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by pso 3mo ago
If GOTW, actually means GWOT and Global War on Terror, please have courtesy of reading your posts beforehand, and perhaps also not assuming a US audience.
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by pso 1y ago
Dwarkesh, is one of the better tech podcasters. Scott is well known for blogs Slate Star Codex and Astral Codex Ten. Daniel resigned from OpenAI in 2024,and is known for prescient AI boom predictions made in 2021. https://www.
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by pso 6y ago
IDW - Intellectual Dark Web
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by pso 6y ago
I nominate this essay, as Paul Graham's least controversial. Perhaps, someone who works with or in the non-profit sector could provide a counterpoint.
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Donate Unrestricted(paulgraham.com)
10 points by pso 6y ago|8 comments
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by pso 6y ago
Having lived in UK, France and Spain, I know that there aren't daily variations in consumer electricity prices, as there are in places like California. I don't have data if offices are priced differently. Which countries in Europe
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by pso 6y ago
When you say 'defining languages', do you mean as DSLs or choosing appropriate existing languages? If DSLs, which language would you recommend for creating DSLs. Could you give a successful example?
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by pso 6y ago
Yep, I looked at it again. My desire to be impressed with grandmaster foresight got the better of me.
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by pso 6y ago
I think the move Rowson's referring to is move 9. Since in the essay he says "Yermolinsky offered a pawn as bait, and I very nearly didn’t take it because doing so would allow him to play a series of forcing moves" So the on
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by pso 6y ago
Pure speculation, isn't the most interesting time period in the signal the transition from signal to no-signal (and back again)? How high is the resolution of the sensors? Is it possible that some frequencies are blocked fractionally
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by pso 6y ago
Yes, I know. But the tone of the whole article, is as if, they've found deep flaws across many VMs. They call something 'warmup" which I think has little or nothing to do with the JIT, but is unaccounted variations in the w
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by pso 6y ago
It seems that the authors are not measuring what they think they are, or have explained it poorly. Most transitions from interpreter to JIT show speedups of x10 to x100, eg luajit or V8. How is it possible that the variation of V8 (as an e
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by pso 7y ago
How long were you at google for, and how long since you left? Otherwise, the numbers don't offer much insight.
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by pso 7y ago
I've googled generally and verbatim with various quotes from above and your name, and cannot find the essay. It sounds interesting. Can you post a link please.
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by pso 7y ago
The same real world react app went from 40MB to 20MB. They don't ship minified javascript to final app, but bytecode, which they say is 1/3 smaller (both minified). They have moved the parse and compile stages to ahead of time, ma
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by pso 7y ago
Why are you assuming other renewables is mostly waste/biomass? In the notes below the table, wind is cleary mentioned. My guesstimate would be that wind was a large proportion. I confirmed by checking wikipedia. EIA Total for year wa
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by pso 7y ago
At 12km/h it requires 5.59KW of sun energy to fall on the car (in total, not per sq meter as in original comment). Actual figure given on website is 5m2 of panels on car. Assume 1Kw per m2 of sun power (near equator, no cloud, midday)
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Apple Unveils New Mac Pro at WWDC 2019(venturebeat.com)
19 points by pso 7y ago|11 comments
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by pso 7y ago
We've both read the article. On rereading the article, its not clear if the stolen ID was present at all the crimes. My assumption was that it was not. I make that assumption, because the person accussed of multiple crimes is suing Ap
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by pso 7y ago
The multiple thefts are linked together via facial recognition in the Apple Stores and tied back to the stolen ID. If, it was just a single theft and the stolen ID was used on that occasion, then I would agree facial recognition would not b
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by pso 7y ago
Yes, I really read it. Do you have a different understanding/interpretation of the article?
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by pso 7y ago
Apple took the stolen ID used by the criminal. Then Apple incorrectly linked the details of that ID (with no photo), with images of the thief. Following further thefts associated with that ID, the innocent man was accused of all the thefts
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by pso 7y ago
I can understand that. But, do you debate specific points in the article based on the views you formed by NOT reading it? I get that some comments can be interesting without reading the article. But someone discussing and finding fault wit
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by pso 7y ago
The reason you don't see the role that facial recognition played is because you still have not read the article. I'm genuinely curious, as this is happening more and more on hacker news. Why do you come on a thread about specifi
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by pso 8y ago
No, a form of P-code that was Microsoft specific. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_P-Code
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by pso 8y ago
I've not seen any mention of 2 serious Google Cloud outages in the last week. Which seems unusual, considering the typical relevance to the HN crowd. Additionally, it seriously affected 37 signals, who are the creators of Basecamp and
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Basecamp outage: When it rains, it pours(m.signalvnoise.com)
3 points by pso 8y ago|1 comments
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by pso 8y ago
> it's solved ... If we have a way to arrange individual atoms on a large scale (or even 100nm portions of material) and fuse them... What exactly do you mean by this? Fuse them in what sense? What advantages would there be at a sm
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by pso 8y ago
The article inspired me to a couple of hours of research of the field. I feel it helps to see whats currently possible on a relatively low budget. This demo I came across uses an x sens bodysuit for capture (around $7000, plus yearly sub
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by pso 8y ago
I think you miscalculated. I get 10MB per trip on average, assuming 10bn total trips. Maybe deduct something for maps and inefficient file formats & data structures? 1 billion bytes = 1GB, 1 billion KB = 1TB, 1 billion MB = 1PB, 10 bil

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