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Comment threads like these are why I read HN comments. Thank you for the insights, both of you.

> I still wonder why some of our key universities in the US aren't building Open Weight Models. I'm guessing the $100m price tag plays a role. Plus the fact that it will be outdate…

https://archive.ph/2026.07.09-085648/https://www.economist.c...

> I think the opposite: I think the frontier labs have good margins on their inference unit costs. Interesting. Good enough to make up for training costs? Also, where can I read mo…

> Good guess. The actual mechanism [...] Why couldn't both these factors contribute to the result of the study?

> enforce right to repair How much would this change Niño surface temperatures, you reckon?

It's a proof of concept that it's possible to etch a neural net into a chip and get massive performance (and efficiency) boost

If performance per watt is 100x better than GPUs (as GP link claims) then I don't think it's a hard sell at all. That's actually a cost reduction that matters.

> But if the growth requires capital (an investment, a loan, or the wealth the founders already have), the situation becomes less clear. How much of the success can be attributed t…

> So he has set up a system that extracts value from others. That's a very negative way to describe buying a share in a company.

> [...] but their coils get saturated at higher RPMs meaning they lose efficiency at highway speeds (which actually affect the range number people car about). This seems like a big…

> Consciousness doesn’t require thinking, it only requires perception. Could we imagine a human being that is conscious but has no sensory input nor any occurring thoughts but is s…

> We literally spend almost all day, every day, thinking about ourselves, in terms of our inner self. > That is consciousness. So thinking is consciousness? Can there be consciousn…

https://archive.ph/2026.05.29-114338/https://www.economist.c...

Writing software for which a full spec is available before you begin — in this case the rules of chess — was an easy problem even before AI.

> Efficiency is about using minimum cpu cycles or minimum memory or minimum network round trip or more generically using minimum/optimum resources to get something done. No profita…

No the assumption is just lower price increases demand

> That said the hardware is great, I run Asahi on another M1 MBP and Linux makes it the best laptop I've ever used. I'm considering going this way on my M1 MBP. Is there anything y…

I wanted to see how well Akademikerpension has done wrt. returns. This graph shows average yearly return from the financial crisis 2009 until 2021 and they are actually the best pe…

Why does everyone seem to assume that there is a finite amount of work available? If all of the sudden it becomes possible to build a B2B company at 10x less cost which can save it…

> [...] instead encourage a wealth tax on hoarding that directly transfers charity from the wealthiest to the poorest (tithe or zakaat). Hoarding of what? Commodities? Should I be …