Hacker News: Sherl

New comment by Sherl in "Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter"

Sherl — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:40:10 +0000

Robinhood just launched a new ventures vehicle and Stripe could be "supposedly" part of it. Robinhood Ventures Fund I (RVI),

New comment by Sherl in "ChatGPT's hidden bias about your state or city"

Sherl — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:30:57 +0000

These biases are not intentionally programmed; they are absorbed from the vast online datasets used for training. Because ChatGPT serves more than 900 million users each week, these inherited prejudices can subtly shape global perceptions.

ChatGPT's hidden bias about your state or city

Sherl — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:30:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/see-chatgpts-hidden-bias-about-your-state-or-city/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105535

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by Sherl in "ChatGPT Atlas"

Sherl — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:38:11 +0000

any plans for firefox?

New comment by Sherl in "Tesla used car prices keep plumetting, dips below average used car"

Sherl — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 01:38:29 +0000

Why specific to LFP chemistry? Is your usage always going to be charging for full?

New comment by Sherl in "Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript"

Sherl — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 23:30:55 +0000

I see it compares between ads/sponsored vs kagi showcasing just webpages. If I use ublock and block elements, does Kagi has advantage over it? In other words, are the search results superior barring QOL improvement could Kagi possibly bring.

New comment by Sherl in "Generative AI Handbook: A Roadmap for Learning Resources"

Sherl — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 00:57:33 +0000

Actually more this

https://www.futureofai.mit.edu/

New comment by Sherl in "FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process"

Sherl — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 04:27:50 +0000

Walmart app does a similar dark pattern IMHO. It would pop up asking for Walmart+ as soon as it launches. I have been a victim of accidentl trial sign-up with Walmart+

The opt in button would be at the bottom where exactly "account" sits.

New comment by Sherl in "Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps"

Sherl — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 20:20:45 +0000

I am always amazed by Finance. But the engineer in me somehow always failed to grapple after few trenches deep into the realm of terminologies. I am strongly considering the MITx Finance specialization, but this resource is a great stop gap.

New comment by Sherl in "Starbucks CEO will work a shift at the company’s cafes once a month"

Sherl — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:22:47 +0000

Higher ups in Toyota used to have this. Where if you join Toyota even as GM/VP, you would assemble the cars for a week as part of your induction into culture.

New comment by Sherl in "Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone"

Sherl — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 03:43:56 +0000

Whoever Controls the Media, Controls the Mind.

- Jim Morrison

New comment by Sherl in "$7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt"

Sherl — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 02:01:27 +0000

Most a-li-express products are getting delivered within two to three weeks these days. They have become very efficient in logistics.

Also if you continue supporting Chinese sellers on Amazon, this would still encourage these behaviors.

New comment by Sherl in "American Tech Can’t Catch a Break in India"

Sherl — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:33:49 +0000

https://archive.ph/C2OOI

American Tech Can’t Catch a Break in India

Sherl — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:33:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-tech-cant-catch-a-break-in-india-11662992038

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32815614

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Sherl in "How GPU Computing Works [video]"

Sherl — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 20:58:15 +0000

There is an entire field of parallel algorithms which makes use of sequential algorithms to overcome some of these issues. So no it's not wasted. You would apply the knowledge to build parallel algorithms.

There are projects in my school where we implemented a combination of CUDA and openMP in some and MPI+OpenMP in a few. I think the bottleneck is always gonna be there, its just how much and how you deal with it in hardware from the software front.

New comment by Sherl in "Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen3 Review – with Linux"

Sherl — Mon, 02 May 2022 07:41:42 +0000

*T15p G2

New comment by Sherl in "Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen3 Review – with Linux"

Sherl — Mon, 02 May 2022 07:40:47 +0000

T15G2 is another great machine if you want P15 but with consumer graphics and full kb.

New comment by Sherl in "Algorithms for Decision Making [pdf]"

Sherl — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 00:14:08 +0000

How is the different from mental models? They have a lot of overlap

New comment by Sherl in "Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search"

Sherl — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 19:45:15 +0000

Straight up Google results are too manipulated by machine generated blogs for SEO. Google "best x" you would end up in a blog post made of Amazon affiliate links. Same goes for product reviews, it's impossible to find blogs that cover reviews on everyday products barring a few. Reddit has become a gold mine for some when it comes to product reviews and research. "Give a man a mask, he will tell you the truth" - with quora your identity being associated some hesitate on stark opinions but with reddit, you can do whatever you want to say and the community takes care of it with upvotes and karma.

Recently there has been an influx of paid reviews and opinions everywhere, yt comments, Amazon reviews and even reddit comments. So take everything with a truckload of salt but given the limited content I have to source, reddit is as good as it gets. Someone should build yt comments extractor and search on top of that.

New comment by Sherl in "I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012"

Sherl — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 17:06:31 +0000

The tip on purchasing business grade laptops applicable to several companies as well. I have the P series and it's going strong for 5 years after all the abuse of grad school and internships and now another degree. Apart from the wear on the rubber coating on the lid, the plastic is still robust. If you want upgradability from Lenovo, I think P series tick most boxes. The form factor is different here.