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Tech CEOs will do anything to reach FAANG market caps and revenue except pay FAANG-level salaries.

You cannot legally remove people from the subway for being insane. If someone is making me uncomfortable by regaling me with conspiracy theories and ethnic slurs, there isn't the clear legal auth…

The subway needs a rich person car. It costs double the fare, but is cleaned more frequently and is free of the screamers/crazy people.

Personally I'd like to see whether img2img works are copyrightable. My understanding is that copyright applies to the human-generated parts of an image. So e.g. In the case of a comic where the a…

> Inference cost are in free fall. The recent optimizations from DeepSeek means that all the available GPUs could cover a demand of 10k tokens per day from a frontier model for… the entire earth po…

> I wish they would have some kind of super strict mode for C or C++ where compilation fails unless you somehow fix things at the call sites to tell the compiler the behavior you want explicitly. T…

Can a TN classification denial result in immigration detention? If so, how can I mitigate that risk? For context, a Canadian woman recently tried to enter into the USA from Mexico and get TN-1 status.…

You're criticizing the prioritization of cost, not the concept of trying to solve for constraints. Engineering is about constrained optimization to meet customer needs.[1] Learning this is a core…

Photographs and other original media are an exemption to the original research policy because otherwise it'd be impossible to get images in articles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

I would assume the bitstream would only contain non-secret implementation details and keys would be loaded at runtime rather than being synthesized into the design. In terms of moving the data over to…

I believe the challenge that FPGAs can address is sociotechnical, because the developer of a crypto library will have much more control over the stack and does not need to trust others. Many high-freq…

Can an integrated CPU-FPGA design (like the ones AMD sells) be a solution to this problem? Point 5 of the paper says: > Modern hardware and software stacks use a very layered structure, with each l…

> Also can we just take a minute to seriously try to imagine the leader of the "Makefile foundation" receiving $2.4M in compensation, and generally burning a lot more money on dead-end &q…

Both of those countries dislike powerful, large corporations because they are a base of power that could compete with the state or party. The Wagner Group comes to mind. But China also did a huge crac…

Have you tried signing up for WeChat? It's nearly impossible to get an account.

If the project has so little impact that they won't bother maintaining it, that's not really job security.

one letter off from the alt-right!

My university was too lazy to introduce automated marking for coding assignments. We have to go in-person to a lab session and demonstrate our code compiling/running to the TA, who asks us questi…

I do competitive debate—which is improv essaying. ChatGPT still isn't up to the standard of tournaments because it just dumps a bunch of irrelevant points, when the hardest part of debate is show…

It's not even the only TUI browser pronounced that way. See: links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser) …

Gift link with video, because a static archive doesn't do the opening video justice: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/science/cuttlefish-camouf... …

I've solved n-queens once before using exceptions to handle control flow. I coded a recursive solution for an assignment, but I wrote it wrong and it ended up printing all of the possible solutio…

Sad to see it's shutting down. The wiki was the most fascinating thing about it to me as a kid with the lengthy recounting of mall sieges.

I've been told it depends on management's goals. If you are a startup (many HN readers are), employee hours are relatively expensive. The goal is to get a product out as fast as possible, an…

Are all probability-based mechanics requiring you to choose how you spend limited resources gambling?

As the original commenter, I live in Toronto, Canada. It's pretty simple: homes are too expensive. One bedroom in an illegal sublet of an eighth of a house can be C$1000+/month. Why would an…

Funnily enough, this was at Toronto Metropolitan University. We have a safe injection site on campus because it's downtown.

A homeless guy shot another homeless guy on my university campus a few weeks ago. It's hard to consider that a school shooting even though it happened on-campus.

In all honesty I just thought I was getting stupider over time. Glad to hear I'm just bouncing around the margin of error.