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worstestes··on Real estate giant China Evergrande will be liquidated
And this isn’t Reddit
worstestes··on The humble brilliance of Italy's moka coffee pot (2018)
Too many sins derived from Italy to keep up with
worstestes··on Show HN: I made a directory to find 100% plastic-free brands
This is fantastic! Just ran into this last week with some gym clothes that I ended up just buying anyways…

How can someone like my support this project? Do you get paid as an affiliate?

worstestes··on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted
Literally no basis for this to actually happen
worstestes··on Costco gold bars are selling out within hours
"Costco's credit card policy is all about saving money. It negotiates a partnership agreement with a single payment network in exchange for much lower processing fees. As part of its current deal with Visa, it pays transaction fees of only 0.4%. By saving on fees, Costco is able to keep prices low."

https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/credit-cards/articles/why-do...

They actually secure a very nice low rate via their credit card policy

worstestes··on Valley Fever Is a Growing Fungal Threat to Outdoor Workers
Yes. We lost our beloved family golden retriever to VF back in 2009. It was a painful experience to see her degenerate, and the cough was something else. I remember treatment costing a pretty penny.
worstestes··on Barstool built an empire by swiping sports highlights
if they can do it to the big players what's stopping them from doing the same to the little guys?
worstestes··on Show HN: A surprisingly effective way to predict token importance in LLM prompts
Very interesting research!

Given that you're using cosine similarity of text embeddings to approximate the influence of individual tokens in a prompt, how does this approach fare in capturing higher-order interactions between tokens, something that Integrated Gradients (allegedly) is designed to account for? Are there specific scenarios where the cosine similarity method might fall short in capturing the nuances that Integrated Gradients can reveal?

worstestes··on Japanese steakhouse in Florida closes after customers test positive for meth
You’d be surprised that this isn’t uncommon in even some upscale establishments
worstestes··on Shopify discourages meetings by shaming employees with cost calculator
How long is the meeting typically?
worstestes··on Founder of crypto lender Celsius Network arrested, charged with fraud
> CZ

hopefully not for much longer

worstestes··on I Will Not Eat the Bugs (2021)
I find this a bit dubious, particularly that a large part of the agricultural industry is dedicated to _feed_ for livestock.
worstestes··on The last day of Constantinople
If anyone is interested in an expansive podcast detailing the history of the Byzantine Empire, check out The History of Byzantium podcast!

https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/

It’s truly in depth and picks up around where Mike Duncan stopped (roughly) after the History of Rome podcast ended.

worstestes··on Brazil develops tropical wheat and predicts self-sufficiency in 5 years
Ah so Russia is a communist country?
worstestes··on This account can no longer post all Tsunami Warnings, Advisories, Watches
FYI, API access has been re-established after discussions with Twiiter
worstestes··on Elon Musk plans artificial intelligence startup to rival OpenAI
Explain what you mean by Tesla already being an AI company?
worstestes··on After 30 years, a father is exonerated in 'Satanic panic' case
I don’t quite understand what you mean by “excessively”, it’s a regional news outlet detailing injustice of a Texan? The backdrop of the story has been covered before.
worstestes··on 60M Americans have taxes so simple the IRS could do them automatically
Ah of course! Let’s get the private sector to make solutions to problems we shouldn’t even have.
worstestes··on Let Teenagers Sleep
Ah yes, Baltimore, the epitome of public transportation infrastructure
worstestes··on Fears of ‘dead pool’ on Colorado River as drought threatens Hoover Dam water
Do you have a source for this? I see light claims online but nothing truly concrete.
worstestes··on Ship of Theseus
I think that while the original composition of the team changes the traditions, attitudes and strategy definitely translates across the different generations of players, coaches and staff. It’d be different if a team was completely cycled through to a new set of members every period of time.
worstestes··on Ask HN: Is there a negative stigma toward articles written in Medium?
I personally block all medium links for my search engine results. The amount of low quality spam content on sites like medium and quora make it not worth the effort to sort through.
worstestes··on Everyone going to World Cup must have this app, experts are sounding the alarm
Where do authorities ask for your phone? Just curious
worstestes··on California pledges to cut use of the Colorado river
Sure, it’s a great idea and I’m onboard… however agriculture uses approximately 80% of the Colorado River's water. Let’s not pretend that personal water use for lawns has nearly as much impact as water demanding crops and inefficient allocation to livestock farms.
worstestes··on Putin grants Russian citizenship to Edward Snowden
We seem to have a constitutional scholar in our midst!
worstestes··on Ask HN: Figma just got bought by Adobe – is Sketch cool again?
Why assume everyone here has an employer?
worstestes··on Soft White Underbelly demonetized by YouTube [video]
“Some” in this case make up over 70% or so of his collection due to sexual content. I think that hits the demonetized territory.
worstestes··on Byte Magazine: The C Programming Language (1983)
Whoa! Love this story. Do you happen to blog? I and I’m sure many others here on HN would be interested in hearing more details about your journey.
worstestes··on Will young Americans want to work in semiconductor manufacturing? [video]
Ah yes, blame labor. If apple, or really any tech/manufacturing company, want a workforce they need to pay for it accordingly. Money talks.

My question to you — do you work in manufacturing? Why or why not?

worstestes··on Last Pass Hacked
While lacking in some features, Bitwarden is a great project!
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