mysterypie

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by mysterypie 6mo ago
> it's socially acceptable to do 'yet another translation', but not a newer version in the same language I wish they'd teach with modern English translations of Shakespeare in high schools. Maybe then kids would like
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by mysterypie 7mo ago
> allocating a large part of my portfolio into AI companies Even if you were certain that AI would take over virtually everything, the problem is deciding which AI companies to invest in. Thinking back to 1996, just when this new thing
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by mysterypie 8mo ago
I was looking at rank by karma (not rank by word count): https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
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by mysterypie 8mo ago
There's something about the numbers I can't figure out. Look at the top three HN contributors by karma[1]: username words karma 1. tptacek 4,310,896 416351 2. jacquesm 3,841,209 237961 3. ingve
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Carjackers swipe biometric Merc, plus owner's finger(theregister.com)
11 points by mysterypie 9mo ago|2 comments
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by mysterypie 9mo ago
As someone who hasn't used Windows in a long time, could you explain the benefit of doing a double install like that? I.e., if you stopped at step #1, it's activated, so what purpose does step 2 serve?
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by mysterypie 11mo ago
> $600 in the 1920s (1930s?), not inflation adjusted I consulted the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator: $600 in 1925 would be $11,264 today $600 in 1935 would be $14,329 today A lot of money, but I've heard that it c
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by mysterypie 11mo ago
> With widespread AI adoption we plausibly could consume 10x or more of the service: Legal services, for example, plausibly fit this bill. A ten-fold productivity gain in legal services sounds simply awful for society. Imagine the time
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by mysterypie 11mo ago
> ChatGPT has more than 800 million weekly active users 0 to 800,000,000 in 3 years? The fastest adoption of a product or service in human history?
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by mysterypie 1y ago
Do you still get fingerprinted under the visa-free transit policy for foreigners? I can accept a facial scan, but I draw the line at fingerprints and more invasive biometrics.
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by mysterypie 1y ago
Why don't early investors put clauses in their investment to protect themselves against being screwed over by later investors? It seems like an obvious thing to ask for if you're giving someone a lot of money, so I'm assuming
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by mysterypie 1y ago
> go to about:config and setting privacy.resistFingerprinting = true in your Firefox browser Two questions jump to mind: Why isn't this the default in Firefox? What is the downside? I.e., what can break by enabling this parameter?
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by mysterypie 1y ago
> As someone who worked in airline revenue management, it always seemed odd that the sales tactics people use everywhere else weren't being used by airlines Remember the really old days when air miles were awarded solely by distan
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by mysterypie 1y ago
Does anybody know why? How was ChatGPT able to develop a style that's so different from its training data?
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Bill Gates: AI will replace doctors/teachers – humans unneeded for most things(cnbc.com)
10 points by mysterypie 2y ago|5 comments
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by mysterypie 2y ago
Let me second your comment. That webpage really needs to define POTS and give a brief explanation. It's written as if everyone knows what it is. I've never encountered the term Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome until now.
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by mysterypie 2y ago
I'm hoping someone can answer a question that's been bugging me for years: When I take blood pressure medication my blood pressure goes down but my heart rate goes up [1]. That can't be good. Heart rate has a strong inverse
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by mysterypie 2y ago
I found the article interesting but I don't think "debug" is the right word here. I was thinking the article would be about debugging a software or electronics bug that causes my laptop or car battery to drain too fast. Maybe
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by mysterypie 2y ago
> Schools, (K-12, Univ) Didn't Apple make a great deal of their revenue in the early days (1976-1985) by selling to schools? I seem to recall that schools were their main focus. A $3000 Apple II in 1980 would be $12,000 in today&#
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by mysterypie 2y ago
> In 2017, the CBC demonstrated how hackers only needed a Canadian MP’s cell number to intercept his movements, text messages and phone calls. > From the linked article: First, the hackers were able to record a conversation between
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by mysterypie 2y ago
Actually, yes. I recall that the high school textbook and lecture did talk about mitochondria having its own DNA and that mitochondria traced the maternal tree. Although those are somewhat interesting, its origin as a separate lifeform is W
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by mysterypie 2y ago
> The first occurred about 2.2 billion years ago, when an archaea swallowed a bacterium that became the mitochondria. The second time happened about 1.6 billion years ago, when cells absorbed cyanobacteria that became chloroplasts. How
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by mysterypie 3y ago
It's nice that the nuclear explosion of novas and supernovas occur on a human perceptible timescale -- taking weeks to months, instead of a nanosecond or ten million years. I'm not suggesting anything superstitious or supernatural
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by mysterypie 3y ago
Here's a site that does live tracking of ships: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:1.7/center... "Since December 2004, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) requires all
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by mysterypie 3y ago
For how many years had you been earning the $560k ballpark? Had you kept it up for 10 years total, another option would have been to retire permanently, move someplace cheap, and live happily ever after. To flesh out some numbers: $560k min
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by mysterypie 3y ago
I don't understand the extreme amount of work that people put into works like this that could be shut down forever at the whim of the copyright holder. "There is ongoing debate about to what extent fan fiction is permitted under c
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by mysterypie 3y ago
How do subtle pixel changes cause the image of a dog to classified as a cat rather than as gibberish?
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by mysterypie 3y ago
> altering an image’s pixels in a way that wreaks havoc to computer vision but leaves the image unaltered to a human’s eyes Can someone who understands the original paper give an ELI5 on how that's possible? I understand how label
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by mysterypie 3y ago
> I'm not a fan of AI generated illustrations Why not? I thought that the illustrations fit the article better than the bland and irrelevant stock photos people usually use. As an aside: I figure that in about 3-4 years, no one wi
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by mysterypie 3y ago
> In reality, 95 percent of those diagnosed with a penicillin allergy aren’t actually allergic. I have an anecdote on how people get falsely labeled as having a penicillin allergy: My grandad with a “penicillin allergy” was treated a f

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