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by jwilber 6y ago
Maybe true of typical residents of said locations, on average. But tech transplants by and large should not be considered typical residents. What you say definitely does have elements of truth to it, but I’d wager the effects of parenting
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by jwilber 6y ago
It sounds like you’re trying to relate the ever changing adoption and development of web standards with longstanding ethical expectations in research. Nevermind the fact that the former aren’t direct actions on customers (Amazon wasn’t not
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by jwilber 6y ago
I encountered the same trauma after building a react site and told myself surely there must be something more simple. Check out parcel! Zero configuration required, just add a couple of commands to a package.json and you’re off.
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by jwilber 6y ago
Surfing and skateboarding, mostly. Two lifelong passions.
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by jwilber 6y ago
I’m curious what HN people view as the gold standard of journalism. For my part, I pay for The Economist and, until a few months ago, the NYT (I’ve seen their quality in reporting and practices as a company drop consistently over the last f
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by jwilber 6y ago
I imagine the conversation yielding this article as output went something like this: “Hmm, we need a way to market our business about (trying to) reduce AWS costs. I know, let’s write a blog post incorrectly caricaturing an entire field, ho
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by jwilber 6y ago
Casually making millions, almost certainly illegally, while her district suffers as one of the nation’s most severe when it comes to income inequality. [0] Every day I become more and more convinced that all politicians are basically the sa
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by jwilber 6y ago
Seriously. What a sad arc Mozilla has taken: from one of the most respected companies to one of the least, and all while boosting the executives pay fourfold. Won’t be sad to see them capsize in their current iteration.
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by jwilber 6y ago
I really hope this doesn’t come off offensive, but every time I read journalists describe the amazing levels of stress they deal with on social media I can’t help but roll my eyes. Especially in a piece like this, one that is apparently ver
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by jwilber 6y ago
Disagree with basically everything written here. The neural net is a well-researched cnn variant - the activations are quite interpretable these days. The metric’s interpretability is independent from the neural net used for gameplay, so th
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by jwilber 6y ago
A therapist told me that, for those who suffer from ocd, meditation can do more harm than help. Especially for those who suffer from more rumination-based variants (ie “pure-ocd”). I’ve had mixed results - my personal observation is to trea
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by jwilber 6y ago
AGI in no way, shape, or form belongs on that list.
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by jwilber 6y ago
To be honest, reading that essay reminded me why I (personally) don’t enjoy classics more than modern work: the language of modern works is already familiar, making for a far more enjoyable experience. I do enjoy some classics (love Dostoye
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by jwilber 6y ago
I sometimes wonder if naming things would have the perceived difficulty it does in our field if that quote never existed. Naming variables/functions/classes is not hard - just say what it does. Sure, naming a library may seem diff
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by jwilber 6y ago
A nice, quick read. I had no idea how (apparently) commonplace it is to exchange captured spies for others - I’d just assumed all would be shot for treason (which, to be fair, also seems to be rather commonplace).
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by jwilber 6y ago
Thanks! You can view the page source directly to see the code :)
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by jwilber 6y ago
I love D3 and am always shocked by Mike Bostock’s willingness to help. Ten years of D3, yes, but ten years also of Mike answering questions in great detail across GitHub, SO, Twitter, etc. And that’s on top of maintenance + running a startu
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by jwilber 6y ago
Maybe, but there still remains the issue that such a pointless chat is even required to cancel in the first place.
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by jwilber 6y ago
Spot on. Anyone have any other good similar satire? The last I remember is https://heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com/ (which I also love).
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by jwilber 6y ago
This is seemingly the software equivalent of those trivial order of operations problems you see reposted over and over again on Facebook/Twitter. I can never tell if the objective is to give novel solutions to the problem or to just pu
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by jwilber 6y ago
Ok account created 32 minutes ago . I’m not saying anything regarding general anti-Asian discrimination in America. (On that point, I agree with others in this thread: they face discrimination in education and tech jobs, among other places)
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by jwilber 6y ago
I had open heart surgery at age 27, and the months after were full of pain in my abdomen and genital areas. I went to multiple urologists, GI docs, etc. and was ultimately diagnosed with “chronic pelvic pain disorder”: basically a wastebask
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by jwilber 6y ago
I think OP’s first paragraph sounds like a reasonable framework for viewing the utility of ML, though is a bit too black/white. Bit they lose me completely when they said that we’re “very far away from AI enabling the average person to
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by jwilber 6y ago
Huh? Here’s one for ya: Communicate instantly and asynchronously with someone who speaks a different language.
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by jwilber 6y ago
I suppose all of the specific anti-California sentiment stems from Californians having higher incomes relative to other states, on average, and thus being more likely to relocate than are those from other states. But I still don’t really un
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by jwilber 6y ago
Can’t wait to bring this up whenever they call for alumni donations! Never giving a penny. (In all seriousness, the people who call are usually just students working a job, so be respectful of you plan to do the same. Just ask to mark that
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by jwilber 6y ago
? The point of the movie (per the website as well) is literally a call to, “rebuild the system.”
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by jwilber 6y ago
I really like this documentary/film, but if I’m being honest, it does leave a taste of typical SV virtue signaling in my mouth. The website explicitly states that their site allows cookies "set through our site by our advertising
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by jwilber 6y ago
I made a little game while I was recovering from a surgery to let you control a sperm-cell by moving your face side-to-side/up/down: https://www.jwilber.me/sperm_hero/ Doesn’t work on all mobile devices and b
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by jwilber 6y ago
Same and I have to disagree with basically everything you’ve said, save the DSL bit and the R package bit. In particular, I don’t see how the tidyverse is at all ‘magical’ - take the two most popular tidy libs, dplyr and ggplot2. The api fo

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