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Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:45AM (#50230975)
This comment is so dumb it’s almost not worth replying to. I said nothing about ai not writing good code. In fact my comment was about how unreasonable it is to assume that people who think llms are good enough to effectively replace some swes are engaged in sabotage. The use of “unhinged” was obvious hyperbole.
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:42AM (#50230958)
You implied that they are engaged in sabotage because they believe that if AI increases efficiency to the point where backlogs are easily cleared out by a small number of people there will be workforce reductions. I’m not sure why you’re so confident the opposite is true, or why you assume they are taking this view and concluding that sabotage is appropriate. But it is almost certainly damaging yourself and others around you greatly to assume so much malice in the people around you. Maybe I’m not reading enough into the “test it” phrasing but I don’t think it implies all that you seem to think it does.
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Sunday October 25, 2026 @06:18AM (#50229995)
This is an absolutely unhinged personal attack on the op that has nothing to do with their comment. Why do you assume they are intentionally slowing things down? Because their analysis of the situation is that some people will be fired?
Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain on Thursday July 23, 2026 @05:31PM (#49028332)
I find that writing with ai is far superior both in terms of results and for my memory. Writers like Neal won’t be competitive for much longer. It’s time to put the pencils down.
Bit late, but since I don’t see any correct answers here - no a jury is not required here. The judge chose to convene an *advisory* jury here — likely to strengthen the factual findings of the court and maybe to save the court itself some time/effort.
Not a lawyer but generally it is as you say: "because the trials suck after a while cuz no one remembers anything". It's not fair to have a trial when the evidence is unreliable because of the flow of time.

Encouraging timely action is another factor. Generally people with real harms will file sooner than later, otherwise why wait?

It's also to grant peace of mind -- so people can stop worrying about potential litigation after some amount of time.

Are you a lawyer? IANAL but my understanding is it would be difficult for an appeal to succeed. Appeals courts only evaluate review matters of law, not of fact. Whether is has been more than the 3 year limit the statute of limitations places is a matter of fact I think. And the advisory jury makes this much harder to appeal. What do you think the grounds for appeal will be?
Re:"Butt breathing" might soon be a real medical treatment on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @09:04PM (#45663797)
I wonder if this could be used for doping in aerobic sports? Could this elevate overall oxygen intake in a healthy person?

My vague understanding is that oxygen intake is a big limiting factor in aerobic activities hence measurement of things like vo2max in sports science. ‘Blood doping’ has similar benefits though it’s also about having more blood period.

It seems unlikely that one could take a big enough suppository to help in a meaningful way in a marathon, but in a middle distance race lasting only a few minutes…

Re:Leaving Google on Sunday May 11, 2025 @12:10AM (#43951294)
Re:Sublinear Time Algorithms on Sunday February 23, 2025 @10:46PM (#43155656)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test though it's number theory, and concerned with numbers of size n, rather than lists of length n.

Also relevant: https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/pinewiki/Derandomizatio...

Re:Sublinear Time Algorithms on Sunday February 23, 2025 @10:44PM (#43155649)
Hyperloglog analyses generally assume access to the full data stream, and so are O(n) at a minimum. Perhaps by running hyperloglog on a sublinear sample of the dataset you'd get an algorithm in this class.
Re:Toni Morrison's Rejection Letters on Sunday March 31, 2024 @02:58AM (#39882046)
You have it precisely backwards. "Developing scenes in which the reader discovers what kind of people they are" is synonymous with "show" and "being told" is literally a form of "tell."
From your article: > The United States became a party in 1989.

The person you are responding to is writing about American Copyright. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St.... The first american copyright law is from 1790, which does in fact predate the bern convention, and our life of the author plus 50 years rule is from the copyright act of 1976, 13 years before the US ratified the bern convention.

So yes, it is an 'American thing' as are all issues of law in the US. And if you think that this kind of convention is meaningfully binding, just checkout the history of the US and other major powers with regards to various other international treaties, like the ICC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court.

Re:The Twitter Algorithm on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:11PM (#35392876)
Those aren't redundant or collinear though? Maybe you are surprised they didn't encode this as an integer "num_images"? It is fairly common to one hot encode ordinal variables with only a few common/possible values this way.
Re:Is This Poison Ivy? A 55-Question Quiz on Friday February 03, 2023 @07:01PM (#34649637)
Blackberry has thorns and serrated leaves so you can distinguish it fairly easily regardless of season. When there are leaves on the plants there aren't really many plants that are easy to confuse with poison oak around here. Just look for leaves that come in sets of 3 leaflets with rounded/smooth lobes.
Re:Estimating Square Roots in Your Head on Thursday February 02, 2023 @10:38PM (#34636851)
Your method apparently isn't very good seeing as a square with area 2300 has sides of length ~48
Re:Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried? on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @09:50PM (#31577145)
The goal is to avoid entering the word. In this case 'focal' was the word. You entered 4 guesses, but only had 1 valid guess, + the 'wordle' left so it was impossible to finish without undoing.
Thanks, your comment makes the basic differences clear to me.
Is this for some subset of our DNA? Quick skim of the article didn't tell me. But there is a popular factoid that human dna is 98.8% similar to chimpanzee dna on average. Is that factoid false?
Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:32PM (#27373679)
Perhaps they want liquidity, a more diverse portfolio, etc.
The problem I always had with it is that the little symbols are inscrutable, and mouse-over for a description is inconsistent. Because of this I found the ribbon far less discoverable than text based menus.
Do you think the entire us economy would disappear if bitcoin became the dominant currency of global trade? People will still want to trade the same goods and services.
In floc no personal data or web history is uploaded to the cloud. This is the essence of "federated learning" - your browser does the big ml computation, then just uploads the result.
LinkedIn was down earlier today.
Re:Chat Bubble Blindness on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @04:06PM (#24064973)
A z test relies on the normal approximation, no? I don't think that is appropriate with proportions so close to 0.