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by echelon 7mo ago
There hasn't been so much as a finger lifted against antitrust behavior since 2000. They feel as though they're invincible at this point.
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by echelon 7mo ago
I have a few predictions for this year: 1. Violent attacks against AI CEOs, researchers, and engineers is going to begin. This is due to widespread negative press that AI receives and as well as a pervasive feeling of economic uncertainty a
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by echelon 7mo ago
We do not need our hyperscaler minders telling us what content we can and cannot consume. This ought to be grounds to litigate antitrust. This should not be happening. We need web-based app installs without scare walls ("downloading fr
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by echelon 7mo ago
Small business is brutal, isn't it? You're fighting small biz and accept the world big tech has created to extort all of us. You'd yell at that local brick and mortar for sending you a half off coupon in your email because it
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by echelon 7mo ago
Digital ocean has Kubernetes ffs. It's all of five minutes to write a deployment yaml and ingress and have literally anything on the web for a handful of dollars a month. I've written rust services doing 5k QPS on DO's cheape
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by echelon 7mo ago
Sending you an email after you signed up is "unethical"? That's a bit carried away, don't you think? There are unsubscribe buttons with laws that enforce that they work. Meanwhile hyperscalers are constantly in your eyes
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by echelon 7mo ago
Every fashion brand on the planet reengages their customers this way and it works. I learned about the Analogue 64 from a marketing email, and I bought it. I see emails showing me new API features are available. Sometimes that's useful
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by echelon 7mo ago
They complain a lot less. This is why B2B is easier than B2C. A consumer will pay $10/mo and ask for the moon. Threaten to leave. Get angry at an email. A business will drop $10k no questions asked and your product can be garbage. As l
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by echelon 7mo ago
1. I've never seen this. Is there a config option to unhide it if it's happening? Is this in Claude Code? Does it have to be set to verbose or something? 2. Can we pay more/do more rigorous KYC to disable it if it's acti
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by echelon 7mo ago
Are you an entrepreneur or an employee? Do you know how exceedingly hard it is to grow a business and how shameless you have to be in the face of adversity to make it work? It sucks. You have to do this stuff to get a customer relationship.
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by echelon 7mo ago
Anthropic isn't your friend. Phase 1: $200/mo prosumer engineer tool Phase 2: AI layoffs / "it's just AI washing" Phase 3: $20,000/mo limited release model "too dangerous" to use Phase 4: Acceler
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by echelon 7mo ago
Is the ChatGPT launch the "low background steel" date for writing? What's are the dates for images and video? Nano Banana Pro and Seedance 2.0? And code? Opus 4.6?
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by echelon 7mo ago
Who is spending millions of dollars on small models to find vulns? Nobody else is selling here or has the budget to sell quite like this. Anthropic spends millions - maybe significantly more. Then when they know where they are, they spend $
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by echelon 7mo ago
It's also going to lead to assassination markets, either directly or indirectly. > "Johnny CEO will be alive in 2027" That might be banned from platforms (though not illegal), but this isn't: > "Jonny CEO is t
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by echelon 7mo ago
I feel like these tools, for once, are using us.
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by echelon 7mo ago
This guy's entire channel is amazing. You have to watch all of it. It's beautiful, mesmerizing, and academically delightful.
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by echelon 7mo ago
Serious consideration: Claude Mythos is going to change the risk envelope of this problem. We're still thinking in the old mindset, whereas new tools are going to change how all of this is done. In some years dependencies will undergo
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by echelon 7mo ago
A large number of security issues in the supply chain are found in the weeks or months after library version bumps. Simply waiting six months to update dependency versions can skip these. It allows time to pass and for the dependency change
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by echelon 7mo ago
Satya Nadella had built up so much Microsoft goodwill from 2014 - 2022. When they first purchased Github, it looked like Microsoft was opening up and was going good things. The first sign things were souring was when Microsoft dumped their
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by echelon 7mo ago
David Kipping has given several lectures in which he proposes that life on Earth may be the only life in the observable universe. It's kind of fascinating to ponder, though he holds that the true scientist states we have no evidence ei
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by echelon 7mo ago
If you're being handed millions of dollars in early venture capital and don't have revenue/pmf to show, they're going to want to see a top university, FAANG, relevant industry experience, etc. How else would they underwr
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by echelon 7mo ago
> Money is given to friends. Money is given to ideas that might become billion dollar businesses and teams that look like they can do it. Pedigree, domain expertise, previous exits.
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by echelon 7mo ago
We don't know if life is rare, but intelligence seems rare given our sky surveys to date. Life started on earth shortly after the solar system formed. It's a quarter the age of the universe that it took for intelligence and civili
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by echelon 7mo ago
There's no way we're not living in a historical simulation. This is all just such crazy coincidence. Everything is coming together so quickly.
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by echelon 7mo ago
It's what plants crave. (I needed to be able to post that to HN tonight.)
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by echelon 7mo ago
Let's come back to these comments in ten years, shall we? Should be pretty entertaining.
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by echelon 7mo ago
1. I'm working in Rust, so it's a very safe and low-defect language. I suspect that has a tremendous amount to do with my successes. "nulls" (Option<T>) and "errors" (Result<T,E>) must be handled,
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by echelon 7mo ago
My job title is "provide value". I'm given a tool that lets me 10x "provide value". My personal preferences and tastes literally do not matter.
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by echelon 7mo ago
Some of the worst taste and worst opinions. Lots of techies hate things that are popular with the rest of humanity. You see lots of nagging, complaining, and disconnected from reality takes. Hate for Instagram, "Dropbox will never work
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by echelon 7mo ago
No - at face value, our work has diminished value. The entire supply and demand economics of our careers is changing in the blink of an eye. There are people trying to figure out what this means and where to create value. "Taste is the

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