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>Google's algorithms and page crawlers were not that revolutionary or different from anything the other search engines were doing; Back in 1998, Google's algorithm ("pagerank") of weighting href backlinks using line
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>Wouldn't this be a near perfect use-case for AI generated websites? A non-tech user prompting ChatGPT to write out HTML+CSS+Javascript still doesn't cover the other logistical challenges of hosting it on a server somewhere
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>He’s forgetting that software keeps getting slower. It depends on the software usage. If you're not using cpu-demanding tasks like rendering videos in Adobe Premiere, Blender 3D, etc, then very old pcs will continue to work f
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The blog mentions the "discovery problem" 7 times but this project's particular technology architecture for syndication doesn't seem to actually address that. The project's main differentiating factor seems to be n
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>You can _reason_ about a function from its declaration if it has a clear logical purpose, is well named, and has well named parameters. I think "reason" in gp's context is "compile-time reasoning" as in th
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>It's not ads per se that bother. It's the tracking part. No, people are irritated by just the existence of ads -- with-or-without the tracking. E.g. the "native" advertising of sponsors embedded in Youtube video
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A reddit thread started by a woman working at a college in Toronto was on the front page of reddit 2 months ago. Commenters just piled on with more and more anecdotes. : https://old.reddit.com/r/canadian/comments
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>Sabian Cymbals in New Brunswick, Canada, in 1981. Based on various interviews about the history of Zildjian & Sabian brothers splitting up, the Sabian Canada factory was originally a Zildjian 2nd site purposely placed outside of
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Honest question... is the Twitter screenshot[1] of Amazon jobs in Arlington VA enough to conclude that their H1B is specifically about low-wage warehouse jobs ? Because Arlington VA also has these software engineering jobs: https:/&#
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>was that organizations seemed to fail to get a warranty on software. The corporate buyer paying millions didn't "fail to get a warranty". What happened is that the market equilibrium price for that transaction for th
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Unfortunately, when submissions get put back into a "2nd chance queue", the "elapsed time calc" is modified to be more recent -- which causes confusion. The thread that's given "new life" for more engagem
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>It's called Syrup, a fully open-source and transparent alternative to Honey. My goal is to make a browser extension that’s honest, ethical, [...] If you want to make this solution for yourself and other very technically-savvy use
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>These people "donated to a non-profit". They did not "invest in a for-profit". Sure, nobody wants to be tricked into donating to a charity and then have their money disappear into a for-profit company. Based on the
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> Non-profit is a deal between those founders and society. Yes I get that but did OpenAI ever take any public donations from society? I don't think they did. It thought it was only funded by wealthy private donors. >, it
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>If Sam decided it was a mistake to dedicate his time to a non-profit, he’s perfectly free to quit [...] To be clear, I don't think Sam can do anything and come out looking "good" from a public relations standpoint. That
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>It doesn't look like one - it is one. > We’re excited to welcome the following new donors to OpenAI: ... The story is that OpenAI worked out some equity conversion of the for-profit co for the donors to the non-profit. Elon
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>I kind of thought that was the point of the current structure. Yes, it is but if we only stopped the analysis right there , we could take pleasure in the fact that Sam Altman checkmated himself in his own blog post. "Dude, the
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>As the fortunes of AWS et al rose and rose and rose, I kept looking at their pricing at features and kept wondering what I was missing. They seemed orders of magnitude more expensive [...] To this day I still use bare metal servers for
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>It is wild that the number of GPUs purchased by a company has become, like, an infrastructure investment or something. Like the count itself is worth reporting. An estimated count is newsworthy for the journalists and the readers beca
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>House becomes a cheap commodity, Houses can't become a "cheap commodity" unless there are revolutionary new construction methods and/or alternative materials. E.g. something like cheap 3D printing of structural w
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Previous discussion that includes even more backlinks to additional earlier discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14267882
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>Please visit people when they are still alive. [...] Go to the funeral yes, but don't wait until. Thank you for bringing this up. To add to that ... sometimes, circumstances (i.e. long distances) dictate that only 1 of those tr
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>51% of US business owners are at least 55: https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2020/comm/busi ... The impetus of this particular thread and context of gp (sabbaticaldev) comment is &quot
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>Or check out a DVD for free from a public library. Major downsides to that alternative. My 80-year old friend started borrowing DVDs from the local library 6 months ago as a personal protest against Amazon Prime adding ads to their s
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>You could stick the codec on the DVD itself? They are relatively small programs. Consumer DVD players have (cheaper) ASICs for hardware-decoding of MPEG. The algorithm to decode is literally burned into the chip. It wouldn't ha
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>This is going to sound pedantic, but SQLite is not Open Source. It's Public Domain. Well, there are 2 different modes of communication: (1) official language-lawyer pedantic communication: "open source" != "public
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>The author never actually says what is so wrong with JavaScript. The author does but you have to extract it yourself by using some mental subtraction from the sentences he did write: >[...], TypeScript has all of the benefits of J
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>, I have an altendorf handguard sliding table saw, which will stop as fast as the sawstop, The alternative approaches from other industrial saw manufacturers that are "non-contact non-destructive" are interesting: - camer
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>It’s unclear to me why the American government doesn’t change the laws and create a new system more like a European one. There have been various attempts and proposals to change the system. An example of one attempt among many is cal
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>, I wish Sabine Hossenfelder didn't have to leave academia. [...] I understand that she is catering to the audience but this is one example why alignment of the incentives works. Before, she was earning her living as a working phy

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