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Re:Compare Image Generators Visually on Sunday April 06, 2025 @10:37PM (#43607053)
"Tired of scrolling through endless model rankings without truly SEEING the results, I built https://ImageBattle.ai to visually compare AI-generated images from multiple models. Because seeing is believing."
Re:Hacker News on Encyclopaedia Automatica on Sunday February 11, 2024 @11:32AM (#39336108)
Encyclopaedia Automatica is Wikipedia plus GPT, with humans editing but GPT doing all the hard work.
Re:Encyclopaedia Automatica on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @11:21AM (#39276201)
Currently dual licensed CCBYSA
Re:Encyclopaedia Automatica on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @09:50AM (#39274768)
Collaborative prompt engineering with a higher purpose.

A collaborative encyclopedia, built with GPT doing the hard work.

More here: https://stevecoast.substack.com/p/encyclopaedia-automatica

Re:In Defense of OpenStreetMap's Data Model on Monday June 06, 2022 @07:41AM (#31639222)
Someone gets it :-)
Re:Happy Birthday, OpenStreetMap on Monday August 09, 2021 @02:50PM (#28120719)
Great minds think alike...
Re:Happy Birthday, OpenStreetMap on Monday August 09, 2021 @12:24PM (#28118828)
The aim is globally, we're working on speeding it up and cleaning out trains and water... We'll probably finish the US within a few days and move on to the EU or other places.
Re:Happy Birthday, OpenStreetMap on Monday August 09, 2021 @11:55AM (#28118444)
Woo!

Happy to answer any questions...

Re:Despite Tuesday’s flight, Jeff Bezos is running out of time to save... on Friday July 23, 2021 @11:39AM (#27931925)
Bezos should give BO to SpaceX (or maybe Rocket Lab) to run, much like Buffet gave the bulk of his money to the Gates Foundation.

It will a) put the best person on the job, b) close down an unnecessary spat and c) remove the opportunity cost and let Bezos focus on other things.

It would be a win for everyone on Earth apart from ULA.

Re:StreetComplete: Easy to use editor of OpenStreetMap data on Friday June 18, 2021 @12:44PM (#27552256)
I find it puzzling how random OSM things go to the top of HN on a seemingly monthly basis. I imagine some vast conspiracy network promoting these links and wonder who's in charge and what their motivation is?

:-)

Re:A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap on Friday April 23, 2021 @08:57PM (#26921129)
I didn't know any GIS when I started OpenStreetMap and I think it was for the better. A fresh approach often yields a lot of progress.
Re:The Roblox Microverse on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @07:57PM (#26406526)
I've noticed the $0 thing too, plus the enormous amounts of "stolen" IP in the games - assets, music, entire games...
Re:Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insuranc... on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @03:37PM (#25838556)
Would be fun to chat - my email is in the profile, tried finding yours...
Re:Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insuranc... on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:26PM (#25824819)
IMHO You need to make it legal to open and run a hospital (hospitals are basically local state-granted monopolies like cable companies). You make it legal to offer differential pricing. You decouple healthcare from employment. You allow employers to offer more than one insurer.

Most of what we need to do is just remove the monopoly rules.

Re:Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insuranc... on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:23PM (#25824798)
A number of people, including me, have been building similar things, see http://price.hospital

The problem seems to be figuring out a revenue model, and translating all the medical terms in to human.

Re:Openstreetmap is having a moment on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @04:36PM (#25142749)
As a long-time OSM contributor (former software creator, creator of OSM Foundation board yadda yadda) I like this piece also.

Hi Richard :-)

Re:Show HN: Price.hospital on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:48PM (#23340892)
Well, that's part of the hard work. Each hospital publishes it in a different way, usually behind a lot of walls, and in different formats.

Show HN: Price.hospital

Posted by SteveCoast on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:35PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://price.hospital/I'm attempting to make US hospital prices searchable and comparable after congress enacted price transparency.I'm aware that there are severe problems here as the prices are so opaque. The prices quoted are not the insurance-negotiated prices, it's taking time to load in and clean up all the data, hospital compliance with transparency is... mixed... But we have to move...

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Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @03:04PM (#20098155)
It’s the newest-ish airframe until the carbon 777 flies.
Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @03:01PM (#20098128)
If the engines are over-wing you know it’s nonsense.
Re:F-35's Towed Decoys on Friday March 29, 2019 @11:43AM (#19522626)
The F-14 was retired a long time ago and the other two are aging out right now.
Re:F-35: What The Pilots Say on Thursday March 28, 2019 @10:52AM (#19512721)
Right. It wasn't supposed to be multi-role, the original was a beautiful thing to behold before they started hanging all kinds of crap off of it.

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