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by rurp 3mo ago
As a very novice wood splitter the thing that most jumped out to me was the wood splitting in one swing every time. That's one or two orders of magnitude off from my experience.
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by rurp 4mo ago
Totally disagree. The cost of every single customer doing this for many different purchases is immense, and a completely unproductive use of time. It would be much better if pricing was as clear as possible so people can make make good purc
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by rurp 4mo ago
This stuff varies a lot by location. Sure in San Francisco and a handful of other cities parking and tolls cost a great deal, but that's not the case in most locations and presumably Waymo's goal is to expand far beyond a few loca
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by rurp 4mo ago
Did you mean no one who does 100% of their driving in urban cities ? I could maybe see that happening some day, but 10s of millions of Americans don't fit that description and to one degree or another drive in areas that Waymo has no
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by rurp 4mo ago
It's a good thing you weren't in charge of nuclear arsenals during the Cold War, sounds like your approach would have been unchecked proliferation. Fortunately developing frontier models takes immense amounts of specific resources
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by rurp 4mo ago
Yeah I'd say this has been a big concern ever since it turned out immensely expensive training methods could create effective frontier models. So far at least, open source models have kept up better than I expected, but they definitely
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by rurp 4mo ago
> All the software engineers we need for the next 20-30 years are already in the current workforce. There's no way of knowing what the industry will look like decades from now. Even assuming the prediction that seniors become 10x mo
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by rurp 4mo ago
It's a two party system in a big complicated country. Voting for a candidate you dislike and often disagree with is the norm. People vote against opposing candidates as much as they vote for something, especially in recent years. In th
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by rurp 4mo ago
Google pushes the exact same thing. The onboarding flow when I setup my Pixel highlighted a few new features and they gave that prime attention real estate to that same exact feature, showing how you can remove objects from a photo. The spe
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by rurp 4mo ago
No, an index reflects a specifically defined subset of the market. The S&P 500 is very much not trying to include the entire stock market. There are more than 500 public companies...
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by rurp 4mo ago
I avoided Linkedin for many years before finally breaking down and signing up while job hunting. If you had shown me the actual feed content out of context and asked if it was real or satire I would have guessed satire. So much of the conte
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by rurp 4mo ago
I've had the setting for AI features turned off in gmail for many years now and am quite happy about it. Using the "dumb" version, there isn't a single feature I've wished existed that might be under those settings.
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by rurp 4mo ago
Selling more stock is usually a lever a company can pull when they want. So even if a normal company in normal times doesn't have a reason to do so often, they can if circumstances change. Tesla and some other meme stocks have been ext
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by rurp 4mo ago
Yes that's definitely possible and will probably happen. The big hurdle is traction though. How many people will know about it and be willing/able to shift into it? A lot of passive investments are effectively locked in by unreali
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by rurp 4mo ago
I switched my personal projects to Codeberg recently and couldn't be happier. After spending lord knows how many hours wading through cluttered buggy interfaces in Github it's a pleasure to use a clean intuitive platform. Years ag
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by rurp 4mo ago
Or... just hit the reader mode browser button that has been standard for years longer than LLMs have existed. I had a coworker talking about how great some AI coding tool is because it can sort a bunch of strings alphabetically for him. Thi
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by rurp 4mo ago
The AI slop accounts that are absolutely flooding social media and are controlled by scammers or propagandists are there to help people?
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by rurp 4mo ago
Google's search AI caused a panic in my household just several nights ago. We were looking up an issue with our pet and the very first thing my partner saw searching google was an AI answer saying you need to panic, this is an emergenc
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by rurp 4mo ago
Rock climbing involves a lot of building anchors and setting gear that you trust your life to. The shorthand my first partner and I started using to say an anchor was perfectly solid was a tongue in cheek "Eh, good enough". That w
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by rurp 4mo ago
I think most people, correctly in my opinion, look around at the powerful people in our society and think that there is ~0% chance they willingly hand over most of their wealth for the betterment of humanity. Pretty much every single action
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by rurp 4mo ago
Totally agree with all of this. When I was younger I'd heard that owning a home was financially a no-brainer so many times I took it as fact. Boy was I in for a surprise when the reality of actually owning a home kicked in. It's n
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by rurp 4mo ago
Do you remember when the top marginal tax rate was 90%? Things don't only move in one direction. The effective tax rate on the ultra wealthy has been steadily trending down for decades.
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by rurp 4mo ago
Yes absolutely, when automation increases the rate of something many orders of magnitude that often is a qualitative difference. It's weird to me how often on HN of all places I see arguments that can be refuted with "scale matter
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by rurp 4mo ago
Right, redoing your entire workflow around a new corporate AI platform is signing up for a lot of throwaway work. If you like fiddling with things like that then great, but if the tooling is a means to an end and you're more interested
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by rurp 4mo ago
I've long resigned myself to the fact that a lay audience will usually struggle to understand basic statistics. On HN though I don't expect to see those same issues much but have been surprised to see how many posters have trouble
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by rurp 4mo ago
We're talking about an entire generation being impoverished and powerless, and the response from people like you and Schmidt is a dismissive "winners and losers". If this is the whole plan from AI evangelists be prepared for
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by rurp 4mo ago
Yeah, Nate has talked a number of times about polling errors being correlated across states. In fact that's probably one of the most common mistakes models can make, treating correlated inputs as independent. There's a long histor
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by rurp 4mo ago
That makes as much sense as visiting ESPN and expecting them to tell you who will definitely win the Super Bowl next year. Anyone expecting that is going to be disappointed often no matter what. I thought it went without saying but a good a
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by rurp 4mo ago
Given how Google has managed their core products I expect them to monetize AI searches as aggressively as possible over the long term. At best we'll get highly tailored paid suggestions inserted into chats. But I think it's more l
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by rurp 4mo ago
I don't personally feel surprised at all about this, but I am sad and angry. The open internet has been an incredible resource for billions of people and we're seeing Google actively destroy it for their own profit. That sucks. Th

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