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wait, how many workers fall outside the 16-65 range??

Reinforcement training. Camps that leave too much moop don't get invited back.

Bet Claude could build that for you in 5 mins

data centers drive up the cost of power. basic supply and demand. instead of blocking data centers, we need to scale up energy production. the solution is to get rid of all the red…

Just cancel your subscription. Resubscribe for a month if there's something you really want to watch. You won't miss it.

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It's wild to see how much people allow their dislike for Elon to impact their critical thinking skills. There aren't some mysterious or unknowable stats. They're being constantly c…

They do. https://waymo.com/safety/impact/ "90% fewer serious injury crashes for Waymo vs humans" I said "self-driving software" because I was trying to avoid eliciting a knee-jerk …

Sorry, 8x not 10x https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-releases-new-fsd-safe...

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I miss the days when Hacker News would root for startups and brave innovators instead of the stogy old incumbents

You're telling us that data centers are more sensitive to downtime than airplanes??? That makes no sense. All of the aeroderivatives were designed in the 70's before we had compute…

We have an abundance of natural gas and a shortage of electricity.

What other options do they have? They've been sanctioned to the point where they have few options left but to turn to crime.

"creating software for free that largely benefits large corporations" Who cares. The end result of this is that we all get to use amazing software, often for free. Think of your op…

I love the convenience of Heroku but hate their predatory pricing. Who's fixing this?

There are a ton of interesting use-cases for public city data. When I was an Airbnb host, I built an early alert system to send me email if my address was ever reported or under in…

I switched from Slack to Discord back in 2017 and I can't imagine ever going back. Their free offering is better than what you get for $$$$ from Slack. Slack is designed for small …

Modern software is layers upon layers of open-source packages and libraries written by tens of thousands of unrelated engineers. How do you write a spec for that?

Yes. Except our government is the largest buyer.

I've seen the invite-only marketplaces where these exploits are sold. You can buy an exploit to compromise any piece of software or hardware that you can imagine. Many of them go f…

It's a classic timing attack. You can detect which Cloudflare datacenter is "closest" (ie. least network latency) to a targeted Signal or Discord user. The speed of light is the ma…

Back in 2013 I discovered that you could use clickjacking to trick someone into buying anything you wanted from Amazon (assuming they were signed in). It took them almost a year to…

You can change the visibility of the target page so they wouldn't know

It could be preloaded