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23andMe Files for Bankruptcy(linkedin.com)
2 points by sbochins 2y ago|1 comments
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by sbochins 2y ago
It was actually pro-facism. This isn’t the first time a movie was based on a book, where the movie was a dark comedy, by simply representing the argument in the book. Similar thing happened with Dr Strangelove, which was based on some crumm
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by sbochins 2y ago
It’s been operating safely in each market they’re in. The AI keeps getting better. They have no competition (please don’t bother mentioning Tesla vapor ware). Path to high growth seems pretty sure at this point.
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by sbochins 2y ago
This is a silly charade. To actually cut the debt, it requires congress. Not just saving a couple millions dollars and posting on twitter about it. We’ll need to cut Medicare, Medicaid, social security, the military, etc. All the popular st
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Ask HN: Automation to follow TikTok creators on other platforms
3 points by sbochins 2y ago|0 comments
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by sbochins 2y ago
Seems like a strange thing to be building around. Lots of money has gotten into VR and it has been around for a while now. It has never gotten out of the geek niche and likely won’t. It’s the only way I play games nowadays and wish it would
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by sbochins 2y ago
This paper’s method might look slick on a first pass—some new architecture tweak or loss function that nudges benchmark metrics upward. But as an ML engineer, I’m more interested in whether this scales cleanly in practice. Are we looking at
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by sbochins 2y ago
“It’s refreshing to see a founder’s honest postmortem that doesn’t just blame ‘bad timing’ or ‘market conditions.’ Instead, he’s ripping off the Band-Aid and laying bare the pain points—no hype, no quiet pivot into mediocrity. It’s the kind
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by sbochins 2y ago
I’m not very confident this is going to survive our next “populist” administration. Whatever faults you can attribute to the current administration, the FTC has taken many actions that have been pro consumer over the past 4 years.
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by sbochins 2y ago
Yea, this was really disturbing. Your work and manager already have a lot of power over you. It seems really nefarious to ask employees to bring in vulnerabilities about themselves from outside of work. I don’t buy the team building nonsens
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by sbochins 2y ago
It’s probably code that was previously machine generated that they’re now calling “AI Generated”.
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by sbochins 2y ago
It’s pretty easy for me to envision a world where nobody makes anything and nothing comes to a halt. It’s just a matter of adding automation in places where we didn’t previously have it.
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by sbochins 2y ago
This seems a little silly to me. It was already possible for a script kiddie to kludge together something they didn’t understand —- copying code snippets from stack overflow, etc. And yet, developers continue to write finely crafted code th
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by sbochins 2y ago
How do you get access? I don’t have it and am a ChatGPT plus subscriber.
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by sbochins 2y ago
I doubt that’s true. But, I’d be interested in an actual example, if you have one. Rich folks tend to avoid taxation at all costs, since that tends to be one of the best ways to retain their wealth.
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by sbochins 2y ago
I’ve been happy with Austin Air purifiers. Most of the other brands help, but don’t handle most VOCs. If you have allergies or other issues, it’s better to stick with top quality brands. https://housefresh.com/austin-air-hea
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by sbochins 3y ago
Let me guess, you’re one of these people that think the Irish had it harder than African Americans in early US history.
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by sbochins 3y ago
I don’t know what we’ll be using 15 years from now. But the thing that is really sad in your list is that you stopped using mercurial in 2015, but still use git to this day.
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by sbochins 4y ago
Totally agree. The non-fun parts are usually the parts that you have to pay someone to do. I work on a pretty complicated piece of software with some interesting technical challenges. But, the most valuable things I can work on are around c
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by sbochins 4y ago
I always feel dirty following the latest Twitter news. It feels like reading the tabloids at this point. But anyway, is there anyone that still buys the free speech angle from Musk? So far, he has just brought back some right wing accounts,
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by sbochins 4y ago
I used to follow the conventional wisdom (there won’t be wide base adoption of cryptocurrencies, but blockchain tech will be useful in a variety of other technologies). I never really looked to hard into blockchain or the work being done in
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by sbochins 4y ago
This comment and the subsequent edit is the usual result when looking deeply into the actual chemicals we consume and knowing whether or not they’re safe. The various ways toxins are in our food supplies and things we interact on a day to d
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by sbochins 5y ago
I don’t really see anything new in this essay. I read Beating the Averages a while back and it was pretty eye opening to me at the time. If this post struck you, it’s probably worth reading that essay, since it expands more on your Lisp Mac
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by sbochins 5y ago
If you have multiple smart TVs in your house, it’s simpler to have a single media server and connect to it via the smart TV software.
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by sbochins 5y ago
I don’t get the no boilerplate aspect of your comment. For all that Golang has going for it, avoiding boilerplate isn’t one of them. I’m thinking specifically about multiple clauses at the beginning of functions passing up return values and
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by sbochins 7y ago
I think the rules he’s using for measuring wealth are way off. It only makes sense if your goals are to work a full time job for the rest of your life. Something more meaningful would be financial independence. How long can I live comfortab
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by sbochins 7y ago
Sounds like a code review—which you should all be familiar with. Adding something like that to a security tool requires more approvals than two engineers sitting next to you giving a green light.
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by sbochins 7y ago
Part of the problem is adolescents tend to have a later internal clock. Ideally we would structure school around a later day to compensate for this. This doesn’t only apply to Starcraft players ;)
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by sbochins 7y ago
I usually take note of what I did at the end of the day to give me an idea of how productive / unproductive I was. On a previous time I got everyone to just post their standup updates on Slack. It was quick and asynchronous. If you wan
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by sbochins 7y ago
To understand why that doesn’t matter, try seeing how much the bottom 10% pay. This would include the homeless, etc. Should we expect them to be paying the same tax rate as the richest Americans?

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