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by echelon 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended_wing_body No windows Evacuation issues Won't work in some airports Nausea inducing ... It's not without issues.
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by echelon 3mo ago
DNA is still too close to molecular biology than the actual problem of harvesting free energy and replicating. I think we see this pattern over and over and it might just be that the problem domain is a weird projection into more dimensions
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by echelon 3mo ago
A better time. Before flat material lameness and Corporate Memphis.
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by echelon 3mo ago
It's an engineering tool. I can think of dozens of completely legit use cases off the top of my head and there are probably hundreds more. Security review, checking for bugs or spyware, repairing your own hardware you own, modifying yo
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by echelon 3mo ago
It's called design and thank god everything isn't the same. Gtk has some nice standard looking buttons for you. You know how those look, and I'm pretty sure you don't want that. Think to when "UI experts" impos
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by echelon 3mo ago
This is why open source as outlined by the OSI is unsustainable. The dipshits calling from the sidelines remove economic reward from those who do all the work. "Group A" does all the work, then "Group B" moves in and con
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by echelon 3mo ago
It was the lamest excuse ever. Something like, "I'm worried about impairing Google's ability to compete in AI" or some nonsense. (Paraphrasing here.) Looks like all it takes to compete in AI is to issue stock or get a bu
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by echelon 3mo ago
I don't get it either. I clicked their link to the other person's complaint, too - I still do not understand. Almost every product I build pre-populates user avatars from Gravatar as the optional first personalization hook. It&#x2
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by echelon 3mo ago
We need open source versions of these. 1. We need the capability to build the servos, actuators, etc. Supply chain, factories, specialized vendors. 2. We need to dump the firmware, decompile it, extract the models, and liberate it all. AI w
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by echelon 3mo ago
It's gorgeous and the world doesn't have enough of it.
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by echelon 3mo ago
God damn, we are living in the future. I love this so much. Designs like this would never have seen the light of day in the cellphone incrementalism / corporate memphis era of tech. Now people can be weird and awesome again. This is 19
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by echelon 3mo ago
It's not wrong for capital to want returns. It's wrong to hold the entire rest of the market and economy hostage to protect your investment.
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by echelon 3mo ago
It's a riff on the classic MPAA slogan during the Napster / BitTorrent era, "You wouldn't download a car." ... Yes I would. It's free real estate.
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by echelon 3mo ago
You wouldn't distill billions of dollars of SoftBank investment.
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by echelon 3mo ago
You're offended by that ? Have you ever founded a company and tried to find paying customers? You'd probably be offended if I sent you a cute 90's era AOL CD with our software on it. OP: I wouldn't be offended if you em
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by echelon 3mo ago
It's not HN. It's the readers. There are lots of Anthropic and OpenAI employees here. There are also lots of people that totally hate AI here. If they don't like your comment, some of them will flag you. I get caught up in th
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by echelon 3mo ago
They have no fanbase anymore. They poisoned all of that goodwill. RIP Anthropic "good guys" January 2021 - January 2026. Earlier this year they limited how you could use your subscription. It's been rapidly downhill since the
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by echelon 3mo ago
I would rather we not lose the AI race so idiotically. Winning the AI race means letting OpenAI and Anthropic face market forces. Edit: Clearly other companies are doing well. ElevenLabs, Runway, FAL, RunPod, CoreWeave, Lambda, BaseTen, Lov
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by echelon 3mo ago
That's wild. It was only 15 days. It would have been impossible to gather enough data AND clean it up AND train AND do post training in just 15 days. edit: the Anthropic employee downvotes are coming in now. This was +8, now it's
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by echelon 3mo ago
Fuck these two companies. Fuck Sam and Dario. These fucking assholes want to selfishly sink our country and our competitiveness because their valuations are tied to a thin little moat, and they moronically raised way too much capital. They
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by echelon 3mo ago
They obviously care more about social performance than code. They just tanked my interest in ever checking them out.
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by echelon 3mo ago
I didn't stick around that long to see what became of it. I see different people saying different things about Leo and John. What happened?
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by echelon 3mo ago
Future people will look back on this transitional time with curiosity. This is all going to be a non-issue in time. The fairy path of human language is going to adopt "creation" as assuming someone could have prompted it. It'
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by echelon 3mo ago
This is sad. I grew up watching his show on Tech TV and reading his columns in PC Magazine. He used to butt heads with Leo Laporte and it was great: https://youtu.be/C96YG7qzN80?t=142
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by echelon 3mo ago
Nolan made "The Odyssey". It was his vision. Hitchcock made "Psycho". Miyazaki made "Princess Mononoke". While you can say Roger Deakins shot "Blade Runner 2049" or Hans Zimmer scored "Interstell
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by echelon 3mo ago
You did not make the cheeseburger. Yet, Christopher Nolan made "The Odyssey" Shigeru Miyamoto and Eiji Aonuma made "Ocarina of Time" Mark Zuckerberg made "Meta" I feel just as proud of everything I'm makin
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by echelon 3mo ago
Wouldn't that be crazy - a hobbyist market for H100s? Maybe someone could start a business buying up and rehousing these.
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by echelon 3mo ago
You're joking, but perhaps LLMs will find a way to mathematically break the complexity of factorization. Maybe they'll find a solution where P=NP. That could really throw a wrench into the whole internet thing. It seems they need
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by echelon 3mo ago
Kimi is open weights and you can rent cloud compute cheaply. It's only going to get more affordable. Once a proof of concept exists you can distill it down to something that might execute on CPU alone. With open weights models you can
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by echelon 3mo ago
I only have so much energy to reply to all of this negativity. Half of it is being cut off at the legs by HN filters from the constant downvotes and flagging. Downvotes and flagging for attempting to be positive and excited about tech progr

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