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by jameslk 2y ago
> It feels pretty good to be alone. Maybe if I didn’t feel so good, I’d be less alone. After a certain amount of trying, you may eventually land on the conclusion that you are the problem and that’s why it feels so good. In this regard
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by jameslk 2y ago
Raising a very late funding stage in the private market to avoid an IPO in the violent public market I presume? I’m guessing this is the new startup norm for a while, along with reducing burn or exiting at a big discount if not just dying N
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by jameslk 2y ago
> The estimates become highly dependent on how influential China is for final assembly. The article mentions this but then doesn’t go much further into it. But this will likely be the biggest factor with tariffs. China will still produce
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by jameslk 2y ago
White collar jobs will be destroyed by AI/AGI. But the US workforce consists of a large portion of white collar workers. To replace the coming destruction of white collar jobs, manufacturing and industry jobs must be brought back, alon
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by jameslk 2y ago
The article is titled Why I don't discuss politics with friends but it doesn't explain the why ? Unless I missed it. It seems to just talk about the challenges. Why don't you discuss politics with friends? Are you worried
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by jameslk 2y ago
You might want to add these HTTP headers to help reduce the server load from your complex web application: Cache-Control: public, max-age=2147483647, immutable Expires: Wed, 31 Dec 9999 23:59:59 GMT
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by jameslk 2y ago
Dang and other moderators can decide whether this submission qualifies as an "interesting new phenomenon" and turn off the flags like they sometimes do. Given how frequently these political posts have been showing up on HN over th
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by jameslk 2y ago
Flagging is for flagging content that doesn't meet HN's guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#flag Specifically: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, u
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by jameslk 2y ago
Hide doesn't flag content that should be flagged
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I just flagged it since it's politics. Don't need to get much further than seeing the comments here to understand why posts like these don't belong on HN.
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by jameslk 2y ago
This is more of a solved problem than not these days thanks to LLMs. You can plop an agreement into an LLM chat and ask some questions, which is a lot better than just checking a box because you didn’t have time to read it. I’ve been doing
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by jameslk 2y ago
The predecessors of agentic AI, humans, have figured this out. They use this thing called user interfaces to do computing. If agentic AI can't use UIs like humans, why bother calling them agents? I feel like there is momentum around th
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I visited the quaint town Disney developed in the 90s(businessinsider.com)
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Didn’t Firefox rise from the ashes during the years of Internet Explorer’s waning monopoly? How did Firefox “take back the web” pre- Google funding?
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Could be a good opportunity for using an LLM to summarize and extract anything important?
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I visited the quaint town Disney developed in the 90s(businessinsider.com)
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Yes, I didn’t know my phone had a secret feature of becoming an instant hand warmer until I visited this website
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If the goal is to build AI agents, I’d think the maximum utility from them would come from building agents that can use the UI that humans use. Or at the very least, the lesser available API . MCP is yet another interface to services when
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by jameslk 2y ago
I responded to a similar comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43263416 Essentially, yes those other comments are linked to politics. All things could be extrapolated to politics. That doesn't mean we shou
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by jameslk 2y ago
It's alright, I'm not shy to the flagging and downvotes. I appreciate your thoughtful response From my understanding, your argument is a variation of "many/all things are politics and therefore politics cannot be disenta
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by jameslk 2y ago
It looks like your interpreter might be buggy
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by jameslk 2y ago
> Why bother leaving a comment like this?
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Straw man
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No? I see comments here discussing things other than politics
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This could be an interesting topic, but inevitably these posts devolve into politics and it’s always about the same thing. Yet this is the type of comment at the top. Why bother leaving a comment like this?
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by jameslk 2y ago
Haha, every politician is learning that they win by manipulating the press and algorithms these days. Is there an option C for both?
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by jameslk 2y ago
Hacker News has most definitely fallen victim to the antics, given how many times said antics have popped up on HN recently and have been flagged. I'm flagging these posts and I will keep flagging them too e.g. https://news.
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Both can be simultaneously true
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The former reality tv star is good at reality tv. What’s usually kept behind closed doors is now out in open, because it makes for great viewership. People gobble this up, which has given the reality tv star endless attention Hacker News ha
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by jameslk 2y ago
Yes, I imagine some do like to read and then ponder over the BigQuery docs. I like to get my work done. In my case, o1 nailed BigQuery flawlessly, saving me time. I just needed to feed in some parts of the open source dataset docs

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