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by benkuhn 8mo ago
The time lost estimates here are comically implausible--if Apple bugs were wasting 32m person-years per year, with around 1.5b Apple product users total, this would imply that the average Apple product user loses 32m/1.5b ~= 2% of thei
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Large Language Models Will Be Great for Censorship(ethanedwards.substack.com)
3 points by benkuhn 3y ago|0 comments
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Mandala: Python programs that save, query and version themselves(amakelov.github.io)
34 points by benkuhn 3y ago|4 comments
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Old Spleens Suck (2021)(sarahconstantin.substack.com)
197 points by benkuhn 4y ago|84 comments
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High-impact career review: Software engineering(80000hours.org)
3 points by benkuhn 5y ago|0 comments
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A history of transcranial electric stimulation, 1900-present(milan.cvitkovic.net)
1 points by benkuhn 5y ago|0 comments
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Wave – Building a Cashless Africa(randle.substack.com)
2 points by benkuhn 5y ago|0 comments
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Sequoia, Stripe, others invest $200M in African fintech Wave at $1.7B(techcrunch.com)
2 points by benkuhn 5y ago|0 comments
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by benkuhn 5y ago
I'm not an evolutionary biologist, but it seems to me that the claimed magnitude of the change is wildly implausibly fast from an evolutionary perspective. I'm confused that neither the article, nor the paper it cites, addresses t
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Greg Packer has been quoted in hundreds of articles as a “man on the street”(en.wikipedia.org)
13 points by benkuhn 5y ago|1 comments
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How to Do Everything(drmaciver.substack.com)
6 points by benkuhn 5y ago|0 comments
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by benkuhn 5y ago
Yeah, in particular you need headphones whose 3.5mm cable is detachable. Thanks for flagging, I should have included a warning! For other headphones you can use the various flavors of Antlion ModMic, but it’s more expensive and less conveni
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by benkuhn 5y ago
It's also really easy to have high quality audio! The author recommends a "podcasting" microphone, but a $35 standalone headset mic[1] is almost as good and much easier to use. If you want to hear a comparison, I got kind of
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by benkuhn 5y ago
Shot in the dark, but many of my Linux coworkers have a problem where their video chat software sets their mic volume/gain to 100%, which causes horrible sounding clipping. Check your mic gain settings and perhaps disable the automatic
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by benkuhn 5y ago
For more concrete data: If you look at their current "key ideas" page,[1] they go over 4 categories of high-impact careers (notably including government/policy) and then say "if you think none of the categories above are
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by benkuhn 5y ago
This article completely mischaracterizes the beliefs of most of the people quoted or referenced, then engages with those beliefs only via asserting the opposite without any supporting argument. I'm disappointed. For example: > The m
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by benkuhn 6y ago
HN should require (non-randomized) in the title for this kind of thing, the same way it requires (2014) or (pdf).
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by benkuhn 6y ago
I think you took me to be arguing for a stronger claim than I actually was. My preferred paradigm is also roughly “idiomatic go or rust.” But the OP isn’t arguing for idiomatic-go-or-rust, as far as I can tell they’re arguing against ever u
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by benkuhn 6y ago
The author’s OO example is hard to understand, but they’re wrong about why. It’s not bad because it’s OO, but that it’s very badly done OO: the class couples two different concerns (network API client and database). That’s why it makes more
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by benkuhn 6y ago
Thanks for the recommendation! Sounds like I may have just been reading the wrong books :)
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by benkuhn 6y ago
Oh, great! And the prediction market did not beat polls (it tied with them on swing states and beat them on safe states, as I speculated). I guess between this and the other commenter who made money betting 538's model on predictit, I
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by benkuhn 6y ago
Sorry, that was imprecise. My impression is that, at least on some prediction markets, transaction fees (and maybe also inflation?) make it low-return to buy high-probability contracts. I don't bet on prediction markets myself so I may
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by benkuhn 6y ago
This is a shoddy analysis. 1. There's a statistical gadget specifically for doing this—a "scoring rule" [1] which is a principled way to compare different probabilistic predictions. A bunch of scatterplots of random quantitie
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Virtual workspaces – working in a Minecraft office?(lieuzhenghong.com)
1 points by benkuhn 6y ago|0 comments
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by benkuhn 6y ago
I actually ended up making v2 of the ultra-bright light out of 3 7-way socket splitters and 21 100w-equivalent normal bulbs[1]. No fans needed, higher CRI and I got the bulbs during a 50% sale so was cheaper IIRC :) [1]: https://
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by benkuhn 6y ago
Thanks so much, this is a really useful correction!
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by benkuhn 6y ago
Simplicity, orthogonality, elegance, modularity, etc. are useful when you want to build lots of different things easily. When you're building one single thing that's used by 4.6 billion people, it turns out that percentage optimiz
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Using methods from YC to help protect US democracy(ted.suzman.net)
3 points by benkuhn 6y ago|0 comments
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by benkuhn 6y ago
Interesting that the top of the list is more or less companies ranked by median pay ascending (give or take), plus Google.
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by benkuhn 6y ago
Really surprised how many commenters are talking about using a faster language when the example of slow code in the post is failing to cache the results of an expensive database query. In my experience, even in "slow" languages,

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