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beebaween··on Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover
Do you know if there's also been similar research looking into the effects of victims of violence, specifically female rape victims? Having previously been married to a survivor of sexual violence in her teens, I hope similar work is being done to fully understand the gravity of these kinds of events on humans.
beebaween··on Ukraine's $500B rare earths scam:they don't exist, and we should know [video]
The only "rare earths" of value there are the mounds of depleted uranium stuck in all of their previously valuable farm land lol.
beebaween··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
We don't want WW3. I voted for Kamala and I still DO NOT WANT WW3.
beebaween··on Ask HN: Transitioning from FAANG to High-Paying Contracting–Any Advice?
I have a few friends who do this - seems like the biggest hurdle is building a funnel via a personal brand or a connection to a larger org that can get you clients able / willing to pay $150-200 an hour.

How are you currently sourcing clients?

beebaween··on Replace OCR with Vision Language Models
What's the best way to run this is I prefer to use local GPUs?
beebaween··on Bitwarden Authenticator
Do I still have to pay extra to use a yubikey?
beebaween··on FFmpeg School of Assembly Language
I'm kind of stunned we haven't gotten something better / more rust based than ffmpeg?

Especially curious given the advent of apple metal etc.

Does anyone have recommendations?

beebaween··on SVDQuant+NVFP4: 4× Smaller, 3× Faster FLUX with 16-bit Quality on Blackwell GPUs
This is amazing
beebaween··on Show HN: Next.js back end rewrite in Rust
How is this different than something like Bun?
beebaween··on Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger
ahem...

``` The sitting US President is literally a Russian asset. He is directing his team to divide up a country that Russia invaded in a summit that is not including that country, and stealing a half trillion in their sovereign mineral wealth without their consent. Calling their president an incompetent dictator and claiming being invaded was somehow their fault. ```

beebaween··on Ask HN: What dev tools exist today for AI agents?
Very curious about what open source platforms / patterns people are using to structure locally deployable agents projects with.

Seems like there's almost zero standardization or boilerplate for this at the moment?

beebaween··on Tesla's law firm drafts Delaware bill that could salvage Musk pay package
Good - but as a lib myself I expect mass panic / breakdown from the gen public haha
beebaween··on We were wrong about GPUs
This is what services like Vast.ai are for - super cheap GPUs you just use as long as you need etc etc.
beebaween··on Is NixOS truly reproducible?
I've genuinely never really understood the appeal of Nix. I even attempted to use this to build and "maintain" the machines we used at an offsite factory and even then with just a basic electron app, a python installation and very basic mac configs Nix proved to be a complete nightmare.
beebaween··on EFF Sues OPM, DOGE and Musk for Endangering the Privacy of Millions
Kind of like how every single SSN was exposed during the Biden admin?

Look, I get it you don't like Elon but the lazy partisan blows are just kind of last year at this point...

https://www.govtech.com/security/was-your-social-security-nu...

beebaween··on EFF Sues OPM, DOGE and Musk for Endangering the Privacy of Millions
You should see how many resources FEMA and the US Military willingly burns quarterly just to ensure the same funding the next go-around.

I'm liberal and I agree these are problems - but somehow I don't think saving the world is solely America's responsibility. Maybe Europe and well... the rest of the world can take a swing.

That's also assuming all of that money even provably made it to the "intended recipients" which anyone being honest knows likely isn't the case.

beebaween··on EFF Sues OPM, DOGE and Musk for Endangering the Privacy of Millions
I think it's pretty clear those people were doing a bad job of "monitoring waste" lol.
beebaween··on NYC is giving free e-bikes to delivery workers with shoddy or illegal e-bikes
Shameful waste of funds. And I'm sure they'll still ride these tax-payer ebikes at FULL SPEED on the sidewalk recklessly endangering people walking. Many of the delivery drivers barely speak english and don't understand why their actions are dangerous. I'm liberal but very tired of this...
beebaween··on EFF Sues OPM, DOGE and Musk for Endangering the Privacy of Millions
Idk what the issue is here? It's a gov org with access to sensitive info. Sure, if they're selling the data or publishing that's an issue but as long as it's kept internal and used to... reduce waste... what's the real issue?

EFF was a cool org. Sad to see them shilling to waste gov money.

beebaween··on Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills
Somehow, it feels like this is by design. To further numb the brains of anyone who could question, let alone challenge, the gov / ruling elites.
beebaween··on Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting
Frankly I'd be fine using barrel connectors to power my 5090, heck even consider just directly soldering the connection.
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