benmanns

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by benmanns 2mo ago
Thank goodness for globalized economies.
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by benmanns 5mo ago
On Polymarket you can be the bookie and put up a yes at $0.72 and no at $0.74 if you’re confident in that 73% estimate.
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by benmanns 6mo ago
Ask and ye shall receive: https://manifold.markets/benmanns/aliensgov-prop-bets (play money). I set this up so multiple can resolve and other users can add additional speculations.
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by benmanns 6mo ago
I thought Plaid have (had?) a developer account that could connect something like 100 accounts that was free.
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by benmanns 6mo ago
Same. The complexity of HA also leaves my family with a bus factor of one re: keeping the lights on.
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by benmanns 7mo ago
They were only touched on (and just barely) in my CS education, so don’t feel too left out. Spend an evening or two on the Wiki for Probabilistic data structures[0]. With a CS education you should have the baseline knowledge to find them re
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by benmanns 9mo ago
I've really been enjoying Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11) of HN fame. Additionally: Odd Lots, Money Stuff, Chat with Traders (hit or miss, some guests are not great).
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by benmanns 9mo ago
Audiobook publishers require/request this when you sell subsidiary rights. We’ve been able to push back citing accessibility concerns. I find it really annoying when not available for my own reading.
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by benmanns 10mo ago
For Shopify in particular, they have a headless front-end services called Hydrogen[0] (with optional hosting called Oxygen). It's basically an opinionated wrapper around the storefront[1] and customer account[2] APIs, which allows inte
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by benmanns 10mo ago
It does, however, make providing housing more profitable, which, on the margins, will drive more landlords and home builders into the market, decreasing long term costs (relative to a straight 100% increase relative to the basic income). So
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by benmanns 1y ago
The trouble is, you have to place the outbound call to those contacts to trust them. People could spoof an incoming call from numbers in your contacts and it will look as legitimate to you as a receiver as if the real number was calling you
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by benmanns 1y ago
IMO the game is to get the highest credit score while spending the least on credit. That way if you e.g. need to acquire housing, a reliable vehicle, business loans, even employment or insurance, you will be able to and can get a good deal.
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by benmanns 1y ago
I’m not sure. I’m sophisticated enough to use BNPL and set aside the funds in a HYSA, but I never have as you miss out on: credit card rewards, credit card purchase protection, credit card extended warranties, credit card chargeback infrast
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by benmanns 1y ago
Like you, I’m far too risk averse to not fact check everything an LLM outputs, but I’ve also fixed bugs that have been present for 5+ years. Maybe at a certain point you can just wait for the next generation of model to fix the bugs. And wa
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by benmanns 1y ago
This is interesting to me—are you an app developer that does this pattern for that reason? I definitely figured it was exclusively because they can request repeatedly for the fake prompt, and only “use” their prompt when the user is incline
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by benmanns 2y ago
Another case of Hyrum's Law, where the entire functionality of the S3 SDK and any competing service provider borrowing from it becomes Amazon's problem to fix at their own cost. Maybe it's time for a non-Amazon but S3 API com
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by benmanns 2y ago
You probably know more about this than me, but it looks like some lines do: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-informa... Regenerative braking in cars also keeps a lot of brake dust out of the ai
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by benmanns 2y ago
Also keep in mind there’s something like 180 days per year of K-12 education in the US each year, so that’s something like 0.62 to 5.4 per school day.
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by benmanns 2y ago
I think so, but not a bad marketing gimmick. It gives a pretty easy way for the general public to interact with ChatGPT on a trial basis without signing up or paying for it using a somewhat hard to acquire identifier (phone number). I'
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by benmanns 2y ago
I think we should start doing more taxes combined with subsidies. Give everyone a $1/t carbon tax. Give everyone a ~$1/t farming subsidy based on current carbon production. Nobody loses, but everyone is incentivized to decrease ca
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by benmanns 2y ago
Email rendering is a great analogy.
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by benmanns 2y ago
Most eBooks are produced by creating a new InDesign ebook document from the existing InDesign print document. Then you fiddle with a bunch of stuff to make it look right (removing the forced line breaks and such you did to get the print doc
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by benmanns 2y ago
1.b. When somehow they identify you’ve change IPs the first time, and now that you are home, there’s still some sticky session that doesn’t get cleared without purging all cookies for the domain.
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by benmanns 2y ago
I think there are legitimate cases where a business has a product available at a price that is net positive to both the business (profitable) and customer (consumer surplus) but is having trouble connecting with consumers. What % of adverti
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by benmanns 2y ago
However, as discovered during a family heart crisis, medical professionals will routinely ignore any kind of heart rate or blood pressure readings that you take at home. In my experience, it's not until they see the same measurement du
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by benmanns 2y ago
Am I understanding correctly? You look an English dataset, trained an LLM, machine translated the English dataset to e.g. Spanish, continued training the model, and performance for queries in English improved? That’s really interesting.
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by benmanns 2y ago
On the flip side, I've used plenty of first party SDKs with weird timeout values, poor error handling, and non-idiomatic APIs for the language.
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by benmanns 2y ago
If anyone is interested, there are markets on Manifold trying to predict this: https://manifold.markets/ai To be honest, even as a participant and enthusiast, I’m not sure how useful or accurate it is. I can push the predic
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by benmanns 2y ago
Starting January 1, 2025, existing companies will need to report beneficial owners to FinCEN, which may start the process of cutting down on shell company abuse. https://www.fincen.gov/boi-faqs#B_2
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by benmanns 2y ago
Good news, https://www.litmus.com/ is exactly this, and does work for Gmail.

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