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Having grown up in Dallas, I usually just say "Texan" and call it a day.

I have been struggling with the same thing. Reading the other comments make me agree with you even more. The best I can come up with is two fold. First that humans will have jobs v…

There is a comment in the intro of that book about the pinnacle of human labor being the simulation of consciousness. Very prescient for being written in the 60s.

Completely agree. All of the pieces are there and it's just waiting to be acted upon. I haven't seen any of the major players really doubling down on this, but would be so compelli…

I’ve felt the same way. It’s so inefficient to have two patterns - OLAP and OLTP - both using SQL interfaces but requiring syncing between systems. There are some physical limits a…

Have there been any updates to Claude 3.5 Sonnet pricing? I can't find that anywhere even though Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now at the same price point. I could use 3.5 for a lot more if…

One thing I have not seen commented on is that ARC-AGI is a visual benchmark but LLMs are primarily text. For instance when I see one of the ARC-AGI puzzles, I have a visual repres…

I think this is a key argument in how powerful AI can become. We may be able to create incredibly intelligent systems, but at the end of the day you can’t send a computer to jail. …

When steam and coal engines gave way to gas and electric engines in factories, it took decades before factories were reconfigured to adjust to the smaller sized engines that didn't…

I wouldn't be surprised if the slowest part of the system is the API call to a legacy warehouse management system that takes several seconds to respond to get the next bin to targe…

I've felt this way and have started celebrating inputs - the work involved in building something - rather than outputs (the sale, the deployment, etc.). Once it closes or the deplo…

I think the compelling difference is truthfulness. There are certain people / organizations that I trust their synthesis of information. For LLMs, I can either use what they give m…

After a recent 3 week driving trip through Europe, I can anecdotally back this up. It’s not even the manual transmission, but also the much smaller roads with no shoulder where at …

Agreed. The same data privacy argument was used by people not wanting their data in the cloud. When an LLM provider is trusted with a company’s data, the argument will no longer be…

I think this is where it's going. Particular Mastodon servers will provide certain guarantees to their users and about their users. It's easy to envision a white-glove server + ser…

I agree that taxation is part of money’s value, and there are also other factors. If money is backed by a commodity (i.e. gold) then part of its value comes from the value of the c…

I know nothing about optics. What is the effect that causes the 6 or 8 points of light of come off of bright objects? Does it have to do with the hex-shaped mirrors on JWT?

I’d like to understand more about the perception that the Economist is a liberal publication. I’ve heard this before and it’s hard for me to reconcile this view with the articles I…

A couple of months ago I stopped checking the news except for once a week, and found weekly news summaries from the Economist to be extremely helpful. I found that I was more relax…

I am teaching my 10 year old Python using Nano, and he’s picked it up surprisingly quickly. When I wanted him to upgrade to VS Code, he preferred the terminal! Nano’s a great produ…

At first I thought “all the female words must be in some other language”.

> they bolt it onto Postgres I am working with a company that is redesigning an enterprise transactional system, currently backed by an Oracle database with 3000 tables. It’s B2B s…

Reading through these posts, I had exactly the same thought. Why not have a language that takes the problems with SQL and abstracts them to something that is more easily organized …

Side question - do you need to reach a certain level of membership with HN to see the downvote button? I may be missing something, but seems that's only allowed for certain individ…

I have worked with several companies that have their infrastucture on AWS but consider BigQuery or Snowflake for the serverless model they provide. This brings RedShift much closer…