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by tlb 3y ago
Before Unicode, 'μ' was typically entered as an 'm' in a Greek font. This can go wrong in several ways, like if you converted the document to plain text, or if your laser printer didn't have the font and it substitu
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by tlb 3y ago
It might be quicker to create a fresh AWS account and push everything there.
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by tlb 3y ago
The numbers I’m familiar with are: 120M rods and 6M cones (each eye). What’s the derivation for your number? Is it projecting the rod density at the fovea over the whole visual field?
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by tlb 3y ago
This isn't the norm in Silicon Valley. Most companies will agree to exceptions to their Assignment of Inventions agreement if you ask, as long as it's not directly competitive.
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by tlb 3y ago
HN isn't intended for discussing things proportional to their moral value. It's for discussing things that are intellectually interesting. This story is interesting to many HN readers because of the technology involved (carbon fib
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by tlb 3y ago
Fly-by-wire systems have proven very safe. Most Airbus passenger jets are, for instance. But radio links for remote piloting are less reliable, because interference can be impossible to predict.
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by tlb 3y ago
Human social media users get a similarly biased sample of information. The thing is, there's no objectively unbiased sample of information. You could weight towards tweets or books, NYT or the Economist, arXiv or journals. The books co
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by tlb 3y ago
A few times, I guess. I might do it more often if I had separate OS windows for code editing. But I use VSCode (and Emacs before that) with 2 or 3 side-by-side panels. I drag those panes wider and narrower frequently.
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by tlb 3y ago
I don't miss it. I carefully dragged each window to align just right one time, and never had to redo it since. It persists across reboots, and remembers placements separately for the two monitor arrangements I use (laptop, laptop + big
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by tlb 3y ago
Simply the observation that my programming ability isn't restored by doing some things, but is restored by doing others. Because I haven't done an RCT, there are potential confounds. Perhaps I'm more likely to reddit (vs go o
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by tlb 3y ago
Clicking through Reddit seems to burn the same mental energy needed to program. So you can't program for 6 hours, Reddit for an hour, then program like you're fresh again. If you sit outside and gaze at the clouds & trees for
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by tlb 3y ago
And storage price. Housing in the city is like $40/sqft/year, so that plastic playhouse for your kids occupying a 3'x3' patch of living room floor gets pretty expensive.
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by tlb 3y ago
There are guidelines for comments generally [0]. What special guidelines would you like to see for product launches? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tlb 3y ago
It's a loop that has no effects, so a sufficiently smart compiler would be able to remove it completely.
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by tlb 3y ago
If you make both piston and cylinder out of bronze, they stick together and wear quickly. It's better to make one from bronze and one from iron.
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by tlb 3y ago
In a factual article, the default assumption is that the pictures are real. You should tag generated images.
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by tlb 3y ago
I agree that’s a risk, but it doesn’t seem like a different magnitude of risk than power companies using other crappy software to control their systems. It might break a few times, which will be annoying, but it won’t lead to the immediate
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by tlb 3y ago
Browsers won't resolve it, but you can `dig ai.` and go to the IP address http://209.59.119.34 Also: http://ai./ works (at least in Safari)
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by tlb 3y ago
Not among experienced angel investors. Maybe noobs are impressed. On the plus side: you'd learn a lot trying to arrange an acqui-hire, though it's an extremely stressful way to spend a few months (and it's never less than a f
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by tlb 3y ago
Your angel investors will know how much you got acquired for (ie, near zero) so I don't see how it saves anyone's face. I'm a frequent angel investor, and getting a small amount of money back really isn't interesting. Ob
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by tlb 3y ago
The FAQ says "The base model of the EVB starts at $5000."
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by tlb 3y ago
Transformer-based LLMs define a theory of time: each token representation has added to it a vector full of sincos(wt) for a set of frequencies w, after which order is ignored. (Each sincos defines 2 elements of the vector: sin(wt) and cos(w
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by tlb 3y ago
That must reflect a suboptimal choice of tree. Sequoias, for instance, can capture 400 kg / yr for a few hundred years.
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by tlb 3y ago
An accelerometer will show braking when going at constant speed down a hill. Change in wheel speed is better.
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by tlb 3y ago
Yes, that’s my understanding. One advantage of summing is that the lower frequency terms hardly change for a small text, so effectively there is more capacity for embeddings with short texts, while still encoding order in long texts.
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by tlb 3y ago
People condense information from more than several thousand tokens ago into higher level chunks. So the whole first chapter of Infinite Jest becomes “child tennis prodigy is weird and annoying”. It’s not clear how to learn this. Transformer
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by tlb 3y ago
I believe you when you say there is interesting tech running the site, but I couldn't find evidence of it in a few minutes of clicking around. So there's not much for me to engage with. A blog post explaining how the tech works mi
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by tlb 3y ago
Because you keep posting the same request for money over and over, which breaks this site's guidelines (see "Guidelines" in the footer of every page).
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by tlb 3y ago
For pop songs, the fact that rights holders haven't been able to sue for copyright infringement (except occasionally). Owners of song rights are pretty effective at noticing if your song has too many words or notes in common with an ex
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by tlb 3y ago
You can store a lot per typed character and never come close to the storage requirements of pictures and video. Writing a novel is a couple million keystrokes over a year, so even storing a kilobyte per keystroke is trivial.

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