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by tithe 2y ago
Any one that doesn't say "Oops!"
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by tithe 2y ago
This is fascinating. I often wonder about the different "clock speeds" of various functions in the brain and the mechanisms in play to keep these functions in sync. Tangentially, I wonder if the brain's "FPS" (samp
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by tithe 2y ago
Your best bet may be in the chat (from https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/30/26 ): Matrix: #xz-backdoor-reversing:nil.im IRC: #xz-backdoor-reversing on irc.oftc.net Discord: https:
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by tithe 2y ago
I imagine this would be a very thin line to walk, legally: proving the investigative portion was induced from publicly available information vs insider information.
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by tithe 2y ago
If Apple has a press release stating they're reserving multiple years worth of capacity at a certain fab, but before releasing the statement, buys stock in that same company in anticipation of the stock price going up (presumably from
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by tithe 2y ago
In this case, could he be considered a violent economic threat to society? His defense did try to argue that he was not a "ruthless financial serial killer".
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by tithe 2y ago
Seems low for what prosecutors consider "one of the biggest financial frauds in U.S. history." https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-bankman-fried-be-sent...
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by tithe 2y ago
Seems too low.
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by tithe 2y ago
For those who want to "stay a while", Jonathon Bi did a discussion series on Girard's Mimetic Theory: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_xn3B6eWvGsILrh5v5nq...
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by tithe 2y ago
Indeed, I wonder if natural language is the right interface to this problem. Reading earlier mathematical texts (eg, Euclid's Elements) and their "natural language" proofs reminds me that a picture is truly worth a thousand w
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by tithe 2y ago
Interesting, thank you. The thought that an object is "spinning so quickly that it is warping spacetime" just made my day!
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Twisted magnetic field observed around Milky Way's central black hole(reuters.com)
2 points by tithe 2y ago|3 comments
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by tithe 2y ago
Is the apparent lopsidedness of the black hole in the image due to imaging issues (or the angle the image is being taken at)? I think it's from looking at artistic illustrations why I think that black holes should be perfectly round &#
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by tithe 2y ago
I was wondering where this sort of "business logic" might come from. :)
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by tithe 2y ago
The "blogsla.sh/anna" text appears clickable (same style as social links / `.has-text-link`), but isn't. Perhaps bold styling would work, instead?
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by tithe 2y ago
For the same reason HDD companies shipped 100, 200, 300... GB drives instead of jumping straight to 1 TB: there's money to be made in the middle.
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by tithe 2y ago
Well, let's ask, shall we? npoc, how do you play that game?
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by tithe 2y ago
The performance of "Magnificat" (or anything performed by the Netherlands Bach Society) may help others to "see" this argument more clearly :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsUWG2axB3w
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by tithe 2y ago
Same here. The "Masters of Flash" were what initially got me into programming and eventually computer science.
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by tithe 3y ago
Classic slug for this story.
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by tithe 3y ago
How about giving one a hug? https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/ostrich-hugs-offer-belgian...
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by tithe 3y ago
Excuse my ignorance, but what happened to corporate America after Jack Welch (if not what you state in the second and third paragraphs)?
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by tithe 3y ago
Was there a clean-up effort afterwards around town? At least snow melts and evaporates, but dead bugs all over the streets?
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by tithe 3y ago
A key part of that statement (from the article) is "in comparison to your peers." By whom do you want to be considered powerful? And how can I maximize the real/perceived performance delta between myself and other participant
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Google-Friends (1998)(web.archive.org)
1 points by tithe 3y ago|1 comments
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by tithe 3y ago
- "Google.com will spend a majority of its effort developing new technologies to make your life easier." - "We read every email and always do our best to respond as quickly as possible." - "Thank you for using Googl
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by tithe 3y ago
Upon reading the word "was", be sure to check the page's source...
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Hayflick Limit(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by tithe 3y ago|0 comments
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by tithe 3y ago
Is anyone else struck by the similarities in textures between the images in the appendix of the above "Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformers" paper? If you size the browser window right, paging with the arrow keys (so the do
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by tithe 3y ago
Isn't this why HN attributes "karma" to a username?

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