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New comment by dcist in "A simple search engine from scratch"

dcist — Tue, 20 May 2025 13:23:17 +0000

WestLaw and Lexis Nexis provide this for legal search, but quite frankly, these services are subpar. It's amazing that these two companies rake in hundreds of millions but they are both slower than Google, Bing, Yandex, or any LLM service (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.) while scouring a universe of text that is orders of magnitude smaller. The user experience is also terrible (you have to login and specify a client each and every time you attempt to use the service and both services log you out after a short -- in my opinion -- period of inactivity, creating friction and needless annoyance to the user). There's an opportunity there.

New comment by dcist in "Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor"

dcist — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:40:33 +0000

Now THIS is the sort of nihilistic outlook that keeps me coming back for a hit of HN.

New comment by dcist in "20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says"

dcist — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 03:24:13 +0000

Federal employees are not permitted to strike. See 5 USC § 7311.

New comment by dcist in "Open source AI is the path forward"

dcist — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:16:44 +0000

So commoditize the complement.

New comment by dcist in "Remembering the LAN (2020)"

dcist — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 20:28:57 +0000

AOE2 is the pinnacle of the RTS genre. With the Definitive Edition released in 2019, it's still extremely popular today. In my opinion, no RTS title has surpassed AOE2 before or since in terms of gameplay (and, in my subjective opinion, graphics -- I LOVE the detailed pixel graphics much more than polygons).

New comment by dcist in "Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records 'stolen from background check firm'"

dcist — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:55:09 +0000

Agree with this. An insurance requirement would solve this problem. It would also incentivize robust security audits by the insurance companies and the data collectors.

New comment by dcist in "US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster"

dcist — Thu, 23 May 2024 01:03:32 +0000

Do T-Mobile and Sprint next. T-Mobile just announced it's jacking rates up. It's a direct result of the merger.

New comment by dcist in "Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time"

dcist — Sat, 18 May 2024 22:18:52 +0000

Big news for Ted Williams

New comment by dcist in "Proton Mail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain"

dcist — Tue, 07 May 2024 13:08:14 +0000

Yes, if your information is stored with a third-party, it can be subject to disclosure with a lawful subpoena.

New comment by dcist in "Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining"

dcist — Wed, 01 May 2024 18:25:07 +0000

Windows 11 is awful. It ruined the calendar view on the taskbar, which is a huge pet peeve for me.

New comment by dcist in "Elon Musk Has a Giant Charity. Its Money Stays Close to Home"

dcist — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 01:16:06 +0000

We have a say in how the government spends our tax dollars? This is news to me. I would prefer that much less be spent on war and military, among other things.

New comment by dcist in "The US over-reliance on incarceration is lazy and cruel"

dcist — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:44:07 +0000

We have an under-incarceration problem. See the recent results from El Salvador. I don't lose a second of sleep over the cruel treatment of murderers and violent criminals.

New comment by dcist in "Nvidia's Chat with RTX is an AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC"

dcist — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:05:48 +0000

Yes, I remember Dr. Sbaitso very, very well. I spent many hours with it as a kid and thought it was tons of fun. To be frank, Dr. Sbaitso is why I was underwhelmed when chatbots were hyped in the early 2010s. I couldn't understand why anyone would be excited about 90s tech.

New comment by dcist in "Before he was George Orwell, he was Eric Blair, police officer"

dcist — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 21:28:39 +0000

I came here to write precisely this! You're not alone in your thoughts.

New comment by dcist in "Jar Jar Binks: The greatest thing that ever happened to Star Wars"

dcist — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 18:48:21 +0000

The prequels were awful and Jar Jar Binks was a horrible, no good character. That said, I had no idea tripod still existed! What a blast from the past.

New comment by dcist in "Flattr is closing down (2023)"

dcist — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:02:30 +0000

Yeah, I've wondered if Amazon is using Twitch's AWS fees as paper losses to lower taxes. I.e., Twitch is actually making profits but Amazon wants the AWS fees on its books so that Twitch isn't recording profits (and therefore taxes) and Amazon profits off the AWS fees.

New comment by dcist in "Investigating Rock Radio with Rick Beato"

dcist — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 18:35:34 +0000

Charlie Crockett is great!

New comment by dcist in "Investigating Rock Radio with Rick Beato"

dcist — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 18:26:00 +0000

The industry made a fortune off CDs. If memory serves, peak revenue for the music industry was in the early 2000s right when boy bands, Limp Bizkit, Britney Spears, and Eminem were the big things and Napster was about to blow things up.

New comment by dcist in "You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)"

dcist — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:08:23 +0000

Some people are indeed much better. Anyone who played sports as a kid understands this. Huge differences are immediately apparent in small children. But generally, I agree that, for most life tasks, the differences between people are not enormous. Humanity could do a much better job eliminating poverty. In the future, we may view enormous disparities in wealth as evil as we do racism today.

New comment by dcist in "SEC Charges Hex Founder Richard Heart with Misappropriating Millions of Dollars"

dcist — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:56:41 +0000

And although there hasn't been any evidence of top-level fraud, a Coinbase product manager was sentenced to two years in prison for an insider trading scam: https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/05/09/former-coinbase-employ...