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World Train Map is, by design, a curated map of interesting passenger trains, not a comprehensive map. The problem with every comprehensive map I've seen is that they are way too c…

> "Decades ago, children received only a small fraction of the vaccines required today," Trump said on Monday. "In those times, people were much healthier and of course the high ra…

It does depend on the company and your role. Working a senior role at a FAANG in India is much nicer than junior roles in the local WITCHes (Wipro Infosys etc), which are notorious…

A "sponsor"? As in buys some ads? The Economist's take on AI is hardly uncritical.

The original Aalto stool, consisting of three pieces of bent wood and a circle, costs $479: https://www.finnishdesignshop.com/en-au/product/aalto-stool-... The IKEA copy, identical…

"Computer says no" has been a trope of terrible customer service long before AI.

Can somebody give a ELI5 of what "RAW video" actually is? I was always under the impression that it's just a dump of the "raw" uncompressed and uncorrected data coming from the sen…

Until you get T-boned at an intersection, or a semi drifts into your lane, etc. At the end of the day, you can only control your own car, not the environment it's in.

Idea: it would be more interesting/competitive if you could immediately see others' submissions, and if those words were then "taken" and can't be reused. Currently you're just kin…

Discussion of the original blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214863

The blog post has been retracted in full, for the very good reason that it apparently was in fact an astrology app complete with tarot readings and other (I quote) "occultist horse…

This already exists: in "Trip options", you can toggle between "Best route", "Fewer transfers", and "Less walking", as well as allow/block "Ride services" like Uber as a transport …

The economics of this fascinate me. There is absolutely no way selling paper copies of a single book (even/especially if it changes daily: what happens to unsold stock?) can cover …

It's clunky, but still clear. They're building AI things (systems, solutions, harnesses, whatever) that can tackle big research problems.

Sanjay has been Google's most tenured IC since forever and is basically as immune to politics as you can be in a megacorp. He is also rich beyond dreams of avarice and can do basic…

It's not just gatekeeping though. The reason you get a qualified, credentialed structural engineer to sign off on your house instead of just YOLOing the build is so that you (and y…

How are they "far worse"? Steam trains are noisy, polluting, require tons of coal, kill animals and people in their way, and crash fairly regularly (when built with 1800s technolog…

It doesn't, GP was responding to the Gwern story at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174900 but posted in the wrong place.

> Crumbling, faulty technical infrastructure with unmanageable heaps of AI slop that no one understands Replace "AI slop" with "legacy code", and you've got basically any large ent…

> That meeting that you spent an hour in to understand the requirements? You don't need that meeting if you're not writing the code. How are you going to prompt the LLM or validate…

I think you meant to post this in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174900 ?

We have a much higher level of tolerance for things that benefit us while posing a risk to others ("should my own car have FSD") than we do for things that benefit others while pos…