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> light-years away from what happened here What? This project is literally an LLM port of Postgres from C to Rust. The name "pgrust" is a hint, if somewhat subtle. There is also ze…

People always say this like it’s a panacea but n=1, I did exactly that for about 5-6 months in 2024 after I quit Twitter and didn’t want to get sucked back in to endless election d…

Holy shit I was 90% sure you were joking. I get called an AI “cynic” but apparently I’m not actually cynical enough to predict how these big AI labs operate. https://www.wsj.com/te…

Would they? To me it feels like we’re past the dreamy early days of the AI boom (in the US) and now investors want to see the tech monopolies actually start building the new cash p…

Based on the HN “realists” I routinely see in comments, I expect it will go something like this: I’m generally pro-privacy, but here’s the hard truth: at my startup, we disabled ke…

Oh nice have things stabilized with models/quotas and Antigravity is usable with the Pro plan again? I was getting a crazy amount of value out of Gemini CLI for “free” on my Pro pl…

The LessWrong/“rationality” crowd gwern is part of like to pat themselves on the back for identifying the trend and resulting harms from super intelligent AI going back decades. An…

Success or failure isn’t judged by how many explosions or dead bodies each side racks up. Def Sec McNamara admits he made that mistake during the Vietnam war when he repeatedly ass…

It’s not “needing to be taken care of”, in your scenario when you go the hospital for your camel injuries and use insurance for medical care (even if it’s fully private paying your…

Unless I’m misunderstanding it’s no different with private insurance in the US. If you are injured and the circumstances vaguely resemble any kind of accident (broken bones, concus…

> YouTube starts shoving AI generated shorts into my feed every time I login > Accidentally click every once in a while or out of perverse curiosity Tech Industry logic: revealed p…

What you’re generalizing as “inverter power sources” don’t have any fundamental technical limitation like you describe. Those limitations are an artifact of the historical default …

> In other recent news OpenAI also greatly cut their model prices, 20% for 5.6 Terra and 80% for 5.6 Luna, to stay competitive. I’ve seen comments on HN saying how bad this is for …

Plus “building up” like Tesla which had many 10x multiples is kinda a different story than a company that started out in the Top 5 by market cap. Sure, there’s a limited float plus…

> … comments that are somewhat relevant to the original post. This is a really common tell for HN bot accounts I find, even when effectively disguised/customized to drop the most o…

> People ... are trying very hard to argue that humans are subject to this via social engineering but it is not the same Thank you, I always hear the "but humans fall for social en…

It’s just a different form of sanitized corporate PR even if the voice is tweaked for the medium. At least traditional bland corporate PR doesn’t try to build up a weird parasocial…

And yet, despite those hypothetical rosy scenarios on paper, tens of millions of ratepayers across different regions in the US are seeing their power bills increase right now , eve…

Yes, the klezmer “default” is minor and upbeat. It’s my favorite example for the “minor != universally sad across cultures” thing since it’s not so “out there” for the Western ear …

I’m not seeing how that’s inconsistent with it being culturally derived? Your brain is still just pattern matching “minor = sad” based on thousands of hours of examples from the we…

It reminds me of those substanceless Veridian Dynamics ads on Better Off Ted.

What would the COVID pandemic market have been before COVID existed, and what information would have been available to steer the market towards a useful prediction? “Will there be …

Substitute “regulating” with “lobbying Congress”

Yes, they would be rightfully arrested for setting off an explosive device in an airport. This analogy ... isn't great.

This is an urban legend. (And made way more sense 15 years ago when smart TVs were just starting to become common and open WiFi without captive portals actually still existed).