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If an empire is subject to the whim of individuals acting in their own self interest, which causes damage and destruction to the empire, I think this is the definition of dying? It…

Bike nerd + AI nerd here. The author's observation that all bicycle images face right almost certainly has to do with the convention to photograph a bicycle from the right. From th…

Hi, Co2 levels like that are severely high and will cause you to have a lot of issues. I had some issues with poor ventilation and headaches in my apartment, and my solution was to…

Bravo Garry, net worth $x00m, having the integrity to go after public school teachers.

This rule does not apply in the main trekking areas that everyone goes to. In the areas that few people go to, it isn't actually enforced. The Nepalese government just introduces t…

I've been to Nepal a bunch of times and I usually recommend just passing quickly through KTM to get to where you are going. The dust can be terrible and it is loud and polluted - t…

I worked on a startup experimenting with using gemini-2.0-flash (the year old model) using its full 1m context window to query technical documents. We found it to be extremely succ…

It used to be that the bots had a short context window, and they struggled with getting confused by past context, so it was much better to make a new chat every now and then to kee…

Yes, this is AIMD and it's well formalised and understood.

This is the TCP backoff algorithm, specifically the slow start to find the optimal bandwidth. In your analogy, it would find the optimal amount that a person is willing to reciproc…

I wrote this comment in a response to his second chapter, where he presents criticism of the political role of the company as cynical, and then later where he presents a perspectiv…

I think there are reasonable things to expect from someone's morality calculus. Leaving the country you were born in for moral reasons is a complex and life changing undertaking an…

I don't think he's morally bankrupt. I am disagreeing with his attempt to handwave away a moral analysis of these organizations as 'cynicism'. I think these analyses are really imp…

The author seems like a nice guy, but perhaps a bit naive regarding the efforts big tech companies go to to crush employees ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antit…

The author postulates a few ideas about manners and courtesy, and starts to recognise that business transactions (employment relationships) don't actually care about these things, …

Many countries have financial incentives provided to its citizens to have children. Requiring half of a citizens median salary to be given to a faceless middleman to provide this s…

This is a good article that is critical of narratives around behaviour within organisations. I particularly enjoyed his criticism of the 'morality tale'. The author then postulates…

Under this definition, could any tool at all be considered to produce more value?

I completely agree with this. I think the writing style the LLM produces is an artistic decision made by committee prioritizing for inoffensiveness - what a coincidence that it com…

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I don't quite understand this post. Wouldn't rolling out fiber infrastructure early have been proved to be visionary and made the UK a serious technical force? In Australia, we wen…

Beats giving all the money to the person who says the word 'blockchain' the most.

The title of the post is 'the kind of company I want to be a part of'. This presents a more abstract philosophical question of what one should do and how one should be. I clicked t…

We are working on a similar agent for general AI analytics at https://www.truestate.io/ We have a similar experience where it's shocking how much users prefer the chat interface.

Hi HN, after reading through the comments sections on blog posts about RAG, I was finding a lot of differing views. Many people have had an entirely unique experience trying to imp…