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monological

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    Comment #47761376

    My usage limits were reset this morning. I'm already 90% through my weekly limits. This have _never_ happened before. They should reset the limits for everyone.

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    Comment #47754013

    The only reason I don't use tmux is because of how annoying it is to look at scrollback. Am I using it wrong?

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    Comment #39106383

    Because they can't as a result of private equity firms and hedge funds buying houses for investment purposes. Without legislation, people are going to be renting for the rest of th…

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    Comment #38105506

    It's not "casual". Did you read the paper I linked?

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    Comment #38100497

    Main reason is due to purging of β-amyloid by the glymphatic system, which seems to happen during deep sleep. High β-amyloid plaque build up is correlated with Alzheimer’s disease.…

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    Comment #37772266

    Of course, what you're saying is obvious. I'm just asking questions to get people to think about the ramifications of technology. Society is the sum of all the individual choices p…

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    Comment #37771871

    > A woman can choose to decouple having sex with getting pregnant. How does that change the social dynamics of mating? Is increasing promiscuity a good thing? > A person can choose…

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    Comment #37761031

    It’s ok to be cringe. Try expressing yourself sometime instead of always conforming.

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    Comment #37682146

    Am I the only one who doesn't want this dystopian future? "Designed for living in the moment"?...no, this is definitely the exact opposite of living in the moment.

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    Comment #37488534

    Do you really need to upgrade your 3 year old iPhone if you think about it? Those are still quite fast and can do everything you need. To me it seems like a waste, but you do you.

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    Comment #37488501

    Your words have a lot of power. You become what you repeatedly say about yourself. If you just changed this one thing, not thinking negatively about yourself or the future, it woul…

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    Comment #37488279

    I feel like this is an epic joke. Except the joke is on all the suckers paying $1k for essentially the same phone, but wow, now with a usb-c port. Please Tim Apple...take my money …

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    Comment #37407477

    step 1: save up money and pay off debt step 2: sell all your possessions except laptop, clothes and a few other things step 3: find remote job step 4: move to SE Asia, join an expa…

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    Comment #37156865

    https://www.podshorty.com/ Been working on this for 3-4 months. Summarizes YouTube videos and synthesizes podcasts that you can listen to. Also has transcripts so you can follow al…

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    Comment #37094557

    I'm just pointing out that there is a lot of legal gray area when it comes to AI-synthesized voices and copyright. It still remains to be seen how the courts end up ruling. What's …

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    Comment #37093526

    Actually, according to US law, it doesn't appear to be copyright infringement. Do you have anything to back up those claims? According to Butler v. Target Corp., it was held that a…

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    Comment #37091356

    Podshorty does something kind of similar, but it takes any YouTube link, summarizes it and generates a podcast using the voices of the original speakers. Also creates transcripts s…

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    Show HN: Podshorty – Summarize YouTube Videos into Compact Audio Digests

    Hi all, I've been working on Podshorty for the past few months. The idea is simple: summarize and compress lengthy YouTube videos into concise audio versions using the voices of th…

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    Comment #37036932

    Started a company to build chip testers. Didn't go anywhere, but I had a ton of fun doing the hardware and software. One specific example is writing a Linux driver to interact with…

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    Comment #36958843

    what are you talking about. George has been working on comma.ai for years. It's shipping actual products and has revenue. We need more people who "think different" and push back ag…

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    Comment #36335691

    If you don’t build it, someone else most definitely will. This has already become an AI arms race.

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    Comment #35730634

    Why not just use pgvector for Postgres. It’s free and works great. You can even do cosine distance between embeddings.

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    Comment #35668647

    > In the future, Google will stop supporting Manifest V2 in Chrome. > Because of this change, in 2023, the 1Password classic extension for > Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Brave will n…

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