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llbbdd··on Study: Claude, ChatGPT Offer Different Shopping Prices Based on Wealth
Your 20-50 cent customer does the same thing but prices it for Gates at 140,000. Rinse and repeat and Gates ends up paying 20-50 cents for a banana from somebody that isn't you.
llbbdd··on The Evolution of Vending Machines
Might be worth a refresher on the guidelines, or at least a thoughtful examination of why this completely unrelated topic lives rent-free in your head.
llbbdd··on A week of using Codex more than Claude
Are you struggling to read their extremely simple English? Confusing remark.
llbbdd··on HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
Absolutely. Show me the source of a sufficiently complex web application that isn't built on React, and I'll find the React-by-any-other-name inside.
llbbdd··on HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
There are very many highlight performant sites built on React, and very many sites that are homespun or built on other frameworks that perform badly. It's a scapegoat.
llbbdd··on HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
The appeal is that it's not React, aimed mostly st people who have a grievance against React for one ill-informed reason or another. In time it will either become React by another name or die out.
llbbdd··on I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
It's fascinating to see retrofuturist ideas being built in real-time. Being able to translate your thoughts instantaneously to cogent written text and using it to make a PowerPoint is almost painfully analogous to e.g. cassette futurism, or like 50s visions of the future where we have gigantic video screens but they're still CRTs.
llbbdd··on The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing a Small Canadian Town
I don't have much familiarity with composting or fish sauce production, but wouldn't the high salt content make it a bad fertilizer?
llbbdd··on You only need the frontier model for one single edit
I call him "my son"
llbbdd··on An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation
Most young people are familiar with lowercase sentences and have been for a while, yes
llbbdd··on Thunderbird Desktop settings research: what we learned from your feedback
This is a good encapsulation of why the year of the Linux desktop is perpetually fifteen years away.
llbbdd··on Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
Surprised to read this as a Queens thing, this sounds perfectly at home in the Midwest.
llbbdd··on An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation
I'm...not old enough to read a Business Insider article about being annoyed by lowercase letters.
llbbdd··on An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation
> forced lowercase

??? shift is an extra key to press

llbbdd··on All Star Wars Games Ever Made – Released, Cancelled and Mod Archive
Fun coincidence to see this mentioned today, just recently I rescued my DroidWorks disc from my basement and was looking into how to get it running on a modern system. Obviously Wine/Proton are probably an option but I saw that there have been some efforts to build open implementations of games like Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 and Grim Fandango that ran on the same engine or a modified version of it, I wonder how much of that pre-existing work would be transferrable.
llbbdd··on Africans Are Turning to Starlink
All places laden with useful information.
llbbdd··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
The style of plastic bin definitely looks the same. The ones we were getting looked something like this[0], same folding-flap top as in your link but form-fitted insulation inside:

[0] https://flexcontainer.com/product/insulated-molded-container...

llbbdd··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
I used this service before it rolled out widely and these boxes were a mixed bag. On one hand they worked really well, they were essentially insulated hard totes with styrofoam lining and often had dry ice in them for anything that needed to be kept cold. On the other hand, I lived in an apartment, so storing 3-4 totes for a week or more was a real chore.

The funniest thing I remember though is that the totes weren't optimized for the size of some of the products available very well - if you put a frozen pizza in it, it sat diagonally, and without enough room to really put anything above or below it. You order four frozen pizzas, and you're allocating many cubic meters of apartment space for them until the next time you order.

llbbdd··on Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students
I'm glad to see more of this approach to modernizing education. I roll my eyes seeing people argue that we should go back to pen + paper or other weird rose-colored regressive approaches to preventing AI usage. It's part of education now, it's part of work now, and learning environments that don't acknowledge that are going to be dragged kicking and screaming into a future with empty classrooms.
llbbdd··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
See my other comment. I want my doctor/plumber/etc to be able to recall faster, type faster, work better under pressure. If you're better at those things you should get better grades and be paid more.
llbbdd··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
Those are all proxies for "is smarter". They have better memories, perform better under pressure, etc. Universities are meant to prepare students for the real world where these things matter.
llbbdd··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
Fast students are smarter. Why avoid grading on that?

EDIT: Rate limited so: "smarter" here means how well the student will perform in a career in their chosen field. Fast + accurate is the ideal.

llbbdd··on The Boeing 747 begins its final descent
Agreed. A lot of my countrymen have forgotten that America generally kicks ass, it's sad to see.
llbbdd··on 5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)
This might explain my confusion. I went to the inflation calculator to see that $60 scallops in 1917 would be $1700 now and was a bit taken aback.
llbbdd··on Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js
I had a lot of very good times with CoffeeScript but I'll never forgive it for having implicit returns. So many subtle event-bubbling bugs caused by that.
llbbdd··on Big AI labs are hiring philosophers
My bad, I meant for this to come off more funny than snarky. Appreciate the check.

EDIT: Upon finishing reading the other comments on this article though...I feel a bit singled out. :)

llbbdd··on Big AI labs are hiring philosophers
I think, therefore I am seeking 2.5m total comp
llbbdd··on What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance
Same here. Every time a thread like this comes up it brings out that a surprising number of paranoid helicopter parents browse HN, which is a contradiction in perspective that I can't really emphasize with.
llbbdd··on What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance
Let's ban books and skateboards too
llbbdd··on Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040
If they're not building reactors on the land allocated to native tribes, why should they?
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