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reportgunneron Ask HN: Anyone pursuing this AI image idea (images to list of insured losses)?

Sounds not realistic. Imagine you have this list, how do you know it's complete? What if it's not complete and you think it's complete and you only find out something was missing when it was too late?

edit: You might as well work on software that keeps a list of everything you ever owned so you can just whip it out once your house burns down.

reportgunneron Initiative from Google, OpenAI, Discord, others could transform trust and safety

What does trust and safety mean in this context ? Who is trusting who; and who/what is safe ?

reportgunneron Balcony solar is taking off

Won't denser areas have less sunlight ?

reportgunneron Balcony solar is taking off

Well if you have just one solar panel you can double all installed solar in a matter of minutes and 5x it in matter of an hour.

reportgunneron Balcony solar is taking off

Is it because of wind ?

reportgunneron Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culture

I don't understand, how can they use AI to preserve their culture when AI was never a part of it ?

reportgunneron Ask HN: What intelligent forums exist outside of HN?

I remember twitter being like this in 2020 when I stopped using it.

reportgunneron Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world

Wait, the people who click phishing links now think AI output is facts ? Imagine my shock.

reportgunneron Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI

xAI is not making any money

This is normal at this point. Netflix also wasnt making any money when it was new, same with Uber and more. You can't run in the race to the bottom if you're climbing to the top.

reportgunneron Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop

Will be cool if this car still works in 20 years and the ads just show an error because the server no longer exists.

reportgunneron How about trailing commas in SQL?

I feel like if you actually start writing the amount of queries where this would be useful you stop caring about tiny details like that.

reportgunneron Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster

Yeah usually when article starts by explaining what is known or tells you a story they do it to fluff up the text and bait you into reading because the actual content you want is not there.

reportgunneron Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster

Sad that the article doesn't say what his approach actually is.

reportgunneron Ping Rate Clock

That's a dial not a clock.

reportgunneron Netflix is removing nearly all of its interactive titles

You don't even need to buy a subscription to watch netflix shows.

reportgunneron Λ-2D: An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language

Looks unreadable and reminds me of Factorio.

reportgunneron The guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing 8k hours

You really believe there will be improvements after four years ?

reportgunneron The guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing 8k hours

It's 8 hours a day for 3 years.

reportgunneron The guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing 8k hours

You assume people gain no skills from playing video games which is false.

reportgunneron The guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing 8k hours

Sorry, but negative reviews are the only reviews I read on Steam. You can already see the hours spent at the time of review and as of today so it's trivial to take that into consideration or not.

reportgunneron Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

They don't make the paints and notepads like they used to.

reportgunneron Launch HN: Codebuff (YC F24) – CLI tool that writes code for you

Watching the demo it seems like it would be more effective to learn the skills you need rather than using this for a decade.

It takes 5+ seconds just to change one field to dark mode, I don't even want to imaigne a situation where I have two fields and I want to explain that I need to change this field and not that field.

I'm not sure who is the target audience for this, people who want to be programmers without learning programming ?

reportgunneron ChatGPT now on chat.com

Haha can't wait until new people think that everything that has a chat also has AI because chat.com is AI

reportgunneron Five minutes of exercise a day could lower blood pressure

A "set" probably refers to 5 or more repetitions per set, so 3 sets are 3*5+ repetitions of squats. A "full" squat probably means to go so low that your butt goes below your knees.

reportgunneron Humans Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes on the Tibetan Plateau

I knew enough when the article was explaining what a hemoglobin is.

reportgunneron Notes on Anthropic's Computer Use Ability

Software posing as Claude that is actually a malware tricking an unsuspecting non-terminal user into executing it is what I was thinking about.

reportgunneron Notes on Anthropic's Computer Use Ability

Not just benefits, costs but also the risks are to be considered here I think.

reportgunneron Never Missing the Train Again

I feel like the OP is overcomplicating the solution, I don't own a car and all commuting is basically either:

- bus/train/tram crosses my stop 5 times a day - its trivial to learn the 5 times

- bus/train/tram crosses my stop more than 5 times a day - i just show up at the stop and wait

Perhaps my point of view is like this because I'm in Europe, I can't tell really.

reportgunneron Show HN: I made a Bluesky video downloader that can download videos from Bluesky

How would you copy a video from one folder into another without using the clipboard ?

How would you copy a video clip from one video editing project into another without using the clipboard ?