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I mean, he left Palantir over a decade ago and now he’s supposedly retired (again) - I bet he’s pretty chill about it these days.

If "inference is cheap," why is OpenAI spending a ton getting Broadcom to design custom AI chips that make inference cheaper? Reports suggest their custom silicon isn't all that go…

Two other similarities: they both rely on burning huge amounts of electricity, and have driven up costs of GPUs around the world.

This is a good take. The most effective combination of AI and skilled practitioner is using AI to amplify the abilities of the skilled practitioner. And in particular, max benefit …

I’ve also heard it being called “comprehension debt,” which I like a little more because I think it’s more precise: the specific debt being accrued is exactly a lack of comprehensi…

Vimwiki?

Unless you have a “every commit must build” rule, why would you review commits independently? The entire PR is the change set - what’s problematic about reviewing it as such?

Skills are part of the repo, and CLIs are installed locally. In both cases it's up to you to keep them updated. MCP servers can be exposed and consumed over HTTPS, which means the …

Oh man, Turbo Pascal was my first "real" programming language -- it was all various flavors of BASIC before, and mostly toy projects. The developer experience with Turbo Pascal (by…

The use of XML as a data serialization format was always a bad choice. It was designed as a document _markup_ language (it’s in the name), which is exactly the way it’s being used …

And do what? Leave the ducting, pipes, and electrical lines exposed for the one time in 20 years you need to do something with them? In addition to being much more attractive than …

As you might expect from the description -- largely passed on via contaminated water -- the guinea worm is mostly present in areas of extreme poverty. Even if such a treatment were…

It’s probably even more pronounced, since it’s unlikely that someone is going to _average_ 180bpm for their entire workout, especially as they get older.

The auto-attach flag isn’t a huge deal, since it’s a one-liner that can be statically documented and the fix works in all cases. The bigger issue is the JDK / runtime team’s stance…

Just shy of $600K in 2022, based on data from IRS and BLS: https://smartasset.com/data-studies/what-it-takes-to-be-in-t...

It's available (usually as an optional feature) in lots of languages where dependencies are linked statically. The most standard terminology I'm aware of for it is "dead code elimi…

Lets you define queries over some data set declaratively, and instead of recomputing the query over the entire data set every time you want an updated answer, it uses Differential …

Every time I see a "X: a [new/better/best/modern/postmodern/blazingly fast] Y" post on HN, I just know it's going to be written in Rust

"I wouldn't use a gun that sounded like that" - me to my wife just about every time we watch an action movie

Unless the purpose of the game is educational, I don't think it's incumbent on them to educate their players about anything. Just like I don't expect everyone who sells something a…

At a basic level, yeah. It gets hairy when you dive into timeout handling and dealing with errors in reconciliation, across multiple gateways. tl;dr: there is no easy part

> They also moved all of my recurring charges to my new card (somehow.) If you're curious about how this works, read up on "Visa Account Updater".

The most impressive part to me is how much snappier it is than Photoshop running locally on my machine.

But also > You can paste source code directly into your Markdown document without any changes, and it will appear as expected in the rendered HTML. That’s my doing. In that sentenc…