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by themgt 2y ago
A message stating that the "server IP address could not be found" appeared when attempts were made to access the website. Looks like they actually nuked the DNS for www.usaid.gov. Funny enough it's still working(?) via DNS
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by themgt 2y ago
Great resource. imo Trump is jerking the wheel too hard in the other direction but some of this stuff was legitimately crazy. FAQ: Q: I am only requesting support for one graduate student; do I still need to submit a PIER Plan? A: Yes, a
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by themgt 2y ago
No one ever explains how it's possible for China to simply give "massive state subsidies" and take over the entire global economy from a starting point of Haitian-level GDP per capita 25 years ago. It sounds extremely easy th
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by themgt 2y ago
"That's nothing. I can stand in front of the Kremlin and yell, 'To hell with Ronald Reagan,' too."
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The Short Case for Nvidia Stock(youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com)
16 points by themgt 2y ago|3 comments
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by themgt 2y ago
There were very good arguments that Covid (probably) leaked from a lab as early as April 2020 at the latest (and in January if you were a virologist included in top-level NIAID emails). HN largely went along with the shunning of debate, whi
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by themgt 2y ago
The general idea of an “Islands” architecture is deceptively simple: render HTML pages on the server, and inject placeholders or slots around highly dynamic regions […] that can then be “hydrated” on the client into small self-contained wi
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by themgt 2y ago
You can find the WH fact sheet in web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20250118190105/https://www.white... The actual federal register rule is here: https://www.federalregister.gov/do
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State of Kaniko: Unmaintained?(github.com)
1 points by themgt 2y ago|0 comments
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DeepSeek R1(huggingface.co)
17 points by themgt 2y ago|4 comments
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Canada, Trump and the new world order(ft.com)
7 points by themgt 2y ago|1 comments
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by themgt 2y ago
The TikTok legislation was included as part of a larger $95 billion package that provides foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel and was passed 79-18. iykyk. Also this article from two days ago is hilarious, "congressional leaders who cha
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by themgt 2y ago
Always useful to check past predictions from the author, e.g. So, what would happen to those 6 million barrels a day if the West stopped buying? Russian officials have threatened to send it “elsewhere,” while the media have focused on stor
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by themgt 2y ago
The joke/riddle text is "he says" but Claude says "their son" and suggests the doctor might be a woman. More substantively: "This is a classic riddle that highlights gender bias - many people assume doctors mus
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by themgt 2y ago
I just asked Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which appears to have improved its response with CoT but there's mistakes that demonstrate the model doesn't really "understand": Q: A woman and her son are in a car accident. The woman i
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by themgt 2y ago
OK but $10/TB has gotta be like >99% profit margin for AWS. After massively jacking up their prices, Hetzner internet egress is only €1/TB. Also AWS encourages / in some cases practically forces you to do multi-AZ. I rem
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New Research Identifies Key Cellular Mechanism Driving Alzheimer's Disease(asrc.gc.cuny.edu)
1 points by themgt 2y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 2y ago
The article is terribly written. It ends with: The transmitting and receiving devices were used to record all radio frequencies, and upon reaching Russia were offloaded for analysis. ... They said no further equipment returned to the shi
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Is AI progress slowing down?(aisnakeoil.com)
4 points by themgt 2y ago|1 comments
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by themgt 2y ago
The current "Out of Africa" is really not the same as what you might have learned 2-3 decades ago, despite the branding. David Reich is probably the leading researcher in this field and his description of our best guesses is highl
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by themgt 2y ago
For me the ngrok killer feature I've never seen elsewhere is a simple embedded webserver with log/inspector for requests + the ability to replay them. Wish Apache or CNCF would fork ngrok v1 and put it on life support.
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by themgt 2y ago
As a Hetzner bandwidth enjoyer affected by this, this is why ( HN cough ) multi-cloud/dedi k3s is great, because if you get rug pulled you just migrate to another provider with better prices. That said, $1/TB for bandwidth overage
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Apple to increase Indonesia investment tenfold to appeal iPhone 16 ban(appleinsider.com)
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by themgt 2y ago
Here's the NYT report: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/us/los-angeles-times-endo...
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by themgt 2y ago
It's a bedrock of our system that the US military remain firmly under civil control and politically neutral. The article elides but deep-links through to Ben-Ghiat's Substack announcing the lecture, which is what set off the fires
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by themgt 2y ago
The point to me was the owner's daughter suggesting the genocide was their family's reason for not wanting to endorse.
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by themgt 2y ago
The daughter of the LA Times owner wrote: "There is a lot of controversy and confusion over the LAT’s decision not to endorse a presidential candidate. I trust the Editorial Board’s judgment. For me, genocide is the line in the sand.&q
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by themgt 2y ago
This is hopelessly confused: they are just as illustrative of some of the challenges that I’m pointing to, [such] as Elon Musk deciding who in Ukraine should and should not have access to Starlink internet connections. ... Let’s compare ho
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by themgt 2y ago
NSF video: https://x.com/nasaspaceflight/status/1845442658203734384
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by themgt 2y ago
NSF video: https://x.com/nasaspaceflight/status/1845442658203734384 Truly incredible. A day for the history books.

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