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by snet0 3y ago
Part of the issue with keyboard audio is that it's very "noisy". It's like comparing two instances of white-ish noise. Statistics would be able to discern the instances immediately, but a human probably wouldn't.
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by snet0 3y ago
There's nothing here that precludes both types of work. Some people can do "unforgettable" work, and create "experiences", *and* some people can do "just" work, and create solutions.
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by snet0 3y ago
I often point people to "I Hate the News"[0], a 2006 blog post from Aaron Swartz. > It seems like the whole thing would work just as well even if nobody ever read the Times or watched the cable chat shows. It’s a closed system.
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by snet0 3y ago
This kind of thing is not so unpopular in some kinds of user interfaces. I think GitHub has a repo deletion confirmation that asks you to type the name of the repo. It's not quite the same as flag naming, but it's a big flashing l
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by snet0 3y ago
This is such a HN comment.
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by snet0 3y ago
I believe this was more a statement of mnemonic than a statement of fact. I appreciate your etymology, though. That also can function as a mnemonic.
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by snet0 3y ago
I don't know how it is in Spanish culture, but in English culture there is certainly an amount of sneering done at "modernisations" of older English texts.
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by snet0 3y ago
> I lay out the whole LLM landscape in this article: No, you don't.
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WiFall: Device-Free Fall Detection by Wireless Networks(ieeexplore.ieee.org)
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by snet0 3y ago
It's more like having "free gas for people staying at this motel".
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by snet0 4y ago
An increasing number of sites I interact with seem to love making me wait for API calls for everything . Like the lazy-loading is meant to improve the user experience, but if all I see is blurred placeholders and ...s while you make your s
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by snet0 4y ago
I've always felt like software is falling prey to something akin to Jevon's paradox[1]. We have more compute available, so we can be less optimised with our code and do more stuff, so we write bad code that tries to do too much
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by snet0 4y ago
It's slightly different in that those are basically utility companies at this point, but there's definitely an argument to be made that certain levels of social media ubiquity ought to qualify them as a utility, since you lose so
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by snet0 4y ago
Yeah I'm definitely sympathetic to this, and I think the next decade will determine how we proceed with these cases. It does feel like, while they're all private companies, if a random individual was to be banned from all social m
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by snet0 4y ago
While I agree with this in the abstract, this particular case is that of a private company refusing hosting to content that it (or, perhaps, its advertisers) does not want their name attached to. It'd be nice if we didn't have thi
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by snet0 4y ago
So this is an Nvidia-side bug, rather than a Discord-side bug? But Discord's new feature simply exposes it?
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by snet0 4y ago
I've been using Pandoc to write Latex-lite for a couple years now. Just write .md files with basic Markdown syntax for all the major text content, and add some Latex when I need to do something more particular. Best of both worlds, rea
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by snet0 4y ago
"Early iteration of new technology has not yet solved the problem it is aimed at solving, more news at 11".
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by snet0 4y ago
Just to mention, 200 choose 8 is roughly 10e14. If you could assuming 3 of the words are "and", "the" and "I", you limit the other word selection to 200 choose 5 ~= 10e10. Add an extra order of 4-5 for word ord
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by snet0 4y ago
And it's still better than terrestrial TV.
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by snet0 4y ago
> Why does that need to be monetized? Because it costs money. Some things, e.g. contributing to the Wikia, don't cost money, they just cost time. You can't pay for a website with time, though, you need to pay a host.
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by snet0 4y ago
I think the hard, honest answer is getting people to pay for things. Netflix, Prime Video, etc. have leap-frogged TV in terms of audience enjoyment by optimising for being a good product that people will pay for. The hard thing is getting p
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by snet0 4y ago
If I remember what I did correctly, you can block most of the named sections using something like uBlock.
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by snet0 4y ago
I don't think the question of why CEOs are older than non-CEOs is interesting. Highly important roles require suitable experience, which of course is going to bias the sample towards older people. The problem is that, if the only answe
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by snet0 4y ago
I'm not sure that this isn't bait, but, given enough somewhat arbitrary slicing of the data (gender, age, loose race groups etc.), surely it'd be unlikely that there wouldn't be some biased slices? It's basically
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by snet0 4y ago
They're not saying you should look at some subset of individuals with positive results, you have misread. The notion is that the difference between participants can mask the effect of the drug, such that comparing any individual partic
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by snet0 4y ago
You might have killed enough programs with Ctrl-C, but SIGINT is an interrupt, not a kill, terminate or quit.
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by snet0 4y ago
If someone can access it, my university notes where I looked into LCGs such as this discusses that in Numerical Recipes, 1992 C Edition, a clever LCG can be used to generates random numbers between 0 and 1. Using a 32 bit int generated by a
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by snet0 4y ago
In favour of duplicates, not everyone is on HN frequently, and can miss on some excellent posts if they're not reposted.
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by snet0 4y ago
Watching him on Joe Rogan post Sandy-Hook gave me a pause that made me wonder if, under the public persona, there was a genuine human. I can certainly imagine that, if you're getting so heavily rewarded for the OTT absurdity, vitriol a

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