davideg

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by davideg 5mo ago
Do you mean like https://github.com/pulls and https://github.com/issues ? These are in the top left hamburger menu from the Home dashboard (edit: actually on all pages).
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by davideg 5mo ago
EFF has a similar article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/utahs-new-law-regulati... The bottom line: > if a website cannot reliably detect a VPN user's true location and the law requires it to
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by davideg 5mo ago
Ah your comment finally makes me understand the premise of MMT[1], which seems to presuppose that the US will always have this special status. Makes the current administration's geopolitical recklessness even more terrifying. [1] https
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by davideg 5mo ago
Taxes, if not quite the price of civilisation, do give citizens a reason to care about efficient and effective government. Severing that connection, and leaving large chunks of the electorate as mere recipients of state largesse, risks dee
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by davideg 5mo ago
Ah sorry looks like they limit the number of accesses per gift link
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by davideg 5mo ago
Gift link: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/04/16/america-will-co...
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by davideg 6mo ago
The numbers here are staggering: > if run at full strength for a year, Colossus [xAI's new datacenter] would use as much electricity as 200,000 American homes. When fully operational [...] this facility and two other xAI data cente
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by davideg 7mo ago
TIL "lethal trifecta" I'll save you a search: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/
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by davideg 9mo ago
The implication from the LinkedIn post (to my eyes at least) is that they believe they have a case for canceling X Corp's claim to the Twitter trademarks. And then the landing page at twitter.new certainly implies that they plan to sta
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Operation Bluebird Inc files petition to cancel the Twitter trademarks(ttabvue.uspto.gov)
9 points by davideg 9mo ago|4 comments
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by davideg 9mo ago
Came across this on LinkedIn and thought it might interest the HN community. Apparently they've been working on this over the last 2 years. LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michaelperoff_uspto-ttabvue-
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by davideg 1y ago
Brown CS (back in 2004) gave you a choice: you could either take a 2-class intro sequence that started with Scheme and eventually OCaml before moving into OOP with Java, or you could start with Java from the get-go and make cool/flashy
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by davideg 1y ago
This is a really good point, though E911 probably costs the provider something. I wonder if they could offer 911 support at actual cost ($1-2/month).
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by davideg 1y ago
Looks like it's a silly and self-aware play on the word "builder" (New England regional dialect): > Since I’m relatively new to the world of containers and images, I was excited to learn about the Buildah tool. Especially
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by davideg 1y ago
The article gets into this where real Americans do job interviews and if they get a job they can keep 30% of the salary and have to pass off the remaining 70%: > In the IT worker scheme, once someone involved gets an interview, North Kor
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by davideg 1y ago
Are these "techniques" common in legal/decriminalized markets?
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by davideg 1y ago
https://archive.ph/nobcJ
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by davideg 1y ago
I don't believe it's an actual counterpoint to legalization, since it seems solvable with better regulation. I suppose it could be solved with private labs and a more demanding public, however outright lying by private labs muddie
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The dirty secret of California's legal weed (2024)(latimes.com)
4 points by davideg 1y ago|7 comments
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by davideg 1y ago
As someone who knows plenty of folks in the tech/startup world who consume (or consumed) cannabis, I was disturbed to read this.
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by davideg 2y ago
This is really cool! Well done. Like others, I'd love to specify generic things like distance to a "grocery store" or "gym" as part of my initial criteria. I see that I can add a long list of possible places that me
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by davideg 2y ago
The dedicated website is also more informative (though pretty high level): https://www.iceman.it/en/the-mummy/
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by davideg 2y ago
I remember people on HN having a less than favorable sentiment about Mustafa Suleyman: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39757330 Regardless, he's certainly been in the right places to understand AI trends and Gates
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by davideg 2y ago
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values [1] by Brian Christian is a nice overview of some of this history and exploration of some of the pitfalls in different ML approaches. It's really interesting reading it now give
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by davideg 2y ago
Yes and having direct links to sources to validate its answers is a huge benefit given the fundamental limitations of LLMs. Now you can decide if you trust the source material directly.
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by davideg 2y ago
This is a fair point. I can see the excitement around recognizing that mitochondria is alive to motivate exploring its other functions. But I think you're right someone might be interested in that exploration regardless of whether it&#
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by davideg 2y ago
I recognize that you might be motivated to explore removing and implanting mitochondria regardless of whether you consider it to be alive (as you might think about implanting an organ from another source). I think the main point the author
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by davideg 2y ago
> Defining mitochondria as “nonliving” isn’t just a classification mistake, nor a question of word choice. Rather, it is a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature and role of mitochondria. It inherently undermines our understanding o
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by davideg 2y ago
Several folks have already mentioned that ChatGPT with search returns the correct answer to your question (with a source to explore directly). I really think this latest release is a game changer for ChatGPT since it seems much more likely
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by davideg 3y ago
https://archive.is/m1qfh

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