Oil prices skyrocketed in 2022 and firms such as ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, TotalEnergies and BP earned record profits. But that spurred backlash. Story Published at: March 03, 2023 at 04:00PM
Oil companies hit with backlash after bringing in $200 billion in profits last year
Meta announces big price cuts for its VR headsets
Meta announced a dramatic price drop for its higher-end virtual reality headset, the Quest Pro, and for its Quest 2 headset, rolling out over the coming days.Story Published at: March 03, 2023 at 06:38PM
Show HN: Zipslicer, a library for loading LLM checkpoints on consumer hardware
This is a low-level opensource library I developed for my own use and decided to share, as it makes it possible to process large checkpoints of neural networks without renting high-RAM instances, on a regular PC. It replaces torch.load() with a custom function that produces a dictionary that materializes tensors on the fly. Compared to other solutions it doesn’t require […]
Hacking the Nintendo DSi Browser
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Has Tokenization’s Moment Finally Come?
By CD Read more: CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data Tokenization of real-world assets has been dismissed by many crypto purists for operating under a centralized framework, but new technological advances have migrated the process from closed, permissioned projects onto public, permissionless blockchain platforms. This could offset traditional finance risks and broaden investment opportunities.Publish at: March 03, 2023 […]
Neal Stephenson Says AI-Generated ChatGPT Is ‘Simply Not Interesting’
By CD Read more: CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data Author of science-fiction novel “Snow Crash” says the algorithm-based tool falls short of connecting with artists.Publish at: March 03, 2023 at 07:06PM
ETHDenver Looks Cringey to You Because Ethereum Has an Actual Community
By CD Read more: CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data Like any good punk or hip hop show, this year’s Colorado event for coders will feature events that will “scare away normies,” CoinDesk Chief Insights Columnist David Z. Morris writes.Publish at: March 03, 2023 at 06:25PM
U.S. Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill to Force Crypto Miners to Disclose Emissions
By CD Read more: CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data U.S. Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) reintroduced a bill that would have crypto miners disclose their emissions and see the Environmental Protection Agency analyze the effect mining has.Publish at: March 03, 2023 at 06:00PM
Self-replicating Python using ChatGPT
Story Published at: March 3, 2023 at 06:44PM
Ask HN: How do you get companies to talk to you about their problems?
I do product development for a team that’s creating solutions for life sciences & pharmaceutical companies that work with real-world data. This is a new industry vertical for us, so we don’t have a bunch of existing customers we can go interview to understand what to build. It’s already a reasonably crowded space, but the few pharma teams we’ve talked […]