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Does anyone remember geocities, tripod, webrings, and Amazon affiliate links? Pepperidge farm remembers...
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STEM has the same issues as humanities when it comes to academia, but the difference is that for graduate students, there's often (although not always) a straighter path into industry.
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Rust jobs would actually touch more hard tech rather than being concentrated in crypto scams.
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If you build the actual datacenter, less than half the cost is the actual compute. The other half is the actual datacenter infrastructure, power infrastructure, and cooling. So in that sense it's not that much different from Meta and G
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All you have to do is breach the server room, open the server case, insert this raspberry pi memory module into the DIMM slot, and reboot the machine. I have an even lower cost way of attacking the server. A simply cast iron axe could be us
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I really hope they have more granular APIs around this. One use case I'm really excited about is simply making animated sprites and rotational transformations of artwork using these videogen models, but unlike with local open models, t
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Chan Zuckerberg Institute The Arc Institute (bankrolled by one of the Stripe guys) Deepmind (think alphafold) Heck, even Deepseek
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I can retrospectively look back at folks in my (non computer science) PhD cohort, and say that this bearish outlook is only true for folks who stay in science too long or pursue actual academic careers. The vast majority of folks I know f
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Videogamers have fickle tastes that can change on a whim, and the entire dev stack for game development is becoming more accessible and commoditized, creating massive amounts of competition. Even more so when it comes to squeezing beloved f
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Tai Lopez, the lamborghini youtube influencer, bought Radioshack? The company that once challenged Apple for the home computer market with Tandy Computers?
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I remember interviewing for a bioinformatics role at a certain San Diego company 8 years ago and being told by the staff they were working on humanizing pig kidneys. I thought it was a fucking insane idea and wanted to leave immediately. Tu
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My first playthrough, when I was 12, I opted for the GEP gun, but had to go to the minicrossbow after running out of ammo, thereby leaving me with no pistol skill. The worst of both worlds on the very first mission. Ended up climing up the
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I felt this article didn't really explain why a RISC chip with more ops could be as fast as a CISC chip with fewer ops. I think the actual explanation is that the CISC ops are decoded to more or less the same or similar types of RISC o
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Technically in the game both the disease and the control of the supply of vaccine are used for social control and political leverage. It was a plotline ripped directly from popular media at the time, mainly the X-files Movie which had a ver
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Well that's the problem. In the first mission you have to figure out to stun the enemies in the center of their back rather than directly in their head. Its super counterintuitive and probably leads to many players not getting past the
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Several years ago Elon Musk did an interview with Marques Lee Brown praising the original Deus Ex and stating his disappointment with the sequel. In the intervening years he's invested tons of money into neuroaugmentation, capturing gl
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This explains the totally janky behavior of the stun prod and baton in the 5 playthroughs of this game I've done over the past 25 years
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Y combinator isn't hackers. It's venture capitalists trying to advertise to computer nerds to make lots of money. VCs in the late 1970s (the real age of "hackers") were, in the words of John Doerr, considered "filth
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This seems on the surface to violate Hamilton's Law (rB > C) The hybrid worker ants should still share 75% of their DNA with the queen and therefore it makes sense for them to cooperate regardless of the source of DNA for their fath
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How many minutes before HN takes this one down? Seen at least 5 political posts get shut down today
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Two nots!
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Two nots
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Microsoft bailing out Apple vibes. This time around Nvidia should HOLDL the stock
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I was literally experimenting with this today. Use Google Nano Banana to generate your sprite with a magenta background, then ask it to generate the final frame of the animation you want to create. Then use Google Flow to create an animatio
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We have aircraft safety regulations to mitigate deaths from air accidents and we have gun regulations and gun safety regulations for the same reasons. Let's stop pretending this is a black and white matter
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I don't believe idempotency is as easy or safe to achieve with a nuclear reactor as it is with EC2 instances.
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Just look at every Nvidia GTC presentation for the past 3 years and Chinese investments into companies like Unitree. The plethora of robotics startups that all build humanoid machines (rather than wheeled arms)
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That's fine, but the non-GPU infrastructure represents half of the cost of the datacenter. The physical GPUs and compute represents the other half and will rather rapidly depreciate. This is not as hardy as fiberoptic communication lin
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As wealth becomes more skewed, it won't matter that most people can't afford a robot butler. The smaller proportion of people with the majority of the wealth will make it worthwhile.
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So the difference between criminal fraud, and precient genius investor is a difference of a year or so. We should all try to remember this the next time we vote to cut taxes on billionaires.

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