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by collectedparts 2mo ago
Trader Joe's cashier bells have entered the chat. Ironically, the "request assistance" button and accompanying blinking light on top of your stand at self-checkout are the "self-managing" version of that where you a
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by collectedparts 4mo ago
I can't help but think that thee's some sort of tragedy of the commons type thing going on here. Probably the wrong metaphor. But: it seems like a lot of what the article is getting at is that we can all intuitively agree that the
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Show HN: 10 Lines of Python to fix mangled copy-paste from Claude Code
2 points by collectedparts 6mo ago|0 comments
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by collectedparts 6mo ago
In other words, it seems substantially less connected to "tools" than Gemini (even in an incognito).
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by collectedparts 6mo ago
So, yes, but there are random things that it can be disastrously bad at. Like math expressions (especially with units) where it will just give you some random hallucination. Where Gemini (even logged out) on the same thing is totally fine
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Anatomy of a War Premium: How Prediction Markets Are Pricing Oil(predictmarketcap.com)
2 points by collectedparts 6mo ago|0 comments
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by collectedparts 1y ago
Awesome, looks great! Thanks for jumping into the thread here.
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by collectedparts 1y ago
Just FYI OP (assuming OP is the author of the post) there's no margin on your blog. Text goes all the way to the edges. As a related sidenote, I wonder how quickly ChatGPT replaces much of the customized tools here? ChatGPT is probab
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by collectedparts 2y ago
Ignoring industries built on regulatory capture / credentialism gatekeeping like law and medicine [by the way, even those both have continuing education requirements], are there actually exceptions to this? Plenty of careers just go aw
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by collectedparts 2y ago
The fact that in 2024 you can still get sub-1-hour applicable reply from the creator of one of the top web frameworks ever is everything that makes HN amazing.
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Ask HN: Since when has copy/pasting images "just worked"?
2 points by collectedparts 2y ago|4 comments
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by collectedparts 3y ago
yeah this is not a very good list. if you read "Made in America" (1992) it's clear that the eventual "founding" of Walmart was just a continuation in Sam's entrepreneurial journey that had been steadily gaining
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by collectedparts 3y ago
If you're talking about FTX US, and your son instructed them to sell coins, if the trade was executed he may have been credited to his USD balance. If so, these funds would be validly held in his name by Evolve Bank & Trust. You s
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by collectedparts 3y ago
Oddly enough, less than 1 day later someone has launched what purports to be a YC for real estate investing: https://twitter.com/moseskagan/status/1643228164439814144 I have no knowledge of if the individual invol
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by collectedparts 3y ago
Part of me wanted to believe that SVB's failure wouldn't lead to real financial losses for the FDIC. That there was a weird panic bank run, and then the steady hand of a regulator was needed, but there really were enough assets. N
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by collectedparts 3y ago
I think it's more mark to market vs "par" value trickery. SVB had plenty of assets at "par" value or held to maturity value. But it was insolvent if you marked those to market. So FDIC is letting First-Citizens buy
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by collectedparts 4y ago
It's called "narrow banking" or full-reserve banking. It's been tried, and was rejected by the very same regulators who now had to bail out SVB: https://www.econlib.org/why-does-the-fed-oppose-narrow-bank
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by collectedparts 4y ago
It's said that no bank (even the best-managed) can withstand a fullscale bank run. So to the extent that the US side of things created a crisis of confidence, that might have been enough to topple SVB UK, even if all of its fundamental
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by collectedparts 4y ago
The linked FT article is a quick writeup from her CBS interview. CBS also has a transcript of the interview itself: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/janet-yellen-face-the-nation-tr...
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by collectedparts 4y ago
It's also a general expression of lack of confidence in the US banking system. Exchanges that offer true "USD" trading pairs ultimately have to store that cash [at a bank] somewhere. But at which bank? Before this week, most
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by collectedparts 4y ago
This happened to me as well: projects with paid dynos but free databases, databases got nuked. How Heroku missed this is beyond me. They managed to screw over paying customers in their broad attempt to stop freeloaders. These are good acco
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by collectedparts 4y ago
I have to enter my password every 15 minutes that I buy something from the App Store. The change felt recent, maybe after high-profile cases of toddlers spending $$$ on in app purchases? The fact that "I'm going to change my phon
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by collectedparts 4y ago
I guess what I'm struggling with is: if you're not saying who you are (HN account created 2 hours ago), and you're not saying what the business is, and you're not even sharing something like a Stripe account id or ticket
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by collectedparts 4y ago
Probably reductive but in my head Cloudlfare and Cloudfront are the only 2 "mega large" CDNs and, to your point, I've only ever heard about Fastly in the context of outages.
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by collectedparts 4y ago
(self-reply) looks the API call is coming from a script in "main.ed70037a.js" which is loaded from: https://abs.twimg.com/responsive-web/client-web/main.ed70037... From nslookup, abs.twimg.com has canoni
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by collectedparts 4y ago
It doesn't seem to include any backoff, so any browser tab left open on that screen will keep tightlooping on it. Almost certainly exacerbating the problem. What should my mental model be for "where" the code that causes tho
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by collectedparts 4y ago
Most, but not all. The Chase Center got no public money [1]. [1] https://www.mortenson.com/projects/chase-center
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by collectedparts 4y ago
In case this concern seemed theoretical: https://twitter.com/wizardofsoho/status/1606610665795379201
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by collectedparts 4y ago
Agreed on the basic point that he won't win any more confidence games. I think the main thing is that we haven't seen what he might do now that he knows for sure that he's (by default) headed for a lifetime in jail. It seems
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by collectedparts 4y ago
I'm not an expert on formal scientific writing but is it really more normal to say "sex" rather than "gender" here? I had to read this multiple times to avoid confusion given the alternate meaning.

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