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by hbarka 1y ago
You’re absolutely right. I was just in Switzerland and I’ll tell you the Victorinox shops have endless visitors from all kinds of tourists. Swiss Army knife metaphor is timeless, at least for those who go out. Maybe there’s a generation whe
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Ilish fish also known as hilsa, the king of fish. That’s one delicious fish.
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When you have headlines like this: https://www.ft.com/content/55d4c6e5-663b-4b09-a374-1a607f82a...
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by hbarka 1y ago
https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-spent-over-900-mil... https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nvidia-drops-a-co...
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It was announced last week that Nvidia acquired-hired a company that can connect more than 100,000 GPUs together as a cluster that can effectively serve as a single integrated system.
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Include also gunboat diplomacy, like done to Japan (“black ships”) or opium to China.
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Don’t forget DOGE, brainchild of Elon Musk, promising to save trillions from the deficit but ended up leaving with a wake in billions of waste and turmoil. A U.S. Senate investigation revealed that DOGE is responsible for at least $21.7 bil
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by hbarka 1y ago
R² without data visualization is savage.
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A corollary to this is “People leave managers, not companies.” [] Marcus Buckingham, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently What’s a good metric to tell which companies have toxic managers?
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Over a span of three decades visiting Barcelona I have not seen the Sagrada Familia not surrounded by cranes and construction fences.
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I understand that these heuristics are completely different for people with ADHD. Also the role of dopamine cycles has a big effect on proactiveness.
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Remember that time in history when Chamath thought he found gold in SPACs. Hubris is easily forgotten or forgiven.
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Seeing Mark caught sycophanting on the live mic sealed it for me.
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Why, yes. At the reservoir. RIP Mr. Redford and Sidney Poitier.
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There are moments when I’m driving over the San Mateo Bridge and I instantly think about this movie.
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The Powerwall solar controller prioritizes the home before sending surplus to the grid. And in the home, the controller will send power direct to any running load first, then to the Powerwall battery. Any spillover then goes to the grid. It
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by hbarka 1y ago
The Powerwall system prioritizes filling up the batteries first. I assume it will take pretty much your entire solar day to fill your three batteries so why didn’t you choose the model that fills up your buckets as the first priority? I thi
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by hbarka 1y ago
This is a remarkable feat. Amazing. I’d like to add an interesting metric: density of subway/metro stations as measured by number of stations per square kilometer. In European cities, City, Metro System, Stations, City Area (km²), Dens
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> You won't be fired for things you said or did years ago, because people will have moved on You realize that the evidence is against you on that one. Just recently, who was that UK ambassador that Prime Minister Keir Starmer just f
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> cover that anonymity grants [] journalists Quite the contrary, a core journalism principle is accountability and transparency. Readers must know who the reporter is to assess credibility, context, and potential conflicts of interest. A
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by hbarka 1y ago
In the United States, political votes are not anonymous. There is a database of how someone voted. If you’re out in public, you’re also not fully anonymous. You display metadata such as race, gender, age, behavior. Now you could wear a ski
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by hbarka 1y ago
Full anonymity in social media should not be allowed. It becomes a cover for bad actors (propagandists, agents, disinformation, bots, age-inappropriate, etc.) It doesn’t have to be a full identity, but knowing your user metadata is open dur
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by hbarka 1y ago
Imagine a model where a user can earn “token allowances” through some kind of personal contribution or value add.
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>> couldn’t find workers willing to worker under their expectations. Perhaps it’s more: couldn’t find workers meeting expectations. There was an urgency to invest in the US but could you really onboard local workers that quickly in
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by hbarka 1y ago
How is it a dupe? The discussion link you pointed to confirms my very point. There’s not a single mention of the visa quagmire and rug pull in that NBC article.
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Axios has better journalistic coverage about the Hyundai ICE raid(axios.com)
6 points by hbarka 1y ago|12 comments
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I could not get good information from mainstream news about the ICE raid on the Hyundai EV factory raid. They were all parroting the same talking points. The details about ESTA, B-1, and H-1B visas was the informational nuance that was miss
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Isn’t the Fourier series fundamentals generally a required course in undergraduate college EE field?
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Ask HN: Where are the AI applications for data engineering?
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True but dopamine cycling is correlated with ADHD.

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