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by nlh 5y ago
This is a well-written and well-reasoned argument - BUT - I tend toward the materialist philosophy, so the argument doesn't really hold there. Yes, an ML model that infers B from A might not "understand" what A or B are....ye
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by nlh 5y ago
A fraternity brother of mine used to do this too. I remember getting a full dissertation on why this worked (for him). He would go for a (light) run in the dress shirt he planned on wearing out later that night. shrug who knows if actu
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by nlh 5y ago
I have a genuine question about this whole thing with Copilot: A similar product, TabNine, has been around for years. It does essentially the exact same thing as Copilot, it’s trained on essentially the same dataset, and it gets mentioned i
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by nlh 5y ago
I used to have a similar attitude - most typically applied to rules & laws, etc. “If you don’t like the rule, go run for office and get the law changed.” But then I realized that’s just a cop out. A lot of structures and systems are in
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Microsoft Gets Second Shot at Banning HiQ from Scraping LinkedIn User Data(threatpost.com)
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by nlh 5y ago
I have what I hope is a genuine question here: > we need to ... severely limit tax exemptions for charitable donations Why do we need to do this? Wouldn’t the natural incentive-based result of this be a huge reduction in charitable dona
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by nlh 5y ago
This is the layman’s explanation I was given to me by my finance professor in college: In the extreme: If you take completely random price fluctuations and plot them on a graph then review them, they are no longer “random” - they become fi
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by nlh 5y ago
I hear (read) what you’re saying, but I don’t understand the relevance. What does the author’s location have to do with the point she’s making?
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by nlh 5y ago
Heh we wrote basically the same reply at exactly the same moment. Cheers :)
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> For example non-biased search engines, product catalogues, review sites, etc. etc. This absolutely makes logical sense and I deeply wish this could work. The problem is that in reality, almost all of these sites are as (if not more) “m
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by nlh 5y ago
Electronics: We moved into a free-standing house (in SF) from an apartment and for the first time in my adult life, security became something I had to think about. I bought 3x Arlo cameras -- a doorbell cam and 2x 4K cams to cover our patio
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by nlh 5y ago
Related/expanded: If you haven't seen Devs on Hulu, it's really great! I wasn't expecting to enjoy it so much. Nick Offerman takes a bit of getting used to in a dramatic role and they should have cast Jonathan "M
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by nlh 5y ago
My experience and $0.02: If you use Instagram the way "normal" people do, it's a path to sadness. Selfies, one-upmanship, parties, perfect cakes, perfect gardens, exotic vacations, etc. All the badness. It's just huma
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by nlh 5y ago
I built an open source library/mini-framework to seamlessly integrate a Svelte (JS) frontend with a Crystal backend. It's really fun to build apps with this! https://nlh.me/projects/celestite Still very much
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by nlh 6y ago
Awesome - thanks! I’ll check out Cointalk (it comes up a lot in various searches, so I’d heard of it, but didn’t know whether that was an SEO thing or a real thing). Can you elaborate on why to stay away from the PCGS and NGC forums?
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by nlh 6y ago
I agree with everything coins_r_fun wrote in the sister comment will add some of my perspective (your timing is great with this question, btw - I just started taking notes for an essay I'm going to write on this topic. Sorry for the s
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by nlh 6y ago
That's really great to hear. My numismatic life v1 was well before the Internet was a thing, so here in v2 I'm eager to explore. What are the best communities in your opinion? I've started with /r/coins.
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by nlh 6y ago
I collected coins avidly when I was ~10-13 and the hobby just re-ignited itself with me again, now 30 years later (I can't exactly explain how or why, but here we are). I went to a coin show today on a whim and what I discovered was th
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by nlh 6y ago
I travel a lot and have gotten quite used to browsing on airplane WiFi, so a similar low-bandwidth experience (at times). I'll add a huge culprit to the list: Medium. They have their own "clever" code to progressively load
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by nlh 6y ago
Huge fan of MJML! I've been using it to send out my [shameless plug]weekly nerd-focused newsletter (see bio)[/shameless plug] and I've got a nice workflow going with it. I'm using a workflow of Pug (nice and short synta
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by nlh 6y ago
Just to add to the sibling comment: LinkNYC absolutely benefits from this commercially. Those terminals are packed with sensors & cameras, and they collect MAC addresses, count pedestrians, etc. etc. etc. Free WiFi in exchange for p
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by nlh 6y ago
I'm totally with you. I drink 1 (sometimes, but rarely, 2) espresso drinks every morning, and it's just joyful. I'd say 80% is the routine/experience, 20% is the actual caffeine. It's just a nice way to start the
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by nlh 6y ago
Me too! But we were with a local guide who walked out on the lava crust every day, so I kinda had to trust him. Although the soles of my sneakers were semi-melted by the end of the day. I blame my sneakers more than anything (cheap, lowis
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by nlh 6y ago
I'm a huge Crystal fan and spoke at the first user conference recently about my project which is almost what you're asking for: https://nlh.me/projects/celestite It's a way to tightly integrate Crystal
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by nlh 6y ago
I'd add one anecdote: I went hiking on one of the Hawaiian volcanos a few years ago and got up close with some active (but extremely slow-moving) lava. Here's a pic of me poking it with a stick: https://imgur.com&#x2F
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by nlh 6y ago
I always find articles like this eerie, because it might be nothing...or the start of a major worldwide disease. The earliest articles about HIV/AIDS[1] and COVID-19[2] both had similar tones to them ("unknown", "similar
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by nlh 6y ago
100% agree. I find this is problem particularly acute in Data Science / Machine Learning / AI.
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One thing I've learned about professional investors is that no matter what, at the end of the day they're talking their book. So whether you buy these arguments or not, Ray Dalio is simply promoting a position that Bridgewater no
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by nlh 6y ago
+1000 to this. At my first startup after college (~2000-2002), I remember clearly our first "deployment" for a paid customer -- we had to order $thousands in Sun SPARC machines, rent a rack at a local data center, hire someone to
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by nlh 6y ago
I think this is PG's worst opinion. The man is undeniably intelligent, undeniably successful, and undeniably talented in business (and deserves huge credit for his contributions to the startup community). But I just thing he's dee

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