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Re:Microplastics: No longer a "maybe" on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @05:09PM (#45893570)
Preliminary studies show that you are actually drastically impacting your plastic intake. Try brushing your teeth with nonplastics too!
Re:Microplastics: No longer a "maybe" on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @04:58PM (#45893449)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTzw_grLzjw&t=427s

55x for BPA? It's pretty annoying how wide an umbrella term microplastics are.

Re:Microplastics: No longer a "maybe" on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @03:56PM (#45892720)
Are the mouse studies not worrying enough for you to change your behaviour?
Re:Microplastics: No longer a "maybe" on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @03:44PM (#45892561)
It's a bit too much of an umbrella term for regulation to fix in one swoop, but if i were alive in the 50s and had the internet i simply would not buy lead-paint.
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT on Thursday October 03, 2024 @01:57PM (#41733097)
1- very unlikely they spent a year on just this 2- they are certainly paid more as TC
Re:Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @10:41AM (#41435430)
wat
it was issued while he was en route
Re:Writing code with GPT and no engineering experience on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @04:01AM (#40785755)
their substack describes them as a designer

Looking up on LinkedIn, she worked as a product designer but never as a developer

ime it consistently overestimates ride time by 50+% or so. usually like 10-20% slower than google maps, but the estimate is often 2x what google maps says.
Re:Show HN: I built an alternative to product tours on Sunday February 18, 2024 @07:22PM (#39424954)
The "try now" button leading to a form and no way to actually experience what you're selling didn't feel great
lol that's not real self driving. waymo is very useful.
Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @07:37PM (#38934531)
Twitch pays streamers?
It...is a driverless car.
Re:Show HN: Shortbread, create AI comics in minutes on Saturday October 07, 2023 @07:32AM (#37800834)
Saving as a JPG gave me a cropped version that cuts off the bottom, just fyi
Re:Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster? on Thursday September 28, 2023 @08:14AM (#37688476)
Use GPT-4.
It's a bit more complex than that right? If no part of the user wanted this, it wouldn't drive up engagement. Clearly it causes me to use the product more. Companies can try to optimize for stuff like "satisfaction after using the product" but it's genuinely much harder -- and not tying work to business outcomes is not scalable.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020) on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:09AM (#23049411)
Lunchclub | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time Lunchclub's mission is to make meaningful connections between professionals using AI. We spend lots of time solving product problems, running experiments, and optimizing our ML matching algorithm.

We are a small team of engineers, backed by a16z. We have very strong retention, and growing fast.

Our current stack is:

  * React
  * Flask
  * mySQL
  * Docker
  * AWS
  * Tensorflow
We are hiring for engineers across the web stack, as well as ML engineers. Check out https://jobs.lever.co/elliot/
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2020) on Monday February 03, 2020 @03:40PM (#22228772)
Lunchclub | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time

Lunchclub's mission is to make meaningful offline connections between professionals using AI. We spend lots of time solving product problems, running experiments, and optimizing our ML matching algorithm.

We are a small team of engineers, backed by a16z. We have very strong retention, are live in 11 cities globally, and growing fast.

Our current stack is:

  * React
  * Flask
  * mySQL
  * Docker
  * AWS
  * Tensorflow
We are hiring for engineers across the web stack, as well as ML engineers. Check out https://jobs.lever.co/elliot/