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dijksterhuis
4,117karma·1,383submissions·March 13, 2019
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sometimes makes weird machine music. sometimes makes machines do weird things. sometimes makes music machines do weird things.
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> the second feature that I like in Vivaldi better than in Firefox or Chrome is that it accepts mouse gestures for most commands vivaldi was doing something weird for me, can’t exactly remember wha…
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source code is apparently* available to audit: https://vivaldi.com/source * on my phone, can’t inspect the tars
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> England's traditional dignity culture (the virtuous man can overlook slights) i’m english and i have no idea what you’re on about there mate. are you talking about having basic tolerance for…
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topics like this are why i come to HN
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“skills not required” but they will throw their weight around as if they have them.
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> So you would rather promote preventable toil under the theory that there are enough otherwise unemployables that they would literally die otherwise? That there is literally no other useful task t…
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> Having an archive of "curated" training data seems like it is going to be important the justification for not doing that is probably "prohibitively expensive given the amount of da…
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> I was able to demonstrate the problem by publishing a single article on my personal website about my hot-dog-eating prowess. One blog post ... that's all it takes. i'm actually surprise…
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> How many people really want to carry boxes for a job for minimum wage? There are a lot of people outside the realms of "HN" and adjacent lands for whom having any kind job is necessary…
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other recent related submissions based on searching for "commencement" - Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed at Arizona U commencement speech https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…
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tl;dr author wants uk to be more like the usa. nadine dorris complaining in an opinion column somewhere is a convenient way for him to pivot to talking about his think tank’s white paper about wanting…
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non-twitter link: https://xcancel.com/github/status/2056884788179726685#m …
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reality is more nuanced. some people still need to inspect machine code by hand. people who primarily write SaaS django boilerplate don’t. the arguments were made back then, im sure. but, according to…
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i didn't raise the legal point. > † btw: if you're the DA for a jurisdiction that includes a reporter, and you claim the reporter's journalism is unlawful, you sure as shit better ha…
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As i said, neither of us is lawyers. Neither of us are experts in what a DA's office has written, and what that writing should be interpreted as under the law. Perhaps a more charitable reading i…
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> The Chesa Boudin DA "misrepresentations" document, linked towards the end of this story, is weak, bordering on Trumpian. Are we reading the same document? The first example is almost a …
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Audio adv. examples didn't used to show the same degree of transferability (generate for one model, works against another) that image adv. examples were able to achieve. Likely because of the RNN…
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In general, if you zoom all the way out, yes the high level optimization problem is very similar. find some `delta` where `target_y = model_inference(delta + x)` where `target_y != real_y` and `size_o…
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on my data engineering masters the course leader told us about a job advert he’d seen one time. the job needed hadoop experience, like 7 years worth. hadoop had only existed for 5 years at the time, a…
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non-twitter link https://xcancel.com/grafana/status/2055827123236171827#m …
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care to elaborate?
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was there any kind of response or reaction to that? it’s something i would have done and probably wouldn’t have gone well. xD
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long term recovering addict here and yeah i’ve been trying to work on the “anger” stuff in this last year. you’re right. in the moment it feels good . and it’s very easy to replicate that dopamine hi…
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yeah they cover this in the article. broadly theres like three types of this activity: nation states; individuals / loose groups with an ideological agenda; people who want ad revenue money.