jrflo

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   by jrflo 5mo ago

   Right, owning a condo has many of the downsides of owning a home without the upside of owning the land, which is the primary thing that appreciates. Not saying it's never a good idea to buy a condo, but it's not as dependable an i
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   by jrflo 5mo ago

   I knew that stack overflow must be suffering because of AI, but I find it hard to believe that questions asked per month has gone from 200k pre-chatbot to (what appears to be) ~1k. Although, I suppose I have not gone there at all in the las
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   by jrflo 5mo ago

   All investments inherently have risk. Looking at historical data the average return is 4% per year on houses in the US. This average includes the '08 housing market crash. If you hold for long enough, your risk is drastically mitigated
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   by jrflo 5mo ago

   A lot of discussion of the cons without discussion of the pros. For example: 1) your home is a hedge against inflation, your $2000 to interest sounds terrible when rent is $2500, but doesn't sound so bad if rent rises to $3500. If you
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   by jrflo 5mo ago

   Condos come with another problem: you don't own the land. The condo itself is a depreciating asset unless maintained and money is put into the unit and the building. You're also exposed to the risk of the area becoming less desira
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   by jrflo 5mo ago

   People hate the concept of AI taking their jobs and the top-down implementation of it at many companies. People love chatbots.
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   by jrflo 5mo ago

   Space compute isn't real though, it's just a scheme to pump the value of SpaceX before IPO by associating it with AI. It's really hard to cool things in space, because there's no matter to transfer the heat away. All you
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   by jrflo 5mo ago

   This is just the next phase of SEO. Maybe it'll be called AIO? Just like with search, this will be and endless struggle of Google and AI providers rolling out fixes, optimization firms finding exploits, those getting patched again, etc
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   by jrflo 5mo ago

   I just meant that it's rendering the 3D view live in your browser, not streaming a video of the rendered output
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    I wonder if people thought something similar when moving from writing low level machine code by hand to high-level languages. No one looks at the actual machine instructions anymore! Will our ability to understand low level instructions atr
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    It appears to be rendering locally, my fans started spinning up when I was wandering through another image on the site.
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    Gotcha. Might be interesting to show some plots of average/median/max input token savings per query as a function of repo size if you're going to do some more comparison testing. The efficiency gains are compelling, but I&#x2
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    Interesting for sure, but I think I need to be convinced this is necessary. How many tokens does Grep use on the average response anyways? Does this reduce input token usage from 100k to 2k per query or from 1k to 20? How does this effect o
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    I agree that there's something interesting here, but the majority of markets are absolute garbage. "Drake Iceman First Week Album Sales", "Arsenal vs Burnley", "Another GTA 6 Trailer Released by May 31", f
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    I think this is far from widespread. It's very difficult to tamper with the majority of markets, and nearly impossible to do so without getting noticed (hence, the news story about this case).
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    Neat, but I don't really see the utility. The time consuming part of CAD drawing comes from figuring out the correct dimensions of each feature, spacing, sizing, tolerances, etc., and constraining the drawing in a way so that it's
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    Besides the people in this thread bemoaning the state of research funding, international students, etc. (all of which are valid), a lot of people are becoming disillusioned with academia. Probably 80% of the recent PhD grads I know are look
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    Was this written in 2022?
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    I think we've found an extension of Goodhart's law- it makes bad measures even worse.
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    Yes, very common use case. I print things remotely from home on the printers at the office all the time, as do many of my colleagues. Probably not a common use case for people with at-home printers, but if you use them professionally people
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    Thanks for asking, I put a link to my personal site in my bio if you want to find it, it's called Scrolless.
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    I see what you're saying, I should have been more specific. I more so mean recommendation algorithms that are artificially created by platforms to drive more traffic. I think the HN method of user votes without manipulation by the plat
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    That's a good idea, thank you for the feedback. I have a hard time finding the line between "advertising" and "sharing something I built" on this site sometimes.
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    I removed the link, just thought it was relevant to the discussion.
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    With some of the legal discovery happening at Facebook, we know that the company did internal research showing that it's products can be addicting and detrimental to kids: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech&#x2
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    I heard someone on a podcast call social media algorithms "the modern-day cigarette" and that really resonated with me. These companies know their product is addictive and bad for users, but they keep pushing it anyways. Like ciga
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    I think energy is actually a good example here of how it should work. At least in the US, it's pretty tightly regulated. Utilities are allowed to run a profitable business, but it's not a totally free market like housing is. We co
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    I don't think that's realistic. If you're looking at the acceleration sound waves cause against a phone's accelerometer, that's likely far below the sensitivity of the sensor- phones are too massive relative to the
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    by jrflo 5mo ago

    I know that the Mythos hype is part marketing by anthropic, but isn't it possible that with a highly scrutinized codebase, there just aren't any notable security exploits in it's current state? The fact that it found nothing
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    by jrflo 6mo ago

    agreed, you could also argue that runoff from golf courses needs to be processed which costs energy, versus total evap cooling where the water immediately re enters the water cycle in the form of vapor. It's not an easy comparison, but