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Re:Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:45PM (#38919428)
How does it compare to the progress? Is the progress faster/slower?

Any links to read?

But Chrome is not free (well kind of). It saves lot's of money in royalties for Google (because Google search is the default search engine in Chrome). So even if it's 'free' it saves money for Google.
Re:I was tricked into thinking I had “grit” on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @04:12AM (#23088902)
This remind me of the Howard Marks 'Economic Reality' essay.

https://www.oaktreecapital.com/docs/default-source/memos/eco...

Re:SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns on Thursday April 02, 2020 @08:54AM (#22758366)
"typo"
Re:Stock Jump – a ski-jumping game with real stock data on Saturday March 21, 2020 @07:58PM (#22651345)
400.45 :P that's a nice one
Re:My Covid-19 Story in Brooklyn on Saturday February 29, 2020 @01:42PM (#22452132)
I've heard the opposite rationale. Having 'any' kind of mask decrease the number of times you touch your mouth or nose..
Re:‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:39PM (#22426463)
Infected People You May Know, got you infected.
Your Measurements Might Disappoint?
Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @10:15AM (#22236420)
so that you don't have to pay royalties to other browsers for being the main search engine. I mean you have to pay one less. And if you have the most used browser, you save a lot.
Re:Actix Web – Project Future on Monday January 20, 2020 @11:05AM (#22099760)
I want to take a moment to appreciate the participation of the whole community on this. I've been following the story since it started and I'm very pleased to see how people (HN, Reddit, Github, etc.) came together to support the author and promote a more friendly Rust community.

There is a lot of criticism in the Software Engineering community in general but the Actix story made me feel way more welcome and open. I'm very happy to see that!

Re:Actix Web – Project Future on Monday January 20, 2020 @10:56AM (#22099689)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22075076

you'll find all the references there

Re:What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour? on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @10:10AM (#21921434)
> I keep seeing Vim thrown up and down like it's the holy grail.

It's not. People tend to be religious about their choices, you can achieve the same result in any editor. Also most likely the bottleneck in your productivity is not the speed at which you manipulate text.

Anyway I will highlight few things that I consider great about vim.

1. It's more about consistency. (vim shortcuts are used in a lot of other places, ex: linux commands like `less`, `screen` etc.., tmux or other pane manager, etc..) When you learn linux you start to get a feeling about it, at some point you enter a command you somehow magically know the shortcuts to navigate/close/search inside there, Vim feels like a complementary thing to the whole linux environment knowledge.

2. It is everywhere! You need 0 time to prepare your work environment if you switch your job/workstation, and you also don't need to exit the remote machine/datacenter to write your stuff. You basically ssh into the machine[s]/datacenter and there you go, at the end of you day you just detach from the session, go home, and next day attach back and continue, all the commands, fancy log searches, processes monitoring, everything is there still running and waiting for you.

P.S. I also use VS Code sometimes especially for pet projects.

Re:What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour? on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @09:47AM (#21921282)
just took an hour to do that. That was an amazing lecture.

I salute you for the suggestion.

Re:Ask HN: Any good essay on midlife crisis? on Sunday December 29, 2019 @02:50PM (#21908015)
Thank you for the link. It was a good read.

Ask HN: Any good essay on midlife crisis?

Since early ages I have this recurring paranoiac feeling that somewhere in the future a grave is already prepared for me. (which is true for all of us). If you imagine your life like a movie and you scroll to the end then ..Not sure if it's midlife crisis though. (couldn't find a better naming).With ages this theme comes more often and more deep, previously I managed to force myself to ignore...

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Re:Jeff Dean interview: Machine learning trends in 2020 on Monday December 16, 2019 @02:50AM (#21801433)
- After Graham Bell invented the phone he had a missed call from Jeff Dean
Re:Fractional Shares on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:24PM (#21776029)
just a small note: brk.a is different in terms of voting power. but for small investors this is probably negligible anyway.
Re:Music for Programming (2011) on Thursday December 12, 2019 @11:19AM (#21773182)
me as well.

but I found some exceptions like Wardruna. :)

Re:Startup Pivots on Monday December 02, 2019 @02:00PM (#21685597)
I would say robotaxi is an extension of the business not a pivot. the plan described in the blog is pretty much achieved, isn't it?
Any papers to confirm?

Ask HN: Why don't homeless people from SF move to another city?

I'm not from US and I am not very aware of what's going on in San Francisco.But I've been wondering why homeless people from SF don't move to another city where with a regular job they can afford a normal life.At least this is what I would consider in their situation.Sorry if the question is stupid.

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Re:Stripe to move to South San Francisco on Thursday October 24, 2019 @11:45AM (#21345776)
I'm not from US and I'm not very informed about the homeless problem.

But I wonder why homeless people don't move to another city. If I'd be in their situation (living in a city where I can not afford to rent a house and live a normal life) I'd go to another city where with a regular job I can afford a normal life and just build my life there.

Sorry if it's a stupid question.

Re:I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900 on Thursday October 24, 2019 @08:39AM (#21344047)
I got this one from one of my mates in school: "Can you please install Gentoo on my toaster?"
Totally agree with you, parents and environment is one of the most important factor but this is not 100% of the odds, there are still things that you can influence yourself (especially in these times when we have access to the internet).
> You don't choose your genes

I agree with this one.

> or where you are born

Not really agree with this, you can change the country you live in. And it's more important where you live not where you are born. For example lots of people from poor countries go to US or Europe and are quite successful there.

> 2,3 can be reduced to 1.

Don't agree either. Let's be realistic, what are the chances of success for a person who stays at home watch movies vs. someone who go out talk with people get involved in all sorts of activities + prepare the homework for those social events.

Re:YouTube Regrets on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @05:37PM (#21264128)
This and some comments below is the extreme to one or the other end. The situation is as almost always grey (not white or black). If you are procrastinating on youtube or buy junk there is something you can do (you have some degree of control) also there is something Youtube can do (they also have some degree of control), why do we involve so much extremism into discussions around (ads, privacy, etc..)

P.S. I spend <2h/day on youtube mostly on the shows or tutorials I wanted in advance. I spend <20min/day on fb (90% messenger, 10% groups that I "have to" follow). Very close to 0 social media activity for more than 2 years now. So it's definitely possible.

Re:Tesla Delivers Record 97,000 Vehicles in Q3 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @05:19PM (#21140846)
Am I the only one who thinks the Wall Street is playing dirty? Right before the report they increase the expectations so tesla miss, if they wouldn't increase it that should be a beat, same with eps last quarter. It feels like they force the news headlines to be 'tsla miss'. Or maybe I'm a bit fanatic, please correct me if I'm wrong.

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