polalavik

46 ms·

1.
by polalavik 9d ago
“We’re right 50.75 percent of the time… but we’re 100 percent right 50.75 percent of the time. You can make billions that way.” - Robert Mercer, the former co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies
2.
by polalavik 13d ago
reminds me of this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEBv0STiYhI&t which basically says the same thing - they dont think like humans so they dont have context, understand norms,values or implications we take for gran
3.
by polalavik 16d ago
funny enough this looks written by AI. could have used a little more creativity.
4.
by polalavik 1mo ago
I swear claude took a detour recently, its written output has been nearly incomprehensible to me. At first i thought i was getting AI-brained and just lost critical thinking but as i dug into response after response its was just the most ob
5.
by polalavik 2mo ago
100% had said something to the tune of this months ago in another thread on passkeys > Passkeys need a marketing campaign and UX overhaul. I’m a technical guy, but I really don’t understand what the fuck is going on when I use a passkey.
6.
by polalavik 3mo ago
is there like a unfathomable amount of people immune to the ad cancer of this website? how do they have enough traffic to justify this? may they succumb to AI summarizing their site so people do not have to visit it.
7.
by polalavik 3mo ago
> In today's world, what's the best way to get to a top-tier analytic essay? I'm curious to see. AI generated content graded by AI for what goal exactly? I don't understand this contest at all.
8.
by polalavik 3mo ago
holy smokes this whole website is beautiful and so well done.
9.
by polalavik 4mo ago
both are aggravating. i think you can use AI, say you use AI, and then demonstrate your understanding of what it created through documentation or other means. Hiding it or blatantly turning off your brain and saying "AI told me" a
10.
by polalavik 4mo ago
Same boat, although the soul sucking, I find, comes from the fact that AI can iterate on ideas so much faster than I could even begin to pull out a pen and paper that I find myself in an existential crisis when I use it too often. What is t
11.
by polalavik 4mo ago
it was probably never about winning for Musk, but to leverage the legal system to air out some drama in open AI and some internal dialogue among the execs of the company for bad press.
12.
FAA to begin collecting user fees for commercial launches(spacenews.com)
5 points by polalavik 5mo ago|0 comments
13.
by polalavik 5mo ago
slow is smooth, smooth is fast
14.
by polalavik 6mo ago
so an employee at a VC? lmao
15.
by polalavik 7mo ago
i don't get why more folks aren't just going for the much cheaper option like this https://www.solaris-suborbital.space/
16.
by polalavik 7mo ago
Why not usb c male?
17.
Snail: File analyzer for software defined radio recordings(github.com)
1 points by polalavik 7mo ago|0 comments
18.
Cryptolog – The NSA's Internal Magazine(view.officeapps.live.com)
2 points by polalavik 8mo ago|0 comments
19.
by polalavik 9mo ago
I think a deeper dive on this is The Revolt of the Public by Martin Gurri [1] which argues, in short, that people have been enabled by the internet (which he calls the infosphere) and that mobilization via the internet has created extreme t
20.
by polalavik 9mo ago
No because what if the list is half cut off by the page but you want to go to the bottom? If it doesn’t scroll the page it’s even worse. If it does scroll the page it’s not great. It’s just bad design. Also not intuitive. I didn’t read the
21.
by polalavik 9mo ago
We need land value tax bad [1] In Los Angeles I’ve watched business after business close because their rent was increased by their commercial landlord only for the property to sit vacant in some cases (no exaggeration) for over 5 years! Tha
22.
by polalavik 9mo ago
Exactly passkeys are confusing to the laymen (and not Laymen) because it’s is an orchestration across multiple services and devices. If I’m using a passkey to login to my Gmail via chrome browser but used my phone what just happened - did i
23.
by polalavik 9mo ago
Passkeys need a marketing campaign and UX overhaul. I’m a technical guy, but I really don’t understand what the fuck is going on when I use a passkey. All I know is one day it appeared as an option and it let me login to things. I don’t rea
24.
by polalavik 10mo ago
This 1000%. The Ui is so convoluted I’m scared that I’ll leave something on and be charged a fortune.
25.
by polalavik 10mo ago
similar experience - i freelanced recently (embedded systems) where i was to interface to a "software engineer" doing the backend. Every. single. time. we hit an interface problem he would say “if you don’t understand the error fe
26.
by polalavik 10mo ago
holy hell google cloud is so confusing i just ended up using (a much more expensive) digital ocean droplet instead for a little project. I guess they only really care about enterprise customers who can burn tons of money figuring it out, bu
27.
by polalavik 10mo ago
I really really hate the term "troll farm" it completely minimizes nation state level propaganda machines down to something that sounds like its just one big internet joke for gags. The cutesy 'fun' language of 'tro
28.
Ask HN: How did you get your first paying customers
3 points by polalavik 10mo ago|2 comments
29.
by polalavik 10mo ago
https://paperright.xyz A simple 50/30/20 budgeting app built on manual entry. I found AI/automated trackers just meant i started to ignore everything. Research also suggests manual tracking trumps automated/a
30.
by polalavik 10mo ago
https://paperright.xyz A simple 50/30/20 budgeting app built on manual entry. I found AI/automated trackers just meant i started to ignore everything. Research also suggests manual tracking trumps automated/a

More ›