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by fhe 5mo ago
it was only after I had to manage others that I realized the logic for a lot of these simplistic metrics and rules. they are in place to hold accountable the worst performers. a simple example is when i introduced flexible work hours. it wa
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by fhe 6mo ago
even if this were true, PG (who can code, and can tell if someone else can) didn't think it was an issue when handing over YC to Altman.
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by fhe 7mo ago
this function will be a must-have for all home security systems. I used to spend hours going through home security cameras to check if our cat went out the house when the door was accidentally left open (turned out it was just really good a
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by fhe 7mo ago
my question has always been why (I think most vertebrates) stop at two? It seems that an extra eye here and there could be really helpful. Maybe it's because all verterbrates evolved from an ancestor that had two eyes, and once the tem
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by fhe 8mo ago
i'd love to watch its rendering of any of the recent big budget sci-fi productions
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by fhe 9mo ago
I thought this a pretty mature technique? I have seen more than once our local vet using this technique to treat cats with large wounds -- with great results by the way. Interestingly, they too used tilapia fish skin, and not any of the mor
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by fhe 9mo ago
but then again in this day and age maybe marketing skills are more important than anything else...
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by fhe 1y ago
one example is auto generating subtitles -- elements of this tasks, e.g. speech to text with time coding, have been around for a while (openai whisper and others), but they have only recently been integrated into video editors and become ea
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by fhe 1y ago
I am getting the sense that the 2nd deriative of the curve is already hitting negative teritory. models get updated, and I don't feel I'm getting better answers from the LLMs. On the application front though, it feels that the adv
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by fhe 1y ago
I see the same, and there is a posting of that title (and linking to the correct paper) also on HN frontpage. wondering what's going on.
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by fhe 1y ago
I wonder if it's really just a function of how much work is involved in taking care of pets. I have had pet turtles and cats for years. Cats easily require 10x the amount of work to keep them happy and healthy.
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by fhe 1y ago
or turn the food over, or move it to a different position inside the microwave -- the way microwave works is that it heats up the food unevenly (there's a wave involved).
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by fhe 2y ago
or it keeps monitoring the web and notify me whenever something that matches my interests shows up -- like a more sophisticated Google alert. I really would love that.
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by fhe 2y ago
I have the same question. My only answer is that making a sleek product such as the Mac Air really is a lot harder than it seems, even in 2025.
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by fhe 2y ago
this seems a domain that's distinctively suited for AI
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by fhe 2y ago
another analogy would be: aliens abducting a bunch of humans and recreating the Stanford Prison Experiment and write up on human society based on that, which ends-up reshaping alien culture.
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by fhe 2y ago
Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology (goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/809315.Making_PCR ) for a short video version of this history, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaXKQ70q4
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by fhe 2y ago
thank you for posting this... and this is a common enough pattern (looking up previous HN threads on the same or related article) that I wonder if it's worthwhile to automate this.
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by fhe 2y ago
I have friends who routinely go for #2 or #3 (occasionally even further down). The typical justification they gave is that one's paying a lot of price premium/marketing cost for #1, whereas with #2/3 one gets comparable or sl
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by fhe 2y ago
so well put. exactly how I've been feeling and trying to verbalize.
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by fhe 2y ago
if your experience is coming from teaching college freshmen, then that's a sample that's significantly above average among high school graduates. I think only about 1/2 of all high school graduates go on to further their educ
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by fhe 2y ago
my first job out of college was at a big name management consulting firm... to riff on your point: yes, such is the entire career for many. and theirs aren't even such bad careers if one only considers money and prestige. two years the
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by fhe 2y ago
for me it was computer games, specifically Civ 2. Imagine playing that as a second-grader with zero English. But I had strong motivation, and ploughed through the game, dictionary in hand.
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by fhe 2y ago
a few months ago, Japan, in trying to attract more digital nomads, introduced a digtal nomad visa[1]. [1] Japan Introduces New Visa for Digital Nomads https://www.japan.travel/en/ca/news/digital-nomad-visa&#x2
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by fhe 2y ago
AI in its current incarnation felt on part with word processing, or even spreadsheet (which powers a big portion of the financial industry, so no mean feat)... but it's not the internal combustion engine, or comparable to the discovery
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by fhe 2y ago
my Chinese teacher supplied me with this supposedly ancient piece of Chinese scholarly wisdom: read any book a hundred times, and its meaning will be obvious. i have found this to work amazingly well -- particularly with poorly written tech
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by fhe 2y ago
yes, the image of that lone penguin setting off to the horizon with (what i read as) resolution had stuck on my mind. perhaps i was seeing too much of myself in it (and i think many others do too).
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by fhe 2y ago
> When we write, we leave spaces between words. Readingwordswithoutsuchspacesisdifficult. immediately losing credibility because quite a number of languages, such as Chinese and Japanese (and I think Korean too), are written without spac
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by fhe 2y ago
I am amazed at whoever first thought of doing a reconstruction like that...what was the inspiration? what evidence and confidence did they have that it was going to work?
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by fhe 2y ago
for non-fiction books TTS is already good enough. what's needed is the convenience and speed for turning text to audio. if with one click on my ebook app I can start listening, it'll be a darn good feature for me.

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