nickvec

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by nickvec 2mo ago
“Even thinking is often a sneaky way of escaping the existence; rumination isn’t so much about trying to solve your problems, as it is about going elsewhere in your mind to escape anxiety and uncertainty.” Profound insight that really gets
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by nickvec 2mo ago
Why isn’t Fable 5 included on the leaderboard?
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by nickvec 2mo ago
I would imagine it's just a branding/marketing thing so that the product is directly associated by consumers as being within the Gemini ecosystem (and thus Google) from the product name alone. NotebookLM doesn't convey that,
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Uber's robotaxi lobbying effort puts it on a collision course with Waymo(techcrunch.com)
1 points by nickvec 2mo ago|0 comments
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by nickvec 2mo ago
I've managed to get quite a few interviews through LinkedIn jobs, though I'm looking for DevOps roles in particular, which may be an exception to the rule.
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by nickvec 2mo ago
Same. Not sure if they are doing a gradual rollout or what's up.
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by nickvec 2mo ago
Fun idea! Hope it doesn't cost you too much to keep up depending on how much traction this thread gets ;) One small quirk I noticed with the generated short video: for each new slide/photo, there is a very gradual "zoom in&qu
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by nickvec 2mo ago
As mentioned in the article, Waking Up is a great option if you want to get into meditation. Highly recommend reading Sam Harris’ book “Waking Up” as well.
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by nickvec 3mo ago
bogwog is saying that your site/product is obviously vibecoded based off of the frontend
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by nickvec 3mo ago
Curious as to how many tokens are used per second of video.
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by nickvec 3mo ago
Have any other states banned the sale of geolocation data?
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by nickvec 3mo ago
I hope Ciechanowski posts some more in the near future. He has some of the best "how does this work" articles I've come across.
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by nickvec 3mo ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740771
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by nickvec 3mo ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740771
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by nickvec 3mo ago
I feel like "the use of OpenAI models to accelerate parts of the design and optimization process" just means that engineers were using ChatGPT to sanity check their designs and suggest potential optimizations, though that's j
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by nickvec 3mo ago
Naive question: is Claude no good at OCR? Was surprised to see that none of Anthropic's models were included in the benchmark comparisons.
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Shareholders sue Uber's board over sexual assaults, other incidents(techcrunch.com)
4 points by nickvec 3mo ago|0 comments
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by nickvec 3mo ago
The glasses David Gilboa is sporting honestly don’t look that bad. I think putting them in the same “ugly” bucket as Snapchat’s SPECS is a bit of a reach.
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by nickvec 3mo ago
You can do everything right in an interview and still get denied. It is truly a crapshoot in today's job market.
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by nickvec 3mo ago
Fun idea, I've been wanting to create something similar to track which vocab words I have mastered. Two nits: (1) no need for a "check" button as other commenters have noted and (2) the UI jitters a bit when submitting answer
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Lyft, Uber sue New York City to block driver retention law(reuters.com)
4 points by nickvec 3mo ago|1 comments
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by nickvec 3mo ago
Deliberately attacking a purely civilian object violates the principle of distinction, which is bedrock customary law the US has never disputed. > “better than carpet bombing” The lawful alternative is attacking military targets, not wor
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by nickvec 3mo ago
Just guessing, but I assume because it’s arguably off-topic as defined by the HN guidelines. I don’t think it should be flagged, though. “Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evide
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by nickvec 3mo ago
The OP of this thread is referring to humanity at large, not just India. We are all in the fight against climate change together.
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by nickvec 3mo ago
Yeah, in short, don’t support the NYT. Their business practices are predatory and unethical. Use archive.ph to get by paywalls.
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by nickvec 4mo ago
I received the same Alya email. This vibe-coded site was linked. https://mydaughteralya.com/
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by nickvec 4mo ago
Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes (SF or remote) Willing to relocate: Maybe Technologies: Go, Kubernetes (internals, controllers, CRDs, scheduling), distributed systems, Prometheus/M3/Grafana, gRPC/Protobuf, Bazel, Pyth
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by nickvec 4mo ago
If you are looking to see the "true" HN frontpage (i.e. most upvoted posts), I'd recommend using https://hckrnews.com
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by nickvec 4mo ago
“And that part, as I'm learning the hard way, is the part that actually matters.” Anyone else’s slop detector go off on this sentence? Or am I losing it?
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by nickvec 4mo ago
https://archive.ph/v2dwg

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