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These two concerns weren't really noticeable when I played games on Stadia. That isn't to say you wouldn't notice them, but I certainly didn't.

I'd guess maybe 90% of gamers probably wouldn't either. And those negatives are somewhat balanced by the positives that cloud-streamed games enables: no disk space management (minor) and no cheaters (huge!).

There are many Zionists who are not Jewish. You seem to be conflating those terms as well.
Re:California is chasing wealth that has feet on Friday September 25, 2026 @12:37PM (#49846764)
> nobody cares if it went up or down in value

If only this were true, we wouldn't have homeowners constantly fighting against new development or construction. Many homeowners treat their primary residence as an investment.

Re:The darker side of being a doctor on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @01:26PM (#49819548)
Med school applications have declined for 3 years in a row, though that rate itself is declining and could be a side effect of COVID

https://www.aamc.org/news/medical-school-enrollment-reaches-...

I'm an extreme OAI skeptic, so I'm certainly biased, but is it truly baseless when the CEO was fired for being deceptive? When the workforce rallies to get him reinstated, it simply reinforced the idea in my mind that it is part of the company culture.
Re:DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:07PM (#49646090)
I assume it has something to do with being on a website called "Hacker News" and said models are, for the most part, the only ones being published as open weights.
Re:Starbase, LA on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @06:33PM (#49441599)
Not that I've experienced elsewhere - it took me a moment to realize what the OP was referring to.
Re:The End of an Era on Friday July 31, 2026 @01:16PM (#49125994)
Ironically, I finally caught up on an online web series (though it's been adapted to a published book as well as audiobooks) and discovered the author does live stream their writing of unreleased chapters.

They're a bit too prolific to actually dig into their overall process, but you can watch them type for hours straight. It's awfully boring tbh since there's no interaction and they're understandably focused on their work.

If your curious - https://youtube.com/@pirateaba/streams

Dimensional funds have a type of index factor funds that roughly track these indices without strict adherence to S&Ps inclusion rules. That's the only one I'm aware of.
FYI that prominent link to your sharpee repo on GitHub 404s
Re:San Diego rents declined following surge in supply on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @11:20AM (#47864900)
I think it's safe to assume that people close to retirement have existing appreciating assets contributing to that total savings amount.
Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview on Friday February 20, 2026 @05:46PM (#47095076)
Is that no longer the case, or am I misunderstanding the operational costs displayed?

Opus: 521k input tokens; 12k out

Grok: 443k input tokens; 57k out

Gemini: 677k input tokens; 7k out

OAI: 543k input tokens; 17k out

Gemini appears to use by far the least amount of reasoning tokens, assuming they're included in the output counts.

Re:Scott Adams has passed away on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @12:28PM (#46604355)
How many rooms in your home though? These are crucial details.
Re:Web development is fun again on Sunday January 04, 2026 @08:54PM (#46494505)
I have a feeling you are using SOTA models at work and aren't used to just how cheap the non-Anthropic/Google/OAI options are these days. GLM's coding subscription is like $6/month if you buy a full year.
Reading the parent comment, I assume their use of 'freedom' more closely aligns with being undisturbed by a government.

It's a very common usage in America, focusing on "Freedom from X" rather than "Freedom to do Y", the latter of which often needs some sort of societal protection, most often provided by said government.

I use monarch and I've been happy enough with it. Would probably consider self-hosting with actual in the future, but I wanted an easy on-ramp for myself to actually get in the habit of budgeting.
Re:Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @10:30AM (#45823903)
Hi, that's not why people go to Delaware for those kind of purchases. It's the lack of tax.

The actual MSRP from PA wine and liquor stores is very competitive, since it's one of the largest single buyers of alcohol. Selection could be better though.

Re:Grokipedia by xAI has just launched with 885,279 articles on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @03:23PM (#45751741)
I don't think this is an accurate comparison. Working on open source software means you are contributing to that software, which yes may be used by for profit companies. This is more analogous to contributing to Wikipedia, which is then used by for profit companies like Grok, than it is contributing to Grok products directly, which cannot be leveraged by other tools in this ecosystem (afaik).
Re:Alibaba Cloud claims to reduce Nvidia GPU use by 82% on Monday October 20, 2025 @12:59PM (#45646215)
Small counterpoint but there are also 2 new players putting out SOTA open source models (Moonshots Kimi and zhipus GLM) so we're still seeing the same number of models overall, just via newer entrants.
Re:Claude Haiku 4.5 on Thursday October 16, 2025 @02:52PM (#45609233)
> GLM-4.6 is great value but still not solid enough for tool calls, not that fast, etc. so if you can afford something more reliable I'd go for that, but encouraging.

Funny you should say that, because while it is a large model the GLM 4.5 is at the top of Berkley's Function Calling Leaderboard [0] and has one of the lowest costs. Can't comment on speed compared to those smaller models, but the Air version of 4.5 is similarly highly-ranked.

[0]https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html

Re:Sysco Is Not "Ruining Restaurants" on Saturday October 11, 2025 @09:44AM (#45549105)
I didn't really follow the premise of the original video. Can you find identical food at various locations throughout the country? Yes. Are you required to eat this same food? No!

You could likely order the things that local restaurant/pub does make in house, rather than go for the variety of items on the menu that are simply there to appease customers' fancies.

Or you could go to a proper restaurant that makes the majority of their dishes in house. You have this choice.

If Sysco and these other companies didn't offer pre-made jalepeno poppers and the like, they simply wouldn't be on the menu in the first place.

Re:America is now one big bet on AI on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @02:33PM (#45506925)
Where do you think pensions were storing the money?

These are two sides of the same coin.

yep. This feels like a feature to me, not a bug. As a mostly reader/follower on these platforms I'm surprised when others compare their engagement metrics, rather than the quality of the engagement on these platforms. Obviously their goals and incentives are different than mine, but the more time I spend on the internet the more I value the smaller communities due to the correlation with quality and topical focus.
geeze we sure strayed far from "legalize comedy" pretty quickly. Here we are, discussing quips like they're a military operation.
> Paraphrased, Kimmel said that the killer was a republican.

He literally didn't though? Why does this mistake keep being made. Kimmel made 0 assertions about the shooter. He did make assertions about the President and his conduct, however.

Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @06:17PM (#45204773)
Best not to speculate on motivations at this time, IMO. It's the most likely scenario given his notoriety, but we don't know anything yet and that's a slippery slope.
Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @06:12PM (#45204720)
this is such a terribly bad-faith interpretation of the parent's comment to the point I'm assuming you replied to the wrong one?
He sounds like the fictional 'Bob' and likely made out like a bandit, assuming he held.

https://www.wealthmorning.com/2023/09/15/648774/meet-bob-the...

going to shout-out ClozeMaster here since I first found out about it on hacker news. Always hated duolingo - it's the gamification triggered to many alarm bells to me.

Clozemaster is much more rudimentary but I do like how they use AI - there's a single button that gives you an AI grammatical summary of the translation and calls out any idioms or grammatical conventions in the target language compared to your native one.

Bought the lifetime license but it's free to use, you just get a limited amount of flash cards a day. If you wait until christmas there's generally a big discount on the lifetime license.

Would you describe this new, lower ranking as censorship?

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