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Re:The Silicon Valley push to breed super-babies on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @12:24PM (#44584093)
Am I missing something… why does this sound like eugenics with extra steps?
Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data on Thursday February 20, 2025 @09:48AM (#43115320)
So it’s okay because he’s rich?
It already underwent some recent shrink flation. I used to be able buy 12oz bags but they’re 10oz now, consumers are getting shafted regardless :D
The website is absolutely awful to use on mobile, archived here for sanity: https://archive.is/qdSIr
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025) on Monday February 03, 2025 @09:01PM (#42926589)
fyi, the resume link is dead/inaccessible
Beyond a points its curiosity and pushing existing computational techniques to their limits. Sometimes it leads to new discoveries in computational techniques or in rarer cases new theoretical work.

Long story short, it’s fun to find out new things about weird numbers :)

Another joins the ranks of Chai Tea, Naan Bread, and Lake Michigan :D
Re:AI Is Ruining the Internet on Monday July 08, 2024 @08:13AM (#40904689)
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Re: on Thursday June 27, 2024 @07:15PM (#40816194)
There’s already regulation affecting SDLC practices in the financial industry (SSDF in the US, DORA in the EU).

Definitely not a stretch for other (“important”) areas to start receiving such attention in the future.

Re:Guess My RGB on Sunday March 31, 2024 @05:52AM (#39882832)
So far I’ve gotten to the end for a few colors. Quite fun, took my about 20-30 guesses!
Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @02:35PM (#38535821)
Sure the customers decided, but what about their relatives? If any of my relatives uploaded their genetic info to this, it by extension has a huge part of my genetic info too, and my consent was decided without my knowlegde...

What I'm trying to say is: I don't think comparing it to equifax is reasonable in that regard.

Re:Video Ads Are Coming to All Your Uber Apps on Thursday June 15, 2023 @08:50AM (#36339724)
I typically associate in-app video ads with C-tier mobile games that are a few steps removed from a click farm. None of those has a home on my device.

I’m glad and feel lucky to live in a city with good public transportation, guess I can go back to the old call restaurant and pickup order method in peace now.

It also seems that they are planning on adding tablets to the cars to play ads? We’ve come full circle to taxis…

Re:Big Pharma Greed’s Knows No Bounds on Saturday January 21, 2023 @04:09PM (#34470562)
What good is a treatment if you can’t access it? If you’re poor enough even food poisoning is “untreatable”.
Re:In case you thought IBM's AIX had a future on Monday January 16, 2023 @02:13AM (#34397810)
Best summarized by this quote from a coworker: “AIX is what you’d get if aliens implemented a UNIX.”

Utilities exist, but they tend to be different.

There’s also oddities like the compiler (xlC) emitting code that is able to dereference null pointers, with the zero page. It’s a valid but odd choice of undefined behavior. [1]

[1]: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/OJwY1pWFYhE

Re:Endless Horse on Friday December 30, 2022 @10:04AM (#34185641)
That’s an average dachshund
Re:Tensorbook on Thursday December 29, 2022 @12:53AM (#34169969)
Certainly, but without knowing the workload that was used for the benchmark it’s a meaningless marketing number.
Re:Tensorbook on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @11:57AM (#34162957)
> up to 4x

Thats not a minimum performance guarantee. They’re talking about an upper bound. It’s possible that the 4x is some niche benchmark.

Re:Sepsis can lead to cell death on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @11:32AM (#34162647)
Perhaps the title could be better worded as:

“New insights into cell death brought on by Sepsis”

Re:Long story short: I wrote a Ruby extension in Zig on Monday December 26, 2022 @02:41PM (#34141027)
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Ask HN: Laid off while abroad on F1 OPT

Hello HN,I'm unsure if this is the right forum but I'm desperate for advice on how to handle this situation:My partner was recently laid off while they're still traveling abroad. They were employed using their F1 OPT (Post completion, they have STEM available still). Their EAD expired in February 2022, is it still possible that they can return to the USA to look for employment? They still have...

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Re:Python type hints are Turing complete on Friday September 09, 2022 @02:16PM (#32782930)
Python's type hints are undecidable. You cannot know, without evaluating the type-level program if it will halt.

The only way around this would be to set a recursion depth, which changes the semantics.

I lost some clothes, sneakers in a duffel bag on my first ride with LIRR from NY Penn. Nothing valuable, but certainly essential. Was told off by the on-duty person to either show them a picture of the bag & items or get new ones lol.
> Some of you mention dislikes help you decide what to watch,” said YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki. “But dislikes were never shown to people on the homepage, search results, up next screen, where users were most likely to choose a video

Well I click the video and back out as soon as I see dislikes approachung likes in quantity.

Was that really so hard to come up with for said CEO?

Re:Ant mill on Saturday January 22, 2022 @05:52PM (#30041622)
Metastability and local maximums are the same.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastability

Bits tend to get squashed moving through bends right? Centrifugal force and all that

/S

Re:Log4j 2.16: Certain strings can cause infinite recursion on Saturday December 18, 2021 @09:07AM (#29604564)
But what if one of the arguments is a function call? Then it isn't easy to prove there are no side effects
Re:Square is now called Block on Thursday December 02, 2021 @01:51AM (#29413279)
What's the next iteration, hypercube?

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