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Discussion from a day or so ago. 59 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43017612
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How would you mitigate a DDOS on AWS with a $1/month budget ?
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Suck up money from an open source project? Others making money from an open source project is kinda the point of open source. Also the people whose accounts are being deactivated have by definition contributed to the project in the past. I
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I'd suggest you try a color blindness test. The green is very obvious, especially about 40% of the way down the whole image.
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Athletes seem to appear in Playboy fairly often. eg Dutch skater Joy Beune was in the December 2024 issue ( in Dutch Playboy and possibly other countries )
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Just an hour ago read somebody say that the California fires were caused by a combination of 5G and coronal mass ejections. At the time I dismissed his words is not being supported by scientists or other authorities but in future I will rem
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I did a potato diet a while back. Lost significant weight (which I've sadly put back on). Potatoes are low in protein and various Vitamins. I ended up eating protein powder and regular Multi, C, D and B vitamin pills.
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by slyall 2y ago
Previous discussion was 2 days ago. 245 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42559882
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Australians or Brits would tend so day "learnt" rather than "learned"
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Here is a big list of GitLab insider transactions. All correctly reported to the SEC. https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1653482.htm
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At the company I work at the founders sell $10m+ worth of shares every few weeks. Billionaires just re-balancing their portfolio or buying a new house I assume
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Because copyright last for 75+ years so there is relatively little that is public domain. Why should training be subject to copyright? (and at what stages of the process). People learn most of what they know from copyright media, giving cop
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A version of it was on the UK series "Minder". Broadcast 40 years ago https://www.minder.org/episodeguide/S04E04_SorryPalWrongNumb...
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The problem is the US is still running off best practice from 200 years ago and is famously hostile to change or copying another from other countries. Any change is also going to disadvantage the two current parties so they will be hostile
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How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup into Google Photos [video](youtube.com)
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It depends. Are you attracted to guys?
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I did a bunch of the demo questions. Got them all correct. Most were only Level 1 or level 2 so didn't seem too hard. Are you sitting down?
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So you have an "older" and "younger" password. If you are the younger person (ie child) in the conversation you tell them the "younger" password, and if you are the older you tell them the "older" pas
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Pakistan has seen a big jump in installs over the last year. Pakistan is now the third-largest importer of Chinese solar panels, buying an incredible 13 gigawatts (GW) in just the first half of this year. To compare, the United Kingdom is
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Remember this from the TV show Cheers. Robin is Robin Colcord who is a billionaire who is a love intest of the character Rebecca.... Rebecca Howe: [about Robin] I told him the biggest secret of my life. Carla LeBec: What? Rebecca Howe: I to
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There seems to be some people who really hate Generative AI and will call it out and complain wherever they see it. eg somebody uses it to illustrate an article there will always be somebody who complains. So anything that enough people see
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I mean "public domain" in the copyright context, not the "trade secret" context.
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The big thing is not the cost of the driver it is the capacity. As the article says: "The main benefit of driverless trains is capacity, as the computerised control systems can allow trains to run closer together, which increases passe
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The problem is the anti-AI people who complain about AI are going for several steps in the chain (and often they are vague about which ones they are talking about at any point). As well as the "copying" of content some are also cl
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Going through the docs I find you don't actually have a bit about how to make your website to use it. I mean I can work it would and it'll be obvious to proper front end developers but at not point do you say: "Add the follow
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You have a lot of opinions on AI for somebody who has only read stuff in the public domain
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Exactly. Should I be paying a proportion of my salary to all the copyright holders of the books, song, TV shows and movies I consumed during my life? If a Hollywood writer says she "learnt a lot about writing by watching the Simpsons&q
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Death is a well tracked statistic and a severe and fairly distinct outcome. Other statistics might not be as available or accurate. Similarly the murder rate is a more accurate than other crime rates. Burglaries, muggings and assaults are o
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c) Smoking In 1950 around 50% of adult males smoked, these days it is closer to 15%
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Comet Interceptor was designed just for this. The Comet Interceptor is a robotic spacecraft mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) planned for launch in 2029. The spacecraft will be "parked" at the Sun-Earth L2 point and

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