benp84

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by benp84 4y ago
I was under the impression that corn ethanol was effectively solar energy because corn turns sunlight and carbon into biomass then we burn the biomass back to atmospheric carbon. Isn't that the fundamentals? Is there a big, basic reaso
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by benp84 4y ago
Why are they so adamant about destroying whatever goodwill they have left?
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by benp84 4y ago
Counterexample: Suppose I'm selling a product with zero cost and I've determined the profit-maximizing price to be $1.00. This means profit as a function of price is maximal and therefore the slope is zero, i.e. raising the price
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by benp84 5y ago
I think if I'd have thought of these expenses as "buying physical fitness" I would have spent more. Thanks for the perspective!
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by benp84 5y ago
How do you mean you spend money on physical fitness? It does sound like a great investment.
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by benp84 5y ago
Wouldn't your pretrained model be lacking in neurons that react to human features though? Seems like a poor choice if your ultimate goal is human images.
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by benp84 5y ago
For comparison, the entire internet averages on the order of 50 Tbps*, so this is about 0.5% of that. Residential internet might have a max rate of 1Gbps in the best conditions but if you use even 1% of that consistently you'll get ove
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by benp84 5y ago
Yes! I couldn't get into the instant pot either but the air fryer changed my life. I eat so much meat and vegetables now. If it had been called a "high-speed toaster oven" or maybe a "digital grill" I probably woul
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by benp84 5y ago
It's like how the visual neurons of blind people get repurposed for other senses. Turns out this happens so quickly we can start to lose visual function in just the 8 hours our eyes are closed while we sleep. Can't remember source
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by benp84 5y ago
Books by John Gottman. He seems to be the leading authority on the topic.
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by benp84 5y ago
These two parts seem contradictory: > "Most implausible-sounding ideas are in fact bad and could be safely dismissed. But not when they're proposed by reasonable domain experts." > "The lowest form of all is to dis
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by benp84 5y ago
I run out of cognitive energy for coding faster than I run out of time. Sometimes the slow and stupid way is optimal because it saves cognitive energy. I suspect coders "forage" more than this time-based model predicts because it&
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by benp84 5y ago
I wonder how much of the problem here is solo developers and big tech developers exchanging advice in the same places. As a solo dev I relate to this frustration with over-engineering but I can imagine its benefits for big teams.
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by benp84 7y ago
I hear this complaint a lot but I find those argument orders completely intuitive. You filter (1) an array with (2) a function. You map (1) a function over (2) an array. You reduce (1) an array with (2) a function. It follows exactly what I
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by benp84 8y ago
"All models are wrong. Some are useful."
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by benp84 8y ago
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by benp84 8y ago
Sadly there is disincentive to report bad workers on MTurk. You can block them through the MTurk system which rightfully puts their account at risk for termination. BUT Amazon sends them an email identifying you as the blocker, which causes
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by benp84 8y ago
On point 2: people forget which service they signed in with, accidentally make multiple accounts and think their data is gone, and sometimes APIs are down (mostly LinkedIn) or throw errors, all of which lead to customer service headaches wi
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by benp84 9y ago
The Video Speed Controller browser plugin changed my life. With the key bindings you can dynamically adjust the speed to the complexity of the content and always be watching at exactly the rate you can process it.
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by benp84 9y ago
I prefer pitching to customers because they really do get more value out of your product if you better communicate what it does and how it helps them. With committees it sounds more like playing a zero-sum game.
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by benp84 9y ago
So, what's gross profit look like? Edit: My mistake. Already said it.
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by benp84 9y ago
If you have decent filters set up you can only get notifications for emails that matter to you.
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by benp84 9y ago
So they're calling "finding Zelle already on your phone" a "signup"?
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by benp84 9y ago
Anyone else find these numbers ridiculous? - Google Play Zelle app has ~500k downloads and a 1.7 rating - ZellePay.com U.S. Alexa rank = 6,505; Venmo.com = 757 - $75B/247M payments = $304 avg transaction??
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Venmo alternative Zelle moved $75B last year, says 100,000 people enroll daily(techcrunch.com)
3 points by benp84 9y ago|4 comments
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by benp84 9y ago
You're right that third-party trackers aren't that reliable, and I do my own log analytics for the easy/important stuff, but I'm not about to roll my own New Relic. This also seems bad for early-stage startups, where dev
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by benp84 9y ago
This is blocking Google Analytics, Facebook Connect and New Relic on my site. How would DuckDuckGo prefer that startups measure traffic, ad ROI and site performance? What's the "right" way?
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by benp84 9y ago
Thank you! That makes a lot of sense.
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Ask HN: Are small blockchains secure?
2 points by benp84 9y ago|2 comments
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by benp84 9y ago
We have very different ideas of "easy". My phone died last night after a day of heavy use, so I pulled the battery out and swapped it with the spare one in its wall charger ($14 for both, shipped) and I was back at 100%.

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