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by nojvek 3y ago
TIL: decoding HDMI signals is illegal. I had no idea. I assumed it was an open protocol. But I guess I learnt something new today.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Oh the day when Russia collapses. I doubt it will happen. They have a ton of natural resources. The oil and gas corps alone can hold the entire economy afloat (Gazprom, Lukoil, Rosneft) and fund their tanks and missiles.
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by nojvek 3y ago
That is great news. Putin be damned. And we gotta vote out the MAGA (Make America Garbage Again) crowd from senate and congress. Can't believe Mike Johnson is solo holding out aid even though majority congress passed it. Republican log
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by nojvek 3y ago
Same, it seems HN is getting more traffic but hasn't been keeping up with the load. Which is interesting because YC has funded many infra companies. I usually browse through hn.algolia.com and that has a much higher uptime than news.yc
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by nojvek 3y ago
Land is one of the real fixed assets of the planet. I don’t care much if billionaires own billions of bitcoin. But when they own huge swaths of land, it is a zero sum game. Land is the OG wealth.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Does the world really need that many people? Yeah there are old people and there’ll be a generation of some pain, economic output may go down. However if per capita affordability is rising in real income that is a beautiful thing. That mean
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by nojvek 3y ago
Calories are so cheap, easy and tasty nowadays though. Eating more is easier than eating less. What a weird paradox.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Apple should get into home robots. Cleaning cooling laundry delivery shopping.
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by nojvek 3y ago
This is perhaps a good lesson for considering cloudflare. I’m surprised Netlify has no ddos protection.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Not quite VMware but we switched from Algolia to Typesense. Algolia overage charges are a fortune. If we kept on going we’d be burning an equivalent software engineer worth of salary. Now we give equivalent sum to a real human.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Meaningful job. There are jobs for people who pickup trash. Our utility company in FL employs thousands
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by nojvek 3y ago
Microsoft knows they won big in Cloud via Azure Big as in 100s of billions. They know someone is going to win big in AI. They lost big on the mobile OS. It is the biggest blunder of Microsoft. They don’t want to lose on AI. Better to hedge
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by nojvek 3y ago
Screens are really good at entertaining our brains. Before screens, if you are bored you go out and hang out with other people. And the push-pull of romance is entertaining, the sex and the physical activity is a huge rush of hormones to th
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by nojvek 3y ago
They probably meant Google+, but what they meant is Google Wave.
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by nojvek 3y ago
There’s a notion of creating jobs that is seen in many economies. People are much happier if they are paid to do a “job” even though it is sometimes more efficient to not have that person. You could directly give them the money but it would
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by nojvek 3y ago
Nobody is a strong word. There are many competent engineering teams that understand the value of strong foundations. However the problem is quite real in large companies where promo driven development takes over and the incentives are shift
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by nojvek 3y ago
I'm sorry my intent came off in the wrong way. I am not super wealthy.
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by nojvek 3y ago
lol! midjourney had a big issue where it couldn't generate rich black people donating food to white people. old midjourney couldn't generate certain proffesions like doctors as black. They were all mostly white. Now Google has the
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by nojvek 3y ago
It’s a war of attrition. Russia is a much larger economy than Ukraine, they got insanely huge reserves of gas and oil. They produce ammunition and can throw millions of untrained main in the meat grinder. Ukraine alone will lose. Ukraine on
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by nojvek 3y ago
Time will tell. Toyota has taken decades to build their reputation on being reliable and cheap to run/maintain.
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by nojvek 3y ago
APPL and MSFT got their start in 1975 and 1976. Since then they’ve been growing and now they are the biggest ~3T jaggernauts. My biggest fear is by their sheer momentum they keep on getting bigger, capturing regulators, acquiring companies,
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by nojvek 3y ago
May get downvoted. The author talks about the people being very friendly. If the author is white, that is a very different experience than if you’re a person of color. Hollywood gives tall while people a special perception in places that do
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by nojvek 3y ago
I liked his interview with Lex Fridman. He's full of himself but has interesting things to say. WolframAlpha is a gem on its on right. Yeah we have Gemini, GPT, Mixtral but when it comes to actual compositional compute, Wolfram alpha g
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by nojvek 3y ago
Thank you Denmark. If Putin wins this and Ukraine no longer exists, that teaches other dictators, the borders are lose and they can have their way. To be a pacifist, you gotta protect with force.
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by nojvek 3y ago
I agree with you. The bigger question in my mind is that in 50 years, will we need to even land humans on mars, or will be able to build space-faring robots where we can upload our consciousness and send that instead. Humans, or generally a
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by nojvek 3y ago
Postgres seriously needs a columnstore backed table instead of just a rowstore. MSSQL has this and it is magic. SingleStore has it, and it is wonderful. I'm willing to give a bounty of $1000 to whoever adds that into main postgres tree
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by nojvek 3y ago
I applaud the Google team openly engaging on HN here. Q: how sure are you that the newer models trained from trillions of tokens - a huge chunk of open web, hasn't been accidentally polluted by slurping test data?
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by nojvek 3y ago
Does it work if you use a prepaid credit card with the cloud providers that only have a set amount of money?
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by nojvek 3y ago
My only use of ChatGPT is to explain things to me in a certain context that a dictionary can't. It's been semi-useful at augmenting search for me. But for anything that requires a deeper understanding of what the words mean, it&#x
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by nojvek 3y ago
Great. We need Japan to be competitive again. More choice is better for everyone.

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