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by querez 2y ago
As someone who's currently on the brink of signing up to bluesky: what's the recommended way of picking a handle, then? Are there any downsides to going with a normal `@name.bsky.social` thing first and later switching if I feel t
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by querez 2y ago
> The presence of that phrase alone is enough to instantly downvote and flag any and every post on sight, even those that are otherwise neutral or even positive I feel you're severely overreacting. If everyone would act that way, th
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by querez 2y ago
The discussion is pointless and was meant as a jest, but > And the question was about the number of people. You included statistics regarding the number of events. The poster just said "more common". It's your interpretat
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by querez 2y ago
Oh you sweet, sweet summer child... While it's possible that you're right, I don't think that's as clear as you make it out to be. A quick google didn't give me any concrete numbers, but at least for Urine, accordin
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by querez 2y ago
what makes you say/think that?
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by querez 2y ago
> Getting to shrink my DVD and Blu Ray rip collection down by moving it all to AV1 at rest would massively reduce my storage cost SVT-AV1 is pretty fast these days, Almost every minor release added last year added an additional 10-50% sp
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by querez 2y ago
So, if I understood correctly, they had a liquidity event where people could cash in their options/shares, and people did. They seemed to expect this expense, IIUC they even took on capital (Series I funding) to make sure they can affo
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by querez 2y ago
The problem is that this might end with a bad incentive structure that I think would lead to bad quality: it would push you to write the kind of articles that everyone wants to click on/pay for. So mostly clickbait. Emotional content i
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by querez 2y ago
I disagree, I think the current approach actually makes for a better and more open web long term. The fact is that either you pay for content, or the content has to pay for itself (which means it's either sponsored content or full of a
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by querez 2y ago
My daycare has a lot of non-native people who do not speak the local, native language with their child, at all. Still, all children (age 3, they're usually in daycare since age 1) speak the local language fluidly, thanks to how much th
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by querez 2y ago
It's the consumers first and foremost. The multinationals are just doing what's in their best interest.
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by querez 2y ago
In this specific case, it's fairly well known that Hochreiter was the major brain behind the original LSTM.
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by querez 2y ago
ah thank you, I wasn't aware!
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by querez 2y ago
Without any context this is a super-unspecific claim. Do you mean, like "They use an LLM (in inference mode) somewhere in their search-pipeline"? If so, then: well, no, d'oh. I'd be surprised (and disappointed) if in 202
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by querez 2y ago
Well this is certainly an unexpected and weird announcement. I actually thought Moxie was (the main person behind) Signal. Not giving any details about this feels weird to me. How are we supposed to trust an organization that prides itsel
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by querez 3y ago
Insider trading, or starting to look for a new job.
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by querez 3y ago
I'm not well versed in these things, but at this point, aren't you re-inventing database systems? Talking about things like ACID transactions, schema evolution, dropping columns, ... in the context of a file-format feels bizarre
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by querez 3y ago
Unfortunately, that's exactly the thought that killed Google Brain :(
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by querez 3y ago
It's a decent measure of complexity: It's not that "opening files" themselves is work-intensive. But having a lot of files smells of overengineered code. One long, yet simple function has less cognitive overhead than spr
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by querez 3y ago
Am researcher, care about responsiveness way more than pretty. I am super glad for the option. Downloading PDFs is super annoying. I'm stoked.
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by querez 3y ago
Of course it is. That's why I'm pointing out that everyone learns the lesson eventually. If it were obvious from the outset it wouldn't require learning. If it was easy to discover, it would be learned immediately. But as it
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by querez 3y ago
> I feel like I've woken up to the nature of the employer/employee relationship with all these layoffs. I was blind but now I see, we ARE human resources I think that's just a normal process of growing older. Also: yes, o
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by querez 3y ago
av1an is essentially a "wrapper" around other encoders. I've played around with it lot in the past, but have never seen any real quality gains from using it (as measured by VMAF) instead of just using the encoder directly. Am
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by querez 3y ago
> Now if only I could get him to care about anything more than his hotwheels collection... he's a kid, es supposed to care more about that than anything else.
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by querez 3y ago
> G/A can't be used for large scale training, nobody is going to give their data to them. Major trust issues there. And yet, that's what a lot of the big AI startups are doing. Granted, it's not what everyday business
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by querez 3y ago
To each their own. I find that WFH makes me incredibly unproductive, I'm glad I'm able to return to to the office. I think there are a lot of factors that affect this (e.g. I have a family with small children at home, and my commu
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by querez 3y ago
That's not really decided yet. Without going into too much detail, a lot of our moderators are not as engaged as they once were: Eternal September has washed out many of our core contributers long ago, and the subreddit's focus ha
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by querez 3y ago
Meh, I wouldn't be so quick to judge. I'm a mod of a several-million-subscriber subreddit (one that's likely highly popular among HN subscribers). When we asked our community if they wanted to join the protest, the answer was
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by querez 3y ago
Not sure what the situation is in the US, but I've taken 3-4 first aid courses in my life (it's compulsory to get a driver's license where I live). Every time, they told us that CPR survival rates were abysmal if we aren&#x27
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by querez 3y ago
When I was thought it, it was clearly pointed out to me that chance of survival is ~5%, but increases significantly if an AED can be used in time. I've also been told about the rib cracking etc. Just as a counterpoint.

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