chickenmonkey | 9 months ago | on: Show HN: Use AI to create an Alert about Anything
Interesting - how does this work? Do you use some kind of search API to search news sites and validate whether the condition has been satisfied?
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chickenmonkey | 3 years ago | on: Interview with the author of “Buy Now”, a book about Amazon
The one topic that you left out was the online ads business!
chickenmonkey | 4 years ago | on: Poll: Where do you live?
I'm sure there are many Indians on HN, but they probably reside somewhere in the US.
chickenmonkey | 4 years ago | on: Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement
Exactly, I was surprised by the lack of outrage at this.
chickenmonkey | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Mint your own NFT PFP for Twitter with zero gas fees
hahaha, sneaky :)
chickenmonkey | 4 years ago | on: Feedback: Will a chrome extension like this be useful?
Really cool. A potential use I can see for this is to help people go from raw data to visuals really quickly. I'm guessing that's the intended use.
I wonder how your extension will handle scenarios with unclean data, however. What if the state labels were irregular?
chickenmonkey | 4 years ago | on: Father-son duo helped techies ‘hack exams’, earn top scores for big payday
Any system will have people who aren't performing well, and some fraction of those people will be tempted to cheat. Cheating in this case doesn't provide any indication that the system is broken.
chickenmonkey | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What am I the only one seeing my submissions?
Now you're not
chickenmonkey | 4 years ago | on: Hyundai acquires controlling stake in Boston Dynamics for $880M
I think their investment in DARPA has a positive externality for society. If we account for this externality, perhaps taxpayers enjoy a positive ROI?
chickenmonkey | 4 years ago | on: Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’
This is a broad generalisation without supporting evidence - not sure if this helps improve the quality of the discussion. Can you substantiate your statement further?
chickenmonkey | 4 years ago | on: The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins
The idea of a lab leak could either mean that legitimate research was happening on this virus and it got accidentally leaked, or that the virus was being prepared as a bio-weapon and was intentionally or unintentionally released. The reason I think those scientists disavowed the lab leak theory initially was to avoid confusion between whether COVID-19 was an intentional bio-attack by China as many believed then and was pushed by Trump.
chickenmonkey | 4 years ago | on: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone
The two actions people can take are:
1. Delete Facebook apps, Whatsapp and IG. This can have low to high utility loss for you, but has negligible effect on Facebook. It would have a bad effect for me, who has many family members and friends connected on whatsapp and needs whatsapp to connect to anyone whom I meet in my country.
2. Lead a movement to switch away from these apps. This has an insanely high overhead, and requires significant organisation of people and a large individual commitment. This would have a significant effect on Facebook.
This is how I view the problem. This is not an example of people being unwilling to act on their ideals. It's a situation where acting on their ideals would cause them a significant burden with no effect, and causing the intended change would require ridiculously large effort.
chickenmonkey | 4 years ago | on: Mauryan Polish
The modern Indian state takes a lot of its iconography from the Mauryan empire, most prominently the Lion Capital of Sarnath (image is in the article). It's super interesting to hear about this technique which was instrumental in producing these capitals.
chickenmonkey | 4 years ago | on: Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak
You're right. Macs have excellent build quality and are durable as hell. Planned obsolescence with Apple is seen more with iPhones. There was the recent story about Apple slowing down older iPhones via software updates [1]
chickenmonkey | 4 years ago | on: Absolute wealth, relative wealth, taxes, and staying rich
I had the same impression, it's not like there are a limited number of rungs of wealth. Furthermore, I doubt that rich people believe that supporting higher taxes will have an immediate effect in ensuring 'usurpers' don't get rich - it will probably take a few years to come into play.
The most confusing aspect of this is the fact that taxes are often progressive. Increasing taxes would then definitely hurt the wealthy more than the usurpers. This aspect of Hoffman's argument didn't make much sense to me.
chickenmonkey | 4 years ago | on: Movies every physics lover should watch (2020)
I liked the picturisation of the different planets and of course, the time dilation effects. I think they're great for a general audience, who may not be exposed to the latest developments in astronomy.
chickenmonkey | 4 years ago | on: Cheerleader’s Snapchat rant leads to ‘momentous’ Supreme Court case on speech
I'm wondering about how this impacts criticising the school. If the school does X, can the school punish students for discussing this action and criticising it? Feels like this allows schools to crack down on criticism.
chickenmonkey | 4 years ago | on: Cree#, a morphemic programming language with Cree keywords and concepts
I see this as an attempt to implement a programming paradigm (i.e storytelling) that's radically different from existing paradigms. How are others interpreting this project? What's it's significance?
chickenmonkey | 5 years ago | on: Netflix Made Record Profits in 2020, Paid a Tax Rate of Less Than 1 Percent
Is your concern about the vagueness of the proposed plans or the outrage at tax bills?
chickenmonkey | 5 years ago | on: Apple’s renewable energy projects are helping to create 1.2GW of clean power
What do you mean by another 10 Mw? Out of the loop here.
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