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Technology is a fickle thing. The first production passenger car was created in 1886. The model t came out in 1908. We have had cars for 150 years, but that doesn't mean that they …

It is worth the exercise to honestly assess the maintenance, initial costs, ongoing costs, etc etc for owning your own. I did this at a company for a single server to let the ml gr…

I have no idea if this is true or not. If it is it shows a new level of incompetence for Hegseth and the current administration and clear hypocrisy in their messaging of 'america f…

Quantity of regulation isn't the point. It is quality. The right regulations are the right regulations. They mitigate risks and can encourage innovation. 'too much/too little' argu…

I remember using muni tokens in SF. It was great and I often had a stockpile of them so that when friends/family visited I could give them out to help them get around the city. Car…

No comment on the points you made, but thanks for the article No One Goes to War Over a Solar Panel' was a good read.

A lot of people have a lot of concerns with AI, its capabilities and with how it is used now and what it will lead to in the future. For good reason. But the question is, do we hav…

Agreed. It is a hard job. Decisions like this make sense but likely need to be reevaluated regularly based on how the world is changing.

This is like US healthcare. Almost nobody in US healthcare starts of evil. Almost none of the processes start with a clear evil intent. The problem is that the only real reward is …

The 737 max is a great example of the rut we are in. In order to put more efficient engines on they needed more ground clearance. This has been the issue with 737 forever and why t…

I wish them all the luck in the world. Aviation is in a massive rut and needs bold new designs and innovation. That being said, what makes this company different from the others th…

There are times where the intent is to rapidly shed energy and systems/procedures designed for that (spoilers, speed breaks, slipping the aircraft). I suspect though that implement…

If 'distillation' means training on outputs then what is the legal concept of ownership of outputs? And, more broadly, is this something that could be skirted by doing it in differ…

That is my problem. What can you trust anymore? Is there an appliance out there that can do the basics and not be a malware gateway?

Honestly I have nothing but anger for all parties involved here. We need to treat any appliance as hostile. Vote for people that will stop this stuff. Don't buy it. This is digital…

Finding a different way of thinking about a problem often leads to a breakthrough. This is what an ecosystem in nature shows us, that diversity matters in finding hard solutions. I…

You prepare for the 9.0 earthquake that can happen once in 500 years because it is a 9.0 earthquake and if you haven't prepared your society is dead, not because you think it will …

It isn't about storing the data you send/receive. It is about having a model live through millions, or billions, of tokens doing the job. The current state becomes very important. …

So, I've been working on infinite context models (think fixed size state with a few tricks) and I think this will eventually lead to a kind of lock-in by vendor. I think it will ge…

I think there is real value in going smaller/limiting resources. The trend is 'just make the weights bigger and throw more data at it'. It is a MBA's view of winning. We have a kno…

It may seem extreme, but we need laws about digital breaking and entering/assault that cover things like this. It is being done specifically to harm you and without your consent or…

I generally think AWS is better than GCP and azure, but them not allowing spending caps is a big worry source for me and something that has made me pause and rethink using them. A …

Hmmmm... I wonder if there is a caesar cipher font or other substitution cipher fonts out there to actually obfuscate the data. So you use this to display to a user text but the un…

I see a future HN post about how someone vibe coded HN to filter the AI stories. HNAI (Heck No AI)