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by whyenot 7mo ago
Great! I can't wait for Clippy to tell me I need to eat more fiber. The future is awesome!
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by whyenot 7mo ago
Just off the top of my head, Canada, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden would all seem to be pretty good counterexamples to your assertion.
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by whyenot 8mo ago
It’s like coders (and now their agents) are re-creating biology. As a former software engineer who changed careers to biology, it’s kind of cool to see this! There is an inherent fuzziness to biological life, and now AI is also becoming inc
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by whyenot 8mo ago
As a middle aged (gen x) woman, my facebook feed is pretty good. It's filled with posts from friends and interest groups that I am a part of. The reason I no longer use FB has nothing to do with the feed, it's because Mark Zuckerb
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by whyenot 8mo ago
I agree with you, but it's a tool that should only be used very sparingly because tariffs can be incredibly difficult to get rid of. See for example the "chicken tax" for light trucks which was instituted in 1964 (because the
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by whyenot 8mo ago
Green algae, which are essentially being farmed by the fungus, are closely related to Plantae and are often included in the kingdom in the broad sense (Plantae sensu lato ).
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by whyenot 8mo ago
> LLMs aren’t built around truth as a first-class primitive. neither are humans > They optimize for next-token probability and human approval, not factual verification. while there are outliers, most humans also tend to tell people wh
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by whyenot 8mo ago
They share a common ancestor with ancient fish, yes. Land mammals also share a common ancestor with starfish. That doesn't make them starfish.
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by whyenot 8mo ago
Do you have a reference or at least some hard numbers for your "fun fact"?
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by whyenot 8mo ago
Gnetum genom does not have a good fossil record, as is the case for many tropical species, but based on molecular clock data, the genus dates to the late Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (66 mya). Gnetum is a really weird gymnosperm, not a flo
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by whyenot 8mo ago
Claude, please remove all invasives
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by whyenot 8mo ago
Wirecutter has stated in the past, maybe it was on their podcast, that they get a lot of their income from affiliate links. They have done some fairly suspicious things like their “gift guide”s for Christmas which are little more than long
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by whyenot 8mo ago
I think it's smart to be skeptical of any "review" site that depends on affiliate links for income. The incentive is no longer to provide advice, it's to sell you something. Anything. Click the link. Good. Now buy someth
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by whyenot 8mo ago
For many (most) people, it was never a "craft," it was a job where with the appropriate skills you could make a ton of money. That's possibly, maybe, maybe not ending, we will see. It is still possible to treat coding as a cr
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by whyenot 8mo ago
I created this account in November 2009 and am fully aware of what "power users" can and can not do ;)
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by whyenot 8mo ago
Yes, but HN still has a strong culture of considering both sides, excellent moderation, and some measures to help nudge people in the right direction. For example, right now I can only upvote your comment. I am not given an option to downvo
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by whyenot 8mo ago
What I find particularly bad about Reddit is the platform is specifically designed to amplify group think and silence competing opinions. All it takes is five more downvotes than upvotes and a comment will lose visibility. It can turn subre
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by whyenot 8mo ago
I am invoking Meta-Betteridge's Law: "any comment that dismisses an article based on it's headline has no value" For large publications like the New Yorker, it is an Editor, NOT THE AUTHOR who writes a headline.
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by whyenot 9mo ago
So scraping bots and “buy for me” bots are bad, but the incredibly annoying sniping bots are OK? That sure feels like a double standard.
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by whyenot 9mo ago
I'm not sure what your point is. This monitor is less than 1/2 the price of Apple's Pro Display XDR with nano texture glass.
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by whyenot 9mo ago
One of the things that made Dark Sky so great was its simplicity and focus. Apple Weather has added many of DS’s features over the past few years, but it’s so much more busy and dense with information. This is a problem that Carrot Weather
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by whyenot 9mo ago
If skilled workers can't come here , then the businesses who need them will just open up satellite shops there . Not an opinion on H-1B, just an observation.
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by whyenot 9mo ago
> Isn't it obvious? Because the ChatGPT output wouldn't be reviewed! Reviewed by a human. It's trivial to take the output from one LLM and have another LLM review it. Also, often mediocrity is enough, especially if it is
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by whyenot 10mo ago
Why are you assuming that a human would be more efficient and better for the environment than an electrically powered robot? It is very inefficient (approx 25%) to use food as an energy source, and humans are always burning energy. They can
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by whyenot 10mo ago
26.2 is looking a lot less glassy. If you want to avoid the glass, I’d wait for its full release.
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by whyenot 10mo ago
Your reference for #1, The Center Square, is a conservative rag and not a neutral source. Also, the source cited in its article, is from the Reason Foundation, a libertarian advocacy organization. Can you provide an actual source that is no
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by whyenot 11mo ago
I wrote starting in the 1950s. It was certainly true for other generations like gen X (me) and also for older millennials.
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by whyenot 11mo ago
I suspect that helicopter parenting is a much larger contributor than physical isolation. We have had sparse suburbs in the US since at least the 1950s, and generations of kids grew up in that environment and did just fine.
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by whyenot 11mo ago
What makes Python a great language for data science, is that so many people are familiar with it, and that it is an easy language to read. If you use a more obscure language like Clojure, Common Lisp, Julia, etc., many people will not be fa
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by whyenot 11mo ago
This is great news! I know the new Pebble has a small team and is focused on being a long term sustainable enterprise. This should help with that goal quite a bit. I received my Pebble 2 Duo about a month ago, and it is awesome. Nice job an

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