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Re:Astra for Law on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:32PM (#49746107)
Just a few years ago people were paying 400k for pictures of apes. We always make up new stuff to spend money on.
Re:.name Termination on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:49PM (#49553012)
I really think ENS is on to something with blockchain based domain registration and management
Re:Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI on Monday August 17, 2026 @01:19PM (#49334453)
I made a completely free 100% on device translation app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/arda-translate/id6778970560 and hard to image a world where TTS and STT will not be done locally in the future
Re:It's getting harder to focus every day on Friday July 24, 2026 @05:39PM (#49041925)
As a fellow ADHD.. increase your threads... while the agent is working on one thing, prompt another thread to work on another project. Keep a bunch of them in the air at one time. But make sure you are still interested in what you are building. If you don't think what you are building is important coding agent or not it's going to be very hard to do that thing.
Right now I am just restricting it to devices with 8GB RAM. I plan to start testing older phones soon to see if I can get it running well on them. MoE with low active params is interesting. I wonder if there is smaller models based on specific pairs (En/Es, ect.)

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Don't forget George Lemaitre, Catholic priest and formulator of the Big Bang Theory.
Is this for real? I have never heard of a catholic school teaching fundamentalism like this. Not saying it doesn't exist, but would have to be pretty fridge.
with socks?!
Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:37PM (#24900345)
Well argued point. However, I would counter that we should not do evil in the pursuit of good.

Let's find another way that does not limit free speech. It will be a harder solution to find sure, but the converse is too dangerous and nuanced to be implemented. It also gives social media companies undue influence over our democracy.

Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:07PM (#24899912)
If it is truly foreign influence, then it is on the FBI/DoJ to do the investigation and publicly declare it as such and order it to be taken down.

Social Media companies are not equipped to make that distinction and should not do so.

Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:56PM (#24899771)
It should not be the job of the social media companies to be judge and jury for truth. Let the people decide for themselves what is true and false.

Basically the social media company argument is... we think people are too dumb to figure out what is "real" or not so we are going to censor. That to me is an extremely damning view of the common person.

But then, everywhere on the platform.. "make a plan to vote". So you trust people to vote but don't trust them with the unfiltered information so they can inform themselves without outside intervention?

Re:Captcha.nsa.gov on Monday February 03, 2020 @02:12PM (#22227786)
A potential vector would be to potentially load images/content through google image/AMP and make it appear as legitimate NSA content
Re:Economists Are Rethinking the Numbers on Inequality on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @10:17AM (#21702837)
Why when we talk about inequality we never talk about the tide of economic progress that capitalism produces.

If the rich get richer but the middle class has a better quality of life than what the rich had 200 years ago, is strict inequality still the only thing that matters?

Re:People Recognize Objects by Visualizing Their “Skeletons” on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @03:14PM (#20943661)
Reminds me of Plato's theory of forms
I am really impressed with 18F and how the federal government has really stepped up their game on the digital/open source front.

It does make me wonder though if the usage rights of these projects should be restricted to use by US taxpayers though since that is who is ultimately paying for this work.

Re:$1T is leaving Britain because of Brexit on Monday January 07, 2019 @01:35PM (#18848376)
More immediate access to information leads to more direct democratic pressure on legislators. This is not necessarily a good thing.
Is there any type of encryption between the car and the key? Or are the signals always constant?

Could you just record the relay signal and play it back whenever, essentially replicating the key?

Re:The Antique Cannabis Book on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @11:01AM (#15696153)
Yeah, maybe I phrased my comment wrong. By "modern" I mean "contemporary" meaning the loaded words are only effective on people contemporary to the speaker who grasp the hidden context behind the words.
Re:The Antique Cannabis Book on Thursday November 09, 2017 @04:21PM (#15665965)
unrelated side note... I think this is a great example of how much we use loaded language in rhetoric.

you turned "cannabis" to "plant matter" and "beat your wife with a stick no bigger than your thumb" to "domestic violence".

It's also amazing that this rhetorical technique is only useful to a modern audience that has been conditioned to associate certain feelings to the words.

Not disagreeing with your point, just thought it was interesting.

Re:The Unfortunate Fallout of Campus Postmodernism on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @11:14AM (#15542166)
Can someone explain to me why this was flagged?
Re:It's Never Too Late to Learn Guitar on Monday August 14, 2017 @10:12AM (#15008660)
As someone who learned guitar recently in my late 20s, I can say don't overlook basic theory and the value of soloing/coming up with melodies.

For me, the creation aspect helped keep me interested. A lot of the beauty of programming is creating new stuff. If that's what you love about programming, try to create your own music as soon as possible.

You may want to start on ukulele first (4 strings/requires less pressure) to get the concepts down and start creating your own music faster.

Also the collective goals of humankind have changed. We can't measure past civilization "progress" on our metrics of progress today. They weren't trying to "progress" in the ways we are progressing today.
Re:Ask HN: What are the 5 websites you visit almost daily? on Thursday July 27, 2017 @06:16PM (#14870136)
- hacker news

- github

- facebook

- chess.com

- jira

Re:Pharo – Quuve on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @05:48PM (#14756994)
I have a headache from looking at the screenshot. Don't you think the UX could be a bit more streamlined?
I just realized there is more than one address, entering them all in
Re:Elementary proof that e is irrational on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @12:28PM (#13168597)
Does someone have a link to the notation to decipher this?
Here is one article on the subject. I am sure there are more out there. http://www.lifeinnorway.net/2013/03/have-the-norwegians-got-...
Yes, Federal jobs should have been moved from cities to fill those lost. Norway did something similar.

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