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The website of an American company returned a blank page to me. I thought that they must have made a mistake and that it would be fixed soon. Several days later it was still return…

I maintain a package that provides some PyTorch operators that are written in C/C++/CUDA. I have tried various approaches over the years (including the ones endorsed by PyTorch), b…

HN doesn't have a strong enough protection against bots, so foreign influence campaign bots with the goal of spreading negative sentiment about American technology companies are, I…

As I have gotten older, I have come to believe that the current voting age is already too young. I thought I was right about things when I was 18, but with more experience I realis…

I use a 20 year old Dell laptop. The only problem for me is that 32bit is starting to become limiting.

My ugly solution to this problem is to have a free Oracle Cloud VM in the other country that I use to run a VPN (Oracle provides instructions [1]). I then connect to this using Ope…

I used to listen to Digitally Imported's Eurodance station a lot 10-15 years ago, but eventually it felt like I just kept hearing the same songs, that they never added any new musi…

During my PhD at MIT my girlfriend asked me how I thought I would feel about those years in the future. I said relieved that it was over, as, although I loved everything about the …

I think many people underestimate the mental anguish caused by being ostracized by your former coworkers, and by the realization that, even after a lifetime of working hard, your c…

> there's a very loud minority of performative extremists with an army of sock puppet accounts who want to hunt down the snitch The people running the bot armies for foreign influe…

My suspicion is that this murder was organised by Russia as an attempt to normalise and encourage further vigilante actions, thereby weakening society. They chose their target well…

I wonder whether the murder, and the immediate strong social media reaction supporting it, were part of a foreign influence operation. Normalising the idea that murdering a CEO mak…

Spirit was pulling it off reasonably well until Covid.

Have there been any recent developments in "lab-grown wood"? The last time I looked into it there had been some research on it (also at MIT), but there didn't seem to have been any…

> free Healthcare It is not free for all.

I installed it a year or two ago but was disappointed by its identification abilities. Then it changed to require providing an email address so I deleted it.

The dental office where I used to get my teeth cleaned every six months did X-rays every time and then no one ever looked at them. If you went there for a checkup they required you…

> what if corporate income tax were tied to the logarithm of the number of employees+contractors? What if the corporate income tax increased with the market share in markets served…

I'm disappointed that it wasn't a single occupant, three-wheeled, ultra-basic microcar limited to 50 km/h to gather and scatter people from public transport stops, solving the last…

The fever might help to fight infection, but I think sleeping well helps even more and fever-reducing drugs are useful for that

and then revealed that GPT-5 will not be released in this year's Dev Day (which goes on until November)

Interview with Mark Zuckerberg released today: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2024-07-23/mark-zucker...

The mayors of Houston for the past few decades have been Democrats.

In Indonesia there are 35k+ year old cave "paintings" of hand imprints, and apparently it is still a custom for some in the area to put their hand imprint on their house. It's prob…

DAB has also effectively been abandoned in Ireland ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Radio_in_the_Republic_... )