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lament76··on German digital signage ban prompts confusion
How about not jeopardizing the economy by ever more constraints and instead investing in better energy technology?
lament76··on Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year
It's mainly about being in a social group that facilitates romantic relationships and marriage, and/or putting personal effort into dating. People with no hygiene mate a lot.
lament76··on Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?
The Telegram web client uses all sorts of features and a reimplementation of React.

> The project incorporates lots of technologically advanced features, modern Web APIs and techniques: WebSockets, Web Workers and WebAssembly, multi-level caching and PWA, voice recording and media streaming, cryptography and raw binary data operations, optimistic and progressive interfaces, complicated CSS/Canvas/SVG animations, reactive data streams, and so much more.

https://github.com/Ajaxy/telegram-tt

The dev is pretty much a genius.

lament76··on Textsynth: Bellard's free GPT-NeoX-20B, GPT-J playground and paid API
Rhymes probably work relatively poorly because the neural net has a poor representation of what the words sound like.
lament76··on Algorithms for Decision Making [pdf]
Neural nets only need linearly more data for optimal performance: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/midXmMb2Xg37F2Kgn/new-scalin...

At the same time, fine-tuning sample efficiency increases with scale, so at some point you can possibly one-shot learn state and get rid of exponential searches, solving NP-Hard problems with heuristics. Sounds like a free lunch to me. At least if you can afford a net large enough.

lament76··on Algorithms for Decision Making [pdf]
It's interesting how one algorithm, a 'master algorithm', can presumably subsume all the others in the book, presumably a neural/evolutionary algorithm, that can simply learn/evolve when the other algorithms are useful for decision making/maximizing reward.
lament76··on Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel
Alternativeto is quite good in my experience.
lament76··on Choose your status game wisely
If you always play with the alphas then it's no wonder you think everyone primarily cares about status. Most people primarily care about resources, the tribe and religion.
lament76··on Choose your status game wisely
Status is not very important for humans, except for a minority of hypercompetitive individuals. Most people lack the nerves for status games. The collective, the community and belonging are more important than status. The problem is that the top of a large pool of people selects for competitiveness, so if you aim high you likely need to play their games. There is hardly a way around it except maybe luck, gambling or remote work.
lament76··on Evaluation of science advice during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden
The US has like 5 times the obesity rate and obesity is a relatively strong predictor of adverse outcomes with C19.
lament76··on Germany commits €100B to defense spending
Just dig a little the backgrounds of key activists, the institutions that back them or where they get to speak. These are not exactly middle, underclass or grassroots institutions, but multinational orgs, banks and media monopolies.
lament76··on Germany commits €100B to defense spending
It's wrong but not an attack on democracy. Modern environmentalism is a big astroturfing campaign. It pretends to be a grass-roots movement with little girls at their front. In reality it is backed by billionaires who do not want their private islands to sink (metaphorically and literally).