Now apply to each topic at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_topics_characterized_a...
Readit Newsdavid_draco commented on Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wik... · Posted by u/duncanjbrown
A browser using 32 GB for 8 tab isn't necessarily wasteful, there is a lot of caching one can do to make back/forward buttons extremely fast. It would be wasteful to not allocate that memory if it is otherwise free and unused.
Usually browsers use up what is available. The more interesting metric would be whether starting another high-RAM application will lead the browser to give up most of the 32 GB.
david_draco commented on If all the world were a monorepo jtibs.substack.com/p/if-a... · Posted by u/sebg
> In what other ecosystem would a top package introduce itself using an eight-variable equation?
That's the objective function of Hastie et al's GLM. I had a good chuckle when I realized the author's last name is Tibshirani. If you know you know.
And if I don't know, can I know?
david_draco commented on Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy andrewmarder.net/firefox/... · Posted by u/amarder
This checklist is a work in progress, would love to hear your feedback.
I'm surprised Firefox Multi-Account Containers isn't mentioned. Seems ideal to me to keep Web Universes separate.
david_draco commented on Cognitive load is what matters github.com/zakirullin/cog... · Posted by u/nromiun
Unit and Integration testing is great for decreasing cognitive load too. When you are staring at an error stack trace of a complex code base, and go through mentally what could have played out to cause this, it's great to have confidence in components due to testing. Hypothesis/QuickCheck is allows dropping entire classes of worries.
david_draco commented on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/bookmtn
Recent HN comment on "Beyond Meat headed to Chapter 11 bankruptcy", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44935141#44935280
About 10 years ago I became more aware that reducing my consumption of meat was good for the world. This was good for Beyond Meat’s prospects.
About 5 years ago I became more aware that reducing my consumption of ultra processed food was good for me. This was very bad for Beyond Meat’s prospects.The words "good" and "very bad" indicate that the world is less important to that person than themselves. I'd be okay with a bit of personal harm if it helps against climate change.
Ultra-processed food does not have an agreed-upon definition, and is the new "junk food" with the pretense of being more scientific. Is bread and pizza ultra-processed food? Studies do not agree on their definitions, sometimes including ingredient lists, sometimes not, sometimes it is required that the product is made in small shops with love and not in large factories. The mechanism of how ultra-processed food are supposed to cause harm remains undefined.
david_draco commented on Llama-Scan: Convert PDFs to Text W Local LLMs github.com/ngafar/llama-s... · Posted by u/nawazgafar
Looking at the code, this converts PDF pages to images, then transcribes each image. I might have expected a pdftotext post-processor. The complexity of PDF I guess ...
> there’s also an official, built-in map of the planet, carefully crafted
Is there a mathematical framework for how to optimize a map for gameplay to be most enjoyable?
david_draco commented on Show HN: LocalScore – Local LLM Benchmark localscore.ai/download... · Posted by u/sipjca
I don't know if I should trust and run this code. If it was associated to Mozilla I would. It says it is a Mozilla Builders project, but https://builders.mozilla.org/projects/ does not list it. I don't see a way to verify that localscore.ai is associated with Mozilla.
david_draco commented on Put a data center on the moon? spectrum.ieee.org/data-ce... · Posted by u/pseudolus
I wonder how many places on earth you can put things for the cost of putting it on the moon?
Yes. Meteorites are being systematically collected to get impact statistics in areas that are tectonically undisturbed. They seem equally good places: Antarctica, Atacama desert, Greenland. In terms of bandwidth and maintainance they seem preferable to the moon. See the Arctic Code Vault in Svalbard.