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Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:31PM (#50298320)
Uber Eats has Costco as well in some areas
Mostly agreed with just in time learning. This is not just something that can be learned from the code though, this may require a huge amount of code context across multiple repositories and configuration files, as well as a knowledge of history, process, other tribal knowledge etc. So to me that's still the really difficult part of the job and AI definitely helps but doesn't entirely solve this. I see it often wants to solve some issue at not quite the level of depth or high level understand that you would want.
Re:CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @08:57PM (#49916405)
I recently completed my masters in CS. I agree with the sentiment of wanting to avoid LLM use in general, but that ship has sailed. No amount of policies and slides is going to be enough for this systemic issue. I remember all the policies and volumes of reading I would have to do to keep up with what was expected to be done in a very rigorous and usually pedantic way. Change to oral exams or something similar
Re:Midjourney Medical on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @10:46PM (#48580081)
I have a cheap bridge to sell you
Re:Midjourney Medical on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @10:36PM (#48579970)
How are people possibly taking this seriously?

> That, collectively, we can begin to change our relationship with our bodies and start to ask questions like: if we can catch things early, can we change our lifestyles to correct them?

We can already ask this question...

> And seeing our bodies change over time, alongside our actions, how much can we improve our health, our minds, and our lives?

Again, we can already ask this question

> We think it's completely possible that with enough early imaging in the future, the world could avoid 30% of all deaths and 50% of all healthcare costs. The cultural, physical, and mental health benefits of all of this are hard to comprehend, but also hard to overstate.

What? I have no idea what is meant here by "hard to overstate".

> You want as much data as you can get about your health as quickly and as cheaply as possible. In other words, you want a technology optimized for getting as many “megabytes per second per dollar” of information about your body.

Thanks for including the "megabytes per second per dollar" unit breakdown, I didn't understand the first sentence at all without that!

> And we live longer, healthier lives, better lives.

More AI slop

> When you step into the water, you’re standing on top of a platform. The platform is connected to rails and begins to descend into the water - an elevator gently lowering you at around 2 inches, or 5 centimeters, per second.

More AI slop. You'd only be done in 60 seconds if you're exactly 5 feet tall

Re:How to Articulate Yourself Intelligently on Friday December 12, 2025 @12:38PM (#46246468)
I was interested in reading this article but then I saw a link to the video which was titled something like "How the top 1% communicate". And that sort of communication made me not want to read the article.

I understand the YouTube titles have to be kind of clickbaity but that to me doesn't indicate confidence that I'm going to be reading or watching something worthwhile. Just my two cents.

Not a biologist but I don't think it has to do with how much the genes get expressed but rather that they do get expressed and in bad times (pesticide) they're really good and look like they dominate (in that you only need one copy to get the expression/benefits) but in good times (pesticide free) they don't introduce that much negative cost and so you need two copies for adverse effects.
Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:36PM (#44790479)
This looks like it could be really cool. However there are obvious mistakes pointed out by other comments which makes me distrust the content. I'm sure there are still good ideas in there, I just don't think they would be as creative as I would likr
Re:WeTransfer Terms of Service on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @08:51AM (#44570612)
WeTransfer TOS now includes a right to use your content to "operate, develop, commercialize and improve the service"
This focuses on what managers should do differently, but not what engineers could do differently to make the relationship better. Improve their communication skills, document and evangelize their work, etc.
I'll echo the other comments in saying that I believe this to be not convincingly argued at best and at worst condescending. Terms like "fairly obvious", implying parents "don't want to hear something" feels to me an oversimplification, etc
Re:The Eleven Laws of Showrunning [pdf] on Sunday September 22, 2024 @03:22PM (#41619274)
> Kind of like Steve Jobs not telling his staff more about the iPod than "It's white and needs a dial"

Isn't Apple infamous for siloing information amongst its departments such that almost nobody grasps the full extent of what is being built?

