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> That's why militaries and defence companies go to great lengths to vet their staff What a joke, no they don't. They establish security internally by gating access, not trusting everyone because they've been "pre-vet
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Nice, highly recommended. When you use up the $5 of OPENAI_API_KEY credits, there's always Ollama which is free :) Run open-source models locally on your computer like `ollama run mistral` and it will be serving over localhost. Your ap
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> sometimes the design/software is the secret Decreasingly the case, and we might be at the point I can say "poorly architected" if that's the case. A random 19 year old developer in the military with access to the se
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In your view does Dickens satisfy both? That is if you removed or changed a single word in that lovely description would it change its meaning? Is there a case where a sentence is of a minimum length out of necessity (to achieve a certain f
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Open-source doesn't mean "not secure" - the nuclear codes would be in the .env obv >.> Seriously though - the software itself would be separated from secrets architecturally. And because it's open and anyone in the
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Excellent work! Such a nice complement to HN. Show HN is my favorite part of the site. Would be cool if the headline was a link to the project :) Thanks for sharing, just signed up! Edit: Nvm it parses links in the title. Only thing is if i
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Example front-end code: <> <Text fill style="linear-gradient(purple, red, 150, 50, 0, 0)" size={26} text="Featured files" x={8} y={36} /> <Link source="@exactchange:text:example"
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This is awesome, I'd love to see where the management part of this goes, and what uses cases it could work for (e2e tests come to mind). I appreciated the diagram - did you make it in draw.io/diagrams.net by chance? (I wish they w
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Well said, you've inspired me this morning, and for that I thank you. I owe you a $375 beer or coffee.
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> debunking I don't even agree with Dennett, just pointing out what his stance is in response to your weird attack. A stance that everyone knows except you apparently, didn't even know it was argued. He is eliminative of consci
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ByteDance is owned by international investors including Carlyle Group, General Atlantic and Susquehanna, 3/5 of the board are Americans, and the company - TikTok - isn't operated in the US by a Chinese company, the servers are own
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Their his own words from his own books - including the book you said he never said that in. Why some of you on this site speak so confidently about that which you have no experience is beyond me. The footnote is not from Wikipedia, but fr
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> the lack of WoW in China for at least a time period That's a more fair claim, but both goes without saying (because it's what we're talking about) and is still misleading, because and I'll quote the wowhead- "W
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> Blizzard didn't "work with" NetEase, they basically gave them the IP and ability to sell the game in China as well as ownership of all servers that host Chinese players. My dear bro, this is called "working with&quo
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Censorship meaning entire narratives in the news like hiding involvement of state or corporate actors in illegal activities, not a moderator/GM abusing power in a chat. Moderator abuse is a problem too, but tiny in comparison and not a
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What's next on TV?
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> Actually you haven’t been able to play WoW in China for a ~year Not true: https://www.wowhead.com/news/over-two-million-players-sign-u... Their services are literally live right now if they are taking signups.
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Hahah he's like "YC is a big scam" but when you keep scrolling... > I charge you a one-time payment of $375, and you get access to my community It basically invalidates the entire post. Maybe some good points were made abo
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China bans sites & apps from the West that violate their laws - the ad tracking, monitoring, censorship & influencer/fake news we have here... the funding schemes and market monopolizing that companies like Facebook do in the W
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Some ideas... > 2 years ago I had a child Build little games and toys using JS and Raspberry Pis, or focus on spending quality time with them showing them Italy - collect bugs or leaves. There is probably a lot of overlap between what yo
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Mellow Yellow will rebrand to Chartreuse Caboose to address the growing AI customer segment.
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This pdonis is a jackass - here are direct quotes from Dennett: - "There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory)." - from Con
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Very good points, especially about timing / stage of life. > track record of success This is another factor - I didn't work at Facebook or Google and am not a member of the Bank of Mom & Dad, so if I got into investing I&#x
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Thanks, and very cool, thanks for breaking it down! I appreciate you sharing numbers. A bank seems like a much better option if you just need the capital but you don't want to give up too much (or any) equity. That's likely the ro
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My partner wants nothing to do with a VC or even a loan - basically because what you're saying here. The other side to it, as rfrey said, is it would enable a hyper growth mode and let us make moves earlier. But stable growth mode is w
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> he does not say what you are describing Starting to think you don't know Dennett, this is what he was all about haha. > John Searle debunked You're starting to reveal your lack of experience here. It's not something t
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> That’s essentially how the whole world operates What if regarding slavery or horses as transportation people were like "that's essentially how the world operates", not that investing has anything to do with those, but th
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You too!
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> he's not eliminative with consciousness Feel like he is though, second only to maybe Michael Shermer, or AI investors (zing!) The definition: > Eliminative materialism is a materialist position in the philosophy of mind. It is
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> VC industry Well said, and you reminded me to be more careful about what I share haha

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