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rainytuesday··on Investing in public AI companies: comparison table
TSLA, MSFT/OPENAI, NVIDIA, FB, APPL are the companies in the video.
rainytuesday··on Ask HN: Are you worried your non-AI project might soon be obsolete?
I saw a podcaster say "3 of my app ideas are now obsolete". I had a half-way decent travel app idea that was made immediately obsolete. Not only apps, but what about extensions -- like VSTO (visual studio tools for office) -- you add GPT to MS Office and we don't need people programming extensions and add-ons.
rainytuesday··on Midjourney AI Guide
You can just use the /describe prompt and reverse engineer something you like, or you can have ChatGPT do it for you.
rainytuesday··on It happened to me today: $80/hr writer replaced with ChatGPT
It'd be cheaper than an Uber. That's what we're dealing with, its not like competing with foreign labor at 1/10th the price.
rainytuesday··on Ask HN: Will fashion photographers lose their jobs to AI this year?
I think there will still be celebrity models and tabloids/paparazzi that follow them around -- but that's the high end. Anybody stuck in the middle is at risk. Public outrage doesn't last forever and is easily managed by PR firms.
rainytuesday··on Ask HN: Will fashion photographers lose their jobs to AI this year?
Levi's is already using AI models. AI will do some of the work that would have gone to a fashion photographer, but not 100% in 1 year.
rainytuesday··on It happened to me today: $80/hr writer replaced with ChatGPT
If AI output is 60% as good as a person, but costs 1/1000th the price... what decision maker is going to justify paying 1000x more for 40% more quality? We're really in for it.

What if there was a cheeseburger that was 50% as good as McDonalds but was only a nickel? That'd be real bad for the McD's share price.

rainytuesday··on Ask HN: What were the 2010s about?
iPhone + apps, esp Instagram.
rainytuesday··on Show HN: Create AI Videos with different models
Your demo has a shutterstock watermark, not a great first impression.
rainytuesday··on Ask HN: How to evaluate a person who reached out to work for free?
People need to money to live, so she wants a job or equity. This is just a roundabout way of getting it.
rainytuesday··on I wish GPT4 had never happened
I read it as pandering to his tech audience's ego. Surely it won't replace my listeners because they are too smart for that. Radio hosts do it all the time, "I'm not talking about my listeners who are on-average the most informed out there, I'm talking about..."
rainytuesday··on Ask HN: A Sane Decision?
Do any databases allow horizontal scaling without imposing table design / query limitations? For example, Cassandra doesn't want you to query data any way you like.
rainytuesday··on What crime stats don't reveal about crime in San Francisco
Most cases are resolved by plea agreements, so the buck stops at the district attorney's office.

eg. Carjacker gets apprehended in neighboring county, wildly different outcome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U_PAWJNrG8

rainytuesday··on Ask HN: Are you afraid of a war between NATO and China?
Analysts who write about this expect war in 2027-ish. It is starting to enter the public consciousness a bit more.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/xi-jinping-says...

rainytuesday··on Ask HN: Where did all the ICOs go?
i thought i read brave did buy them back from cb, but i dont have a reference handy
rainytuesday··on Ask HN: Where did all the ICOs go?
The most interesting thing about Brave Token is that they can distribute money without knowing bank details. They give you Brave tokens, you cash out through Coinbase. Coinbase needs your identity/bank routing details, but Brave does not.
rainytuesday··on WASM Rack Synth
>Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'getContextSafariWebGL2Fixed')

Maybe not tested on Windows?

rainytuesday··on Ask HN: Diagnose Me: Why Do I Lack Ambition and Drive
Stop smoking hallucinogens.
rainytuesday··on Ask HN: Why is Midjourney sucking up to China?
How do you figure there "is more to lose"? Access to the Chinese market is in the profit column. What do you put in the loss column to counterbalance the profit?
rainytuesday··on Meta stops offering remote work in new job postings
As an AI language model, I do not have the ability to determine the tone or intent behind the comment without additional context. However, based on the information presented in the comment, it is possible that it could be intended as a joke or a sarcastic remark, as traveling by hydrofoil from Hawaii to San Francisco three days a week would be a highly impractical and unlikely mode of transportation. It is also worth noting that there is no public record of Mark Zuckerberg regularly commuting from Hawaii to San Francisco using a hydrofoil or any other mode of transportation.
rainytuesday··on Ask HN: Is there a Neutral Book on Blockchain Technology?
Blockchain is maybe casting too wide a net. Each implementation will have different technical details. In the ethereum space I think the highest level of technical analysis you will find is in the domain of MEV-bots.
rainytuesday··on Ask HN: How do you deal with the existential career threat of AI?
Your analysis seems correct to me. Lee Sedol quit after AlphaGo. I've seen posts about existential grief/panic from different fields and its justified from what I've seen.
rainytuesday··on I asked ChatGPT “What was 212-ROMANCE?”
I tried "What was 612-ROMANCE?” and it said it didn't know what that was. So apparently its not just guessing.
rainytuesday··on Early Remote Work Impacts on Family Formation
I was recently thinking about how the US is structurally against family formation with the miserable cost of rent, medical and tuition relative to wages. Nice to see a small counter-force.
rainytuesday··on Ask HN: Any modern web UI software like WinForms?
Blazor Webassembly looks a little verbose, but you could probably figure it out without a bootcamp.
rainytuesday··on The FTC wants to ban tough-to-cancel subscriptions
"Xperience Fitness" made me show up in person and sign a document. This needed to then be faxed to HQ. Of course, the gym didn't have a fax machine. So had to find a fax machine, send off a fax and wonder if anybody is going to look at it on the other end. This was in 2015 or so, not 1986.
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