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by ericskiff 3y ago
For anyone else wondering “And jail right? Someone’s going to jail for this?” Yes, there are also federal indictments for fraud: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdil/simple-health
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by ericskiff 3y ago
Oh man - I love this, but I thought it was going to be a loving write up of the freeware “mortal kombat but it’s pong” game from 1994 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Pong_Kombat_1994
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by ericskiff 3y ago
This is wonderful. What a great way to continue innovation without facing the adoption hurdles of a new format
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by ericskiff 3y ago
This discounts the number of people who see manifest v3 and the neutering of adblockers as a dealbreaker, forcing them to switch away from Chrome. Now, when they try Firefox it’s as fast and stable as Chrome (which was not the case a few ye
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by ericskiff 3y ago
What a lovely story, and beautiful callback to the era when blogs were just storytelling vehicles for us to connect through.
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by ericskiff 3y ago
While intuitive, this does not seem to be supported by facts https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/renting-statistics If your thesis were true, we might expect rent to be roughly stable and similar to inflation over
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by ericskiff 3y ago
This sums up my optimism about AI. I finally have a patient, infallible teacher without a direct agenda to game SEO to sell ads or a product. It feels like the earliest days of the web when I consumed every page of howstuffworks.com and sur
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by ericskiff 3y ago
A few months ago, I would’ve agreed with this in theory, but having interacted with an Apple chat bot recently that was fast, seemed empathetic, and immediately solved my problem, I do have to wonder if LLM powered support agents may finall
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by ericskiff 3y ago
I've got a virtual pinball machine standing next to me running Visual Pinball X - it's a fun hobby finding and setting up new tables on it. It's also worth noting that Zen Studios is best known for Pinball FX which is availab
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by ericskiff 3y ago
I also highly recommend trying LMStudio. It’s a nice interface for downloading, using, and holding LLMs locally
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by ericskiff 3y ago
This is available! Check out retroarch (or retropie if you have a pi 3 or 4 laying around) - it’s pretty great! Lots of shaders to choose from but pi-crt has a similar look to this and performs well
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by ericskiff 3y ago
That was my assumption as well, but the author makes a good case for it being an Akamai bot detection script designed for mobile responsive sites, and inappropriately implemented on desktop by these big sites.
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by ericskiff 3y ago
Turmeric extract (ehanza), vitamin-d, omega, and Advil during flares.
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by ericskiff 3y ago
I realized I didn’t finish the story on this comment. 5 years later, our son’s recovery is a daily miracle. He’s a happy, healthy 13 year old with only a shadow of his former symptoms. We were able to achieve symptom reduction through long
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by ericskiff 3y ago
For any parents reading this and wondering if their kid is affected, I highly recommend reading up on PANS and PANDAS. Watching our happy, healthy kid change before our eyes with sudden-onset OCD, vocal and motor tics, terrible mood labilit
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by ericskiff 3y ago
Strep is the “S” in “PANDAS” - something about the strep infection seems to become resident in the brain causing the immune system to attack it. MRIs show a speckled inflammation in certain areas of the brains of kids with an active PANDAS
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by ericskiff 3y ago
While I’m very excited for an LLM powered Siri that has access to my calendar, email, and messages, it’s worth noting that llama.cpp is using metal for acceleration and the M2 Mac Studio is one of the best values out there for running very
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Show HN: Binx, an AI Agent which helps you write more(tanookilabs.com)
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by ericskiff 3y ago
We just used this on a project and it was very helpful! Cool to see it here on HN
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by ericskiff 3y ago
I like the feather format a lot as well and Arduino makes some in that shape (and smaller) but having taught a number of beginner's classes with Arduinos at my hackerspace, I think the Uno format is a bit friendlier for novices. Having
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by ericskiff 3y ago
Awesome work and looks great! I'd suggest looking at https://www.shortcutfoo.com/ (which launched on HN very similarly like 12 years ago), and the model they followed, adding different sets of shortcuts and finding a
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by ericskiff 3y ago
It's a particularly interesting contradiction for Mike Rowe, who has lamented the loss of skilled blue collar workers who can do the "dirty jobs", which robots certainly have not replaced yet. Automation has made an impact on
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by ericskiff 3y ago
I was excited to try this because I want to be able to use ChatGPT hands-free in certain circumstances. The ideal would be to put it into voice assistant mode, have it listen to me and then answer after a sufficient break in speech. From wh
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by ericskiff 3y ago
I grew up listening to Harry Belafonte at Carnegie Hall on my parent's old record player. He was my first favorite singer and my earliest exposure to folk music’s ability to educate and enlighten. From a young age I understood some of
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by ericskiff 4y ago
I've build several little scripts in my browsers over the years to deal with this. As an example, I have a stylus script that cuts the salacious celebrity and entertainment sections off CNN.com. I've also added to my lists in ublo
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by ericskiff 4y ago
My first attempt at writing a novel back in 2002 was based on this exact concept, where all kids are raised by a patient, wise, personalized AI teacher. When we meet our main character, she's 3rd generation "raised by AI", an
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by ericskiff 4y ago
Definitely still Rails for me, both for personal projects and for work. There are so many hidden requirements in SaaS products that have been baked into Rails and popular rubygems, getting to build on top of all that work is wonderful. It a
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by ericskiff 4y ago
Okay, I understand this likely not what you were expecting as an answer, but this is based on my own personal experience as well as reading I did before changing my way of eating (specifically the meta-analysis of dozens of scientific paper
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by ericskiff 4y ago
I can reflect that we saw this happening in real life hiring. Remote hiring competition got FIERCE from the beginning of the pandemic and really through most of 2021. It has since settled out quite a bit. There was a combination of large co
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by ericskiff 4y ago
1. Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss From someone who hated negotiation books and didn't want to "win" negotiations, this was a true life changer. Listen with empathy. Find the thing your counterpart really wants. Put

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