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40,765karma·16,215submissions·June 22, 2018
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??? The same market that is paying for Codex or Claude Code, if Meta offers competitive services.
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Hide My Email isn’t particularly related to apps. You can use it on any web form that asks for your email address, or as the sender of any email message you send using Apple Mail.
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It depends a bit on the market. Firefox still has 15% desktop market share in Germany, only at second place after Chrome.
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Isn’t the RTX 6000 Blackwell Pro Workstation over $13000 now?
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Because coding appears to be the most monetizable use of AI, for some time to come.
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From the article: > Forced data labeling with 4,500+ engineers is to generate high-quality RLHF I doubt that you get high quality from forced reassignments where the now-data labelers don’t actuall…
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The site hides its content after a few seconds when using an ad blocker (on mobile Safari), showing a modal prompt asking to disable the ad blocker. Of course there are ways around this, but at that p…
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It’s necessary for erasing cat pixels.
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You don’t need to backport other people’s fixes. You only need to re-merge your patches into updated versions of the upstream (aka vendor branch), which usually is straightforward. Maybe you mean that…
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Unfortunately the traffic noises don’t make this very relaxing.
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It had already been announced end of May that there would be a change: https://www.hetzner.com/pressroom/standardization-and-price-... …
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Unfortunately, humans want houses and cars and vacations and such, which makes them very expensive. ;)
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And OpenShell: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
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How do you set up the sandbox without having downloaded anything from the internet? I guess there’s still places where you can buy Linux CDs.
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Why would you personally need the entire internet to receive a fix?
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I'd take Steve Ballmer over most of the current big-tech CEOs, to be honest.
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The parent alludes to the fact that the sentence could conceivably be read as "In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust [the machine]", i.e. reading "adjust" as transiti…
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I was referring to the claim that they couldn't phone someone to pick them up.
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It constantly varies.
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Also: 102. One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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The context was “Everyone does use the internet for everything today” and “most people don't even realize how the internet is running literally everything”. You don’t need the internet for your p…
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The cellular phone network doesn’t require the internet to work.
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> Any long-winded answer to a question is immediate out and has been for years. That’s a bit ironic, given the typical output of LLMs.
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I don’t think that’s it. AI mobile apps support voice conversations. And low literacy is rather a motivation for using AI to generate and summarize text.
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Because dropping a table effectively requires an exclusive lock on the table during that whole operation, affecting parallel transactions.
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Classic is based on votes from older accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists It tends to filter out trite topics and lower-quality submissions, though I have the feeling that it …
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Businesses are started without VC capital all the time, especially outside of the US and SV circles.
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He probably signed advertising contracts.
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It’s a crutch, it’s rarely as good as from an experienced translator or native speaker, and often distorts the original to some extent. It can be the lesser evil when someone doesn’t know the language…
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It’s appalling that it is at the top of the front page. (Edit: At the top of https://news.ycombinator.com/classic , at present.)…