putlake

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by putlake 1y ago
What you are saying is very reasonable but companies don't deduct enough in taxes at the time the RSUs vest. I don't know why that is. I'm sure there's some arcane reason. That's why it's important to keep trac
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Money mistakes you didn't know you're making(jasuja.us)
34 points by putlake 1y ago|35 comments
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Show HN: Follow/Block Users on Hacker News (My First Chrome Extension)(chromewebstore.google.com)
4 points by putlake 1y ago|0 comments
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by putlake 1y ago
Shipping lanes is more Peterson's area of professional expertise, isn't it? He's not an economist.
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by putlake 1y ago
LLMs are famously bad at individual letters in a word. So something like this never works: Can you please give me 35 words that begin with A, end with E, are 4-6 characters long and do not contain any other vowels except A and E?
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by putlake 2y ago
100% agree. TSV is under-rated. Tabs don't naturally occur in data nearly as often as commas so tabs are a great delimiter. Copy paste into Excel also works much better with tabs. Code editors may convert tabs to spaces but are you rea
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I broke Grok3 and sent it into an infinite loop (without meaning to)(blog.diffen.com)
3 points by putlake 2y ago|0 comments
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by putlake 2y ago
In your "how to cook the perfect steak" video [1] there's a picture of various doneness levels of a steak. It's a fantastic picture. The creator of that picture will get jackshit from this. Phind gets value, the user get
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by putlake 2y ago
I don't know why you are getting downvoted except that your opinion is unpopular in this thread. It's a legit counterargument though. However, speaking for myself as an N of 1, the reason I buy an iPhone is because of the assuranc
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by putlake 2y ago
As someone who runs nginx locally for web development, this is scary. One mitigation I can think of is to use this config for you Mac's local nginx: server { listen 80 default_server; server_name _; # some invalid n
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by putlake 2y ago
Since influential people are on this forum, someone should get Bill Watterson nominated for the Nobel prize in literature. His work deserves that honor as much as, if not more than, Bob Dylan.
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The 5 building blocks of general intelligence(blog.diffen.com)
1 points by putlake 2y ago|0 comments
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AI Companies vs. the Open Web(blog.diffen.com)
1 points by putlake 2y ago|1 comments
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by putlake 2y ago
As a user, I love Perplexity. As a web publisher, I would probably want to block it. The UX of AI overviews and summaries disincentives small web publishers from creating new content.
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by putlake 2y ago
It's funny I posted the inverse of this. As a web publisher, I am fine with folks using my content to train their models because this training does not directly steal any traffic. It's the "train an AI by reading all the book
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by putlake 2y ago
A lot of comments here are confusing the two use cases for crawling: training and summarization. Perplexity's utility as an answer engine is RAG (retrieval augmented generation). In response to your question, they search the web, crawl
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by putlake 2y ago
While I am somewhat sympathetic to the board based on what I have read about Altman's behavior pattern (he was allegedly fired from YC for similar reasons of not disclosing conflicts of interest), it is strange to me how thin the board
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New shoe sizing system proposed for Indians(indianexpress.com)
1 points by putlake 2y ago|0 comments
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by putlake 2y ago
Office on the web is actually great. They did the hard work of making it work with most of the features you want to use. It's definitely better than Google Docs. It's a daily driver for me. Yes, sometimes I'll switch over to
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by putlake 3y ago
Completely disagree. Every project that has xz/liblzma added as a dependency should be looking at the source, compiling from said source and making sure their binaries that they shipped with their software match this. For example, home
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Anthropic details "many-shot jailbreaking" to evade LLM safety guardrails(techcrunch.com)
10 points by putlake 3y ago|2 comments
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by putlake 3y ago
> In 2020, Showmax acquired exclusive licensing rights to stream HBO’s content in Africa, which has become one of the biggest advantages for the company. “Although we now watch a few local shows on Showmax, my favorite shows were Billion
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by putlake 3y ago
"Someone even falsely claimed to be our CMO Founder on camera, causing a small crisis for our anonymous founder story." This is my favorite part of the article.
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by putlake 3y ago
This chart is based on forward inflation expectation, which is probably lower than actual. Ideally I'd like to see this chart until 10 years ago that compares the rate of interest on a US 10Y t-bond when issued with the actual inflatio
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by putlake 3y ago
I wonder if YouTube has a department that keeps track of what is coming into the public domain in which country at what date. Or will their systems be out of date and still flag copyright violations on this content?
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by putlake 3y ago
Fascinating implications on search engines. An army of SEO professionals, publishers and all manner of companies that rely on Google for traffic will be interested in pushing for a process review of Google's AI systems.
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by putlake 3y ago
HDMI is better than USB but it's still hard to do plug it in in dark, hard to reach places.
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by putlake 3y ago
This is a good point and your comment below ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37768419 ) highlights it well. What people don't realize is that this is in the interest of the consumer. I used to work at Amazon (alt
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by putlake 3y ago
It's true that the last 15 years have been a fantastic time to buy a house. And yes, you are better off compared to those who didn't do that because they were too young or didn't have the money. But don't ever feel bad a
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by putlake 3y ago
I don't trust anyone other than Google with my passwords. Google password manager is only available on Chrome. So unfortunately I'm locked into Chrome. I do like Edge and Firefox but the passwords are an issue.

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