Hacker News: hotpockets

New comment by hotpockets in "Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die"

hotpockets — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 02:55:11 +0000

need comments. but try to make it cultural that comments should be optimistic/helpful.

New comment by hotpockets in "I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers"

hotpockets — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:29:57 +0000

it's a conceptual art project / hoax.

New comment by hotpockets in "Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores"

hotpockets — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:20:32 +0000

but what if everything cost the same, like a dollar store?

New comment by hotpockets in "Claude for Google Sheets"

hotpockets — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 14:46:58 +0000

I've had good results with Claude. Sometimes better than chatGPT. Never been censored, but that's probably just cause I ask it to teach me about stuff.

New comment by hotpockets in "ChatGPT’s system prompts"

hotpockets — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 14:08:41 +0000

this is what I was going to say. in fact it's the same principle in real life, if you are polite with people they will be polite back. The LLM has just learned statistically that blocks of text with polite language generally continues.

New comment by hotpockets in "The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”"

hotpockets — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 18:12:57 +0000

Additional suggestions that i think would make the game better/harder because the answer distribution is currently pretty skewed and many of your options are just clearly not covered by the rule (though all respect to rule sticklers, general contrarians, and everythings-a-vehicle hipsters):

construction equipment for park improvements (backhoe, etc)

gas powered moped

electric moped

gas powered rc car

4-wheeler/atv/dune buggy

golf cart

segway/monowheel

antique cars for some kind of demo/event

shriner guys in those mini cars in a local parade (at least i think most americans know what i'm talking about)

anti-drunk driving display (they have these sometimes at colleges, and maybe high schools, but it's basically a wrecked car and there are police there to do pr)

Note: i think many of your options are just clearly not covered by the rule, maybe keep some of them but not so many?

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

hotpockets — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 03:03:11 +0000

I am interested in this, but already confused on page 1. The book describes a bank needing to borrow swiss francs, but that doesn't make sense to me. Why not just borrow the money in their native currency? Does the book ever go into this?

New comment by hotpockets in "Tabi: The shoe that became a sock and then a shoe again"

hotpockets — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 16:36:43 +0000

I got a cheap version on Amazon (like 10 bucks) last summer. they are great.

New comment by hotpockets in "Capitalism and convenience are making us lonely"

hotpockets — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 23:56:36 +0000

it's an elegant system. capitalism creates problems, which are just opportunities for you to monetize.

New comment by hotpockets in "Is this poison ivy?"

hotpockets — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 04:57:26 +0000

I agree, one time I had know idea what this young "tree" was, it looked like an ash sapling, but it was a flowering poison ivy. Couldn't see the classic poison ivy "thumbs" either. Something like this: https://www.maine.gov/dacf/php/gotpests/weeds/images/poison-...

New comment by hotpockets in "Is this poison ivy?"

hotpockets — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 04:44:54 +0000

!00% and they can both a bit opportunistic in new growing areas like dried up seasonal pools. Personally I think it's a bit funny that virginia/thicket creepers show up in these, but I also think they should because it's instructive for newbs.

New comment by hotpockets in "Is this poison ivy?"

hotpockets — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 04:30:33 +0000

I got all of them right up to like 30 of them. But can we discuss something? none of the look-a-likes were the hardest one, at least in my neck of the woods. Box elder saplings. That's all, I just find it odd that so many of these poison ivy things don't include more of it. Maybe the author's don't live in Box elder zones.

New comment by hotpockets in "Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon says"

hotpockets — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:18:38 +0000

It was 70-80 years ago and you were off by about 2 years. Inconsequential. It makes zero difference to the meat of the story exactly how man Migs were shot down. The precise number is not the story. You didn't say 'some guy' you said 'a guy', which has a different connotation.

New comment by hotpockets in "Explore Wikipedia's New Look"

hotpockets — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 07:48:48 +0000

something is definitely wrong with firefox on linux. There is no margin on the left side.

New comment by hotpockets in "Tarrare"

hotpockets — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 02:34:33 +0000

In case you are wondering why oc suspected mitochondria, it's because many people believe (though science can't say for certain) that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

New comment by hotpockets in "Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution"

hotpockets — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 05:33:28 +0000

I'm pretty sure there are crypto projects where you could, in fact, short it. Check out Beta Finance for instance.

New comment by hotpockets in "Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the literature"

hotpockets — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:35:15 +0000

It is the oil companies who are speaking truth. Yes, that is it.

New comment by hotpockets in "Banned Seuss"

hotpockets — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 05:25:40 +0000

Just fyi, Nobody banned Seuss. Seuss Enterprises stopped publishing a few unpopular Seuss books.

New comment by hotpockets in "Walmart will use fully driverless trucks to make deliveries in 2021"

hotpockets — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 04:00:43 +0000

It doesn't even answer the most elementary question. Who carries the product up to the house?

New comment by hotpockets in "No More Google"

hotpockets — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 21:08:27 +0000

There was a privacy focused analytics alternative that recently launched on producthunt: https://panelbear.com

No idea if it's any good.