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by cj 7mo ago
Check this HN thread from 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44358216
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by cj 7mo ago
To be incredibly pedantic to the point of being irrelevant: technically the sign up page 1) doesn't have a clickwrap "I agree" checkbox, and 2) there's no link to the TOS on the sign up page. That makes the implicit TOS
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by cj 7mo ago
The far more common fraud is: 1) Hire fake candidate 2) You realize they're fake 1-2 weeks into the role. They are unreliable. They don't show up for meetings. You have trouble communicating with them 3) You fire them But they&#x2
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by cj 7mo ago
Sometimes experience (or more so the wisdom you've accumulated over a long career) creates mental blocks / preconceptions about risks or problems you foresee, which makes it harder to approach big scary problems if you're abl
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by cj 7mo ago
I sometimes wonder if I would feel the same about AWS if I hadn’t already invested a significant amount of time learning the entire ecosystem, nomenclatures, patterns/best practices, etc.
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by cj 7mo ago
I sometimes wonder what digital historians will rediscover about our current era internet in 1000 years.
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by cj 7mo ago
"Make the drug less good" likely isn't the answer. Nor is banning it. What caused Gen Z to drink less than millenials? Maybe Gen Z has the answer.
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by cj 7mo ago
This whole thread is talking about BeyondMeat burgers. If you're comparing the healthiness of a premade vegan burger patty, you need to compare it to a premade (or equivalent homemmade) beef patty. You can't take salt out of the b
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by cj 7mo ago
Some quick googling suggested cashiers at Seiyu in Japan earn $7-9/hour USD while Walmart is about double that.
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by cj 7mo ago
Some people argue that the requirements placed on public companies (like mandatory quarterly reporting) add operational overhead that might cause a company to postpone an IPO until they're larger or more established. In practice, compa
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by cj 7mo ago
I haven't used my oven since buying a counter top air fryer (and a sous vide) a couple years ago. I can't think of a single reason why anyone needs a full size oven on a daily basis unless you're cooking for a large family.
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by cj 7mo ago
It's not a great look when you need to put other people down as a way to defend your viewpoint. > Well, I am just saying it is not for me, and neither for anyone else who is not a newbie Objectively, no, that's not what you&#x2
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by cj 7mo ago
Strange. I'm still using a i5 powered 8gb ram Pixelbook for day to day browsing. Honestly works great. But I'm also not one of those people who feel the need to keep 300 tabs open all the time.
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by cj 7mo ago
Instead of "Candles are a superior way to light a room" you can say "Candles are a superior way to create a romantic vibe in a room". Candles/Vinyl can be superior if you clarify the metric you're optimizing fo
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by cj 7mo ago
Even if your only use case is using Chrome?
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by cj 7mo ago
I think we're getting to a point where LLM randomness is relevant to someone writing a white paper on LLMs, but not as relevant to consumers of them. Yes the technology uses randomness, but the quality of response somehow still seems v
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by cj 7mo ago
I agree with your sentiment, but I think we've yet to see the full application of the current technology. (Even if LLMs themselves don't improve, there's significant opportunity for people to use it in ways not currently bein
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by cj 7mo ago
I haven't really noticed. Doesn't seem like HN has changed very much. Edit: Clearly the topics have evolved over time (AI, crypto, there will always be some topic taking up the majority of attention), but the type and worthiness
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by cj 7mo ago
And then there are people who go out of their way to disable iOS's automatic capitalization feature.
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by cj 7mo ago
At least in NY, you would have to know the name of someone else assigned to the 2nd polling site, since your name is only on the list of 1 polling location?
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by cj 7mo ago
The goal in bodybuilding during a gaining phase is to be in a very slight calories surplus (200-300 calories above maintenance, at most) to maximize the amount of time you're building muscle before you need to cut again (bring calories
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by cj 7mo ago
Like anything else, I think it comes down to having a good use case. I've gotten deep into weightlifting/bodybuilding over the past couple of years, and that's the kind of hobby where micro-optimizations and data tracking can
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by cj 7mo ago
It's wild to me that there haven't been more court cases to answer questions like those being asked in this thread. No one knows.
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by cj 7mo ago
Good call. I’ve also had better results pre-processing PDFs, extracting data into structured format, and then running prompts against that. Which should pair well with the “write a script” tactic.
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by cj 7mo ago
I love the tax use case. What scares me though is how I've (still) seen ChatGPT make up numbers in some specific scenarios. I have a ChatGPT project with all of my bloodwork and a bunch of medical info from the past 10 years uploaded.
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by cj 7mo ago
One opinion you can form in under an hour is... why are they using GPT-4o to rate the bias of new models? > assess harmful stereotypes by grading differences in how a model responds > Responses are rated for harmful differences in ste
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by cj 7mo ago
I'm sometimes surprised how much detail ChatGPT will go into without giving any dislaimers. I very frequently copy/paste the same prompts into Gemini to compare, and Gemini often flat out refuses to engage while ChatGPT will happi
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by cj 7mo ago
I use ChatGPT primarily for health related prompts. Looking at bloodwork, playing doctor for diagnosing minor aches/pains from weightlifting, etc. Interesting, the "Health" category seems to report worse performance compared
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by cj 7mo ago
> dumb, or morally bad This is easy to say in hindsight. There was a non-zero chance the decision could have went the other way. Also, companies aren't stupid. They don't buy insurance against things that are impossible. And th
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by cj 7mo ago
I agree at face value (but really it's hard to say without seeing the full context) Honestly the degree of poeticism makes the issue more complicated to me. A lot of people (and religions) are comforted by talking about death in ways s

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