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by userabchn 1y ago
The website of an American company returned a blank page to me. I thought that they must have made a mistake and that it would be fixed soon. Several days later it was still returning a blank page, so I sent them an email in case they didn&
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by userabchn 1y ago
I maintain a package that provides some PyTorch operators that are written in C/C++/CUDA. I have tried various approaches over the years (including the ones endorsed by PyTorch), but the only solution I have found that seems to wo
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by userabchn 1y ago
HN doesn't have a strong enough protection against bots, so foreign influence campaign bots with the goal of spreading negative sentiment about American technology companies are, I believe, very common here.
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by userabchn 1y ago
As I have gotten older, I have come to believe that the current voting age is already too young. I thought I was right about things when I was 18, but with more experience I realise how naive I was.
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by userabchn 1y ago
I use a 20 year old Dell laptop. The only problem for me is that 32bit is starting to become limiting.
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by userabchn 2y ago
My ugly solution to this problem is to have a free Oracle Cloud VM in the other country that I use to run a VPN (Oracle provides instructions [1]). I then connect to this using OpenVPN on my phone, which allows me have a Google account that
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by userabchn 2y ago
I used to listen to Digitally Imported's Eurodance station a lot 10-15 years ago, but eventually it felt like I just kept hearing the same songs, that they never added any new music to it.
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by userabchn 2y ago
During my PhD at MIT my girlfriend asked me how I thought I would feel about those years in the future. I said relieved that it was over, as, although I loved everything about the place, I felt constant pressure. She knew me better than I k
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by userabchn 2y ago
I think many people underestimate the mental anguish caused by being ostracized by your former coworkers, and by the realization that, even after a lifetime of working hard, your career prospects are now in tatters.
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by userabchn 2y ago
> there's a very loud minority of performative extremists with an army of sock puppet accounts who want to hunt down the snitch The people running the bot armies for foreign influence operations probably do not care about hunting do
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by userabchn 2y ago
My suspicion is that this murder was organised by Russia as an attempt to normalise and encourage further vigilante actions, thereby weakening society. They chose their target well for this one, but I imagine, even after the shift it has ca
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by userabchn 2y ago
I wonder whether the murder, and the immediate strong social media reaction supporting it, were part of a foreign influence operation. Normalising the idea that murdering a CEO makes you a hero and that a large percentage of the population
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by userabchn 2y ago
Spirit was pulling it off reasonably well until Covid.
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by userabchn 2y ago
Have there been any recent developments in "lab-grown wood"? The last time I looked into it there had been some research on it (also at MIT), but there didn't seem to have been any updates for a few years.
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by userabchn 2y ago
> free Healthcare It is not free for all.
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by userabchn 2y ago
I installed it a year or two ago but was disappointed by its identification abilities. Then it changed to require providing an email address so I deleted it.
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by userabchn 2y ago
The dental office where I used to get my teeth cleaned every six months did X-rays every time and then no one ever looked at them. If you went there for a checkup they required you to get another set done. I am quite certain that they just
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by userabchn 2y ago
> what if corporate income tax were tied to the logarithm of the number of employees+contractors? What if the corporate income tax increased with the market share in markets served? Is there a reason for choosing those rather than the si
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by userabchn 2y ago
I'm disappointed that it wasn't a single occupant, three-wheeled, ultra-basic microcar limited to 50 km/h to gather and scatter people from public transport stops, solving the last-mile problem.
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by userabchn 2y ago
The fever might help to fight infection, but I think sleeping well helps even more and fever-reducing drugs are useful for that
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by userabchn 2y ago
and then revealed that GPT-5 will not be released in this year's Dev Day (which goes on until November)
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by userabchn 2y ago
Interview with Mark Zuckerberg released today: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2024-07-23/mark-zucker...
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by userabchn 2y ago
The mayors of Houston for the past few decades have been Democrats.
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by userabchn 2y ago
In Indonesia there are 35k+ year old cave "paintings" of hand imprints, and apparently it is still a custom for some in the area to put their hand imprint on their house. It's probably in the same area where just today they a
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by userabchn 2y ago
DAB has also effectively been abandoned in Ireland ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Radio_in_the_Republic_... )
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by userabchn 2y ago
> CUDA of 18 years ago is very different to CUDA of today. I've been writing CUDA since 2008 and it doesn't seem that different to me. They even still use some of the same graphics in the user guide.
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by userabchn 2y ago
I am an associate editor of a journal and I have suggested that the journal strongly encourage authors to pass their papers through an LLM before submitting if they think it might need it. A large fraction of the submissions we receive have
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by userabchn 2y ago
I wonder what we are going to do with all of the car parking that will become as obsolete as horse stables.
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by userabchn 2y ago
According to Zuckerman's book, the Medallion fund has to be small because it would move the market too much with the types of trades it does if it was bigger. That is why they limited investment in it. The publicly available funds use
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by userabchn 2y ago
I don't think it is for the same level of service provided. I have read that there are three substantial differences between medical care in the USA and in other countries: 1. More single-patient rooms 2. More surgical procedures perfo

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