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AndrewDucker

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Submissions

Why electric cars cost more to insure – and what's being done about it

bbc.co.uk
3 points·by AndrewDucker·2 days ago·0 comments

How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to BIS

theregister.com
3 points·by AndrewDucker·4 days ago·1 comments

Plex debuts 5-year membership pass for $250

arstechnica.com
2 points·by AndrewDucker·5 days ago·0 comments

Quora and mass AI poisoning: An organized crime AI spam ring

tacit.livejournal.com
5 points·by AndrewDucker·13 days ago·1 comments

Microspeak elaborated: Isn't escrow just a release candidate by another name?

devblogs.microsoft.com
5 points·by AndrewDucker·16 days ago·0 comments

Windows and Linux users: The deadline to update Secure Boot keys is near

arstechnica.com
6 points·by AndrewDucker·24 days ago·1 comments

Hyperglycosylation is a metabolic driver of Alzheimer's disease

nature.com
6 points·by AndrewDucker·24 days ago·3 comments

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic

arstechnica.com
3 points·by AndrewDucker·last month·1 comments

Medieval Europe (in 23 minutes) [video]

youtube.com
2 points·by AndrewDucker·2 months ago·0 comments

Declining America

tbray.org
384 points·by AndrewDucker·2 months ago·178 comments

Cotypist – AI Autocomplete for Mac

cotypist.app
5 points·by AndrewDucker·2 months ago·1 comments

Life During Class Wartime

tbray.org
232 points·by AndrewDucker·2 months ago·237 comments

The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed

arstechnica.com
29 points·by AndrewDucker·2 months ago·3 comments

The "Connectivome Theory": A New Model to Understand Autism Spectrum Disorders

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
2 points·by AndrewDucker·2 months ago·0 comments

High-Precision Software Sabotage 5 Years Before Stuxnet

sentinelone.com
3 points·by AndrewDucker·3 months ago·0 comments

A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)

allbrainsbelong.org
67 points·by AndrewDucker·3 months ago·70 comments

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

bbc.co.uk
173 points·by AndrewDucker·3 months ago·409 comments

Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"

arstechnica.com
4 points·by AndrewDucker·3 months ago·0 comments

The World Bank thinks better of its old free-market absolutism

theatlantic.com
2 points·by AndrewDucker·3 months ago·0 comments

The Music of the Spheres – By Terence Tao and Zack Weinersmith

smbc-comics.com
8 points·by AndrewDucker·3 months ago·0 comments

comments

AndrewDucker
·2 days ago·discuss
Never mind, you're keeping the parts that are going to end up in that sorted location. That makes sense.

This visualisation made it click for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HylYYer2hR4
AndrewDucker
·2 days ago·discuss
I assume that "index" in this case is for the index in the fully sorted list? i.e. if you're looking for the 50th place in a 100 item list, then it's 50th place in the sorted list you want.

But as you don't know what value that is, how do you know which partition it's in?

(I am feeling very stupid today and hoping someone can explain this to me)
AndrewDucker
·2 days ago·discuss
For someone on "hacker news" you're showing a surprising lack of knowledge of the multiple meanings of the word "hack" in computer circles.
AndrewDucker
·3 days ago·discuss
If you're going to dismiss concerns as nonsensical then it generally helps to explain why you think they're nonsensical.
AndrewDucker
·3 days ago·discuss
The lathe is on display right now.

https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co46284...
AndrewDucker
·4 days ago·discuss
It's not just vehicles. Battery fires from electric bikes and scooters have also caused issues. And currently you can't put a battery pack into plane hold luggage because of fire risks.
AndrewDucker
·4 days ago·discuss
Assuming that the spaghetti is being held in such a way that longer pieces hit the surface first. If the pieces are being held at random points, or such that the bottoms line up rather than the tops, then this approach won't work.
AndrewDucker
·9 days ago·discuss
Yeah. I (male) have a daughter who is very much like me, to the point where my wife finds it hilarious when I get frustrated at her behaving in the same ways my wife gets frustrated at me for behaving.
AndrewDucker
·13 days ago·discuss
I know one kid, now 5, who taught himself to read watching Alphablocks.

My own kids haven't done anything that impressive, but they've certainly enjoyed watching a lot of videos and it doesn't seem to have done them any harm. Doesn't get in the way of doing non-screen things either.
AndrewDucker
·14 days ago·discuss
India had the second highest number of cases and the third highest number of deaths.

And that's before you start taking into account the terrible record tracking and lack of testing.
AndrewDucker
·15 days ago·discuss
Agreed.

Generally, with QR menus I'm used to paying when we order. No need for secondary processes or worrying about something not being paid for.
AndrewDucker
·15 days ago·discuss
If it was reductions they'd tell you so in the title. If they aren't doing that it's because they're trying to avoid giving you the bad news for as long as possible.
AndrewDucker
·17 days ago·discuss
The article has been updated in response to this post.

(See the end)
AndrewDucker
·18 days ago·discuss
Or combine the 3: SpAIceX
AndrewDucker
·20 days ago·discuss
People connect from home more at the weekends and home ISPs support ipv6 more than offices do.
AndrewDucker
·21 days ago·discuss
Reads like academia to me.
AndrewDucker
·21 days ago·discuss
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1
AndrewDucker
·22 days ago·discuss
Entirely true.

If you want UBI without massive inflation then you have to suck back in most of the money you've produced.

Of course, you can then do that pretty sensibly so that you don't have cliff edges like we do at the moment.
AndrewDucker
·22 days ago·discuss
It's more than when minimum wage goes up (which has a similar effect on people at the lowest end of the wage earners - their income goes up by X) the effect is not that food/housing immediately captures all of that X, it captures about 20% of X.

(I appreciate that I'm not offering sources, and am going from memory here. Sorry, if I had the time I would try and track them down.)
AndrewDucker
·22 days ago·discuss
Bunch of research on this, and while it does lead to some inflation, so long as competition is acting on the market only a small percentage goes on this.