Why “Data” is being discussed
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AI Data Centers Could Erase 15 Years of America's Climate Progress by 2030
by entryleveljobsc · Oct 31, 2026 · 2 points
Metaessen.com is not only a bookmark manager but also a note-taking app. It can manage bookmarks, notes, tasks, projects, ideas, and more. Main features: - Practical and concise…
by lilerjee · Oct 31, 2026
AI dev environment gets its own SSD. The second SSD stays in, but since it's encrypted there's no way to exfiltrate the data unless you're of interest to nation state attackers.…
by revolvingthrow · Oct 31, 2026
I understand your desire to have smaller models that are SOTA, but it may be more difficult than you realize. Think of it this way, a 100m model is like an infant, in fact we ca…
by kalenkilgore · Oct 31, 2026
App Store data linked to you: Purchases Contact Info Contacts User content Identifiers Usage Data
by HelloUsername · Oct 31, 2026
You're technically right, which is why I say "good enough". It's a good strat imo - start simple and get it working with LLMs asap, then you can add heuristics etc based on the…
by ctxc · Oct 31, 2026
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Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "data" over time.
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Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "data" over time.
Data is a collection of discrete or continuous values that conveys information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted formally. A datum, data value or data point is an individual value in a collection of data. Data is usually organized into structures such as tables that provide additional context and meaning, and may itself be used as data in larger structures. Data may be used as variables in a computational process. Data may represent abstract ideas or concrete measurements. Read more on Wikipedia