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I highly recommend reading A Thread Across the Ocean, a gripping tale of the development and laying of the first transatlantic cable. It’s quite a page turner.

Most of that money is wasted on keeping the military industrial complex fat and happy, it's not going into soldier's pockets. And I say this being pro-US and indeed seeing the worl…

You made a tiny mistake, you forgot the $800 billion for the military!

Anyone who has ever seen or handled a simple 1U server knows this is absolute bullshit. And laundry bags have to be absolutely the worst possible way to transport something like th…

I think non-software creative work has indeed been completely decimated by AI usage, particularly on the small business end. But this has been going on for a while now, I think sin…

I don’t want you to be anything but a team player. Let’s work together and get it done. Be an artist on your time, not mine.

Well, it’s nice you bring up strawmen after you called me a hobgoblin (a delicious word btw). I hope this _divine_ irony is not lost on someone like yourself. > I learned that my s…

TIL I am divine! By the way, you have the exact energy of someone who would argue about code style: a prima donna who quotes Emerson when confronted with disagreement.

The actual rules are less important, only the consistency of applying them is. I find that people who argue against automatic linting and formatting tend to be the same that would …

You can’t get nuanced, well thought out takes here on anything AI and Elon related unfortunately. It’s frustrating because I often come to HN for the smart contrarian takes. But no…

I don’t imagine you get paid by the FSB, so I gotta ask, do you really do this for free?

Being a pacifist doesn’t imply being a doormat. At any rate, I don’t think Ukraine would have attacked Russia under any credible circumstances.

Most of the time it’s the other way around, at least in the US: because cash and credit card prices are almost always the same it is the cash users who are overpaying, to the tune …

It's funny you mention fair, because to me a fair society is one where smart kids are not penalized for being so. So yes, we all want fair, but what we think of as fair can be wild…

Following your analogy, what equity efforts turn in practice is to not only accommodate for track length for those that start behind, but also to cut one leg off of those perceived…

That all sounds great in theory but in practice it devolves not into only giving extra help to those in need, but also to _take away_ from those perceived to have some sort of adva…

You mean up. Question.

The ashtrays are there, even today, because it is suspected that this flight [0] went down when someone disposed a cigarette butt in the lavatory trash, causing a fire. A reminder …

Do dryer outlets work outdoors?

Can I ask why don't you want a Tesla charger talking to Tesla? Seems a bit odd if you already own a Tesla vehicle that is just piping the data to Tesla all the time.

Wellness/Health clinics sourcing from China or compounding pharmacies, which themselves source the ingredients from China.

Allow me to disagree while I look back at the last 80 years of US government-funded research. The government isn’t “picking” the research topics. It’s the scientists in places like…

Fund them to do what exactly? Come up with their own research ideas? You got the pipeline backwards. The government picks the research areas/priorities then allocates funding for t…

Local models will never compete with large SOTA models, in the same way an iPhone doesn't compete with supercomputers doing nuclear simulations. They paths will differentiate and s…

The image editing demo was fun... the model is not very well censored.