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Frictionless micropayments is THE business opportunity dangling here. I'm so disappointed that the Bitcoin bros never made it easy and fast to use Bitcoin for peer to peer micropay…

People complaining about renewal electricity production with hydro/pump dams while ignoring mountaintop removal of Appalachian mountains for coal...

Because bedrock isn't subsided by anyone. Or at it would be financially insane go do so. Compare the of bedrock inference on known open source models to bedrock pricing of SOTA mod…

Well it looked pretty quiet until HN linked to it. So the people writing that terrible stuff are from here...

Maybe you could estimate frontier model sizes from AWS bedrock pricing?

Everything old is new again. We started with timeshare machines (there is only market for 7 computers in the world) where you accessed with VT102 etc terminals. Then we went to per…

Usually the argument is that because a reputable news agency with a history of high quality journalism made once a mistake, it's better to listen to some angry podcaster with a his…

Ah like the roller bearing manufacturer established in the town of Ball, so the company could be called BALL BEARING.

Which shows that you can have lots of cars without having a cars-only culture. Freedom of choice of the mode of transport, and pay for privilege vs externalizing the costs of cars.…

I disagree, I lived a year in a small town near Osaka far from any tourist attractions and never did I wish I had a car. Public transport was ubiquitous and walking infrastructure …

Well overnight stays in small towns and sleeper trains are worth experiencing on Interrail too!

At least trains no longer drop literal shit between rails...

Linux kernel project stuck at C89 and refused move to c++ or even a C standard upgrade for decades. Move to C11 (a 15 year old standard) was done just a few years ago. The fact tha…

People are already being conditioned into micropayments via LLm token pricing. I presume the primary payment method on these 402 sites will be via LLM agents so reading a page via …

I don't see how the settlement changes the fundamental dynamics. Anthropic argues that since they paid for the book they use in training, the can now distill as many copies of the …

If Anthropic doesn't like people repeating this point, Anthropic should stop repeating that they are somehow entitled to keep what they have rightfully stolen.

Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders - A Microsoft employee 2080

It is such a great improvement that ISPs cannot eavesdrop us anymore... only for everyone to terminate TLS at cloudflare so they (and thus US government) can now eavesdrop everyone…

As far as I see the "problem" with mastodon is the lack of addiction mechanics. The first time someone has an negative mastodon interaction, the close the app and because it isn't …

You think the toxity and dangers of materials are defined by the atoms the materials are made of rather than the molecules? Swimming in a ocean of Hydrogen-Oxygen salted by Sodium …

a) Meteorites don't have any of toxic chemicals used to build a server with lithium-ion batteries and solar panels b) we could use the same argument to defend dumping spent nuclear…

> if anyone at all can make space-based datacenters economical, it's SpaceX Let's hope burning ten thousand tons of toxic e-waste annually in upper atmoshphere never becomes econom…