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I was going to say: is this a joke? But really, the article seems to be going out of the way to make the author's particular point... but reads to me that the original paper is oft…

I mean, Facebook acquiring FriendFeed felt at least as bad as Google shutting down Google Reader.

There are probably some other interesting adaptations involved, like the fact that the surface of a mantis shrimp's (shell? carapace?) selectively filters out sound waves (and thus…

People on HN really love small-scale fission nuclear when the sun is (gestures) right there .

That seems like a rather inefficient use of resources. How long will a fund typically keep that on the books before they have to offload the asset or declare bankruptcy? At a certa…

The Failure to Launch episode about Qian, the Cultural Revolution, and the brief inter-departmental war and attempted "coup" at the defense research institute where he worked... wa…

If Books Could Kill (which is notoriously against self-help books) did an episode on Dale Carnegie. Even they said that he seemed to be a pretty alright guy who was genuinely nice …

Often reminded of this passage from Hitchhiker's: The Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious (MISPWOSO) is a fictional research institut…

You can get alternative bulk mowable native lawn substitute seeds from the Thomas Payne Foundation.

It was written by an LLM, so... yeah.

As the author is dead, I'm sure the money goes towards site hosting fees.

When I learned that this person was one of the RISD art students who started Fort Thunder, it all made a lot of sense to me. That was by all accounts a very strange and unique inte…

If it's already scanned, then you don't have to leave your desk.

It's amazing that so many "leaders" (esp. in tech) seemed to not worry about or even tacitly/openly supported the Trump admin, when so many other folks could clearly see the disast…

It's a great idea, but I feel like that way ends up with the nightmare scenario of each of us managing an AWS-style admin console for washing the dishes, etc. That way lies madness…

> operating too close to the operational limit, tipping over it, and then requiring a power cycle. GPUs--they're just like us!

It's wild that these are the failure rates for datacenter-grade products. If you were pushing consumer GPU servers all-out, I would expect this kind of variation. I expect it's not…

So.... motivated reasoning makes the world go 'round? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning

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> Don't let comments like this fool you, nuclear is far from being competitive with natural gas. Even in countries like south korea that can deploy nuclear the cheapest it's still …

Why are you calling Bennett et al "the Stanford... study" ? Not one person on that team went to Stanford. Direct link to the poster presentation: http://prefrontal.org/files/poster…

You're making the roundabout argument that MSFT/OpenAI will one day go the way of Yahoo/Alibaba, which is wild.

Could also be an article placed by a competitor + a squeaky wheel.

This is important. There's a difference between charitable donations that are actually for the public interest vs. shadow lobbying by oil companies.

Most states (at least in the midwest) have not kept up with their obligations when it comes to funding the historical land grand universities ("state" university, etc.).