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Man. That looks pretty fun. I can't seem to get it to work on my iPhone in several different browsers. The sound won't play. Am I the only one that can't get it working on mobile?

Unsilence the ringer

…kinda an unfortunate answer to have to give :) well they call it Silent Mode which makes it a bit better although it’s inconsistent … I digress


Could you send the beacon every five minutes? When the beacon stops coming in for 30 minutes assume that the tab closed or the user went off-line.

> every five minutes

This is tricky in JavaScript, because timers are asleep/throttled in inactive tabs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/setT...

And if onbeforeleave analytics is not evil, doing stuff in inactive tabs is certainly is.


You could just have a websocket open then. But its unreliable because if the user's internet cuts out maybe they still on the tab, so watching websocket disconnect is not perfect either

Do you feel this substantively contributes to the conversation?

Yes. I feel that way very strongly. What contains no substance is a discussion of how we are smarter about knot theory than the knot theorists ... without even connecting to what makes the problem difficult.

Maybe you meant to ask something else. But you asked about substance.


GP explicitly stated they might be misunderstanding. If you see how they misunderstood, perhaps you could explain. An appeal to authority isn't much of an explanation.

Which part of this comment:

> Maybe the article is dumbing it down too much, but the conclusion seems unsurprising. Why shouldn't a single unknotting do double-duty in some cases?

is them "explicitly stat[ing] they might be misunderstanding"? At best they said that the article is at fault for oversimplifying the topic.


Author of the comment you're quoting, and it is indeed my roundabout way of suggesting I'm missing something.

Clearly, I'm not a knot theory expert, but the way the article presents it makes me wonder what extra nuance motivated the original (now falsified) conjecture.


If anybody is reading this, please hit "parent" a few times to see what everybody actually said.

I do. It gave me a good ol' chuckle. That's a great contribution to the conversation right there!

Is that true? Do models get rebuilt from scratch each time or do they get iterated on?

I believe the big models currently get built from scratch (with random starting weights). That wasn't my point though. I meant a model created once, might be used for a very long time. Maybe they even release the weights at one point ("open source").

Usually I am a big fan of HN comments. But this thread... So much cynical speculation. So little factual information.

Go ahead and downvote. I've got karma to burn.


The actual article is really interesting and informative.

I've yet to see a single comment here that referrences any of the facts or ideas presented in the article. It is entirely composed of people responding to the headline.

I found the section on MERS particularly interesting. Minimal training on how to asses inconsistent assements between countries, complete failure to mention massive laundering scandals at banks in the asses countries... And this is the primary method of international oversight to see if these systems work and are implemented consistently.


I think they mean: turns out someone else made both the computer system and man. They are implying the existence of god.


Thanks


I thought the ground/reconstituted part was because they couldn't form long chain proteins. Or at least they could not simulate the structure of muscle tissue over long stretches. That is, they could make ground beef, but they couldn't make steak.


Perhaps you and those of your ilk are the source.


At least overrepresented in the training data...


It's sad you feel this way. I find the commentary here the most enjoyable part of the internet. On balance, folks are thoughtful and knowledgeable about a wide variety of subjects. They are respectful even when disagreeing.

It's interesting that we can have polar opposite perspectives.


How would this affect DDOS attacks? Would it make you more vulnerable?


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