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by biztos 3y ago
I always found it odd that my acrylic paint and my toothpaste share this ingredient.
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by biztos 3y ago
Second prize is a set of steak knives…
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by biztos 3y ago
As competitors to OpenAI emerge, I think an obvious advantage would be response-codes for any kind of canned (non-completion) response. "I'm sorry, but as an AI language model I can not do X, however" --> R982352. You cou
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by biztos 3y ago
And then at some point the artists will be pushed out in a gentrification wave after they made it cool to live in the skyscrapers. Those artists that had money to begin with, or made a lot really fast, will have bought a bunch of the prope
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by biztos 3y ago
I think there will be more developers, not fewer -- but they might not be the same kind of people. If a subject-matter expert plus an AI Wrangler can create software as well as two programmers, why shouldn't they? But I also think t
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by biztos 3y ago
I dipped my toe ever so cautiously into "smart home" territory last year, buying three "smart" lightbulbs at the Apple Store, but only talking to them over Bluetooth. (At least, I think I'm only doing that: I suppos
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by biztos 3y ago
I’m a U.S. citizen and currently have bank accounts in 3 EU countries and one other non-US country. The bank I expect will kick me out doesn’t want non-EU citizens who are not EU residents. The bank that did, I think it was because of my ci
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by biztos 3y ago
Yes, but my banks all know that. So far the only one to kick me out is Commerzbank and they didn’t give a reason, but I suspect it was that reason. But generally speaking, my European friends all have an animosity towards banks I have not
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by biztos 3y ago
Before Commerzbank unceremoniously canceled my account after more than a decade of business, they were charging me “negative interest” for quite a while, on anything over 50K EUR. That’s in addition to account fees. My current banks in the
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by biztos 3y ago
The second thing is a very recent invention, which most people even now understand vaguely if at all. If we made a ChatGPT that has some “senses” it can use to verify its perceptions, and it does as well with this as humans generally do, I’
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by biztos 3y ago
I’m not an AI expert but as I see it: 1. LLMs are already doing much more complex and useful things than most people thought possible even in the foreseeable future. 2. They are also showing emergent behaviors that their own creators can’t
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by biztos 3y ago
I’d never heard of the effect, but fell for it anyway because “-stain” is so unusual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenstain_Bears#Name_confusio...
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by biztos 3y ago
Apple, Google and Amazon would seem to have a big advantage here in doing Family Accounts. By putting someone "in your family" you at least feel like you're giving them access to a lot of stuff, so you probably don't do
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by biztos 3y ago
I'm starting to wonder if Netflix is maybe just trying harder in newer markets. I cancelled my subscription out of frustration at the crappy content I saw all the time in the US app (and the terrible discovery too) -- but now I keep se
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by biztos 4y ago
I wonder: if you know this, and expect it will happen, is that kind of company still a good investment? It could be that Imgur has already more than paid back its acquisition price to MediaLab[0] and now they are willing to risk killing it
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by biztos 4y ago
I am working on an AI-related project that isn't "making AI" but rather leveraging the APIs. I did a little soul-searching about whether to use a .ai domain (which of course is actually an Anguilla domain) or a .com, and my
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by biztos 4y ago
I'm a happy subscriber! Funny thing is, I ignore it most weeks because I'm checking HN a lot anyway; but if I have so much as a long weekend offline then your newsletter is the answer to my FOMO. I love the simplicity and I don&#
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by biztos 4y ago
How do you deal with drinks? As a customer I'd probably want to run a tab at the restaurant for whatever I drink (assuming they're alcohol-friendly) but as an organizer I'd probably want an upfront corkage fee I could take a
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by biztos 4y ago
Maybe there’s a competitive advantage in training a new one on just German, say, and unleashing it on automotive engineering problems?
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by biztos 4y ago
Really, only Thai? Is there a reference for that? A quick search suggests it’s not the case, but I’m no expert. As a lowly beginner I find the lack of word boundaries in Thai frustrating but I think it’s just that I have not yet learned to
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by biztos 4y ago
I’m sure I’m not the only one who would be tempted to hit that button every time the Corporate Robocopmobile stops at a light.
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by biztos 4y ago
We had separate test and production instances in about 1994/95 but that was Pharma (regulated)… when I moved to Web it was very cowboy style for a few years, don’t think we had a safe testing or dev environment until maybe 2001 then th
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by biztos 4y ago
My working definition of “foreigner” excludes Thai citizens, though maybe it’s more subtle than that: I didn’t know naturalized citizens were subject to ownership limits.
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by biztos 4y ago
However, it’s usually more covering its digital ass against the pitchfork-wielding critics than actually balancing the view.
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by biztos 4y ago
Also foreigners can’t own land in Thailand, so while I hope the Swiss gentleman has many more years of happiness, it was never his garden, which might be a turnoff to the techno-libertarians out there.
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by biztos 4y ago
As someone who did a lot of SQL back in the day, and is now doing some again for a startup POC, I'd say you're basically right but there is also: * Rewriting queries and also parts of the schema when it turns out the things that m
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by biztos 4y ago
> a place that spends too much time on slack and too much time on email That describes most large companies. While I agree it’s an obvious use case, the first startup to reliably extract the signal from the noise of daily communication a
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by biztos 4y ago
Looks better: “Sometimes writing for money — rather than for art or pleasure — is really quite enjoyable.” Punctuation matters, but space -- the "zeroth punctuation mark" -- matters more! The author does discuss spacing the dashes
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by biztos 4y ago
What does “placing assets” mean here? If I walk in to Citi and say “I have ten million bucks and will need to withdraw them half a million per month” are they really not going to take my deposit? I get that they might not want to loan me mo
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by biztos 4y ago
I’m a fan of the blank wire-bound Mujis for writing — especially the fine stuff I need to do at 0.30. They look classy and they love the rollerball. Only downside I’ve found is the paper is thin enough that it’s not a great notebook to hav

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