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by dlg 1mo ago
“Polynomial spirals, or Spiro curves, the subject of my PhD thesis, fail to achieve this goal.” Wasn’t your PhD thesis on attack-resistant trust metrics? At least I remember reading it.
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Anthropic Claude Fable 5, on track to return soon (possibly this week)(axios.com)
9 points by dlg 3mo ago|0 comments
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Reranking the Billionaires by Wealth – and Altruism(forbes.com)
2 points by dlg 5mo ago|1 comments
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by dlg 5mo ago
Forbes recalculated the wealth of the richest billionaires to add back in what they gave to charity.
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by dlg 6mo ago
I have had the misfortune of having to get D&B numbers (for various Apple things). I believe is the source for lead lists where you start to get dozens to text and phone spam calls per day. Do not pay hundreds of dollars for this if you
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by dlg 8mo ago
No. They are by far the safest drivers in Santa Monica. Ideally we get to a point where human drivers are banned.
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by dlg 8mo ago
I was just dropping my kids off at their elementary school in Santa Monica, but not at Grant Elementary where this happened. While it's third-hand, word on the local parent chat is that the parent dropped their kid off on the opposite
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by dlg 2y ago
Wasn't that Scott McNealy? (Though, if I recall your bio from previous HN posts, you'd know far better than me.)
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Bridge RNAs direct programmable recombination of DNA (CRISPR successor)(nature.com)
2 points by dlg 2y ago|0 comments
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by dlg 3y ago
There was a version of streptococcus mutans developed that didn’t produce tons of lactic acid and would have pretty much ended tooth decay back in 2000. Iirc, it was built to outcompete the regular bacteria too. As far as I can tell there’s
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by dlg 3y ago
Looking, you’re right. Those are regulated at the state level. But it does look like pretty much every state has a law.
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by dlg 3y ago
In the US, I believe that would not be legal under GINA (the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act of 2008) https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/policy-issues/Genetic-... (Edit: per tssva—LTD & life are
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Reverse-engineering Google’s "Skip Button Guarantee"(checkmyads.org)
190 points by dlg 3y ago|95 comments
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U.S. accuses Google of abusing monopoly in ad technology(nytimes.com)
415 points by dlg 4y ago|246 comments
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by dlg 4y ago
The change you describe from N+1 to N+2 wasn’t made to defeat your hack. It was made because we got lots of complaints that people thought the filters were buggy/broken when they saw people who didn’t match their filters and because t
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by dlg 4y ago
The YIMBY's are asking the individual property owners be allowed to decide what to do with their own properties. Not letting government dictate what people do doesn't seem like "tyranny" or "expropriation" to
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by dlg 4y ago
It changed its name from the Scholastic Aptitude Test in 1990. (Over time they’ve also eliminated some of the sections most correlated with IQ.) There’s a good history of the SAT and where it succeeded and failed in its goal of making colle
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by dlg 4y ago
Is the creator thinking of doing another printing? If not can someone recommend a service that will print a high quality card deck given the PDF?
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by dlg 4y ago
Salganik MJ, Dodds S, Watts DJ Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1121066
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by dlg 4y ago
I am not a lawyer, but I've had to argue about copyright with several. In the United States, there are two bits of case law that are widely cited and relevant: In Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp (9th), found that making thumbnails of images
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by dlg 4y ago
Or if not, their work for 43 of the 100 largest global polluters [0] or illegal corruption in Africa? [1] [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/business/mckinsey-climate... [1] https://www.ny
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TCP Bufferbloat issues explained through juggling(youtube.com)
1 points by dlg 4y ago|0 comments
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by dlg 4y ago
Good point but I wonder which way the causality runs? I could make the argument either way: 1) Parent expectations higher -> college becomes more expensive 2) People would love colleges to do everything but they'd always say "
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by dlg 4y ago
In 1999, Brown University which had only used 863- added the 867- exchange. A suite of students got 5309 and kept getting calls asking for “Jenny” at all hours. They stopped assigning that number. Ultimately a Rhode Island plumbing co,
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by dlg 5y ago
I generally agree with you. However, as a pedantic note, Metrolopis, Rosenbluth, Rosenbluth, Teller and Teller was in 1953 and Hastings was 1970.
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by dlg 5y ago
This seems to be very similar to the early 2000s demos at Brown University/Cyberkinetics[1]. In 2008 they demonstrated it in humans[2] after lots of work getting FDA approval. The core difference here (from my non-expert reading) seem
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by dlg 5y ago
BiasSync | Backend Engineer (Python) | Los Angeles (open to remote in similar tz) | Full-time BiasSync is a mission-driven startup working to help companies and employees understand, manage, and mitigate unconscious bias’s impact in the wor
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by dlg 5y ago
This looks very nice. Eventful, founded by Brian Dear (a regular HN poster) had this as a feature before it was acquired if I recall correctly. I think the feature had a decent level of success, so it’d be worth talking to him/getting
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by dlg 6y ago
I'm an LP in TS. I'm not an expert (and certainly can't speak for them), but my sense is that it's about the LP base. I think that Tiny Seed raised all of its capital from individual entrepreneurs (or people otherwise
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by dlg 7y ago
I am not a lawyer, but like many Internet entrepreneurs, I’ve had to learn a bit about copyright. There are two cases in the 9th Circuit that speak to this: Perfect 10 vs Amazon and Kelly vs Arriba Soft. As I understand it, the cases estab

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