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by quietthrow 1mo ago
Amazing. Also super interesting to see that when you filter for high speed rail it’s basically Japan, China and Europe. America (north and south), Africa - basically the rest of the world is in dark ages
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by quietthrow 2mo ago
At the end of the day leadership matters in corporate settings (or for a country for that matter). The person at the helm sets the tone for the culture - what’s acceptable what’s not etc. how to go about achieving a goal. Objectively speaki
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by quietthrow 3mo ago
This seems great - one question (ideally for Alan stapleberg) why is this not available for everyone? Seems like this is only applicable to the EU? Genuine question - Why would other governments not want this for their people ? I am sure t
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by quietthrow 3mo ago
It’s that self interest is what got them to meta in the first place. These people are highly skilled and smart at what they do. They worked probably extremely hard for a large swath of their life to get where they are with meta. It’s one of
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by quietthrow 3mo ago
It’s implied in someways I would say. that’s why these folks creating any meaningful leverage is a black swan event. Say all of them walk away and meta can get a million new people it’s still a massive risk for the meta (entity) as they ma
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by quietthrow 3mo ago
The way I look at it is this: There is an entity that provides product/service and makes money. A lot of money. Like mind boggling sums of money. That entity has made a deal with a set of humans to give some of that money (which for th
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by quietthrow 4mo ago
Apple makes unbelievably good hardware and software that just lasts and just works. Until it’s 7 years old. After that you essentially have to chuck it as you don’t get any updates from Apple and slowly you descend into incompatibility unle
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by quietthrow 5mo ago
This. I have written so much software recently to make my computer my own. It’s been so much fun to be able to borrow the the ideas from different tools I have used (eg vim modal behaviours etc ) and also bring them together with some comp
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by quietthrow 7mo ago
Genuine curiosity: if you are gifted with a certain “wiring” (genes, brain chemistry etc) why is that considered an accomplishment? Also - We, as a society, tend to celebrate people with “natural didn’t really need to work for” type gifts
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by quietthrow 8mo ago
Curious how this impact air pollution? My understanding is that the largest contributor of air pollution in cities is vehicles. And if predominantly the vehicles are cars and 2 wheelers and of that the higher percentage is 2 wheelers and if
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by quietthrow 10mo ago
Well said.
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by quietthrow 11mo ago
Well the whole thing is damned if the point can’t make it across right.
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by quietthrow 11mo ago
Dude - use a LLM. Make it coherent and try again. You owe it to your idea
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by quietthrow 1y ago
Because that’s what is configured as the “default” page to show when somebody goes straight to archive.ph. When you go to archive.ph/someurl the server then serves you a page that corresponds to that url (someurl in this example). When
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by quietthrow 1y ago
Genuine question: 1) I am surprised there is no mention of trading it back to apple? 2) I am sure putting a decent “churn” schedule for apple devices is already been done right? Top of my head I can imagine coming up with one where for of t
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by quietthrow 1y ago
Aren’t prisons a business run by corporations? And I could be wrong but I recall reading somewhere a while ago that 1 or 2 companies run most of the prisons in USA. As such they probably have no need / incentives driven by market force
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by quietthrow 1y ago
This. To me if you are still unprofitable after 15 years you are not really a business. However genuinely curious about the thesis applied by the VC’s/Funds that invest in such a late stage round? Is it simply they are taking a chance
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Ask HN: How to ask questions to LLMs privately?
2 points by quietthrow 1y ago|4 comments
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by quietthrow 1y ago
I agree with all that you say. It’s an incredible time indeed. Just one thing I can’t wrap my mind around is privacy. We all seem to be asking sometimes stupid and some times incredibly personal questions to these llms. Questions that we m
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Ask HN: How commonly is PIP deployed for non performance reasons in FANGs
4 points by quietthrow 1y ago|6 comments
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by quietthrow 1y ago
Genuine question: If CA is mostly getting its energy from Solar why is my energy bill so high especially during winters? Or does solar energy while clean does not necessarily mean cheap?
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by quietthrow 1y ago
What’s the name of the book? Can’t just leave that hanging !
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by quietthrow 2y ago
Interesting observation: I am in a circumstance where I am transitioning from an Android phone (Samsung Galaxy) to a iPhone. I observed that android phone alerted me about an earthquake and that I should be ready to feel tremors. To my surp
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by quietthrow 2y ago
Well said. "Youth is wasted on the young"
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by quietthrow 2y ago
> So why are we babying students by incessant confiscation and phone cubby nonsense? Because your prefontal cortext does not fully grow till you are in your early 20s. A 17 years olds brain is very different from that off a 22 year old.
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by quietthrow 2y ago
Genuine question: why does being productive matter on a off day? Isn't an off day ones body's way of telling that it's need something else not what the mind conjures up randomly or something that is instilled in the subconsci
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by quietthrow 2y ago
Just know somebodys hero is another persons zero or villan ;) Having saud that I understand its not a competition.
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by quietthrow 2y ago
This is very close how most are there. There are those who need a paycheck and keep the job but on balance lot of the ones there have drunk the coolaid.
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by quietthrow 3y ago
Can you share more about your career shift. What you did before and what you do now. And why the shift was triggered by closedAI 5?
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Ask HN: Diff Between Android vs. iOS App Permissions
2 points by quietthrow 3y ago|1 comments

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