Analemma_

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by Analemma_ 6d ago
Unfortunately the selection effect here means that the remaining employees are gonna be super committed to thinking Flock is a good thing for the world, and will double-down on being defensive and angry any time Flock is challenged.
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by Analemma_ 8d ago
I don't like this and I wish it weren't true, but I think the period of "information wants to be free" is coming to an end, it was a relic of a bygone era. Increasingly, making your information free means you're the
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by Analemma_ 10d ago
> It bugs me that the Fed has no mechanism to really deal with supply-shock driven inflation. I mean, what would that actually look like? The Fed is insulated from democratic accountability, for very good reasons, but flipside of that is
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by Analemma_ 10d ago
I mean I could believe that there are some tasks which can't be done at acceptable performance until AI resembles something like Commander Data, I just don't think being a software PM is one of them.
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by Analemma_ 10d ago
Why do you think it requires general intelligence? The parent and I aren't being obtuse here: the history of artificial intelligence research is littered with examples of humans confidently declaring that task X requires general intell
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by Analemma_ 11d ago
I want agents to be able to act on my behalf, that’s the entire point. An agent should be able to do anything I can do sitting at my browser.
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by Analemma_ 11d ago
Micropayments would solve all the problems except for the problem that people absolutely loathe micropayments. Like, vein-popping furiously hate them. Whenever the topic of micropayments for internet content comes up, a bunch of people star
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by Analemma_ 11d ago
Yes, every time people get grumpy about modern architecture and look over to see if I agree I tell the story about how I used to work at a company in Boston which moved from a beautiful 19th century building to a soulless Modernist steel-an
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by Analemma_ 11d ago
I think the parent is overselling it when they say "AI hype has evaporated". Nvidia is still trading high because they're still selling shovels in the gold rush, and the frontier labs are still trading high as well. What is
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by Analemma_ 12d ago
I mean, we very clearly do not support the freedom of the Iranian people. We deposed their democratically-elected leader in the 50s in favor of someone more pliable to Western interests, and when they rose up against their current governmen
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by Analemma_ 12d ago
HL:A is incredible, and I think it's still the best single-player VR game ever made, but it's almost seven years old now. It's pretty clear that this software ecosystem is dead.
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by Analemma_ 13d ago
Well you’re in the wrong place for that. Hacker News is mostly about showing how much smarter and more cynical you are than everyone else in the room, and attacking anyone who does actually have principles by accusing them of ulterior motiv
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by Analemma_ 13d ago
It’s not actually true that your software gets done, that’s essentially impossible unless you’re doing some kind of performance art project targeting a defunct platform from decades ago. Operating systems and libraries change underneath you
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by Analemma_ 14d ago
> I hope they wouldn’t succumb to a minority in their base and just ban data centers The most recent set of polls I saw said that 71% of Democrats and 64% of all Americans support banning datacenter construction. It's not merely a m
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by Analemma_ 15d ago
Funnily enough this probably the most safetyist thing the administration could do at the moment, since this will certainly autocatalyze more opposition to DC construction in a bunch of states and probably accelerate the state-level moratori
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by Analemma_ 15d ago
This is true as far as it goes but it's very difficult to do that when you're also anxious about material deprivation from losing your job. It's hard enough to construct a new source of self-identity when you're secure,
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by Analemma_ 15d ago
I don’t think that’s going to happen. Fashion, like all other segments of society and the economy, bends around the smartphone, not vice versa. The market decided a long time ago it wants big phones and to get handbags or other accessories
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by Analemma_ 17d ago
"Creating"? I don't think there has ever been a system where you could expect to be able to plan an uprising against the elites in public, or using infrastructure those elites own and control. I wouldn't expect to be abl
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by Analemma_ 17d ago
If you're going to toss out that aphorism for the bad outcomes you have to do it for the good outcomes as well.
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by Analemma_ 17d ago
I don't think you should think of it like "playing a game", you should think of it as "posting to a web service you don't control". If you posted on a web forum about your plans for violence against the CEO of
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by Analemma_ 17d ago
Man, why are you copy-pasting comments from the 90s? The current government is maximally evil and interested in using technology to keep power and crush dissent. You don't need to introduce hypotheticals!
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by Analemma_ 18d ago
I think we need to discuss adding Pangram integration to HN, similar to what Substack is doing. This is 100% AI slop, don't waste your time.
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by Analemma_ 18d ago
In OpenAI's case, if they were genuinely unsure, they wouldn't have said anything. "We cannot rule out" means they absolutely 100% for-sure did look at the existing prompts and bootstrapped from that, and they are trying
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by Analemma_ 22d ago
It's not a reality for a lack of trying. Multiple people have spent (literal!) lifetimes working on Xanadu and multiple businesses poured a great deal of money and effort into it way back in the day. It continues to not be a thing beca
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by Analemma_ 22d ago
Noah Smith is like Gell-Mann amnesia personified. He's good at writing columns such that he sounds like he knows what he's talking about, until he opines on something you happen to be familiar with, and you realize he's compl
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by Analemma_ 23d ago
Yes, it's downright stupid to buy into any tech IPO these days. The fundraising and all the growth were done by the A-M rounds, while the IPO is the bag-dump for the last few rounds of investors. Stay far away.
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by Analemma_ 23d ago
You still haven't explained how this is different from Python or Java applications.
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by Analemma_ 23d ago
If people are being honest, the nostalgia comes from a time where people only had to interact with other high-income, high-education, broadly-cosmopolitan technology enthusiasts similar to themselves. The moment the internet become used by
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by Analemma_ 24d ago
> No, the cornerstones of his thesis are: [...] The amount of money being dumped into this industry will never pay off. That has only been a cornerstone of his thesis for the last 10 months or so, once Claude Code and Codex began making
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by Analemma_ 25d ago
Commercial real estate got walloped by covid and the damage is still making its way through the system. A 2.65% decline in the last 5 years is probably one of the better performers in the sector.

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