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by nomilk 5mo ago
'Pelicans' should be the unit of measurement for model prices, rather than tokens.
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by nomilk 5mo ago
Curious why they're broken, as the wayback machine seems to be able to run javascript. Do the visualisations rely on a server (or some other assets not included in wayback machine's crawl)?
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by nomilk 5mo ago
Wonder how much the removal of trees and bitumening/concreting of surface areas contributes to radiative heating from the sun which then increases the temp of surrounding air, especially on still days.
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by nomilk 5mo ago
Pre-AI, having access to code (e.g. if it leaked or even just open source) could allow hackers to more easily discover exploits. I wonder if that threat is now much more severe in the age of AI. Thankfully GitHub have probably themselves ru
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by nomilk 5mo ago
Couldn't figure out why archiving FTE aricles matters, but a quick search yields: > Thousands of FiveThirtyEight articles seemingly vanish from the internet https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/thousands-o
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by nomilk 5mo ago
> The males may be seeking added nutrients in high-calorie blubber to boost their mating value during the breeding season, a time when bulls usually fast, Langley speculates. Wonder if the male killer is of the same bloodline? Lions ofte
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Should you move to Silicon Valley? [video](youtube.com)
3 points by nomilk 5mo ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Are SaaS businesses going to zero?
2 points by nomilk 5mo ago|11 comments
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by nomilk 5mo ago
I take it you're not in HR at the CIA or FBI, which vet applicants' families for a reason. i.e. how long ago applicants and/or their families came to the US does help predict their loyalties... It might not be a strong nor
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by nomilk 5mo ago
> “Delete their filesystem as well?” he said. > “Smart idea,” said Muneeb. Seems obvious they weren't destroying databases just out of malice (i.e. retribution for being fired), but in order to cover up something/s..
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by nomilk 5mo ago
There isn’t a local language - a quick scan of Grab in Kuala Lumpur shows menus in Mandarin, Bahasa Malaysia, Tamil, English.. Items are entered in a language that suits the food vendor, not necessarily “the local language”. It’s obviousl
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by nomilk 5mo ago
> No one is shopping for clothes using AI Tangental rebuttal, but I shop for food using AI every day. Grab app (Asia's equivalent of Uber Eats/DoorDash) has an option "Translate using AI". It (attempts to) translate d
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by nomilk 5mo ago
Not sure why, but when I clicked on 'A HN post with negative points – how?' from the HN home page it led to the post we're currently on ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104663 ), but I think it should h
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by nomilk 5mo ago
When I click on 'A HN post with negative points – how?' from the HN homepage (currently ranked 12 for me), it goes to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104663 instead of https://news.ycombinator.co
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by nomilk 5mo ago
@dang would be great if the hn link was the 'unlocked' version i.e. instead of https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/google-hacker... this instead https://www.nytimes.c
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Catatumbo Lightning(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by nomilk 5mo ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 5mo ago
That 7 second video of a small rocket shot into a cloud to induce a lightning strike (about half way down the article) is incredible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BJIiX9_c_M Any ideas why the lightning strike appears mo
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by nomilk 5mo ago
Oh.. that tiny dot. I had (mis)interpreted the caption to mean the photograph was of an area below the helicopter the photo was taken from.
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by nomilk 5mo ago
FBI Photo B7 (fourth to the right on the carousel) looks very helicopter-ish
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by nomilk 5mo ago
Often convenience and security are at odds, but `export HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1` is more convenient and more secure.
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by nomilk 5mo ago
> He produced a great deal of code, a great deal of documentation, a great deal of what looked, to anyone who did not know what to look for, like progress. He could not, when asked, explain how any of it actually worked. Solution: manage
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Red Alert 2 UI in real life [video](youtube.com)
2 points by nomilk 5mo ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 5mo ago
AFAIK Neanderthals didn't have clay pots - how would they hold the water to heat it and put the bone pieces in? EDIT: I asked claude and it doesn't know for sure but guessed "stone boiling into an organic container — animal s
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by nomilk 5mo ago
The article mentions "rendering fat (from bones)" many times, but doesn't say how neanderthals actually did it? My best guess is they broke the bones into many little pieces, threw them in a fire, and waited for the fire to e
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by nomilk 5mo ago
I feel dumb but I’d not previously made the Ask Jeeves and Jeeves from P.G. Wodehouse novels connection!
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Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety (Cybernetics)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by nomilk 6mo ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 6mo ago
> We unknowingly gave particularly high rewards for metaphors with creatures. I recall a math instructor who would occasionally refer to variables (usually represented by intimidating greek letters) as "this guy". Weirdly, the
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by nomilk 6mo ago
What other forcing functions is everyone using? (externally-imposed like meetings, or self-imposed) I don't use forcing functions enough, which may imply missed opportunities to trade slightly higher-stress and increased busywork for g
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by nomilk 6mo ago
A similar announcement was made a few months ago, and Terence Tao came out a few days later and said it wasn't what it seemed at first, in that it was a rediscovery of an already known (albeit esoteric) result...
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by nomilk 6mo ago
Related: Econtalk podcast episode on George Orwell with guest Christopher Hitchens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Dg9T14c4k

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