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You Aren't Going to Like What Comes After America(nytimes.com)
8 points by bwood 2mo ago|22 comments
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by bwood 1y ago
Some people take the old cases from defunct macs and modify them for modern hardware. Here's a shop [0] that sells conversion kits for them. Here are some "sleepers" that people have built over the years [1,2,3] [0] https:&#
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by bwood 2y ago
As a customer of Konfig, I am super bummed about this. I think we may even have been their first customer (referenced in the init commit). Dylan and Anh-Tuan solved a number of real problems for us, and they did it spectacularly. They essen
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by bwood 2y ago
I was looking forward to that as well, but Siri refuses to read ChatGPT's responses to me...which makes it substantially less useful. It's just as frustrating as being told "sorry, you'll have to unlock your phone if you
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by bwood 2y ago
I've been compiling a list of ways in which physical reality is similar to game engines or mechanical simulation in general. Here's my list so far: - The observer effect, quantum entanglement and wavefunction collapse --> lazy
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by bwood 2y ago
This is probably the most delightfully interesting thing I've read in weeks.
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by bwood 2y ago
One of the biggest contributors to pollinator decline is loss of habitat for native bees. Most bees are actually solitary (don’t live in hives) and live in little crannies or holes in the ground. One of the coolest things I’ve come across r
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by bwood 3y ago
Thank you, that was a fascinating talk and I learned quite a bit. However, it did not provide a convincing argument as to why LLMs cannot be a part of a "doomer" AI. In fact, I got the opposite vibe from Andrej explaining expected
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by bwood 3y ago
As much as I can appreciate Doctorow’s exasperation, I find his dismissal of the doomer vs accelerationist debate rather pithy. I would love to be convinced that “dumb” LLMs can never gain sentience (or be finagled into sentience with a wra
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by bwood 4y ago
Reminds me of the butter robot on Rick and Morty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7HmltUWXgs&t=33s
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by bwood 4y ago
Fossil Fuels Brewing appears to be no longer in business. Anybody know what happened to their yeast? https://untappd.com/FossilFuelsBrewing
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by bwood 4y ago
Sure, but it would be more constructive to explain why it's wrong. GP's comment has some interesting ideas and it would be better to directly refute them than just claiming they're "factually wrong".
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by bwood 5y ago
Kable has been super helpful for my company so far! Our billing is pretty complicated because it's usage-based and we're customizing pricing for every single customer at this point. The integration with Kable was very simple, took
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by bwood 5y ago
On the face of it, no, it doesn't sound revolutionary. "Just switch to renewables" is something I've been hearing for 20 years and I never believed it could work until I read this book. The book is quite thorough in layi
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by bwood 5y ago
It's not really that electricity is more efficient (is IS more efficient in most cases, but a key point of the book is that we can't "efficiency" our way out of the climate crisis). It's that as long as the generati
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by bwood 5y ago
Yeah, that's basically the point of the book. Acknowledging that our dependence on fossil fuels is hard to break, but outlining an actually realistic plan for doing so.
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by bwood 5y ago
While on the topic of green energy, I recently started reading Electrify by Saul Griffith [0] which outlines a pretty comprehensive plan for addressing climate change with a broad shift to "electric everything". The summary is tha
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by bwood 5y ago
Seems like a strange bit of feedback to me. My company uses Django as the backend for our REST API and it's simply phenomenal. Django isn't a complete solution out of the box, but that's why things like Django REST Framework
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by bwood 5y ago
Seems like there's a 50 character limit, it may have truncated your message to fit.
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by bwood 5y ago
Just because it often works doesn't mean it's a good idea. Updating a single package is officially unsupported [0] and it's burned me personally on a number of occasions. [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title&#
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by bwood 5y ago
Previous discussions: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27075180 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27086553
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by bwood 6y ago
I was hoping that link would explain how to actually make a transaction with the lightning network. Can you do that with the Bitcoin-Qt client?
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by bwood 6y ago
All the talk of implants makes me wonder what's possible without a direct physical link to the brain. Like using an EEG to measure brain signals and transform them into instructions, images, etc. Here's some research where they us
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by bwood 6y ago
> The newborn’s skin was blue and he wasn’t breathing. A few years earlier, the doctors would have documented the baby as stillborn, not believing there was anything they could do to help. As someone who scored a 1/10 on the Apgar a
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by bwood 6y ago
Another good one: Barrett's Privateers [2] [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwzRkjn86w
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by bwood 6y ago
One of my favorite sea shanties: Jack was Every Inch a Sailor [0] I play this on my ukulele while my kids dance and sing along. For an endless supply of sea shanties, look up Newfoundland folk music. Also an honorable mention: Heave Away [1
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by bwood 6y ago
Fun fact: the dollar cost averaging feature was a direct outcome of the market crash in early 2020. A whole bunch of users were rebalancing out of necessity, but they wanted to dollar cost average their way back into the market. So we had t
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by bwood 6y ago
The trick is to not give advice. Structure the software so that it's entirely self-directed and you don't push users towards a specific investment. You'll probably still attract attention from regulatory bodies (we did!), but
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by bwood 6y ago
Thanks!
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by bwood 6y ago
I'm working on an app that turns brokerage accounts into a fully customizable robo-advisor. Create a target portfolio made up of stocks/ETFs, and our app will keep everything balanced and fully invested. We're starting with t

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