BenFranklin100

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by BenFranklin100 4mo ago
“Anyone with common sense understands that the nation of the USA is/was a place with a specific culture and genetic makeup” This is genuinely racist. You are a vile human being. Reported.
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by BenFranklin100 4mo ago
Historically then, unless you are a Native American, you are an immigrant. Perhaps it’s time for to GTFO? Is that the message? Hacker News really resembles a MAGA rally at times
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by BenFranklin100 4mo ago
“It was built by Americans and regardless would have continued to be built by Americans.” The xenophobic ignorance of this sentence is breathtaking. America, of all places, is a nation built precisely by immigrants.
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by BenFranklin100 4mo ago
First, I think the H1B does need genuine reform to keep the big companies from gaming the lottery system. Having said that, I’m not sure banning H1Bs or immigrants in general is going to help American workers. Take tech for instance. Many t
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by BenFranklin100 4mo ago
Something similar happened in Boston decades ago when the city decide to build Storrow drive over what was supposed to be parkland donated by Charles Storrow’s widow. Instead, they turned Boston’s riverfront into a ghastly highway. https:&
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by BenFranklin100 4mo ago
Your version is considerably worse, and imo, more verbose. It misses a multitude of subtleties that the author packs into a single phrase, and frankly, doesn’t even come close to saying the same thing. I chalk it up to an American technical
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by BenFranklin100 4mo ago
This line jumped out at me: “In other words, AI is on track to perform at base competence on most tasks in about three years. These researchers believe agents will need another few years to outperform humans” LLMs have shown steady improvem
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by BenFranklin100 4mo ago
Not inherently they don’t.
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by BenFranklin100 4mo ago
Fair points. More broadly, I think this an instance of how AI/Deep Learning is turning over technologies (photos, video, voice communications) we have come to rely upon, and for us to continue to rely upon, they will need to be radical
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by BenFranklin100 4mo ago
This seems to be partly a technological problem. We will soon need secured, authenticated modes of communication that can verify a person’s voice. A similar problem is emerging for photos and videos. We also soon need cryptographically sign
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by BenFranklin100 4mo ago
I believe they can be used offline, at least the last time I used Garmin I was able to set it up such that I could sync it to Golden Cheetah. It took some jumping through hoops and an older watch version to get it work, as I recall. For ser
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by BenFranklin100 4mo ago
I considered an Oura but went with an Apple watch instead. I turned on Advanced Data Protection on the paired iPhone for peace of mind. No other large data providers really provide anything equivalent to ADP’s E2EE protection with zero acce
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by BenFranklin100 4mo ago
Thanks for the reassurances. Love your product.
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by BenFranklin100 5mo ago
The after effects of DOGE has left the NIH in tatters. Staff has been gutted, grants are months and months behind causing research groups and startups to go under. Whatever good Musk has accomplished with SpaceX will be offset by the harm h
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by BenFranklin100 5mo ago
Being new to the idea of using agents to run programs on one’s computer, could someone provide several use cases?
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by BenFranklin100 5mo ago
Growing up in a blue collar family, this smacks of the plumber on the job site complaining the shape of his piping wasn’t pretty enough and demanding extra time and pay to make it pretty for pretty’s sake. Just get it to work reliably the c
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by BenFranklin100 5mo ago
What’s next? Laws banning McDonald’s French Fries?
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by BenFranklin100 5mo ago
You miss my point. The ‘new standard’ will be settled on by various committees each composed of different people with different priorities including maintaining the status quo. It will take years to potentially decades to settle on any tech
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by BenFranklin100 5mo ago
I carry USB-battery pack or my MagSafe battery. At night I use pass through charging. Works just as well.
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by BenFranklin100 5mo ago
With that attitude, we’d still be using D-sub connectors.
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by BenFranklin100 5mo ago
You can’t squeeze blood from a stone as they say. If AI companies go bankrupt there’s no money to be had.
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by BenFranklin100 5mo ago
Sophomoric take more precisely.
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by BenFranklin100 6mo ago
“I’m pretty content to say that North America absolutely mogs the rest of the world in national parks. “ This is exactly what a European friend remarked to me years ago. He thought us Americans were a bit unaware of just how good we had it
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by BenFranklin100 6mo ago
I dealt with sharp edges issue by investing in an Andar leather case. Works just as well. https://www.andar.com/products/the-helm
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by BenFranklin100 6mo ago
The problem is not annoyance. The problem is confusion. One should aim for clarity. FooPilot, Barwonk, etc.. would actually be a vast improvement.
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by BenFranklin100 6mo ago
I’ve been in the startup and scientific community for 25 years now and during that that time I’ve run across about two dozen 30 under 30s. Every single one with exception of two were douchebags. I think a reason it so over represented by do
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by BenFranklin100 6mo ago
I’m surprised no group has hacked the Epstein files, given the extreme interest.
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by BenFranklin100 6mo ago
There’s a lot of truth here, but two countervailing points: first younger generations own homes than Boomers at equivalent ages; second Boomers are particularly blind to the effects of zoning and strongly oppose development due to see first
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by BenFranklin100 6mo ago
It’s going to take a SCOTUS decision overturning Ambler vs Euclid in my opinion. We certainly will not see zoning reform until the Boomers die.
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by BenFranklin100 7mo ago
Please provide me examples where the CEO of a major company threatened to cripple the US economy if his/her demands were not met.

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