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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
E-Ink's own site doesn't list any display modules that is larger than 13 inches that also has touch ( https://www.eink.com/product/epaper?search[]=16 ) so it's unlikely there is such a thing. Neither of
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
Hacker News is a Y Combinator (which PG co-founded) sponsored website whose original code was created by PG and whose guidelines were originally formed by PG. For those who are "sick"(sic) of rich people, VCs, or capitalism in ge
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
The hacker ethos and "information wants to be free" of the '80s-'90s was drowned out by a flood of coders in the '10s-early '20s whose only creed was FYPM and "what's the minimum career effort for the
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
One could have said listed those sort of things about any stage of the computer industry going all the way back to ENIAC calculating artillery tables, mainframe computerization putting people out of work like (human) calculators, bookkeeper
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
> " ...if you stop training the "muscle" of logic and reasoning, it gradually atrophies, just like unused physical muscles. You become dependent on external tools that replace a capability you once had yourself. " For
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
The drones don't manufacture themselves, maintain themselves, reload their own ammunition, mine and refine the materials that are used to make them and their ammunition, or operate the power plants needed for all of the above. "A
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
Previously posted 4 days ago with 16 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368389
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
Is there a jurisdiction anywhere in the civilized world that doesn't legally require "natural persons" (legal jargon for a flesh and blood human being) to fill the positions for corporate officers? Those corporate officers c
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
> " Wi-Fi 8 is expected to be finalized in 2028 " So we should see mainstream consumer device adaption by 2030 (not much point in having a wi-fi access point that implements pre-finalized Wi-Fi 8 if none of the client devices d
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
" They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me. " - Nathaniel Lee, playwright, on being confined to a madhouse for 5 years. Taking jabs at the majoritarian viewpoints enough to get noticed rarely end
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
> " I hate to have to be the one to tell you this, zaksa.... you're not a brain surgeon. " Your account has existed since 2015 so you should know very well that comments like this on Hacker News are not permitted.
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
Having a large vocabulary is a rote trick, writing letters in an alphabet is a rote trick, touch typing on a keyboard is a rote trick, and the DS&A stuff needed for leetcode is a rote trick as well. People should not dismiss knowing fu
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
The author didn't have a CS degree so it's not classic gatekeeping: " For the majority of my career, I neither had a formal, rigorous computer science education... ". The author also directly addresses the parent poste
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
"AI" is a vague term that encompasses both traditional GOFAI, LLMs, and future tech so your question is meaningless. Non-human intelligence is possible, if that's what you're actually asking. What part of my statement d
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
Your example demonstrates that the UK meets the definition of a state but not necessarily the definition a nation (shared culture/identity).
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
But the M5 is clearly not safe to use in Enterprise¹ computing environments. ¹ USS Enterprise, that is.
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
LLMs are pattern prediction systems with a large training data set. It is not surprising that they can predict patterns, particularly for a well structured field like mathematics that is also amenable to automated proof checking to help st
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
Massive price increases for any electronics that contains RAM, SSDs, etc. has hurt everyone. The GPU supply crunch has hurt a smaller swath but hardly zero.
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
Just nitpicking but I'd like to point out "professional-managerial class" means the class consisting of both people who are college educated professionals (i.e. most people on Hacker News reading this) _lumped together_ with
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
If you like the mathematical aspects of computer science and computability theory, cranking out proofs using lambda calculus and Turing machines fascinates you, and you think Lisp is an elegant language, you may like it. For the average d
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
> " 5 + 5 + 5 is the same as 15. " Soldiers are not interchangeable robots in a RTS. Personnel, units and organizations have to practice working extensively together to function as a cohesive whole and have anything resembling
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
As Marshall McLuhan said " The medium is the message. ". You cannot separate the cargo from the ship in this case because the functioning of the ship/AI unavoidably contaminates the cargo/message. So, what does the medi
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
Requiring the app also disadvantages the elderly, particularly with dementia, who can't operate a smartphone. In theory, the cashier is supposed to allow anyone to access the discount on request but, in practice, I've seen them g
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
I'm not in the habit of counting my chickens before they've hatched and neither should anyone else. There are plenty of technologies, like fusion power, where supposedly another breakthrough or two is just around the corner that
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
In a recent talk ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056620 ), Terence Tao plainly says that AI generating and verifying proofs is only part of the picture. The process of making the proof usable/readable and then
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
Not a single one of the other gaming giants (Blizzard, EA, Epic, Activision, etc.) or marketplaces (Epic, GOG, etc.) who also depend on Windows bothered to counter this supposed threat? Doesn't sound like much of a threat then. Really
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
HN relies heavily on moderation by users through flagging and downvotes. Hacker News is only going to survive if its community is willing to go to the effort to protect it.
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
Make a case that it's more profitable to take any of the courses you suggest and you might be on to something but they aren't. All of those things take time and time is money when you're running a business.
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
They'll shift to another platform and then that platform will: - Phase 1: Implode even harder than GitHub under the onslaught of LLM generated code - Phase 2: ??? - Phase 3: Profit! Nobody wants users they can't monetize and hosti
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by ThrowawayR2 2mo ago
The booksellers are probably so ecstatic to get some value out of books otherwise destined for the landfill that they wouldn't lift a finger for "epistemic threats".

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