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by jrmg 1y ago
Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen!
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by jrmg 1y ago
I can understand it after some deciphering, but I think that’s only because I already know quicksort. I’d be interested in seeing if anyone new to sorting algorithms finds it illuminating. Then again, maybe that’s not important to the autho
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by jrmg 1y ago
Amazed that there are no comments yet mentioning HUML: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45335129 It was on the front page yesterday! Human-oriented Markup Language HUML is a simple, strict, serialization language for d
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by jrmg 1y ago
I tried to do this (buy an affordable priced, reasonably accurate meter) and, after probably after reading the same articles as you, reached the conclusion that there are no meters that are accurate and affordable. So many seem to rely on a
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by jrmg 1y ago
Who or what should we be discussing or consulting ethics with? Is the line drawn at the written word? It’s easy to read your comment as meaning ‘never let others influence your opinions on right or wrong’ which is (I hope!) obviously ludicr
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by jrmg 1y ago
Here’s a full transcript of the monologue - which is absurdly hard to find in all the coverage. https://pastebin.com/25ZmRNwj
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by jrmg 1y ago
For those skimming the surface of this article as I almost did: The pictures in the article, impressive enough, are just the Manhattan portions of his model. He has in fact modelled all of New York ! > Macken said it took him about 10
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by jrmg 1y ago
I wouldn’t want to be the lawyer who one day will have to argue how a device with USB C and a rechargeable battery can be classified as “disposable”. I thought the point of making them like this was that they technically are reusable, so
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by jrmg 1y ago
People are interpreting the ‘and’ here as meaning ‘either of these things’ rather than ‘these things in sequence’ as you (and I) do.
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It may be too reductive for you, but the answer is “that’s not straightforward and easy”.
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I read that comment as an obvious - but very well composed - parody.
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by jrmg 1y ago
What kind of dirty money do you believe these stores are laundering? What kind of illegal businesses/schemes are the source of it?
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by jrmg 1y ago
It’s thirteen years old now (2012), but there’s a fascinating old Forbes article (from when, I think, it was a respectable publication) about the cross-pollination between Palo Alto’s rug dealers, and Palo Alto’s venture capitalists: https
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by jrmg 1y ago
That worker may become or not become a permanent US resident afterwards. Practically true - but that it’s not permitted to count experience gained while working on an H-1B when applying for a green card. If an application for a green card
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by jrmg 1y ago
Would it be possible (and/or a good idea...) to calculate the best HAM approximation of the frame, rather than an EHB version?
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by jrmg 1y ago
> The costs are born by people paying 20-25% VAT. The government just collects and disperses those funds. This may be more efficient, but the cost is born by everyone in society. Well, yes, all costs ‘borne by the government’ are in fact
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by jrmg 1y ago
> being forced to buy insurance with a premium so high my risk adjusted return for self insuring is actually higher This is how all insurance works though. Everyone pays in, and those unlucky enough to experience catastrophic problems ge
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by jrmg 1y ago
I’m no lover of the US healthcare system - other countries get better outcomes for less than is spent by the US government - and basically all their costs are borne by the government, unlike in the US. But: you have to be careful with large
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by jrmg 1y ago
Last sentence in the executive summary, which I think really does sum up the report: “U.S. policy actions are expected to have undetectably small direct impacts on the global climate and any effects will emerge only with long delays.”
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by jrmg 1y ago
I lost a lot of trust in Google’s AI announcements after being initially amazed an impressed by this debacle: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/googl...
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by jrmg 1y ago
I’m partial to Homer’s “Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!”
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by jrmg 1y ago
I think it probably is less. I’d hang out on my laptop in the evenings and mornings (like, while watching TV or reading news when eating breakfast) in a way I don’t now. I use my iPad or phone now. I do wonder, though, if there’s a gap for
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by jrmg 1y ago
…surprisingly sinister agendas. … Dynamic linking moves control from users to vendors and governments at ruinous cost in performance, props up bloated industries... This is ridiculous. Not everything is a conspiracy!
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by jrmg 1y ago
It’s not just new frameworks, it’s new features. Good luck getting a LLM to write code that uses iOS 26 features, for example. I’m not convinced simply getting the LLM to inject documentation about the features will work well (perhaps someo
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by jrmg 1y ago
It’s not online, but Delayed Gratification is a quarterly news magazine that reports on the news of the _previous_ quarter with an up-to-date perspective. It’s British but covers world news. https://www.slow-journalism.com/
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There are definitely compression artifacts in there that are making it look significantly less crisp than it would in reality.
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“Microkernel” (but everything’s in the same address space)
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Yes, that’s it.
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Not for a long time now - closed in the mid 2000s I think.
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LLMs are the Chinese Room. They would generate identical output for the same input text every time were it not for artificially introduced randomness (‘heat’). Of course, some would argue the Chinese Room is conscious.

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