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by andrewrn 1y ago
I am in complete agreement that the attention porn is not needed. But that doesn't address the fact that its habit-forming. Nicotine is also not needed in the lives of smokers. This isn't terribly different.
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by andrewrn 1y ago
I cringe to admit this, but this just results in eventually getting bored and re-downloading. Or just going to the web version. I do agree that social media completely loses its teeth on desktop... which is sorta peculiar. Something about t
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by andrewrn 1y ago
Glad it works for you. I'd be so curious about the demographics on these comments. For context, I am a single person in my 20's, living alone. If I had a family, I can easily see WFH being a whole lot better.
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by andrewrn 1y ago
Did I claim that someone was stopping me from doing those things? My point was that traditional gathering formats that are conducive to community-forming are diminishing. It's not a matter of an individual choosing not to participate.
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by andrewrn 1y ago
I can’t relate to text chat sufficing for face-to-face interaction. All the micro nonverbal communication seems important to me. But fair enough, everyone’s different. Having a family would certainly make wfh easier.
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by andrewrn 1y ago
You're right about this. Thanks for catching my cynicism lol
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by andrewrn 1y ago
I do wonder what AI will do to this dynamic. The generative capabilities will surely turbocharge the existing dynamic (which frankly I don't see how it can get too much worse), but I do wonder about AI applications that can act as a so
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by andrewrn 1y ago
Nice piece. At this point I am pretty exasperated at the ~ decade of efforts I've made to reduce my social media usage as a gen-z person. The greyscale, the turning off notifications, the uninstalling of apps, the screen time blocks. T
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by andrewrn 1y ago
I agree with this comment. Maybe it's just me but I haven't been model-hopping one bit. For my daily chatbot usage, I just don't feel inclined to model-hop so much to squeeze out some tiny improvement. All the models are way
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by andrewrn 1y ago
I really cannot imagine working remote full-time, it sounds so depressing. We already don't go to church or bars or movies or clubs anymore. Work is one of the few remaining places to interact with other humans. I'd be interested
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by andrewrn 1y ago
You could use this to generate character graphs from big novels. Make an app that allows you to input a page number so the model only extracts characters you've encountered thus far.
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by andrewrn 1y ago
Sewing feels so underrated to me. Nobody talks about it. I had a little stint doing sewing projects and I found that I could make totally legitimate, durable, functional outdoor gear in a single weekend (~15 hrs) from zero experience. As fu
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by andrewrn 1y ago
Good to know, I will try and remember that for the future. I agree the context would be helpful, esp in this case.
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by andrewrn 1y ago
I suppose it may be luck, but the ~15 roommates I’ve had over the years became, at worst, neutral acquaintance types or, at best, my best friends of all time. I’ve never had any of the common horror stories. Come to think of it actually, I
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by andrewrn 1y ago
Is there a time constraint? If so I wasn’t aware
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Satellites Track Poppy Production in Afghanistan(alcis.org)
6 points by andrewrn 1y ago|1 comments
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Tulare Lake Grows(earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
3 points by andrewrn 1y ago|4 comments
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Show HN: AI Physics Tutor with Free Body Diagrams(physicsviewer.com)
7 points by andrewrn 1y ago|0 comments
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by andrewrn 1y ago
Please do! This is a fun area that I think has some potential. A HN moderator actually directed me to this post. I never would have seen it otherwise, so I'm grateful for that.
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by andrewrn 1y ago
Hi, I'm the @andrewrn mentioned. For those interested, I did polish the initial app a lot: https://fermi-game.onrender.com/ (bad news though... I over-engineered it even further I think. It's my first real public
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Is there a looming cultural omnicide?(substack.com)
1 points by andrewrn 1y ago|0 comments
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by andrewrn 1y ago
I got hopelessly addicted to running in college, then got a knee cartilage injury and haven't consistently ran in 3 years. Absolutely soul-disfiguring for those who love to do long slow runs like yourself. Cool data and visualizations!
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by andrewrn 1y ago
Do you have a use-case?
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by andrewrn 1y ago
Hmmm, yeah. This is an interesting comment because the process you've described is essentially exactly what I am considering building. CSV + prompt -> chart. I've already done a few examples with LLM's generating structure
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by andrewrn 1y ago
Yeah maybe more. I directly participated in the 2019-2023 hype cycle for AgTech
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by andrewrn 1y ago
I worked on strawberry picking robots for a few years as a field robotics engineer. I don't know about Australia but for American fruit growers and to a lesser extent, British ones, the tasks that are actually economically valuable are
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by andrewrn 1y ago
Can you be more specific about these situations you're describing? I'm skeptical about "racks of servers" in anything but an enormous industrial agriculture facilities, in which case you'd be working for a big corpo
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by andrewrn 1y ago
This, to me, is the most compelling and humane application of humanoids. Often I think people jump to humanoids taking jobs, but wow, it would be so incredible for elderly folks to have a humanoid that can help them.
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by andrewrn 1y ago
I made this agent to tutor physics with diagrams! It's basic and my first agent and actually only has a single tool to call, but I really enjoyed building the agent loop from scratch rather than using a framework. Uses 4.1 for fast but
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Ask HN: Do you create data visualizations often?
4 points by andrewrn 1y ago|4 comments

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