terminalbraid

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by terminalbraid 9mo ago
> new sounds and musical forms Has it done this? Or does it just make things that sound like what it's trained on?
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by terminalbraid 9mo ago
> I'd like to think HN is generally better at this than most communities, but it's hard to imagine we're immune. This is a zero-barrier-to-entry forum (not even an email required!) that has the eyes of a people prone to be
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by terminalbraid 9mo ago
Did you read the article at all? No, it was an actual catastrophe. There was damage, years of disruption for the work going on down there, a close call for the people working down there, years of cleanup running half a billion dollars.
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by terminalbraid 9mo ago
The strength of argument you're making reminds me of an onion headline. https://theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mi... "This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Sho
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by terminalbraid 9mo ago
If you talk to people who deal with inference using large fungible datasets, this is an extremely difficult governance problem. semver is incredibly insufficient and you don't have a well defined meaning of what "upgrade" ev
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by terminalbraid 9mo ago
But that's objectively not true unless you're just trolling or being sarcastic? The cost and reach of ground based systems still has a considerable amount of use, still have many projects of those types ongoing. There's bee
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by terminalbraid 9mo ago
You say that like it's mutually exclusive.
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by terminalbraid 9mo ago
It is a joke. Microsoft is the joke.
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by terminalbraid 9mo ago
> They believe those platforms are "public spaces" while they truly are "private spaces trying to destroy all other public spaces in order to get a monopoly." There's nothing I can add to this.
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by terminalbraid 9mo ago
> decoherence This has a specific meaning and is not a word I would use here. For something to be "decoherent" the particle phases would need to be "uncorrelated" or "random", but given the internal wavelen
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by terminalbraid 9mo ago
You're also trying to argue against a nonzero number of literal physicists who do this type of thinking for a living.
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by terminalbraid 9mo ago
Why do you say they're "pretty well understood" when there's been a long-standing unresolved discrepancy between lifetime measurement techniques?
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by terminalbraid 10mo ago
One lesson I'm taking away from this is never to buy or use Apple gift cards
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by terminalbraid 11mo ago
But you wouldn't call them a craftsperson because they didn't do any craft other than "be a manager". Reviewing work is not on the same plane as actually creating something.
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by terminalbraid 11mo ago
What? You can find tons of textbook examples when dealing with the uncountable sets from non-deterministic finite automata. Those frequently deal with power sets (like when you have an infinite alphabet) which are quintessentially uncount
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by terminalbraid 11mo ago
Maybe the community should use less of github if github doesn't provide features the community finds useful.
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by terminalbraid 11mo ago
Until you get yourself into a sunk cost fallacy and don't understand a sunk cost fallacy but only quarterly number go up.
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by terminalbraid 11mo ago
I'll bite: What part of the game, which is encoded entirely by a finite set of numbers, takes input as numbers, provides output as numbers, and is processed by a CPU that acts in a discrete digital space, cannot be represented by numb
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by terminalbraid 11mo ago
I'll posit it's because the virial theorem is applicable to the time average of a stable system and is therefore a specific case. The time average is not a requirement for this discussion (i.e. dynamics) and invoking that theor
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by terminalbraid 11mo ago
There's a book "Against Creativity" by Oli Mould which is on this topic. The title is about the redirection of creativity into monetizing everything. It hypothesizes that any current counterculture gets bought out by the sy
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by terminalbraid 1y ago
It's what happens when companies are driven by profit rather than making accurate scientific statements that reputation is built by and further research funding is predicated on. Hyperbolic claims like this are for shareholders who are
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by terminalbraid 1y ago
I'd posit that Google's large infusions of cash are what is keeping Mozilla afloat right now rather than including things like AI features.
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by terminalbraid 1y ago
It is in fact Waterfox for all the same reasons less unnecessary Mozilla trash
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Tesla pushes Tron: Ares ad inside its cars, upsetting owners(electrek.co)
39 points by terminalbraid 1y ago|14 comments
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by terminalbraid 1y ago
From the guilelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait
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Amazon's giant ads have ruined the Echo Show(theverge.com)
2 points by terminalbraid 1y ago|3 comments
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by terminalbraid 1y ago
> For those who've built FFI wrappers in similar situations, how did you navigate this? You talk to a lawyer who specializes in this topic. Anyone who is not a lawyer telling you anything is not to be trusted and can land you in le
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by terminalbraid 1y ago
> I don't know whether the city is correct about its power to terminate the contract They were unambiguously violating state law intended to prevent this exact scenario when they were sharing the data with the federal government. S
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by terminalbraid 1y ago
A lot of this seems to stem from "unit tests slow you down" vs "unit tests make you faster". Unit tests DO slow you down at the start of a project and I'm sure Uncle Bob et al would not argue against this. It will
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by terminalbraid 1y ago
What was wrong with the proof in this case? The paper explicitly states and acknowledges the issue raised by this article before the author was aware of it. The author of the article just contends that it is an experimental issue to set u

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