Readit NewsThey may not have had the free-roaming childhood of many Gen-Xers where you spent all day out riding bikes and playing ball games in the street, but they seem more aware of the risk of sitting at an office job through the day, and then sitting in front of the TV in the evening.
It's much more likely that their crawler is just garbage and got stuck into some kind of loop requesting my domain.
Even Googlebot has to be told to not crawl particular querystrings, but the AI crawlers are worse.
But this story could be about more recent environmental pathogens like micro-plastics that trigger inflammation and auto-immune responses that progress into disease and/or cancer. Cancer rates in that generation is markedly higher than for previous generations at that age, and not just a case of better detection but hospital admissions and death.
There are 3 primary decisions Google made that click with me, while Apple's choices are a mystery to me:
1: When I put a Pixel on a table, it sits there stable. Because the backside is symmetrical. When I put an iPhone on a table, it wobbles.
2: When I sort my photos on a Pixel, I sort them in folders. The "camera" folder is where the unsorted photos are. When I sit in a bus or in a cafe, I go through it and sort the new photos into folders. This seems impossible on iPhones. Everything stays in the main folder forever. You can add photos to albums, but that does not remove them from the main folder. So there is no way to know which photos I have already sorted.
3: On Android I can use Chrome. Which means web apps can use the File System Access API. This makes web apps first class productivity applications I can use to work on my local files. Impossible on iPhones.
I'm sure people who prefer iPhones have their own set of "this clicks with me on iPhones and puzzles me on Pixels" aspects?
Is this a "left brain vs right brain" type of thing? Do most HNers prefer Androids?
That was the first thing I noticed. I assume the extra protuberance is to enable the insane zoom level but it goes full width for stability.
I have G85 Motorola - great phone (and primarily a phone/modem/camera) for the price, but it wobbles slightly.
Yes, I prefer Android, but have a M4 Air that goes everywhere with me to do actual work.
On any particular days stocks will go up and down 1% - 3% just on trading and more when larger investors decides to profit take.
Drops over a certain percentage can trigger automated sell-offs creating bigger drops - and that's it. It's big players who can move the market enough to create a signal, and herd mentality from there.
Palantir for example hit a level and a lot of investors sold expecting a drop. They will now be buying back in once it hit its floor. Rinse, repeat.
Maybe the AI stocks are more volatile with wilder swings due to the hype, but there's no bubble unless they start failing or the money can move to somewhere with better returns.
Nvidia and Palantir are wildly profitable right now, so talk of a bubble is premature.
The twist had potential, but to me wasn’t executed as well as it could have been. I was hoping for some stronger irony — e.g. if the mainlanders had pushed for the bridge, but not the islanders; or a sentence about how the demons were very surprised, but nonetheless went on to take over the world before they knew what had happened. As it is, it felt underdeveloped and slightly uncanny in an AI-like way.
For some, the world building came first and the stories were an offshoot of that.
Tolkien needed a world and stories to bring life to the languages he was inventing.
Raymond E Feist's Midkemia was a massive collaborative effort for a RPG world. He has stated: "I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. At least that's how I look at it."
This is what you won't see AI doing...yet.
I like our trains here in Sydney for similar reasons. The lines are almost all aboveground, you get to see plenty of neighbourhoods and plenty of sunshine out the windows (you also get the full panoramic scenery when going over the harbour bridge). And they're double decker and have lots of seating, so there's not nearly as much shoulder jostling as on typical metro trains (although there is frequent squeezing past peoples' knees to get out of a window seat).
Ironically, there is a brand new "metro" line here in Sydney (and they're building more metro lines), and many people prefer it - even though it has less seating, is often crowded, and is more underground - because it's faster and more reliable. Opposite of the situation in London. I guess the grass is always greener!
You don't even the "Wombling free" grafiti they often attract.