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by bcherny 3y ago
Is there a list of brands that are independently confirmed to not have micro plastics?
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by bcherny 3y ago
Why is this trending on HN? It's one of a thousand resources on Japanese, and a poorly built and incomplete one at that. Is this blogspam?
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by bcherny 3y ago
The settings are all unchecked, but I receive promotional emails anyway. :(
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Ask HN: Why can't you unsubscribe from Apple promotional emails?
18 points by bcherny 3y ago|19 comments
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by bcherny 3y ago
Who should be the “moderator”? What constitutes “live streaming”? (Is Twitter a form of live streaming?)
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by bcherny 3y ago
My understanding is you don’t usually need useMemo and useCallback, unless you’re seeing performance issues and your profiler is pointing at un-memoized code as the culprit.
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by bcherny 3y ago
Consider reading the article before commenting..
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by bcherny 3y ago
For some people, Facebook has moved from being a social network to being more of a private sharing app for sure.
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by bcherny 3y ago
This is private sharing, not a social network. Private sharing is about sending content to people A, B, and C (“push”). Think iMessage, WhatsApp, Snapchat. Social networks are about people discovering your content (“pull”). Think Instagram,
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by bcherny 3y ago
I mean, I don’t know the square root of 232444232 off the top of my head either..
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by bcherny 3y ago
GPT4: > What is 5*7? > 5 multiplied by 7 equals 35. > Why? > Multiplication is a process of adding a number to itself a certain number of times. When you multiply 5 by 7, it's the same as saying "add 5 to itself 7 time
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by bcherny 3y ago
Timing seems related to Altman launching Worldcoin (whose goal is to reliably differentiate between human and AI generated content). https://www.reuters.com/technology/openais-sam-altman-launch...
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by bcherny 3y ago
99% sure the reason is push notifications. Putting on my PM hat, I bet: - On web, the biggest top of funnel entrypoint for Reddit is Google search - On mobile, it’s push notifications The latter is probably the single biggest retention leve
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by bcherny 3y ago
Homelessness in the US is driven by cost of housing, not by drugs or mental illness [0]. [0] https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/everything-you-think-you-k...
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by bcherny 3y ago
Wait, what? Is the FTC saying FB didn’t comply with the 2020 decree in 2019 and 2020 , before the decree was issued? Maybe I’m misreading the PDF [0]? [0] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/C43
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by bcherny 3y ago
The reason humans tend to tell the truth is if we don’t, other humans will call us out for it. I wonder if there’s a way to mimic this “bs penalty” for GPT. Maybe you could have a setup where GPT gives an answer, then a second GPT has to gu
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by bcherny 3y ago
Effectively structuring (publicly available) data for training is a moat. So is the details of the model, and the UX of how the model is presented to users. Consider why Google won in search for so long, despite anyone being able to write t
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by bcherny 4y ago
I know ChatGPT is trained on Wikipedia and other open datasets. I wonder what would happen if you gave it the entire Bing index?
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by bcherny 4y ago
The advice isn’t about coding vs managing. What John is saying is to deeply understand why you’re building something, so that you can build it better. If you over focus on the what — the implementation, the language, the approach — you
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by bcherny 4y ago
Interesting to hear this, not having tried Tile myself. It does seem like Apple’s big competitive advantage (along with access to low level device APIs they don’t offer to developers).
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by bcherny 4y ago
Programming was my Plan B, too. (Funny that it was for so many others.) I tried startups for a while, 3x as a founder and 2x as a first engineer. I found I liked engineering more than business, design, and other roles. I then joined a big c
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by bcherny 4y ago
I recently bought a bunch of AirTags for my family: for our keys, our bike, our luggage. Annoyingly, every AirTag needs to be linked to a single iPhone. Even when everyone belongs to the same Family. AirTags also make annoying sounds every
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by bcherny 4y ago
The commenter seemed to indicate that even the exact result wasn’t very accurate. Perhaps a failure on their part to communicate this nuance well, or understand the business context.
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by bcherny 4y ago
This advice is for a very specific situation: when there is time pressure to get something done, staff to do it, and the end product has to be thought through more upfront than iterated towards. You’ll recognize this isn’t always the case i
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by bcherny 4y ago
Why would your PM dictate the technical implementation? This seems like something better left to engineers.
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by bcherny 4y ago
Wow, thanks for the links! I wonder, could there be a way to build a radio reflectometer using an iPhone’s built-in Wi-Fi/cell sensors?
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Ask HN: Has anyone hacked together their own ground-penetrating radar?
5 points by bcherny 4y ago|2 comments
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by bcherny 4y ago
A manager’s job is to make themselves obsolete. This means hiring, retention, mentorship, training, sharing context, etc. until the team is self-sufficient.
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by bcherny 4y ago
For sure. I hope it helps others to understand how an eng org should be run, so that they can help adjust their org’s approach. If incentives and process aren’t set up right, there’s only so much you can do to bandaid over the dysfunction.
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by bcherny 4y ago
I agree. From my comment: > Teams need to make sure their leadership is bought into their goals, and that the goals ladder up to company goals.

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