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At some point, the rabid anti-generative AI crowd becomes tiring. This is extremely masturbatory and very intellectually lazy piece of writing whose only purpose is to raise cheers…

But, but, how does the pelican look?!

Based on the name, he's either Ukrainian running away from the war, or Russian, running away from being complicit in the war. Shitty situation to be in either way.

Necessary context for someone probably being more detached from US politics: Former FBI Director James Comey — fired by Trump in 2017 and one of his most prominent critics ever sin…

A comment based on the reading of the title that could only be conceived if the commenter didn't bother to click the article at all.

An uncalled-for ad hominem that serves to quickly devolve the discussion in opinionated ragebait.

In consumer space, 69 KB of RAM (138 x 4 kbit chips) would cost around $1700 70s dollars for the entire package, ~$10k in modern dollars. Radioationed hardened for space though — $…

David Bowie was always the pioneer with regards to the Internet. Launched his own ISP in 1998, probably the first mainstream musician with a website (in 1994!), first concert strea…

Location: Belgrade, Serbia -> San Francisco, US (in a couple of months) Remote: Maybe Willing to relocate: Yes, within US Technologies: Python, some Javascript, basic machine learn…

If Apple, another big player in the BSD ecosystem, were to donate their December operating profit to open source, that'd be a game-changing $10 billion a year! Shoutout to Tarsnap,…

According to GPT-4, an equivalent APL one-liner is: (⊢⌷⍨∘⍋∘≢¨)↑1<≢¨⊢⌸(⍋⊢)¨⎕NGET'/usr/share/dict/words'1

An example of a novel with this plot ... created by ChatGPT-4. Title: The Age of Eclipse In a world where artificial intelligence is on the brink of revolutionizing every aspect of…

It's a cultural thing. Chinese (and many more Asian nations) work so well in 10,000, and sometimes, it feels more natural to me as well.

Very conspicuous list of available countries. Both English and non-English, from the most rich to some of the poorest and non-digital countries in the world, both democratic countr…

Long overdue.

> Among those people, there’s either a group of three who all know each other, or a group of three who have never met. Or a group of three who have never met. In your example, B, F…

Absolutely! By any definition, the pinnacle place to work for in Russia.

Another one: Yandex (disclosure: the company I work for) is using one of its datacenters to heat the entire town it is in. Proof: https://helsinkismart.fi/case/waste-not-want-not-d…

Most successful startups have less than 50% founder economic equity, some - FAR less. It's the capital holders who primarily profit from your work, whether you're an entrepreneur f…

You are absolutely right! Everyone, from the most hardcore Marxist-Leninist leftists, to "don't tread on me"-style libertarians, would agree there is absolutely no difference how r…

Chinese Communist Party has over 90 million people. Would you be okay if I had dismissed some company outright because it is a "Lutheran asset", "Turkish asset" or "White American …

I'm sorry, but I believe this kind of fearmongering and hidden xenophobia is not welcome on Hacker News.

First off -- the author has done an amazing tutorial, it's very enjoyable, so I am by no means throwing a shade. But a week of TPUv3-128 is anywhere between $10k and $20k in TPU co…

Cardiac valve procedure at Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Redwood City Medical Center - $458,254.00 cash price. Oh my. I get it that it's an expensive procedure, but OH MY.