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by jxf 3y ago
Sneakernet but for electric charge instead of bytes.
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by jxf 3y ago
Delightful, but in the simulataneous categories of "I would absolutely buy this" and "I do not have the time or energy to make this myself".
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by jxf 3y ago
This looks beautiful. When there's more data I bet it's going to be a great tool to hook up to LLMs. "Draw the first frame of this video using fq."
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by jxf 3y ago
I think that's fair - it isn't the same as accrued PTO. But no one in the firm took less than 16 days off in the last 12 months.
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by jxf 3y ago
I used 31 days last year. At my firm, if you don't use a minimum of 15 days, your manager is dinged. So it's more like "flexible PTO but you have a minimum".
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There is an "About" link at the top which may shed some light: > "For the Badge is [...] a complete joke."
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by jxf 3y ago
I've never had a Psion, but as I've become a dad, I've wished for devices for digital literacy that weren't tablets or phones. Something dumb with a dictionary, encyclopedia, calendar, an editor, and a few games, and phy
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by jxf 3y ago
This would be an incredible development. Now let's see if it gets enforced.
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by jxf 3y ago
Q: What does "alignment tax" mean in this sentence? > OpenAI paid a lot of alignment tax to make GPT-4 safer.
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by jxf 3y ago
To be clear, you want to dump enough gasoline-napalm into the Atlantic Ocean to incinerate a 5,500-mile-long belt of something that's mostly submerged in water?
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by jxf 3y ago
Good post (and hi Doug!). Here's my feedback: it seems like you've taken the phrase "feedback is a gift" to mean "it's always helpful to get feedback", which I agree is problematic for the reasons you&#x27
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by jxf 3y ago
Just to be clear, payout tables absolutely must be listed on slot machines. The _rate_ at which the payout is made is not required to be listed on a given machine. That is, if you land on three cherries, you should be able to verify you got
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by jxf 3y ago
> Casinos are required to display the current payout rate on any and all slot machines. This is not accurate in at least Nevada, Michigan, and Maryland. Casinos are required to disclose the overall average, but not the rate of individual
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by jxf 3y ago
See also this other HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36101501
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by jxf 3y ago
This is my sentiment too; I'm curious about if the OP agrees with this or not because there's a lot of variation in opinion here.
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> So it's an ego thing? It's a respect thing. It costs time and money to produce and give a talk. That very often isn't visible to the audience. It takes weeks of dedicated preparation to deliver a high-quality keynote tal
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by jxf 3y ago
> For all its technological whizzyness, the system has downsides. Cost is one. Mr Redi reckons each raising of the barrier costs about €150,000 (other estimates are higher). Great article but I'm really curious about this number. If
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by jxf 3y ago
> We can also turn that around: the organisers are essentially being called a bunch of cruel racist assholes here, all without any real evidence. You're getting evidence directly from someone who is a senior member of the Rust commu
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by jxf 3y ago
It's true that there are other options. However, in the real world that might not help, because sometimes the erroneous circumstances which cause the test to be inaccurate will continue to persist. For example, genetic parental tests a
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by jxf 3y ago
The people who don't think this is a big deal are either lacking some empathy or don't understand how conferences work. The equivalent situation is something like being warmly invited to a wedding, which you accept. The bride and
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by jxf 3y ago
Copilot Chat is a different API than Copilot, so I don't think this is conclusive one way or the other, but I think this is a great writeup.
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by jxf 3y ago
This is a more specific version of the base rate fallacy, called the false-positive paradox. It's illustrated by a simple example. Suppose you have a test looking for an extremely rare genetic condition (say, 1 in 1 billion people have
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by jxf 3y ago
That's not correct. It has context from anything that's open, and it knows about your overall project structure (for example, it knows if you have a pom.xml or a cargo.toml). That said, note that Microsoft has been deliberately va
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by jxf 3y ago
Highly recommend calamansi if you've never tried it before. It's very prevalent in Phillipine cuisine; I first came across it as a sorbet flavor and I'm absolutely hooked on them now. They're a sort of super-acidic versi
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by jxf 3y ago
You've got some good advice already, but one that I'll add here is adopting the principle of charity [0]. Every time someone talks to you, interpret their words in the way that is most favorable to their argument and your mutual i
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by jxf 3y ago
The author's claim is "this isn't just statistics; the model is reasoning". But just because something goes beyond "just statistics" doesn't mean it's reasoning.
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by jxf 3y ago
If a counterexample to a specific claim doesn't disprove the claim, that sometimes suggests the claim is unfalsifiable and therefore suspect.
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by jxf 3y ago
There are an infinity of possible sequences you could write down. The ones in OEIS are ones where there's relevance to it in terms of other sequences or other mathematical ideas that make them useful to describe.
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by jxf 3y ago
This isn't mentioned in the article, but this number just scratches the surface of illustrating how broadly Section 702 gets used: https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/02/fbi_section_702_searc...
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by jxf 3y ago
One way to get some general recommendations is to check out the James Beard awards [0] for "general cooking" cookbooks. You'll get what the industry and expert chefs think are the best for beginning cooks to get started (and

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