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by sumy23 4y ago
HN is simple, yes. But it could be made more complicated. Personalized feed and data analytics are two complicated things that come to mind. Staying simple is often a choice, and it’s a choice not many companies make.
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> We need some sort of responsible investing vehicle that includes gamification, intermittent reinforcement, and a tiny chance for a huge payoff. You’re basically describing options.
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by sumy23 4y ago
There are political concerns as well. As the article mentions, healthcare spending is 17% of U.S. GDP (which is an absolutely insane figure). Healthcare jobs account for 14% of the workforce according to Census Bureau's 2019 American C
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> Unless of course you have a source of carbon you can't yet replace effectively or at scale. Wouldn't it be better to capture the carbon and sequester it? How is capturing the carbon and then burning it again (via e-fuel) good
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by sumy23 4y ago
E-fuels don’t do anything other than make the original carbon consumption more efficient. Let’s say you have a coal power plant and capture the carbon to make e-fuel. You’ve made the coal more efficient, as you get the same amount of electr
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by sumy23 4y ago
You can buy short options that have capped downside.
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by sumy23 4y ago
People are so smug when they say “I told you so.” It really bothers me. On every negative story about crypto, so many people comment “hur dur financial regulation dur”. But that’s so easy to say after the fact. If these people really could
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by sumy23 4y ago
I’ve noticed something similar at the company I work for and I think I have an explanation. Basically, upper management doesn’t understand what it takes to accomplish tasks anymore due to maligned incentives from middle management. Middle m
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by sumy23 4y ago
This doesn’t seem like good advice. As a human, the data might not be engineerable by you. The data might seem like it is, but you may end up losing information through your feature engineering. The combinatorial power of NNs is so great th
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by sumy23 4y ago
The article is about whether or not human learning is powered by a simple, understandable process. Your response is: “No, human learning is like the climate, it’s complex.” I’m just pointing out what a nonsensical statement that is. The art
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I don't see that working in a hospital.
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But the brain isn't a complex system because the climate is a complex system. There is no relation between the two systems, other than that the two are emergent phenomena on Earth. Proof that the climate is a complex system doesn&#x2
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What does climate have to do with the brain? How are you drawing an inference between how the climate works and how the brain works? I agree with others that you’re propagating pseudoscience. Even if you’re right, and there isn’t a simple r
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That usage doesn’t seem idiomatic. Like it’s literally saying the rain in this area is heavy.
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They could still sell their hardware to recoup some costs. And I doubt most miners are using free electricity.
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by sumy23 4y ago
GPUs are used for eth. There is clearly a broad downturn in the mining sector.
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by sumy23 4y ago
We have a small, nearly off the grid cottage (septic, water from the lake, no roads, etc.). It has an internet connection via a Ubiquiti antenna. Not enough room for two desks there either.
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by sumy23 4y ago
I live in a small apartment with my partner who also works from home. We don’t have enough space to dedicate to two desks. We also travel a lot, so I need to be able to take my work with me.
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That’s fine. The criteria people have for being software engineers is different. I just gave my personal opinion. I don’t think there is a right or wrong.
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I do need to develop on a Macbook. The hardware is just so much better than anything else out there. This is my personal opinion of course, but I would rather stop being a software developer than to develop software using a different laptop
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by sumy23 4y ago
It’s basically self-evident that static analysis reduces bugs. It’s trivial to construct an example of where type information would catch a bug. Unless there is some reason that including type information increases bugs, the existence of a
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by sumy23 4y ago
I ran a micro-payments platform and our solution was to have users store money in their "wallets" that they could spend on any content with minimum amounts for wallet additions. Unsurprisingly, people don't like spending more
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by sumy23 4y ago
Yes it’s a guaranteed error in Vale, but the error may cause UB in the application logic. This won’t happen in Rust because the program won’t compile if a use-after-free is possible.
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by sumy23 4y ago
When the price is higher, it’s likely more people were buying (more demand = higher prices). So if the media price is 20k, likely more than half lost money.
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by sumy23 4y ago
In my opinion, a runtime check is less safe than a compile time check. In both cases, the language is free from undefined behavior when using a freed reference. However, while a language with a runtime check might not have UB, programs writ
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by sumy23 4y ago
I think people are conceptually fine with null. What they’re annoyed with is the inability to know if null is a possible value for a variable in many programming languages, e.g. Java.
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Question: it looks like the generational memory strategy prevents use-after-free bugs at runtime, which is nice, but a language like Rust prevents these kind of bugs at compile time. Am I missing something, or is Rust fundamentally safer th
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Go has GC and a runtime, which this might not have?
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by sumy23 4y ago
You could just not use Teflon if you’re worried about it.
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The minimum wage applies to immigrants.

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