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by jxf 3y ago
Ahh, this does explain it somewhat (I'm mostly a CS-background and econ-background person). Thank you for adding your knowledge.
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by jxf 3y ago
> arXiv was founded in 1991 by then-Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Paul Ginsparg, Ph.D. ’81, prior to his return to Cornell in 2001. I had no idea arXiv was that old. I honestly only heard of it and started using it less than 1
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by jxf 3y ago
> there's not many good ways to kill them without releasing their nasty odor Handheld vacuum cleaner, then empty outside after they've starved to death (about a day). No mess, no fuss. Gruesome, but very satisfying.
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by jxf 3y ago
It is a necessary condition for a number of treatments and insurance companies, but not all of them.
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by jxf 3y ago
I don't think that's the most common cause. Deleting the production database is obviously disastrous but there are many other reasons for extended downtime, and they're usually about the distributed-ness of the underlying arc
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by jxf 3y ago
> In non-games testing, QA is a career that pays double and is usually a respected part of the development process. Pays double relative to developers, or pays double relative to their counterparts in the gaming industry?
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by jxf 3y ago
"Str 6, Dex 8, Int 18..."
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by jxf 3y ago
I don't have CF, but I am inspired by the pace of scientific advancement when I hear stories like this one. Thank you for sharing, and I hope every one of your years brings further boosts to your health.
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by jxf 3y ago
If Apple is shipping that implementation as part of their OS, doesn't it make sense to let Apple know they should pick a different upstream target?
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by jxf 3y ago
Makes sense. Thank you!
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by jxf 3y ago
Q: How did you arrive at the $23k figure for classifying 2M examples using GPT-4?
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by jxf 3y ago
Early Rust was really incomprehensible to me, and it's unquestionably better than it once was from an ergonomics and ecosystem perspective. The ~ and @ sigils everywhere were verging on Perl!
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Ask HN: Recent “Personal Tracker” App?
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by jxf 3y ago
What self-hosted versions are you most interested in?
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by jxf 3y ago
It feels like it would also be helpful if advertisements were rate-limited (for example, if an advertisement is declined three times, don't show it again for another 24 hours).
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by jxf 3y ago
Q: What are the grant amounts?
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by jxf 3y ago
That's still not a security, because if someone buys all the baseball cards, they don't control anything about MLB or have a right to its profits, for example.
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by jxf 3y ago
That seems materially different from an expectation that you will make money on the card, or that the value of your card is determined by MLB's profitability and future earnings.
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by jxf 3y ago
I think this is too uncharitable. I'm not a cryptocurrency booster, but Vitalik has consistently been a philosophical explorer of ideas he finds interesting in this space, and this seems genuine, not an attempt to "hitch a dead ox
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by jxf 3y ago
I mean "expose" in the sense that you might expose the files in an unlicensed way, not just that the files are available.
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by jxf 3y ago
You'd have to ask Fabrizio. I assume desktop is the cheapest because it's just you, and app/website is more expensive because there's some nontrivial risk you expose the font files in a way that others can get them for f
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by jxf 3y ago
Not OP, but I like PragmataPro [0] by Fabrizio Schiavi and use it in my IDEs. I particularly appreciate his attention to glyphs in languages other than English, and how nice it looks (IMO) for console interfaces and box drawing [1]. [0] ht
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by jxf 3y ago
I love when searches are also answers.
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by jxf 3y ago
While the Ig Nobel prizes always have a quirky bent to them, I'm glad that they have a focus on this kind of basic science research. Sometimes understanding the simple things more deeply makes all the difference.
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by jxf 3y ago
> Bio waste is best waste there is because what we need is whatever material we extract from the fields to go back there to fertilise it. Anything that we extract from the soil that isn't going back there is essentially eroding it.
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by jxf 3y ago
I think these sites look very attractive, but this is a very subjective and specific definition of "good". Many of these pages do not finish loading in 3 seconds, for example. I'm not sure it would be correct to frame these a
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by jxf 3y ago
Unrelated, but this is the first time I've seen the *.onl TLD.
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by jxf 3y ago
I think the people who leave it on see it as "rewriting history" -- e.g., if you typed [cmd1], [cmd1], [cmd2], and you erase duplicates, your history no longer reflects what you actually typed. The people who leave it off see the
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by jxf 3y ago
It is (in RFC 2606), along with .test, .invalid, and .localhost, for similar reasons [0]. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2606
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by jxf 3y ago
This absolutely sucks. Kris and I worked together only briefly on a small hack project, but everything about them was exactly what you'd imagine in a forward-thinking community leader and technologist. I'm deeply saddened for thos

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