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by mind-blight 2mo ago
Election prediction is an interesting one. The first digital prediction market on the US was election only, and it has a $500 cap. It was run by a university and had a limited scope, but it still be a surprising amount. It did a better job
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by mind-blight 2mo ago
I don't like prediction markets, but I think a lot of people in this thread are assuming that gambling vs. not is clear cut. Insurance was illegal at different times in history because it was considered gambling. Ditto for commodity tr
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by mind-blight 2mo ago
The point is that it's a direct response to Forbes list of richest individuals. It's the same format, but arguing that measuring how much someone earned is a bad metric
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by mind-blight 2mo ago
While there's some truth to this, the early investments in Palantir and Facebook from In-Q-Tel were tiny. For Palantir, the contracts with a single government agency were far more capital than the investment.
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by mind-blight 5mo ago
The vacuum pressure is real. Using a system with the skip locked technique + polling caused massive DB perf issues as the queue depth grew. The query to see the current jobs in the queue ended up being the main performance bottleneck, which
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by mind-blight 5mo ago
Because it's Afrika Bambaataa. He invented entirely new techniques for making music - which is already enough for him to be relevant here - that influences what many of us listen to daily.
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by mind-blight 9mo ago
I think a big piece missing from these conversations is compliance frameworks and customer trust. Of your selling to enterprise customers or governments, they want to go through your stack, networking, security, audit logs, and access contr
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by mind-blight 10mo ago
It's night and day. It's also about access. The labs in legal states usually just test for more things. For a while, it was one or two labs plus a Cole extraction companies that were pushing the testing boundaries. Then, relation
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by mind-blight 10mo ago
This is a weird one. It absolutely should not be haphazardly added as a rider. The 0.4 per container is also insane. But, this really was an unintended loophole of the 2018 farm bill. Most plants grow THCa, which turns into Delta-9 when h
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by mind-blight 11mo ago
So their team is anonymous. While I understand the desire for that, trust is built through transparency. It's really hard to convince someone who's job, career, it potentially even life is at risk to trust random strangers on the
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by mind-blight 11mo ago
Ah, that's a shame they went that way. What I tell people when they're first getting into GCP is that it's gonna be a passion to set up what you want. But, the offerings are great, and once it's working, it'll just
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by mind-blight 11mo ago
Oh interesting - I haven't been on their starting page in years. I'm surprised getting started with vite isn't higher up. That takes 5 minutes and doesn't require a full framework. That said, starting with react router o
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by mind-blight 11mo ago
I'm gonna be honest, I've been developing with react for about 9 years across a lot of projects and companies. I've never used next. Maybe I'm out of touch, but I don't understand why people think it's so tight
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by mind-blight 1y ago
One issue we're running into at my job: we're struggling to find entry-level candidates who aren't lying about what they know by using an LLM. For the tech side, we've reduced behavioral questions and created an intervi
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by mind-blight 1y ago
This comment makes no sense. They're actively open sourcing the patent and trying to get it upstream into Postgres. They purchased another company to get this patent, and they're spending a lot of money on lawyers to figure out ho
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by mind-blight 1y ago
Yeah, huge props here. There's a contingent on HN that seems to assume that almost any action by a company is done in bad faith. I dislike all of the shady stuff that happens, but that's why we should celebrate when companies are
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by mind-blight 1y ago
It really depends on what your use case is. E.g. of you're dealing with a lot of legacy integrations, dealing with all the edge cases can require a lot of code that you can't refactor away through cleverness. Each integration is h
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by mind-blight 1y ago
I'm not even considering the coding use case. It's been fine in cursor. I care about the days extraction and basic instruction following in my application - coding ability doesn't come into play. For example, I want the model
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by mind-blight 1y ago
GPT-5 is a bit better -particularly around consistency - and a fair amount cheaper. For all of my use cases, that's a huge win. Products using AI powered days processing (a lot of what I use it for) don't need mind blowing new fea
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by mind-blight 1y ago
Super smart move. I hadn't heard of you folks before, but I'm interested in your product - open source and repairability are high on my list for home monitors. I'm lying in bed awake right now sir to an air quality issue, so
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by mind-blight 1y ago
Because those other companies actively violated agreements they made with the government in the 2000 to offer those services for free. They regularly tricked people into paying and lost a class action lawsuit over it. It's also weird t
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by mind-blight 1y ago
Sure, avoiding processing is just a heuristic. I just have trouble faulting people when it send to be a good one for maintaining a healthy diet. I don't know much about Beyond Meat's specific processes. I wanted to like their burg
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by mind-blight 1y ago
I honestly want to know why you think trying to consume foods that have been through fewer processing steps is equivalent to rejecting medicine. Those are absurd comparisons to me. If I have a medical issue, the risks often outweigh the rew
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by mind-blight 1y ago
Can't agree enough. I just don't think that beyond meat is good. I'm a meat eater who grew up vegetarian and still enjoy eating vegetarian food. A well done black bean burger (my favorite blend is with quinoa) is delicious. I
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by mind-blight 1y ago
Cool, we have a semantics issue. Processing can mean "any change to a food item" such as chopping, cooking, etc. In these kinds of conversations, it's often used as "significant alterations that are not possible or commo
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by mind-blight 1y ago
Using the amount of processing - particularly processing that hasn't been studied - as a heuristic for health vs. unhealthy is pretty reasonable. We have lots of examples over the last 70 years of companies claiming a new processed foo
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by mind-blight 1y ago
Nice! I'm using DBOS and am a little active on the discord. I was just wondering how y'all handled this under the hood. Glad to hear I don't have to worry much about this issue
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by mind-blight 1y ago
I actually tried to use this pattern to make an audio controller interface much nicer. If you get a long enough queue, you'll start to run into errors (I'm forgetting the exact message, but it was similar to a maximum recursion de
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by mind-blight 1y ago
Obsidian is just a very convenient markdown editor. You could rip and replace it with another editor trivially. You just don't get the convenient UI
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by mind-blight 1y ago
I know someone who works for a university in event planning. They were putting together an event for a civil rights icon. Because of the new policies, they were forced to go through all of the brochures and pamphlets and censor any use of w

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