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by mmcconnell1618 3y ago
I wonder how much AI models can help. If they are trained on enough real world content, they should be able to produce rough models based on descriptions: "Generate a tropical island about 5km in width by 10km length with an active vol
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
787.5 Million
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
What is under the sheets on page 23 of the PDF? The first vehicle under the 300M looks like it has a flat roofline like an SUV or RoboTaxi. The second vehicle under the 700M looks more like a sedan. https://www.tesla.com/ns_
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
At subsonic speeds, airlines have been slowing planes down to save fuel. There have been significant investments in data collection at all phases of flight resulting in models of the most fuel efficient way to fly. For example, Rolls Royce
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
The Price you Pay for College by Ron Lieber has some interesting background. Essentially, some colleges started raising tuition and then offering more financial aid and discount packages. This made them appear to be providing more to the st
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
One of the first challenges was the Zeran v. American Online case where a business owner was harmed but was never able to compel AOL to provide the identity of the person creating the harmful content. Forcing platforms to provide identity i
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
I wonder of scale of distribution would be a reasonable way to scope liability. For example, if you create a post and 50 of your friends see it, immunity for the platform. If you create a post and the platform distributes it to 1 million pe
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
I wonder if making platforms liable for providing the identity of content producers is a fair balance between providing the platform immunity and allowing those potentially harmed by content to pursue the content creator if needed.
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
I'm surprised there wasn't any human or general guardrail around the calculation that would have flagged such a significant weight difference. No one looked at the passenger count and the weight calculation and thought "whoa,
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
Or just jump in front of the car which is supposed to stop and then your companions handle carjacking the immobilized vehicle. There are many ways to normally stop or trick an autonomous vehicle without needing a big red button to stop it.
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
I love the idea of technological sharks roaming the software oceans. I've seen a few megalodons hanging around the mainframes too. Thanks for sharing a great list.
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
The magnetic battery packs for iPhones would be ideal for swapping out waist attached power as described in the leak. Imagine that you had a couple of these batteries and one could be charging while the other was in use and then you just sw
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
Both the Apple and Chrome password managers sync to the cloud so as long as they can sign in to their account on another computer or phone, they can still get access to the saved passwords.
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
Compound Interest. The idea and the numbers made sense but it is only with many more decades of life that I understand how much impact time has on compounding. If I had understood this when I was younger, I would have made different choices
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
Ben Cloward - Shader Graph Basics for Unity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX_6_bKpP9g&list=PL78XDi0TS4...
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
* Hook Point, Brendan Kane - How to get your message across in 3 seconds * Three Simple Steps, Trevor Blake - Biography based inspiration for mental success * The Price You Pay for College, Ron Lieber - Data driven look at the true cost of
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
Tivo nailed the user experience which is why it took off. In the early years, the response time on the interface was nearly instant for everything. This made it delightful to use because it felt like an extension of your intentions. Today,
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
FAANG jobs have some of the highest salaried positions available but even those will reach a cap because of limited leverage. One way to leverage salaried roles is to move into management where you can leverage your team's hours to acc
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
Are the manager roles full time positions or is it something that I could do on the side to learn from your experience?
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
Under most circumstance, this isn't needed unless you have a big ask. Say, you need 1,000 specific cores and GPUs, then this process is the best way to ensure you have them available. The original poster probably has the ability to spi
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
I used to be a technical seller for Azure. This situation is obviously not great for you as a customer but there are proactive steps you can take to prevent this going forward. Reach out to your sales team and work with them on your roadmap
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
If they qualify for government disability payments, doesn't that by definition make them unable to be counted as 100% available for employment? The author implies they are unemployed by choice but disability payments suggest that at le
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
I really enjoyed watching the Handmade Hero ( https://handmadehero.org/ ) series about creating a game from scratch without all of the external libraries and dependencies. There is something refreshing about having both the u
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
I like the idea of a natural language interface for manual requests. I wonder how that system could be applied at scale to an entire business. I know there are tools that can discover and classify data (for example, personally identifiable
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
Same day closing sounds like a feature that would need to be a part of the underlying ERP. The scenario planning ideas sound more possible as add-on/extensions to the main system. Thanks for the area to investigate.
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Ask HN: What business pain points aren't being addressed well today?
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
Financials are often reported in "constant dollars" and inflated dollars so you can see the impact of both.
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
College admissions teams don't accept the GPA from each school as-is. Instead, they look at the difficulty of each course, the school and their knowledge of the students from that school in past years. They actually use their own formu
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
The Jones Act in combination with the Passenger Vessel Services Act (1889) also forces foreign-flagged cruise ships (which is basically all of them) to stop at a foreign port even if they loop back to the same starting US port or all passen
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by mmcconnell1618 4y ago
Selling to small businesses can take almost as much effort as selling to mid-sized or enterprise companies and your price point will be much smaller. It also takes about as much effort (or more) to support small businesses. I sold ecommerce

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