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by coffeemug 7mo ago
> Now I have no illusions about who looked stupid and who were stupid. Could you expand on what you mean?
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by coffeemug 7mo ago
Incredible letters, thanks for sharing. I wish some of this correspondence was published in physical books. What a joy it would be to read.
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by coffeemug 7mo ago
A model that gets good at computer use can be plugged in anywhere you have a human. A model that gets good at API use cannot. From the standpoint of diffusion into the economy/labor market, computer use is much higher value.
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by coffeemug 7mo ago
Why do you need to keep up? Just use the latest models and don't worry about it.
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by coffeemug 7mo ago
I can honestly understand both positions. The U.S. military must be able to use technology as it sees fit; it cannot allow private companies to control the use of military equipment. Anthropic must prevent a future where AIs make autonomous
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by coffeemug 7mo ago
Your comment reminds me of a story. John Adams and Lafayette met in Massachusetts something like ~49 years after the revolution. (Lafayette went on a US tour to celebrate the upcoming 50 year anniversary of independence.) Supposedly after t
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by coffeemug 7mo ago
Yeah, it's the easiest way to get a beachhead in deep learning and then expand from there. I dislike their heavy use of currying, it's elegant in theory but bad error messages make it confusing and inconvenient in practice. But it
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by coffeemug 7mo ago
Ah, I'm using racketmode which doesn't support live state buildup (and the builtin GUI doesn't either). What exactly is your setup? SLIME only has a Common Lisp backend, it doesn't support Racket to my knowledge. EDIT: o
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by coffeemug 7mo ago
I've been using Racket to work through The Little Learner[1] and it's been a good experience. You need minimal Racket to work through the book (lambda, let, define, map; I think that's about it). But I branched out to learn m
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by coffeemug 7mo ago
Also ex-Stripe. This suggests an opportunity to build an exchange that addresses these problems. Could one build an exchange with deliberate "turn-based" liquidity to avoid the problem of daily stock price distraction, for example
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by coffeemug 8mo ago
I thought about it for only a few seconds, but here is one way to do it. Have users self-report an "addiction factor", then fine the company based on the aggregate score using a progressive scale. There is obviously a lot of detai
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by coffeemug 8mo ago
That's fascinating, I didn't know that! What are some example cities/towns where this is common?
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by coffeemug 8mo ago
From an execution standpoint you can't work on experimental mobility due to path dependence. How are they going to convince municipal governments to open golf cart lanes? That would require solving two problems (autonomy and overcoming
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by coffeemug 8mo ago
To be intellectually honest about it, you have to answer a bunch of questions: 1. Awful compared to what? 2. Was there an equivalent transfer outside America? 3. What is the cause? What ratio rent-seeking/shady activity vs a consequenc
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by coffeemug 8mo ago
Azure revenue is growing at 39% year over year. If Microsoft can sustain this growth, in four years Azure will be ~3.73x its current size. This is of course very difficult, but you really don’t need a deus ex machina to hit 4x growth under
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by coffeemug 8mo ago
I've recently switched to Claude for chat. GPT 5.2 feels very engagement-maxxed for me, like I'm reading a bad LinkedIn post. Claude does a tiny bit of this too, but an order of magnitude less in my experience. I never thought I&#
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by coffeemug 8mo ago
The vertical integration argument should apply to Grok. They have Tesla driving data (probably much more data than Waymo), Twitter data, plus Tesla/SpaceX manufacturing data. When/if Optimus starts on the production line, they&#x2
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by coffeemug 8mo ago
I work for Microsoft/Azure and my incentives are (roughly in descending order): minimize large/long outages, ship lots of stuff (with some concern for customer utility, but not too much), don't get yelled at for missing manda
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by coffeemug 8mo ago
Interview is designed in a way that prevents this, but I'm not sure how much longer that will last.
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by coffeemug 8mo ago
I still don’t understand why people oppose that rather than enthusiastically desire it. The end state you’re describing is the culmination of the enlightenment project. Automating labor is the point! Then you can paint, or play chess, or ea
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by coffeemug 9mo ago
If you ever met some of the founders in the pictures, you'd know it's not bs.
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by coffeemug 9mo ago
That America works and keeps working for reasons nobody understands. We seem to make a ton of mistakes, and often act in the same way as far less successful countries do, but somehow keep coming out on top. It often feels like our success i
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by coffeemug 9mo ago
The surface level reading of history is that everyone always agreed centralization of power is bad and operated in a gentlemanly way to further this principle, until Trump came along. But that's not the case at all. In the two parts of
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by coffeemug 9mo ago
From my reading of history the level of polarization was at least as high or higher during the early republic, and obviously higher leading up to and through the civil war. I don't know American history in any meaningful depth outside
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by coffeemug 9mo ago
In the 1800 election republicans thought the federalists will turn America into a tyrannical monarchy, and the federalists thought the republicans will plunge America into mob rule like the French Revolution. They would have never defended
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by coffeemug 9mo ago
Yes, but this tension has been there since the founding of the republic. The federalists wanted to centralize power (some much more than others), and the republicans (the "jeffersonians") bitterly opposed it. In his second term Ge
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by coffeemug 9mo ago
What is the evidence that America is falling apart? From all my reading of American history, America has _always_ been this way. With a wide lens it appears as healthy as it's ever been. This is a genuine question-- I've read a lo
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by coffeemug 9mo ago
This is a half-truth that obscures what makes The United States unique. From the day the constitution was signed, it was a compromise between competing economies, geographic incentives, cultures, religious movements, political philosophies,
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by coffeemug 9mo ago
I know you didn't ask to problem solve, but... Email your resume to me at vakhmechet@microsoft.com, mention this HN thread. We're hiring for Azure MySQL and sister Postgres team, lots of interesting problems to solve! EDIT: "

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