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In what sense is there a “concentration of wealth”? Look at any large, highly profitable public company and the #1 owner is probably Vanguard funds.

It would incentivize the wrong things: All else being equal, you want to produce more with less labor and other inputs. It’s a good thing farming needs an order of magnitude fewer …

Sorry, which of those are capital gains rate cuts or tax hikes on workers?

When is the last time either of those things (capital gains rate cuts, tax hikes on the lower 90% of income earners) happened? I think it’s been decades by now.

I don’t think picking a handful of SPEC benchmarks that approximate today’s most common agentic workloads (compiling code, interpreting Python) and then calling them “agentic bench…

I suggest HN add “is lying to you” to the clickbait title filter. LLM’s love that one weird trick to get hits.

Per the excellent Reddit thread linked below, if their analysis had been more thoughtful and careful, they likely would have concluded that Waymos are as safe or moreso than NYC ye…

I think it’s not surprising that a report written by a forthrightly anti-car public interest group managed to screw that up: https://www.openplans.org/who-we-are

Sorry, can you point out the section of that document that justifies the “found to be more hazardous” claim?

More than 3GB of application memory space and more than 4GB overall (including the NT kernel). At that time, this was starting to become a major issue at the high end of servers an…

Yeah, I had forgotten that by the Windows XP/Server 2003 era, the latter was definitely a server product, with XP targeting the workstation world. That still seems weird to me. If …

It was also planned for a world where high-end CPUs were differentiated by their ability to run floating-point-heavy workloads with relatively predictable memory access patterns. T…

I would love to read the Microsoft PM spec for this product. Who in the world were they making it for? Itanium never made it into the consumer-class hardware that was XP’s audience…

“The sky falling” on the global economy would be terrible for China. Domestic demand is being prodded to grow, but the Chinese economy would be in tatters if exports fell off a cli…

Right on. I keep brooding on the idea that maybe LLMs will never get “good at writing” in some Platonic sense, but they will be progressively trained better to create text that a g…

An LLM can’t write a technical article with a strong, clear narrative to save its weights. This is a great example. Why was this article written? What is it supposed to teach me? W…

Why any lobbyists should have 1:1 time with a politician, what are they hiding? For one thing because it’s a right in the First Amendment, there next to freedom of religion and spe…

JetZero’s Demonstrator is on track for first-flight in 2027. The Demonstrator is being built in partnership with Scaled Composites, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman. Scaled Composi…

The difference between the first and the rest is usually blindingly obvious: LLMs are really terrible at crafting their own coherent narrative.

Thanks, that makes your theory much clearer. Whatever the actual net margins, I’m guessing any “80%” kind of figure is calculated as of full utilization of the hardware / capital, …

This article is a great example of the limits of LLM technical writing. Say what you will about—or try to prompt out—their rhetorical flourishes, they can link together a series of…

You’ll note that the comment above was not “criticism” or argument of any meaningful kind. It simply flagged that he was on the “wrong team”.

My understanding is that Anthropic’s massive revenue surge over the past 9 months has been driven by enterprise consumers paying by the token. Do you think that’s wrong?

The more capital Anthropic has, the more compute they can put their hands on and sell at a massive markup for Claude inference. Limiting themselves to the profits from the compute …