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by ViktorRay 26d ago
Don’t worry dang! This response wasn’t irritating at all! It’s actually very interesting to me to see how you all moderate this website! Thank you sincerely for taking the time to type all that up for me. Appreciate all the hard work you do
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by ViktorRay 26d ago
I wonder if there is a name to this phenomena. Where being knowledgeable in one thing (such as computer science) means you incorrectly believe you are an expert in another domain (such as virology)
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by ViktorRay 26d ago
I wonder if it is possible to transfer some upvotes too. This new thread was on the front page before the dupe tag and the comment transfer and the other thread has much fewer upvotes which inadvertently leads to less visibility.
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by ViktorRay 26d ago
The person stated “ Many data centers are being built by companies that won't exist in a few years, as the winner will take all.” The person stated this as a negative. If those built data-centers are sold to other companies what is the
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by ViktorRay 26d ago
Wait but then in your scenario wouldn’t the companies going out of business simply sell their data centers to the winning companies?
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by ViktorRay 27d ago
For me I actually like seeing trailers before the movies. Personally I feel like the trailers are part of the experience and I can’t help but feel some disappointment when a movie starts with no trailers in front of it.
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by ViktorRay 27d ago
He was replying to a tweet by Paul Graham where Paul Graham says the following: “Startups: Instead of appearing on Shark Tank, spend that energy fixing whatever makes your product so unappealing you think you need to.“ https://ww
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by ViktorRay 28d ago
Wonder if people going to this will have the same infamous sense of arrogance and entitlement that is common to Y combinator folks? Source: https://x.com/mcuban/status/692595120969875456
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by ViktorRay 28d ago
It’s interesting how monopolistic corporations can fall prey to the same dynamics as authoritarian countries with centralized economies.
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by ViktorRay 29d ago
But doesn’t Taiwan use the traditional script? And over in Taiwan they don’t seem to have issues with literacy or using smaller screens?
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by ViktorRay 29d ago
Glad they were able to get legal help and are back. It’s frustrating to me how it’s so hard to access so many websites nowadays without being logged in. Ridiculous that so much of the web nowadays is just a handful of websites almost all of
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
Some more good advice: Turn off your YouTube watch history. This disables video suggestions when you open the website or the app.
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
One could make the argument that "just do it and ask for forgiveness later" is what the entire LLM industry is based on. They swallowed up all of society’s copyrighted texts without really asking for permission from anyone. This
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ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules(arstechnica.com)
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
This is insanely cool. Incredible.
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
This article makes me feel guilty of my growing backlog of books. Will read through some of them this weekend.
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
The government should not be doing inhumane things to people. This should not be a controversial statement.
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
I had never heard of this story before. Thank you for sharing it.
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
What are some good books or websites where one can read these stories? I am interested in learning more about them.
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
Because it will make it more expensive for people or groups of people to run open source models to do work on their own hardware. You would be taxing people or groups of people to run a program on the computers they own. This is contrary to
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German airport worker dies of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'(bbc.com)
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
Fascinating. Can't help but wonder how things will change over the next decade or so.
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
This essay kind of rubs me the wrong way. Starting from the very beginning. During my entire life I’ve only had two jobs. In the first one, I played a role in developing software to empower people through my work at Microsoft. Yikes. We a
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
When all this crashes, future historians will look back and wonder how so many got hoodwinked by AI. Some of these future historians might even be reading this Hacker News thread. To any future historians reading this, many of us did know t
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
Reading about tech has become gradually less and less fun for me over the past 16 years. Does anyone remember the awe that was felt the first time we encountered an iPhone. Or an iPad? I remember those days I would read tech news and sites
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
Gotta shout out to the city of San Fierro in Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. San Fierro was based on San Francisco of the 1990's. Lots of good memories playing GTA San Andreas and exploring 90's San Francisco.
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by ViktorRay 2mo ago
Probably nothing if the wall was lead lined. And then there’s the inverse square law too.
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by ViktorRay 2mo ago
Cancers rates among Orthopedic surgeons are also much higher than those faced by non surgeon doctors. This is due to exposure to the radiation from intra operative x rays.
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by ViktorRay 2mo ago
No I think you’re looking at this wrong. They thought too much sun was bad for you because back then tanned skin was considering a mark of being poor and pale skin was a mark of being wealthy since rich people didn’t have to work outside. T
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by ViktorRay 2mo ago
When statements like this are made usually it’s because studies would have been done comparing sleep depth at different temperatures and there would have been a statistically significant increase in sleep depth at 18 degrees Celsius in the

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