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by throwaway2037 5d ago
For this project, do you have a YouTube channel or a blog? It would hit like catnip around here.
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by throwaway2037 5d ago
> A) pensions don’t exist so people need cashflow to retire. You either save enough capital that you can build an annuity for yourself or you have cash flow investments and the lowest effort one is rental properties. First, I a
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by throwaway2037 5d ago
> Every parent wants their kid to become a software engineer, a lawyer, or a doctor. Uh, what? Both sides of my family is nine aunties/uncles, and my parents. None of them pressured their children to select a specific ca
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by throwaway2037 7d ago
I am laughing reading this "double text". Chef's kiss. I had to re-read your original post a couple of times, then I could see it: "You are right...". Do you remember about six months ago when LLMs were still mos
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by throwaway2037 7d ago
> Sometimes people even downvote by accident when they mean to upvote—easy to do on your phone You raise a great point. I have done that many times from a mobile phone. @dang: Any thoughts on this HN UX issue? Idea: Should we
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by throwaway2037 7d ago
This is a pretty bold claim, but it is HN talking about investments. From here you can compare BRK vs S&P 500 historical performance: https://www.alphaspread.com/comparison/nyse/brk.b/vs/indx/g
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by throwaway2037 7d ago
> but also be a very good hedge in case of big downturn Are you aware that BRK cratered during the 2009 stock market crash? During a crash, except gov't bonds, pretty much everything sells off equally. There is a joke on
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by throwaway2037 7d ago
> Describing him just as a "a farmer" seems kind of ridiculous. Not at all. From a New York Times article [1]: > In 1986, he began running a 400-acre farm north of Omaha that his father purchased for him.
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by throwaway2037 7d ago
Woah. Why not get a better email provider?
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by throwaway2037 11d ago
Are you aware of the Australian indigeneous ethnic group called the Torres Strait Islanders? They are considered ethnically distinct from Aboriginal peoples in the rest of Australia. There are about 100,000 of them. They reside on the is
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by throwaway2037 11d ago
Why is this downvoted? This is high quality post sharing personal experience. This is one of the best reasons to read HN.
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by throwaway2037 12d ago
LOL. The URL literally has a separate segment for "us" (for country!). Yeah, of course they have those in the US, you dummy.
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by throwaway2037 12d ago
Okay, so, single point anecdata? Yeah, no, I don't belive you. Overall, LLMs are very good are writing Python. Whatever you can throw at mean in terms of anecdata can be easily defeated by 1000+ blog posts of people using LLMs to wr
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by throwaway2037 12d ago
Yeah, I totally agree. If I could found a 100M USD+ business from Annecy, that would be heaven on Earth!
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by throwaway2037 12d ago
Frankly, I don't understand the purpose of your reply. > I exercise regularly and got Hoka Clifton 10s for running and daily walking and they are hands-down the best shoes I have had for that purpose. Sure, let me rephrase
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by throwaway2037 12d ago
> And the stock market doesn't just look at today's revenue and performance. It also prices in what people expect to happen next. Yes, I addressed this directly in my post. "Many Wall Street analysts will tell y
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by throwaway2037 12d ago
> OpenAI is a 501c4 not a 501c3 This is incorrect. OpenAI is actually registered as a 501(c)(3) public charity, not a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. (Source: Bloomberg Law) > Also the structure is much more co
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by throwaway2037 12d ago
> Hoka became pretty popular and common without any advertisements. By "advertisements", I am sure you mean traditional adverts like TV, print media, and billboards. They were blowing up on social media thanks to pai
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by throwaway2037 12d ago
> Beyond the stock market gambling aspect First, the United States' stock markets (NYSE + NASDAQ) are not gambling. An index-tracking portfolio has never lost money over a 20 year time frame for the last 125 years. Goog
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by throwaway2037 12d ago
> all the brands you mentioned are just so ugly and simply not cool Specific to Hoka: They are a status symbol probably started/hyped by social media. All kinds of people wear them who aren't remotely into running or
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by throwaway2037 12d ago
Hoka has a fairly unusual corporate history. They were founded in 2009 in Annecy, France. (Yeah, read that twice. No hate on Annecy, but that is a mega brand being started from a tiny French city!) Then in 2013, they were acquired by Ca
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X.com busts Chinese bot farm, incl accounts making claims about AI data centers(tomshardware.com)
11 points by throwaway2037 13d ago|1 comments
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by throwaway2037 13d ago
Real question here: As I understand, voice (sound) recognition technology mostly uses hidden Markov models, instead of LLM/AI. Do I misunderstand? I think this is how Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Shazam works. To be clear: I do not a
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by throwaway2037 13d ago
Cool, I found something here: https://www.lg.com/us/washers-dryers/lg-dlhc4002b-electric-d... LG claims: <<65% to 80% energy savings>> Even if only 50%, that is impressive! That sounds like a pretty g
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by throwaway2037 13d ago
The best estimate that I could find says that Win11 is at least 85% C and C++. Where did you get your 50% value? Or do I misunderstand your comment?
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by throwaway2037 13d ago
If Philips Lighting (Signify) or Osram wanted to build new, fully-automated lightbulb plants in Finland, would you also be against those plans? I have seen some YouTube videos that show how modern automated lightbulb plants operate. They
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by throwaway2037 13d ago
I think it is reasonable that the Finnish gov't cancelled the permit to build a Russian design reactor while NATO is deeply involved with the largest conflict with Russia since its founding in 1949. However, you raise some good points
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by throwaway2037 14d ago
This is an underrated point. PCIe, DRAM, and WiFi standards are similar. I watched a YouTube video about how PCIe 6.0 was developed, and, damn, the pipeline is long and very complex. Even test equipment has a separate/parallel pip
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by throwaway2037 15d ago
Did you read the article? Google has mentioned four distinct locations. That means at least four separate data centers, possibly more.
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by throwaway2037 15d ago
> we treat understanding new systems as something approachable And, computer scientists, mechanical engineers, and chemical engineers don't? > from my boss's perspective, I'm the only one who's actu

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