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by porphyra 2y ago
On the other hand, the fact that the Bay Area has a bunch of chronically congested freeways due to everyone driving to work is a clear symptom that we need better transportation such as rail transport or buses. For example CA 85 is clearly
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by porphyra 2y ago
Yeah I don't really understand the nimbys who think that building more housing will make their house prices go down. Nearly everywhere in the world, house prices are way higher in densely populated cities than in the sparsely populated
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by porphyra 2y ago
They also had a headline for Alphazero that convinced everyone that they crushed Stockfish and that classical chess engines were stuff of the past, when in fact it was about 50 elo better than the Stockfish version they were testing against
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by porphyra 2y ago
yeah likewise the dicycle has two big wheels side by side haha
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by porphyra 2y ago
Maybe a PR firm reached out to have this article made, but I somehow doubt that there's a large media conspiracy behind this quirky invention.
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by porphyra 3y ago
When you can go in any direction and not just constrained to up down left right, you'd want the fast marching method [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_marching_method
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by porphyra 3y ago
Voting for one of two parties compresses the will of the people to a single bit.
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by porphyra 3y ago
It's a land acquisition issue due to zoning laws and stuff. For example, in the Bay Area, where houses are super expensive, it's just that there are limited numbers of houses and you essentially aren't allowed to build more (
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by porphyra 3y ago
Actually, it seems there is little or no conclusive evidence for this. [1] https://sleepopolis.com/news/children-night-lights-cause-myo... [2] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03&#x2
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by porphyra 3y ago
Interesting, I haven't heard that. Can you link to some evidence?
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by porphyra 3y ago
Yeah lol I love all things that deliver more information to my eyes like higher resolution and framerate so I dislike it when people complain about high frame rate.
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by porphyra 3y ago
Funny how the ubiquity of AI generated artwork plus the shitty quality of phone videos has made people to think that "high quality + depth of field = fake". However if you look closely the robot does have scuffs and scratches on i
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by porphyra 3y ago
Are mouth guards likely to cause jaw issues by keeping the mandible extended for long periods of time? some crappier mouth guards and "tongue retaining devices" can cause severe dental issues like open bite but these custom made o
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by porphyra 3y ago
I guess, but most compression algorithms like DEFLATE or zstd would compress those big sequences of zeros basically to nothing.
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by porphyra 3y ago
Northern Chinese (Mandarin, etc) call it Cha which became chai etc. Southern Chinese (Min Nan, etc) call it Teh which became tea etc. You can see that coastal nations got their tea from the seafaring southern regions whereas much of Central
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by porphyra 3y ago
In the first several examples, the input seems to have a mantissa with all zeros beyond the first 15 bits. Why isn't the author using float32 for this instead of float64?
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by porphyra 3y ago
OP updated his blog post after I posted my comment. The opening paragraphs are now very clear and awesome.
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by porphyra 3y ago
The seasonal changes in rat count are likely due to rat behavior, but do we have any evidence that the long-term change over the years reflects an actual increase of rats rather than more people using 311 to report them?
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by porphyra 3y ago
Yeah. I guess in layman's terms it's a long squishy cable that knows where it's being bent.
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by porphyra 3y ago
That's super cool and I hope you don't mind a little bit of unsolicited feedback but the first question everyone's asking is "what does it do?" At present the blog post starts out with two paragraphs talking about t
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by porphyra 3y ago
Even when I have a single blanket, it stops after a few minutes because one corner of it is dry while the inside is wet. I've had many loads develop mildew as a result. For large items even the "bulk load" setting with the ma
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by porphyra 3y ago
That's not it. The moisture sensor is two strips of metal on the inside of the dryer door that measure the conductivity between them or something.
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by porphyra 3y ago
It's an East Asian cultural thing to work super hard for some reason, same with Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. By "Rest of the world" you really just mean a handful of Western European nations with stagnant economies, but by god I
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by porphyra 3y ago
My point is that OP's post which espouses a common fear, even if it may be justified for some, is not really interesting. I don't want to gatekeep HN, but personally I do not enjoy this type of content. A secondary implied point i
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by porphyra 3y ago
Sure and people fearful of horseless carriages in the 1890s are rightfully fearful of dying since: * horseless carriages won't avoid running into things whereas horses can see and instinctively won't run into a wall * the greater
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by porphyra 3y ago
You are right that the benefits for robotaxis applies to the others too. Personally, I'm rooting for robotaxis because it's simply cheaper without needing the human driver. Theoretically, this also makes it more equitable. Just li
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by porphyra 3y ago
It is a hilarious way of writing but it is quite common to find people who are fearful of new technology. In the 1890s I'm sure that people fearful of motor vehicles would consider it a "pretty poor use of money" to buy a &qu
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by porphyra 3y ago
The problem is that car-dependence is a problem with a lot of hysteresis to it: If everyone already has cars, it takes a lot to get people out of cars --- if someone already has a car, taking the bus to go somewhere slower than driving is c
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by porphyra 3y ago
That applies to SAE levels 3, 4, and 5, which would ban useful and safe robotaxis like Waymo but not Tesla FSD (Supervised), which is a level 2 driver assist system that requires constant supervision.
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by porphyra 3y ago
The author went in with a negative attitude opening with hate for the CEO and then proceeded to diss the product based on how it "felt like it was about to" do something bad rather than what it actually did. It seems that the auth

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