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by zirkonit 22d ago
I'm especially enjoying how RAM and SSDs are going down in price.
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by zirkonit 22d ago
Up to 47.
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by zirkonit 1mo ago
Funnily enough, for me AI writing is usually the summarizer rather than expander. I would usually give Claude 2-3x the amount of data in notes, context, braindump etc; when doing person-to-person communication, using AI to _expand_ the cont
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by zirkonit 1mo ago
At some point, the rabid anti-generative AI crowd becomes tiring. This is extremely masturbatory and very intellectually lazy piece of writing whose only purpose is to raise cheers from the same echo chamber an author is in.
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by zirkonit 3mo ago
But, but, how does the pelican look?!
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by zirkonit 4mo ago
Based on the name, he's either Ukrainian running away from the war, or Russian, running away from being complicit in the war. Shitty situation to be in either way.
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by zirkonit 5mo ago
Necessary context for someone probably being more detached from US politics: Former FBI Director James Comey — fired by Trump in 2017 and one of his most prominent critics ever since — was indicted this week by Trump's Justice Departme
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by zirkonit 5mo ago
A comment based on the reading of the title that could only be conceived if the commenter didn't bother to click the article at all.
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by zirkonit 5mo ago
An uncalled-for ad hominem that serves to quickly devolve the discussion in opinionated ragebait.
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by zirkonit 6mo ago
In consumer space, 69 KB of RAM (138 x 4 kbit chips) would cost around $1700 70s dollars for the entire package, ~$10k in modern dollars. Radioationed hardened for space though — $50k-$100k in 70s dollars, roughly the price of a Silicon Val
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by zirkonit 1y ago
David Bowie was always the pioneer with regards to the Internet. Launched his own ISP in 1998, probably the first mainstream musician with a website (in 1994!), first concert streamed in 1997, etc. etc.
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by zirkonit 3y ago
Location: Belgrade, Serbia -> San Francisco, US (in a couple of months) Remote: Maybe Willing to relocate: Yes, within US Technologies: Python, some Javascript, basic machine learning, people management, product management, sc
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by zirkonit 3y ago
If Apple, another big player in the BSD ecosystem, were to donate their December operating profit to open source, that'd be a game-changing $10 billion a year! Shoutout to Tarsnap, who's already doing awesome stuff like this.
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by zirkonit 3y ago
According to GPT-4, an equivalent APL one-liner is: (⊢⌷⍨∘⍋∘≢¨)↑1<≢¨⊢⌸(⍋⊢)¨⎕NGET'/usr/share/dict/words'1
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by zirkonit 3y ago
An example of a novel with this plot ... created by ChatGPT-4. Title: The Age of Eclipse In a world where artificial intelligence is on the brink of revolutionizing every aspect of human life, a group of powerful capitalists conspires to tr
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by zirkonit 4y ago
It's a cultural thing. Chinese (and many more Asian nations) work so well in 10,000, and sometimes, it feels more natural to me as well.
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by zirkonit 5y ago
Very conspicuous list of available countries. Both English and non-English, from the most rich to some of the poorest and non-digital countries in the world, both democratic countries and brutal absolute dictatorships... yet the absentees a
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by zirkonit 5y ago
Long overdue.
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by zirkonit 5y ago
> Among those people, there’s either a group of three who all know each other, or a group of three who have never met. Or a group of three who have never met. In your example, B, F and D have never met.
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by zirkonit 6y ago
Absolutely! By any definition, the pinnacle place to work for in Russia.
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by zirkonit 6y ago
Another one: Yandex (disclosure: the company I work for) is using one of its datacenters to heat the entire town it is in. Proof: https://helsinkismart.fi/case/waste-not-want-not-data-center...
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by zirkonit 6y ago
Most successful startups have less than 50% founder economic equity, some - FAR less. It's the capital holders who primarily profit from your work, whether you're an entrepreneur founder, or a salaried employee.
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by zirkonit 6y ago
You are absolutely right! Everyone, from the most hardcore Marxist-Leninist leftists, to "don't tread on me"-style libertarians, would agree there is absolutely no difference how rich rich people are if there is less poverty.
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by zirkonit 6y ago
Chinese Communist Party has over 90 million people. Would you be okay if I had dismissed some company outright because it is a "Lutheran asset", "Turkish asset" or "White American asset"?
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by zirkonit 6y ago
I'm sorry, but I believe this kind of fearmongering and hidden xenophobia is not welcome on Hacker News.
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by zirkonit 6y ago
First off -- the author has done an amazing tutorial, it's very enjoyable, so I am by no means throwing a shade. But a week of TPUv3-128 is anywhere between $10k and $20k in TPU costs alone; saying that this is an "at home" k
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by zirkonit 6y ago
Cardiac valve procedure at Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Redwood City Medical Center - $458,254.00 cash price. Oh my. I get it that it's an expensive procedure, but OH MY.
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by zirkonit 6y ago
I presume, Principal Variation Search ( https://www.chessprogramming.org/Principal_Variation_Search )
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by zirkonit 6y ago
To add even more insult to the injury, the only laptop with 9900K you can currently buy in my market is a gaming monstrosity 3.5x more expensive AND 3.5x heavier than M1 MacBook Air.
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by zirkonit 6y ago
To provide a bit more nuance to my snark - out of 8-core Intel Core i9's currently sold in laptops, in multi-core Geekbench 5, M1 loses to 9900K by 18%, beats 9980HK by 13% and 9880H by whopping 20%. In single-core, it is single fastes

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