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If for that many people there truly is no way left to provide some economic value (that is rewarded enough to pay for shelter, bread and Netflix), that might mean the end of capita…

If printing technology took centuries to eliminate the trade of printers, by the same logic computers took about 80 years to eliminate a large chunk of knowledge workers (and that'…

If you need a less censored model that's still pretty smart and capable of some lateral thinking, it's great Same niche as Grok, which is also great at search and less censored. Ge…

As they say: 80% of marketing is useless, you just don't know in advance which 80%. Same with math

Most humans are probably bad at it. Some humans are very good at it. I'd even argue most science does not demand these kinds of leaps and is mostly concerned with incremental impro…

If anything, the word STRASSE is a great example why case-folding followed by string comparison is not the same as a case-independent string comparison Or if you really want to do …

I'd assume because pigs have to be fattened before slaughter. At the small scale by literally throwing them scraps (pigs eat nearly anything edible). Meanwhile in a pig butchering …

Claude code in the cli also has /fork to clone the current session state. But if you use it more than once or twice that quickly becomes hard to manage. Actual tracking in a tree s…

Which is the most insidious kind of automated moderation. In an algorithmic feed like TikTok, strongly downranking content and removing it are close to the same. And by doing it si…

If agents are "like humans" (whatever we mean by that), then shouldn't all the lessons we learned over the decades on how to build APIs for direct and indirect human consumption be…

Meanwhile German independently had the word "hallo", which appears in writing since the 15th century, used to call for the ferry man or to call to your dogs on the hunt (meaning so…

If you drag the bottom slider all the way to the right you only have plausible skin tones. Drag it all the way to the right and you can match skin tones for orcs, Na'vi and djinn

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166202

If a contract dated to the 4th October 1582 specifies you have 15 days to make payment, you would indeed need to know where that contract was signed to determine on what day that d…

You download it with Steam, then run Steam's backup function to back up the games you care about to physical media. Or in the vast number of cases you can just copy the game folder…

That's the one glaring weakness of relying too heavily on missiles. They are expensive and difficult to manufacture. And they have a limited shelf life, making stockpiles also expe…

Maybe people don't cite specific apps because they like their jobs, and outing apps as vibe-coded is still seen as negative I personally know of two completely vibe-coded large app…

Celsius maps nicely to the temperatures observed in a typical Finnish sauna. 100C is among the highest typical sauna temperatures (very relaxing in dry air), and afterwards you coo…

Academic math is a bit like basic research. You come up with funny ways to look at numbers or prove weird statements about this thing you came up with and call a "group", and a cou…

The middle ground would be continual learning for a group of users. For a company with a couple thousand employees, one model learning on all your employees might be viable. With s…

File hosting is pretty cheap. Egress traffic is about $90/TB in the cloud, but around $1/TB in the real world. Storage is in the realm of $5/TB/month after adding redundancy At the…

DeepSeek v4 is honestly good enough that I'm fine throwing it at everything in my hobby projects. I guess now I'll be switching from V4 Pro-Preview to V4 Flash. My only real compla…

For storage at the level of a home or a grid-level battery, absolutely. Li-Ion is dominating because of the amount of inertia and economies of scale it has. But if we assumed equal…

Fully closed loop is probably not viable. But I suspect that's not the extreme GP might have meant. If for the sake or discussion we simplify cooling to four options: 1: just passi…