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It’s a good thing that Chinese companies have zero expertise in leveraging consumer demand for lower-end tech to develop know-how and catch up with the state of the art from Western-aligned companies …

Procedurally generated game worlds have been a thing since video games started, some of them even garnered some popular appeal, like a lego-looking one about crafting mines or something

Without snark, I believe it just means they’re not making money, likely because people consume less “published media” nowadays

The reasonable interpretation of such a project is not to pump the stock market even higher by getting children to invest their savings into it, but to inculcate the habits of investing over time so t…

Probably doesn't ever need to be completed, just in the works as a reminder every time the aforementioned taxes are floated as an idea

> Calling it a bubble just because the numbers are big is the weakest of financial journalism Yeah, exactly. The current AI investment wave could be a bubble. Or not. If anyone knows, there are mil…

shameless plug (though I don't get a cent out of this, of course): https://blog.vslira.net/2025/03/a-neat-approach-for-sortable... …

Ha! I had the exact same realization on MacOS. Extremely annoying behavior.

> Nobody believes in a free internet anymore. Civil liberties, like elections and liberal principles in general, are unfortunately only popular when the right side (coincidentally one's own) i…

Any particular resource to recommend?

I swear I'm not trolling: do you mind asking them about simply dumping it (in leaded concrete barrels etc) in the deep ocean? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_disposal_of_…

It seems like a great positioning for a software development agency. HN probably leans more technical, so in your place I wouldn't place a lot of weight on feedbacks here (not because people don&…

This last week I've been receiving emails from Embarcadero (I can't recall ever registering on their site, but it's possible that I did in the quarter century I've been online) so,…

I use Anki to study all kinds of subjects, and more than half of the value is processing what I learned (usually with pencil and paper) into good anki cards ("atomic", as per Michael Nielsen…

> Yet, elites who come from countries where their assets are likely to be seized due either to a lack of civil rights or a government with effective regulations tend to use a “concealment strateg…

I've always felt that there's some trade to be done here, with life and health insurers basically giving glp-1 et all for free bc they lower the cost of everything else edit: and then Big An…

Basically any member of a group can unilaterally send all of its text content to a system that understands it in natural language. In light of recent moves all over the world of governments regulating…

I’m writing the following in jest, before anyone takes this seriously, as I assume this kind of correlation has been accounted for. Maybe the causation is reversed: people who go out more are more fre…

he's not wrong, if you can run a open weights model in any cloud, you can very straightforwardly estimate the cost of running the model. considering that these providers either use long-term cont…

while i'm bullish on AI capabilities, that is not a very optimistic observation for developers building on top of it

I've been kind of expecting to see the LLM impact on Google's 10-Q for a while now. Even if LLM queries are just a small fraction of overall internet queries, I suppose they're stealing…

This type of consumption, at scale, is what I imagine will be commonplace in a post-white-collar scarcity world

There's a small note referring to Denmark applying an LVT that is "close to theory", and further down a comment that it comprises roughly 2% of total government revenue. On the linked a…

I'm using exclusively uv for personal projects - and small prototypes at work - and I can't recommend it enough. Uv makes python go from "batteries included" to "attached to a…

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