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by overflow897 2mo ago
Gathering forecasts for each leg of a trip only on the particular days for the particular location is tedious. Anyone can do it with google weather but why spend the time when you don't have to. I can keep track of my expenses on a nap
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by overflow897 2mo ago
This is so definitely not true in many many cases. The best pizza shops in NYC for decades have been quaint, basic and often messy spaces. The ones with the nice menus and overdone decor were often subpar and would fail. This also applies t
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by overflow897 3mo ago
For now. When they cost 5x less and are of comparable quality that may change very quickly. Cost cutting applies everywhere.
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by overflow897 4mo ago
Arguing that a 100km bike ride is not an edge case seems disingenuous. Most people could not complete a 3-6hr bike ride without weeks of training and my guess is most people on hacker news probably live fairly sedentary lives. "Added s
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by overflow897 10mo ago
If/when the AI music gets good enough, how will you know the difference? I find small artists on spotify all the time that I enjoy and there's no way to know anything about their creative process.
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by overflow897 10mo ago
And how is the quality of life for those factory workers? It's almost like the craft of making physical things has been devalued even if we're making more physical things than ever.
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by overflow897 10mo ago
I will happily let the internet fingerprint my browser to not have to go back to mailing checks. I am guessing this is true of most non-HN people.
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by overflow897 10mo ago
Most grocery stores in every place I have lived have security cameras so that if you did something illegal you'd be identified very quickly. At this point this is even true of small bodegas. Also scammers can't waltz into my groce
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by overflow897 1y ago
There are very very few places in nyc not accessible via some combo of bus, metro and ferry. It's not as reliable as say Japan but the public transit network is pretty extensive.
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by overflow897 1y ago
I think the AI advice is pretty important. You say you should understand and question everything the lawyers do but where do you even start without an AI to read and explain thousands of pages of contracts and legal process. Nevermind all t
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by overflow897 1y ago
At the rate they're going it'll just get cheaper. The cost per token continues to drop while the models get better. Hardware is also getting more specialized. Maybe the current batch of startups will run out of money but the techn
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by overflow897 1y ago
I think articles like this have the big assumption under them that we are going to plateau with progress. If that assumption is true, then sure. But if it's false, there's no saying you can't eventually have an ai model that
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by overflow897 1y ago
There are parts of this I agree with and parts I do not. Being able to "talk" to documentation rather than dig through it to try to understand a concept feels like a way more efficient way to get to the same end. I think digging t
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by overflow897 1y ago
I believe we're already using llms to evaluate llm output for training, I wonder if there's some variation of that which could be used to identify when one llm gets "stuck". I guess chain of thought in theory should do t
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by overflow897 1y ago
Genuine question but did folks feel poor during the heyday of the middle class? It seems like there was a period post-ww2 where you could make a living wage and still buy a house and sends your kids to college. I'm not sure what the an
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by overflow897 2y ago
I think the problem is suggest that an earthquake zone's fire problems would be solved by building houses like they do in a non-earthquake zone
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by overflow897 2y ago
"cooling a living space is always more costly than heating a living space" Man I wish this was true but it definitely isn't in anyplace that gets significantly cold. Heat pumps are super super efficient at cooling but they ge
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by overflow897 3y ago
AlphaGo and AlphaStar both started out based on human training and then played against versions of themselves to go on and create new strategies in their games. Modern LLMs can't learn/experiment as far as I know in exactly the sa
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by overflow897 3y ago
Software update broke the (already very bad) fingerprint scanner on my 6a a few updates ago and no fix in sight. It feels like they're just focused on churning out devices and the quality has suffered tremendously. It's death by a
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by overflow897 3y ago
"Ship faster, do less, faster, faster, faster. To what end?" You're on hacker news, which is pretty heavily focused on startups. Startups usually have a limited runway, wherein if they don't deliver they cease to exist.
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by overflow897 5y ago
Evernote is pretty much ruined for me because of this. From a lovely, snappy native app to an electron monstrosity that's slow and barely usable. Lucky for them their only competitor is Notion, another slow js app.
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by overflow897 5y ago
I think people should be generally excited by the prospect of resolving long term psychological issues with just a few doses.
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by overflow897 7y ago
"Person X reported a vulnerability, they must be a hacker! Get our lawyers" - Some non-technical bank person. Most companies don't like having their mistakes publicly exposed.
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by overflow897 7y ago
There are studies that show even moderate alcohol usage can have a damaging effect. And any amount of alcohol has been shown to raise risk of cancer. https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2353 The consensus is slow
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by overflow897 7y ago
Are you implying that if you don't want or don't enjoy having children, you have mental health issues?
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by overflow897 7y ago
If the premise is "parenting is great and you should do it", it should include the caveat "if you're a tech millionaire". I can't help but wonder how far removed pg's experience of parenting is from those