MinimalAction

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by MinimalAction 10mo ago
I feel things like these should be illegal. There must be other genuine ways to verify the end user.
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by MinimalAction 10mo ago
Kudos! That could be something really useful. I would have loved to see a demo without creating an account.
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by MinimalAction 10mo ago
Agreed. At the level of companies, it is hard to find any practical solution. Personally, I am trying to do what I can.
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by MinimalAction 10mo ago
I have heard this ever so often that kids (read society) will figure it out and this-is-all-part-of-the-evolution song. Not to be a pessimistic parade on this outlook, but this attitude is not helpful at all. It feels as if the burden of pr
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by MinimalAction 10mo ago
This might be obvious but I think the only way forwards is to disengage in services offered by these mega-tech companies. Degoogling has become popular enough to foster open communities that prioritize their time and effort to keep software
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by MinimalAction 10mo ago
Happy Thanksgiving! This is the only site that passes my threshold for signal-to-noise ratio. I genuinely learn from discussions here. It humbles me to be on the same webpage as some of the most knowledgeable, ambitious, thoughtful folks ac
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by MinimalAction 11mo ago
My whole point was that we can't be sure the machine gives you right answer especially in research where much of it is uncharted territories. There aren't many ways to interpret and I clarified what I meant. Thanks for participati
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by MinimalAction 11mo ago
> For one, I can't even understand this part: Let me explain. My belief was that research as a task is non-trivial and would have been relatively out of reach for AI. Given the advances, that doesn't seem to be true. > And t
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by MinimalAction 11mo ago
I'm increasingly seeing this trend towards bimodal distribution. I suppose that future is quite far off, but the change to that may almost be irreversible.
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by MinimalAction 11mo ago
HN tends to be very weird around the topic of AI. No idea why opinions like this are downvoted without having to offer any criticism.
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by MinimalAction 11mo ago
I don't know how Google Photos stores the photos. Unless you have a backup, it is hard to see if this is a change at the level of files, or that Google Photos has a unique way of storing them that introduces changes to HDR-enabled file
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by MinimalAction 11mo ago
I remember reading this issue on Reddit. Some folks fixed it by installing an older version of Google Photos. I assume you have already tried the usual (deleting cache, reinstalling the app, restarting the phone, checking on the cloud throu
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by MinimalAction 11mo ago
> So is this a PhD-level intelligence? In some ways, yes, if you define a PhD level intelligence as doing the work of a competent grad student at a research university. But it also had some of the weaknesses of a grad student. As a cur
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by MinimalAction 11mo ago
Yes, I never understand this obsession for centralized services like Cloudflare. To be fair though, if our tiny blogs anyway had a hundred or so visitors monthly, does it matter if it had an outage for a day?
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Warren Buffet's farewell letter [pdf](berkshirehathaway.com)
31 points by MinimalAction 11mo ago|2 comments
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by MinimalAction 11mo ago
I can see how it is useful: for some people, reading and writing emails is a dreadful activity. But it is also an important facet of every human activity -- communication. So, it better be intentional and clear. I have turned off all smart
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by MinimalAction 11mo ago
I appreciate this thinking. This gives me the vibes of "let me draw, paint, sing for fun, while AI takes care of my chores". I agree with that, but I can’t help but wonder if the agent ever considers whether things you enjoy shoul
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by MinimalAction 11mo ago
Update 2: The site is back without testimonials.
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by MinimalAction 11mo ago
Do we need an agent? I get the point of this post: have fun building one because it's easy. But every time I see one of these takes, I keep wondering why do we encourage a tool that would potentially replace us. Why help it build bet
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by MinimalAction 11mo ago
Update (11:30 ET, Nov 5): This link redirects to a service outage -- https://www.irs.gov/static/maintenance/RUP_Outage.html .
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by MinimalAction 11mo ago
I just looked up https://directfile.irs.gov/ . While it says closed, the testimonies on this site speak to how easy the filing was. Almost feels like it is intentional to keep rest of the site as is with a small banner on to
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by MinimalAction 11mo ago
Wow! Had no idea. I wonder how do they monitor if they use these for setting up an account for some offers.
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Best practices for text-focused websites (2020)(seirdy.one)
4 points by MinimalAction 1y ago|0 comments
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by MinimalAction 1y ago
I use Brave and it's the premium experience already.
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by MinimalAction 1y ago
YouTube is a marvelous platform. I know how to live life, thanks to the innumerable passionate souls that produced relevant content and put their voice out there. This library of videos never fails to amaze me on how many weird, fun, inform
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by MinimalAction 1y ago
Google launched a new tool for finding flights: https://www.google.com/travel/flights/deals . More details at: https://blog.google/products/search/google-flights-ai-flight... .
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by MinimalAction 1y ago
While I mostly agree with you that it is counterintuitive to have mobile costlier than laptop, this year's Pixel Pro models have 16GB RAM. That is better than most entry level laptops on the market right now.
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by MinimalAction 1y ago
This seems like the non-Substack link: https://press.asimov.com/articles/cell-weight .
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by MinimalAction 1y ago
Air travel is a mixed bag. Inflight entertainment systems, free Wi-Fi (for at least messaging), better airports etc. try to reduce the hassle the system has introduced over the years. But also, the number of personal flights that are delaye
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by MinimalAction 1y ago
Pretty much spot on! It is frustrating to talk with these when they never admit they are wrong. They find new levels of abstractions to deal with your simpler counterarguments and it is a never ending deal unless you admit they were right.

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