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by alangibson 9mo ago
It's funny to see Reddit posts driving HN posts. There was a viral post about a rather video friendly lady getting politely arrested for shoplifting at Target going around today. A surprising number of people commented about how Target
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by alangibson 9mo ago
Anyone selling software components is going to get cooked by LLMs. People have been talking about that since ChatGPT 3 landed. It's just sad to see it actually playing out.
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by alangibson 9mo ago
I'd look at this as a new income stream. Failing to honor a DMCA request means Google is no longer in the safe harbor. It's time to find a copyright lawyer that will work on contingency. Document your communication and take screen
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by alangibson 9mo ago
It's worth noting that the Claude Code team themselves add corrections to their CLAUDE.md file. So as long as you curate the corrections you're probably fine.
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by alangibson 10mo ago
I hate to say it, but Zuckerberg is right about where online content is going. The future is just an endless feed of personalized short form AI brain candy.
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Garmin Emergency Autoland Deployed for the first time(flightradar24.com)
4 points by alangibson 10mo ago|1 comments
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by alangibson 10mo ago
AI code generation has something important in common with 3D printed houses. Both optimize the easy part. 3D printed houses can only manage the underlying structure of the house. It doesn't cover finishing work which is much harder on
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by alangibson 11mo ago
> "The first function call looks a whole lot like a function call today..." Only superficially. What's actually happening varies radically by language. See for instance tail call optimization.
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by alangibson 11mo ago
Except that it kind of does. I can horizontally scale a distributed storage system until we run out of silicon. I cannot do the same with a cargo airplane.
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by alangibson 11mo ago
"While hardware folks study and learn from the successes and failures of past hardware, software folks do not." Couldn't be further from the truth. Software folks are obsessed with copying what has been shown to work to the p
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by alangibson 11mo ago
Well then you should have no problem proving what you are now only insisting on. This is HN, not Reddit. Where's the citation? Prove what you said or I have no reason to take you seriously.
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by alangibson 11mo ago
Citation needed
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by alangibson 11mo ago
Voting is what got us in to this. This is supported by a majority of the US. You do not live in the country you think you do.
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OpenGeom Fork for OpenCascade(quaoar.su)
1 points by alangibson 11mo ago|0 comments
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by alangibson 1y ago
> the income from selling access to the model has overcome the costs of training it. Citation needed. This is completely untrue AFAIK. They've claimed that inference is profitable, but not that they are making a profit when trainin
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by alangibson 1y ago
Independent farmers in less-than-rich countries rent large harvesting machinery from common pools. Source: me. I live amongst them.
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by alangibson 1y ago
If you want to find who started the rumor, look for who took the 60 tons. That requires machinery which requires planning
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by alangibson 1y ago
No. Also, irrelevant.
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by alangibson 1y ago
I figure it's at least a couple of years until the Great Disappointment sets in. When you've been investing half a trillion a year with no realistic hope of a descent ROI, you'll do anything you can to not admit your error.
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by alangibson 1y ago
Because you don't have unlimited attention
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by alangibson 1y ago
No seriously this time line really will go up forever guys.
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by alangibson 1y ago
Most of these data centers are built with special purpose vehicles to make the balance sheet look better. Imagine the gnashing of teeth when those get written down
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by alangibson 1y ago
This. If you really think you're a couple of years away from building Digital God, and today have virtually unlimited access to capital, you are not going to spend time shipping a sexy mode.
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by alangibson 1y ago
https://archive.ph/YIVfh
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Ex–Stellantis CEO says Tesla could exit the car industry and may not exist in 10(fortune.com)
6 points by alangibson 1y ago|2 comments
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MetalHeadCAM: SheetCAM Replacement for LinuxCNC Plasma Cutters(cam.metalheadcnc.com)
1 points by alangibson 1y ago|1 comments
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by alangibson 1y ago
Hey LinuxCNC Plasma fans of HN. I created this CAM application as a replacement for dxf2gcode and Inkscape. Now that SheetCAM has jacked their prices up nearly 3x, I'm targeting completely replacing SheetCAM for the serious hobbyist. I
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Kohler launches smart toilet camera(techcrunch.com)
32 points by alangibson 1y ago|69 comments
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by alangibson 1y ago
Fixed headline: "How Israel caused famine in Gaza". There is an editorial voice reserved purely for blunting reporting on American and Israeli state crimes that drives me nuts.
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by alangibson 1y ago
Chimneys feared him

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