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by _hl_ 1y ago
Hey, I’m acutely in the market (considering moving away from Google) 2 Qs: 1. How does OpenCage correctness/completeness compare to Google Maps API, especially in rural and industrial regions where you have addresses like “AcmeCo Indus
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by _hl_ 2y ago
What would happen if Russia attacked these power plants directly? Are they built to "fail safe" even when hit by a missile, or is there a big risk of nuclear meltdown?
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by _hl_ 2y ago
I encourage anyone to read the (surprisingly plain-english) first few pages of the decision, but here is the gist of it: > In January 2024, the court issued a post-trial opinion finding that the award was subject to review under the enti
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Tesla – Post-Trial Decision Re Stockholder Vote, Attorney Fees [pdf](courts.delaware.gov)
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How Monetary Policy Affects the Economy(bankofengland.co.uk)
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by _hl_ 2y ago
For anyone else confused by what actually happened, here is a summary compiled from various sources around the conviction and the related 1MDB scandal: --- Jho Low, a Malaysian financier, masterminded one of the largest embezzlement scandal
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by _hl_ 2y ago
The frustrating thing with SOC2, or pretty much most compliance requirements, is that they are less about what’s “technically true”, and more about minimizing raised eyebrows. It does make some sense though. People are not perfect, especial
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by _hl_ 2y ago
Read the notes in the link you posted. I don’t think it says what you think it says. In May 2020, the definition of M1 (monetary supply in “cash”) was changed to include savings deposits. They changed this not due to some conspiracy, but be
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by _hl_ 2y ago
I mean a normal passenger on a normal plane making a normal trip to an office building and finding a hidden location where to tape a small box with an arduino in it. Maybe even on the outside so you can use solar power? Though it only needs
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by _hl_ 2y ago
What’s wrong with the tried-and-tested technique of flying a guy or girl over there to drop a small gadget in WiFi proximity?
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by _hl_ 2y ago
You’d need to go a level below the API that most embedding services expose. A transformer-based embedding model doesn’t just give you a vector for the entire input string, it gives you vectors for each token . These are then “pooled” toget
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by _hl_ 2y ago
Wow, this is ridiculously polished for a one-man-show side project. Massive kudos. Do you have a write-up somewhere of how you built this? I think there is a lot that I (and probably many here on HN) can learn from you.
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by _hl_ 2y ago
In a perfect market, the market maker who sells you that option offsets it with correlated assets in the other direction, eg by buying or selling stock that is sensitive to the election. Large trading firms exist on finding and exploiting s
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by _hl_ 2y ago
This is awesome, but I'm not sure what the long-term use case for the intersection of low-latency integration and non-production-stable is? I'm saying this as someone with way more experience than I'd like to in using reverse
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by _hl_ 2y ago
I see - I suppose that’s a fair viewpoint to have! I’m not much of a python programmer but my experience with the language would make me tend to agree actually. There are bigger fish to fry and so the effort to go after this relatively tiny
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by _hl_ 2y ago
What’s wrong with being explicit about “I really do mean anything that goes wrong” by catching the base class?
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by _hl_ 2y ago
Why would you go through all the hassle of setting up an air-gapped system, only to stop at enforcing strict code signing for any executable delivered via USB?
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by _hl_ 2y ago
1. Slack has network effects: we connect with customers on Slack (or M$ Teams for enterprise…) 2. I don’t want to innovate on “back office”. Slack works, is sufficiently affordable, and costs no social credit with employees. 3. I know I won
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by _hl_ 2y ago
My understanding was that the extra parameters required for the second attention mechanism are included in those 6.8B parameters (i.e. those are the total parameters of the model, not some made-up metric of would-be parameter count in a s
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by _hl_ 2y ago
Some of the "prior art" here is ladder networks and to some handwavy extent residual nets, both of which can be interpreted as training the model on reducing the error to its previous predictions as opposed to predicting the final
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by _hl_ 2y ago
This certainly contributed to people preferring card over cash, making merchants loose ~3% per transaction. That ship has long sailed, but it does male you wonder: if everything was priced at increments of, say, quarters, would enough peopl
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by _hl_ 2y ago
I see what you're saying, but I don't think it applies in this case. Correct use of jargon helps domain experts communicate with higher precision, and papers tend to be written by domain experts for consumption by other domain exp
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by _hl_ 2y ago
What makes you think that’s bizarre? Presumably one could calculate this from seismic data of the blast, after accounting for the fact that there was still gas in the pipeline despite it not being in use.
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by _hl_ 2y ago
Does that image look like a render to anyone else? Not doubting it’s real, just confused- esp. if you compare it to the photos of raptor 1 and 2 linked in another comment. Maybe it’s the background scene that makes it look too perfect?
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by _hl_ 2y ago
Re. postgres, this is actually something I have always struggled with, so would love to learn how others do it. I’ve only ever worked in very small teams, where we didn’t really have the resources to maintain nice developer experiences and
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by _hl_ 2y ago
I don’t think “DB OS” is a standard term, but what I believe the commenter means is that postgres has evolved to become an incredibly mature, well built set of DB building blocks that are exposed via extension APIs etc to implement whatever
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by _hl_ 2y ago
It is your responsibility to look after your team as a whole. Sometimes that means taking decisions that negatively affect a single individual. Your team members want to work with other great people who can help them deliver success - after
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by _hl_ 2y ago
I strongly agree with the premise that an orchestrator-centric approach is preferable to event spaghetti for a lot of business process use cases. Another (maybe more mature) alternative to Infinitic is Camunda, who have been pushing this rh
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by _hl_ 2y ago
There is still an unfathomably huge landscape of problems where C++ is the more mature, “right” choice over rust for new projects. Just from my (extremely limited and narrow) personal experience: - scientific/numerical computing (super
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by _hl_ 2y ago
Hate to derail the conversation, but is Quary something I could easily whitelabel to embed BI into my product for my customers? (Passively) looking for solutions in that that don’t feel dumbed down.

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