mikeortman

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Show HN: The Epstein Library(epsteinlibrary.com)
4 points by mikeortman 9mo ago|2 comments
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by mikeortman 10mo ago
Its available for me now in gemini.google.com.... but its failing so bad at accurate audio transcription. Its transcribing the meeting but hallucinates badly... both in fast and thinking mode. Fast mode only transcribed about a fifth of the
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by mikeortman 1y ago
I think technically they can. It’s because they’re downgrading them to a free service. I’m going to venture to say that it’s a money grab on a previously generous gift by slack.
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by mikeortman 1y ago
Apple claiming that Liquid Glass is a technique only Apple can achieve, will be replicated, or at least indistinguishably replicated, in pure CSS... within 48 hours of today, out of spite
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by mikeortman 1y ago
Just the absence of a license generally means the creator has all right reserved by default. You don’t need a license in every file because in much of the world copyright is given by default to the creator. A licensed file is permission to
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by mikeortman 2y ago
Just be careful! In SOME jurisdictions, you can get in trouble for 'stealing' if you take back something that was stolen. Possession vs Ownership are 2 different things. For instance, the thief may have stolen something, sold it t
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by mikeortman 2y ago
Artificially aiming to increase natural attrition through requiring employees to make like-altering decisions (or else) is evil. At the bare minimum, it should be seen as a layoff.
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by mikeortman 2y ago
It's wild to nitpick the licensing like this. I get why its conter-intuitive and in violation of Github's guidelines, but it's winamp, folk. It has no intrinsic value these days to update or fork outside of giving people the
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by mikeortman 2y ago
Comments are disabled or moderated. I tried as well.
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by mikeortman 2y ago
You didn't provide details, you provided a defense, which is weak at best.
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by mikeortman 2y ago
This checkbox will absolutely not look good in front of a jury. It's petty at best.
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by mikeortman 2y ago
I feel like we are living in an episode of the Simpsons at this point
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by mikeortman 2y ago
I'm glad we are starting to lean into cloud-agnostic or building back the on-prem/dedicated systems again.
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by mikeortman 2y ago
I think the very concept of this is to open source a common stack, instead of relying on a middleman like Porter, which also costs a TON of money at business tier
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by mikeortman 2y ago
It baffles me why people would be so unnecessarily critical on someone's project they are showing off in a show-and-tell fashion. It's a neat project with value.
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by mikeortman 2y ago
I'm fairly sure weather.gov's api doesn't have an SLA of any kind. I highly recommend going through the push vs polling approach if possible and store the data as it comes in live in your own DB. AWS Open Data + MADIS are goo
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by mikeortman 2y ago
Yeah, they did... but being blunt, IBM had 8 years to do a lot of damage. Not speaking of the engineers or the tech behind it, I'm talking about escalating the ad revenue and general junk on their website. MOST of the page load time on
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by mikeortman 2y ago
https://www.weewx.com
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by mikeortman 2y ago
It's hard to get accurate numbers as many weather sites are privately held. But to give some info: Weather Company was sold for $2B to IBM in 2015 (and recently sold to private equity for undisclosed amount). Tomorrow.IO has a $1B+ val
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by mikeortman 2y ago
Hi, hobbyist here! This is a huge area where government meteorologists and "Big Weather" differ and you can help close that gap! For context: The governments of the world provides these big weather companies (weather.com (cough IB
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by mikeortman 3y ago
This speaks on long term outlooks at synoptic scale, we really should put some energy on researching mesoscale long term outlooks, or even 4 hour short term. It's a difficult problem to solve as the variables are quite complex, but the
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by mikeortman 3y ago
Apple's response, in a nutshell: - A weird callout to the nationality of the company right out of the gate - Spotify will be nothing without us (insert crazy ex memes) - "Our engineering helps ensure that Spotify’s apps can work s
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by mikeortman 3y ago
Its verryyyy clear that Google rushed these models. They have a fiscal obligation to try and stay ahead of the curve and make as much money as possible on these investments. The CEO isn't honestly mad that the model is racist, he'
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by mikeortman 3y ago
The dataset IS free to download, but running a query against it on Google Cloudis what costs $$$. BigQuery is basically renting servers to scan through the data, which is the fee
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by mikeortman 3y ago
That... is not how lenses work, right? They are showing a totally flat glass surface that close to your eyes? I can't imagine your eyes going to be able to focus on the entire width of your FoV of text and images of that size... withou
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by mikeortman 3y ago
This has sooo much promise, I can't describe how excited I am and will definitely be contributing if I can. This would make it easy to implement a fancy optimizer. Each component tends to have certain acceptable thresholds for their de
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by mikeortman 3y ago
This was the biggest win for me. One time asked ChatGPT if it could "write python to convert a docx to pdf using any python package of your choosing" and its response was a paragraph telling me doing so is difficult, followed by a
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by mikeortman 3y ago
It blows my mind that many people worked there, only 8% of Microsoft Gaming?
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by mikeortman 3y ago
because its a PR piece :) PR for the public, defense for the courts
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by mikeortman 3y ago
I have a hunch a lot of companies that layoff in December are also motivated by the bonus structure. Many companies structure their bonus pay around the new year in line with their fiscal calendar, either paying at the beginning of the year

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