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by Sai_ 3y ago
Bruce Ediger must not have kids or his kids must’ve been excellent feeders. Latching is not intuitive to all kids.
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by Sai_ 3y ago
True. I got derailed because the person I replied to and the replies to my comment used to TSP formulation to discuss this. You’re right that the problem space is simply matching available drivers to riders.
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by Sai_ 3y ago
My answer that you are replying to ends with “…with current technology” which contains what you said.
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by Sai_ 3y ago
Ride share companies are surviving so it’s clear that some good enough solutions do exist. There’s a difference between the algorithms ride shares have to use and the heuristic based solution for 85.6k cities. The graph for ride shares is c
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by Sai_ 3y ago
A cab service with unknown, frequently updated nodes where edge weights - driving distance from last drop to next pickup- can vary, would qualify as pretty bad version of TSP. You can come up with a good enough solution but it’s not “solved
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by Sai_ 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem Traveling Salesman is NP-Hard. Don't think it is solvable with current technology.
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The subtle brilliance of Indian UI/UX(medium.com)
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by Sai_ 3y ago
Is that realistic? Even organizing a team lunch for ten involves a lot of customer discovery and tradeoffs and here too, the loudest voices (analogous to committed voters or lobbyists) usually win. Even if the final ratio of representatives
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by Sai_ 3y ago
> represented their constituents How would they know what the views of their constituents are? They'd require either require exhaustive, expensive but representative polling on every topic or wait in call back mode - the constituent
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by Sai_ 3y ago
What does qua mean here?
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by Sai_ 3y ago
I saw one in the Pittsburgh area ca 2014-15. Slow, quiet, but too big to be a glider or Hindenburg style gas balloon. It was freaky.
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by Sai_ 3y ago
I think they're (over)paid they way they are because they have to look at fuzzy data and made tough calls. Is that cancer? Is it benign? Is it the mild version of a disease or is it the virulent form? All this from black and white imag
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by Sai_ 3y ago
> low level doctors (like radiology which is already widely outsourced) Is this true that radiologists are low level doctors? isn't radiology among the top paying specializations in medicine? Looking at fuzzy x-rays and screenings t
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by Sai_ 3y ago
Netflix with decades of experience in streaming and negotiating content deals would have had some incumbency/first mover advantages. It could have led the distribution/streaming industry instead of being just another content/
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by Sai_ 3y ago
When the App Store was launched, most apps had a single backend they connected to. I’m thinking of say the FB app or the Google maps app which only talked to Fb and Google respectively. These payment apps integrate with a much wider arrays
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by Sai_ 3y ago
> That split between production and distribution has to come back. What if Netflix had made and won that argument before 2020 to prevent production companies from also streaming content? I think Netflix missed a trick here.
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The Ignobel Awards of Startup/Hustle Advice(s-a-i.medium.com)
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Tell HN: Looks like GPT-4 has been updated with 2023 data
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by Sai_ 3y ago
India has payment apps which are going the way of super apps by allowing you to 1. Make p2p payments 2. Pay utility bills 3. Pay credit card charges 4. Buy insurance 5. Get loans 6. Make charitable donations 7. Book travel tickets 8. Find n
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by Sai_ 3y ago
I have an alternative theory for this. Once Elon was forced by the DE court to buy Twitter, he went to autocrats and dictators with money and told them he'd burn Twitter to the ground on their behalf for 44B. No Twitter, no Arab Spring
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What’s your type? Try these tests to pick the perfect font for you(washingtonpost.com)
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by Sai_ 3y ago
This is unnecessarily combative though it’s also probable I’m reading too much into this since I’m one of those swervers - from cloud computing guru to AI aficionado. Personally, my mental bent is towards tinkering - I like wiring things up
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by Sai_ 3y ago
How is it pedantic? The framing is fully wrong. We can't eliminate murders but do we say the optimal amount of murders is non-zero? Instead, the right framing is "we live with some numbers of murders in aggregate because eliminati
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by Sai_ 3y ago
Muck Fusk.
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by Sai_ 3y ago
Yeah, that’s always a risk. And not just that - if you only share your pihole’s IP with a small group of friends, do you really want to know when they ask your pihole to resolve some shady url?
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by Sai_ 3y ago
The trade offs happen but they aren’t the reason to say “the optimal amount of fraud is non zero”. The correct framing is “since we accept some fraud, the optimal amount of fraud must be non-zero”. As written, it sounds like society can onl
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by Sai_ 3y ago
> don’t disagree with him You should (re)read my comparison of Patio11’s framing of our acceptance some amount of fraud with our acceptance of some amount of animal remains in coffee. It couldn’t be more obvious that I don’t agree with h
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by Sai_ 3y ago
The tradeoffs are not unproven but the soundbite suggests that the tradeoffs are a necessary precondition. That's the crux of my issue with the soundbite.
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by Sai_ 3y ago
The law of diminishing returns is not natural law - it is just an observation of something that happens in practice but not always. E.g., people often choose to spend time and treasure treating an incurable cancer or send the Coast Guard to
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by Sai_ 3y ago
Think the reference is to the claims and counterclaims to Palestinian lands which go back thousands of years.

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