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I agree that they’re evil and there are legitimate reasons to use ad blockers. But ("But" is such an unwelcomed word here) we need a better business model than ads to support free content cr…

If you live in a developing country and frequently make or receive cross-border payments in currencies other than USD, you’ll understand that's not the case. The fees and compliance burden of tra…

Nice read! Though it feels a bit strange that "I have exceeded the allowed number of requests. (500 times)" when I first clicked the article and I'm pretty sure I don't share the i…

This is the kind of “better internet” I want. Compared with ads, I’d much rather have a 0.05 dollar paywall. But for this to work, the technology has to be built on crypto micropayments. The total cos…

1. Mirror life may be able to evolve catalysts that alter the chirality of non-mirror organic molecules. 2. Mirror chloroplasts may be able to use achiral small molecules to form mirror biological mac…

Managing 1000 biology PhDs is easier than managing 10,000,000 middle school students.

The raw materials for photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation (water, carbon dioxide, and nitrate) are achiral. Maybe mirror lives can start from scratch like our ancestors.

But advertising is the source of funding that many content creators rely on to make a living... Of course I don’t want Meta and Google profiting from mind-manipulating ads, but where is better busines…

This research is way toooo shallow. He really should go check out linux.do or nodeseek.com — token resale economy there is truly breathtaking. Edit: https://vectoral.com/blog/toke…

> They are mostly very aware that they cannot speak freely. That's correct, and as I said that's one of the reasons Chinese people bypass GFW. The last paragraph in my previous comment ma…

"half-priced batch API" kind of thing has been around for a long time.

> Aren't there reasons to avoid the scrutiny that might accompany bypassing the Great Firewall? One of the reasons to bypass GFW is to avoid scrutiny. > Doesn't this create a chilling …

Can't find a single person in a Chinese tech company who doesn't know how to bypass GFW.

Frogs being boiled—public has gotten used to it, even numb.

I'm pretty sure the subtext of what I commented on was that he was surprised. Your friends probably wouldn't go out of their way to ask you why you ordered a takeaway pizza which is uncommon…

Let's just commit that FOSS business is really difficult for LLM industry that depends so heavily on massive financing. Making weights freely available to indie devs, small companies, and researc…

I (a primate) have been using this About for six years. Miss the days when no one had any doubts about this statement.

It *is* a small subset, but I don’t see what’s so surprising. HN is just an ordinary tech community; it’s not surprising for people from any tech company to show up there.

Sorry for the off topic question. Why is "being on hn a long time + working at deepseek" "seems pretty uncommon" to you?

This is getting ridiculous.

As an indie dev, I'm not really in a position to judge Delta's potential for large-scale collaboration. Maybe Delta will end up being great for teams of all sizes. But I really wish they…

Who would take the responsibility of misjudgements then?

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If you feel that my explanation about vaccines as a modern way to defense diseases is intended to offend your self-esteem, go ahead. I don't waste my time on quibbling.

That's a weird self-defense.

There is definitely a relationship. But I personally believe that once the training corpus reaches a certain scale, the returns exhibit diminishing marginal effects, to the point that multiplying the …

> That is its legitimate input. Things that make you healthier are legitimate input, not things that are "natural". Living naturally doesn't usually mean living healthier. From anoth…