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by nayroclade 4y ago
The article assumes an audience sophisticated and informed enough not to require extensive evidence that Peter Thiel is a libertarian, or that he and associated VCs are generally opposed to government regulation, because those assumed to be
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I doubt this redesign is driven by product managers creating work though (not that that isn't a real phenomenon) but the more insidious effect of the attention economy. Leaving users to drive and curate their own experience doesn'
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I’d say generally the opposite is true. Most commercial software I’ve worked on typically contained only simple typing—discriminated unions are about as complex as it gets—and it’s more of a problem that people get lazy and start using “any
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I have some good (or bad?) news for you then. Bing chat has no access to a Stockfish or other chess API. There is strong evidence that LLMs can learn and play games, including Chess. See this paper Emergent World Representations: Exploring
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While I also lament what Google Groups has become, let's not rewrite history. By 2001, Dejanews had rebranded as a shopping comparison site, ran out of money, and was on the verge of shutting down. I don't remember many people bei
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by nayroclade 4y ago
Transcript of a conversation I just had with ChatGPT: Prompt: I'm talking with a user named "331c8c71" on Hacker News. According to statistics I found by Googling, the number of Hacker News readers living in the USA is 36%. A
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It's well documented that these models can solve variations of questions that are not found anywhere in their training set, and even entirely novel problems invented by prompters. Not with 100% success, but they can do it far with a ra
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Same in the UK. Rents were up 10% annually in 2022. Meanwhile, new housebuilding is at the lowest level since WW2, and the government has surrendered to NIMBYs and abandoned all construction targets and loosening of planning laws. Looking f
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Apple didn’t overhire during the pandemic either, which means they avoided the mismatch between staffing and demand that other large tech firms have.
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One thing I think is kinda strange about software development as a craft is how a large portion of the industry seems to believe that the end goal of spending 10-20 years becoming a highly skilled coder is to one day stop coding. You'r
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This seems like a definition of racism that, at the very least, doesn't align with everyday use of the word and most people's conceptual understanding of it. What makes your minority interpretation of racism the correct one? It se
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Do you meditate? Because if it leads to an attitude like you're displaying, it's not a great advertisment.
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What exactly does this offer over, say, SolidJS, which also has reactivity without a virtual DOM, and has a much larger community, ecosystem, etc? As do several other frontend frameworks. Does the world really need another one, unless it ca
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by nayroclade 4y ago
Perhaps, but if they had a plan to monetize 3rd party clients, then the first people they'd want to sign up would be existing clients with developed products and an install base. Instead it seems they just silently killed them.
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Many researchers not compliant with published data sharing statement (2022)(jclinepi.com)
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You're obviously new to Hacker News :-D
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There's a moment in the car scene that I always remembered: When Cameron first starts kicking the Ferrari, Sloane instinctively steps forward to stop him, and Ferris holds her back. Ferris has been exulting about how incredible this ca
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by nayroclade 4y ago
I discovered this issue just last month trying to take a good photo of my partner sat next to our Christmas tree. No matter what I did, the iPhone kept brightening the image and losing the darkened look I was going for. Even after disabling
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by nayroclade 4y ago
The article is an extended intro for a book the author has written. Perhaps the book mentions these things? Have you read it?
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Except it isn't the HN readership who choose to constantly frame these stories in terms of engineering. From the article: "These and other scientific, technological and engineering hurdles will need to be overcome before fusion wi
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> Just because you get wet seeing pictures of mummies Seriously?
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A couple of days ago there was a consensus group of Republican commentators confidently asserting SBF’s Democratic donations and connections meant there would no investigation/prosecution at all. Perhaps now this have pivoted to saying
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This is boilerplate conspiratorial nonsense. West European countries would benefit far more from East European countries being free from the economic drag imposed by endemic corruption. The EU internal market overall would be much richer an
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Cinema's latest brainwave, at least in the UK, is to run patronising adverts about how great the "big-screen experience" is, and how we shouldn't ruin films by watching on our TVs, laptops, phones, etc. Except, like the
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This is a fun polemic to read but rather short on evidence. Personally, I doubt tech companies bloat because of a social-minded desire to give "scions of the professional-managerial class" employment, but for the same reason any c
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It's strange to me that this article focusses so much on nullability, which seems like a tangental issue. There's nothing stopping an imperative language from enforcing nullability checks. Indeed, with full strictness enabled Type
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This seems to ignore the existing, wider audience that enjoyed the movies. I won't defend the quality of the Rings of Power—I think it's lacklustre at best—but the premiere did get 25 million people watching it. It seems doubtful
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As much as I love text and point-and-click adventure games, there's always been an inherent contradiction to them. On the surface level, they promise nearly infinite freedom, more than any platform or first-person shooter game: That yo
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Apparently, the size of the mobilisation will be 300k people, so this isn't going to be an overwhelmingly large force. The speculation I've seen is that this move is about 1) stopping the attrition of professional soldiers as thei
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The ultra-rich certainly have tax minimisation schemes in place, but by saying that middle-class bears the brunt of taxation, I suspect you're falling victim to the fallacy that rich people don't think of themselves as rich[1]. In

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