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by alister 3y ago
I can confirm that this is absolutely true for LATAM Airlines. Booking a Brazilian flight (origin and destination within Brazil) is cheaper on LATAM's Brazilian portal than on LATAM's USA portal whenever I've compared them. Y
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by alister 3y ago
> Forget about maximizing points for your personal bookings. I agree that trying to maximize points to gain free travel is often not worth it for non-business travelers, but sticking as much as possible with one airline to gain a highe
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by alister 3y ago
> But then you start trying to get actual work done, and the Fisher Priced interface is too simplified. That's exactly my thinking as well. To give another example: This week I tried to use an iPad and an Apple Pencil for day-to-d
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by alister 3y ago
It sounds like it was inspired by the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series of books[1] from the '70s and '80s, but digital. I've wondered why this style of storytelling is not more popular, especially since a digital
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OpenAI sued for defamation: ChatGPT fabricates accusations against radio host(theverge.com)
2 points by alister 3y ago|0 comments
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Curated list for LLMs: papers, training frameworks, tools to deploy, public APIs(github.com)
2 points by alister 3y ago|0 comments
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The A.I. Dilemma: presentation from private San Fran gathering on March 9, 2023(youtube.com)
4 points by alister 3y ago|1 comments
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Warning of AI’s danger, pioneer Geoffrey Hinton quits Google to speak freely(arstechnica.com)
4 points by alister 3y ago|0 comments
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by alister 3y ago
I asked “what country are you in?”, and the reply was “just remember that I won’t answer any factual questions”. That’s seems enough to identify any bot. Of course, it doesn’t rule out humans pretending to be bots. EDIT: Well I retract my o
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by alister 4y ago
> I often wonder why the national companies haven't managed to widely export these or produce them elsewhere The reverse is true as well. Some popular soft drinks in the USA are unknown in Brazil -- such as root beer, Dr Pepper, a
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by alister 4y ago
> Using Apple devices without being signed in iCloud? Does anyone do this? I don't have an answer to the specific problem you had, but I wanted to say that, yes, I've been using multiple Apple devices for years without ever s
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by alister 4y ago
> Or how 536 was the worst year on record Although I didn't listen to the 11 minute podcast, I was curious to know basically what it was about. This is what Wikipedia says about year 536: "In 2018, medieval scholar Michael Mc
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by alister 4y ago
> Curiously enough, looking at the numbers now, I realize that the base speed of the LARC was only 20x the Elliott 903C, though with floating point, etc.—a factor that pales in comparison with the 500x speedup in computers in the 40 yea
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by alister 4y ago
The Summarizer uses extra knowledge beyond what's given by the URL you submit. I tried giving it a link to a synopsis of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" from IMDB. I then copied and pasted the synopsis into a pastebin online con
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by alister 4y ago
But it's an interesting question that probably a bunch of us would like to know the answer to, so posting it seems reasonable to me. (Granted, one person could email to ask and then do a "Tell HN".)
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by alister 4y ago
> At the very minimum, small room without echo Why small room? Does that reduce echo? In theory, would a gigantic room that was miles to the nearest wall be even better?
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by alister 4y ago
> surprisingly many people will not make any adjustments at all when you say "Please, if you speak more slowly I can understand" I've seen this too, so many times. If I'm speaking to someone who has trouble with Eng
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by alister 4y ago
> applying Brazilian taxes on top, the final figures were still around 40% lower than what they were charging So taxes are only part of the explantion. Who do you suppose is responsible for the rest of the much higher prices? Are Sony
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by alister 4y ago
But 15% + 10% + 17% adds up to 42%. But Apple products are often 80-100% more expensive in Brazil compared to the USA and Canada What accounts for the rest of the difference?
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by alister 4y ago
Amazingly, streetview is available for Longyearbyen in Google Maps. You can see from the silhouette that it was done by a guy on a bicycle with some sort of backpack mounted camera -- the results look just as good as regular Google streetvi
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by alister 4y ago
So an isolated, remote, thinly populated location like Longyearbyen with almost zero tourism doesn't have many short-term apartment rentals. Fine, that makes sense. But what's the story with Seoul? It's among the densest and
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by alister 4y ago
> OrangeDAO has 1200+ members and every one of those members is a graduate of Y Combinator So to be clear, it's not affiliated with Y Combinator, but that's a hell of a lot of alumni from Y Combinator. I'm surprised I ha
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by alister 4y ago
The OP is asking, "is it time to leave the platform ?". So it sounds like he's asking as a user of the service, not as an employee.
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Paul Graham’s Legacy(cringely.com)
6 points by alister 4y ago|4 comments
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by alister 4y ago
The source code for the software that runs Hacker News was available at one time. Are the undocumented features, voting ring detectors, and spam detectors not in the released source code? It would make sense that they weren't.
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by alister 4y ago
> before you buy a bond ETF recognize that it’s not the same as buying a bond. With a bond index you can lose money at mark-to-market that you’d only recoup after decades of interest or if we want back down to lower rates. Sounds super
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by alister 4y ago
> use a machine that has an ssd -- a bad or corrupted sd card will drive you bonkers I've seen this said many times, and it matches my experience as well. But why should an SSD be more reliable than an SD card when the underlying
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by alister 4y ago
How about authenticating with an accelerometer rather than through skin conductivity? To unlock your USB device, or to avoid the self-destruct, you would wave it, tap it, spin it, or rotate it in a specific way before plugging it in. Accele
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by alister 4y ago
Would looking at the sun through a telescope (hobbyist level telescope with a solar filter) be especially interesting today compared to normal days?
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by alister 4y ago
A warning about Thunderbird: It sometimes deletes the entire email rather than just the attachment. It happens with both IMAP and with mail on your local disk. I'm on Linux with a vanilla install with no add-ons or extensions and I&#x

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