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901.
by lacker 6y ago
Yeah, the weather forecasts for air quality have been quite inaccurate. Since Friday, the projections for Oakland CA have constantly been, “it’ll clear up in the next 24 hours.” Only now, Tuesday morning, has the AQI dropped below 100. It s
902.
by lacker 6y ago
Netflix really doesn’t belong in the same category as the others. It’s big but not as big, and it isn’t a sprawling conglomerate. Clearly “FAGMA” is the best acronym.
903.
by lacker 6y ago
Plenty of non-giant internet companies are banned in China as well.
904.
by lacker 6y ago
China does not primarily use a national security justification. They primarily don’t even bother to justify themselves. They freely ban whatever websites they want without communicating any rationale for the ban or clearly stating what is b
905.
by lacker 6y ago
It isn’t the same at all. China routinely bans American internet companies for no apparent reason. Whereas the vast majority of Chinese companies are allowed to sell into the US. No other country operates like China does, with such drastic
906.
by lacker 6y ago
This is true to Ruby's Perl heritage. There is more than one way to do everything, even the most basic of operations. Quiz: what does the following Ruby code do? a = b => c = d
907.
by lacker 6y ago
I wonder if you could embed a modern image-recognition AI in browsers, to create image descriptions when they are missing.
908.
A Math Theory for Why People Hallucinate(quantamagazine.org)
3 points by lacker 6y ago|0 comments
909.
by lacker 6y ago
IMO calling it "convolution" in deep learning is extra confusing, because the word "convolution" means many fairly different things in other contexts. The idea behind convolution in deep learning is that, if a particular
910.
by lacker 6y ago
So what killed Haskell is the parochialism, the inability to address the needs of the Enterprise. I don’t think so. What killed Haskell in mainstream programming is its weird syntax. Rust looks like C so it passed that first sanity check.
911.
by lacker 6y ago
There’s no supply shortage of Chromebooks, you can buy them on Amazon and have them delivered Thursday. Maybe schools don’t have money allocated for this, but refurbishing old PCs isn’t really going to solve that problem. A chromebook is pr
912.
by lacker 6y ago
Monkeypatching in one application is maybe okay. You really want pprint in builtins, fine, who is it really hurting? Monkeypatching in a library like fastcore that many other people use is really bad. All sorts of bugs and incompatibilities
913.
by lacker 6y ago
This library reminds me of fast.ai itself. It’s cool how you can do so many things with a few lines of code, and I was impressed the first couple times I used it. Over time, I started to run into problems when I wanted to do something beyon
914.
by lacker 6y ago
It's tough to generalize from things like this because "a webapp for 55k monthly users" can mean drastically different things. A user could be loading a few static pages, or that same user could be opening websocket connectio
915.
by lacker 6y ago
I’m sad to hear it. A lot of people are denied entry to the US for their entire lifetimes; I am sad for all of them.
916.
by lacker 6y ago
This sort of thing happens a lot when you first set up a free plan. Some part of it turns out to cost more money than you expected, and it’s a small but growing segment. If you’re going to have to pull back in it eventually, why wait? Waiti
917.
by lacker 6y ago
Yes, I actually thought of the snow in RDR2 as I wrote that comment! The beginning of RDR2 with the deep snow is one of the most impressive visual scenes in a video games so far, visually, to me. You could implement little bugs without all
918.
by lacker 6y ago
There must be some fun intracorporate debates discussing how this is positioned relative to the Azure Container Registry, also offered by a division of Microsoft. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/containe
919.
by lacker 6y ago
The biggest thing to me is that video games do not have very many independent objects, compared to reality. Go outside and look at the real world and you will see the ground has little pebbles and bits of mud and all this stuff that gets ki
920.
by lacker 6y ago
I think this gets the cause and effect backwards. No corporate lawyer prefers the GPL, so when companies start new open source projects, they don’t pick the GPL. Once a project has been started, GPLing it doesn’t really make it any easier t
921.
by lacker 6y ago
Could you give an example of a major task that you think the state of the art could be trivially improved on with the xlnet approach?
922.
by lacker 6y ago
It seems pretty obvious to me. Apple wants a user experience that makes the user happy with Apple products, not one where the app is complaining to the user about Apple policies. Apple is happy to prohibit zillions of random different thing
923.
by lacker 6y ago
The English-speaking Go community is just many times smaller than the English-speaking chess community. Many of the best books for Go are translated versions of foreign ones, there aren’t many popular streamers to learn from, all sort of ed
924.
by lacker 6y ago
When I draw an 8 it seems to frequently classify it as a zero. In fact, most of the numbers I draw don't get correctly classified. Just the 0's and 1's are consistent.
925.
by lacker 6y ago
Now that Fermat's Last Theorem has been proven, the Collatz conjecture is the simplest unsolved math problem. That is what makes it special. There are other unsolved problems that are at the heart of some rich field of mathematics and
926.
by lacker 6y ago
Facebook and Apple negotiate a revenue sharing agreement that covers all sorts of things, like importantly revenue from apps that are installed via Facebook ads. The 30% take-it-or-leave-it deal only applies to the little guys; once you get
927.
by lacker 6y ago
Many international companies already pay for business class flights for their employees going between US <-> Europe. There's plenty of market there. It just depends on whether Boom can get their costs down to be comparable to an
928.
by lacker 6y ago
Boom's pitch did not rely on a quick exit, it was much more along the lines of "This will take a very long time to come to fruition. We're up-front about that. But, it has the potential to be billions of dollars, if you can b
929.
by lacker 6y ago
It's too bad that this whole article never touches on the basics of Uber's business model, like how much money they lose on each ride, how much funding they have to ride out the current economic climate, the crazy fact that Uber E
930.
by lacker 6y ago
That's a good point - in the past, when lands were conquered by the Muslim empire, they started to share architectural style. Now, as more lands are conquered by the international-corporate-capitalist empire, they too start to share an

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