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I think this set a record for me on how much article was available before the paywall.

I was recently a bit annoyed by ChatGPT responding with something like "I can't tell you how many times I've lost small tools in an engine bay" in an apparent attempt to commiserat…

> Placing one on a chip is like placing a hair on a surface the size of Paris, accurate to within a few streets. That sounds very easy, honestly.

I agree with everything in the video you linked (which is not surprising, given it's Ben Felix). That includes the parts about equities being less risky than bonds in very importan…

Maybe you place a value on your time higher than $1.99 divided by the time it would take you to create it. Maybe you don't care to learn how to create an addon.

All this simulation buys a single vehicle that drives better. That failure was a fleet-wide event (overloading the remote assistance humans). That is, both are true: this high-fide…

I wonder if my $20/mo subscription will last 10 minutes.

Fantastic read. I did most of my web development between 1998 and 2012. Reading this gave me both a trip down memory lane and a very digestible summary of what I've missed since th…

All the Spanish cities I've visited have looked "perfect", but there's a lot I don't see as a tourist, e.g. that Spain has one of the highest unemployment rates in Europe (10.5%).

Looks promising. Thank you.

Thanks for the tip. I'll definitely look into it.

Typo fix: ynab.com

I'll certainly give this another look if you do. Good luck with it.

Right on. In this case, I used "private" to mean "the makers of this particular product don't have a ton of my financial information." I don't expect a product like this to prevent…

I love the idea of keeping my finances private while still having a useful tracker/planner. And I love that this would give me some protection against a new version making things w…

Pimsleur is the best thing I've found for my first ~30 hours of learning a language (Courses 1 and 2, basically). It gets to the (IMO) most important words/phrases/interactions fir…

In any case, he did fit that into a book! If only barely. Edit: On further reflection, I suppose he didn't, if we consider the effort to span Gödel Escher Bach and I Am a Strange L…

I don't understand how that is ableist. Would you be willing to explain your rationale?

I think Fogbugz sort of tried this? I guess it still exists. But it certainly hasn't "won".

Waymo is doing alright in San Francisco as well. That's not directly comparable to Tokyo, either, but I expect it's a much less distant of a comparison than Phoenix.

That URL goes to the essay itself. Here's an earlier submission with comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42355160

> late 90s and early 00s I remember going to Moulin Rouge without knowing it was a musical!

You could also just start with "What time is it?" and see what you get back, right?

FWIW these companies already invest pretty heavily in predicting the behavior of other agents (cars, pedestrians, squirrels...) in the vicinity. But clearly it is not publicly avai…

See also "Hey Google, what happened to all the fun?", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40947641 , for the perspective of someone impacted by this.