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Re:We've made the world too complicated on Sunday May 17, 2026 @06:31AM (#48167667)
It reminded me for the book "The Unaccountability Machine" by Dan Davies https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1ssv55y/the_unaccoun...

Show HN: Fermi estimation game (100% written by ChatGPT o1)

https://huggingface.co/spaces/skanderovitch/fermi_estimation_game

I wanted to try out ChatGPT o1 model to generate a full streamlit app, asking Fermi style of estimation questions, without looking at the codeWith some simple prompts, it did a fairly good job, in about one hourI only needed to copy paste error messages a couple of times, for it to suggest correctionsMy take-away is that LLMs will empower many non-technical users to achieve their (simple /...

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Re:Stock Market and Financial Data API on Sunday February 16, 2025 @10:17AM (#43068657)
It seems eerily similar to https://site.financialmodelingprep.com/ Are the two sites affiliated ?
It reminds me of this case of a hypnotised bank teller http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7309947.stm

Ask HN: What are we compensated for when we work an extra day?

I am feeling I am missing something obvious, help me out:In a white collar / non-hourly job, how much should an employee receive for forfeiting a holiday (holiday buy-back) ?Assuming (for 2024): - working all weekdays : 234 days - except 8 bank holidays - except 20 days of holidays a year, all taken in June - except all week ends : 104 daysThe annual salary is 100k and is paid in equal...

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I wonder how the training dataset was built

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