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by nlh 3y ago
Yes, thankfully, there is a way to detect the fakes. It's really about the level of detail that you look at. An untrained eye probably would not be able to tell the difference, but to someone who looks at the real deal day in and day
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by nlh 3y ago
Like saying "Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!", post a coin article on HN and I shall appear ;) A few interesting (perhaps) tidbits of nerdery: 1: > "But when Dr. Ortega and Ms. Bravo Hualpa bombarded the 1899 coin
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by nlh 3y ago
This is frighteningly good. Not quiiiiiite good enough to pass for an actual video of the person - the audio's a bit off, the video is ever so slightly out of sync - but a few generations more and we'll be there. I wonder if ther
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by nlh 3y ago
I have several friends who are on one or more variations of this drug and have been losing weight successfully. Like TFA mentions, they've reported reduction in "impulsivity" -- eg less need for alcohol, less desire for gamb
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by nlh 3y ago
The duck curve chart is a bit misleading - it is "net load (or the demand remaining after subtracting variable renewable generation)", not total demand. Total demand is still highest mid-day, but there's enough solar being ge
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by nlh 3y ago
Sigh. I haven't seen the True Lies transfer so I won't comment on that. But I have to take issue with that 4k 60fps clip ("The lumiere family goes on a trip 1895") and They Shall Not Grow Old. The author calls both &qu
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by nlh 3y ago
Can you elaborate? This sounds interesting!
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by nlh 3y ago
Agreed. I think their current performance is super impressive. I think it's possible to get even better and beat humans by lowering the number of not-at-fault incidents too (although there are only so many variables in Waymo's c
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by nlh 3y ago
> In July, a Waymo in Tempe, Arizona, braked to avoid hitting a downed branch, leading to a three-car pileup. > In August, a Waymo at an intersection “began to proceed forward” but then “slowed to a stop” and was hit from behind by
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by nlh 3y ago
I know for mass adoption LLMs need to support natural language input. But we've done a reasonably good job (note: source for endless arguments here ;) over the past ~80 years of developing a very precise system for inputting exactly
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by nlh 3y ago
> This I don't agree with. Cold air can't hold any significant amount of water vapor to begin with. It is true that a cold, rainy day feels colder than a cold, dry day with the same air temperature, but rain isn't humidity
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by nlh 3y ago
I know the sibling commenter mentioned this, but it bears repeating just for emphasis: > Israel's explicit, public goal is the annihilation of Palestine This is categorically false.
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by nlh 3y ago
I'm not 100% sure of this but from the README section on race conditions: "the last writer will always win. This means there is NO serializability guarantee of a transaction spanning multiple tables. This is a design choice, in or
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by nlh 3y ago
I find this problem fascinating. For decades we’ve puzzled at how the inner workings of the brain works, and thought we’ve learned a lot we still don’t fully understand it. So, we figure, we’ll just make an artificial brain and THEN we’ll b
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by nlh 3y ago
Ah ha now we're speaking my language! :) Fun fact: "Mint" condition coins actually are measured on a 10-point scale (from 60 to 70...because...reasons...as part of a broader 70-point scale also because reasons). In the vide
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by nlh 3y ago
I sometimes daydream about what would happen if I were suddenly transported back in time -- but with everything on my person intact (iPhone included). Step one in this daydream is always "Crap, no internet for 100 years -- if only I ha
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by nlh 3y ago
The problem with this line of reasoning is that the exact same thing can be said about our meat-calculator brains. This gets to the philosophical heart of a debate that I can already foresee will NEVER be settled: I guarantee you - with 100
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by nlh 3y ago
"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
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by nlh 3y ago
For a company that's executing so well (at least from an outside perspective), shipping so fast, growing so fast, and so ahead of the curve in arguably the hottest segment of the tech market, at this moment, to do this right now, means
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by nlh 3y ago
I tried uploading A) greater than 10 docs (it started erroring out "unable to save draft") and B) large docs (300+ MB PDFs) and in both cases it failed. BTW - this is just the current iteration in the playground. I'm sure bo
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by nlh 3y ago
Exceedingly well-said. Thanks!
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by nlh 3y ago
I was ready to hate this article based on the title - I presumed it was a typical "PMs are dumb, all your company needs is smart engineers who rule the world" piece. But it wasn't that, and the author nails the problem pre
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by nlh 3y ago
Makes a ton of sense - thanks for the thoughtful answer!
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by nlh 3y ago
That makes a ton of sense. My measure of improvement has always been "how much pain am I feeling" ;) but that does correlate to speed I suppose.
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by nlh 3y ago
I should probably clarify -- I don't really care about distance that much. I care about the experience, the joy of being outside, and the benefits of getting cardio exercise. In general, I find that decent distance at a reasonable pa
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by nlh 3y ago
I don't know that I have a strong opinion on this. I'm just curious why such a large majority of people are so focused on speed. I don't generally care about increasing distance either -- I'm just focused on general
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by nlh 3y ago
I think this is it. It is indeed satisfying to see and feel progress. For me, that progress was being in less misery with each subsequent run (and losing weight). I can see how time improvement would give others that same satisfaction.
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by nlh 3y ago
I have what may be a silly (or even ridiculous) question: Why do recreational distance runners care about speed so much? Background: I went through a phase of long-distance recreational running - I ran lots of half-marathons, marathons, an
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by nlh 3y ago
BTW - I think my next door neighbor was a customer in those first 4 months. I remember helping him pack for a small move one night and we decided to see if There Was An App For That - and there was! I remember our both being surprised tha
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by nlh 3y ago
I do a ~25 minute walk basically every day -- the key for me is doing a defined loop. Doesn't matter where, just so long as it's a single loop (eg no repeating, no backtracking) and it always stays interesting for me. And in fac

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