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by losvedir 6y ago
Maybe as an Android user, this is a thing I take for granted that just isn't really in the Apple ecosystem, but I'm used to a Chromecast and seamlessly streaming all my phone content to my TV. So when I was reading the section abo
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by losvedir 6y ago
> You have to do something that sounds to most other people like a bad idea, but that you know isn't — like writing software for a tiny computer used by a few thousand hobbyists, or starting a site to let people rent airbeds on stra
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by losvedir 6y ago
Wow, very cool! Off topic, but it made me flash on something I spent many, many hours on probably 20 years ago, that I can't quite recollect. Does anyone remember the flash experience where you created little creatures out of lines and
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by losvedir 6y ago
> Shira Ovide asks “a wild question: What if we played games, shopped, watched Netflix and read news on our smartphones — without using apps? Our smartphones, like our computers, would instead mostly be gateways to go online through a we
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by losvedir 6y ago
I wouldn't call it "simpler", exactly. Yes, it's just getting the immune system to react to a single protein (albeit by injecting genetic material rather than the protein itself) rather than sending in a whole modified v
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by losvedir 6y ago
As a fan of static typing, the ideas in the blog post do resonate with me. However, one concern I have with this approach over simple JSON, is client size. A JSON API can be consumed by the web client natively, basically. Whereas using, e.g
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by losvedir 6y ago
I periodically try out Safari, I guess I'll have to try it again. The last time, the thing that kept me from switching was inconsistent or confusing behavior around the URL bar auto-filling suggestions. When I focus on it and start typ
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by losvedir 6y ago
Does Aruffo ever claim to have acquired perfect pitch? I followed his enormous blog as it was happening 10-15 years ago (I'm even quoted in it :)), and it was utterly fascinating to see his journey, but I never thought he actually succ
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by losvedir 6y ago
Is it the general "algorithm" that's still in use? Or is it more like there's a collection of known slang phrases, that happened to have been generated that way in the past, that are known and used. For example, what&#x2
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by losvedir 6y ago
I think your example is instructive. That's not really an "error", so much as a rule people learn in school about how English "should" be spoken and may or may not pass along to their children. But consider this con
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by losvedir 6y ago
I thought it really was founded by those two, and written in Lisp at that. Then YC hooked them up with Swartz and his big thing was rewriting in python. (And maybe there was some contention about this? I forget, but I seem to recall some dr
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by losvedir 6y ago
> Don't write like this. Respect your readers This is way over the top. I thought the author did an amazing job of discussing a highly technical topic in a very approachable way. Every blog on HN should aspire to write like this
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by losvedir 6y ago
The obvious response is that Harvard and Yale are the best law schools, so it's not inconsistent that all the best students come from there. I don't know if that's the case, but looking at LSAT ranges at least they seem to be
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by losvedir 6y ago
We run a lot of production Elixir apps at work, but we deploy them all in Docker containers on AWS basically. The whole live-upgrade erlang philosophy has always been one I've been curious about and interested in, but also a little ske
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by losvedir 6y ago
I decoded it probably in the same way you tried, but I wouldn't call the result "random" in the space of possibilities. A random result of that kind of decoding would likely involve binary data that can't map cleanly to
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by losvedir 6y ago
Not exactly the same, but there's this interesting quiz that presents a number of studies that appeared in Science and Nature and asks you to guess which failed to replicate: https://80000hours.org/psychology-replicatio
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by losvedir 6y ago
Oh, a lot of good stuff in this release! I'm especially excited to be able to pass a map to Logger and have it print `key1=value1 key2=value2`. I thought Jose had said earlier that Elixir was basically "done" a version or two
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by losvedir 6y ago
Yeah, Indiana, as of two years ago.
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by losvedir 6y ago
If you're considering Chicago unaffordable, I'm really curious what you think is affordable! When I moved here, I was blown away that house prices where I live, about 30 minutes from downtown, are on average $150k, or less than 3x
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by losvedir 6y ago
Yeah, I remember reading this idea in the 90s in his book The Road Ahead . I thought it was such a cool idea, and was sad it never happened.
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by losvedir 6y ago
Ha, I see three of those are already gray-visited for me, and clicking them now, I see why! * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941 was a great look at Oracle DB development * https://news.ycombinator.com
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by losvedir 6y ago
Great idea! Was just doing something like this manually, so this is a neat resource. I'd love to see the intersection of three languages, though.
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by losvedir 6y ago
And conversely this undue pension funding burden is a talking point as well. A lot of companies would be in a good financial position if only they didn't have to worry about their unfunded liabilities. Can someone clarify for me if thi
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by losvedir 6y ago
I use Firefox on Android and got a push notification about those changes coming. I sort of rue the day when it comes because last I heard it removes the feature that I most care about: being able to not load images when not browsing on WiFi
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by losvedir 6y ago
What evidence? I thought that was standard orthodoxy, not just on HN. No one doubts that people can and have beat basic index funds; I just thought that was a poor predictor of what would beat the market again going forward (perhaps after a
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by losvedir 6y ago
Oh, neat! I went through an earlier version of the online course when I was just trying to understand what this "deep learning mumbo jumbo" was all about, and it was the clearest, and easiest to follow, and most interesting one av
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by losvedir 6y ago
I mean, someone has to come up with "moz://a". It's cute, to be sure, but it felt like kind of a slap in the face when I saw that rebrand logo front and center on the blog post about Mozilla laying off 250 staff.
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by losvedir 6y ago
This is sad. I remember back when Firebug came on the scene and all of a sudden it wasn't just possible it was easy to debug your website. That, more than anything, I think is why Firefox took off the way it did. Then Chrome came out
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by losvedir 6y ago
Errors in which sense? False positives like here, which can then be resolved with the better PCR test, are much less of a concern than false negatives.
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by losvedir 6y ago
Exactly. It's obvious that suicide by gun is going to be correlated to gun ownership, but that's not valuable information at all. The much more interesting question of whether suicide is correlated to gun ownership was (for me) st

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