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Yep, this is me as well.

> leave a gap in the smartphone market wide enough to drive a truck through I think the opportunity is most likely going to be taken Huawei's HarmonyOS than something like Lineage …

Also looks like an older version of Codestral works well with TabbyML: https://tabby.tabbyml.com/blog/2024/07/09/tabby-codestral/ Thank you for sharing, this is almost exactly what…

This is a completely fair, but open question. Not to be a typical HN user, but when you say SOTA local, the question is really what benchmarks do you really care about in order to …

"The youth of today love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for elders, and love talking" ~ Socrates, 432 BC. The only older than elders writing off …

What was your solution?

Any clue on what distros are causing the growth? First I've heard of all this.

There's a Netflix show about him? Also there's plenty of shows and news about MU, SSC etc. I'm also surprised that Tao's rather specifically niche blog attracts such comments. Is i…

I almost can't believe this is true. What possible reason could the Foundation urge such a destructive course of action on something that is so vital for humanity.

True TLDR; Yes as far as we can tell. But we'll have to see.

If you like this "Life as a RPG" concept, I can't recommend Habitica [0] enough. Completely helped me structure everything I wanted to do in my life, and it's even open-source. [0]…

Also available as part of the MIT OCW[0] [0] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-098-street-fighti...

Found any interesting ones? https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/ms-j-mee-v-... was like reading a novel.

Is there a recommended tool for BigQuery? Both this and Falcon look great, but my company's pretty wedded to BigQuery for the moment.

It's a great read. I have also found a great reading list of from the University of Cambridge[0] that has a whole different range of books and websites for those who have a cursory…

I'm currently in week 4 of the most popular course in Yale [0], but was made available online on Coursera[1]. I think for the most part I've learnt I've learnt that much of what we…

Interesting concept. Two suggestions: 1) Let the arrow keys be used to move the in-game paddle. 2) The "squares" where the ball has gone through, should change colours so after a w…

> Idk why people say they like Lolita. Why not read the pdf Pinker linked to then [0]. It's a very interesting psycho-analysis of a fictional character. [0] https://www.dropbox.com…

As others have commented, there is a variety of alternatives to Google for the majority of their products, and the discussion has been had on HN a number of times . [0]. What reall…

Super interesting read. Especially: >"The privacy right established by Roe was not absolute. In the words of the Court: 'The pregnant woman cannot be isolated in her privacy. She c…

I suppose this is why they need a Front-End Developer. To ensure the links work... /s

Warning, the course uses Python 2. Here's the discussion on HN when it was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16493489 I still have to agree with minimaxir's comment, but…

This is the very same concern cyber-security researchers face every time they notice a vulnerability. Do they publish their work openly and potentially leave all those using the se…

Causation vs Correlation. My own belief is that the majority of those who rate films online tend to be of a younger demographic. As members of the Academy themselves get younger, i…

This is exactly my go-to-move as well. pandas.read_hdf has beaten out ray.dataframe.read_csv in terms of speed on the few files I've just initially tested now. But I imagine the pr…