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by lupire 2y ago
Early consumer electronics don't have substantial text entry. In the 1980s, a major goal of AI research was to make CJK text entry effective and convenient (OCR or alternatives). It didn't pan out in time. When the necessary tech
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by lupire 2y ago
Corporate perks brokers and Amazon also give 15% off. But anyways, 15% is pretty much in the error fuzz range of "which platform do I like better" and "dominated by RAM upgrade price.
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by lupire 2y ago
What about orange juice futures? We saw Trading Places.
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by lupire 2y ago
Not really. Transaction costs / vig (commonly 5%) and counterparty risk eat up theoretical arbitrage profits. The main arbitrage opportunity was in finding ways to place illega bets in the bettor's jurisdiction.
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by lupire 2y ago
"why not just" because it destroys the utility. There were 2-3 assassination attempts on Trump this year. It would be valuable to incentive people to share knowledge of assassination vulnerability, to guide security efforts. Banni
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by lupire 2y ago
Yes, that's what a "prediction market" is.
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by lupire 2y ago
A/B testing was Amazon Weblab. Google pioneered information retrieval and ranking innovations, not behavior optimization.
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by lupire 2y ago
You just invented Java AutoValue and Kotlin Data Classes. https://github.com/google/auto/blob/main/value/userguide/ind...
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by lupire 2y ago
If you are rigorous as to make classes final, you should also be rigorous to never provide a non-interface as an Application Programming Interface . Google uses mocks and fakes implementations of interfaces, and provides dependency injecti
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by lupire 2y ago
Life is not binary.
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by lupire 2y ago
And yet here you are. Brilliant performance art. https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/ THESE TERMS OF USE CONTAIN AN ARBITRATION AGREEMENT, WHICH WILL, WITH LIMITED EXCEPTION, REQUIRE YOU TO SUBMIT CLAIMS YOU HAVE AGAINST
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by lupire 2y ago
The obvious-in-retrospect distinction is that memory is everywhere (even a footprintnin dirt is a memory), and selective (reinforced) memory is more complex (as in the OP example), and the combination and communication of memories and i
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by lupire 2y ago
The real problem here is that companies are allowed choose their own arbitrator. It's not arbitration if the result is decided by someone hired by one party. Arbitrator should be selected by mutual agreement or assigned by the governme
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by lupire 2y ago
Related prior art: "She's My Number Pi: The Irrationally Long Number Pi Song" https://youtu.be/Skf8NTEnrO4?si=gWDlZwNi67Zc7nLM
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by lupire 2y ago
Agile Manifesto was invented by consultants / contractors to make better products for their customers at a good price, not by ivory tower engineers building Platonically ideal software.
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by lupire 2y ago
No methodology will get good work out of bad people. Having good people is table stakes.
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by lupire 2y ago
The touchscreen is in the same space the buttons were.
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by lupire 2y ago
If it can be done, but not done right, that's not a big win (except in an arbitrary legal regulatory sense) than something that can be done. (And of course software "can be audited" too, by a different professional.)
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by lupire 2y ago
> You'll notice its hash function only needs to consider a single character in in a string. That's what makes it perfect, Is that a joke? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_hash_function
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by lupire 2y ago
I am a college graduate and I found it quite interesting and enlightening. I don't understand the persistent effort some bystanders are making to discredit this work that has met the approval of mathematical professionals. I also very
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by lupire 2y ago
No slack needed. The authors did great work, and they have been assured of that, and PP is embarrassing themself with the kind of middlebrow dismissal that Hacker News guidelines discourage.
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by lupire 2y ago
No one is obligated to be interested in everything, but I don't understand why you are bragging about your lack of intellectual curiosity about precise mathematical thinking. The difference between triangle trigonometry and unit circle
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by lupire 2y ago
Employees look for new jobs they aren't seriously interested in. Why shouldn't employers do the same? Filtering through a 1000 unemployed people spamming every job listing isn't going to give them useful intel.
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by lupire 2y ago
The USA invaded and annexed lots of free countries. Invading and annexing isn't some weird thing no one usually does. Taiwan is the product of a recent civil war.
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by lupire 2y ago
That's fine for your quick hack that is probably a reimplementation of an existing program you can't find. But it's not a production quality implementation of new need.
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by lupire 2y ago
External comments are API usage comments. LLM prompts are also implementation proposal. Implementation comments belong inside the implementation, so they should be over if not deleted.
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by lupire 2y ago
(No need to Orientalize to defamiarize, especially when a huge fraction of the audience is Chinese, so Orientalizing doesn't defamiliarize. Game of Whispers or Telephone works fine.)
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by lupire 2y ago
Google does not write much publicly available JavaScript. They wrote their own special flavor. (Same for any hugel legacy operation)
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by lupire 2y ago
But the specific roles being laid off are arbitrary, and the overall goal headcount reduction is driven by macroeconomics factors (I'm being generous there), not based on new efficiencies. Note the difft between "cost cutting&quot
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by lupire 2y ago
Bug flying is not general intelligence.

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