epolanski

6 ms·

91.
by epolanski 1mo ago
I have multiple 48GB friends that successfully run smaller quantized models for general assistance + light editing (coding, spreadsheets, etc), that don't require very heavy models. So yes, they are genuinely very useful, but they are
92.
by epolanski 1mo ago
Let's cut the chase: if you have medical conditions for which *a doctor* prescribes you a carnivore diet, referring to the original comment, you can be exempt from the carbon tax.
93.
by epolanski 1mo ago
Even a huge tree, is still a tree in the forest. You need to look at consumption patterns, not just energy, which derive from the first anyway.
94.
by epolanski 1mo ago
1. There's no evidence that carnivore diet has any long term benefit, as this 2026 article that reviews all of the available literature points out. In fact there's more evidence of the contrary. > The Carnivore Diet may offer s
95.
by epolanski 1mo ago
I only listed vertebrated mammals.
96.
by epolanski 1mo ago
I eat very well, mostly a classic mediterranean diet with lots of vegetables, lentils, etc, and I'm very healthy, thanks for the worry.
97.
by epolanski 1mo ago
Beef cannot be carbon negative, a single cow, will emit half a pound of methane per day, which is equivalent to 100 pounds of CO2. There is no way around it.
98.
by epolanski 1mo ago
> Why does highlighting even need to be in color? I wrote a vscode extension for effect-ts authoring that indeed leverages this concept. It adds underlines and/or bolder fonts to emphasize different functionality.
99.
by epolanski 1mo ago
It feels like speaking with a chatbot. The focus of the discussion is topic is how dangerous is cattle farming to the planet. The answer is very, I gave you numbers, you're free to debunk them. The topic of whether red meat is category
100.
by epolanski 1mo ago
I don't think it ever got to the current levels where even nuclear plants had to be stopped due to lack of water in the Danube.
101.
by epolanski 1mo ago
Sure, which is why I used the image of "missing the forest for the tree, even if the tree is huge". But it's our consumption and expectations that feed into it.
102.
by epolanski 1mo ago
I'm not vegetarian, albeit I de facto am 5 days out of 7, I try to stick to the (classical) mediterranean diet. I wrote a comment here, you can of course fact check all I said and investigate more: https://news.ycombinator.c
103.
by epolanski 1mo ago
As you seem to be unaware: 1. a single cow produces 250 grams of methane per day. Methane is insanely more dangerous to the environment than CO2. A single adult cow pollutes in a day as much as a car driven for 165 miles. And that's o
104.
by epolanski 1mo ago
Which is highly driven by nationalism, and the fixation of every country to impose their regulations instead of going towards a common set of rules. Because when it comes to "hey, what if we make the market actually more open, and easi
105.
by epolanski 1mo ago
And eat beef every day. Who cares if a small burger pollutes more than commuting with a SUV. I mean, it's just hard to care or do something, these things should be properly taxed, but there's no chance this would be popular. But i
106.
by epolanski 1mo ago
I don't buy it. Climate change is related to our consumptions, period, focusing only on energy or transport doesn't tackle the whole problem: we consume too much, eat too much (cattle and fish in particular) and destroy too much i
107.
by epolanski 1mo ago
As an European, no, current situation is unprecedented. It was getting bad already, but like this? Absurd.
108.
by epolanski 1mo ago
What's that?
109.
by epolanski 1mo ago
I've tried fasting and intermittent fasting. I got multiple times to 48+ hours, the thing that always kill the efforts to reach 72 hours is headache, no amount of brot and salt saves me. Hunger is not an issue after the first day it ge
110.
by epolanski 1mo ago
I don't think any company will be able to hold a significant monopoly in the space for the simple law of economics: high margins (especially combined with high absolute volumes) attract competition. And the wider the margins and volume
111.
by epolanski 1mo ago
And yet they've done fine for 1000+ years. Moreover, this whole narrative of defense is so childlish and asinine, generally spread by people of countries that are always on the attacking side like Americans. It reminds me of the elemen
112.
by epolanski 1mo ago
The EU is tremendously effective, is just that the narratives are always about emphasizing the shortcomings.
113.
by epolanski 1mo ago
I'm not sure whether I agree or not as an European. I think vetos accomplish exactly what they need to accomplish: unanimity. Majority arguments are dangerous if then you start to get different factions and tear the EU from the inside.
114.
by epolanski 1mo ago
I doubt this is how it works, besides, swift is an international organization, not a US one. US laws and sentences does not apply beyond US borders unless differently agreed.
115.
by epolanski 1mo ago
Grok 4.5 and 4.6 are very good coding models. Also quite fast.
116.
by epolanski 1mo ago
They have been doing fine for more than a thousands years, no need for fear mongering.
117.
by epolanski 1mo ago
I get some appeal of running locally, but isn't it just easier to rent cloud hardware and run whatever model you want to run?
118.
by epolanski 1mo ago
They aren't? They are very clearly providing IT support for free to anti fascist organizations.
119.
by epolanski 1mo ago
What does it entail, in practice? They are sanctioned, okay, and? What happens practically.
120.
by epolanski 1mo ago
You can tell you live in the HN/tech bubble. In the real world out there, Google and Microsoft are absolutely dominating enterprise customers. Every single non-tech office worker I know is writing Gemini "gems" (sort of claud

More ›