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by ummonk 3y ago
So if I invent something but don’t have the capital to manufacture it myself, I shouldn’t be able to make money from licensing it to companies?
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by ummonk 3y ago
The constitution also says “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated”
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by ummonk 3y ago
For all the problems caused by militarization of the police, is there any evidence that it leads to “escalation on both sides”? Gangs using automatic weapons seems to be escalated well beyond America already.
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by ummonk 3y ago
"In April 2023, he was swatted four times in one day. The fourth time the MPD sent six officers with assault rifles to his home at 9pm." - okay at some point the MPD shares some of the blame for letting themselves get used like th
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by ummonk 3y ago
It isn't just one statement in the article. It's basically the tone of the entire article. Examples: "Eventually Gerv felt called to live his faith by publicly judging others in politely stated but damning terms. His contrib
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by ummonk 3y ago
It's uhclear from the description whether the cyclist was going straight in the same direction as the truck and the Waymo turned into the cyclist, or the cyclist was traveling across the direction of the truck and the Waymo.
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by ummonk 3y ago
Were the onboard text recognition and speech synthesis APIs not good enough for this task?
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by ummonk 3y ago
And when a bunch of your users can’t get in to their accounts because they lost their yubikeys?
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by ummonk 3y ago
I just want an authentication / identity service that lets me select the recovery difficulty (anything from showing my government issued ID or fingerprint verification to actual rapid DNA testing, all for an appropriate fee), along wit
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by ummonk 3y ago
Depends whether they have an email-centric or SAML-account-centric auth model.
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The company that powers Silicon Valley's race and gender-based hiring goals(piratewires.com)
16 points by ummonk 3y ago|2 comments
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by ummonk 3y ago
The number of repositories sounds really high. The number of tickets doesn't.
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by ummonk 3y ago
The point (which the author misses) is that irrational actors (such as those putting money in Trump winning by 280+) wouldn't significantly distort market odds if the market weren't severely crippled by so many restrictions and fe
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by ummonk 3y ago
The article briefly mentions causes for market inefficiency such as the time value of money and platform fees, but then inexplicably goes on to ignore them as potential reasons for inefficient markets. Plenty of arbitrage opportunities exis
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by ummonk 3y ago
Was this in California?
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by ummonk 3y ago
I’d expect a rocker switch in America to also be the same as our light switches - pressed at the top for on, pressed at the bottom for off.
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by ummonk 3y ago
I could swear Discord inverted its mic button on vs off convention sometime last year.
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by ummonk 3y ago
Have you done any testing with teens or children? I could hear all the way to 23 kHz in my early 20s. Now at 32 I only hear up to 16 kHz (well I can hear a slight tone at 17 kHz but it's very slight).
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by ummonk 3y ago
> This embodies the very fundamental difference between science and engineering. Not really though. In engineering, you have heuristics, even if you don't know why they work. In the case of deep learning / AI, there seems to be
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by ummonk 3y ago
Yeah if the first one weren't so obviously implementation defined, I'd have second-guessed myself on a lot of the others.
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by ummonk 3y ago
We really need to get better data that's disaggregated based on reason for homeschooling. A lot of academically inclined parents are afraid about the risks of homeschooling when they're not really the population that needs to be t
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by ummonk 3y ago
Okay I did not expect to see Yajnadevam's pseudohistorical nonsense getting linked to on hacker news. That's a new one.
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by ummonk 3y ago
Yes but I doubt anyone is going to get the Aaron Swartz treatment over it, especially when OpenAI's own models are no doubt generated by playing fast and lose with ToS. E.g. at least as early as 2018, StackOverflow's ToS said: &qu
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by ummonk 3y ago
You simply chop up the textured skybox into tiles and then draw them using transform and drawImage. This was supported beginning in 2008. Sure it wouldn't be as perfectly accurate as a custom shader for rendering accurately rendering e
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by ummonk 3y ago
It's trivially easy to do 3D graphics using a 2D API if you don't need rasterized z-buffering (which Stellaris obviously doesn't).
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by ummonk 3y ago
You've never seen anyone say "x% faster" where x is a number larger than 100? I find that hard to believe.
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ChatGPT fails a modified Monty Hall problem(instrumentalconvergence.substack.com)
2 points by ummonk 3y ago|1 comments
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by ummonk 3y ago
Not if “faster” refers to computation rate rather than runtime, in which case it becomes 100/81 i.e. 23% faster.
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by ummonk 3y ago
I don't think it's necessarily true that model size would need to be larger than dataset size. It's theoretically possible that the model encoding achieves significantly better compression than DEFLATE or GZIP or whatever c
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by ummonk 3y ago
Looks like they have observed what they can only explain as apparent superconductivity, but consistent with the Sagan principle are being rather cautious with how they report it.

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