or a "handle" are. Also, to keep the core drawing code short
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by jll29 2y ago
Probably using ANY commercial encryption tech, you're doomed. But it is naive to generate the key for a one-time pad using a PSEUDO random number generator! The whole point of the one-time pad is to achieve true security because you ca
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"Imagine"? There are plenty of folks who lost access to the crypto wallets with millions in it.
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Most conferences have been flooded with submissions, and ACL is no exception. A consequence of that is that there are not sufficient numbers of reviewers available who are qualified to review these manuscripts. Conference organizers might b
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by jll29 2y ago
Writing consists of iterated re-writing (to me, anyways), i.e. better and better ways to express content 1. correctly, 2. clearly and 3. space-economically. By writing it down (yourself) you understand what claims each piece of related work
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by jll29 2y ago
Fantastic post (despite its age and recurring postings on HN, I had not come across it before), and this indeed is a great line. I've met a few people who overdo this, though: they try to map everything new to a past success situation,
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by jll29 2y ago
C++ is a monster. The 2026 proposal has some neat ideas (I like the ability for the developer to give a reasons for modifying behavior that may create otherwise cryptic error messages, for instance); but the more things one packs in there,
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by jll29 2y ago
I was not aware that between Alto and Lisa there was the PERQ, a first commercial attempt, so thanks for point that out. Of course the deeper you dig anywhere, the more complexity gets unearthed, and the more fair credit must be distributed
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by jll29 2y ago
My heart is in pain from reading this post - as everybody's who had a startup & encountered the "poor fit" argument. I particularly feel for you regarding the problem of being more generic than needed when people prefer s
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by jll29 2y ago
Perhaps "(2021)" should be added to the title. I love most of the archive video and the great work that its members does. I wish though, the inflationary use "trinity" in the context of Newton-Darwin-Hawking had not be m
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by jll29 2y ago
Why not an NNTP gateway? NNTP doesn't support browsing threads by title (let alone paginated) and requesting their messages on demand. Clients need to fetch metadata of all available messages in all available threads in advance
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by jll29 2y ago
X = X11 R6 X = Twitter X = variable in mathematics Personally, I think the name should be changed back.
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by jll29 2y ago
Neat idea (editing UX need a bit of work, perhaps); I would much like to see _all_ hints in parallel on my screen. Solving a crosswords is a bit like solving an equation system, since the grid is equivalent to all row questions AND all colu
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by jll29 2y ago
1. I'm even surprised that in the 21st century, personal computers (even in iPhone form!) still need to "boot" their operating system (not so: coffee maker, washing machine, TV). This is bad UX, loses productivity (users wait
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by jll29 2y ago
Me too - to those using acronyms and other abbreviations in their writing, even "obvious ones": it is a good practice to introduce what each stands for the first time it gets used. ACL = Access Control List / Association
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by jll29 2y ago
To date, I have always use 16 GB RAM on laptops, and "hard work" is done on a remote server via SSH. This also alleviates the problem of sync'ing between multople laptops, as I use both a MacBook Air (lighter + better mobilit
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by jll29 2y ago
Placing Literature https://placingliterature.wordpress.com/
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by jll29 2y ago
This can be a big problem in teams that are homogeneous: All were hired using the same process, so all are maths/physics majors with good analytical skills but insufficient software engineering skills. What often happens maths/phy
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by jll29 2y ago
If I were to look for an expert, I'd consult - authors of leading textbooks or (open source or commercial) (hardware or software) systems; - people that have many patents to their name in the respective area; - scientists that have man
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by jll29 2y ago
> So I do dream of a laptop running on an mcu with an eink screen that has 1 month of battery but no commercial power. And running common lisp at boot as that's all I need anyway. I am close to just forking over 10k to have one cust
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by jll29 2y ago
Indeed, attention and listening is undervalued in the mostly male, high-on-ego dev culture. And it's also easy to speculate in a forum about super stars and "10x coders" and what team you should have. But in reality, you have
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> Thankfully almost no one is the best in their field :) You probably can't afford the best, you probably don't need the best, you probably can't keep the best happy, you definitely don't have problems that need the b
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by jll29 2y ago
The mangagement structure always must reflect the size and the phase(!) of the startup itself. What you describe sounds like a "founders just came together" trying to impersonate the IBM org chart without having figured out produc

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