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mergejoin··on Apple wins bid to pause Apple Watch ban at US appeals court
Within the healthcare sector, Masimo is well-known to use very aggressive legal procedures against their competitors.
mergejoin··on Momentum, a DIY 12-voice virtual analogue polyphonic synthesizer based on TSynth
can someone ELI5 what this can be used for? thanks!
mergejoin··on Auditory illusions with examples from Daft Punk
commenting, in case you figure it out
mergejoin··on Auditory illusions with examples from Daft Punk
would you mind sending a mp3 of that effect? just curious :)
mergejoin··on Do we really need a specialized vector database?
i was _very_ surprised by that number as well. 10s for inference on 300 chars? using an entire A100 GB GPU? that does not make any sense. OpenAI and other companies would NEVER be able to scale to 100s of millions of users if that was the real number, right?
mergejoin··on Compilation of claims/reports of LK-99 replication efforts
this video sent by one of the original authors to the NY Times is the most significant peace of evidence to me: https://vp.nyt.com/video/2023/08/03/110377_1_03superconducto...
mergejoin··on Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
good comparison with the city v.s. house burning!
mergejoin··on Study Finds Wind Speeds Are Increasing, Which Could Boost Wind Energy
thanks for these insights do you have a source we could refer to that explains what you are saying?
mergejoin··on Bullshit Jobs
I'd rather see those people using their time hiking mountains, watching tv shows, doing arts... than go spend their day at a useless job that will make them feel unhappy because of the lack of accomplishment.
mergejoin··on Bullshit Jobs
Berkshire Hathaway has 25 office staff: http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/berkshire-hathaway-omaha-of...

"It's well-known that Berkshire Hathaway keeps a small headquarters with these 25 staffers, who manage some of the most important affairs of this $329 billion company."

I don't think you need that many people to manage $6.3 billions.

Also, I worked at a hedge fund managing $12 billions and we were ~150 (but this is a completely different job than what staffers at Stanford or Berkshire Hathaway are doing)

mergejoin··on Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
Why not learn good programming practices at an early age?
mergejoin··on Update on Taking Tesla Private
Have you considered the possibility that this blog article was reviewed by legal experts before being posted? I don't know of course but that's a possibility.
mergejoin··on StumbleUpon closing after 16 years, accounts can be migrated to Mix
Agreed, it was a great service.
mergejoin··on Konrad Kujau, Who Forged Hitler's Diaries
I found this article very well written and the story fascinating!