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Can someone who works in commercial web dev explain how companies even end up with this much crap pulled into their websites?

The averaged-over-usage-lifetime software quality for things like cars or video games is worse today than it was before OTA updates Arguably the peak quality after a few months/yea…

> EU funding brought fiber to my farm area Yes, boondoggle subsidies allow you to un-economically bring fiber to a subset of random places. I say this as the beneficiary of one suc…

> the very architects of AI are the people whose jobs are most easily automated by AI Think very hard about what this implies for the future pace of AI R&D

There's a company in Austin that uses sound for drone localization, although I forget the name

ZFS makes this completely trivial except for the "beeps and lights a led" part

FYI it looks like some of your comments are getting auto-flagged by the HN moderation system and marked as dead

99.9% of normies have a router NATing all their traffic It takes active effort to expose a camera publicly

Very exited about WASM/WCM as a portable format for capability-secure applications. I had a spec file sitting around for an OS project idea I had, where the kernel would just be th…

I'm curious if people have a good story for why WASI will succeed where Java failed

The entire US lunar effort cost only $330B in current USD, commensurate with the amount AI companies have raised on private markets alone , and there was also a cold war

> Solstice (100k NVIDIA chips, currently spec'd to be Vera Rubins) in the next five years Is this supposed to be impressive? Five years for the equivalent of, what, Colossus 1? Wha…

EU countries continuing to ensure the conditions for their future economic competitivity

> i wish govt would fund these labs and make it free and opensource. It would be impossible for the govt to allocate this much capital towards such a moonshot, and even if they cou…

That would be a valid explanation if they hadn't totally oversold and underdelivered on "apple intelligence". In reality, this explanation is just cope

Apple has completely dropped the ball on every single detail of AI rollout for the last 5 years - why do you think they will suddenly stop now? My prior is that the new siri stuff …

Isn't the entire point of this order to prevent filling low-paying jobs with cheap foreign labor, in order to increase demand for domestic labor? "Rural district schoolteacher" sou…

> By the end of next year you’ll be running most of your AI on device. I expect I'll probably keep paying for whatever badass high IQ model is running on inference servers at that …

> If you believe it is dangerous, you should be dedicating yourself to STOPPING others from making it I don't think anyone has been more successful in promulgating AI safety There …

> It is not illegal, at this point in time, for teachers to oppose AI for political reasons. No, but that would make it a "political coalition thing", which is why I asked

Yes the a priori most likely reason for the TU to be "against AI" is political. If you know much about TUs this is pretty obvious

> Yeah, I work at a CSU and the Teacher's union is against AI. Is this a political coalition thing or is there a real teacher-related reason they don't like it?

> Where's the trillions, or hundreds of billions worth in improved quality of life? Starlink and Claude are both awesome and huge QoL improvements for me!

You don't need to make this judgement; it's fixed by the colorspace you're working in. First, figure out what colorspace the processing needs to happen in. Usually this is linear R…

> there will be hardware capable of running frontier models The current frontier? Sure. The frontier then ? No - obviously that frontier is going to keep consuming available datace…