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by admissionsguy 1y ago
I found the shortened one accurate and also thought provoking
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
Google’s oauth also has a multi-day approval nowadays.
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
Wow, I love the vibe the voting by companies give. Could see this kind of governance expand to other areas.
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
They are making me do it
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
worse, they can be dismissed as an abstract ”ai is dangerous” and used to justify funnelling money to the various ai safety charlatans
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
Had a very similar experience also with regards to deposit not returned. The person never showed up or did anything at all so I had the pleasure of picking the "repossession man" (for lack of a better word, it was in a country wit
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
Every time something like this is said, the author turns out (in this case, obviously is given the yc’s recent investment profile) to be a peddler of AI coding tools.
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Ask HN: Has any of the Pivotal Tracker replacement attempts succeeded?
48 points by admissionsguy 1y ago|41 comments
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
Good, space program run by the government was very wasteful for many decades.. scientific missions were nice but also a bit of extravagant luxury
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
Punitive damages are no-go in Europe given they would mostly result in money transfers from the ruling families to common people.
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
I am assuming this includes manufacturing the evidence?
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
Out of curiosity, what percentage of YC founders just go to the office hours and dinner and not work for the duration of the program? Is this encouraged?
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
Does piracy have negative connotations? I thought everyone thought pirates were cool
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
and how do the effects of these interventions compare with normal variability of the lifespan in normal people?
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
and yet none of that makes even a dent
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
Create a mini-cat shelter. I don't know about growing the money, but you will have a lot of cats.
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
Google denies the outage. https://x.com/Google/status/1933246051512644069
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
Wish there existed a decentralized network connecting computers around the world
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
imo it's easy to distinguish AI emails, grammar errors or not. Monkeys have evolved for hundreds of thousands of years to detect subtleties in the tone and those skills transfer well into the LLM era. Another thing is whether it's
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
Controlled diet + controlled exercise. Freshly prepared daily full-day meals delivery + personal trainer at the gym 2x/week combo is the only thing that ever worked for me. And it worked every time (3 times) in different countries. I
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
fewer*
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
Don't they know AGI soon?
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
> Both claimed they were touring California but later admitted they intended to work yeah...
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
It's not that it's not useful at all, it's that the mismatch between the reality (what you described) and hype ("build full-stack AI companies to outcompete human-first ones") is wilder than anything I have seen in
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
It's noisy, biased, and slow, but it generally does eventually reward what works better, in most cases.
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
> It makes me wonder whether everyone else is kidding themselves, or if I'm just holding it wrong. Have been wondering this ever since 1 week after the initial ChatGPT release. My cynical take is that most people don't do real
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
Most users cannot handle more than two buttons anyway, at least outside of professional tools for power users.
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
I have had AI support agents deflect my questions, but not resolve them. It is more companies ending customer support under the guise of automation than AI obsoleting the support workers.
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
I am not comparing the relative utility of cars and guns, but questioning the claim that the utility of gun ownership is small.
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
> Gun utility: small For you.

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