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by jll29 8mo ago
Although dogs can see violet better than humans, the sky appears blue to them like it does to us, not violet (despite violet being closer to the resonance frequency of N and O atoms). That's because dogs only have two types of cones (c
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by jll29 8mo ago
Great app, pleased to be in the top 0.38%, but it appears that does not translate to a top 100 spot by an order of magnitude. It would be nice to have some readership stats, too. I've been wondering whether Webcam-based eyetracking sof
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by jll29 8mo ago
Let's see: do { 4 h HN; 4 h family; 4 h coding; 4 h sleep; 4 h emails; 4 h meetings; 4 h teaching/supervisions; 4 h grant/paper writing; 4 h reading; } while (breathing); /&#
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by jll29 8mo ago
Installing the binary on a Mac succeeds, but then: % msgvault init-db dyld: Symbol not found: _SecTrustCopyCertificateChain Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/msgvault (which was built for Mac OS X 15.0) Expected in: &#
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by jll29 8mo ago
Currently, all hyperscalers are in an arms race to buy energy, data centers and GPU capacity for the big struggle of "who will win the AI war?" - the Amazons, Googles, Oracles, Metas and Microsofts of this world all want to be the
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by jll29 8mo ago
My empirical findings (30 year time frame, dozens of projects, a few larger, some small many small-to-medium, median perhaps 18 calendar months with around four people on the core team): 1. Good estimates are possible. - use intervals, not
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by jll29 8mo ago
It's a very clever aspiration to devise a new language not as something you hope everyone is going to switch to, but, as the OP states more of a test-bed to demonstrate a bunch of nice features, which you hope other people (that implem
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by jll29 8mo ago
BTW, that's a great game if you are on a road trip with bored kids.
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by jll29 8mo ago
Out of all places on the Web, this one should be where solutions to (get rid of/limit the surveillance state) are devised. If the HN community doesn't have the will or skill, who else has?
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by jll29 8mo ago
When you agree to meet someone somewhere at some time, all further communication is redundant (I expect you to be reasonably punctual and I don't need your SMS updates "Hi, leaving the house now." followed by "hi, I&#x27
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by jll29 8mo ago
I do not use WhatsApp, Instagram, or FB. You pay a price (we miss many party invitations, only one friend consistently emails us and FB everyone else), but it's worth it. Recently spoke to a colleague in Italy that told me he hates Wha
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by jll29 8mo ago
Ever travelled by rental car or used WiFi on the move?
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by jll29 8mo ago
> there are many impactful open source programmers who have explicitly stated that they don't want their code used to train these models and licensed their work in a world where LLMs didn't exist. It wasn't their "gif
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by jll29 8mo ago
> The only time when you need something else than Agile is when lives are at stake, you need there formal specifications and rigorous testing. Lives are always at stake, given that we use software everywhere, and often in unintended ways
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by jll29 8mo ago
Perhaps a better way than to view them as alternative choices is to view them as alternative modes of working, between which it is sometimes helpful to switch? We know old-style classic waterfall lacks flexibility and agile lacks planning,
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by jll29 8mo ago
In the 1950s/1960s, the term "automatic programming" referred to compiler construction: instead of writing assembler code by hand, a FORula TRANslator (FORTRAN) could "magically" turn a mathematical formula into cod
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by jll29 8mo ago
Well, why do humans read code: 1. To maintain it (to refactor or extend it). 2. To test it. 3. To debug it (to detect and fix flaws in it). 4. To learn (to get better by absorbing how the pros do it). 5. To verify and improve it (code revie
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by jll29 9mo ago
Would you like to tell us a bit more, perhaps? E.g., what's the name of your app? What's its purpose? A book recommender? Book search? Onlinee book purchase assistant? S.th. else?
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by jll29 9mo ago
I recently got wrongly accused of using LLMs to help write an article by a reviewer. He complained that our (my and my co-worker's) use of "to foster" read "like it was created by ChatGPT". (If our paper was fluent
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by jll29 9mo ago
You are right in pointing out that the Web browser isn't the most suitable UI paradigm for highly interactive applications like a scientific typesetting system/text editor. I have occasionally lost a paragraph just by accidental m
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by jll29 9mo ago
You can use actually git (it's also integrated in Overleaf). You can even export ZIP files if you like (for any cloud service, it's not a bad idea to clone your repo once in a while to avoid begin stuck in case of unlikely downtim
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by jll29 9mo ago
They both undertook something they believed in, and showed extreme courage. And they did manage to get the word out. They are both relatively free now, but it is true, they both paid a price. Idealism is that you follow your principles desp
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by jll29 9mo ago
What Snowden did was heroic. What was shameful was the world's underwhelming reaction. Where were all these images in the media of protest marches like against the Vietnam war? Someone once said "Religion is opium for the people.&
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by jll29 9mo ago
What the OP was talking about is the negative connotation that goes with the word; it's certainly a poor choice from a marketing point of view. You may say it's "silly to obsess", but it's like naming a product &quo
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by jll29 9mo ago
You have some good ideas there, it's all about incentives and about public reputation. But it should also fair. I once caught a team at a small Indian branch of a very large three letter US corporation violating the "no double sub
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by jll29 9mo ago
It's standard practice, nothing suspect about their approach - and you won't go lower and lower and lower still because at some point you'll be tired of re-formatting, or a doctoral candidate's funding will be used up, o
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by jll29 9mo ago
Does anyone have kept an eye of who uses what back-end? DDG used to be meta-search on top of Yahoo, which doesn't exist anymore. What do Gabriel and co-workers use now?
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by jll29 9mo ago
Soon, poor people will talk to a LLM, rich people will get human medical care.
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by jll29 9mo ago
I totally agree. I spend my whole day from getting up to going to bed (not before reading HN!) on reviews for a conference I'm co-organizing later this year. So I was not amused about this announcement at all, however easy it may make
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by jll29 9mo ago
> What often baffles me with engineers and especially engineering managers is that they don't derive the estimates from metrics of prior projects, especially for long running teams (as opposed to project teams). The PMI project mana

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