awillen

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AI Just Took My Product Photographer's Job(theautomatedoperator.substack.com)
3 points by awillen 10mo ago|0 comments
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by awillen 10mo ago
> So money can be found for the homeless, the RV dwelllers, etc. but not for the city's lawful residents and taxpayers. But it's those lawful residents and taxpayers paying for it if you make it free anyway. They're just p
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Evaluating Web Browsing Agents for Some Practical Use Cases(theautomatedoperator.substack.com)
1 points by awillen 10mo ago|0 comments
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by awillen 10mo ago
Honestly I give Google credit for realizing that they had something that people were talking about and running with it instead of just calling it gemini-image-large-with-text-pro
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by awillen 10mo ago
A lot of negative posts here, but AI to advance science seems like basically the best possible use case. The more ultrawealthy people who want to throw billions at it, the better.
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by awillen 10mo ago
I buy and operate e-commerce brands that sell on Amazon, and I'm working on handing as much of the operation of the business off to AI as possible. Doing this both for actual time savings for myself and also as my big-picture eval of n
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by awillen 10mo ago
The one thing I don't see and always wonder about with these sorts of things is how they define "social media". Seems like a tough thing to do - if you cast too broad a definition you'll end up with just about anywhere o
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by awillen 11mo ago
This is not true, just a viral rumor going around: https://x.com/thekaransinghal/status/1985416057805496524 I've used it for both medical and legal advice as the rumor's been going around. I wish more pe
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by awillen 11mo ago
This is it - it's really about the semantics of thinking. Dictionary definitions are: "Have a particular opinion, belief, or idea about someone or something." and "Direct one's mind toward someone or something; use
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by awillen 11mo ago
Not as much about the economics of the business as my work on using AI to automate it, but I do have a Substack: https://theautomatedoperator.substack.com/
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by awillen 11mo ago
I would say a couple of things: 1. Just because I don't use something doesn't mean that I think it shouldn't exist or be sold. People can make their own choices. A product isn't bad or useless or unnecessary because it d
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by awillen 11mo ago
I tried this out, and the stuff it produces is just simple text overlaid nicely on images you supply. If you have a designer, it'd take 60 seconds to knock one of these out, plus you'd already have a style guide that this app woul
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by awillen 11mo ago
This works for the subset of people who have a good story or a real connection to their brand, but that's just not most businesses. I buy and operate e-commerce brands, and I can't do it both because I really don't want to be
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by awillen 11mo ago
Often with these kinds of things it's not even as much about being specifically accurate as it is about presenting yourself in a way that makes the other party believe that have sufficient understanding of the issue at hand and the esc
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Screening Inbound Emails with Gemini Flash(theautomatedoperator.substack.com)
1 points by awillen 11mo ago|0 comments
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by awillen 11mo ago
Thanks for digging that out.
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by awillen 11mo ago
"The CAT said in its ruling that developers were overcharged by the difference between a 17.5% commission for app purchases and the commission Apple charged, which Kent's lawyers said was usually 30%." Where does the 17.5% co
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by awillen 11mo ago
Yeah, again, it would be trivial to actual put an example of the prompt in there rather than just making me take their word for it. Also, how do I know this isn't being done by someone who has custom instructions or has a history of ta
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by awillen 11mo ago
It's a shame they don't include any details about how this was tested, so it's impossible to know how much of the results were actual bias vs. the Dutch watchdog's inability to use them. I wouldn't be shocked if the
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Good Vibes Only(theautomatedoperator.substack.com)
1 points by awillen 11mo ago|0 comments
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by awillen 11mo ago
That's the wrong analogy though. We're not talking about the supplier - I'm sure Amazon is doing its damnedest to make sure that AWS isn't going down. The right analogy is to imagine if businesses that used electricity t
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by awillen 4y ago
The point is that we should have a coherent policy in the US around how we treat drugs. Either we should accept a certain threshold of danger around drug use and allow all drugs under that threshold to be used (with appropriate regulation),
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by awillen 4y ago
You put quotes around "dangerous opinions" - you're wrong to do that, because I never used that phrase. I said he was dangerously uninformed. There are times when people can have valid, personal opinions and times when there&
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by awillen 4y ago
Absolutely - education and regulation are much more effective strategies than prohibition along pretty much every dimension. We've drawn the very reasonable line that young people whose brains are still developing don't get alcoho
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by awillen 4y ago
I encourage you to actually do some research on alcoholism - both the number of people it affects as well as the way it prevents itself. You're dangerously uninformed on the topic to be presenting these kinds of opinions.
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by awillen 4y ago
A lot of people who are against legalization make this argument that those who are for it ignore the negative consequences, but for large swathes of pro-legalization people, that's just not true. I know there are negative consequences,
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by awillen 4y ago
This is exactly how I feel about my Roborock. What made you go with Ecovacs?
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by awillen 4y ago
Well that's not feasible for me, but I have been meaning to upgrade to a larger desk (I'm still on the first one I ever owned - the cheapest one from Ikea). You've inspired me to do it. Just ordered a new one.
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by awillen 4y ago
Oh yeah, 100% agree this is the clear-cut best answer. If you can only upgrade one big thing, make it your mattress.
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Ask HN: What $500-2500 product improved your 2022
87 points by awillen 4y ago|201 comments

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