KolibriFly

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by KolibriFly 4mo ago
Even if you leave intent aside, the effect is the same: it teaches researchers that funding is conditional on staying within an invisible and shifting political boundary
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by KolibriFly 4mo ago
And scientists are often exactly the kind of people who will try to keep going anyway
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by KolibriFly 4mo ago
A research system can adapt to lower funding if the rules are stable. What it can't adapt to is grants being frozen, staff disappearing mid-project, forbidden vocabulary changing
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by KolibriFly 4mo ago
A degree was never supposed to make someone instantly productive on day one. It was supposed to be paired with junior roles, mentoring, code review
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by KolibriFly 4mo ago
I had a similar experience with unfamiliar frameworks. The less you understand the domain, the easier it is to accept clean-looking but wrong code Good test actually : try explaining the solution without any hints. If you can't walk th
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by KolibriFly 4mo ago
That's probably one of the most sustainable approaches. Queries like show me where to look for the problem often turn out to be more useful than just fix it for me, because they leave the most valuable part of the work to the engineer
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by KolibriFly 4mo ago
Hardware scarcity and cloud incentives are real, but they're also part of the same broader trend: more dependency on centralized providers, less control for the buyer
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by KolibriFly 4mo ago
Just don't design the game so that, when the business model stops working, every paid copy becomes a brick
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by KolibriFly 4mo ago
This is exactly what is happening right now. Models are becoming more efficient but at the same time users are starting to tackle tasks they previously didn’t even try to automate. But Jevons paradox explains the increase in consumption, bu
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by KolibriFly 4mo ago
Well, the history of cloud computing shows that infrastructure usually becomes cheaper over time. But it’s still unclear whether this rule applies to reasoning models.
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by KolibriFly 4mo ago
It seems to me that both sides are starting to drift into extremes. Some promised the replacement of half of office workers, while others are now saying that AI doesn’t create any value at all. The reality is somewhere in between
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by KolibriFly 4mo ago
Sadly not quite one per wheel, though that would make the title even better
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by KolibriFly 4mo ago
Self-balancing bicycles, sure. Self-driving bicycles that navigate city streets safely are a much larger problem.
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by KolibriFly 4mo ago
I think that's basically right. The "neurons" framing feels a bit loose here; it's more like a very compact hand-designed controller expressed in neural-network-ish terms
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by KolibriFly 4mo ago
The useful insight is not "compare desired state to actual state"; it's deciding which state to control
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by KolibriFly 4mo ago
Yeah but at least early industrial machines consistently outperformed humans on a specific task. With LLMs it's still a weird mix of brilliant moments and completely unreliable behavior
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Show HN: Search Router – retrieval-ready web search for AI agents(github.com)
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by KolibriFly 5mo ago
It's strange how much attention novel psychedelic treatments get compared with older, less glamorous interventions that already help a lot of people
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by KolibriFly 5mo ago
I read it less as "this only helps veterans" and more as "veterans are the group this particular research and funding path is centered on"
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by KolibriFly 5mo ago
It feels promising, but also exactly the kind of treatment that should move through careful clinical trials
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by KolibriFly 5mo ago
This is exactly why Proton feels like the pragmatic path. Native ports are nice in theory, but PC games are rarely just one clean executable anymore
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by KolibriFly 5mo ago
This is such a neat historical parallel
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by KolibriFly 5mo ago
Primary energy comparisons can make fossil fuels look more "irreplaceable" than they are, because so much of the input energy is lost as heat before it becomes useful work
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by KolibriFly 5mo ago
Factory games are weirdly good at teaching the "shape" of these systems
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by KolibriFly 5mo ago
That must be an incredible place to grow up around
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by KolibriFly 5mo ago
The odor point is interesting. I think a lot of people mentally picture refineries as visibly dirty and smelly by default, but a plant near dense urban/residential areas probably has very strong incentives to be almost boringly well-co
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by KolibriFly 5mo ago
What always strikes me about refineries is how "simple" some of the core ideas are in isolation
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by KolibriFly 6mo ago
This is probably a combination of ergonomics and expectations
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by KolibriFly 6mo ago
The interesting part isn't whether Apple got the design right or wrong, it's that most of us never even consider altering the tools we use every day. We just adapt ourselves instead.
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by KolibriFly 6mo ago
But there's also a thin line between trolling and just being comfortable ignoring other people's expectations

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