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by shmageggy 3y ago
So true. This tweet of his really drives home the point ( https://twitter.com/pontifier/status/1559080834057097219?s=2... ) > Ants, flies, termites, cockroaches, mice, rats, mosquitoes, thieves... > They al
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by shmageggy 3y ago
Are you looking at the right report? The one linked, "How do the largest US corporations contribute to inequality?: Oxfam's Corporate Inequality Framework" [1] has labeled axes, includes a sizable appendix with links to data
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by shmageggy 3y ago
The organization that grants these titles, DarkSky International, bases them more on local policy towards light pollution rather than the absolute magnitude of darkness. It's more about whether the local municipality has committed to g
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by shmageggy 3y ago
The cut-down title hides the whole point and contents of the article, which is a really interesting piece about indigenous sovereignty. Original title: "Vancouver’s new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous"
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by shmageggy 3y ago
The "foundation for technology like SIMA from Google" is more likely all of the other RL + games work that Deepmind did before and after that DOTA project.
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by shmageggy 3y ago
Not to mention that "best" is subjective, so there is no single ordering, but "How to write Paul Graham's favourite essay" wouldn't get as many clicks on HN (ironic for a site with anti-clickbait rules).
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by shmageggy 3y ago
Combined with the hyper-edges, I agree that's what's unusual here. Some Googling for "commutative but not associative" gave (besides some abstract math examples) the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors and the average function
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by shmageggy 3y ago
Anyone familiar with C++ willing to speculate what about the language feature (or things people have written about it) that may have triggered the safety guardrails? Something like a blog post cheekily titled "C++ concepts: adult super
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by shmageggy 3y ago
The article focuses on the adverse consequences for climate, with a mention of safety and livability of communities, but it neglects the effects roads have on biodiversity. There is a recent book that exposes how devastating roads are for n
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by shmageggy 3y ago
As mentioned in the article. Anything to add?
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by shmageggy 3y ago
> All we can really do is each do our best on an individual level to reduce our carbon footprint. No, that's not all we can really do. We could also choose to reform political and economic systems that make western-style societies s
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by shmageggy 3y ago
It's a valid concern, and there is research into this. https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2023/06/09/ais-growing-car... is one article, but lots more to be found via Google. Currently AI training is very
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by shmageggy 3y ago
These are fairly easy to find using HN search ( https://hn.algolia.com ) Here's one from 1584: Natural Magick (1584) 67 points by brudgers on Oct 8, 2019 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21180895 ) I&#x27
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by shmageggy 3y ago
Not every transition, but all of the optimal ones https://xkcd.com/832/
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by shmageggy 3y ago
> I found much more variation from other music streaming services where the playlists are supposedly actually human curated. Like which ones? I tried Tidal and music discovery sucks just as badly there too. I'm really craving a mu
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by shmageggy 3y ago
> We have a fair chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change if startups offer commercial solutions to decarbonize society or remove carbon from the atmosphere. Either this is sloppily phrased, or the SV techno-optimist kool-aid is
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by shmageggy 3y ago
Me: Force everyone to go vegan and ban cars The Authoritarian: Grr! You're not being authoritarian enough! More seriously, this is a nice game to get thinking about the incredible task ahead of us to fix our society. However it's
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by shmageggy 3y ago
> Apparent FTL is at least theoretically possible under our current understanding That's news to me. Source?
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by shmageggy 3y ago
Dedicated chess computers were hitting 2000 ELO with an 8-bit 6502 running at <10MHz in the late 1980s. The Novag Super expert had 96KB of ROM, which also included the opening book, so yeah, quite a bit smaller. https://scha
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by shmageggy 3y ago
Yeah, they need to compare against the latest BT2 policy head. It's probably about the same performance.
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by shmageggy 3y ago
Was anyone able to actually read this article? I was greeted by a barrage of popups and overlays that even broke the back button
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by shmageggy 3y ago
teenager + apple pie = pregnancy
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by shmageggy 3y ago
I think you've got it backwards: LessWrong was saying these author's words. Hutter has been publishing about this topic for almost 25 years.
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by shmageggy 3y ago
Without the GPT-speak: > Archaeology has historically assumed that European civilization was more significant and advanced than others, a view possibly rooted in ethnocentrism and racism, but findings like these challenge that assumption
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by shmageggy 3y ago
> There's abundant precedent of accelerating to high speeds in space But there's zero precedent for slowing down once you get somewhere (in 10,000 years)
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by shmageggy 3y ago
"Noise is really a form of habitat loss." This really resonates. It's kind of obvious once it's stated, but the aural environment is part of the habitat. I bet the examples they give, such as owls listening for the sou
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by shmageggy 3y ago
But think of the maintenance cost. It must be dollars per year!
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by shmageggy 3y ago
What's a half-block and how do I use one?
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by shmageggy 3y ago
This gets the correct aspect ratio but the glyphs (on my terminal) look stretched :(
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by shmageggy 3y ago
It has always bothered me that there are no Unicode code points for the left/right halves of chess pieces, which would enable a nearly square board using two characters per square. This is a nice solution, but it makes for a rather big

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