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by cowpig 3y ago
I think this is kind of an interesting project, though I suspect it's as bad or worse than google for privacy: www.perplexity.ai
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by cowpig 3y ago
I used to feel this way but now I am in a position where I professionally depend on my "network," and I got very good at it by completely changing the way I think about it. I mostly don't talk to people when I don't gel
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Ask HN: Best search engine alternatives to Google?
56 points by cowpig 3y ago|47 comments
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by cowpig 3y ago
Maybe as related as "this product was produced in Germany" would be related to a product's quality? In that there's a loose correlation there but if that's one of the main points in a product review it means the rev
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by cowpig 3y ago
> that really graduated from the very best french schools I find it shocking when people refer to what school someone went to as a credential in just about any context. I usually consider it a red flag, an indication that there is no fun
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by cowpig 3y ago
There is no specific policy discussed in that article and there wasn't much specific discussed in the hearing either.
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by cowpig 3y ago
A link to said proposed regulation and a comment about what is bad about it specifically would be constructive :)
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by cowpig 3y ago
I'm so tired of this "regulations bad" trope. Most of the time, regulations do good. When I was young the Hudson River was a toxic cesspool of chemical filth. Now the river is slowly becoming a habitat again. The EPA does a w
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by cowpig 3y ago
Please, go on :) What is the process like in practice, and what are its weaknesses? How do you think this process will have to change to account for the ease of fabricating digital evidence?
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by cowpig 3y ago
> However, Redditor and fellow Rivian R1T owner Earlgr3yh0t was also rear-ended a few months back, except their rear quarter panel had a basketball-sized dent just below the taillight. They took the R1T to a certified Rivian body shop wh
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by cowpig 4y ago
I would love for someone who knows more about this to also explain to me why goods sold on Amazon, which 20 years ago would be something I need to replace once per generation seem to universally break within 1-2 years. Has Amazon sneakily e
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A sapphire Schrödinger’s cat shows that quantum effects can scale up(sciencenews.org)
2 points by cowpig 4y ago|0 comments
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by cowpig 4y ago
OpenAI has gone from open-sourcing its work, to publishing papers only, to publishing papers that omit important information, to GPT-4 being straight-up closed. And Sam Altman doesn't exactly have a track record of being overly concern
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by cowpig 4y ago
Do you think that the Sackler family has had a positive impact on overdoses in the US?
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by cowpig 4y ago
Making cynical blanket statements about large groups of people doesn't do anything to address any kind of issue, and instead normalizes negative behaviors both within that group. Within the group, the more people believe that it's
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by cowpig 4y ago
"People don't want to accept it" seems incompatible with "it's already normalized" to me The message isn't directed towards people for whom it's normalized, right? Therefore "it's normalized
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by cowpig 4y ago
This sounds like you're trying to normalize major financial crimes?
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by cowpig 4y ago
What's the battery life going to be for this one? My biggest issue by far with the Framework 13 is that the battery life is really bad (at least with linux). Less than 2 hours of normal use is not really workable. Will this one do bett
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by cowpig 4y ago
> The murder of Caesar marked the beginning of a long and protracted civil war I don't see how you can look at the events leading up to the murder of Julius Caesar as anything but a civil war. He literally led roman armies into batt
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by cowpig 4y ago
> The people in the VC community who triggered the bank run did the right thing by their startups. How do you arrive at this conclusion? Without a run on the bank none of this would have happened.
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by cowpig 4y ago
This article could use a single point of evidence to support any of its ideas or claims. Or even just a quote from someone who represents one of the viewpoints it props up. Otherwise how do I distinguish a misguided narrative from propagand
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by cowpig 4y ago
I agree about as much with the idea that the Bay Area is the intellectual capital of the world as I do with the idea that "STEM PhDs per capita" is somehow a measure of intellect.
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by cowpig 4y ago
The US healthcare system is systematically broken. I've sworn off doing business in that sector because the cultural attitude that insurance companies have towards payment has infected everything. You can't trust anything anyone s
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by cowpig 4y ago
I think what would happen is that collateral for credit cards would become commonplace
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by cowpig 4y ago
Can you cite a source? I'm under the impression that both of these terms are considered outdated, in that modern psychology doesn't really think "sociopathy" or "psychopathy" are good abstractions. I'm und
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by cowpig 4y ago
I don't see an emotion vs logic dichotomy being applicable here; we just don't process numbers like calculators because the world is messy and everything is a context-dependent guess with imperfect information. If 99.9% of the tim
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by cowpig 4y ago
Iron (26) -> Lead (82) -> Gold (79) How does that work?
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by cowpig 4y ago
At the same time, I have put a ton of thought and effort into my company's hiring process, and still I see people melt down from nervousness or just get into their own head during the pair-programming part interviews. We do everything
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by cowpig 4y ago
More like broken hiring processes are a fact of life and therapy can help people adapt to the crappier aspects of our existence
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by cowpig 4y ago
No it wouldn't, the movement of money is what drives an economy. Think of it this way: Alice has a dollar, gives it to person Bob for the food they grow, who gives it to person Clarice for the clothes they make, who gives it to person

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