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by kokanee 4y ago
True. I work remotely in a different state from my company's HQ, but I travel to the office for about a week once a quarter. I actually feel safer with this arrangement than if my HQ were local, because everyone around me is slowly get
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by kokanee 4y ago
Oh interesting, thanks. I didn't know this was actually a thing.
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by kokanee 4y ago
Agree; and in general I think people underestimate how heavy and potentially dangerous extensions are. Adding an extension is like loading an additional webpage on each primary page load, and it can make as many requests and consume as many
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by kokanee 4y ago
GPT doesn't browse or make HTTP requests at all. This bug is because the author of wtfdoesthiscompanydo.vercel.app isn't executing JS when they scrape the content, before they submit it to GPT. They're probably just making an
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by kokanee 4y ago
I think you just discovered a new kind of attack: ML Prompt Injection. Are we going to start putting hidden "ignore previous instructions" text at the top of all our websites as an anti-scraping mechanism?
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by kokanee 4y ago
The implication of my point was that I expect this to be the first in an endless series of new prices, tiers, and SKUs, each one offering the most power to those who can pay the most.
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by kokanee 4y ago
Fair; I think my poorly-articulated concern is that there seems to be a healthy pace of technological change at which our productivity increases but people have time to adapt and modernize their income streams. If technology replaces human
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by kokanee 4y ago
$20 is the very first price tier introduced at the very outset of what could be one of the most powerful companies of our generation. Google.com adding a single yellow box with an advertisement seemed reasonable, too. Anyone else having ser
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by kokanee 4y ago
I think a lot of folks in this thread are forgetting the first day they spent using git. It's kind of like asking why someone would create a text editor in a world where vim exists, since vim can already do everything you need. Sure, b
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by kokanee 4y ago
I agree in principle, but the reality is that we're facing a near future where the output of ML models is indistinguishable from the output of an AI. So if we just replace "AI" with "ML" in all these discussions abo
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by kokanee 4y ago
Theoretical question: if spectrography advanced to the point that we could see individual organisms and their behavior from lightyears away, and then we placed a very large mirror very far away from our planet, could we aim a telescope at t
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by kokanee 4y ago
Technically it depends on the levelized cost of hydrogen, which encompasses capex, opex, and a slew of other relevant inputs. Similar "levelized cost" formulas are used throughout the utility sector to make these kinds of decision
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by kokanee 4y ago
This won't be relevant for most readers, but my answer would have to be the $20 Gentle Leader for my dog. She is an incurable leash-puller, to the extent that the nerves in her face were damaged and her jaw was completely paralyzed for
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by kokanee 4y ago
My time spent creating "stick death" videos in Flash as a kid is probably one of the main reasons I'm a software engineer today.
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by kokanee 4y ago
This may have been true a few years ago but climate tech is very trendy among investors right now, and every VC is going to want their piece. https://www.svb.com/industry-insights/clean-tech-sustainabil...
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by kokanee 4y ago
Fascinating - saving the planet by adding iron chloride to the mix of pollutants emitted by diesel-powered tanker ships in order to convert methane into CO2. I can't imagine many more ways in which the approach could be unintuitive, bu
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by kokanee 4y ago
Interesting position. Are you suggesting that the solution will not involve innovation, or that climate change is unsolvable? As an employee at a climate tech company, I think the primary roadblock is simply investing resources (money and t
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by kokanee 4y ago
Yeah, this is not VC "going green" for ethical reasons, this is VC investing in the next tech wave, which luckily is climate tech.
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by kokanee 4y ago
Sure, but that's not what Twelve is doing or what the "I should start an oil company" comment suggested. They're talking about extracting CO2 to make fuel, and then burning it again in the same petroleum-based economy.
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by kokanee 4y ago
YC's business model is to invest in "everything you can try." I don't think this intended to be a list of opportunities that YC believes are 100% likely to succeed; it's intended to be a list that probably includes
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by kokanee 4y ago
https://www.twelve.co is doing this (with fuels as well as other carbon-derived chemicals). Trouble is, this is carbon recycling, not carbon sequestering. It's better than the status quo, but I'm more excited about ide
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by kokanee 4y ago
This seems to be one of the better responses to my comment. Thanks. Some thoughts in reply: 1) People should be more hesitant to speak in absolutes. Unfortunately it’s possible that having a nuanced take is inversely correlated with the ten
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by kokanee 4y ago
1) The author is arguing against skeptics who are "infinitely hostile" to crypto because it consists of "100% scams". I don't think many skeptics believe crypto is 100% scams. Most skeptics would say that the use ca
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by kokanee 4y ago
User and business priorities are aligned during the growth phase, when user acquisition is the most important thing for the business. Once there is a self-sustaining level of user activity and new signups, revenue per engagement becomes an
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by kokanee 4y ago
Some would argue that where conditions for trees aren't suitable, the solution is to build a forest there. Forests themselves are the best terraforming tool, if you can get them started by supplying the necessary nutrients, energy, and
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by kokanee 4y ago
This isn't a codebase that I inherited at work, but an open source library that I used at work which impressed me: Leaflet JS has been around for 11 years, enables web devs to do really complex mapping tasks easily, has zero dependenci
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by kokanee 4y ago
The fun thing about Hacker News is that no matter the topic, there's always someone in the comments who knows more than the author about something they wrote.
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by kokanee 4y ago
I'm assuming the whole thing is a joke, but if we want to play along with the pedantry, I would object on similar grounds: A motion sensor is not an "input device," it is a sensory monitor with thresholds and triggers control
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by kokanee 4y ago
My problem is a bit different, and I'm curious if others can relate. I constantly have a project in the works, but once I solve the interesting technical hurdles and prove that the concept works, I suddenly think of a "better idea
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by kokanee 4y ago
We can argue about what the article did and didn't imply, but what's interesting to me about the issue you raise is that among lurkers there is probably a much lower rate of fake/spam activity, since there are fewer reasons f

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