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901.
by roca 6y ago
I considered the "pretrained via genetics" possibility but I don't see how that could make much difference. It doesn't look like the genome has enough information to encode really large amounts of brain structure details
902.
by roca 6y ago
I don't know much about ML but I wonder what the need for so much training data (apparently about 500 billion words for GPT-3) means for this approach. Humans achieve their performance levels while only ever observing a tiny fraction o
903.
by roca 6y ago
NZ tourist spending was 60% domestic pre-COVID. A lot of outbound tourism also happens that will be going domestic now. We also expect to have a "travel bubble" with Australia and possibly other countries where COVID is effectivel
904.
by roca 6y ago
Countries quite different to NZ achieved (near) elimination with a lockdown approach. Vietnam, for example. Other countries have been successful without a lockdown, e.g. South Korea. There's more than one way to beat this virus. New Ze
905.
by roca 6y ago
You can close roads and bridges. You can punish people who try to cross in secret. There may be reasons why you would choose not to close the borders, but it's a choice.
906.
by roca 6y ago
> It seems to me that the experiment is countries trying to eradicate the virus through lockdown as opposed to just slowing it down, with no evidence that this is working or could ever work. It seems to be working in Vietnam, New Zealand
907.
by roca 6y ago
I think we'll be admitting international students soon, with testing and at least a 14-day quarantine. We are already admitting film crews for certain TV and film productions, with a 14-day quarantine. If we can sustain being COVID-fre
908.
by roca 6y ago
NZ tourism spending (excluding international airfares) was ~60% domestic before COVID19. (Yes I know it sounds high, but that's the number.) Shifting outbound tourism to domestic will boost domestic considerably higher than that even w
909.
by roca 6y ago
I can't find the real link in the Zdnet article. Here it is: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...
910.
by roca 6y ago
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22702041
911.
by roca 6y ago
That's true. The comment by mlwiese up-thread, that I responded to, praised Go's low GC latency without mentioning the heavy memory and throughput overheads that come with it. I felt it worth pointing out the lack of a free lunch
912.
by roca 6y ago
I'm using Rust, so no double frees and no accidental forgetting to call free(). Of course you can still have memory leaks, but that's true in GC languages too.
913.
by roca 6y ago
Go achieves those low pause times by allocating 2x memory to the heap than it's actually using. There's no free lunch with GC.
914.
by roca 6y ago
Seems to me much more feasible to ship frozen embryos, artificial wombs, and android foster parents. Good artificial wombs might be a very difficult technology but they sound a lot easier (and certainly much less expensive) than building a
915.
by roca 6y ago
I know that Mozilla has historically been paid by Google to make Google search the default search provider in Firefox. But you just claimed "Google has apparently paid Mitchell Baker personally multiple millions of dollars too" wh
916.
by roca 6y ago
It's Chromium that's hobbling the content-blocking extension API.
917.
by roca 6y ago
> Google has apparently paid Mitchell Baker personally multiple millions of dollars too. What are you talking about?
918.
by roca 6y ago
> A few years ago they had a bug that added seconds to every page load that they didn't fix for half a year, What are you talking about?
919.
by roca 6y ago
Mozilla has to target the mass market or they won't survive. They certainly have to target people who, unlike you, care about performance more than anything else, since that's most of the market. You can argue it's hopeless b
920.
by roca 6y ago
"guts" meant the XUL implementing the Firefox UI. tialaramex is absolutely right about that, extensions had total access to that XUL/JS state, which is why changes to the Firefox UI inevitably broke extensions.
921.
by roca 6y ago
Hard to quantify, but neither Firefox nor Chrome were compromised at Pwn2Own this year. The sandbox architectures are very similar now. Chrome's still ahead in having a slightly tighter sandbox and already shipping process-per-site, wh
922.
by roca 6y ago
The Bible is a trite answer, but a true one. I would add "The City And The City" by China Miéville. A delightful read and it changed the way I look at the world a little bit.
923.
by roca 6y ago
This idea comes up often. I think it's a bad idea for many reasons, so rather than repeat myself I wrote them down here: https://robert.ocallahan.org/2020/05/why-forking-html-into-s...
924.
by roca 6y ago
It does. We actually started with NodeJS because a simple NodeJS testcase is much smaller than Chromium :-).
925.
by roca 6y ago
It seems like it would be a good idea to test people on arrival and before leaving quarantine, AND quarantine them for 14 days. I think China does this, and I think NZ doesn't, and I don't know why we don't.
926.
by roca 6y ago
I'm not an expert but my understanding is that you can be infected and test negative for several days before becoming infectious and testing positive.
927.
by roca 6y ago
For the last few weeks there has been widespread testing of asymptomatic people. E.g. teams showing up at a supermarket and testing everyone, testing everyone associated with a school that had a pretty large cluster. It is true that still m
928.
by roca 6y ago
The US could have a) shut borders generally to every country reporting COVID19 outbreaks, not just to China b) had an early, coordinated nationwide hard lockdown for a few weeks at least to stop the spread and buy time to identify outbreaks
929.
by roca 6y ago
Not only did NZ get a lot of tourists, we also had a large diaspora who ran for home when the pandemic hit. In fact it's mostly the latter who imported COVID19 into NZ.
930.
by roca 6y ago
Don't think so. Testing on entry doesn't really help because the tourist could be incubating the virus. We have to quarantine and not many tourists want to spend the first two weeks of their holiday locked in a hotel room. In the

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