unklefolk

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by unklefolk 2y ago
The Birthday Paradox is about a group of people sharing at least one birthday between them. If it was at least 1 person out of 23 people sharing YOUR birthday then the odds would be 1 - (364/365)^23 which is around 0.06 (or 6% chance).
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by unklefolk 2y ago
Context for the article: https://cdn.openai.com/spec/model-spec-2024-05-08.html#dont-... "We believe developers and users should have the flexibility to use our services as they see fit, so long as they comply wit
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OpenAI considers allowing users to create AI-generated pornography(theguardian.com)
3 points by unklefolk 2y ago|1 comments
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by unklefolk 3y ago
Does this mean that 2FA was not in place? For a company handling such personal information, this seems like a minimum requirement.
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by unklefolk 3y ago
When educating the general public about the risks and limitation of LLMs, I think "hallucinating" is a useful term - it is something people can understand and it conveys the idea of LLMs being somewhat random and unreliable in the
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Planks and wall sits best exercise for lowering blood pressure, study says(theguardian.com)
3 points by unklefolk 3y ago|1 comments
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by unklefolk 3y ago
Analysis finds isometric exercises that involve engaging muscles without movement the most effective for reducing blood pressure
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Ask HN: What is the most convoluted log on process you have encountered at work?
2 points by unklefolk 3y ago|0 comments
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What’s the use of $800M, Bryan Johnson, if you dine on baby food?(theguardian.com)
1 points by unklefolk 3y ago|0 comments
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Innovative heat tech could save England’s swimming pools from closure(theguardian.com)
5 points by unklefolk 4y ago|0 comments
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by unklefolk 4y ago
Price will go up from $50 to $100 per seat. Now can only have 8 seats instead of 40 seats and only 1 project instead of unlimited projects.
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DBT Cloud increase Team plan price by 100% and limit features at the same time(getdbt.com)
107 points by unklefolk 4y ago|53 comments
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by unklefolk 4y ago
Maybe this? This isn't THE biggest cruise ship ever built though. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/world-news/one-worlds-lar...
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by unklefolk 4y ago
> ... can I do these trails on my full suspension mountain bike...? Yes. It will be a bit more work on the pedalling front vs a dedicated gravel bike, but I doubt you will encounter any bike snobbery. I have gravel trails near where I li
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by unklefolk 4y ago
Yeah. Sorry about that. HN seems to auto remove the ellipses when you paste in the title.
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Dyson reveals its big bet robots (aiming to cover household chores)(theguardian.com)
2 points by unklefolk 4y ago|3 comments
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Dreamachine, the psychedelic contraption hoping to blow British minds(theguardian.com)
2 points by unklefolk 5y ago|0 comments
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‘Don’t Look Up’: humanity could avert asteroid Armageddon, say scientists(arxiv.org)
15 points by unklefolk 5y ago|11 comments
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by unklefolk 5y ago
I did that for a few of my posts and in the comments I was criticised for “editorialising”.
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Jetpacks and the enigma of solo flight. Why does no one seem to care?(theguardian.com)
3 points by unklefolk 5y ago|1 comments
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“Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli barred from drug industry and fined $64m by US court(theguardian.com)
4 points by unklefolk 5y ago|0 comments
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by unklefolk 5y ago
This is probably true for many other industries. Organisation experience / knowledge is very important in being effective in a role. When looking at productivity, organisations tend to overpay new starters (a new starter is often a net
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by unklefolk 5y ago
Of course, the flip side is that sometimes that initial step of: > "We are doing a prototype on our new mapping product, we need to write a one-off script to pull in some map data." ... is just that - a one off script. And it c
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by unklefolk 5y ago
We are a .NET shop and have been using DbUp ( https://dbup.readthedocs.io ) for years now. It is fantastic. We had so many false starts managing production databases and keeping them consistent. DbUp has taken all that away, and n
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by unklefolk 5y ago
If you have a young family, working a 4 day week would make all the difference. At the moment I work 5 days and then go into a weekend which can be just as tiring as a work day with kids to tend to. With an extra day, this would mostly be w
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by unklefolk 5y ago
Yes. Considering the Hacker News audience, I didn't want people to click on the link thinking it was an in-depth, scientific discussion.
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Nice Infographic on why electrifying transport doesn't scale(theguardian.com)
4 points by unklefolk 5y ago|3 comments
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by unklefolk 5y ago
What is the alcohol content once fermentation is complete? Is it similar to wine?
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MP Maria Miller wants AI 'nudifying' tool banned(bbc.com)
38 points by unklefolk 5y ago|70 comments
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by unklefolk 5y ago
Exactly this. I moved to New York in my early 20s, which would seem a bad choice for an introvert, but I loved just sitting and watching it all go by. It was like being in a human circus but you are in the audience rather than in the circus

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