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by homefree 2y ago
Yeah I generally agree with that. The anxiety example comes from personal experience for me where I thought I was having some medical problem which ended up ultimately being fairly extreme anxiety. Learning how to cope with that was a form
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by homefree 2y ago
Maybe they're correct? Mental illness is complicated and it can create real physiological symptoms. Someone with extreme anxiety will feel heart palpitations, fatigue, and a bunch of other symptoms despite the cause not being an actual
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by homefree 2y ago
People believe false things easily if it confirms their priors. Confirmation bias is strong. Fake images play into that, but they don't need to be AI generated for that to be true, it's been true forever.
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by homefree 2y ago
The option to not have ads seems strictly better to me. I would like more controls to require unverified accounts to need approval before they can follow me (there's some low hanging fruit leveraging this sort of thing to fight back ag
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by homefree 2y ago
You don't need a dealership for that, you can do it with corporate store fronts and the experience would be better for the buyer (and the seller) because the incentives are actually properly aligned.
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by homefree 2y ago
Sure, but it's a factor and it's not like Snap is doing great otherwise. Startups have less money, but invent new fields because of the differentiated advantage that comes from being smaller and faster (among other things). This i
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by homefree 2y ago
Snap's design is really awful looking - to the point I can't see how it doesn't just damage the brand. Plus Snap's core business is a mess I don't see how they could really compete with Meta on this they'll run
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by homefree 2y ago
My account doesn’t load any of the blocked people so I can’t. It shows 52k blocked but when I go into the page it’s blank.
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by homefree 2y ago
It's a corrupt market imo, like car dealerships - they work to legislate their continued existence. Any market structured where you have some people doing many transactions and some doing few ends up skewed to benefit the person doing
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by homefree 2y ago
There were API endpoints that worked at some point, made it easy to do.
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by homefree 2y ago
I think X is still really great and it's even better now that you can finally pay to have no ads (and verified means verified instead of 'friends of a twitter employee'. It does require some effort to curate a worthwhile feed
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by homefree 2y ago
I'd like to be able to unblock people. An unblock all would be nice to get back to baseline. A while back I blocked everyone that followed a specific user that kept appearing in my feed (this was prior to the musk acquisition where you
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by homefree 2y ago
PBS has good stuff on youtube too (PBS Eons for one example).
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by homefree 2y ago
HN comment quality has been degrading for a while, I’m no longer that active here because of it (unfortunately). X is a better source in most cases now (if you choose well and only use the following tab).
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by homefree 2y ago
A rare good profile from the NYT. Maybe not quite as good as the recent one on Palmer Luckey, but Tablet > NYT. [0] [0]: https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/american-vulcan-palmer-luc...
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by homefree 2y ago
Nvidia risk is all about the stability (or not) of their monopoly. How quickly or effectively will model creators be able to make their vertically integrated custom training hardware is an open question and determines how you should bet imo
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by homefree 2y ago
> "We study the causal impacts of income on a rich array of employment outcomes, leveraging an experiment in which 1,000 low-income individuals were randomized into receiving $1,000 per month unconditionally for three years, with a
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by homefree 2y ago
Yeah - this suggests the simple explanation is true, if you reduce the incentive to work then people work less. There is a lot of speculation that that's not the case, but it doesn't seem to really hold up. This comes up a lot in
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by homefree 2y ago
That’s annoying - I hope it gets worked out, that’s the last bit I need to take Waymos exclusively.
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by homefree 2y ago
They’re amazing, I only take Waymo in SF now and will do the same when possible on the peninsula.
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by homefree 2y ago
When I watched the keynote/preordered it seemed obvious the LAM UI training was work-in-progress. The core of the device was a new UI for interacting with an LLM via voice in a way that's better than the phone. It does this. I thi
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by homefree 2y ago
I had the same thought, the quality of writing from the LLMs themselves is a lot better than what's written here.
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by homefree 2y ago
There are so many things bad about this contentless article. - It's not a scam, I paid $199 for the device and I have one - The hardware is nicely designed and fun to use, the UI for interacting with the LLM is better than other option
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by homefree 2y ago
Maybe they do pay for it? It's not obvious they don't. (edit: they mention they do pay for it below) I would have written a similar comment and I pay for Premium. I don't use any other Google service at this point, but I do h
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by homefree 2y ago
> “ So really, what's going on is that well-intentioned meddlers are trying to meddle in the lives of people who don't share the utopian, collaborative values of the meddlers. Predictably, this doesn't work.” It actually d
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by homefree 2y ago
A better wheelchair seems like a fun project and if the costs are that extreme probably not so hard to do better (unless the costs are extreme because regulation prohibits a good market). It’d be fun to take advancements in electric mobilit
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by homefree 2y ago
Good - the ccp influence over what content is elevated or censored on TikTok is a serious national security problem, forcing a divesture is good independent of the inequality on trade with the ccp blocking American companies. If they refuse
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by homefree 2y ago
Waymo is amazing and has fully replaced Uber for me in SF. They're also expanding to the entire peninsula from SF down to Cupertino - you're out of date on this. Waymo driving in SF is way better than human. It's not timid ei
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by homefree 2y ago
I remember that too - I think it was an HN comment, iirc he also had more empathy for less capable people as a result of having temporarily been less capable himself.
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by homefree 2y ago
Parrots are a more fitting example imo, 300 million years of separation and they have complex cognition that evolved independently. Crows are also quite smart too.

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