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by jameslk 10mo ago
> We need to solve the job issue. If thoughtful analysis is done on this, it may actually turn out to be that the lack of lodging is a secondary issue, It may be the root issue is the inability for a sub-segment of our population to a st
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by jameslk 10mo ago
There’s a lot of examples, yes in South America too, but the US helped replace or tried to help replace some governments during the Arab Spring. Libya being the biggest example, where the US and its allies imposed a no fly zone to help to
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by jameslk 10mo ago
> One of the dark consequences of America losing its city-upon-a-hill aspirations is we're less able to effectively call out evil abroad. "City-upon-a-hill" is marketing and has never been grounded in fact. It’s hubris and
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by jameslk 10mo ago
Ultimately it seems like agents will end up like browsers, where everything is sandboxed and locked down. They might as well be running in browsers to start off
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by jameslk 10mo ago
HN loves this library but I really don’t get the appeal. It extends HTML with a bunch of attributes with their own syntax: hx-trigger="keyup changed delay:500ms" hx-trigger="click[ctrlKey]" It fires off weird events you’
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by jameslk 10mo ago
I agree with you general point, however in the long term, I don’t think this will financially end well for those betting on housing as an investment. At some point, if a loan essentially spans the course of a borrower’s lifetime, it’s no lo
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by jameslk 10mo ago
Supply constraints are a symptom of the problem, which is housing is a huge leveraged investment for many. You generally won’t get policies for building more when it negatively affects the finances of a majority of voters
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by jameslk 10mo ago
It’s a non sequitur, like saying “Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.” I’m guessing the author meant it tongue in cheek but really meant “everyone I know or follow knows it’s a bubble”
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by jameslk 10mo ago
> Back then, me and other old-timers were answering about 4,000 new-hire questions a month. > Then in December, Claude finally got good enough to answer some of those questions for us. > … Six months later, 80% of the question
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by jameslk 10mo ago
In other words, which companies are default alive or dead? [0] The companies that are sustainable with their own revenue, covering their runway or nearly there, are likely to be alive if there’s not investors to keep them alive. Those with
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by jameslk 10mo ago
ChatGPT: This looks like AI. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a bit of training data in my time.
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by jameslk 10mo ago
> Network Rail said the railway line was fully reopened at around 02:00 GMT and it has urged people to "think about the serious impact it could have" before creating or sharing hoax images. > "The disruption caused by t
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Verbatim: What Is a Photocopier?(nytimes.com)
2 points by jameslk 10mo ago|0 comments
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by jameslk 10mo ago
Funny enough this person is actually where I stumbled upon the article submitted here. Danielle had linked it in one of the videos in a comment as part of an explanation of how it’s done. The jewelry is a wonderful application of the techni
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by jameslk 10mo ago
This is cool! AI is the UI! I could see something like this being especially killer in ecommerce, where comparisons, faceted search, and heavy use of video/photos/3D models is important. Also ecommerce brands love to have control
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by jameslk 10mo ago
> Most soldiers were just ordinary untrained men. It’s unclear what era or region you’re talking about, but during the High Middle Ages in Europe before democracy existed, which is what I was referring to, training depended on social sta
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by jameslk 11mo ago
> if powerful AI is coming regardless, Anthropic believes it's better to have safety-focused labs at the frontier than to cede that ground to developers less focused on safety (see our core views). It used to be that only skilled me
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by jameslk 11mo ago
128 GB should be enough for anybody (just kidding). I hope the M5 Max will have higher RAM limits
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by jameslk 11mo ago
> Layoffs these days increase stock value because everyone is hedging that bad job numbers will force the feds to lower interest rates. Layoffs generally cause stock prices to go up because of anticipated cost reduction/efficiency:
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by jameslk 11mo ago
Yes it’s been a thing for a while
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by jameslk 11mo ago
K-shaped economy is the buzz word these days
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by jameslk 11mo ago
At what point does it become a better financial decision to do telehealth and medical procedures completely in a different country? Can you be health insured outside of the country you live?
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by jameslk 11mo ago
Yeah it’s pretty weird that there’s a need to write this article about it, when there’s plenty of other sites that are detestable if not more. And yet, this causes a Streisand effect. The site hasn’t been around for more than a couple of mo
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by jameslk 11mo ago
The need to hate on Grokipedia is weird to me. It’s another site on the web. It’s an experiment with LLMs. Who cares? It can be filled with a bunch of nonsense, whatever. The internet is like that. Maybe it’ll actually become something usef
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by jameslk 11mo ago
I think the best outcome from this is that many are skeptical enough to question what they’re consuming. I see enough comments that call everything “AI” when it’s clearly not but that seems better rather than the majority taking what they s
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Preserving Snow Crystals(its.caltech.edu)
60 points by jameslk 11mo ago|13 comments
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by jameslk 11mo ago
Potentially someone who’s trying to learn or play around with building an LLM agent, not necessarily intentionally abusive, but “let me try it on this orange site” I could see it being some bored kid honestly
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Bamboo scaffolding helped build Hong Kong's skyline, but deadly fire may end it(apnews.com)
5 points by jameslk 11mo ago|2 comments
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by jameslk 11mo ago
> The key, it seems, is cramming the energy present in microwaves into a very tiny space—the point of contact between the objects in question. In your garden-variety microwave oven, microwaves have a wavelength of about 12.5 cm. But adjo
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by jameslk 11mo ago
Volume != value. Less trading can be a sign of more holding

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