"The optic cortex is the biggest area of the brain by far. When everything is saturated in fluorescent light, as it is in small studios many times, the fluorescent light is going on and off at 60 times a second, or…
Archives have not taken a consistent stance on this. Preservation, removal, restricted access, de-indexing, and “right to be forgotten” sit on a spectrum. Good archival practice has to include judgment, context, and…
From http://bbslist.textfiles.com/ Perhaps Dude is among us. 206-246-6647 White Center, VA RaT City BBS (1993-1997) Dude Renegade "Primarily a demoscene board with a vast collection of Impulse Tracker music and ANSI…
"Do you do backups too, for example to guard against corrupt data getting mirrored across both copies, or accidental deletion?" John Gonzalez, Internet Archive infrastructure lead, replied: "We have done experiments to…
It started failing two days ago, when it suddenly couldn't access gmail threads reliably. Then it started popping up warnings that I was over quota when I wasn't. It even let me use Fable briefly, or pretended to.…
Exactly. They're both very expensive and prone to surprising you. Sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a bad way. I'd rate them 85%, but you have to run a test because they both fail in different ways on the 15%.
The physical version of that magic wormhole is called a slide rule.
The first section is the good part. The later reuse of “log” across valuations, dimension, vector fields, orders of vanishing is not so good. Those may be related ideas, but each needs a type signature: from what, to…
This essay needs a type system. Every time it says “log” it should say: log of what, into what? It’s like audio where people say "dB" as if it answers the next question. Relative to what, measured how, and weighted for…
If it didn't work sometimes (in other cases), we wouldn't call them sociopaths.
Andrew Carnegie funded 2,500+ public libraries and many were built with lecture halls, auditoriums, and meeting rooms on purpose. The public library was a civic institution from day one.
Much Claude, very 4.7: "Heavy lifting... single most useful thing... the careful claim is narrow... there are three outcomes, not two... honest caveat... honest oddity... honest verdict... honest shape." It's the…
PayPal does it. Synchrony Bank does it. Use your eBay credit card to buy toner, shipped to the address on your card, just like you do every 90 days? Must be fraud. They email you an alert. You click "this is okay." Card…
Ah yes, the financial services company that runs a travel agency, allows me to book my hotel and rental car weeks in advance, registers a hold for incidentals for both the hotel and car when I check in, then blocks the…
Finance has always run on both: an asset that produces something has a floor. An asset that produces nothing does not. Between the two lies human nature. One way to get rich is to focus on fundamentals. One way to get…
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If you're in a market that requires using C++, many of these decisions are made for you by the platform above you, and you're screwed. Turn on RTTI, build a fort to deflect the random exceptions they'll throw at you,…
There is no such thing as fair revenge. It can run for generations. Retribution is impersonal, proportional, principled, and employs safeguards like time limitations. You could say "the state channels the impulse toward…
I have strict context in place on what I expect from the final language (C# or C++) and I'm frequently left with my jaw open. Used my preferred json library on C++, used LINQ appropriately in C#. Mapped AWS libraries…
My experience a year ago (back when half of HN was still in denial about what was already working, let alone what was to come) was that Python was the linqua franca of LLMs. You could achieve almost anything that fit in…
OP says he has movies in his head and doesn't have to pay royalties. I told him that if he produces a derivative work, he has to pay royalties. Your comment doesn't follow, but I'll address it. A trivia host doesn't…
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Some HN readers are blind to this, others are obsessed with it. ChatGPT claims 900 million active weekly users. You really think a dietician who writes for the Minnesota Reformer (whatever that is), trying to get the…
Hollywood has extraordinarily well-defined controls for keeping things legal and everyone in the chain compensated. Plus a separate Oscars category for it.
"The optic cortex is the biggest area of the brain by far. When everything is saturated in fluorescent light, as it is in small studios many times, the fluorescent light is going on and off at 60 times a second, or…
Archives have not taken a consistent stance on this. Preservation, removal, restricted access, de-indexing, and “right to be forgotten” sit on a spectrum. Good archival practice has to include judgment, context, and…
From http://bbslist.textfiles.com/ Perhaps Dude is among us. 206-246-6647 White Center, VA RaT City BBS (1993-1997) Dude Renegade "Primarily a demoscene board with a vast collection of Impulse Tracker music and ANSI…
"Do you do backups too, for example to guard against corrupt data getting mirrored across both copies, or accidental deletion?" John Gonzalez, Internet Archive infrastructure lead, replied: "We have done experiments to…
It started failing two days ago, when it suddenly couldn't access gmail threads reliably. Then it started popping up warnings that I was over quota when I wasn't. It even let me use Fable briefly, or pretended to.…
Exactly. They're both very expensive and prone to surprising you. Sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a bad way. I'd rate them 85%, but you have to run a test because they both fail in different ways on the 15%.
The physical version of that magic wormhole is called a slide rule.
The first section is the good part. The later reuse of “log” across valuations, dimension, vector fields, orders of vanishing is not so good. Those may be related ideas, but each needs a type signature: from what, to…
This essay needs a type system. Every time it says “log” it should say: log of what, into what? It’s like audio where people say "dB" as if it answers the next question. Relative to what, measured how, and weighted for…
If it didn't work sometimes (in other cases), we wouldn't call them sociopaths.
Andrew Carnegie funded 2,500+ public libraries and many were built with lecture halls, auditoriums, and meeting rooms on purpose. The public library was a civic institution from day one.
Much Claude, very 4.7: "Heavy lifting... single most useful thing... the careful claim is narrow... there are three outcomes, not two... honest caveat... honest oddity... honest verdict... honest shape." It's the…
PayPal does it. Synchrony Bank does it. Use your eBay credit card to buy toner, shipped to the address on your card, just like you do every 90 days? Must be fraud. They email you an alert. You click "this is okay." Card…
Ah yes, the financial services company that runs a travel agency, allows me to book my hotel and rental car weeks in advance, registers a hold for incidentals for both the hotel and car when I check in, then blocks the…
Finance has always run on both: an asset that produces something has a floor. An asset that produces nothing does not. Between the two lies human nature. One way to get rich is to focus on fundamentals. One way to get…
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If you're in a market that requires using C++, many of these decisions are made for you by the platform above you, and you're screwed. Turn on RTTI, build a fort to deflect the random exceptions they'll throw at you,…
There is no such thing as fair revenge. It can run for generations. Retribution is impersonal, proportional, principled, and employs safeguards like time limitations. You could say "the state channels the impulse toward…
I have strict context in place on what I expect from the final language (C# or C++) and I'm frequently left with my jaw open. Used my preferred json library on C++, used LINQ appropriately in C#. Mapped AWS libraries…
My experience a year ago (back when half of HN was still in denial about what was already working, let alone what was to come) was that Python was the linqua franca of LLMs. You could achieve almost anything that fit in…
OP says he has movies in his head and doesn't have to pay royalties. I told him that if he produces a derivative work, he has to pay royalties. Your comment doesn't follow, but I'll address it. A trivia host doesn't…
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Some HN readers are blind to this, others are obsessed with it. ChatGPT claims 900 million active weekly users. You really think a dietician who writes for the Minnesota Reformer (whatever that is), trying to get the…
Hollywood has extraordinarily well-defined controls for keeping things legal and everyone in the chain compensated. Plus a separate Oscars category for it.