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by dotBen 3y ago
Many bars, clubs, concerts and festivals scan your ID's barcode on the back and both store the data and retrieve data from a threat database. It's actually surprising more don't as the technology is in all of our pockets. No
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Use Signal. Get your friends to do so. What you are describing is a multi-platform ecosystem so don't rely on one of the platform vendors to enable something for everyone else.
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by dotBen 3y ago
> Instead of an ad-blocker, try a YT premium subscription Why is YouTube Premium $14/m? I find it hard to back into the economics based on either comparisons with Netflix, Hulu, etc or based on the amount YouTube have to pay creat
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by dotBen 3y ago
Don't worry, there are a (perhaps) surprising amount of VCs who love Android. I'm one of them. We are not all the same!
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Green card holder via marriage, decided after 10 years it's time to naturalize. Nothing exotic in the situation - still happily married, started a family, no legal issues, citizen of Western country etc. Is it worth retaining an immigr
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Well April 2023 is a key date here - that's presumably when they started final training a lot of these models. We're probably able to conclude what we're seeing in public is about about 6 months behind what's happening i
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proven character
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by dotBen 3y ago
For $1500 I can buy a well spec'd MacBook and own a laptop with a first class citizen, commercially supported, *nix OS installed. Unless I was truly a FOSS zealot I don't get why I would select Dell over Apple here.
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by dotBen 3y ago
Yes, I'm grateful for this being built so I can locate and identify all the copies of Linux I could download and install...
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by dotBen 3y ago
They do this with Android... follow certain specs (and other requirements) and you can have the Google suite of apps + Play Store access. If you don't, you're own your own. It would be great if they could do that with Chromebooks
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by dotBen 3y ago
The key thing here is specifying 8Gb RAM as minimum spec and branding it accordingly. What's hurt Chromebook's reputation is people buying discounted/value priced 4Gb ones, struggling with performance and concluding it's
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by dotBen 3y ago
But not in the grandparent's business (solo dev). There is a natural cap on the amount of work the solo dev can complete in a year (point of the article) and as such there is a natural cap on the amount of work the sales person can
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I'm old enough to remember when browsers would highlight in the url bar that a site had an RSS feed. Well, I'm old enough to remember upgrading from Mosaic to Netscape, so I'm v old. Cool little project.
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The issue was whoever created this didn't design a widely compelling proposition.. You had to value the bundled Google Game Pass and YouTube Music Premium to make it a good deal. Anyone who doesn't play games and uses Spotify wou
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You shouldn't assume the origin server is setup for direct traffic - either in terms of load management or security (access to origin might only be available to CDN IPs on their ACL)
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by dotBen 3y ago
This is a good thing, some troll could patent it and then deny anyone else the right to use it.
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I see no indication that they’ve learned anything To be fair, it was Yahoo that banned NSFW but Automattic are the current owners of the property.
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Our Teslas sends an insane amount of data home, even down to event calls for rolling down the window or opening the car door. But you kind of know that going into it - ok not everyone does but anyone who is reasonable technical and most
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a big issue is that Plex has managed to get onto the more closed systems (Vizio etc) and not Jelly. Makes it hard to use when some of the TVs in your home don't support it.
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I would love to buy an eBook version of it. That isn't the $75 Kindle version on Amazon.
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>it’s insanity that a tech company think it’s reasonable for indie devs to operate under that constraint. That's the point. In business you don't say "no" you 'f#ck off' price instead. 20x is a f#ck off p
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by dotBen 3y ago
This reminds me of back in the day when the US became very worried that the 'level of sophisticated computing power' in the then-recently released PlayStation 2 could be used by Iran or North Korea to power nuclear missile guidanc
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I never read that before but you are right and based on that wording looks like private repos are open to having LLMs trained upon them. I assumed up to this point they could only use public ones but this wording suggests otherwise.
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This little comment thread made me smile! Psion 3 (no letter) was my first PDA when I was about 12 and then I upgraded to a Psion 3c. After graduating from BASIC on my father's Acorn A3000 and A5000 my first apps on my own computing d
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And so, if this is the first time you have heard about Snowflake acquiring Neeva you now know the level of asymmetry of information that exists in the 'public' market. Use this as a lesson to exercise caution when personally inves
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Looking to run a cloud instance of Stable Diffusion for personal experimentation. Looking at cloud mostly because I don't have a GPU or desktop hardware at home, and my Mac M1 is too slow. But also needing to contend with constant swi
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Related: HNer recommendations for home geiger counters? (serious request - for general fun/experimentation/curiosity satiation)
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(OP here) I'll start: I'm trying to get a nice Stable Diffusion setup going so I can run my own LORAs and enable non-technical designers and artists in my circle to use it. After realizing my old GPU at home isn't good enough
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Ask HN: How are you running AI experiments?
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DOE also covers domestic nuclear power generation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_...

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