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by robotelvis 2y ago
I recently joined my local Elks club and the experience has been amazing. Being social is effortless. I just show up at the lodge and people I know will be there. As a parent I can let the kids run wild with other kids within the safe confi
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by robotelvis 2y ago
I think it’s mostly so they can have some degree of choice over what they are called. You might call them Bill, but they can decide to call themselves Billy, or Will, or Willy, or William - without the hassle of actually changing their name
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by robotelvis 2y ago
This makes a lot of sense. In the current political climate people feel afraid of getting punished for liking the wrong thing. But it’s nice for the person whose post you liked to know who liked it. If you want to appreciate something publi
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by robotelvis 2y ago
This kind of “political citation” happens even without intentional fraud. When I was in grad school it was common knowledge that if you wanted to get papers accepted you needed to cite the people on the program committee and the likely revi
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by robotelvis 3y ago
New Public ( https://newpublic.org ) | REMOTE in US | Full-Time or Part-Time We are hiring a software engineer to work on Public Service Incubator. New Public is working with a group of Public Service Media organizations across Eu
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by robotelvis 3y ago
I’ve got a Bolt EV and it seems to do a pretty good job of being simple, practical, and reliable.
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by robotelvis 3y ago
Not if the dark OS is only activated when a special message is sent to the baseband processor.
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by robotelvis 3y ago
I once found myself randomly drinking with a guy at a bar in SF who claimed he was there for a law enforcement conference. He told me that there was indeed code in the baseband processor of most phones (brought in together with the E911 req
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by robotelvis 3y ago
Education in the US is a big big deal. It takes up 18-30 years of our lives, employs over 10% of our workforce, and is responsible for 60% of non-mortgage/non-car debt. Even a minor improvement to education could be a big deal. I playe
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by robotelvis 3y ago
Cars are a long way from achieving Artificial General Horsiness (AGH). There are many things a horse can do vastly better than a car, such as jumping over fences, navigating by itself, swimming through water, fueling themselves from natural
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by robotelvis 3y ago
That's already the de-facto situation on iPhones a lot of the time - you can set it to only ring when called by a contact. The downside is that I've missed important calls with that setting on. I'd love the option to opt into
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by robotelvis 4y ago
GPT-4 was created by humans, but is too complex for humans to understand. This puts it in a broader class of valuable-but-incomprehensible things that includes the world economy, the source code for large software products, and life itself.
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by robotelvis 4y ago
I’ve done ranking-adjacent work at three companies (Google, Quora, and Facebook), so when OpenAI released the ChatGPT API a few days ago, my natural first instinct was to ask myself “I wonder if this would be good at ranking social media fe
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by robotelvis 4y ago
I was actually the "author" of one of the pieces of code that SCO claimed had been stolen from them - SCO's implementation of the Berkeley Packet Filter. SCO had a collaboration with IBM called Project Monterey, in which SCO
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Pro-Social Platforms That Didn't Work(messyprogress.substack.com)
1 points by robotelvis 4y ago|0 comments
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Eight Pro-Social Platforms That Didn't Work(messyprogress.substack.com)
3 points by robotelvis 4y ago|0 comments
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Free Speech Is the Wrong Problem(messyprogress.substack.com)
21 points by robotelvis 4y ago|19 comments
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Ask HN: Intermediate Coding for Kids
3 points by robotelvis 5y ago|3 comments