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by rauljara 1mo ago
I don’t think this video is about hurting anybody. It’s about making sure that large companies can be held liable if they hurt somebody. This is about protecting people.
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Companies need to stop kidding themselves about AI(nytimes.com)
4 points by rauljara 1mo ago|1 comments
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by rauljara 3mo ago
My intro to psychology classes was one of the most valuable classes I ever took, just with the way it systematically shattered my own notion of how much I could trust my own notions of perception and thought to be a rational and accurate re
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by rauljara 4mo ago
Anyone know what language is being used in the blogpost?
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by rauljara 1y ago
This is true, in that most of the scholarship builds up its proofs starting with the lambda calculus. But there are so many paradigms (Turing machines, SKI combinators, excel spreadsheets) that are equivalent that I’m not at all convinced t
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by rauljara 1y ago
“Sec. 2. The Gold Card. (a) The Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall establish a “Gold Card” program authorizing an alien who makes an unrestricted gift to the D
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by rauljara 1y ago
Thank you for sharing, and sorry you had to go through that. I had a good friend go through a psychotic break and I spent a long time trying to understand what was going on in his brain. The only solid conclusion I could come to was that I
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by rauljara 1y ago
GC compactions were indeed a problem for a number of systems. The trading systems in general had a policy of not allocating after startup. JS has a library, called "Zero" that provides a host of non-allocating ways of doing thin
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by rauljara 2y ago
Would love to see a pterosaur / bat version of this drone. Birds use one set of muscles to jump in the air and another to flap their wings, limiting how big they can get. That’s because, if you make your wing muscles bigger, then you
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by rauljara 2y ago
I wish articles like this had more examples in them. In between “this thin wrapper adds no value but a lot of complexity”, and “this thin wrapper clarified the interface and demonstrably saved loads of work last time requirements changed” i
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by rauljara 2y ago
The entangled particles don’t have any sort of an effect on the other. Changing one doesn’t change the other. You can think of it like the two particles were always a pair and you just didn’t know which particle was the left one and which w
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by rauljara 3y ago
A huge +1 for automating all the things as a form of practice! I don’t even think that you have to (strictly speaking) end up saving time on a particular task for a lot of automation to be worth it. The act of practicing automation makes y
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by rauljara 3y ago
Hmmm… at first glance, this feels like I’d use it for the same sorts of things I’d use jq for, only easier to use but also way less powerful. Jq does have a little bit of a learning curve necessary to get good use out of it, so I could see
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by rauljara 3y ago
Seems like HN broke the trailer on their site. Fortunately, it also lives on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CNBk1DK046k&pp=ygUMTmFldiB0cmF... Glad they aren’t shy about their escape velocity roots. I swear, the
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by rauljara 3y ago
That quote leapt out at me too. I think the reason it leapt out was because the rest of the article was so thoroughly objective, well reasoned, and rooted in historical precedence. Given the context in which it appeared, I’m willing to give
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by rauljara 3y ago
Honestly, two rooks for a queen being a disadvantage is kind of a relief. I’ve always been taught the two rooks are better and who can argue with 5 + 5 > 9? But also, I’ve also lost almost every game where I’ve had the rooks. I always
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by rauljara 4y ago
The problem with the simulation idea is one of compute. Accurately simulating the quantum interactions between 30 particles is beyond our best supercomputers [1]. Imagine what it would take to compute a cell in all its quantum glory. Even w
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by rauljara 4y ago
People sometimes have different standards of acceptable quality. It seems so much more likely that that’s what would be going on than some weird Machiavellian power play. If I asked a colleague to refactor some code in a code review and the
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by rauljara 4y ago
This was a scientific study with quantitative measures that have clear operating definitions as spelled out in their methodology section. I have trouble imagining the quantitative measurement for “Facebook designed their app to maximize ad
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by rauljara 4y ago
It does seem like things are getting better, but certainly when I was growing up almost any behavior the slightest bit feminine in a male was called out as “gay”. The phrases “act like a man” or “real man” are often not just valorizing ma
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by rauljara 4y ago
Nothing online, I’m afraid. Most of the best classes I’ve taken were at my brick and mortar small liberal arts college and were not computer science. I’ve also taken plenty online courses that I would call useful, and I’m glad I took them
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by rauljara 4y ago
I will second that heartily. Was one of the more mind expands courses I’ve ever taken.
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by rauljara 5y ago
Thanks for the work you did do! It’s out there, so whether you finish it, someone forks it, or it just serves as inspiration for another project, you’ve contributed.
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by rauljara 5y ago
Former Jane Streeter: yes, finance can pay very well. Of course there’s a lot of variance, but at least when I was there Jane Street made an effort to be the very highest in terms of compensation for interns. The numbers don’t seem off to
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by rauljara 5y ago
I don’t disagree with the maybe, because of course some bugs really aren’t that bad. But especially in the case of those architectural bugs, it is incredibly difficult to be confident that the impact of the bug is as limited as you think it
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Letter from a Birmingham Jail(africa.upenn.edu)
7 points by rauljara 10y ago|0 comments
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by rauljara 10y ago
My favorite quote from the article: > One of the sneakier pitfalls of an efficiency-based attitude to time is that we start to feel pressured to use our leisure time “productively”, too – an attitude which implies that enjoying leisure f
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by rauljara 10y ago
Trying to brand this as a "new" hacker ethos is just abusing the recognition of the original to push your own (completely different) ideas and agenda. I'm not going to call it entirely disingenuous, but it does come of
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by rauljara 10y ago
i've never seen "RESPECT ME!" ever not backfire, on any scale and for any group. Perhaps you mean something different than what I'm understanding you to have said, but demanding respect seams like it was a key pa
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by rauljara 10y ago
I've witnessed this phenomenon at work when asking other people for help with problems. My coworkers come up with more creative solutions than I did, much faster. The only problem is that when I'm asking for help with stuff, it

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