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We already live in a world where parents decide whether or not a child with Down Syndrome will be born. 60-90% of prenatal diagnoses in the US result in an elective termination. Th…

You’re neglecting the fact that each one of those businesses had a plan, they just pivoted to more successful plans.

The title is a lie - the original statement was that it was closer to “a small game engine” than a basic text UI. CC has a complex scene rendering pipeline with a 16ms/frame budget…

Languages are thought encodings. Most people can only encode/decode a single language but an LLM can move between them fluidly.

Amazon has surpassed Newegg as my online parts provider of choice. It's not that things can't go wrong, it's just that they are much better at handling it than Newegg these days.

We are in the process of abandoning ChatGPT Enterprise because Google is now bundling Gemini access for free with Google Workspace. If OpenAI is not safe from anticompetitive pract…

This explains a lot about Ork Mekboyz.

Well there was that one time Germany owed everyone a lot of money after the Treaty of Versailles and it kind of directly led to Hitler’s rise to power and another World War… makes …

It seems you are under the impression that the venture capital firm cofounder by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz was created by a single individual. If you can’t get basic facts c…

I don’t disagree. Crypto is neat but has no useful (legal) real world applications.

Oh, please. Bitcoin is a protocol with no more inherent value than SMTP. Aside from being the Catholic cryptocurrency, it has been surpassed technologically in every way by newer a…

I’m creative but have never been adept at sharing visual ideas in my head with the rest of the world. I’ve found genAI image tools empowering because for the first time I can turn …

I use credit cards for all of my spending. One gives me 4% back on fuel, another 3x points on travel and dining, etc. Paying with cash/debit is less economical because you forgo th…

Is this news? I'm genuinely asking - TLO and other skip tracing tools have been around for a while, and have been offering license plate location data for years. The ACLU issued a …

This story by itself might sound like sour grapes, but in combination with other reports about the CEO(1), I suspect bad news ahead for Stability's investors. It seems like a narci…

I had a former employer call once and ask me to sign a form confirming that I had opted not to exercise the stock options worth 0.125% of the company when I left. They were raising…

Comcast "forced" me off of mine by upping my rate to $180/mo for the cheapest cable-only package when there were contract deals available with internet and more channels for $110/m…

That’s because SMS has a 1120 bit message capacity and uses one of two encoding mechanisms. GSM-7 uses 7 bits per character and a correspondingly limited character set that allows …

You’re confusing stupidity with narrow expertise. I know CPAs who don’t file their own taxes because that wasn’t the focus of their niche. I know surgeons who don’t know the differ…

Their progress reports pop up on HN pretty frequently, as they're usually pretty technically dense and interesting. Here's the discussion of the most recent update: https://news.yc…

Except some municipalities with large red light camera revenue streams use bad math to justify unsafely short yellow light times in order to increase ticket revenues. More details …

LoRA: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.09685.pdf LLaMA: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta... Both have been the subjects of numerous HN posts in the last month…

I presume the last one is for ensuring the safety of staff. Domestic abusers can use work schedules to stalk and harass their former partners.

I’m an auditor at a large organization that uses Sourcegraph, and I love it. On one project I had to trace a compliance flow across 14 services written in 4 languages, and Sourcegr…