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by tlb 4y ago
Tangential, but I often wish I had screenshots to prove I'd opted in, or out, or otherwise done the right thing. It shouldn't be too expensive to record and index the screen whenever I'm doing something important online and k
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by tlb 4y ago
Either path can be right for different people. And the wrong decision can be horrible. You can always take VC later, but you can’t un-take it. So you should be pretty sure that you want to spend the next 10 years of your life shooting for a
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by tlb 4y ago
Wages have never been based on value produced, at any time, in any industry. Although there may be some coordination, coordination isn't necessary for wages to be unrelated to value produced, because that's the default condition.
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by tlb 4y ago
You could just resize your browser window to a common size. If the real goal is to avoid being tracked over long periods of time, then resizing to a slightly different size every day might work better.
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by tlb 4y ago
Magazine editors don't go out and pound the pavement to discover unknown people for their top lists. They make up the list by reading their own magazine, and other magazines, and reading pitches from PR people they know. So: hire a PR
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by tlb 4y ago
The information content in hair distribution is substantial. The genetic program for facial hair must have dozens of bits. Like eyebrows are a pretty specific shape in a specific place. Eyebrows may have a practical function (avoiding sweat
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by tlb 4y ago
Most open-source code isn't well-structured or documented. Some, including some popular projects, are downright terrible. But if it's useful to someone, there's benefit in releasing it.
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by tlb 4y ago
Its training set includes, among other things, text written by millennials using Ye Olde English for comic effect on Reddit. I think I detect that flavor of twaddle in the output. People have the ability to hear large amounts of lowbrow con
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by tlb 4y ago
Those computers with rich instruction sets are built up of smaller units made of smaller units, down to individual transistors (typically 2 kinds). It's pretty cool that you can build something so complex from a couple types of compone
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by tlb 4y ago
If you believe that and you're still an employee, what's holding you back from founding a company? Moving from low-paying job A to high-paying job B not only benefits you, but causes average pay for A to increase and B to decrease
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by tlb 4y ago
One of YC's founding principles [0] is that having more startups is, overall, good for the world. Startups are the engine of economic progress (and sometimes social progress) and more of that is good. Not everyone shares that value, bu
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by tlb 4y ago
"Particular Kind of Car Crashes" is not that interesting a story when there are millions of that kind of car on the road. A good statistical analysis of crash rates across version of autopilots would be interesting, but individua
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by tlb 4y ago
Agreed, for a sufficiently hard definition of hard real time. Hard real time gets a lot of theoretical attention, because it's sometimes provable. Whether the decisions you're making by the deadline are sensible and not, say, cran
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by tlb 4y ago
Some benefits can be measured, some can't. Mosquito nets can be measured. Interventions to reduce AI risk can never be measured, because we'll only ever get one data point (many years from now) and evaluating an intervention needs
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by tlb 4y ago
I agree it's very hard to do that when your code needs 90% of the CPU to keep up. But lots of systems need less than 10% for the real-time code. Or less than 1%. In that case, it can be easy to convince yourself that straightforward in
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by tlb 4y ago
Well, I respect them for formally stating as policy what was presumably being done informally for a long time. It gives their audience something specific to disagree with, rather than a vague feeling that some kinds of research were being b
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by tlb 4y ago
std::shared_ptr doesn't use mutexes in any implementation I know of. They use atomic instructions for incrementing and decrementing the reference count, which are very fast.
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by tlb 4y ago
How hard would it be to automatically convert some existing C++ into the new language? It seems like your compiler can diagnose the errors, so inserting `mutable` and `bool(...)` should be possible. It might be interesting to do this on an
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by tlb 4y ago
If you really want a clean system, get network gear that runs off 48 volt DC power and avoid the AC stage completely. As a bonus: inverters always make a slight buzz, while 48 V systems can be silent.
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by tlb 4y ago
There is so much opportunity to make Firefox great. It could make a billion people significantly happier and safer online. I hope he can make it happen.
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by tlb 4y ago
No, Hacker News was named after the people who enjoy doing clever things with computers. At the time, using "hacker" to mean a black-hat was popular in the press, but not among actual hackers. And "growth hacking" was a
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by tlb 4y ago
My experimental spreadsheet does something like this. You can refer to the value of a cell given some different values in other cells, and it calculates the value of the cell given just those changes. Syntax is cellname{othercell=othervalue
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by tlb 4y ago
onMouseMove is normally delivered at the video frame rate, 60 fps. The OP's benchmark shows it can deliver around 60M signals per second, so it uses about 1/1000000 of the CPU time. Seems tolerable.
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by tlb 4y ago
It can only work between pairs of particles that are bound together. Otherwise, the total forces between every pair of quarks (N^2 pairs) in the universe would be preposterously large.
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by tlb 4y ago
Part of strategy is knowing what your organization is capable of, and not burning time and money trying to do something you can't execute effectively. I mean, "make the fastest CPUs and GPUs and charge a premium" would be a g
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by tlb 4y ago
A writeup would probably be well-received here
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by tlb 4y ago
Or use bigger numbers, so enums that get mixed up somehow won’t work.
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by tlb 4y ago
Authoritarian tech has two problems: the obvious one, and the fact that good hackers don’t want to work on such things, so it’s all built by consultants and stooges and is probably 10x clunkier than the clunkiest Bluetooth - X.25 gateway.
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by tlb 4y ago
It's a shame that the meaning of 'idempotent' has gotten watered down by half-assed implementations. The original NFS paper from Sun [0] claims that write operations are idempotent, but they aren't really. Not if another
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by tlb 4y ago
The cache was warm for both measurements, which is more typical of my dev environment.

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