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by senkora 7mo ago
Since I had to look it up, OBOR = One Belt One Road = Belt and Road Initiative, which is China's project for building infrastructure in developing countries to promote tighter economic integration with China. It's a more literal t
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by senkora 7mo ago
EDIT: I am wrong, see children > The employee, she said, “used confidential OpenAI information in connection with external prediction markets (e.g. Polymarket).” Note that “insider trading” is not illegal on prediction markets. The parti
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by senkora 8mo ago
It seems like it could also be quite dangerous for those with food allergies.
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by senkora 8mo ago
This is part of the civilizational collapse narrative. It is definitely true in a way. I think that how much it would end up mattering depends on how well solar tech would withstand a civilizational collapse. I think that a proto-industrial
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by senkora 9mo ago
Yep. Ad viewability standards simply require that a video ad was 50% onscreen for a continuous 2 seconds in order for it to count as an impression. Google probably usually gets that even for skippable ads. > Picture this: an advertiser p
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by senkora 9mo ago
I haven’t read any of the author’s other posts, so I don’t know if he is always this careful, but I do not mind the level of LLM assistance present in this post. It becomes a problem when it is obvious that the LLM had a much bigger contrib
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by senkora 10mo ago
Yep, might as well go straight to the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis: > Tegmark's MUH is the hypothesis that our external physical reality is a mathematical structure. That is, the physical universe is not merely described by math
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by senkora 10mo ago
I really like this article. > One could specify a smallest effect size of interest and compare the plausibility of seeing the reported p-value under that distribution compared to the null distribution. 6 Maier and Lakens (2022) suggest y
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by senkora 10mo ago
Relevant SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1624
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by senkora 10mo ago
He doesn’t mention it in this post, but in another post he talked about the toll of needing to frequently attend meetings in the middle of the night in his time zone. Whatever his reasons for leaving, I hope that he finds a better balance i
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by senkora 11mo ago
You may be interested in Dusk OS, the 32 bit Forth based operating system for the first stage of civilizational collapse: https://duskos.org/
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by senkora 11mo ago
Also featured in a Tom Scott video (which used TFA as its source): https://youtu.be/Ef93WmlEho0?si=4cWrnzKMTq04hDIh
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by senkora 11mo ago
It looks like the initial post that this was a response to ended up flagged. I don’t mean to accuse you of anything, especially since the signs are relatively subtle here, but this post and the initial one both show signs of having been edi
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by senkora 11mo ago
The article covers a variety of different approaches to dealing with high cocoa prices, but the Amsterdam brownie in the title is using a more heavily alkalized cocoa powder to maintain a similar taste while using less cocoa: > The forme
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by senkora 11mo ago
Do you mean a red flag for the quality of the article, or for the actions of the department? "Department of War" is currently a real name for the department: > On September 5, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive o
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by senkora 11mo ago
It's difficult for me to evaluate the code quality, since I know C++ well but I don't know the conventions around using the R bindings. But from what I am able to tell the quality seems good. Really impressive for something vibe-c
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by senkora 11mo ago
> The Wired can’t be allowed to interfere with the real world! > No matter where you go, everyone’s connected. https://youtu.be/24rPXmWWXek?si=QSn7ysb2OEm8OwzH I know that HN culturally frowns on video links and unexp
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by senkora 11mo ago
+1 to systemcrafters. It is probably the closest community to what you are looking for.
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by senkora 11mo ago
Midtown Manhattan is “too much” even for a lot of New Yorkers. I try to minimize my time there.
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by senkora 1y ago
Do you think that this post, by an AI company, talking about workflows for AI tools, which is structured into nested headings and bullet points, which uses the red X and green check emojis, as well as the em dash, was not written with the a
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by senkora 1y ago
Based on the use of em dashes and general tone, this post and this comment were both written with AI assistance.
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by senkora 1y ago
I once had the customer service agent for Iberia (the Spanish airline) confirm my confirmation number with me using it. It worked with me and I guess it must have usually worked for him in most of his customer interactions.
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by senkora 1y ago
This is the issue that I have with many Apple TV+ shows. The production value is always very high, but it has no correlation with whether the writing is actually good.
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by senkora 1y ago
Specifically, the AMD-Chinese joint venture seems like one of the more probable choices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%E2%80%93Chinese_joint_vent...
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by senkora 1y ago
I wonder how much engineering was needed to adapt to driving on the left side of the road. I imagine that for some things you just flip a switch, but for anything neural there could be learned associations where certain objects or events ar
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by senkora 1y ago
The process is the punishment.
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by senkora 1y ago
The competitor is Michael Novati, who is known as the originator of the “Coding Machine” archetype of principal engineer at Meta. TFA gets the Risk board game story from the same article where I first heard of him: https://newsle
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by senkora 1y ago
As long as some games (e.g. tournaments, ranked unreal) need to be mostly human, the software still needs to be able to handle it. But it wouldn’t surprise me too much if those use a higher tier of hardware.
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by senkora 1y ago
I like the definition of security = confidentiality + integrity + availability. So confidentiality was maintained but integrity and availability were not.
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by senkora 1y ago
Maybe Tesla should’ve used their fancy electronic door opener for getting into the vehicle, but made the obvious way to exit the vehicle a normal mechanical handle? I understand that this vehicle was designed to break conventions, but it is

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