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by tbabb 6y ago
I have [said this before]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19446043 ); Tesla is not on track to deliver Level 5 with their current hardware and apparent software strategy. Piloting a car is a very hard problem, but I wo
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by tbabb 6y ago
I think the original source of that formula in relation to Pixar storytelling is from here: https://twitter.com/lawnrocket/status/201018115604230146 (The twitter account of a then-Pixar story artist).
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by tbabb 6y ago
Financial organization choosing not to facilitate transactions that fund literal terrorism.
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by tbabb 6y ago
This reads like you have not done any calculation to determine whether the entire ocean can be heated by any plausible number of datacenters or not.
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by tbabb 6y ago
The |y> superposition of you has one experience, and the |x> superposition of you has a different experience. The |y> version has no information about the |x> experience, and vice versa, because those two states are orthogonal i
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by tbabb 6y ago
Quantum mechanics is deterministic in most interpretations except Copenhagen, which is losing favor.
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by tbabb 6y ago
I think this is the most beautiful rendering explanation I've ever seen.
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by tbabb 6y ago
> You have to pick who you want to cave to Why does the narrative have to be about "caving" to someone instead of weighing principles against each other and taking the action which protects what's most important?
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by tbabb 6y ago
Plenty of departments in other countries do not carry guns and do their jobs just fine.
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by tbabb 6y ago
A light ring is not a closed timelike curve.
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by tbabb 6y ago
The constitution is just a piece of paper if no one follows or enforces it.
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by tbabb 6y ago
That's the thing— it does not require any great leap of faith or imagination to conceive of things that work this way, because there are already so many examples in the real world. To build on a previous example, Jimmy Wales leapt furt
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by tbabb 6y ago
It could have been a platform that enlightens, informs, and uplifts people instead of exploiting attention and anger, and profiting from misinformation. You can make money by making people feel good instead of bad. You can be rotten.com, or
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by tbabb 6y ago
I really don't like the "it can't be helped" attitude about what Facebook has become. They made a choice to throw gasoline on the flames of these aspects of human behavior. Few people seem to realize that Facebook cou
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by tbabb 6y ago
> Difficulty with large programs or large data. [...] too little will fit on the screen Solved by the ability to pan and zoom. Node graph tools in professional visual effects environments can grow to >20,000 nodes in a document, espec
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by tbabb 7y ago
It's a one-word way to say "there might be something wrong with this idea." It might be clear from the context what the wrongness might be, or it might be a gateway for more elaboration/discussion. It seems like a perfec
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by tbabb 7y ago
If your boss is taking the time to give you a 1-on-1, then there is an opportunity for both sides to listen to each other. If you have problems/complaints and you never say anything about them, then don't be surprised if they neve
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by tbabb 7y ago
Didn't mean to suggest that it should be zero— only that new leads feel like they are falling behind when they're actually doing normal leadership tasks, because it's not coding, and coding is what feels like work to them; or
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by tbabb 7y ago
I am sure the meaning of "lead" varies from company to company. This advice applies to any role where you have any degree of responsibility for others' success (and haven't before). Where I worked, as a lead I was probab
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by tbabb 7y ago
Sometimes people reframe mistakes or lapses in a "dishonest" way to save face. I think it's important to use those occurrences as opportunities to show that it's safe to be honest instead. Allow them to come clean and sh
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by tbabb 7y ago
Top mistakes by new leads: - Not delegating. New leads often feel that if they're not writing code (or doing whatever it means to be an individual contributor), they're slacking off. The definition of "work" has changed.
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by tbabb 7y ago
This thread seems to be unaware of DEC64, so this seems as good a place as any to point to this: http://www.dec64.com/ The gist: It's efficient (adds and mults in a few instructions), and preserves the decimal represen
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by tbabb 7y ago
I am very curious about the composition of the air inside, and what it could tell us to have such a perfectly isolated sample that is nearly a billion years old.
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by tbabb 7y ago
Tiered pricing is a standard way to allow more price-conscious customers to get the product, while still charging higher prices to those who are willing to pay for the best features. A big fraction of product cost is the overhead of setting
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by tbabb 7y ago
> identifying whether or not these physical assumptions covary is not that easy But still tractable, I'd say. My core claim is that counting independently-variable assumptions will be a highly performant way to select between theori
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by tbabb 7y ago
> First off, why are assumptions independent? Because I've defined them that way. I mean them to be independent choices you could make when designing your model that could be varied to fit the data. If two aspects of the model are n
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by tbabb 7y ago
> I don't understand how we can reason with "probabilities of failure" about such fundamental things such as laws of physics. A sketch: Suppose we have two theories, one ("A") with assumptions (a, b); the other (
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by tbabb 7y ago
I suspect you're being willfully dense. The theory you paint would be composite of other assumptions (involving lighting, forces, or stars, e.g.?) which in turn are either in contradiction with observation (implying Pr=0%), or rely on
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by tbabb 7y ago
Each additional unchecked assumption that is added to a theory is another opportunity to be wrong. These probabilities of failure, however small, are compounded with multiplication, so the probability of failure rises exponentially with the
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by tbabb 7y ago
This reminds me of Atlassian's god-awful WYSIWYG editor. In both cases, I get that some users can't or don't like to use a machine grammar/markup, however simple. For some people markup is bad UX. Give them a WYSIWYG;

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