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vld_chk
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Comment #48696164
> now Unfortunately, Europe should had made this conclusion at least 18 months ago, not now. Watch out European politics procrastinate for at least one more year hoping that Trump …
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Comment #48628768
Hm, first time I see that Russian bots came to HN, but here we are. The history of comments of this account is insane.
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Comment #48611638
There is very little doubt that we need to find a way to update our relationship with social media. The evidence of their harm in current form is overwhelming. However, using this …
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Comment #48602801
Anthropic legit builds one the strongest if not the strongest IC team in the history of computational technology. They are insanely stacked on talent, and either we will witness a …
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Comment #48563498
I do not have data, but from first glance, if anything, the overall demand for self-help and self-improvement increases Y/Y. We can correlate it with a sharp drop in alcohol sales,…
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Comment #48534576
In all such discussions, it is interesting to track the tipping point at which public perception of Anthropic shifted. In my mind, as recently as February, Anthropic was considered…
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Comment #48520950
I am not sure we have anything comparable with AI. Utility like electricity was hard to regulate from people because at some point anyone can build their own generator at the backy…
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Comment #48520833
I live in the UK, and as much as I love Europe as place to live, our future here looks very grim. Systematic problems multiplied to national inability to fund serious projects and …
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Ask HN: Did we witness the "Trinity moment" for AI?
I don’t know if it’s just me, but yesterday’s US decision to ban access to the Fable model feels like an epochal shift in the “AI race,” something on the scale of the Trinity test.…
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Comment #48517702
This sounds very cliche, but even if the entire story ends up as another TACO; we are in historical infection point of official government AI race. It is hard to count how many “re…
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Comment #48517555
As European, nothing hurts me more than 100500 phrase in recent years “Europe should stop waiting time and do X”, where X can be anything: semiconductors, AI, manufacturing, defens…
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Comment #48514845
It sounds right, but there is one caveat to me: Training best models is hella expensive. Anthropic spent fortune to train it, and it definitely plans to make a fortune with it eith…
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Comment #48312373
Quite a thing to use Bun rewrite to Rust as example of dynamic workflows, while now it is considered as anti pattern which leads team to stop supporting the tool due to inability t…
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Comment #48134715
If we learn anything from all studies in this field, that is barely possible if not impossible at all, to change people’s mind. Even when they face clear evidence of their own mist…
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Comment #48131171
Anthropic vs OAI fierce competition, maybe, the most intense we have seen in capitalism history. They can’t let breathe each other. One declare free Codex for businesses to adopt, …
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Comment #48124860
This is the case, when author argues about the right thing (you do not need Rust everywhere on every project and in every feature, especially if your team has 0 prior exposure to R…
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Comment #48075410
I genuinely start to think that we, as humanity, severely overestimate our cognitive abilities. We act so surprised “just a few years of LLM with a few RL tweaks match our PhD leve…
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Comment #47798038
This experiment would be really cool, if they would keep location and specifics of the shop low. IIRC when AI mania started, some group of people tried to run AI-managed t-shirt me…
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Show HN: Timelog – C-native, fast, in-memory LSM-style time index for Python
I built *Timelog*, a Python library for time-indexed workloads with a C17 core and CPython bindings. My goal was to make [t1, t2) as first-class citizens and enable fast workloads …
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Comment #47303474
to be fair, it implies nothing about current state of the US economy and likelihood of recession now. Induction conclusion is not the one which suits the case.
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Comment #47123675
By which time should we expect US administration to post a video on X about “good classic” plastic bags and ban in the US any attempt to replace them? :)
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Comment #46721994
In my mental model, the fundamental problem of reproducibility is that scientists have very hard time to find a penny to fund such research. No one wants to grant “hey I need $1m a…
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Comment #46693629
If this is a symbolism, then why 30YR Treasuries are YTH despite FED rate cuts throughout the year?