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by hbarka 4y ago
This exchange: “I have a strong suspicion that “prompt engineering” is not going to be a big deal in the long-term & prompt engineer is not the job of the future. AI gets easier. You can already see in Midjourney how basic prompts went
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by hbarka 4y ago
Confabulate is a better word than hallucinate. How did “hallucinating” get popularized? It’s a terrible term in this context.
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by hbarka 4y ago
Getting a TOTO bidet is a life-changer. We have running water and flushable toilets but we still dry smear?
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by hbarka 4y ago
Yuval Noah Harari is Great Books?
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by hbarka 4y ago
I like First Republic. They don’t charge ATM withdrawal fees when using it internationally. I hope their services will not degrade. Carry on FRC.
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by hbarka 4y ago
Regulations weren’t tightened. In fact they were loosened at the behest of SVB. https://theintercept.com/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-used...
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by hbarka 4y ago
It’s called Fractional Reserve Banking: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fractionalreservebankin... However, I’m not sure what percent SVB kept. Some are saying zero, is this true? There is a requirement but n
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by hbarka 4y ago
Example: https://twitter.com/bradocapital/status/1635644287630159872
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Ask HN: Is LinkedIn using ChatGPT-like methods to generate job leads?
2 points by hbarka 4y ago|2 comments
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by hbarka 4y ago
In American suburbs where there’s a mailbox in front of every house, the mailmen will roll up to each one. They don’t even need to step off. Go to next, stop their Grumman LLV, sort the mail for that address, reach out and stuff, repeat.
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by hbarka 4y ago
Emissions from restarting can be higher or lower than idling [1] • Idling for more than 10 seconds uses more fuel and emits more CO2 than engine restarting. • Idling fuel usage varies from 0.2 to 0.5 gal/h for passenger vehicles across
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by hbarka 4y ago
Between the mailboxes isn’t merely twisting the key to start. It’s the sum of starting, removing parking brake, shifting to Drive……(…)…shifting to Park, turning off the engine, set parking brake.
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by hbarka 4y ago
I know right. It’s one of those mysteries. Maybe they thought it saved gas, like in the old days when great grandpa would deliberately stop the engine at intersections. (Which by the way is common now in some modern cars and startles me.)
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by hbarka 4y ago
The mailman stopping and starting the engine at every mailbox is so ridiculously wasteful, not just of energy but also time. That’s an additional 15-20 seconds between mailboxes fiddling with the ignition and transmission. In various neighb
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by hbarka 4y ago
I’m curious if academic learning focus by country can be generalized along these categories. For example Singapore versus Australia.
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by hbarka 4y ago
So Kevin Durant is Zod?
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by hbarka 4y ago
>> why would you not just spend spare income on stuff that’s enjoyable now This is exactly not what you want to do. It’s an attitude of entitlement without a sense of delayed gratification. >> The only way a lot of people can br
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by hbarka 4y ago
The premise was Microsoft got ahead of the game thanks to OpenAI but ChatGPT also owned by OpenAI performs better? What is Microsoft missing?
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Ask HN: Why does the Bing chatbot have a low limit of dialog iterations?
2 points by hbarka 4y ago|9 comments
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by hbarka 4y ago
Geolocation data on practically everyone, with unique identifiers. If Google had a crime analysis unit, they could easily "data science" the identity of these organized criminals breaking into cars daily in the Bay Area. The cumul
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by hbarka 4y ago
I’ve long heard that there are five basic tastes that the human tongue can detect: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami. I find the umami (savory) category of dishes to be the most flavorful but I can’t always put flavors into these distin
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by hbarka 4y ago
Potatoes are not alkaline. Potatoes and rice are close in ph and on the acidic to neutral side. The average pH of baked potatoes is around 6.0 to 7.0, while the average pH of cooked rice is around 6.0 to 6.5. (7 is neutral, and values above
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by hbarka 4y ago
Are you referring to the Kyivan Rus'? Present day state of Russia are from Muscovites, a different historical entity from the Rus’.
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by hbarka 4y ago
The Arab trade into South and Southeast Asia dates back to the 7th century. Arab merchants also traded with Vikings. Trading relationships amongst different tribes and regions developed by land and sea from the 7th century onwards into what
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by hbarka 4y ago
Did you also not read that far where it explicitly says who the founders are? I hope you are not confusing founders with funders.
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by hbarka 4y ago
I must say that the hook and lede of Medium articles are very effective. They are sticky and grabs your interest. The frustration comes with the paywall. There must be another way, like a free summary (maybe use ChatGPT) that will compel me
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by hbarka 4y ago
It's worth mentioning that there are many heat pump makers now using CO2 as the refrigerant versus the older environmentally harmful ones.
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by hbarka 4y ago
The point is it's explicit in OpenAI's website who the founders are but they are never mentioned in the press. Rather the narrative becomes Elon founded it. Of course, he'll take credit.
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by hbarka 4y ago
So? It's not unusual for large donors to become an honorary chair of a company. VCs get this privilege oftentimes. There is literally nothing in the OpenAI announcement that he's a founder. Websites like Wired and Buzzfeed ran wit
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by hbarka 4y ago
With the popularity of ChatGPT in the news, I've seen on many occasions now where the headline would refer to OpenAI as having been founded or co-founded by Elon Musk. Granted it makes a good lead story inserting Musk into it but how t

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