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woodgrainz··on Show HN: Three Magic Words
Do you not read HN that much? It's a worldwide phenomenon. Wordle-related content has been on HN practically everyday since mid January.
woodgrainz··on Show HN: Three Magic Words
The casual nature of Wordle is one of its biggest strengths. Don't underestimate the allure of the zen/meditative angle of the game. It's something to look forward to everyday because of it.
woodgrainz··on Self-driving Tesla does 'the craziest things you can imagine'
Well, it seems like he has a reason to be highly skeptical of Tesla auto-pilot, based on how awful and dangerous the technology appears to be. Not to mention Musk's repeated broken promises about the timeline and functionality.
woodgrainz··on Show HN: View the patent and innovation history of any company
FYI: The formatting/rendering of this page is way off for me (Chrome on 16" Mac). The top of the page is missing, and the bottom is cut off and doesn't scroll. Need to look at your UI again.
woodgrainz··on Europe’s energy crisis is about to go global as gas prices soar
https://archive.ph/NSmoA
woodgrainz··on Ask HN: What are some other general link aggregators aside from HN?
I have no relation to the project. It's a very popular site.
woodgrainz··on Ask HN: What are some other general link aggregators aside from HN?
http://popurls.com
woodgrainz··on Goats became an unconventional weapon against wildfires
https://archive.ph/OAibx
woodgrainz··on Problems with Oracle SQL
Drop the 'SQL', it's cleaner.
woodgrainz··on Self-Driving Truck Completes Trip 10 Hours Faster Than Human Driver
Sure, it was able to handle this trip once during ideal conditions. What happens when road conditions become tricky? Will the AI be able to navigate a lane closure that forces it to drive on the shoulder due to an accident? How about adverse weather conditions?

The edge cases are where the real challenges are.

woodgrainz··on A social platform where you get paid for being helpful
I am hopeful for this concept, but what is your content moderation policy?

What happens if your user base upvotes things that I might not think are "helpful" and could in-fact be deemed dangerous or cruel?

woodgrainz··on Inspired by Alabama’s union battle, Amazon workers elsewhere consider organizing
Most large newspapers in the US are unionized. Like the NY Times (https://www.nyguild.org/) and the Washington Post (https://postguild.org/) for example. News orgs are obviously facing difficult times but many journalists are in unions.
woodgrainz··on Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison
"AWS: reach out to dedicated YC email"

How is this an apples-to-apples comparison at all? Very disingenuous. You have a special support tier for your YC company.

woodgrainz··on Snowflake Generator
This is excellent! Clicking on the snowflakes is a nice effect. Nicely done, thanks for posting.
woodgrainz··on Launch HN: Albedo (YC W21) – Highest resolution satellite imagery
Presumably the "9X higher" imagery is due to the fact that this company's satellites will fly much lower than the current commercial fleet. OP says as much in his post -- they'll fly "in the atmosphere."

So no Nobel-prize level achievements needed in optical breakthroughs.

woodgrainz··on When radio was king, many outlets chose to stop broadcasting Father Coughlin
The Paradox of Tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

woodgrainz··on Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage
It never left. You've always been able to restrict domains on Google. It's extremely useful.
woodgrainz··on Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage
You can still remove results from specific sites.

In the Google search box, you can use the minus sign (-) to eliminate results from specific queries or domains. And if you use the site: operator, you can restrict results from specific domains.

So to eliminate pinterest.com results from any search (normal or image search) just search like this:

  tallest bridges -site:pinterest.com
woodgrainz··on Evidence of “modified gravity” in 150 galaxies bolsters dark matter alternative
Until Dark Matter/Dark Energy theories have been "solved," other theories will continue to exist. That's the way this works.
woodgrainz··on Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
For those uninitiated, PEBKAC = problem exists between keyboard and chair, aka user error.
woodgrainz··on San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.
If you want access to parks and nature, you don't need to spend SF prices to get it. Other places on the west coast are warm during the winter and have parks.

And you're discounting the fact that they will still be living in a tiny apartment compared to other areas with much lower housing prices.

woodgrainz··on Show HN: Query 1.6B rows in milliseconds, live
It's a really good question IMHO. The DB market has huge players that have been around for decades.
woodgrainz··on Show HN: Query 1.6B rows in milliseconds, live
I don't know anything about this database, but this link did break the browser <back> button. Perhaps you can look into fixing that in a future release.
woodgrainz··on The Anti-Amazon Alliance
The large retailers are not monopolies though. Some would argue Amazon is, and therefore must be treated differently.
woodgrainz··on Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products
Except Amazon testified that it didn't do that, to Congress.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/16/amazon-tells-house-it-doesnt...

woodgrainz··on Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products
"Nate Sutton, associate general counsel at Amazon, told lawmakers the company doesn’t tap data from individual third-party merchants to determine what new products to create."

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/16/amazon-tells-house-it-doesnt...

woodgrainz··on Li Wenliang
There is no freedom of speech, press, religion, or assembly in China. There is no comparison to be made.
woodgrainz··on Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model
Comedy is right.

"I'm really starting to get worried about my Higgs Boson (HBN) after watching some videos on YouTube" [0]

"This repost and all of your posts are garbage." [1]

"It's the most random and unoriginal shit I've ever read." [2]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/f1sqyh/an...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/f1vfnv/wh...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/f1o83a/fo...

woodgrainz··on Cloud Report 2020
I would rather not have to sign up just to see the report.
woodgrainz··on AirPods Pro Page Performance
I don't mind apple.com at all -- nothing against them. I just don't understand OP's argument.
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