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by hyko 2mo ago
"In 1839 [...] the United States had already defeated Britain’s navy in two wars" This statement is wrong and trivially falsifiable. Perhaps the author meant that the U.S. had by that point won some naval battles against the Briti
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by hyko 11mo ago
Backup snapshots of what though? The defects aren’t being introduced through code changes, they are inherent in the model and its tooling. If you’re using general models, there’s very little you can do beyond prompt engineering (which won’t
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by hyko 11mo ago
Non-deterministic behaviour doesn’t help when trying to reason about the system. But you could in theory eliminate the non-determinism for a given input, and yet still be stuck with something unpredictable, in the sense that you can’t predi
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by hyko 11mo ago
The fatal problem with LLM-as-runtime-club isn’t performance. It’s ops (especially security). When the god rectangle fails, there is literally nobody on earth who can even diagnose the problem, let alone fix it. Reasoning about the system i
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by hyko 2y ago
I use em dashes—chiefly to express parenthetical thoughts—all the time. Sadly, there’s no foolproof system for identifying machine-generated text. Happily, it means one less thing to worry about.
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by hyko 2y ago
Is the video captured using the dev kit?
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by hyko 2y ago
It’s a reasonable hypothesis, but you’d need to experiment to validate it. It’s easy to imagine how prolonged exposure to bed rest or microgravity may trigger heart muscle remodelling in a way that intermittent bouts of lying down would not
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by hyko 3y ago
Leader/follower is only inclusive language if you’ve never heard of anarchism.
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by hyko 3y ago
The really great thing about electric cars is that people are actually adopting them, in part because they are better than the machines they are replacing; therefore their environmental benefits can actually be realised. If you think you ha
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by hyko 4y ago
You’re probably already aware, but there are medical formulations of CA that are in theory less likely to irritate tissues than general purpose ones.
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by hyko 4y ago
Yeah exactly, I’m saying it’s dangerous to use “who benefits?” as a heuristic, because it will be wrong far more often than it will be right.
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by hyko 4y ago
I would caution against using “Qui bono” as a heuristic; you will end up believing in a lot of BS using that as a tool. It can only ever be a piece of evidence alongside others. I benefit immensely from sunlight, but that doesn’t mean I am
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by hyko 5y ago
Sorry dang. I appreciate the work you do keeping HN on point, so you have my personal thanks for that. I suspect the job is getting harder and I don’t want to contribute to the problem. I’ve been flagged twice now in one day. I’m not sure i
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by hyko 5y ago
I don’t really see this as a controversial statement. All countries are likely to face the issue of shrinking population this century, and they’re going to have to try all sorts of schemes to keep the wagon on the road. When China faced a p
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by hyko 5y ago
Buying an ejector seat for your living room is quite eccentric, but I wouldn’t really consider it overkill . It doesn’t even have arms.
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by hyko 5y ago
No it can’t.
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by hyko 5y ago
Who is buying Amazon hardware at this point?
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by hyko 5y ago
Yeah but we got a lot more stuff and experiences than single breadwinner households of the past. We’re not optimising for free time spent in material poverty.
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by hyko 5y ago
Why is every paid for service called “Something Plus” these days? Who started this trend?
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by hyko 5y ago
Wow.
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by hyko 5y ago
Exactly, we should all have the freedom to choose how we work. Never really understood people managers who don’t get this. You hired the best, right? Listen to them! They are experts about what makes them happy and productive. I think the f
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by hyko 5y ago
No it won’t. Can anyone think about why this mass extinction event is unlike the last one? Anyone? Yes, that’s right: Homo Sapiens. If we want biodiversity, we’re not going to sit around smelling our farts for millions of years waiting for
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by hyko 5y ago
I don’t understand the amount of hate that Clean Code gets these days…it’s a relatively straightforward set of principles that can help you create a software system maintainable by humans for a very long time. Of course it’s not an engineer
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by hyko 5y ago
Yeah, they didn’t get them from that photo. Edited to add: where has this story come from? Why does someone want us to believe in CSI Stilton? And why on Earth do they think we’d swallow it?!
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by hyko 5y ago
Wars have started over less than this. How long the democratic nations of Europe permit an autocratic regime in their bosom is an open question…if I was Belarus I’d keep my fucking head down. The thing about a destabilised world order is th
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by hyko 5y ago
If you’re backing your phone up to iCloud .
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by hyko 5y ago
We decided almost a century ago that universal telephone service was something that we wanted to have. We need to make that decision about the internet now. YES!
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by hyko 5y ago
Negative gravity is a confusing term because the problem wasn’t one of gravity, or even force, but rather of acceleration and inertia. Negative gravity sounds confusing because the author is using the wrong word–what’s being described her
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by hyko 5y ago
Plot twist: the person behind the screen is actually sat there, everything else turns out to be a hologram!
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by hyko 5y ago
The poor you will always have with you

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