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Yeah, true. I meant sitdown restaurants.

I get recruitment emails for a startup some people from Uber are making called Cloud Kitchens. Basically kitchens that can scale based on demand. The company provides ingredients and the kitchens make the food. Share resources make it more productive. I think restaurants themselves are unproductive.

I think kind, industrious, and smart people make great teams.

I once took up a lot of space to be a super productive engineer and only ended up being isolated. The business saw that some engineers were saying things worked great and were easy, so more responsibility was thrown on me and the other engineers moved to another project that needed headcount. Me and another guy ended up building on and maintaining what used be a reasonably sized team. It got on me because I made sure to know everything so I could make it as great as I could. This sounds good, but this particular business didn't care about me at all, I was just another gear.

I've met "productive" engineers that got things done really quickly from the business perspective, then moved on to being awesome somewhere else. But, they also took shortcuts, didn't write documentation, and made things unmaintainable. When I joined the team after they were being awesome somewhere else, I had to do things like guess hostnames and find out how and where things were running..

The people I've liked working with the most have been parents. The boundaries are more clear, they value stability, and aren't heros.

AI threatens all digital perceptions, not just voice. Images, videos, recordings, ... I think soon enough proving things in court beyond a reasonable doubt when the evidence is digital media will be difficult/impossible.

"Natural England has developed a detailed licencing regime and application process to make sure that stakeholders are engaged and landowners are supported."

I don't understand what a stakeholder is in this context. Also, why are licenses involved? What does this even mean?

One of my hobby projects while in University was to do OCR on book scans. Doing character recognition was solved, but finding the relationship between characters was very difficult. I tried "primitive" neural nets, but edge cases would often break what I built. Super cool to me to see such an order of magnitude in improvement here.

Does it do hand written notes and annotations? What about meta information like highlighting? I am also curious if LLMs will get better because more access to information if it can be effectively extracted from PDFs.

I moved to the USA and got 2.5x my salary in CAD. Canada is fucked and I'm glad I left. I've lived in tiny apartments there and now I just bought my first house in an expensive city with 0 help from my parents. Am also starting a family here which is something I could have never dreamed of in Canada.

I suggest you look at historical trends for USD to CAD and trends for home prices vs income in Canada.

Maybe dumb question, but I asked ChatGPT search and didn't get a straight answer, so:

Why is Russia at war with Ukraine?

ChatGPT tells me it's because of "western alignment". Trump told reporters 1m people died. Seems a bit excessive to me for political ideas.. I'd have an easier time believing it's a resource conflict or some oil field being liberated or wtv.

Wait until that author learns about Edward Snowden or advertisement agencies.

I used to play with Twitters firehose back in the day and there's quite a lot of personal data you derive from private accounts. We could tell the city someone likely lived if they followed a certain amount of people from a specific city, etc. Could also guess their gender with 95% accuracy with just using n-grams from their tweets. We'd test our algorithms with public accounts.

I think there's too much power and money in personal information for it to stop.

Cool. I'd use ChatGPT as my default search in Firefox. I'm not going to start using Safari for this however.

Do you think the "deep research" feature that some AI companies have will ever apply to software? For example, I had to update Spring in a Java codebase recently. AI was only able to help mildly to figure out why I was seeing some errors, but that's it.

This AI race is happening so fast. Seems like it to me anyway. As a software developer/engineer I am worried about my job prospects.. time will tell. I am wondering what will happen to the west coast housing bubbles once software engineers lose their high price tags. I guess the next wave of knowledge workers will move in and take their place?

I struggle to define what community is. Some years ago, I went to Las Vegas to watch some performances, and to this day, I think Las Vegas is the most social and most lonely place I've ever been. There's people everywhere and no one is interacting in any meaningful way.

My belief is that to make friends and build connections, one of the only ways is to solve problems or face adversity together. Adversity meaning: "How do I do this bouldering route? It's so tricky.", etc. I see people pointing at social media, but I don't think this is the issue. I think the issue is that life is boring; most problems are solved. There's nothing to talk about. Why go learn guitar when AI can make a song for you?

"Air pollution derived from the huge amounts of energy needed to run data centres has been linked to treating cancers, asthma and other related issues, according to research from UC Riverside and Caltech."

"The academics estimated that the cost of treating illnesses connected to this pollution was valued at $1.5bn in 2023, up 20 per cent from a year earlier. They found that the overall cost was $5.4bn since 2019."

Note that pollution is not defined in the article.

Not important, but to whoever maintains this site, on mobile, on the front page of HN, the text goes right to the edge of the screen if the word break does not occur. A few px of padding would be nice!

I've been flagging all posts I see related to politics. I understand politics and popular tech are now intertwined, but I still find it annoying to see it on a forum dedicated to hackers, startups, hobbyists, and makers.

I have a script update my hosts file to route domains to 0.0.0.0 and ::0 . I get the domains from https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts.

Doesn't Facebook feed the beast with delicious personal data?

I'd like a smaller one in my home that I could interact with programmatically. Something that could hold weather forecasts, family calendar events, reminders, pictures, etc. I like the matte look of e-ink.

Are there other instances of differing names by country? I don't mean language differences. I found it strange that for the rest of the world, they'll see both.

Given we are past the Turing test, how are they going to enforce this?

I could be wrong, but on earth, communists tend to control their companies with an iron grip.

Isn't "communism = bad" part of the American culture? Why are all of these private companies immediately kissing the govts ass?

Context: Moncton is built on a swamp. It has _a lot_ of mosquitoes during summer and 3 to 5 ft of snow during winter. It had (has?) the lowest home prices in all of Canada because of this. NB also has the lowest income per family (or next to lowest, Nunavut might be lower).

MS is more common in northern climates as well, but afaik it's not higher than average in NB.

Source: I have spent quite a bit of time in Moncton.

Irving is a local logging company that uses chemicals to kill a specific type of wood (hard wood if I remember correctly). The Irvings basically own NB afaik. There were also some protests about fracking maybe 10 years back because of the chemicals used.

Why is there a spike every two years?

Ex Palantir here: Palantir provides tools for data analysis and operations. The tools don't collect data. It's like saying: Thanks PostgreSQL for allowing this specific data misuse case. When I was at Palantir, the tools came with a robust ACL solution.

I'm not advocating for the company, but the statement in the comment is shallow. I was a̶b̶u̶s̶e̶d̶ assaulted while employed there, which is why I left, but my comment stands.

Seems like the author assumes that only one error is returned. What if I want to return []error? What happens if my return objects are out of the normal order? Like F() (int, error, int) {...}.

The proposal is nice, but a bit shallow.

I'm genuinely surprised of the reactions on this thread. Trump just announced that cartels down south are terrorist organizations. This means that some of the members will likely die by the hand of the us govt. How is running an open market for drugs, weapons, etc different? Seems contradictory to me, what am I missing?

Bananas aren't high in potassium. That's a myth. A banana has 450mg and a potato has 650mg.