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"When I saw this animation I was immediately inspired to write an impressionistic tweet about it" Maybe we should set the threshold for consciousness a little bit higher

This is ARC Raiders/Embark Studios. Games made by hoards of anonymous contractors and maintained by a skeleton crew incapable of iterating meaningfully on their product.

No thanks

"if an LLM has an ideological bias, then that becomes obvious and known almost immediately" "most people aren't really using LLMs for the subject areas that concern government prop…

I remember reading these direct quotes from SA in 2016 from the New Yorker and thinking, yeah, this guy is just miserable: > “Well, I like racing cars. I have five, including two M…

The vast majority of HN commentors react to the headline and don't bother to click through.

do you know what the modifier "like" means in the sentence you quoted, or are you just being annoyingly pedantic

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing indust…

"Cheap rent sounds good on paper... but why would you work?"

"I'm not a random complainer." I feel privileged for getting to read this post before it's widely ridiculed and deleted.

Montpelier, Vermont as well: https://www.montpelier-vt.org/427/Project-Background

How common are district heating systems? Montpelier in Vermont uses wood stoves to deliver steam to a large part of their small downtown: https://www.montpelier-vt.org/427/Project-…

I don't understand how you took the time to test that, but didn't take the time to RTFA: > We are getting reports of YouTube rolling out an experiment to some accounts where normal…

I wish I would have saved his post lol

Market cap does not equal value... Market cap does not equal value... Market cap does not equal value...

thanks monero-xmr, but if i wanted to gamble, i'd go to a casino. if i wanted to invest money, i'd buy SPY

same experience trying to find videos that answer a technical question - there's no immediate gauge on whether or not the video's useful, and it's easy (and often automatic on YouT…

...how can you tell if a channel deletes comments?

This comment reminds me of reddit, where people feel like reading a headline warrants a comment without actually reading the article

This is unhinged

Are there no aerodynamic concerns for that installation? The VHF instruments pictured on top of the fuselage make this thing look like a plow that would be better fit on top of a S…

SA: "The thing most people get wrong is that if labor costs go to zero... The cost of a great life comes way down. If we get fusion to work and electricity is free, then transporta…

It's crazy to me that hats in Team Fortress 2 will probably be regarded as a turning point in the history of the metaverse.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rotating+hypers... Lots of animations come up on YouTube.