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To meet global demand, the issuer must supply enough currency, potentially weakening its own economy, but restricting supply would harm international trade and finance

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma

mambruon Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google

Something like this? https://athenut.com/

mambruon OpenAI Inc. versus Open Artificial Intelligence Inc.

https://x.com/ylecun/status/1845956992898150855 Before "OpenAI" was a thing, there was "Open AI" (with a space. In 2015, Guy Ravine circulated the idea of an open and collaborative non-profit AI research org. He registered the domain http://open.ai and filed a trademark. Then, OpenAI was created without him...

mambruon Engineer's solar panels are breaking efficiency records

There are heat accumulators.

mambruon 3D + 2D: Testing out my cross-platform WASM graphics engine

Barca -> rowing boat

Barça -> the football club

Barna -> cute form of Barcelona

mambruon Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative

Any plans to add support for git-annex?

mambruon Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative

Does that matter if the signatures are valid?

mambruon Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly

Came here to say this.

mambruon The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps

So far 61 files [0], vs 52k for C, so about 0.1%.

[0]: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Atorvalds%2Flinux++languag...

mambruon Auto industry executives admit electric vehicle plans are in jeopardy

MG is not from UK anymore

mambruon Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy

This is not a tautology but a (not-so-good) measurement of inequality.

mambruon Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy

Via DBus:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/org.freedes...

mambruon Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

How are you getting this? I is it visible to the browser (client)?

mambruon FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones

https://www.engineering.com/story/can-swarms-of-cheap-drones...

mambruon My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do

Sure, it's a desktop with a 35-50W TDP, M2 Pro is around 30W?

I agree M2 is better, but not at 4x the price for 1

My responsiveness is great, and Linux experience for my UC (dev) is much better.

Another comparison link: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5186vs5138/Apple-M2-Pro...

mambruon My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do

Just got a mini pc with AMD, which can hold its ground against a mac mini, but costs ~4 times less (602€ vs 2259€). Comes with 32GB of RAM, 1 TB SSD, and Linux works great!

https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-um773-lite?...

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-amd_ryzen_7_7735hs...

mambruon Wearing an eye mask during sleep improves episodic learning and alertness

Funny, in Germany most "old" houses don't have shutters, from my small sample of living in 4 or 5 German houses. Many people from the south of Europe complain about that when traveling to Germany.

https://www.lasexta.com/viajestic/curioso/que-paises-extranj...

mambruon ChatGPT Hardware: A look at 8x NVIDIA A100 powering the tool

You should probably compare the H100:

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/h100-sxm5-96-gb.c3974

With the MI300, which has 128GB and more compute power (at least on paper):

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-instinct-mi300....

A100 can be compared with MI250, perhaps. It also has 128GB.

mambruon Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?

You mean like worldcoin, by yc's very own Sam Altman?

mambruon Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API

Just when Snort is picking up...

mambruon Merging with diff3: the “three-way merge”

IIRC vscode with gitlens extension shows blame on hover, also for the conflicting lines.