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by Permit 1y ago
> I looked at the uses and it seems like the guy was using the term crazy to describe ideas and things being done, not as a negative label for a human being. Splitting hairs? Maybe but I understand where the OP is coming from. Here'
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by Permit 1y ago
It cannot be that serious as you've used the word like eight times on Hacker News alone: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by Permit 1y ago
On the other hand, it kills me when people think having a unique taste in music is representative of anything other than having a unique taste in music (i.e. that one's taste in music has anything to do with being original or contraria
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by Permit 1y ago
If you have a point you should make it directly. What point is there in fabricating a quote like this?
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by Permit 1y ago
Many (probably not most, but close to it) death announcements on Hacker News are not tech related: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... In recent posts I see Brian Wilson (musician), S
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by Permit 1y ago
> Often they've been used to crush domestic workers and even change demographics and voting patterns Can you give an example where H1Bs changed voting patterns?
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by Permit 1y ago
From the linked PDF: > This report uses a range of cutting-edge LLM-assisted data techniques to extract key risk information from S&P 500 company filings. Following the recent boom in generative AI, we examine reported risks from the
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by Permit 1y ago
What is the size of the team that makes WinRAR or SublimeText? How frequently are these programs updated? I suspect web standards change more frequently than compression algorithms.
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by Permit 1y ago
This thread is a perfect example of why the ad-driven model will win every time. Most people don’t actually want to pay for things (that’s just what gets parroted in anti-AdTech posts here). It appears doubly true for Mozilla in this case
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by Permit 1y ago
> Once network effects crowded a few winners, the drawbridges slowly pulled up. Previously simple APIs evolved into complicated layers of access controls and pricing tiers. Winning platforms adjusted their APIs so you could support their
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by Permit 1y ago
> "The incentive is to keep you online," Stanford University psychiatrist Nina Vasan told Futurism. The AI "is not thinking about what is best for you, what's best for your well-being or longevity... It's thinkin
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by Permit 1y ago
Is it enough to have three houses and a car collection as you previously stated?
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by Permit 1y ago
Canada and Australia are smaller but surely count as industrialized western nations (Canada is like 9th by GDP) whose infrastructure was not bombed to rubble.
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A full-stack approach to power and thermal fluctuations in ML infrastructure(cloud.google.com)
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by Permit 2y ago
> people recognise when you have an evil agenda Can you not do this here?
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by Permit 2y ago
My understanding is that the Trillium TPU was primarily targeted at inference (so it’s surprising to see it was used to train Gemini 2.0) but other generations of TPUs have targeted training. For example the chip prior to this one is calle
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by Permit 2y ago
It would help to see like, a single example of this being uncovered on the site. Failing that, it would help if he/she could point out a specific account they believe to be astroturfing here. I agree that there have been examples of no
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by Permit 2y ago
What a bizarre take. You think people are being paid to post here? Can you point to any examples?
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by Permit 2y ago
Is there anything concrete that would suggest this or is this just a gut feeling you’re sharing here?
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by Permit 2y ago
> they don't have to turn a profit every quarter, What does this mean? Like, I work there and I’d be pretty annoyed if they stopped turning a profit as a collapse of the stock price would affect my compensation. It’s interesting to
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by Permit 2y ago
> Kim's problem apparently was that he didn't bribe Congress. Can you elaborate? Is there concrete evidence of this or just a general feeling that it must have happened?
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by Permit 3y ago
> In an anonymous online poll on how many “focused hours of work” software engineers put in each day, 71 percent of the over four thousand respondents claimed to work six hours a day or less, while 12 percent said they did between one an
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by Permit 3y ago
The person you’re replying to is not questioning MLPerf, but rather this article’s interpretation of the results.
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by Permit 3y ago
> Just playing the cards here, but if my IQ is 155 and yours is 120. Why should I listen to you? Off the top of my head: - I may know a fact that you do not. Your IQ does not make you aware of things you do not know. - I may have a relat
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by Permit 3y ago
> Under macOS (LLVM 15), I get that clang doubles the capacity and add one That’s interesting, why add one? Is there something to suggest this is better than simply doubling in real world scenarios?
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by Permit 3y ago
Surely this isn’t something you genuinely believe (that all of Hacker News readers have forgotten that propaganda exists). So why post this? Perhaps there is a deeper point you’re trying to make?
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by Permit 3y ago
> They won't be addicted to alcohol, tobacco, television, mindless games, or any of the other drugs for sale. Do you think you’re underestimating capitalism a little bit here? You can’t imagine a world where pharmaceutical companies
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by Permit 3y ago
Who said it’s news? The opening line of this article is: > I didn’t realise quite how much I loved bacon, pancetta, chorizo and ham until the World Health Organization added processed meats to its list of carcinogens in 2015.
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by Permit 3y ago
> Explanation from the supermarket chains are shady at best Do you suspect there is some other reason? Like, they can get away with it in Austria but not Germany? What’s a “non-shady” explanation in your eyes?
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by Permit 3y ago
Perhaps it’s because I am a complete outsider to the field but I found the discussions interesting and learned many new things about materials science and superconductivity that I didn’t know before. I could imagine an expert in this field

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