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by screye 3y ago
Genuine question, what's up with the ardent hatred for Texas (and noncoastal cities in general) I might lack the nuance to pick up differences, but American suburbs are remarkably consistent across the country. All the new 'inner&
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by screye 3y ago
That being said, upgradeable RAM is an easy request to meet, so there isn't a single good reason to omit it. (The first slot can be soldered on, but leave another empty) Same cam be said for 1 UsbA port and a micro SD card slot.
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by screye 3y ago
I genuinely wonder why HN people care so much about laptop upgradeability. It is your primary and likely only tool in a profession where everyone makes 6 figures. Spending an extra 3000$ every 3 years doesn't sound all that bad, as far
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by screye 3y ago
(Only mildly tongue in cheek) Because anyone who is incapable of creating plausible lie about their employment is too naive to survive in corporate America. The best people take career breaks as a flex. They don't need recruiters, they
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by screye 3y ago
Trump derangement syndrome is real. American academia's obsession with rendering Trump ineligible to run for election on Jan 6 related technicalities is the latest version of that. That they do it in the name of protecting democracy is
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by screye 3y ago
Not everyday you see Emery be the top comment on HN. I was lucky to be in his courses in grad-school. It's the most fun I've had in an American classroom, all while discussing serious systems stuff. A gem of a professor.
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by screye 3y ago
Microsoft did decline. Windows, office MSFT mobile and Xbox have either stagnated at the top or declined. Now, stagnation at a few dozen billions in revenue is still good. But very much legacy company stuff. Microsoft built a whole another
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by screye 3y ago
CICO works quite well at the extremes. It's effectiveness varies, but it is directionally correct. If someone is sitting at a 35+ BMI, then their caloric intake is so out of whack, that CICO helps ground them. Similarly, an anorexic wh
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by screye 3y ago
I wonder if bias analysis is even possible in a situation where ground truth itself is unknown. With Israel/Palestine, the more you know, the less you know. Death estimates vary by 1 order of magnitude on either side. The oppressor cha
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by screye 3y ago
Surely that's a joke ?
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by screye 3y ago
That bit is obvious. The next generation benefits from the innovations of the previous generation. But boomers knew about global warming, and refused to do even the bare minimum to help curb it. (More highways, gas guzzlers galore, effectiv
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by screye 3y ago
This is the ideal middle ground. I would like for the market to stabilize around PHEV for a decade while the rest of the infrastructure catches up.
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by screye 3y ago
Car fires aren't the a significant enough cause of car crash deaths to matter. Maintenance seems to be a manufacturer problem more so than a hybrid vs others problem. Toyota Priuses have been the beater Taxi of America for a good decad
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by screye 3y ago
Big car inflation. People who like to stand out buy big cars. Big cars make people in small cars feel unsafe. So people replace their small cars with big cars. So, people in big cars buy bigger cars.....and so on. So now every car has to ha
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by screye 3y ago
I disagree. The sustainable alternative to EVs is hybrids, not gas guzzlers. Hybrids can be smaller, cheaper, lighter and gentler on the grid. Each of these matter. Heavier cars cause significantly higher road wear [1], particulate pollutio
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by screye 3y ago
Bike infrastructure means some brick separators and painted lanes. It takes less than a month to build city-wide rudimentary protected bike lines. BRT is similarly quick to implement, if a little more expensive. Remove 1 lane of parking fro
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by screye 3y ago
It is important to put 3rd world systems into this sort of sympathetic context. Sheikh Hasina had every living member of her family slaughtered by the erstwhile miltary. This part of the world necessitates constant paranoia. In many ways, B
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by screye 3y ago
Like calling a physicist : "Neumann meets Einstein" > Stratechery meets Money Stuff Couldn't imagine more glowing praise for a newsletter. Bookmarked.
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by screye 3y ago
Because events never cause wars. Countries want war and then they wait for an inciting event to go in. The US wants a war with Russia without putting boots on the ground. Ukraine was a convieinient excuse. 9/11 triggered a war with ran
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by screye 3y ago
At this point, they really need to start leveraging this man's skills for good or *lawful* evil.
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by screye 3y ago
The sad truth is - all of classical nlp is Dead, with a capital D. The bottleneck for accuracy was always data quality and human effort, not model architecture. Llms make the data and human problems so much easier, that the benefits of supp
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by screye 3y ago
Meta's bipolar switch from social media into VR then out of VR and into AI is anything but consistent. The bits and pieces might have been in place for years, but their prioritization and leadership thrust is clearly all over the place
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by screye 3y ago
It's always Euler. Can't imagine a more prolific and simultaneously impact full scientist in the modern era
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No, but ignoring them gives moral satisfaction to the 'luxury liberals' who think that loudly advocating for more public spending is going to fix things. This mentality leads to the kind of reckless infrastructure spending seen in
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by screye 3y ago
I don't see the article addressing how crime and homelessness play into downtown bus transit. Downtown greyhound terminals are the most consistently delipidated and crime prone (seeming) parts of the city. As a poor student, I took a t
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by screye 3y ago
There is a certain hubris to this article that I can't quite place. > It’s probably already too late for the city to become a New York. But there’s still time to do better than Mumbai. But, going by metro city infrastructure standar
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by screye 3y ago
Any attempt at real communism is real communism. Lenin Stalin and Mao were some of the best read scholars of their era who made genuine efforts to make communism happen. They couldn't, not because they did not understand communism, bu
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by screye 3y ago
Yep, in ML, the head of the lab is always last author.... even if it was equal contribution work with their own PhD student. The PhD student needs the street cred a lot more than a tenured PI.
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The sad part is that Schmidhuber is not a grifter by any means. If the turning prize for deep learning could go to 5 people instead of 3, he would very likely be on that list. His lab is excellent and was easily Europe's best deep lear
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by screye 3y ago
What was the process for scraping 25M products ? I have always used standard python tools like selenium, bs4 and the like. But I'm guessing none of these work at scale. Could you talk about your process and key bottlenecks at that scal

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