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Do Zuck or Altman have charisma? (Jobs I'll give you.)

Neither Mythos nor Gemini are open-weight models (right?) so I'm not sure what model(s) this is actually referring to.

> chronyism (not sure of that spelling) Since you mentioned you weren't sure: it's "cronyism", no 'h'. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cronyism This is despite having an…

Yes. From the release notes: 2002-06-17 (2.5.0), "Parse (but do not implement) foreign keys." At one point there was also a tool which would generate trigger rules to enforce forei…

Armadillo Aerospace was Carmack's own rocket company. And tbh I'm not sure it was ever a plausible contender for commercial success, more like Carmack wanted to play with rockets. …

Surely satellite collision avoidance is not based on visual checks? I would assume it's a combination of globally shared known trajectories plus radar tracking stations.

They store energy but there's a limit to how quickly you can get that energy out, hence a limit to power. And I suppose you can kinda talk about them "storing power" in the sense t…

What makes it "production grade"? How are you defining that?

Taxis (and Uber etc) also take up space on the road when they only have their driver and no fare paying passenger on board, so I don't see that a Waymo is any worse than that. Both…

In type system theory I think what you're looking for is "effect systems". You make the type system statically encode categories of side-effects, so you can tell from the type of a…

You might be referring to a different period, but I'll note that the anti-war protests in early 2003 (immediately before the invasion of Iraq) were quite literally record breaking.…

It may have in the future. Crubit is one effort in this direction: https://crubit.rs/

For one of my projects my server needs a private key, and it reads this from a file descriptor on startup and then closes the fd. The fd is set up by the systemd unit, which is als…

I don't doubt you're correct about the incentives, but one point seems amiss... > If there's any, even the slightest, chance that buying from a business might one day reflect badly…

If you scroll down slightly you get a low contrast button "○ PREFER STILLNESS? READ AS PLAIN TEXT →", which takes you to a plain text version with a rather patronising introduction…

Assuming that you are the author of Emissary, this could be a Show HN, I think. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Absolutely. I think some of these people need to be reminded of the Bill Gates' quote about lines of code: “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircra…

The graph I see in the article displays a single data point per year. You're not going to see seasonal variation in a graph with that resolution. Is there another graph that I miss…

Oh, ok. I misunderstood - I think we agree.

It's not a false choice - "Trust" and "don't trust" are both perfectly viable options. The editor works fine in restricted mode, you just won't have all your extensions enabled.

Yes there was, Asimov added it in Robots and Empire. "Zeroth Law added" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics#:~:text...

Is crawling really solved? Any naive crawler is going to run into the problem that servers can give different responses to different clients which means you can show the crawler so…

Looks like I was probably wrong about this. There are a lot of "doom running on a vape" videos on YouTube - very easy to find, that's what search is for - but the best primary sour…