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Thanks for the link, I was wondering if Scott touched on this. Seems to be an adjacent topic but it's relevant nonetheless. my tldr of that post: in the context of ideological/poli…

I like this. Polarization is a pretty good characterization. People are just not treating neutral views as neutral anymore. Food for thought: perhaps people treating everything as …

Thanks for your viewpoint. As far as I understand, outrage culture is about shunning popular folks for their imperfect human morality. Could you (or someone else) elaborate on how …

meta: Over these past four years I've seen a growing number of people interpreting the most nuanced, neutral statements as 'apologist', 'biased', 'lobbying', 'spam', 'politically m…

If this was interesting, check out Eugene McDonnell's "1000 K idioms" (in k2): https://web.archive.org/web/20071230205056/http://kx.com/tec...

Just for fun and to make a point, I threw your reply into Talk to Transformer. > This is something so many people miss when trying test the limitations of GPT-2. It just doesn't ma…

I use Firefox on Android with NoScript and an adblocker. Yet I'm uniquely identifiable. One culprit is screen size putting me at Does that make defeating fingerprinting on mobile h…

Just to support your argument further, here is a related snippet from another comment[0] by knzhou: > Students can all recite Newton's third law, but immediately afterward claim th…

It's really weird to evaluate GPT-2 based on its ability to say things no reasonable person would ever say. If I were born in Cleveland I wouldn't be jumping to proclaim my fluency…

This is insightful. It also massively calls into question if economic models on prices (CPI?) could ever keep up with reality, if trends like shrinkflation didn't make that impossi…

After tetrominos, purely mathematical games with pentomino tiling at its core are definitely discovered games. It's doable but not always simple to build a given shape of size 5n w…

The conversation Bill's touching on -- the tradeoffs between different notations -- is really valuable but I think it misses something a lot of us desire in a syntax: compositional…

Agreed, I think the syntax used is not that common. (This is a problem, I think, with math notation -- everyone's notation means different things, google "substitution notation his…

https://pastebin.com/raw/4NJKDeZj I'm probably not the first one to do this. I wrote some CSS that hides all instances of popularity (i.e. karma and comment counts) on HN, lobste.r…

I think each one of us has a different idea what a "bullshit job" is. My favorite definition is this: > When it comes to garbage collectors, though, it’s different. Any way you loo…

Mangband also has a public server, so it doesn't take much to setup a game with a friend. (though the server does go down at times)

The article definitely a little confusing. It starts with an edit that gives new info about how to remove "Android/Trojan.HiddenAds.WRACT" which is auto-installed by the Settings a…

That's incredible, thanks for sharing! Here's the links for the lazy: https://nerves-project.org/ https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves

An immediate solution is to enable NoScript on all news sites. Disabling JS speeds up load times to instant and hides most of the cruft. It's working great so far for me (using Fir…

In other words, "our social networks" tend to have mostly like-minded people influence us, so increasing the diversity of these incoming opinions can counter bias. I'm a fan of thi…

This might interest you (and anyone reading this thread): AnyDSL is a language framework that separates the concerns for both viewpoints (designing for expressivity, designing for …

Nice! Isn't this exactly assert in C++? (the following is from https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/error/assert ) #ifdef NDEBUG #define assert(condition) ((void)0) #else #define asse…

This view might be conflating IP theft and plagiarism -- plagiarism has always had a strong regulatory regime in the form of peer review. Regulation of IP theft is a different stor…

Key insight IMO: > You can talk the talk like a champ, and be up with the latest buzz, but in some corner of your mind you may recognize that your basic skills are fundamentally la…

Thanks for the links! Those fully specified frankentypes are indeed atrocious, and no sane person should ever need to read them. That being said, isn't "Any" meant to act as a wild…