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by hbarka 4y ago
I loved the seriousness of this manifesto. A most-pressing issue indeed. The search for the better shower handle will be squabbled just like the quest for a better mousetrap. My two cents—a cam in the shower handle could follow that curve.
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by hbarka 4y ago
When given an extra brain and the discussion is about cheating. I would love to see journalists explore the broader impacts rather than story leads that generate the maximum engagement.
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by hbarka 4y ago
The 90’s movie Sneakers with Robert Redford comes to mind. It’s a heist movie set in the California Bay Area and without revealing spoilers there’s a fantastic whodunnit involving the decoding of audio signals.
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by hbarka 4y ago
Not uniquely Japan. China, Japan, South Korea, Germany, in that order, lead the world in hydrogen fueling stations.
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by hbarka 4y ago
Andrew Huberman mentions a similar method where controlled short bursts of cyclic breathing can effect (verb effect, not grammatical error for affect) dopamine release. https://youtu.be/vA50EK70whE
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by hbarka 4y ago
An anecdote was shared about a hospital janitor who was admonished for not mopping a patient’s room during the cleaning scheduled hours and it turns out this janitor was considerate about the patient’s family visiting their child, and there
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by hbarka 4y ago
Let’s stop this meme before Elon starts saying he invented OpenAI. He donated money into the OpenAI charity. Jeff Bezos invested $250,000 in Google back in 1998 but he doesn’t try to claim to be a Google founder.
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by hbarka 4y ago
I once heard a professor say that common sense is knowing when to make an exception. I wonder if this goes against the grain of machine learning systems which seeks to optimize the opposite of the exception.
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by hbarka 4y ago
Hey you’re misquoting me. I’m no Tesla apologist actually looking to get rid of it but this is the way you live with Autopilot. I’m done with Musk and his hypocrisy. All I’m saying is that everyone and their neighbor now drive Teslas but do
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by hbarka 4y ago
I’ve seen the video. This driver had Autopilot on and experienced “phantom braking”. If you drive a Tesla you’ll have experienced phantom braking at some point, a false positive condition when the Autopilot cameras thinks there’s a wall up
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by hbarka 4y ago
It’s relatively easy to take over the controls which instantly disengages FSD or Autopilot. Why this Bay Bridge driver didn’t do that just boggles me. It’s almost like these drivers have lost or no sense of a mechanical aptitude and so when
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by hbarka 4y ago
Electric minivans will sell like hotcakes but why EV carmakers are not onto this idea I don’t know. The large bottom alone could accommodate more cells. 400 EPA miles would be easy. The VW Buzz is probably the closest but it won’t come to t
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by hbarka 4y ago
Our legal department has stores of blank DVDs. It turns out that some legal artifacts must be stored in a permanent medium.
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by hbarka 4y ago
Yup, it’s Scapple unlike Scrapple. A strange word without history. Let me add a plug for them (Literature and Latte): https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple/overview They also have another amazing app called Scrive
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by hbarka 4y ago
I wonder if cave painters had notions of copyright, like hey don’t copy my animal drawing.
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by hbarka 4y ago
I recognize the author’s use of Scapple for the flowchart diagram. One of my favorite visual mapping apps appropriated from the writing, not techie, community.
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by hbarka 4y ago
+ Spark + Ray + Anyscale "How Ray, a Distributed AI Framework, Helps Power ChatGPT" https://thenewstack.io/how-ray-a-distributed-ai-framework-he... New frameworks to new companies.
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Databricks cofounders weren’t interested in starting a business (2021)(forbes.com)
74 points by hbarka 4y ago|76 comments
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by hbarka 4y ago
Any classification is an at-will relationships to Google. Google can choose not to keep/renew anyone. I’ve met many TVCs who have tenure at Google as good as an FTE. The idea was that TVCs are the buffer headcount during recessions and
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by hbarka 4y ago
It was probably truer many years ago, like getting pulled over for dark window tint was true then but largely ignored now. The laws haven’t changed. We just have a new cohort generation of law enforcement officers with different interests,
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by hbarka 4y ago
A significant percentage of Google’s workforce are temps, vendors, and contractors (what they call TVC). They are approximately more than FTE. I believe the stats are 150,000 TVC versus 144,000 full-time employees. How is Google juggling t
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by hbarka 4y ago
>> We’ve decided to reduce our workforce by approximately 12,000 roles. When I first read this I saw the word “role” and not “jobs” and therefore interpreted it as more than 12,000 jobs, because a role can be one or more people. By th
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by hbarka 4y ago
or banana boxes https://youtu.be/RB6ZrjftKu8
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by hbarka 4y ago
Replacing my conventional tea kettle water heater with a Sanden SanCO2 heat pump water heater. It uses CO2 (R744) as the refrigerant. https://www.smallplanetsupply.com/sanc02 https://r744.com/co2-heat-pump-w
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by hbarka 4y ago
You’re right. I meant spread the joy by engineering the probability to guarantee more winners.
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by hbarka 4y ago
I mean cap the payout to $1M until exhausted. Guarantees many winners.
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by hbarka 4y ago
Someone in Maine won https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/14/us/mega-millions-jackpot-...
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Ask HN: Wouldn’t a $1B lottery create more social good by having 1000 winners?
6 points by hbarka 4y ago|5 comments
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by hbarka 4y ago
If you buy a house and move into it does it suddenly break apart? If not, does the new owner get credit for it not breaking apart? It’s working _in spite of_ the new owner, not because of.
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by hbarka 4y ago
This couldn’t be a more definitive comparison of what ChatGPT isn’t good at. WolframAlpha was released in 2009 but why isn’t it getting the same sexy accolades and valuation as ChatGPT?

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