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Don't spam. Don't be an asshole. And do everything you can to get that thing you want vs. spraying and praying for some cubicle job. Exceptional folks rarely limit themselves to pu…

Here in Denmark I hold no animosity toward Americans and none of my circle do. The current US administration on the other hand…

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of my most memorable animations due to the wild physics-defying reality it creates.

Distribution has always been monetized. What margin did a retailer take for putting your boxed software on the shelf? How about that magazine ad? Google search? And so on. Get over…

I love HN. And the Show HN graveyard is huge! Many a time I’ve searched, found a post I thought sounded cool, and it’s dead… sometimes in just a couple of months.

I love public speaking, think I'm above average at it, and am aiming to do more of it. Has anyone here tried Toastmasters? Went to my local group last week and was pleasantly surpr…

It is a shame you are being downvoted, as it is an admirable ideology: why should someone be (dis)advantaged by the accident of where they were born. In reality though, 8 billion p…

They’re no more.

Physical triangulation stations (trig points) for surveying and mapping.

Right. I’ve had a lot of success using structured output to force LLMs to make Boolean choices, like can they reply or not.

I think the pull will be hard to resist even for competent people. Like the obesity crisis driven by sugar highs, the overall population will be affected, and overall quality will …

It is RLHF if I understand correctly.

We have the Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables from 1884. Doesn't appear to have been needed until now so is relatively untested.

> Obesity may be slightly aggravated by car dependence, but it is still historically high and a major problem in the walking/public transport countries of Europe. I’d like to learn…

Many providers support plus addresses like bob+servicename@example.com. Servicename can be anything and doesn’t require any setup.

I doubt it. You have the loan interest, annual service fees, and fact that you don’t have a sellable asset, at least for anything like what you paid for it. An empty vacation home …

It’s scary headlines like this: ‘trampled’, ‘crashes’, that put off less informed, risk averse individuals on lower incomes/ net worth, from investing in stocks. It’s a shame, as E…

I love this direction. It could be that the writer’s AI agent knows that he’s looking around for a new CMS so asks for more info, compiling this for review. Or it says ‘not interes…

It’s a valid question to posit.

There is rarely an incentive to claim responsibility. And in the case of finding a smoking gun held by some national, the geopolitical consequences of pointing a finger are consequ…

Yes. And be sure to follow up with a robust customer interview to discover the why. Executing a customer interview discovers the why behind feature requests. If you leave it at the…

Agreed. Bizarre felt tips are included in the set.

We got our girls, 5 and 2, a Spirograph for Christmas. With the provided felt tip pen inserted and the outer circle tacked down, I still really struggle to complete circuits withou…