- throwaway-blaze parentProbably contractually disallowed.
- I think it's more likely they want to leave the impression that this is all caused by "far right" anti-vaxxers and not a religious group with roots that go back hundreds of years.
- By "his kind" you mean human beings?
- H&H is next door, yet for years Zabars got its in-house bagels from Columbia Bagels on 110th and Bway (sadly now gone). Anyway next time skip H&H and just start and end your trip at Zabars ;)
- That simply isn't true and the statistics on "good guys with guns" do not show that they are more likely to shoot a bystander. I dont; want everyone on the street packing, either, but at least use real info to make arguments.
- To some degree, it comes from the same reason high speed rail doesn't work here in the US while it's a pleasure in Europe. The vast majority of places in this country are truly out in the sticks, and defending yourself from wildlife or humans with bad intent are real worries. In our cities, we have gun control laws similar to Europe.
BTW, those gun control laws don't always work in Europe either. Sweden has the third highest rate of gun homicides per 100,000 residents (after Albania and Montenegro). ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/1465188/europe-homicide-... )
- This doesn't make sense. Wall plugs (like circuit breakers) are designed for a particular max amperage draw. If I have a 10A 120V circuit and wall plug, I can't charge my car at 8A?
I have wall ovens that connect via a 50A circuit. Do I need to worry about fire hazards when I bake something for hours and hours?
- In Japan they are still widely used by businesses of all types. In the US, I see them routinely in doctor's offices for transmitting signed orders etc.
- A lot of margin is people borrowing against holdings instead of selling to generate cash (and tax liability). These Securities-backed lines of credit appear as margin on these kinds of reports...
- Seattle has this. 2hr parking if you dont have an residential parking zone registration for your car (it's based on license plate).
Surprisingly they charge $190/yr per car for this.
- Not to be pedantic but I spent at least a solid minute trying to understand how you collaborated with a piece of artwork.
Then I realized you meant colleague.
;)
- You know of lots of LLM-using apps that don't need to re-run their fine tunings or embeddings because of improvements or new features at least annually? Things are moving so fast that "every 12 months" seems kinda slow...
- Not trying to start a flame war, but Mac laptops are pretty much best in class across screen, keyboard (now, no comment on previous gen), battery, and weight. There are PC laptops that compete with individual parts of the lineup (the Dell XPS was competitive with the MacBook Pros for a while), but overall Macs are generally a great choice.
If you're an iOS user, the integration with the OS across devices can be pretty great (Messages on desktop, Airdrop, Tethering).
If you're an iOS dev, you have nowhere else to do your work.
- Telco != Techco.
Telcos are cash-flow businesses. They borrow billions with bond sales to fund spectrum acquisition and hardware / network deployment, then optimize payback and profit by taking $80-$200 per account per month from millions of people.
There are smart, forward looking people inside these companies who want to build for 3rd party devs. And they might even get the dispensation from some SVP to start working on an offering, and occasionally one of those makes it out the door to real developers. But ultimately, it isn't a priority for the C-suite, and when that SVP moves off to some other group or company, there's no more sponsorship for the "innovation".
As long as they take in billions reselling Apple/Samsung hardware connecting to Ericsson / Nokia hardware, they're not focusing on anything else.
- It seems like most of the "woe is me and my startup" problems people are talking about could be solved with a revenue floor. If this only applied to companies making, say, $50mm+ per year or with software-related R&D expenditures of say $10mm+, it would not hit startups or innovative small companies working on far-flung ideas. I feel bad about those laid off from Meta and MSFT but I will not cry for those companies.
- TIL that Hacker News readers think the Jim Beam whiskey company is called Jim Bean.
- Right, the biggest issue would be the unlikelihood that both planets would evolve similarly-intelligent lifeforms in the same time frames.
If Venus had a superintelligent species today, we would likely be pets or food.
If it had a superintelligent species 100,000 years ago, we will never know (or not know for quite a while).
And if it has life now that is evolving into something intelligent or superintelligent in 100,000 years, who knows if humanity will still be here to find.
- Is the contrapositive also true? If Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos had been dirt poor in childhood rather than solidly middle class, would they not have had success? I.e. how much weight should we put on the things out of their control vs within their control?
- IRA contributions are drastically limited to a $7000 cap per year under 50. Whether they should be is another question, and one worth exploring.
Long-term investment is rightly seen as something to be encouraged hence the lower tax rates. You can make the argument that the rate should be more like 0% since the money invested and risked was already taxed most likely...20% is a reasonable value for the market regulating infrastructure provided by gov't entities.
- Assume you think the government is in a better position to spend that billion than the billionaire is to figure out what to buy or invest their money in?
I know he's out of favor with a lot of people, but would Elon have created SpaceX or The Boring Co or Neuralink, or helped start OpenAI if he hadn't had the spare billions to do so?
I'd much rather have multi-billionaires investing in the economy, and in the future, than giving additional money to the government.
- Please point us at the land-bugs with a taste profile like shrimp / lobster / crab / other edible crustaceans enjoyed by humans.
- And just because they raised doesn't mean they're in a successful niche, just that they convinced people to write a check to invest...
- Sort of like asking a non-deterministic human to help make changes to an existing computer system. Extends the problems of human team management to our technology systems.
- Maybe I'm just dense but is there a sample curl somewhere for how to send something to the API URL I just got in my signal chat with BotMaster.1000?
- I was this many days old when I learned the word "imbricated".
- Since no one has mentioned it yet, given the author felt like Japanese tea was providing a calming / anti-anxiety effect but with a much lower potential dose of Theanine....I wonder what would happen if he repeated the experiment with a sub-lingual dosing mechanism?
It seems like this would be closer to taking the tea in your mouth and savoring it over multiple sips across a few minutes, and could explain the smaller apparent dose having an effect (some of the Theanine goes straight into the bloodstream and bypasses the digestive tract).
- Not mentioned -- Cornell has an $11bn endowment that can be tapped to make up some of the shortfall. Any issues with Federal funding will be hurting smaller schools and schools with smaller endowments way before hurting Cornell.
- The rise of Hitler was noticed and minimized by even the most plugged-in governments and leaders. The UK was led by a chap who thought he could mollify him by just giving him parts of Central Europe. You can call Chamberlain many names but "uninformed" isn't one.
I like the description earlier in the thread of "the carnival". You can leave at any time and your life and dopamine will be the better for it.
- To be fair, Thomson Reuters is a huge company, with the Reuters news division being only one of the groups within. This may not be anything but a clickbaity title on a grant.
This kerfuffle could be quickly solved if Thomson Reuters published their grant proposal as submitted to and selected by DARPA for this program.
- The problem here is that the notion that "DEI is just a loose label for having less discrimination in the workforce" is always hidden behind by people who want to use it for more forceful discrimination.
It would serve those who truly just want to make sure our society all starts from the same starting line to come up with a new term, one that encompasses meritocracy as the goal along with generous helping hands along the way (training programs, tutoring programs, outside-the-class mentorship opportunities). And to focus on helping lower _class and income_ folks get a leg up, not on including or excluding people by characteristics that are a circumstance of birth (skin color).