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Your comments reminds me of “ Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses” https://gist.github.com/almereyda/85fa289bfc668777fe3619298b...

Yes, crude oil / gasoline / diesel will break down polyethylene grocery bags.

Eventually it made sense that boat-speed only changes the "apparent wind", as it's only simulating wind-boat interactions, not water-boat interactions.

Amazon Sidewalk can also be used - it automatically finds devices on other networks (like your next-door neighbor) and sends data through their devices in case you don't connect yo…

Products are often cheap enough that the labor costs are too high compared to getting a new unit. It would generally work for appliances that are built into a house or hard to tran…

Yes, it's more of a convention where we assume language like "...ignoring the trivial case of 1 being an obvious factor of every integer." It's not interesting or meaningful, so we…

There have been many periods in US history where sets of laws were purposefully created that criminalized activities that nearly ~100% of the population engage in. The intent of th…

Slick deals: https://slickdeals.net/f/18256009-milwaukee-m18-redlithium-x...

Normally I dislike these quips for HN; I hate that I love this one.

> Roulette, no way to gain an advantage over the house regardless of what strategy you use. These days that’s probably true but it has been done: https://www.roulettestar.com/peopl…

> The paper itself is behind a paywall so I can't see it https://archive.org/details/s41586-025-08759-9

Only place this falls apart is that Accenture / Deloitte are really not sexy. Like being a federal employee at a similar pay scale would actually be more sexy. McKinsey/BCG maybe t…

TSA (more accurately - CBP, more generally - DHS) contract out the hard engineering to Cellebrite and NSO Group. Those companies develop a dumb-proof box. The CBP agents at the bor…

The statistical methods can detect things orthogonal to performance KPI’s. Automation has “tells” - little things they do differently from what humans would do. Reliably discrimina…

Huge thank you for correcting me. Do you have any good resources I could look at to learn how the previous CoT is included in the input tokens and treated differently?

Very, very little labor is unskilled. In almost any work there is a massive difference in quality and speed between someone who has been doing it for 3 years. My theory is that "un…

Edit: 'wahnfrieden corrected me. I incorrectly posited that CoT was only included in the context window during the reasoning task and later left out entirely. Edited to remove pote…

I'm sorry, what? Federal income taxes have not been eliminated. Trump can't even do that; Congress would have to, and they won't. The federal government currently collects on the o…

I spent the past 30 minutes calculating this all manually using the sources listed below: The practical takeaway is that the average household will spend $3,488.27 more as a result…

I think you might be granting the administration too much benefit of the doubt. They aren't based on "tariffs + trade barriers", they're just based on trade deficit alone. https://…

Here's a much more detailed analysis of the effects of the executive order: https://chatgpt.com/share/67ee10c6-4690-8006-83d7-8e9b22bccf... The practical takeaway is that the avera…

You’re probably already on top of it but if your company doesn't operate the datacenter you’ll also want to estimate the carbon cost of cooling in addition to the electricity that …

If it’s just the ads that are the issue, paying for YouTube premium would be a similar cost solution, and funnel some money to good creators. Towards a better Jellyfin solution, I …

> Are u talking about incurring technical debt from the generated AI code I think they're talking about the marginal cost and capital cost of running all those GPU's, as well as th…