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As an entrepreneur who founded a tech startup that grew up to a few hundred people, HR was handled by half an administrative/finance person. It was mostly just payroll, health insurance, onboarding, some compliance paperwork and a litt
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Knuth is just a treasure.
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> Thank god 1st amendment works. Yes, but it should never have even gotten to evaluating whether the speech was 1A protected. Even if it wasn't, it wasn't remotely illegal, threatening or anything. The content never needed a 1A
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True, but when I installed ExoDOS I choose the option where it just downloads the descriptions, tagged metadata and a few screenshots per game with a searchable menu system. You can browse by name, genre, publisher, resolution etc, pick the
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I'm just hoping we're almost past this phase of needing to assess LLM capabilities against an arbitrary one dimensional yard stick labeled 'Not Human' on end and "Beyond Human' on the other. It's irrelevan
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If you don't mind a basic but tangential question... I understand that splats like these are essentially a separate domain from traditional polygonal 3D scenes in a tool like Blender, but is it currently possible to use splats like the
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I have tremendous respect for FIRE's commitment to defending free speech equally whether attacked from the left or the right.
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I'm as jaded as can be but I think Anthropic is now beyond the point where they'd place much value on farming Karpathy's name recognition. I'm sure they considered it an extra plus in his hiring package but they wouldn
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Very impressive! Thank you for doing this.
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I vaguely remember using that UI. It's in that strange category of preset graphical menu launchers that were a bit more than an autoexec shell menu but much less than an OS. File it under "ideas that seemed like they might be good
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Andy Weir is a wonderful novelist and was truthfully relating his understanding but he's not a VFX person. I didn't see the quote you did but he probably confused the fact that PHM used physical elements in place of some CGI in ce
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They used a puppet on-set for in-camera reference but most of what you saw on-screen in most shots was CGI. I wrote more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198851
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I agree PHM was great (and I loved the book before the movie). But as a VFX person, please be careful not to buy into the currently popular studio PR line: "it's all real , almost no CGI". Media and influencers love this lin
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First time? Maybe they mean the shape but they definitely changed how search works when they removed logical operators and started progressively degrading the results to generate more spots to serve ads. I'd be a lot more interested if
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Yeah, during most blockbuster movies lately all I can think is: "All pixels, no plot."
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Back in 90s during the first wave of the desktop video revolution when desktop editing became possible and consumer camcorders got pretty good, there was a popular marketing slogan: "Now your imagination is the only limit." I used
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Honestly, it's been a few decades and I don't recall many details (other than there being a lot of details). I don't remember if it was directly stated Nagasaki would have been destroyed with or without the A-bomb but I do re
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I didn't want to digress too much on that sidebar but the split on Nagasaki was mostly centered around the number of days between Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I think nearly everyone would have agreed the second bomb was probably justified
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> US downing of Iran passenger plane was as much an accident as the triple tap they did of the girls school in Iran recently or the use of nuclear bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima The first and second event are undeniably different than th
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> Who is this for? For the shrinking Catholic church it's trying to regain relevance. For Anthropic it's PR.
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I agree with you that Trump's recent attack on Iran was an ill-advised strategic blunder. However, it can be simultaneously true that most countries in Western Europe and many in the Middle East have under-invested in their military re
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> Musk lost today because the jury found that he waited too long to bring his claims. I think Musk's lawyers told him he'd probably lose this suit before he filed it. I suspect he proceeded mostly out of spite and to embarrass
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Transiting by themselves is a lot different than escorting merchant vessels. By themselves warships are free to maneuver at any time and do so at military speeds. Convoy duty with merchant vessels requires repeatedly moving slowly along a p
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> Iran has too many targets and the only thing that can stop them is the equivalent to an Israeli Iron Dome across the entirety of the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE, maybe more. Another key issue is Iran's regional neighb
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Iran doesn't want to sink merchant ships. They want to extort money from merchant shipping companies by threatening to sink their ships if they don't pay for 'protection'. All they need is a credible threat, which they a
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> Without a computer, there is no video. There's nothing about video that uniquely requires computers. Maybe you meant "streaming video"? I realize you're probably under 30 and don't remember "ye olden times
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I don't know enough about the current state of naval warfare but I've assumed this is related to the asymmetry that's emerged around protecting capital warships, especially in the scenario of a very narrow strait and a long e
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I guess I'm just surprised they even bother trying to mask an obvious shake down under the euphemism "insurance" when it's such a trope. Obligatory Sopranos clip of old school mobsters trying to sell "protective ins
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> except Khan Academy But that's not using "computers" as a computer but as a video player. When evaluating whether computers are "good for learning", I don't think we should include using a computer as a vi
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Losses in job categories management can claim was related to AI. Some management may even believe AI can fully replace all work done by those positions. In some of those cases they will learn they were mistaken. The eventual rehiring of s

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