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by gniv 8mo ago
Why would driverless cars mill around? They would just wait around in underground garages. They can even block each other, so they don't need that much space to park.
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by gniv 8mo ago
Short article worth reading. Quite interesting find regarding our brains.
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by gniv 8mo ago
I second the Kore-eda rec although it's an acquired taste, not so easy as Shawshank. Shoplifters was a revelation.
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by gniv 9mo ago
It's not a high number when compared to other first-world countries: https://statranker.org/population/top-10-countries-with-high...
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by gniv 9mo ago
Incidentally, that newsletter has a lot of interesting charts. https://www.apolloacademy.com/the-daily-spark/
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by gniv 9mo ago
I was reminded of "software is eating the world", which was basically the idea that everything needs software. It's still true. In that light, programming is not cooked. We can do things much faster, yes, but there are so man
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by gniv 9mo ago
A lot of the software produced in big corps is mission-critical. Self-driving cars are an extreme example but I think the same principle applies to banking, infrastructure, even things like maps, since they are used by billions.
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by gniv 9mo ago
Agree, but I wanted more. What is the intuition behind the optimality proof? I realize you cannot summarize a 119-page paper in two paragraphs, but still. Edit: This article from September has a bit more: https://www.popsci.com&#
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by gniv 9mo ago
I guess my idea of US coffeeshops is dated.
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by gniv 9mo ago
I stand corrected then. I don't remember seeing them the last time I was there 4+ years ago.
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by gniv 9mo ago
I have an issue with the first point as well, but differently. Having worked on a user-facing product with millions of users, the challenge was not finding user problems, but finding frequent user problems. In a sufficiently complex product
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by gniv 9mo ago
I'm thinking more and more of doing that, but prompted by the fact that the phone is a second-factor authenticator for so many things. I really don't want to lose that phone. I should just leave it home and carry another one just
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by gniv 9mo ago
> (is it an American thing?) I don't know if the author is American but americanos are not an American thing so they are likely not in the US.
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Democracy Will Not Survive the Age of Consumption(kasurian.com)
18 points by gniv 9mo ago|11 comments
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by gniv 9mo ago
Google had an in-house chatbot that was never allowed to launch. I used to think that they were wrong but now I'm pretty sure they were right to not launch it. Users are very forgiving with a newcomer but not with an established compan
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by gniv 9mo ago
I searched in page for Cărtărescu and was disappointed to find no mention. And then I scroll and see your comment lol. I read Theodoros this year (in Romanian) and I was really impressed. Best novel I've read in years. I'm current
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by gniv 9mo ago
The novelty premium?
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by gniv 10mo ago
The vague categorisation is likely on purpose, done by the business owner thinking that it would attract more clients. You can change it yourself and Google will accept it but if the owner is adamant they will change it back.
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by gniv 10mo ago
This makes me think of another domain where it could happen: electricity generation and distribution. If solar+battery becomes cheap enough we could see the demise of the country-scale grid.
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by gniv 10mo ago
> most companies will still have more work to do than resources to assign to those tasks This is very important yet rarely talked about. Having worked in a well-run group on a very successful product I could see that no matter how many p
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by gniv 10mo ago
There was a time 10-15 years ago when there was a lot of discussion (including here on hn) on whether it's best to stay at a fang job or join a startup. It was basically a choice between making millions at a steady but intellectually u
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by gniv 10mo ago
Thanks, that's useful. My procedure is supposed to be 2 hours, laparoscopic. I will ask but without getting my hopes up.
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by gniv 10mo ago
I will have surgery soon. If I ask the surgeon to allow me to listen to music during the surgery, will they allow it? I know it depends on hospital/surgeon/etc, but I'm wondering how much doctors are willing to deviate from p
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by gniv 11mo ago
As others have said, no they are not, here in France. I'm not sure you can see this page, but it's a set of four 16cl Picardie glasses for 3.79 euro: https://www.carrefour.fr/p/gobelet-picardie-duralex-3550190
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by gniv 11mo ago
Yes, exactly. I think the problem is the opposite. They failed to market them correctly so that they can demand higher prices.
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by gniv 11mo ago
> I get it—they’re expensive and so on—but they really are a superior product. Where are you? Here in France they are not expensive. I bought them at Carrefour when I moved here because I liked the Picardie shape and I thought they were
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by gniv 11mo ago
When using AI to find faults in existing processes that is value creation (assuming they get fixed of course).
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by gniv 11mo ago
Remember a few years ago when people were asking what will big tech do with all that cash they were hoarding? Well this is the answer. It might be a bubble it might burst but they went all in and it's hard to disagree with their thinki
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by gniv 11mo ago
Random anecdote: I go to a boulangerie almost daily (as one does here in France). There is one close to me that started charging 12 centimes for slicing the bread. I got annoyed with this and nowadays make a point to take lots of small chan
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by gniv 11mo ago
I wonder if there are people (with money) who have a really good grasp on this market (hardware I mean). For example you could have sold NVDA in August, not much lower than current price, and bought SNDK and 5x-ed your money in 3 months.

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