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by pyentropy 3y ago
The character limit incentivizes content that's polarizing and evokes strong emotions, because you are competing for attention without the ability to express subtleties/details.
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The puzzling poll that made many Twitter users angry(fikisipi.substack.com)
2 points by pyentropy 3y ago|4 comments
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by pyentropy 3y ago
You can gain reputation by simply forecasting the same outcome as the (publicly available) average probability of everybody - so a user that forgets to forecast on questions is gonna be worse off than a bot who just follows the crowd. Howev
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by pyentropy 3y ago
Are you familiar with logic circuits (those made of gates like AND, OR, XOR, NAND)? Just like they are the founding blocks of classical computers, the founding block of quantum computers are quantum circuits. Quantum circuits are made of qu
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by pyentropy 3y ago
I've had horrible DR and DP as a child. It runs in families with anxiety disorders and personality disorders. No matter how many times it happened, it was always equally scary - feeling like a passive observer of a movie starring some
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by pyentropy 3y ago
He's not using the timer to do per-frame calculations - the GPU does the interpolation using the `transition` property. He's just using the timer for setting the target state.
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Show HN: I've upgraded elkai (travelling salesman Python lib) from LKH v2 to v3(github.com)
4 points by pyentropy 3y ago|0 comments
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by pyentropy 3y ago
Further context: Bluesky lets you use a domain name you own as a user handle. The official method is to set a TXT record, but apparently their "AT protocol" also lets you confirm a domain by serving `GET your.domainname.com/x
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by pyentropy 3y ago
Although it's an interesting puzzle I think it's messed up to take this too seriously.
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by pyentropy 3y ago
He should've put "browser engine " in the title which is the impressive part - there are far too many Chromium wrappers around ;) And this is much more than that: custom JS interpreter, SVG, CSS renderers and so on...
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by pyentropy 4y ago
A character is the base unit of written communication. Single characters as tokens is not a bad idea, it just requires too much resources to make it learn and infer. BPE is a tradeoff between single letters (computationally hard) and a word
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by pyentropy 4y ago
I don't want to read the whole thing because it looks like it's very cynical - it judges TCS scientists who believe in Grover speedup as naive because they are unaware of real life noise, without actually realizing that's th
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by pyentropy 4y ago
> the authors haven't used a typewriter The authors are the famous Kernighan and Brailsford (!). They spent their life on stuff like this, and know him personally very well. They are talking about spacing much finer than half-charac
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by pyentropy 4y ago
No you can't. Read the post.
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by pyentropy 4y ago
Wait... zsh which is quite a powerful shell that's now by default on macOS too, would say "(" is equal to ")" until 2016? Was it just single [ (test) or [[ as well?
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by pyentropy 4y ago
I respect that. Can you elaborate a bit on the routing protocol thing? I assume you used WAN gossip? I love the simplicity of fly.io & wish you all the best improving Fly's reliability!
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by pyentropy 4y ago
Almost half of the issues are caused by their use of HashiCorp products. As someone that has started tons of Consul clusters, analyzed tons of Terraform states, developed providers and wrote a HCL parser, I must say this: HashiCorp built a
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by pyentropy 4y ago
A decade of Siri research & development... overshadowed by a single clever GPT-3 prompt. Love it.
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by pyentropy 4y ago
Go is the best documented ecosystem I've seen. Since godoc is so widespread, people write doc comments and examples all the time. Every single public project has a doc page at pkg.go.dev too. The syntax rules and the reference spec of
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Github.com on Ladybird, new browser with JavaScript/CSS/SVG engines from scratch(twitter.com)
2 points by pyentropy 4y ago|0 comments
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by pyentropy 4y ago
The core code lives in the SerenityOS repo (which is an OS built from scratch too!): * LibWeb (HTML, CSS, SVG, Web APIs): https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Userland/... * LibJS (JS
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Github.com on Ladybird, new browser with JavaScript/CSS/SVG engines from scratch(twitter.com)
1 points by pyentropy 4y ago|1 comments
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by pyentropy 4y ago
Sounds believable to me. Google is really good at data warehouse & database tech (BigQuery, BigTable, Spanner) and access management systems, as well as sturdy custom-built tools for internal use by employees. Even though it might not b
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by pyentropy 4y ago
> point-in-time backups through the web UI Is `fly postgres create --name restoredDb --snapshot-id backupId` that hard that's it's a deal breaker? > support for Heroku buildpacks I haven't tried it but there's some
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by pyentropy 4y ago
Update: it completely breaks with React 18 and strict mode enabled - https://github.com/preactjs/signals/issues/70
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by pyentropy 4y ago
The implementation involves unsafe monkey-patching: 1. For React, a hook is injected into every single component (!) regardless of whether it uses signals or not via __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED. 2. For React, React.
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by pyentropy 4y ago
Funnily enough, you also increase the app opening rate - since user sessions for that app itself are persisted! Let's say I send you tempemail.org via Messenger and you use it to create foo@bar. Then you close Messenger and forget abou
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Ask HN: Do in-app browsers break Wordle-like apps for the average user?
2 points by pyentropy 4y ago|2 comments
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by pyentropy 4y ago
I hate that if I send Wordle or something cool to a friend that uses localStorage they lose their progress/settings once they leave the chat app. So frustrating to even explain to people that this thing they are scrolling isn't
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by pyentropy 4y ago
Currently watching the launch event! :) I took a look at the low level stuff, compiled it and tried breaking it and pushing it to the limits. It's quite stable, something that you would expect from a Python Core developer as a founder.

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