jonas21

9 ms·

91.
by jonas21 8mo ago
Google Maps' high-resolution "satellite" imagery is actually captured from planes. Antarctica is huge (1.5x the area of the US), it would be a dangerous logistical nightmare to fly the sorts of patterns you need to capture a
92.
by jonas21 8mo ago
This is also a low effort comment, despite the word count. In contrast, shubhamjain found Meta's earnings release for the specified time period, quoted numbers that appear to contradict the claim, and provided a link to the release. T
93.
by jonas21 8mo ago
I mean, if you go outside and everyone else is carrying an umbrella, it's probably going to rain.
94.
by jonas21 8mo ago
If you don't meet the financial requirement ($200K annual income or $1M net worth), you can also qualify as an accredited investor by passing the Series 65 exam and filing a form with the SEC. So you have to prove that either you can a
95.
by jonas21 8mo ago
Upvote the conversations that you find to be more interesting. If enough people do the same, they too will make it to the top.
96.
by jonas21 8mo ago
If you say: "Generate a strong password", then Claude will do what's reported in the article. If you say: "Generate a strong password using Python", then Claude will write code using the `secrets` module, execute it
97.
by jonas21 8mo ago
> a human brain operates on 12 to 25 watts Yeah, but a human brain without the human attached to it is pretty useless. In the US, it averages out to around 2 kW per person for residential energy usage, or 9 kW if you include transport
98.
by jonas21 8mo ago
Here's Claude's translation of the PDF in the repo: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/0c40c3f8-16de-4947-93c1-3... I couldn't verify it, and a human translation would be preferable -- but it'
99.
by jonas21 8mo ago
Why? Very few nonprofits contain that language in their mission statements. It's certainly not required to be there.
100.
by jonas21 8mo ago
There are dozens of spam and security settings that admins can change in the Google Workspace console, presumably because different businesses have different requirements. So in practice, there's not just two sets of rules in gmail --
101.
by jonas21 8mo ago
What do AI or GLP-1s have to do with a casino economy?
102.
by jonas21 8mo ago
> If I could destroy these things - as the Luddites tried - I would do so, but that's obviously impossible. Certainly, you must realize how much worse life would be for all of us had the Luddites succeeded.
103.
by jonas21 8mo ago
It's correct in the same way as saying ads in the New York Times don't change the articles. Seems fair.
104.
by jonas21 8mo ago
So that you can be using the current frontier model for the next 8 months instead of twiddling your thumbs waiting for the next one to come out? I think you (and others) might be misunderstanding his statement a bit. He's not saying th
105.
by jonas21 8mo ago
> There is also a solenoid inside the enclosure, but since the keyboard is not powered up, this was not being activated — and these are seemingly particularly loud! But why? The teletypewriters, paper terminals and card punches which pr
106.
by jonas21 8mo ago
Yeah. Waymo described how this works a couple of years ago: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response/
107.
by jonas21 8mo ago
The top-level comment was edited. It originally said that it was chillingly familiar to us or something along those lines.
108.
by jonas21 8mo ago
Isn't Little Snitch exactly the sort of application they're worried about?
109.
by jonas21 8mo ago
> I'm willing to accept robotaxis, and accidents in robotaxis, but there needs to be some solid figures showing they are way _way_ safer than human drivers. Do you mean like this? https://waymo.com/safety/impa
110.
by jonas21 9mo ago
You owe the same amount in income taxes regardless of whether you're paid in stock or cash. I think you're confusing this with the case where founders or early employees own large amounts of stock that they received early on in th
111.
by jonas21 9mo ago
> At this point it seems pretty clear that LLMs are having a major impact on how software is built, but for almost every other industry the practical effects are mostly incremental. Even just a year ago, most people thought the practic
112.
by jonas21 9mo ago
I have no idea what you are even asking Claude to do here.
113.
by jonas21 9mo ago
If you click through to the study that the Guardian based this article on [1], it looks like it was done by an SEO firm, by a Content Marketing Manager. Kind of ironic, given that it's about the quality of cited sources. [1] https:&#x
114.
by jonas21 9mo ago
It does have these details for the current generation hardware. And if you want more, click on the link at the top: https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-in...
115.
by jonas21 9mo ago
There's also an entire section on "what constitutes genuine helpfulness"
116.
by jonas21 9mo ago
AI capex may or may not flatten in the near future (and I don't necessarily see a reason why it would). But smartphone capex already has. Like smartphones, AI chips also have a replacement cycle. AI chips depreciate quickly -- not beca
117.
by jonas21 9mo ago
Yes, that's my point. Neither driving nor coding with an LLM is perfectly deterministic. You have to learn to deal with different things happening if you want do do either successfully.
118.
by jonas21 9mo ago
Operating a car (i.e. driving) is certainly not deterministic. Even if you take the same route over and over, you never know exactly what other drivers or pedestrians are going to do, or whether there will be unexpected road conditions, con
119.
by jonas21 9mo ago
There are plenty of non-blockchain, non-NFT, non-online gambling, non-adtech, non-facist software jobs. In fact, the vast majority of software jobs are. You can refuse to work with all of these things and not even notice a meaningful differ
120.
by jonas21 9mo ago
Yeah, it's apparently pulling in over $800K in annual revenue [1]. EDIT: Doing the math on the sponsor list, it's probably around $1M in ARR now. [1] https://petersuhm.com/posts/2025/

More ›