Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — NunoSempere

NunoSempere

HN member
Joined
Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 1:36 PM UTC
HN karma
146
Public activity
60 items

About NunoSempere

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #48877247

    Well that's certainly a vibe.

  2. comment
    Comment #48639282

    If you want all your bad news once a week, you might be interested in: https://blog.sentinel-team.org/ , which my team writes.

  3. comment
    Comment #47979512

    I have something somewhat similar at https://blog.sentinel-team.org/ >, tracking events that could kill over a million people.

  4. comment
    Comment #47974529

    > such a high price For the target audience this is about 5-10% of a month's income, and so is more like a reasonable optimization. > to meet me To improve the distribution of date…

  5. comment
    Comment #47854279

    Perhaps look into Shapley values as well?

  6. comment
    Comment #46038329

    I have a regular reminder to use this every now and then because it lifts my mood consistenly :)

  7. comment
    Comment #45887980

    How do I get access to this?

  8. comment
  9. comment
    Comment #45213185

    I think it's a good argument to say that we don't know for sure. But people who are addicted to youtube today would probably have done something more meaningful in the 1990s, 2000s…

  10. comment
    Comment #45212568

    We speak with Ivan Vendrov about recommender systems and their impact on human attention and society & how these algorithms shape billions of hours of human time daily.

  11. story
  12. comment
    Comment #44161278

    > not destroyed - the main fuselage is there, and the other wing is attached - but it's in need of a major rebuild > months to years before they're operation again Good point!

  13. comment
    Comment #44160875

    I did briefly look into how much the estimated $7B was as a proportion of GDP: 7B/2T = 0.35% of GDP, which feels like a lot . For 41 planes it'd be $170M per plane, which seems rea…

  14. comment
    Comment #44160727

    This is a weekly brief looking at what the most important risks and precursors of global catastrophic risks are each week. To do this, we parse millions of news pieces a week and d…

  15. story
  16. comment
    Comment #44128066

    That seems like the kind of problem that would be easily done through monte-carlo approximation? How hard is it to get 1M random rows in a postgres database?

  17. comment
    Comment #44106560

    As a meta-answer, https://manifund.org was created by some cool people I know, and has some cool projects, e.g., https://manifund.org/projects/building-tooling-to-map-how-id... , h…

  18. comment
    Comment #44105824

    > Can a board member be reasonably responsible for the actions of tens of thousands of employees if they have not explicitly enabled or condoned criminal behaviour? Not sure what t…

  19. comment
    Comment #43977522

    I've seen this before, thought it was super interesting, kudos to the author. Leaving this comment for contrast with some other negative comments.

  20. comment
    Comment #43977509

    > Any event or series of events that removes mankind's ability to produce modern computers is a global extinction-level event and rather than dicking around with computers one shou…

  21. comment
    Comment #43944567

    Anecdote mostly checks out, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42876061/c-single-quotes...

  22. comment
    Comment #43904501

    - Shortages of some goods expected in the US starting later this month, because of tariffs. - The power outage on the Iberian Peninsula was the worst in Europe since 2003, and Euro…

  23. story
  24. comment
    Comment #43756568

    Thought it'd be particularly interesting to HN readers not only for the contents, but also for how probabilistic news can look. Still way to go though.

  25. story