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Gathering forecasts for each leg of a trip only on the particular days for the particular location is tedious. Anyone can do it with google weather but why spend the time when you …

This is so definitely not true in many many cases. The best pizza shops in NYC for decades have been quaint, basic and often messy spaces. The ones with the nice menus and overdone…

For now. When they cost 5x less and are of comparable quality that may change very quickly. Cost cutting applies everywhere.

Arguing that a 100km bike ride is not an edge case seems disingenuous. Most people could not complete a 3-6hr bike ride without weeks of training and my guess is most people on hac…

If/when the AI music gets good enough, how will you know the difference? I find small artists on spotify all the time that I enjoy and there's no way to know anything about their c…

And how is the quality of life for those factory workers? It's almost like the craft of making physical things has been devalued even if we're making more physical things than ever…

I will happily let the internet fingerprint my browser to not have to go back to mailing checks. I am guessing this is true of most non-HN people.

Most grocery stores in every place I have lived have security cameras so that if you did something illegal you'd be identified very quickly. At this point this is even true of smal…

There are very very few places in nyc not accessible via some combo of bus, metro and ferry. It's not as reliable as say Japan but the public transit network is pretty extensive.

I think the AI advice is pretty important. You say you should understand and question everything the lawyers do but where do you even start without an AI to read and explain thousa…

At the rate they're going it'll just get cheaper. The cost per token continues to drop while the models get better. Hardware is also getting more specialized. Maybe the current bat…

I think articles like this have the big assumption under them that we are going to plateau with progress. If that assumption is true, then sure. But if it's false, there's no sayin…

There are parts of this I agree with and parts I do not. Being able to "talk" to documentation rather than dig through it to try to understand a concept feels like a way more effic…

I believe we're already using llms to evaluate llm output for training, I wonder if there's some variation of that which could be used to identify when one llm gets "stuck". I gues…

Genuine question but did folks feel poor during the heyday of the middle class? It seems like there was a period post-ww2 where you could make a living wage and still buy a house a…

I think the problem is suggest that an earthquake zone's fire problems would be solved by building houses like they do in a non-earthquake zone

"cooling a living space is always more costly than heating a living space" Man I wish this was true but it definitely isn't in anyplace that gets significantly cold. Heat pumps are…

AlphaGo and AlphaStar both started out based on human training and then played against versions of themselves to go on and create new strategies in their games. Modern LLMs can't l…

Software update broke the (already very bad) fingerprint scanner on my 6a a few updates ago and no fix in sight. It feels like they're just focused on churning out devices and the …

"Ship faster, do less, faster, faster, faster. To what end?" You're on hacker news, which is pretty heavily focused on startups. Startups usually have a limited runway, wherein if …

Evernote is pretty much ruined for me because of this. From a lovely, snappy native app to an electron monstrosity that's slow and barely usable. Lucky for them their only competit…

I think people should be generally excited by the prospect of resolving long term psychological issues with just a few doses.

"Person X reported a vulnerability, they must be a hacker! Get our lawyers" - Some non-technical bank person. Most companies don't like having their mistakes publicly exposed.

There are studies that show even moderate alcohol usage can have a damaging effect. And any amount of alcohol has been shown to raise risk of cancer. https://www.bmj.com/content/35…