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541.
by afavour 6mo ago
Yeah, reading this my reaction is “so why didn’t they do it?”. A less prominent app would have been fulled first and notified later.
542.
by afavour 6mo ago
Sure. It isn’t TypeScript though.
543.
by afavour 6mo ago
Surely the ability to compile your WASM is a pretty big benefit over TypeScript, if it’s something you need.
544.
by afavour 6mo ago
> Everyone recognized that it was so dangerous to use them after the first two mass casualty events I really don’t think that’s true. Those who actually knew about the nuclear weapons knew very well how dangerous they were. Truman was de
545.
by afavour 6mo ago
> So, what is it that makes you so sure, oh so very certain, that LLMs just "feel" conscious but aren't? Because we know what they actually are on the inside. You're talking as if they're an equivalent to the hum
546.
by afavour 6mo ago
I don't know, I think nuclear weapons are scarier. And also probably a useful parallel: they're so dangerous that we coined the term "mutually assured destruction" and everyone recognized that it was so dangerous to use
547.
by afavour 6mo ago
Yes but in order to get someone to vote against their interests you need to sell them on something else that's a benefit. They don't just automatically vote against themselves. "This technology might escape our control, might
548.
by afavour 6mo ago
It does feel like a bizarre moment, where the AI companies are deliberately trying to scare us about their own product in a bid to, I think, show the inevitability of it? Or to sell themselves as the one responsible power to constrain it?
549.
by afavour 6mo ago
Why is it highly relevant? It’s a bunch of people betting on the outcome.
550.
by afavour 6mo ago
I agree about Banksy. But in this case Satoshi controls a huge about of bitcoin. If, whoever they are, they did something with it, it would absolutely move markets.
551.
by afavour 6mo ago
> would remain silent while it became a $2 trillion phenomenon I can see how it might be preferable. Satoshi has an incredible amount of wealth in a form that’s very easy to transfer anonymously. Anyone that admits to being him will be a
552.
by afavour 6mo ago
I feel like the author is overly cynical here. You get so many updates because there's so much information available about your delivery, and I for one appreciate having it! I wish there was as standardized format so my e-mail client c
553.
by afavour 7mo ago
Given the number of people in this thread saying “it’s a documentary” I don’t think there’s a significant difference. And there’s also plenty of criticism of Idiocracy on Reddit too.
554.
by afavour 7mo ago
He might not present as a serious person but he is. The nativist impulses, the gutter racism, the “F you I’ve got mine” attitude, the party establishment that enabled him despite all that… these are all serious things worth serious analysis
555.
by afavour 7mo ago
Agreed. It’s cited so often on Reddit by people who want to establish their superiority over the masses. “It’s a documentary!!” is a meme unto itself. It’s also got a kind of weird eugenics-y vibe to it (like establishing “stupid people b
556.
by afavour 7mo ago
Right, there's less unnecessary dressing of an "album" of filler. But I don't think that's a meaningful change. Singles drove the market then and they do now. Albums were still produced then and still are now.
557.
by afavour 7mo ago
I really don't think we have. When I was growing up in the 90s it was the heyday of the pop single but there were still plenty of albums being produced and I think it's the same today.
558.
by afavour 7mo ago
In software engineering it isn’t necessarily the winning game. FAANG salary vs self employed isn’t that a case of “work hard and it’ll come”.
559.
by afavour 7mo ago
Chicken/egg. NVidia tooling is lacking surely in part because the hardware wasn’t usable on macOS until now. Now that it’s usable that might change.
560.
by afavour 7mo ago
But Apple’s share of the desktop/laptop market is very different than their share of the mobile one.
561.
by afavour 7mo ago
Stop using AI to “write” slop. It’s immediately obvious from the kicker of the article. Save us all some time and just post the bullet points you gave to an LLM.
562.
by afavour 7mo ago
> Ignoring a law is different from knowingly and intentionally breaking the law This is something Airbnb has facilitated for a very long time, no? And Uber, back when it started. From a legal perspective I don’t see that it matters wheth
563.
by afavour 7mo ago
I wonder if this is what Bezos had in mind when he doubled down on support for Trump.
564.
by afavour 7mo ago
I disagree, I think the $100k fee was a deliberate move to make sure the yearly allocation is only available to large companies like Oracle and out of reach of smaller startups. Despite the rhetoric the administration is very friendly to bi
565.
by afavour 7mo ago
Nor did you even write this comment yourself
566.
by afavour 7mo ago
> Their order book continues to be full. In 2024 66% of their launches were for Starlink. So it’s not quite correct to suggest there’s a vibrant external market for their product, a lot of it is sort of self dealing.
567.
by afavour 7mo ago
> I don’t know why anyone would want to invest in OpenAI on the open market I can only assume hype. That’s why Sam Altman has the job he has. You don’t see the CEO of Anthropic going on the Tonight Show. He’s there to bring OpenAI to the
568.
by afavour 7mo ago
And probably unsustainable. OpenAI desperately needs to catch up so they’ll throw yet more cash at it, while Anthropic are market leaders in this particular space.
569.
by afavour 7mo ago
That would show how quickly the data is passing into the native fetch call but doesn’t account for kind of internal buffer it might have, network latency etc
570.
by afavour 7mo ago
Now this is prime Hacker News content! Thank you. The idea of a narrative language is fascinating and I'll upvote anything that's using Haxe. I took Haxe for a spin years ago and was really impressed, just haven't been able t

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