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by antonvs 2mo ago
> Where have you found the info? You can see it in action if you watch the “chain of thought” text when using coding agents.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Bill Gates should stick to pretending to be a philanthropist. I.e., don’t quit your day job, Bill. “Everything was fine before, so it’ll be fine now” is the level of argument I expect to find in thousand-year old religious texts.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> Worth noting that at scale larger than family/clan/tribe it beats communism and feudalism on all relevant - to people - metrics. No, it demonstrably doesn’t. The countries that have the least problems with the issues I mentio
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> allowed them to quickly pinpoint the farm that was the source of the Cyclospora outbreak. Did they actually do this? All the reporting I saw basically amounted to “we have no friggin’ idea, shrug”. Unless you mean “Taylor Farms”, but t
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by antonvs 2mo ago
It’s unquestionably bad for the United States, but it will be good for the rest of the world. Time for US dominance to end, and Trump is doing a good job of that.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Capitalism has been judged on its own merits, and been found to be a ridiculously simplistic, unworkable system that tends toward oligarchy, massive inequality, and authoritarianism. The state needs to get involved to protect the unworkab
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by antonvs 2mo ago
It’s fun to watch people try to back off from their defense of sleazy corporations once they’re called out on it.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
No moral dimension to this whatsoever for you?
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Is this what free speech absolutism looks like?
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Pity universities couldn’t do a better job of preparing Paul Graham for being a human. Instead, universities like Harvard apparently do a fantastic job of preparing people to bloviate self-servingly, endlessly, and with a total lack of anyt
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> … you cannot compress particles to an absolute point. What do you mean by “particle” here? This kind of handwaving is fundamentally classical, and breaks down in the presence of quantum physics.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> I love how now you have to consider the possible s*** posting motivation behind analysis of a trillion dollar industry being conducted at a world-class level by a bunch of ex Reddit and 4Chan adjacent mods I mean, previously you could
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by antonvs 2mo ago
I'll respond to that, but it doesn't really matter to my basic point: that nuclear fusion startups are all, without exception, in a research phase with no clear path to a commercial product. In other words, investors are currently
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> what i would be selling would be my research topic to venture capitalists, instead of a product to people. (obviously making some mentions of "well um this could be a sellable product one day" and like, a halfassed marketing
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by antonvs 2mo ago
What you’re running into is the trend away from investing in basic research, in which almost everything (in the US) is now centered around a supposed path to profitability. As a result, in a sense, founding a company can be getting funding
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by antonvs 2mo ago
FYI, Datastream works with pretty much any MySQL instance, including self-hosted and even AWS RDS and MariaDB. See: https://docs.cloud.google.com/datastream/docs/sources-mysql Datastream solves the issues mentione
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by antonvs 2mo ago
DARVO only works if it's plausible. You were implicitly defending the existence of this vulnerability by making the unsupported claim that this was "true of basically all the companies that do this." When asked to back up the
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Option #1 seems simplest. Option #3 discriminates against individuals who sell direct, without using a marketplace. A possible option #4 is: establish EU-wide rules that can optionally be applied to cross-border transactions. I.e. a seller
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by antonvs 2mo ago
In what way? Are you thinking of a particular mainframe? My mainframe experience was on an IBM 370/158 using VM/CMS, and I can't see any real connection between the OP and its executables. I suppose there's a very vague
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by antonvs 2mo ago
You even used an LLM to write your comment. If you’re ESL, that’s not an excuse. You can write something in your own language and use a translator or even an LLM to translate it. But using an LLM to write is delegating your cognition to
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Sorry, but that's not evidence of "true of basically all the companies that do this". Your vibes are not evidence. I don't understand what you even think you're getting at. Are you saying we should accept this becau
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Mid-size orgs can use PaaS if they want to. But the core issue is, standing up a system with high availability, security, automated deployments, etc. etc. is non-trivial. There's a small but vocal subset of the HN audience who thinks &
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by antonvs 2mo ago
States in the US are little vassals of the federal government. "Freedumb" indeed. It'd be interesting to see the US try a real federation, but recent evidence suggests that's beyond its capabilities.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
“It’s not a vulnerability, it’s a feature!”
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by antonvs 2mo ago
No charges were filed in that case. It was just an out-of-control, weak, stupid, and corrupt governor - Mike Parsons - abusing his power to try to cover up his ignorance and his administration’s incompetence. If you don’t stand up to weak b
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> this is true of basically all the companies that do this Evidence?
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Not a good argument. Those were big names because they were (co)founders of major fields. Physics and CS aren’t like fashion where you can come out with a new color or design every six months. You also seem to be restricting yourself to pop
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> we've been in a critical thinking deficit for decades and decades. Compared to when?
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by antonvs 2mo ago
It’s interesting how much Anthropic itself is a demonstration that its own hype is false.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> For most users, Kubernetes has added complexity and cost, but not value. This may be true for small, simple systems, such as basic web apps, that don’t really need Kubernetes. If your system can fit on a single machine, or even two or

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