Re:Is Everything BS? on Thursday June 27, 2024 @03:55PM (#40814400)
What's it called when someone asks you a question with certain parameters, then makes fun of you for trying to keep your answer within certain parameters because you didn't think outside the box?
Re:Mortgages Are a Manufactured Product on Sunday May 19, 2024 @04:15AM (#40405234)
Wow, what a great website. I wish I had found that back when I was a chemical engineer.
I can't seem to load the page, would love to read.
Re:Epistemic Learned Helplessness on Friday January 12, 2024 @12:53PM (#38971420)
Thanks for finding the exact words for how I also feel about the rationalist community.

Source: sufficiently smart chemical engineer

Re:What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:29PM (#38620968)
Makes me sad that the best show on/produced by Netflix (Narcos: Mexico) has so little hours watched compared to the rest (30,000).
I would put this at a 5/10, there’s a lot to do and read through.

My thoughts:

1. ChatGPT can do this trivially.

2. It’s a reasonable amount of things to read through and understand. Reminds me of a project from my CS masters program (Georgia Tech) where most of the difficulty is in parsing the instructions and figuring out what’s required (not that it’s a bad thing, just an observation).

3) I would maybe consider dropping the word “fun” from “we would like you to complete a fun coding exercise”. Job interviews are not fun in general and this exercise doesn’t seem that fun to me!

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Recently I’ve come across the need to create complex reminders, such as the following:1) Remind me to take a certain medication in the morning, afternoon, evening and night for the next five days.2) Remind me to look for a random note, such as “A”, on the guitar each day for the next 30 days. Each day should be a different note from the typical western music scale and each note should only...

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I would never expect or want any recognition or cards or similar from work for events that happen in my personal life. Is this a generational difference or am I just a curmudgeon? (To be clear, I’m a millennial)
Re:Human or Not: A Social Turing Game on Saturday April 22, 2023 @01:12PM (#35668734)
This is what I got:

> lets talk in discord for a fun time ;) wink wink my tag is: Apostrasia#0878

Re:Ask HN: Is Google Down for You? on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:13PM (#35622936)
Yep. Thought it was just for me.
Re:Ask HN: Is Google Down for You? on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:13PM (#35622934)
Yes
One comment on the article from what I’ve read so far. The article states that GPT bombed an economics test, but after trying out the first two questions on the test, I think that the test itself is poorly constructed.

The second question in particular drops the potential implicit assumption that only 100 people stand in line each day.

I face this issue in my CS masters program constantly, and would probably have failed this test much the same as GPT did.

Re:NYC Slice on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @03:22PM (#34344077)
I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad take, but I would disagree. It’s kind of like any sports debate where you argue about who is the best or greatest of all time. You’re splitting hairs, but it’s still a fun debate.

Also even at the level of your local places, after eating the amount of pizza you do in New York you can tell small differences in quality such that you will seek out specific places in a certain radius.

Re:My students cheated... a lot on Sunday May 29, 2022 @08:41AM (#31548676)
Was looking for this! I’m a Chemical Engineering grad who’s in a Computer Science masters program currently. Comparing the two, the collaboration in my engineering classes far surpasses anything that’s occurred in my CS classes. Almost everything we did in Engineering would have been considered “cheating” in CS. In retrospect, I definitely learned more than I would have from the collaboration and environment in undergrad.
Re:Show HN: Find Reddit discussion threads for your TV shows on Monday September 27, 2021 @12:37AM (#28667130)
The subreddit is titled Mitchell and Webb, but it looks like the discussions are about “Back”, which is a more recent show starring the two.

But I also went right to Peep Show, which I thought would be interesting to see discussions of!

Good article.

I thought this line from the article was interesting:

> Online sign-ups are especially challenging for older people, perhaps the worst group to beta-test a new system.

I think I understand the author's intent when saying "worst group", but in this case I can't imagine a better group. They're literally the first people who will need to be using this system! If you beta-test your product with the people who will be able to use it despite all of its flaws, is that really testing?

Anyway yeah, just upset at this comment given that I have family members struggling with all this vaccine appointment software.

Re:Notebook Is A Better Readme on Saturday December 19, 2020 @02:41PM (#25480469)
I skimmed through the article, and seems similar to literate programming: https://github.com/gicentre/litvis

Would be grateful if anyone could explain the significant differences between the two.

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