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Introducing the DeepMind Institute(institute.deepmind.com)
4 points by jader201 5h ago|0 comments
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Anthropic CEO calls for the AI industry to slow down(washingtonpost.com)
7 points by jader201 4d ago|5 comments
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by jader201 6d ago
> Fashion, like all other segments of society and the economy, bends around the smartphone, not vice versa. Man, I hate my Hanes pajama shorts right now. The pockets are way too shallow. Probably even for the iPhone Mini. My phone fall
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by jader201 7d ago
FWIW, I was there from the beginning, and stopped fairly quickly (maybe 20 or so hours in). I hopped back in a couple years later after a few updates, and agree that the quantity of content was pretty big. But the quality was not -- it stil
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by jader201 8d ago
> HN drew me in years ago because it had a higher signal-to-noise ratio, and deeper conversations than you'd find in other places popular with tech nerds. There was an overall culture of technical optimism I feel like people are m
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by jader201 15d ago
Do people on HN actually buy/like Dyson products? My impression is they're actually way overpriced relative to their quality/value, and get away with it due to effective marketing and aesthetic design. To be fair, I've n
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by jader201 19d ago
> I am the customer, not the product dammit. That’s an illusion that died a long time ago, unfortunately. Just because you’re using their service on a browser doesn’t stop them from harvesting data from your usage, especially if you’re
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by jader201 26d ago
> as my understanding is they don't have pilots fly too often From a quick search, I can’t find evidence of this. If anything, pilots are in the air more of their week/lives vs. flight attendants.
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by jader201 26d ago
The CNN article has more info on the study, for those without access to download it: https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/health/flight-attendants-pilo...
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Smartphones, Online Music Streaming, and Traffic Fatalities(jamanetwork.com)
2 points by jader201 26d ago|0 comments
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Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants(cnn.com)
100 points by jader201 26d ago|101 comments
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by jader201 29d ago
For fun/side stuff, handwritten code makes total sense, if you’re burnt out. For anything that makes money, it feels like a huge step down in productivity, even with the downsides of agent-assisted code.
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by jader201 1mo ago
But also don’t give yourself a pass. As you said, everything in moderation. But many people far exceed the level of moderation. I see couples/families often sitting in restaurants on their phones. I see people sitting at intersections
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by jader201 1mo ago
I think you’re missing the point, which is that screen time is (or, the implication is that it is) an unhealthy waste of time. It’s uncontroversial that sleep is necessary and healthy, walking is necessary and/or healthy, working is (m
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by jader201 1mo ago
Dupe from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275746
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by jader201 1mo ago
Probably this: https://airport.apunen.com/
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by jader201 1mo ago
I’m sure Crazy Taxi provides the same benefits! :)
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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's(theconversation.com)
394 points by jader201 1mo ago|285 comments
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by jader201 1mo ago
> Log in to use old Reddit
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by jader201 1mo ago
But you could just be one of thousands of bots targeting the same sources you’re scraping.
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by jader201 1mo ago
I agree with everything you said. I’m simply playing devil’s advocate, because engineers can believe one thing, but until employers believe it, it doesn’t matter much. I’m also not convinced that the reality of LLMs will never catch up wit
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by jader201 1mo ago
Again, unless you’re the employer, then you’re getting paid by someone that cares more about productivity than whether you think LLMs produce incorrect code. All that matters is whether they agree with you. The only control you have over th
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by jader201 1mo ago
> Cooking a steak and then flushing it straight down the toilet outperforms all the slow and tedious business of eating and digesting it, too. That would be more equivalent to writing the code and immediately deleting it. Except this c
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by jader201 1mo ago
> Well there’s a lot of middle ground between “don’t use AI” and “generate everything.” Sure, but again, this assumes both that handwriting code sometimes outperforms LLMs, and also that your employer agrees with this. I think it’s
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by jader201 1mo ago
> But a big yes for still typing code by hand, and not leaving it to the llm. Except it has to be the code generated by your brain. > That is what will create new neurons and new connections, which is what will keep away the cognit
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by jader201 2mo ago
At some point, household robots — once they become mainstream — can do things around the home that you depend on, and if/when they break down, prevent you from being able to work/get to work. Or, if the stress of doing everything
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by jader201 2mo ago
Vehicles, when first invented, were 100% a luxury, not a necessity. They only became a “necessity” once they went mainstream and the world started evolving with vehicles becoming a part of everyday life. I can certainly see the same thing h
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by jader201 2mo ago
Unrealistic physics. I had a ball last more than 10 seconds.
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by jader201 2mo ago
> I clean my solar panels, 7kwh, every monmth or two. This honestly sounds like a non-trivial strike against installing solar panels, especially if they’re installed on tall roofs. I definitely wouldn’t want to have to clean them that of
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by jader201 2mo ago
1. I feel like “trial and error” is often not a great way to solve puzzles. If you can brute force your way to a solution, that’s usually a sign of poor puzzle design. To be clear, I’m not saying whether this one is easy to brute force, jus

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