homefree

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by homefree 7mo ago
I feel like we need another effect for people on hacker news that consistently do the opposite - take obvious intelligence and pretend it's equivalent to Eliza.
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by homefree 11mo ago
Because that’s the group that’s captured it
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by homefree 1y ago
Someone (throwtato@protonmail) sent me a death threat from my hacker news email alias over this thread - ridiculous, but not surprising given the left wing extremist violence. The most hostility I've see on HN is from trans leftist act
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by homefree 1y ago
I don’t know why I spend time on HN anymore - it used to be a place to learn things and interact with interesting people. Now it’s just a crappy subreddit. The interesting people mostly fled to private channels (or X) long ago. With PG’s re
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by homefree 1y ago
Anyone saying “misogynistic domestic slavery” has bought into a much dumber political religion, maybe without even realizing it.
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by homefree 1y ago
This guy’s entire post is about riding a sad Caltrain to some Palo Alto job and being disappointed his memorization of obscure computer trivia or generic software job didn’t provide meaning in his life. My point is that marriage and kids pr
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by homefree 1y ago
I suspect nothing you believe about either of them is remotely true. I didn’t say I was committed to the religions - I said they’re a battle tested adaptive cultural technology we should be careful about throwing away because there will be
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by homefree 1y ago
People are looking for meaning in the wrong places - it’s not a huge surprise, it’s something secularism has largely failed at. There are places you can work that are more meaningful or where there is a culture of cutting down on bullshit.
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by homefree 1y ago
iPhone 5(s) was peak case design imo and the last to have a flush camera iirc. The 12 and 13 mini were close, but still had the bump. My personal favorite would be that style with modern chips and a full glass display. Basically an updated
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by homefree 1y ago
I loved the mini and bought both the 12 and 13 mini. Also bought it for my siblings. Unfortunately after its sales Apple is very unlikely to ever make a small phone again.
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by homefree 1y ago
The configurator is interesting and something I haven't heard of before! It's a double edged sword because the amount of time I spend online (X) has been directly responsible for the most valuable opportunities and generally knowi
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by homefree 1y ago
You downplayed what Tesla FSD can do and said I was being narrow minded and the Bay Area driving is "easy mode" and said vision isn't a general solution. I think none of this is true.
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by homefree 1y ago
People here just whine and complain - yes they’ve “only” just sent a skyscraper to space for now and caught the booster on reentry, it’s a work in progress (along with their reusable rockets, earth scale telecom side project etc.) My point
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by homefree 1y ago
You don’t need hands on the wheel anymore, just looking out the window. It’s way more relaxed. It’ll be nice when that’s not required anymore, but even today it’s way more comfortable.
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by homefree 1y ago
If humans had ten eyes always looking simultaneously and never got tired they would also not hit stuff.
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by homefree 1y ago
Oh please - people excuse and dismiss major accomplishments, you can send a skyscraper to mars and people on HN will still be calling you a fraud. The Bay Area has massive traffic, complex interchanges, SF has tight difficult roads with hea
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by homefree 1y ago
Thank you for exemplifying what I’m talking about. I should really buy more TSLA.
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by homefree 1y ago
Yeah it’s amazing
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by homefree 1y ago
He argued the case in 2016 iirc. The position against lidar was that it traps you in a local max, that humans use vision, that roads and signs are designed for vision so you're going to ultimately have to solve that problem and when yo
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by homefree 1y ago
I use FSD in my Model S daily to commute from SF to Palo Alto along with most of my other Bay Area driving. It does a better job currently than most people and it drives me 95% of the time now I haven't had the phantom braking. I'
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by homefree 1y ago
There’s no point in continuing our discussion (are you a Wikipedia editor - this thread feels like I’m talking to one), the articles I link to show it’s much worse than you suggest. It’s beyond inherent bias, it’s explicitly weaponized for
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by homefree 1y ago
Wikipedia fails at its purpose is more my point - it pretends to be something it’s not. The bad part is people (including many in the comments here) don’t realize this. A good encyclopedia doesn’t push an ideological agenda.
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by homefree 1y ago
I seek out individuals I think are smart from a variety of places and read a lot - I'm not sure if there's another way. The more I do this, the more I have a general dislike for wikipedia. The problem with wikipedia is it pretends
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by homefree 1y ago
Wikipedia has major issues - there are a lot of topics with coordinated editing from bad actors. The verge article is paywalled so I can't read more than the first page + headline, but I can guess the case it makes. - https:/&#x2
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by homefree 1y ago
I had to go to El Salvador for a work trip a while back and brought a bunch of fresh $2 bills with me. They use USD as the currency there, but they're constrained by what's in circulation. I thought it would be fun to have my $2 b
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by homefree 1y ago
Yes! It's fun to just order 500 $2 bills and carry some everywhere for tips. I do this all the time, it's an easy way to add a little whimsy into someone's day. Wozniak famously went further and would order sheets of them unc
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by homefree 1y ago
I had a funny experience with a French cheese shop in SF for this - I tipped a $2 bill and he called me back in confused thinking it was fake, but was good natured when I showed him it was real.
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by homefree 1y ago
Yeah it could be insanely valuable and it'll give them an advantage by letting them add more features to the free ad supported product to expand their reach and cement their position.
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by homefree 1y ago
You’re unable to engage substantively, so you fall back on moral posturing and dismissal. The “dictator” framing also reveals your own unfalsifiable assumption - that Trump is inherently authoritarian regardless of policy outcomes or democr
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by homefree 1y ago
Iran having a nuclear weapon is not a random thing to be concerned about, it's an e-risk to our allies in the region and your dismissal of this says a lot more about you than it does about me when it comes to "thinking critically&

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