kaonwarb

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by kaonwarb 1y ago
Google has squandered so much good will over the years. This is a good example: expenses wouldn't even be a rounding error, and it could have given so many average folks a positive experience with the company.
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by kaonwarb 1y ago
I would upvote interesting Show HNs about, say, raising pigs! I like learning from folks with firsthand knowledge.
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by kaonwarb 1y ago
There are some really good details in the article. But, to quote: > Despite more than a decade of predictions of its failure, the project has persevered — even if its completion is in limbo. I'm not sure that's much of an endor
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by kaonwarb 1y ago
Rather, I think we can say based on those datapoints that for their design, performance scales superlinearly with cost. Not surprising given fixed costs!
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Plaintextsports.com - plain text sports scores(plaintextsports.com)
5 points by kaonwarb 1y ago|1 comments
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by kaonwarb 1y ago
"Mary Magdalene is considered to be a saint by the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran denominations." ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene ) Plenty of other references too!
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by kaonwarb 1y ago
There is some evidence that street lights reduce crime! E.g. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10940-020-09490-6
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by kaonwarb 1y ago
I agree with parent: it's a reasonable assumption that those turning to the digital world for sociality, including to design digital sociality, are less likely to have previously found success in analog sociality than the median human.
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by kaonwarb 1y ago
Taking geoengineering seriously is a sign of truly taking climate change seriously.
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
Nice. Can you share?
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
I am highly confident that a sufficient percentage of those whose cars are burned go on to buy another car that the net impact of the act you describe is negative on all counts.
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
A good time to remember: Colombia/Columbia
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
While recognizing the material downsides of education in the time of AI, I envy serious students who now have access to these systems. As an engineering undergrad at a research-focused institution a couple decades ago, I had a few classes t
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Hacker Laws(hacker-laws.com)
127 points by kaonwarb 2y ago|21 comments
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26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Diamond)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by kaonwarb 2y ago|0 comments
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
Of course that's an easier solution to the problem. OP is quite clear in the writeup that this is a project for the sake of trying new tools to make something for a friend. A fun hack need not be constrained by meeting a real market ne
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
Bayes would like to have a word.
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
Yes. The article gets into this, but buried pretty deep below the fold. Disappointing.
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
> The fact that they're working so hard to keep it tells me it's an even better idea to make them sell it. If your goal is nothing deeper than to hurt Google, sure. Otherwise, this logic is far from complete.
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
TIL "acoustic bike" is a phrase
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
Gorgeously evocative writing. Thank you for sharing. I'm going to look at birds tomorrow.
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
He wanted to do it. Didn't hurt anyone. Why criticize?
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
If a mitigating action had decreased CO in my neighbor's house by at least as much as it increased in mine, then potentially yes, a neutral researcher should consider that as an offset at the population health level. Not sure why we
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
This reads as less than useful research to me. E.g.: "The analysis does not account for the purchase of market-based instruments that are meant to represent investments in new renewable energy in the US and that tech companies buy to o
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
Gorby looks interesting. Any future potential for operating on local markdown files?
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
Interesting article; clickbait title. There's very little about Amazon in here, never mind its chairman.
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
Yes... but the climate and geography alone would make it highly desirable at, say, 10x density.
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
On season length: the NBA moved to an 82-game season in 1967.
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
My position is informed by my own experience; I am not a physician, but have worked closely with a large number of them in a healthcare-oriented career. I've repeatedly noted long-term resistance of many physicians to updating their pr
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
I doubt it is easier to retrain a large, dispersed group of humans on a new classification of tumors than it is to retrain a model on the same.

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