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by chis 2y ago
Somewhat of a similar argument to say that heroin clearly has value, because people are willing to pay for it.
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by chis 2y ago
I believe it is a loss-leader. But these days companies get a pretty direct payout from people who accidentally hold cash in their investment account while on the way to buy ETFs
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by chis 2y ago
Handy calculator. Comparing to VTSAX (.04% expense ratio), they show a 1% difference. Not nothing, but hard to justify switching when you consider the downside risk of this company going out of business or selling in the next 30 years. I
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by chis 2y ago
Even if they aren’t doing it, it’s just a crazy risk to run. Imagine if the biggest American newspapers were owned by Russia during the Cold War. America just wouldn’t have allowed it. And unlike that metaphor, TikTok offers basically 0 val
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by chis 2y ago
This is funny I like it. Basically just captures the scroll input and iterates through int128s and their UUIDs on a static page to fake a scroll. My feature request would be to add smooth scrolling.
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by chis 2y ago
There’s sort of no point in discussing this article since the full text is paywalled. The Gizmodo summary seems to suggest that it’s mostly just a meta review plus some extrapolation: they averaged some studies to find the typical effect on
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by chis 2y ago
I agree with others that it’s similar to blindfold chess and would also add that the AI gets no time to “think” without chain of thought like the new o1 models. So it’s equivalent to an advanced player, blindfolded, making moves off pure in
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by chis 2y ago
I think a really natural solution would be to tax these sort of land restrictions for as long as someone is actually willing to pay. Just assess the value with the restrictions vs without and then tax it at the standard property tax rate. I
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by chis 2y ago
Your actual product is really slick. Even just with some basic tests I can see that it produces designs with a much higher degree of polish than regular LLM models, and with much more of a design bent. I'll definitely use this for so
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by chis 2y ago
An an American it's hard for me to imagine how companies could ever work with universal protections from firing at will. What if you're running a painting business, and there's a downturn in construction. Do you just have t
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by chis 2y ago
Maybe the most interesting takeaway from this article is that black plastic is dirtier than other colors because it’s easier to use recycled materials if you don’t care about color. Very good to know.
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by chis 2y ago
Teens are basically doing less of everything because of the phones. Alcohol, sex, getting a drivers license, going to movies, basically any activity you could name has declined rapidly starting around 2012 when phones became ubiquitous.
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by chis 2y ago
Title makes this sound like some evil plot to destroy public buses. But it’s more that they are lobbying against a proposed tax on specifically ride sharing. Ride shares are used by poor people too, both as drivers and riders. I think we sh
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by chis 2y ago
This article contains 7000 words and exactly one paragraph is about being a woman at Valve, mostly it's just a depiction of the early days there and how Gabe ended up as the sole remaining founder. I truly doubt you read the article.
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by chis 2y ago
MOOCs have provided incredible value to society and it's unfortunate that we're only able to view them through the lens of profit/loss. I wish that universities would have committed to providing these products despite cost j
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by chis 2y ago
Surprisingly great post. Works that last are often being championed by critics, gatekeepers, or the next generation of artists. On some level there's just too much great art in the world, and it's more fun to appreciate the same
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by chis 2y ago
My experience is that generally Clickhouse beats out any of the targeted time series databases on speed, while also having the advantage of supporting full traditional SQL. I think the market just hasn't realized yet because it's
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by chis 2y ago
This is incredible
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by chis 2y ago
You should switch immediately. The underrated piece is how much friendlier squishy shoes are on your joints and muscles. I have pretty good form and modern shoes still decrease my recovery time by like 1/3 compared to minimal ones.
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by chis 2y ago
It would be nice to read an article about this from an econ standpoint. Is it really possible for this yieldstar “algorithm” to convince independent actors to agree to lower their occupancy rate in return for higher average income? It seems
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by chis 2y ago
These diseases that exist outside the regular medical system but nonetheless have tons of anecdotal evidence, I just don’t know how to think about em. This, long covid, chronic Lyme. It’s hard for me to believe that these illnesses do have
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by chis 2y ago
Yeah, I used this prompt but ultimately switched to Claude which behaves like this by default
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by chis 2y ago
My theory is that capitalism wasn't quite as sophisticated and globalized yet, so an important project could collect literally the top 100 engineers in a field together. It's also back in a time when working for the government wa
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by chis 3y ago
Shockingly low quality compared to the sort of stuff Google used to put out. For instance the games they put out in 2010 promoting html5 just showed a way higher level of craftsmanship. To me this really exemplifies how nobody at Google is
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by chis 3y ago
I don’t understand. This theory implies that a significant percentage of Canadian houses are empty due to speculation. Is there any evidence for that theory? Looking a bit online it feels like this might be a disproven theory https:/&
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by chis 3y ago
Ah perfect, all we have to do is consider a vague analogy to a totally different event in the past and it's clear that there's no worries if AI takes the vast majority of human jobs in the next 50 years. As a side note I shudder t
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by chis 3y ago
Totally agree with the problem, and need for a columnar store. But isn't BigQuery too slow for powering an interactive website? My goal building a dashboard type tool is to have all the queries return in <1 second. I didn't
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by chis 3y ago
Well if there are multiple companies competing to provide the same product then the one extracting more labor from its employees will win out….
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by chis 3y ago
Title continues “…future of work experts predict” I wonder if HN will ever consider the possibility that return to office DOES increase productivity. These companies probably understand the massive trade off they’re making when they force R
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by chis 3y ago
What’s morally dubious about this?

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