mckn1ght

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by mckn1ght 4d ago
That’s possible to do without also sending all the captured data to police.
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NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami(ntsb.gov)
150 points by mckn1ght 6d ago|285 comments
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by mckn1ght 13d ago
According to the wikipedia article linked at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559416 this discovery is from around the same time as that video came out. This submission should be tagged (2023). ETA: Oh I just looked a
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by mckn1ght 18d ago
Using LLMs is basically rolling a huge number of weighted dice.
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by mckn1ght 24d ago
I’ve been debating a lot of people on that last point. A lot of anti slop professors want to bring the debate back around to the mechanical process of coding. I think that’s misguided. To me, building software is about understanding the use
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by mckn1ght 2mo ago
Two things here. First, you have to know what to ask an LLM. A book on a subject is already organized with all the information that could be returned by the same prompts that would lead to it. The prompting effort was essentially already do
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by mckn1ght 3mo ago
I went from “regular” keyboard to kinesis freestyle 2 to kinesis advantage 360. The switch to the freestyle 2 was basically seamless. Switching to the advantage 360 was brutal, but I can tell you that i have not only fully recovered my typi
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by mckn1ght 3mo ago
Someone made a video based on the paper, if you want to see the cards being used and a little more explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdmODVYPDLA
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by mckn1ght 3mo ago
I was wondering what kind of metric could be used to visualize a nation’s ability to project power. Maybe some ratio involving the furthest distance from the capital city to the nation’s border? I’m curious why the sqrt of the population in
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by mckn1ght 3mo ago
I’m not following here. Marathons are very much actual races. They even give out 1st/2nd/3rd place awards and everything.
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by mckn1ght 3mo ago
There’s a lot of possibility in between hunting and eating fast food. Buy some healthy food at the grocery store and pack a lunch to bring with you.
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by mckn1ght 3mo ago
I like using conventional commits but I’ve often wondered if some sort of tagging/labeling using git-notes wouldn’t be better: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes I’m just unsure that the short title is the ideal p
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by mckn1ght 3mo ago
Being able to play music doesn’t imply consciousness. It implies intelligence. We’ve had player pianos for ages. It’s an ability, not a phenomenology. Being able to appreciate and enjoy music is closer to consciousness. Now how would we go
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by mckn1ght 4mo ago
You do still actually need the credential process though, in order to demonstrate that a person has in fact received that education.
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by mckn1ght 4mo ago
Those countries are usually quite strict about who they will subsidize though. Not a bad thing IMO.
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by mckn1ght 4mo ago
Especially when “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." – Upton Sinclair
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by mckn1ght 4mo ago
Wasn’t Concorde like 20-50% more expensive than a normal first class ticket for the same itinerary? So any hacker considering a SST flight should also be able to afford the first class cabin.
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by mckn1ght 4mo ago
You can also essentially work remotely in an airplane now. I haven’t tried videoconferencing, but I easily do all my other software work on trips. So a couple extra hours might even be a benefit: more time with no distractions to wrap up th
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by mckn1ght 4mo ago
But buying from scalpers only really works when they’ve already bought out the supply. Couldn’t people just go right to the ticket site instead of through a scalper? The only way this would work is if the scalpers got all the tickets into t
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by mckn1ght 4mo ago
> Scalpers will just do two transactions, one high one for the privilege of being able to buy the ticket, and then the sale at the listed limit. I don’t understand this. If you can’t resell for higher than ticket price, how do they make
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by mckn1ght 4mo ago
I agree with supply and demand dictating the price on scarce items. I don’t agree with letting middlemen butt in and drive the price up by exacerbating the scarcity, and making a profit with no value add to the market.
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by mckn1ght 4mo ago
FWIW I agree he’s not taking a good approach, it does sound like he’s flipping the bird on the way out due to frustration with not getting his way. I also agree that government overreach should not be inevitable and is not reasonable. But I
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by mckn1ght 4mo ago
> Criminals aren't intimidated by prison time. I’m sure this is true for a subset but is not universal. I imagine just as big a subset or even the majority of criminals simply think they are smart enough to get away with the crime.
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by mckn1ght 4mo ago
That’s not a revealed preference, but a stated one. My guess is that the councilman perceives the revealed preference to be: “I’m willing to give up privacy for convenience” and this is a way to get people to examine why they want certain c
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by mckn1ght 4mo ago
> I prefer to focus on reducing the potential for abuse. Sounds great in theory but at the end of the day the backstop to bad behavior is force, one avenue of which is incarceration. This is just the paradox of tolerance.
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by mckn1ght 4mo ago
Not really, unfortunately, even on wired LAN latency is noticeable, but I'm just editing code so it's at least doable. Resolution isn't bad. I wouldn't recommend it for graphic work or gaming. The only benefit that isn&#
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by mckn1ght 4mo ago
I gave up on a hardware solution to this and currently just use Screen Sharing to "remote" into my personal machine from my work machine, which I guess only works because they're both macs, although VNC probably solves this i
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by mckn1ght 5mo ago
> I have been trying to ask people this but its havent gotten a satisfactory answer. > I mean I have never consumed and never will so why is it that your society finds it acceptable? I’m not sure it will be possible for you to receive
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by mckn1ght 5mo ago
Actually it's more like flying in the clouds with no instruments which can lead to spatial disorientation when you exit the cloud cover and realize you're nosediving towards the earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by mckn1ght 5mo ago
What is your opinion on AlphaFold? Doesn’t that provide a speedup for one part of medication development and understanding disease?

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