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yayadarsh

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I just completed an 18 month travel sabbatical with my wife - would this be useful to catalog and cluster all of our photos based on geolocation and prompt us to collect memories?

More and more people are more cognizant of their alcohol consumption, and like calories - it can be hard to eyeball them compared to the "standard unit" (14g alcohol).

I build an iOS app (https://quenchai.app) that uses a carefully constructed Multimodal LLM workflow to convert photos to standard drinks and track consumption over time.

Did you know a standard margarita is ~2.5 standard drinks and a light beer is ~0.8?

This is an absolutely ridiculous claim, it's very clear that you have never met anyone with an allergy (or cared to ask someone about their experience if you have)

Wow yeah, you nailed it! Government debt is directly related to programs like this, and this was probably the lion's share of the expenditure!

Consumption decisions made by individuals will never solve this problem, as it is more of a problem with labor/industrial regulation and corporate governance.

100% agree. This type of dualistic thinking is one of the reasons common political discourse in the US is so unproductive. There are (almost) no simple black/white answers to anything, and the devil is usually in the (grey) details.

Serious question: where do you draw the line? At what point does life stop being a personal experience between life and death and start becoming a min-maxing of maximal utility on the planet?

While I totally understand your point, I think that the associated value judgment (you are weak if you value your own happiness over that of others) is misguided. Is strength to be solely associated with selfless altruism? What is the end-game of this ethic?

Here's what I don't understand. You are trying to convince someone that they are being "callously indifferent to the suffering of others" by telling them that "their utility is correlated with the utility of a poor person". Sounds like you both seem to have comparable goals, just that you believe that your "way" of accomplishing the goal is superior (i.e. help others to help yourself, rather than just helping yourself)

I'm sorry for the situation you describe. For what it's worth, the downvotes (I did not downvote you) are due to HN's insistence on comments that are productive/on topic.

This is a common misconception. Advertising does not need to be hidden to "work". Advertising is not just facebook ads (which you admit to clicking, although not as regularly as your dad), but also involves creating positive sentiment for a brand or product over time through techniques like mere exposure.

I Wwnt to preface that I do understand where you are coming from, and spent many years agreeing with the sentiment that you pose, but over time came to realize that I was mistaken and had an oversimplified view of what makes the advertising industry tick.

In the interest of discussion: do you think that most people are too lazy/ignorant to ignore ads like you and your friends do?