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OMG I'm so happy you never had to write documentation in the 1990's!
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This is a very significant result for a high-traffic real situations -- work to be proud of. To summarize: When a prosthetic lower leg was attached, they connected antagonist muscles to the leg, with sensors from those muscles in a control
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This is good and detailed, but misses a broader trend: how "worse is better" started to win - first Java over C++, then python and javascript over Java, and here markdown over Word and docbook. When markdown emerged, docbook was g
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> Mathematics is the language of science So, biology and medicine are not sciences? Or are only sciences to the extent they can be mathematically described? The scientific method and models are much more than math. Equating the reality
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It's very helpful to see the big picture of pull vs push-pull and caching; often capabilities just get tacked on as needed, to eventually build a mess. Before LSP, an earlier generation of java compilers circa 2001 (eclipse, then javac
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As others have noted: - Whether this is needed or helps depends not on percentage of owners or buyer/sellers, but on the effect in the market of such players. REIT's have an outsize effect because they are repeat players, and thu
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dead simple: (AI) automation gains can't be modeled via linear task-savings due to "the structure of bottlenecks and how automation reshapes worker time around them" Nothing in the article about targeting the rate-limiting fa
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The story in the patterns book about architecture: the architect got tired of arguing with the bishops about a church, so they put a hot tub in the corner on the next design. The bishops agreed that the hot tub must go, and the design was
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This is a stunning catalog of UI hypocrisy, a call to action for fans and haters. But what's interesting is why such hypocrisy persists - in particular, why so bad now? Yes, designers might need to make work for themselves; yes, a new
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The threshold question is crossover: what Android development experience is required for Swift developers, and what Swift experience is required for Android/Kotlin developers? By saying "without touching XML, Java, or Kotlin&quot
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While AI might have amplified the end, the drop-off preceded significant AI usage for coding. So some possible reasons: - Success: all the basic questions were answered, and the complex questions are hard to ask. - Ownership: In its heyday,
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Writing for publication is a ridiculous amount of work, smoothing and digesting to the point of pablum, because it's just hard to please everybody. Now that LLM's can tailor to chapter-level discussions, why write? Still, that&#x
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> all compete with each other It's common business practice to set up internal innovation competitions, and blend the best.
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TIL the scale of bitcoin derivatives in 2020 (hence volatility): ~2T on 2B market activity. Jeepers! --- Starting in late 2020, as shown in The Economist's graphic, the spot market in Bitcoin became dwarfed by the derivatives markets.
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This is the 2002 law article, before the 2006 book on networks that reflected early interest in network effects, arguing that open-source is an emergent mode of production. The same analysis could arguably be applied to the creator or inf
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I like the implication that we can have an alternative to uv speed-wise, but I think reliability and understandability are more important in this context (so this comment is a bit off-topic). What I want from a package manager is that it ju
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Yes, and the terms are much more protective for enterprise clients, so it pays to pay. Similar to a protection racket, they (Z.ai et al) raise a threat and then offer to relieve the same threat. The real guarantee comes from their having (e
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The finding is that older diesel engines and renewables produce measurable adverse effects in microglial stem cells, but new diesel formulations in new engines do not. The implication is that policy-makers should accelerate the transition
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Appears to be cheap and effective, though under suspicion. But the personal and policy issues are about as daunting as the technology is promising. Some the terms, possibly similar to many such services: - The use of Z.ai to develop,
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To emphasize the dynamics: (1) No person will migrate until most of their connectors migrate, and their connectors cannot migrate until everyone does. It's deadlock, for every thread you care about. (2) Automation in job applications
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Any theory of how people behave works so long as (key) people follow it. It's not really game theory but economics: the supply curve for nicely contended markets, and transaction costs for everything. Game theory only addresses the in
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old guy gave all his money and energy to start a school to keep civilization from going bonkers. i never knew him and he never knew me but we still are related.
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VSCode, IntelliJ, Eclipse...
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Kudos to Cloudflare for clarity and diligence. When talking of their earlier Lua code: > we have never before applied a killswitch to a rule with an action of “execute”. I was surprised that a rules-based system was not tested completely
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> It might be the case that real revenue is worse than hypothetical revenue. Because Altman is eying IPO, and controlling the valuation narrative. It's a bit like keeping rents high and apartments empty to build average rents while
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> changing the habits of 800 million+ people who use ChatGPT every week, however, is a battle that can only be fought individual by individual That's the basis for his conclusions about both OpenAI and Google, but is it true? It&#x2
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Underlying this seems to be a hard engineering problem: how to run a SaaS within UI timeframes that can store or ferry enough context to tailor for individual users, with privacy. While Eddie Cue seems to be Apple's SaaS man, I can&#x2
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The title is misleading, and HN comments don't seem to relate to the article. The misleading part: the actual finding is that organoid cells fire in patterns that are "like" the patterns in the brain's default mode netwo
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"Bad" regulation just raises the question what would be better for all concerned. Sometimes that means reducing the weight and impact of a concern (redefining the problem), but more often it means a different approach or more inf
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Do you have any evidence that the AI efforts are not being funded by the AI product, Kagi Assistant? I would expect the reverse: the high-margin AI products are likely cross-subsidizing the low-margin search products and their sliver of AI

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