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I think what you described is what they already have with the "including results for [similar wording]" version of the results page. They also have a link to see the exact results.…

As described in this other thread [1], there are already people doing it freelance. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32324723

This sounds 1) very cool, but 2) also a monster risk for spreading COVID and other diseases (literally pairing people up for close contact in as many combinations as possible).

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/767/

I think it's because you are going to cross through New Mexico or Utah first (unless we represent "you" as a point, line, or other zero-width object, and have it traverse a 45° lin…

I've heard the exact opposite, that the online community is toxic and one of the main downsides. I assume both are true in different cases, and you just have to be careful what par…

At first I thought this was going to be fantasy or some kind of conceptual piece and the front page photo was faked with Photoshop or something like DALL-E 2 with a prompt like sad…

It sounds like they're raking in a lot from this, so you'd kinda think they'd be best off actually giving away a car like, once every 5 years. To literally never give out the thing…

How much fine-tuning and repeated-running did you do to get these? Some of them are just ridiculously awesome.

This might be a case where people genetically taste things differently, because pistachio ice cream wasn't an acquired taste for me at all. Just seems delicious, though maybe a hai…

Seems like this could create a group of kids who were formerly driven to school and live out of schoolbus range, but their parents go to work too early to be able to drive them now…

> In case you were interested, there's a section devoted to that in RFC 3548: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3548#section-4 with the tl;dr of `s/[+]/-/; s/[/]/_/` and the…

I think Trello and Atlassian went well (massively different scale, though). I think the rep is that Atlassian mainly does well by leaving the companies alone as independent organiz…

One of the definitive examples has to be Radiohead's How to Disappear Completely [1]. 2 or 3 great frisson moments in there. The big one is toward the end, when the strings decay a…

Just FYI, John Lennon actually was a popular poet! [1] Mostly nonsense verse, influenced by Lewis Carroll. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_His_Own_Write

A lot of this is way over my head both mathematically and philosophically, but could we get away with saying that the reals exist in some slightly weaker sense, more like how a fun…

I think what they're saying is that by making devs use a less familiar language, you're going to end up with at least as many security bugs, just ones not related to memory safety.…

Is the idea that the product (once it's caught up) will be as good or better (and/or at least reach more people) than the original? Or is he OK with people being worse off than if …

The author of this blog, Scott Alexander, has an online novel called Unsong [1] based on this idea. In the book's universe, Kaballah is real and (among many other wild things) corp…

> Whenever I come across something I don't understand, I will try to figure it out. If it seems utterly weird, that's even more motivation to figure it out! I really can't imagine …

To me, it goes beyond being hard to read, and I take it as obscurantist in the strictest sense of someone going out of their way to be hard to understand. I have a theory that most…

> supposedly obscurantist, sophistic style of various disciplines of the liberal arts. Would you say there is absolutely no kernel of truth to this? Check out, say, the abstract to…

gwern is an amazing resource and has great articles on a range of topics, including productivity stuff; his posts on nicotine [1], modafinil [2], and melatonin [3] would be 3 highl…

This. There's also Mnemosyne, SuperMemo, and others. More here: https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition

Some of this highlights an issue that I think about a lot (and it's obviously not just me): the duty of corporations to maximize profit of shareholders (as represented by the major…