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Microsoft Tops Apple to Become Most Valuable Public Company(nytimes.com)
3 points by prmph 3y ago|0 comments
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by prmph 3y ago
Yes, this ring could be an example of structure, but what caused the structure? One explanation is that it is not due to any new physics; it is just that randomness happened to produce that apparent structure. So my point is, if we go looki
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by prmph 3y ago
Then why is life, which is more complex and structured, assumed to have arisen by chance? If random processes can give birth to structure, then one can also argue that maybe this ring is a fluke. Remember that randomness is not necessarily
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by prmph 3y ago
> “We’ve heard all your feedback about GPT4 getting lazier!” the official ChatGPT account tweeted in December. “We haven’t updated the model since Nov 11th, and this certainly isn’t intentional. model behavior can be unpredictable, and w
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What Is Going on with ChatGPT?(theguardian.com)
5 points by prmph 3y ago|3 comments
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by prmph 3y ago
I thought Haiti was still paying until the 20th century? This is from Wikipedia: > The first annual payment alone was six times Haiti's annual revenue.[1] The payment was later reduced to 90 million francs in 1838, equivalent to $32
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by prmph 3y ago
And Nkrumah was overthrown in 1966, not 1968.
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by prmph 3y ago
Yes, I thought these notes sometimes omit important bits as well. As a native Ghanaian, this was my comment on his notes on Ghana, which I posted before on HN: > I'd say the article omitted the animus towards Nkrumah from the UGCC (
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by prmph 3y ago
Are you, yorwba, actually Matt Lakeman, the author of these "notes"?
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by prmph 3y ago
Code quality is mostly related to maintainability. A piece of code may be reliable currently, but hard to modify.
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'Zombie deer disease' spreads in Yellowstone; scientists fear jump to humans(theguardian.com)
18 points by prmph 3y ago|3 comments
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by prmph 3y ago
They hitched a profitable ride on the placebo effect bandwagon
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by prmph 3y ago
I'd say the article omitted the animus towards Nkrumah from the UGCC (his former party). This opposition was manifested in their attempts to derail his rule from independence to his overthrow (there is some evidence they were in cahoot
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by prmph 3y ago
This is a quite fascinating look at Ghana's modern history, from the independence led by Pan-African founder Nkrumah, to the reform-oriented Rawlings regime, and beyond. It does have some weird takes and some omissions, though.
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Notes on Ghana's Modern History(mattlakeman.org)
2 points by prmph 3y ago|3 comments
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by prmph 3y ago
And what is the guarantee that a no-longer-maintained dependency will have a suitable and exact alternative? Also, tests catching breakage doesn't solve the breakage, so regular upgrades can be quite time consuming, From my experience,
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by prmph 3y ago
This is an very disturbing point of view; not sure why Hacker news has to tolerate stuff like this. Youre saying stuff Hamas themselves have posted to social media is forged? Stuff on wikipedia is forged? Must be a tremendous amount of delu
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by prmph 3y ago
So are you saying the numerous videos I've seen of Hamas shooting civilians dead, shooting assault rifles into homes, shooting drivers dead on the roads, beheading people, throwing grenades into shelters where women and children are c
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by prmph 3y ago
By "Pack up their bags and leave" I meant, do Israelis have to vacate their country altogether as a condition of peace? I understand Israel left Gaza in 2005, so I'm not sure what occupation is being referred to here. If you
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by prmph 3y ago
Are you claiming ignorance of the fact that the Hamas charter originally called for the liquidation of Israel? This is common knowledge. Granted, they have revised it recently to tone down the genocidal language, but I don't think anyb
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by prmph 3y ago
> For example, Gaza had been described as an open air prison for almost 2 decades because its borders, imports, sea usage, had all been controlled by Israel. Those restrictions are in place for a reason, which Hamas has confirmed on Octo
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by prmph 3y ago
The unmanageable complexity is exactly the result of the current architecture of browsers. My proposal is to rip off all that cruft and actually address the pain points of web dev in a modern way. For example, CSS is a disaster. That browse
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by prmph 3y ago
I know what webassembly is. In addition to whatever else it is used for, I hear a lot about it allowing devs to avoid JS and just write browsers apps in whatever language they want to use. That there is a clamor for that is borne out of the
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by prmph 3y ago
This whole webassembly thing does not seems like it will solve real problems, The more I learn about it, the more it seems like another kludge built on top of the kludges we have now. Why doesn't HTML get an overhaul, with a massive se
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As Fury Erupts over Campus Antisemitism, Conservatives Seize the Moment(nytimes.com)
3 points by prmph 3y ago|3 comments
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by prmph 3y ago
I think you are much too optimistic. Proof verification, though still hard to automate, seems at least tractable. I'm not a mathematician by any means, but something tells me automated proof search, in the general case, would require s
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A Proposed New Language as an Alternative to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (2015)(discourse.wicg.io)
1 points by prmph 3y ago|0 comments
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An alternative to HTML and current web browsers (2004)(codeproject.com)
4 points by prmph 3y ago|1 comments
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by prmph 3y ago
Settlers attacking people is not a genocide, any more than KKK attacks on black people was a genocide. And by the way, the attacks are not one-sided, although the media likes to portray it that way. Settlers are also routinely attacked by P
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by prmph 3y ago
I also don't understand views like yours. The Gaza strip was not a ghetto. Its HDI was higher than many nations, and tt had areas described as wealthy. In recent times, Israel, convinced that Hamas was turning over a new leaf, had been

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