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by tsycho 2y ago
Does it support options, or only stocks? How do you get current market prices for investments?
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by tsycho 2y ago
My friend also developed almost continuous eczema for the past couple of years, and tried cutting out a large variety of foods from her diet to see what might be causing it. Everything failed. And then, one day her normal brand of shampoo (
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Ask HN: Why is Apple not being sued along with Google in DOJ lawsuit?
10 points by tsycho 2y ago|5 comments
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by tsycho 2y ago
I thoroughly recommend this. I have been doing this with my kid since birth as well. I tried building an app first, but decided that the maintenance costs of email (close to zero), and the easy access to multiple people (only my spouse and
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by tsycho 2y ago
I have the opposite take/hope. Self driving buses will be such a boon for public transportation. Now you can have 24 hour buses, that operate on holidays as well, or even dynamic, short term routes based on demand (eg: after a concert
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by tsycho 2y ago
This comment is a great answer to those commenters who say "Google bought YouTube/Android/..., they haven't invented anything since Search" miss the actual hard part entirely. (same for Meta wrt Instagram) These pro
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by tsycho 2y ago
I thought Gemini 1.5 Pro is available immediately, and the Workspace stuff is coming in 1 month. Fair point if you are talking about the video understanding stuff, I don't know when that's coming.
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by tsycho 2y ago
All the video understanding and agentic stuff (if it actually works at low-enough latency in real life) is very impressive. Put this on a robot, call it Jeeves, and it becomes a pretty cool personal assistant :)
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Google I/O Thoughts?
22 points by tsycho 2y ago|20 comments
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by tsycho 2y ago
I see articles like this claiming that there are tons of employees at Big Tech who get paid for doing basically nothing. And yet, my (and all of my friends') combined observed experience of Big Tech is the opposite. Almost every team i
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by tsycho 2y ago
I agree, and have the same problem. What books did you end up liking for 9 year olds?
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by tsycho 3y ago
It's amusing that most of the child commenters assume that you switched from left to right, while you were (intentionally) neutral about that.
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by tsycho 3y ago
Has anyone tried training a neural net to distinguish between photographed vs AI generated images? Of course, you will need to remove exifs or other metadata, but this sounds like the kind of domain that NNs are good at.
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by tsycho 3y ago
Here's what I want to build: A rotatable, table-top round disc base, with a contraption to keep a mobile phone straight and stable. The stand itself will have 4 small unidirectional mics, to figure out which direction (after filtering
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by tsycho 3y ago
Which OS are you taking about? In this article's context (Windows), you would have put in the effort to download Chrome yourself and then used it, which is a heck of a lot of intent, as compared to what Microsoft is doing here.
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by tsycho 3y ago
This still happens consistently, and I don't even have to leave the country, I just have to buy flights to a foreign country (eg: for vacation) or buy something from a foreign website (eg: buying a gift for my family). The only reason
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by tsycho 3y ago
I see comments like yours, and I seriously can't tell if you're trolling or whether you genuinely believe this. However, I'll try to answer (once) in good faith. There are so many things in life, due to either scarcity, lack
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by tsycho 3y ago
1. Define your APIs in terms of "what" it should do, not "how" (which is for the implementation). 2. Use protocols/interfaces in Swift/Java to define APIs. 3. Then write tests to the API's public contract,
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by tsycho 3y ago
But why would legalization of prostitution increase sex trafficking, which is already a crime? With legalization, sex workers have more rights and a higher ability to go independent, or to go to the police when they suffer abuse. I suspect
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Ask HN: Is no one bothered that Apple silently installed Journal app on iPhones?
13 points by tsycho 3y ago|22 comments
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by tsycho 3y ago
Their algorithms very likely look at (I hope so, at least) spam marking rates. I would bet that users mark promotional emails at a order of magnitude higher rate than transactional emails.
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by tsycho 3y ago
What would burning achieve?
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by tsycho 3y ago
[Pure speculation; I don't work in the UI space at all, and at neither of these companies] I wonder if Adobe is secretly happy about this. They were acquiring Figma at the peak of the market (for growth stock/startup valuations) b
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by tsycho 3y ago
Now imagine a world where realtor fees are 1% instead of 6%. On a 300k house, that's 15k you don't pay to the realtor. In this world, your realtor doesn't bring you an extra 12k from the buyer, but you still come ahead. And t
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by tsycho 3y ago
It's unfortunate how any discussion around Google/Apple/Meta in particular just devolves to the same repeated talking points :( For the "Google does it too on google.com" commenters, imagine if Microsoft did this wh
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by tsycho 3y ago
Spanish newspapers tried this. They failed miserably. Don't let your dislike for social media blind you from the reality that the world has changed, for the majority of the people in the world. People will spend their free time on thes
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by tsycho 3y ago
WTF! How are these doctors not in jail? The medical system in the US is even worse than I thought
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by tsycho 4y ago
As an individual, you have much lesser money to spread around than a company. If a company with 25+ million in cash has to manage more than 100 accounts, they are more likely to make some other banking mistake and lose some of that money th
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by tsycho 4y ago
Interesting thought, treating your debt like a bond. If you no longer need the debt, i.e. you have the cash to pay it back, you could _theoretically_ loan out that cash to someone else at the higher current market interest rate. Loaning mon
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by tsycho 4y ago
With Apple, people consider even their failures as features :s

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