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by tomp 3y ago
Llion Jones’ startup was unveiled a few days ago. https://twitter.com/SakanaAILabs
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by tomp 3y ago
True, but I buy AirBnB specifically for things that you can’t get in a hotel. An entire villa with pool in Tuscany. An apartment with a kitchen. A flat with the view of Acropolis in Athens (maybe you can get that in a hotel, but you can n
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by tomp 3y ago
This looks like plain JavaScript. What does TypeScript add in this scenario? Does the example above even pass typecheck?
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by tomp 3y ago
As the post nicely demonstrates, TypeScript is definitely not OK for compilers (and not surprising at all!) It doesn't even have destructuring pattern matching! At this point, even Java is better [1]. [1] https://github.co
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by tomp 3y ago
I mean, not all the credit. She might be brilliant, but she's worked other space jobs before. So clearly whatever company Musk has created, has allowed her to actually showcase her brilliance. CEO sets the vision. Without vision, eve
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by tomp 3y ago
> For example, pitch 17 firms with NDA protected IP in the slide deck, than your project could be considered public domain. Do you have source/explanation where I can learn more? How can one protect against that?
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by tomp 3y ago
A weird article that isn’t worth reading in my opinion. > simple models can’t explain complexities of the real world. Nevertheless here’s several simple models that support my claim that brain drain is good, as well as other pros and co
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by tomp 3y ago
So why did it fail?
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by tomp 3y ago
Fires are actually decreasing. https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/climate-change-hasnt-set-th... https://archive.li/WfDJh
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by tomp 3y ago
> That's because an internal combustion engine wastes the majority of gasoline's energy as heat, while electric motors use most of the battery's energy to move the car. I guess that depends on your perspective and/o
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by tomp 3y ago
Even in high school it was obvious to me that "god is omniscient" is a scientific statement, not a metaphysical / religious claim. The existence of god, however, is a metaphysical claim. The first statement is simply puttin
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by tomp 3y ago
> This work, frankly, upsets some of our customers or potential customers (like Archive.is). That's a bit unfair, don't you think? From what I remember of the saga, the original reason for Archive.is's block is that they r
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by tomp 3y ago
People should be allowed to be fat. But if you're so fat you need 2 airline seats, you should pay for 2 seats, just like a non-fat person who wants 2 seats. People should be allowed to use drugs and be drug addicts. But if you're
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by tomp 3y ago
I view rich and non-rich people equally. Many are moral, many others are corruptible. Among the latter, it’s harder (more expensive) to corrupt a non-rich person
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by tomp 3y ago
The issue with the UK is that the opposition is even worse. Proportional voting doesn’t change that.
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by tomp 3y ago
> Fundamentally though, a billionaire should not be a political leader, too much opportunity of corruption or the appearance of it. Quite the contrary, the richer a person is, the harder they are to corrupt (both in theory - need more mo
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by tomp 3y ago
Exactly. When you stop thinking in age-related grades , and start thinking in individual subjects, you realize how stupid the current system is. People are differently skilled/talented in different subjects, why group them by age, ins
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by tomp 3y ago
I urge you to "figure out" 563 3557 in base 9 . Guess what? You'll first need to manually* derive the approximate "multiplication tables" (for individual digits), only then you'll be able to multiply multi-di
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by tomp 3y ago
I don't understand why there would need to be separate advanced learning programs in schools. In fact, every school already has an advanced learning program. It's called the next grade ! Not only are there social benefits f
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by tomp 3y ago
13 years so maybe
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by tomp 3y ago
Interesting. Literally every job I’ve gotten was either through a recruiter or cold outreach.
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by tomp 3y ago
Interesting. Funny how wrong the Community Note was. Obviously vaccine × virus aren't an xor . Many people have already had the virus by the time they were forced to take the vaccine. For those people the myocarditis risk was a stri
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by tomp 3y ago
“Waitlist launches” aren’t launches, they’re marketing tricks. Your mileage might vary, though in my experience HN folks aren’t too fond of scams.
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by tomp 3y ago
> Solving this effectively solves all of those hard problems, at least in a subset of your language where you are able to address it. No, "solving" this by preventing it in the first place just makes programming way too hard. I
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by tomp 3y ago
> Especially the new minergy houses can keep cool very well even during summer without an AC. Your mileage might vary. I've personally lived in 2 different "minergie" apartments over the past 2 years (3 summers) and one of
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by tomp 3y ago
Green ideology? Degrowth mindset? The Swiss are very “save energy” oriented. Apparently some people have a hard time understanding that A/C use coincides perfectly with solar power generation.
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by tomp 3y ago
Switzerland is literally the worst. Homes and hospitals are forbidden from having A/C. Shopping centers are allowed.
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by tomp 3y ago
As a mathematician, I don't think about Big Bang as the "start of time" (or any other dimension), but simply as "fixed point" (of the "physical evolution of all particles in the universe" function).
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by tomp 3y ago
Sorry I meant the whole Western civilisation framework of "democracy + rule of law + contract law + freedom of association + free market + capitalism (private property) + ...". As in, you create a non-profit (rule of law), buy too
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by tomp 3y ago
You don't need to enforce meritocracy. That's the beauty of it, it's based only on mutual consensus and transparency of information (a.k.a. free market). Would you rather go to a doctor who's good at surgeries or one t

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