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by nhod 1y ago
i dunno, i have gotten tons of real work done with LLM’s. i just had o3 edit a contract and swap out pieces of it to make it work with SOW’s instead of embed the terms directly in the contract. i used to have to do that myself and have a la
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FastVLM: Efficient vision encoding for vision language models(github.com)
367 points by nhod 1y ago|74 comments
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by nhod 1y ago
i think the point of the article isn’t about the failure of any specific machine or model, but rather the failure mode that arises from the phenomenon of humans switching en masse from doing their own thinking to outsourcing it to machine
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by nhod 1y ago
This reminds me of one of my very favorite essays of all time, "Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person" by Alain de Botton from the School of Life. The title is somewhat misleading, and I resisted reading it for a couple years as a r
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by nhod 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean here? Musk has a history of doing both incredibly useful and cool things, and also incredibly dumb, cruel, and for some people even terrible things. That context should be part of any clear thinking around hi
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by nhod 2y ago
There was a post on HN a couple days ago about the launch of bookshop.org, which lets you buy e-books from your local bookseller. Good timing! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43056526
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by nhod 2y ago
Very cool guys. I am beyond excited about this — I can see how this could transform certain projects and relationships — and it is useless if it doesn’t work in the language people need. What languages do you actually support? The site says
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by nhod 2y ago
My understanding is that Brooklyn Mirage was engineered specifically to be both loud and at the same time permit a conversation with the people next to you, so your experience is a feature, not a bug. I think we’re all just not used to havi
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by nhod 2y ago
This made me tear up a bit. May we all be able to approach those with whom we disagree with such clear eyes and full hearts.
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by nhod 2y ago
Or psychology or therapy. Psychiatry is paying $300 an hour for a ‘coach’ to prescribe you a pill so you don’t have to talk to a psychologist or coach or therapist.
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by nhod 2y ago
all of our problems are created out of thin air. we literally make up all of our problems. no one is ever upset about the way things are ; they are only upset about the stories they make up about the way things are supposed to be , or
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3rd circuit rules companies are liable for their algorithms(reuters.com)
4 points by nhod 2y ago|0 comments
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by nhod 2y ago
You probably didn’t take enough to meet even a fraction of your RDA, let alone enough to move the needle. Potassium’s therapeutic window (the difference between effective dose and lethal dose) is relatively small. The FDA limits OTC potassi
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by nhod 2y ago
this depends on where you live. there are many places in which people directly vote on complex issues. people in California voted to ban gay marriage. people in the UK voted on the incredibly complex topic of Brexit. dumb people vote for du
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by nhod 2y ago
Is this a hunch, or do you know of some data to back up your reservations? Copilot+ PC’s, which all run models locally, have the best battery life of any portable PC devices, ever. These devices have in turn taken a page out of Apple Silico
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by nhod 2y ago
In the US, it’s free on Delta for SkyMiles members, which is in turn free to join. It’s also free for everyone on JSX with no strings, and they actually are the first airline I know of to use StarLink. Additionally it’s free on most US airl
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by nhod 2y ago
i understand and agree that this should at the very least have an opt-in dialog box. that said, apple did add the option for end-to-end encrypted “advanced data protection” for the majority of icloud data a year or so ago. perhaps they also
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by nhod 3y ago
I wonder why it is designed so that the tanker controls the aircraft being refueled, rather than the other way around?
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by nhod 3y ago
Every time I visit an archive.today link from HN I get stuck in a weird pseudo-CloudFlare/ReCaptcha “prove you are human” page, and every time I click “I am human” the page reloads. Are these real?
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by nhod 3y ago
MDMA-AT is definitely not taking it regularly. It is done only a handful of times, with pharmaceutical-grade MDMA and no other adulterants, in controlled doses, in a controlled setting. Very different than a Tesla pill at a rave every other
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by nhod 3y ago
I have a few I love! NextDraft https://nextdraft.com is written by Dave Pell. Dave is from the 90’s-era “digerati,” folks like Kevin Kelly and Louis Rossetto. He signs each newsletter “Editor, Internet.” He surfaces the news of
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by nhod 3y ago
It’s also how middle-class kids whose parents don’t support them in any way get financial aid. I understand why the system is the way that it is — it covers probably 95% of cases correctly — but for those of us who were essentially on our o
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by nhod 3y ago
Good question — I left in 2002 and the bar smoking ban took full effect in 2003, so I don't really know the answer.
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by nhod 3y ago
I don’t think so. The Wayback Machine had some at one point but I haven’t kept up with it.
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by nhod 3y ago
Trivia: it’s called Bowery Electric because for many many years before we moved in with Remote it was a hardware store called… Bowery Electric.
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by nhod 3y ago
This is a good question. Remote (and its ancestor We Live in Public) was way ahead of its time in regards to how public people were going to be about sharing their lives online. In many ways Remote was merely an instance of much larger tren
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by nhod 3y ago
The founders of Remote (Leo Fernekes and two other partners, Kevin Centanni and Bob Stratton) were some of the funding, and they partnered with a local family who owned and ran a bunch of (very successful) dive bars in the East Village. The
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by nhod 3y ago
So many memories flooding back. We once had a party at Razorfish and I somehow got in touch with random downtown people who made weird alcohols. One of them was a woman who made legit absinthe from real wormwood back before absinthe was leg
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by nhod 3y ago
The founders of Remote were in fact the technical team Josh Harris hired to create We Live in Public!
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by nhod 3y ago
Yep. 3rd and Bowery, before CBGB closed and the East Village went from the bohemian hipster world of RENT to the expensive place it is today. The Bowery had just barely changed from “don’t go there ever” to “oh, cool!”

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