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There's a good chance that Blizzard was spared a lot of this round of layoffs because they're in labor contract negotiations right now.

I bought one of this system back when you could get one for $1800 (the GMKTek Ryzen AI Halo 128gb machine). It's a very good dev machine, the 16 core CPU is quite good for developm…

Nuclear lifecycle calculations include mining. The human cost is terrible, but a separate problem (we could theoretically have ethical mining practices that don't produce more CO2)…

"AI has evolved more rapidly in the past two years than anyone predicted." We clearly do not live in the same universe.

Literally anyone with the access to these people would be someone making bank. Do you think Cheryl Sandberg would bother to talk to a poor person? That's kinda the nature of whistl…

Why is this being presented to the HN community?

I really hope not, but I wouldn’t bet against it. The nature of products that take high capex to build and then have nearly zero marginal cost to reproduce is monopolies.

As a game developer, I'm really rooting for open source game engines. Unity and Unreal are dinosaurs that target the shrinking console market. Godot is being built in their image. …

Worse than that, the main vehicle it compares everything to is the Model Y. There may have been one or two things related to Tesla this year, and not other EVs, that might have hur…

"That product saw little adoption due to privacy concerns about privacy, and pretty much languished." - A professional writer

The only use-case I've heard for cryptocurrencies that doesn't just sound like a get-rich-quick-speculative-betting-scam is providing financial services to the un-banked.

That's the wrong lens to use. Determine monopolies based on the view of a potential competitor. Say I'm a new search engine startup that has some better tech than Google has, we in…

I'd guess VLC will get support for it soon now that ffmpeg supports it.

"Turn Trends Into Content Instantly with AI" This feels like infrastructure to help deliver AI slop. What is the sales pitch for a company like this, "spammers will always exist, s…

If you have continuous sunlight, can't you get away with no battery? Not arguing with your overall point - this company looks ridiculous.

I get the sense that these sorts of tools are more for power users than for software engineers with production AI experience.

Typetunes

Q: "What does it do?" A: "This is what it looks like!" -_-

Yes, you could walk around in it if you wanted to wait for 4gb of textures to download. I'm happy they thought to make a youtube link.

"Maharaj" is a protester, the billionaire is "Khosla". I think you got them mixed up here. Khosla is still a dick though, so the rest of your point is valid.

The animations don't feel as bad on a touchscreen. I think the biggest problem with material design in this sort of context is that Google made something that feels nice enough on …

http://i.imgur.com/pnWrc.jpg I use a walking desk for about 8 hours a day. I found that about 1.2mph is my sweet spot where it doesn't affect my productivity at all. Took me a few …

I just interviewed at Google Boston (in Cambridge) and it looks like there's lots of automatic standing/sitting desks there, but they're definitely the expensive versions ($1,200+ …