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by _jab 3y ago
Care to elaborate? I know I'd been making the same assumption about American universities - Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, and Stanford do seem to represent a good share of the world's best universities.
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by _jab 3y ago
I mean, is he wrong? Genuinely the only other application I’ve seen which seems plausible is for use in places like Venezuela where the official currency is worthless.
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by _jab 3y ago
Something that might not be obvious to onlookers is the extent to which these problems are concentrated in only Downtown SF. Though the situation downtown is undoubtedly bleak, many other neighborhoods in SF have been surprisingly lively la
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by _jab 3y ago
Here's the data for the Bay Area from 2020 - which was considered a particularly bad year for wildfire smoke, and is also the most recent year it's caused particular problems here. Peak levels were only around 200, although it was
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by _jab 3y ago
Uh, that's clearly an outlier. None of the other dozens of sensors around it are registering anything higher than 42.
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by _jab 3y ago
There's probably some truth to the idea that other places have exported their homelessness problems to San Francisco, but I think you're overblowing it here. Homelessness is a really complicated problem that I doubt has simple cau
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by _jab 3y ago
I'd been of the impression that corporate home ownership is mostly surging in places like the South and Sun Belt, where housing prices themselves are surging. Housing prices in California have been pretty stagnant since Covid, at least
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by _jab 3y ago
I mean, would you want HN to be completely overrun by bots?
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by _jab 3y ago
High accuracy is not vital for all applications. I’d offer code completion bots as a perhaps familiar example of LLMs delivering meaningful value today.
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by _jab 3y ago
I understand the sentiment, and I definitely think there are appropriate comparisons to be made to past hype waves like crypto and even AVs, but the fact that so many normal people use ChatGPT and find it not only interesting but also, crit
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by _jab 3y ago
How many people, I wonder, criticize this user's actions as pedantic, and yet themselves regularly make use of and appreciate code formatters like Black, Prettier, or yapf? It's the exact same problem.
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by _jab 3y ago
Seems like this is an unfortunate consequence of data collection being opt-out, not opt-in.
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by _jab 3y ago
The New York Times' style guide is starting to look pretty dated. This has gotta be the first time I've seen "L.L.M." as opposed to just "LLM".
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by _jab 4y ago
> I assumed it was scaremongering after seeing comments saying that theft was legal in SF up until the $300 point (the number might be incorrect, can't remember exactly) but then saw some articles popping up saying lots of big franc
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by _jab 4y ago
Yup, exactly the same experience here. It feels like there's been a recent wave of SEO-optimized websites that consistently pop up when I google specific errors, but rarely have literally anything of substance.
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by _jab 4y ago
Interesting - haven't heard of Kagi before but I looked them up and I can definitely see how a subscription-funded search engine leads to a better incentive structure. But can you provide qualitative examples of how your experience has
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by _jab 4y ago
Why are people hating on Gates these days? The others all spent their wealth on occasionally bizarre self-indulgent passion projects; Gates went into philanthropy. I know the man isn’t perfect but surely he’s a tier above those other three.
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by _jab 4y ago
This argument, that it’s the trans community that is intolerant and not those who don’t fully accept trans gender identities as legitimate, is simplistic and in bad faith. The problem is that a lack of genuine acceptance of trans identities
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by _jab 4y ago
What a bizarre article. "We've successfully convinced Meta we are not their competitors and have been dropped from their antitrust lawsuit - oh by the way here are all the ways we're so much better than this company we'r
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by _jab 4y ago
It’s also a sign there’s not sufficient supply of it. Hence that America as a whole sucks at mass transit.
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by _jab 4y ago
I'm confused about why this matters. From anecdotal experience, Nvidia seems to be struggling to meet demand for its products right now anyways. It's hard to tell, but I assume that even if crypto took a major hit, Nvidia could st
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by _jab 5y ago
Anyone else finding that clicking on this link overrides their browser's "back" button? It's just grayed out after clicking on the link. Might well be browser-specifc - I'm on Firefox. I'm skeptical FB is so sk
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by _jab 5y ago
Reminds me of a pistol class I once took. The instructor said he didn't believe in using the physical safety, because people tended to use it as a crutch to ignore other safety measures.
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Are Apple AirTags Being Used to Track People and Steal Cars?(nytimes.com)
14 points by _jab 5y ago|6 comments
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by _jab 5y ago
1 is almost certainly false. She's been fairly involved with TIME magazine for at least two months.
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by _jab 5y ago
I'm gonna at least offer the possibility that this story doesn't have much to do with NFTs at all. Rather, it's just the story of a young BIPOC artist whose art and story are resonating people. After all, she has gotten a lot
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by _jab 5y ago
The claim seems to be that the game will attract people who don't view the game as an income stream, but rather just as a game. They pay the entry fee, and then may also buy assets from other players, thus funding the play-to-earners.