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ibbihon Microplastics: No longer a "maybe"

Preliminary studies show that you are actually drastically impacting your plastic intake. Try brushing your teeth with nonplastics too!

ibbihon Microplastics: No longer a "maybe"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTzw_grLzjw&t=427s

55x for BPA? It's pretty annoying how wide an umbrella term microplastics are.

ibbihon Microplastics: No longer a "maybe"

Are the mouse studies not worrying enough for you to change your behaviour?

ibbihon Microplastics: No longer a "maybe"

It's a bit too much of an umbrella term for regulation to fix in one swoop, but if i were alive in the 50s and had the internet i simply would not buy lead-paint.

ibbihon Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

1- very unlikely they spent a year on just this 2- they are certainly paid more as TC

ibbihon Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question

wat

ibbihon Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn

it was issued while he was en route

ibbihon Writing code with GPT and no engineering experience

their substack describes them as a designer

Looking up on LinkedIn, she worked as a product designer but never as a developer

ibbihon Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion beyond S.F

ime it consistently overestimates ride time by 50+% or so. usually like 10-20% slower than google maps, but the estimate is often 2x what google maps says.

ibbihon Show HN: I built an alternative to product tours

The "try now" button leading to a form and no way to actually experience what you're selling didn't feel great

ibbihon Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays launch to 2028

lol that's not real self driving. waymo is very useful.

ibbihon Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff

Twitch pays streamers?

ibbihon Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles

It...is a driverless car.

ibbihon Show HN: Shortbread – Create AI comics in minutes

Saving as a JPG gave me a cropped version that cuts off the bottom, just fyi

ibbihon Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?

Use GPT-4.

ibbihon The Tyranny of the Marginal User

It's a bit more complex than that right? If no part of the user wanted this, it wouldn't drive up engagement. Clearly it causes me to use the product more. Companies can try to optimize for stuff like "satisfaction after using the product" but it's genuinely much harder -- and not tying work to business outcomes is not scalable.

ibbihon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)

Lunchclub | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time Lunchclub's mission is to make meaningful connections between professionals using AI. We spend lots of time solving product problems, running experiments, and optimizing our ML matching algorithm.

We are a small team of engineers, backed by a16z. We have very strong retention, and growing fast.

Our current stack is:

  * React
  * Flask
  * mySQL
  * Docker
  * AWS
  * Tensorflow

We are hiring for engineers across the web stack, as well as ML engineers. Check out https://jobs.lever.co/elliot/

ibbihon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2020)

Lunchclub | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time

Lunchclub's mission is to make meaningful offline connections between professionals using AI. We spend lots of time solving product problems, running experiments, and optimizing our ML matching algorithm.

We are a small team of engineers, backed by a16z. We have very strong retention, are live in 11 cities globally, and growing fast.

Our current stack is:

  * React
  * Flask
  * mySQL
  * Docker
  * AWS
  * Tensorflow

We are hiring for engineers across the web stack, as well as ML engineers. Check out https://jobs.lever.co/elliot/