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by curtisf 10d ago
I don't need to imagine. This is how government and bank websites work in Japan. It's maddening how frequently online services are closed in the evening and weekends. Example: the government e-tax service's operating hours sc
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by curtisf 22d ago
Not meaningfully. Volcanic winters only last a few years. The largest ones are estimated to only have a few degrees effect on global temperatures, so we could temporarily be in 1980s climate before returning after 3-5 years to an even hotte
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by curtisf 3mo ago
I'm pretty confused by most of the article. The focus is placed on "AI Literacy", but it seems to use this to just mean 'volume of AI use'. The discussion of the Netflix case study is extra perplexing, since the sum
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by curtisf 3mo ago
The H1B visa is explicitly designed for high skill (high paying) jobs which companies have (supposedly) demonstrated they cannot find enough citizen workers. There are much simpler mechanisms to making that would make the enforcement mechan
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by curtisf 4mo ago
This has everything to do with art direction, and not technology. The real world has much more light bouncing fidelity than even modern games. There are still dark things we can't see. Physically based rendering should be exactly the o
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by curtisf 4mo ago
Most of the big consumer VPNs include "privacy" with an implication of anonymity in their marketing, so it shouldn't really be surprising
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by curtisf 4mo ago
It does seem like, especially for the supposed political goals of the recent governments, there's things to watch out for. But despite denying it ("This isn’t hyperbole"), it seems like most of this article is, in fact, hyper
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by curtisf 5mo ago
Sure. A reasonable model for incoming requests within a short window of time is as a "Poisson process", which means the expected number of incoming requests within any interval is proportional to the length of that interval. The p
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by curtisf 5mo ago
It's basically using the "-" embedded in the definition of the eml operator. Table 4 shows the "size" of the operators when fully expanded to "eml" applications, which is quite large for +, -, ×, and &#x2F
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by curtisf 5mo ago
"I would rather read the prompt" https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/ discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888803 All of the output beyond the prompt contains, definiti
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by curtisf 6mo ago
"Consensus" in this post refers to the "consensus problem", which is a fundamental and well-known problem in distributed systems. It's not about political consensus. However, the paper that introduced it and proved
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by curtisf 6mo ago
It could also be useful in low doses to supplement, for example, a seasonal vaccine in a year where they are especially unsure about prevalent strains, or where their predictions were already proved wrong early in the flu season
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by curtisf 6mo ago
> For optional types, 0 is decoded as the default value of the underlying type (e.g. string? decodes 0 as "", not null). In the "dense JSON" format, isn't representing removed/absent struct fields with `0` a
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by curtisf 7mo ago
Isn't it? You can have Dependabot enabled, but turn off automatic PRs. You can then manually generate a PR for an auto-fixable issue if you want, or just do the fixes yourself and watch the issue number shrink.
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by curtisf 7mo ago
Conscription is horribly inapt metaphor for mandatory inoculation. Banning the playing of third-party Russian roulette, where you hold a mostly unloaded gun to the head of your neighbors, coworkers, and service staff, actually more accurate
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by curtisf 7mo ago
A lien on the property? Although almost all jurisdictions already have property taxes, so it hasn't been an insurmountable problem so far
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by curtisf 8mo ago
This could be stated much more succinctly using Jobs to be Done (which is referenced in the first few paragraphs): Your customers don't want to do stuff with AI. They want to do stuff faster, better, cheaper, and more easily. (JtbD cla
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by curtisf 8mo ago
It could, but under the current system, candidates who are affiliated with major parties (i.e., essentially everyone who ends up winning an election) already need to win the support of their party, and the process for this is generally opaq
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by curtisf 8mo ago
I do not understand what this could mean. There are clear formalizations of concepts like Consistency in distributed systems, and there are algorithms that correctly achieve Consensus. What does it mean to formalize the "Single Source
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by curtisf 8mo ago
They might not _notice_ but that doesn't mean it's not affecting their ability to use their computer smoothly. With computers such a huge part of almost everyone's lives now, it's a travesty for one of the largest compan
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by curtisf 9mo ago
My favorite concrete example of this is the textually beautiful "xd" crossword puzzle format. Interesting video story: https://youtu.be/9aHfK8EUIzg (2016) Data site: https://xd.saul.pw/data
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by curtisf 9mo ago
Using words written by other people without disclosure has always been frowned upon. It's called plagiarism. Plagiarism is bad for a lot of reasons, all of which also apply to the undisclosed use of generative AI.
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by curtisf 9mo ago
Livestock emits between 10% to 20% of global greenhouse gases (in carbon equivalent/100y-GWP) [1] In contrast, all data centers (not just AI) currently use less than 1.5% of all electricity, making up less than 0.3% of global emissions
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by curtisf 9mo ago
By replacing (some) farmed meat with farmed fungi protein. Although it's theoretically possible for a disease to infect both fungus and animals, because the biology is so different, the risk is greatly, greatly reduced. In addition, it
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by curtisf 10mo ago
Formal verification is explicitly NOT testing. It is a method where a computer verifies a proof that the program adheres to its specification for _all_ inputs (subject to whatever limitations the particular method has). Types are the simple
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by curtisf 11mo ago
I think this discussion dismisses the "physics" of writing code, which rewards laziness. Effects make _the right thing to do_ (proper sandboxing, testability, assertions, ...) the _easiest_ thing to do. Build scripts aren't s
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by curtisf 11mo ago
The United States is a country that doesn't require any form of identification to have a phone number. You can buy a "burner phone" at any Walmart, with prepaid minutes and no contract, in cash.
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by curtisf 1y ago
... How about fixing basic things like the cursor position in code blocks, and being able to select text on mobile, instead of unnecessary "AI Agents"? Or is the frontend now supposedly obsolete since all the work will be done by
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by curtisf 1y ago
This is true to the extent that you actually _use_ all of the features of a dependency. You only need to rewrite what you use, which for many (probably most) libraries will be 1% or less of it
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by curtisf 1y ago
"The Walker Montgomery Protecting Children Online Act" ("HB 1126") was passed essentially unanimously by the Mississippi state legislature.

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