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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
I'm not disagreeing with this article (I know nothing of this field) but this Wiki article and many others explicitly state that Urobilin[1] is the compound that makes urine yellow. The posted article states: "Urobilin has long be
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
Really interesting to see where the scaling and complexity limits are for blockchains. In this case, it's signature aggregation for the huge numbers of machines (~hundreds of thousands now in Ethereum) that attest to the validity of st
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Ibis+DuckDB vs. X: Performance Across the Ecosystem(ibis-project.org)
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
This is a follow-up to "Ibis: Querying every file in every release on the Python Package Index"[1]. [1]: https://ibis-project.org/posts/querying-pypi-metadata-compil...
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
> Those customers are not able to use iMessage to securely communicate with Android users. Well, they can't now as a result of blocking Beeper. But they could — using Beeper. It's one thing to argue that you won't open t
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
Almost everyone I know uses Signal regularly, then iMessage after that. Discord comes up in certain settings. Instagram sounds like a pretty awful place to remain connected with someone.
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
It's outrageous how much power have accumulated in the hands of the companies that control platforms with network effects: Apple, Google, Valve, and others. Every developer should think twice about what risks they're accepting bef
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
I prefer news that doesn't lie by omission or lie by selective retelling. It's naive to believe a story like this is complete and honest. After your work has been covered by the media, you may understand how the trick is executed.
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
Was Gizmodo ever great? Sad to see them chase the negative angle.
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
I say this very sparingly: this may be one of the worst "numbers-based" comments I've ever read on Hacker News. Typically, such comments don't leave out the critical fact: _you can't reuse gasoline like a battery_.
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
Jalopnik is a silly website, and not because the person you're replying to disagrees with them. :)
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
Makes sense. Thank you.
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
But what's the benefit of cutting out the full-blown operating system? It's rare that such things would be the bottleneck.
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
The different cohorts of "AI Safety" advocates intentionally conflate these things. This is why it's been helpful to split out the "x-risk" types as "doomers" and the regulatory capture types as "safe
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
The AI safety people may be one of the most destructive forces in tech history.
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
I don't normally participate in this threads but need to share: my Opal C1 is great. I've used it for more than a year now with only one software problem that was solved in a matter of weeks. It really does look far better than th
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
OP is incorrect. Embeddings are still needed since (1) context windows can't contain all data and (2) data memorization and continuous retraining is not yet viable.
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
Embeddings are still important (context windows can't contain all data + memorization and continuous retraining is not yet viable), and vertical AI agent startups can still lead on UX.
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
The way incumbents are attempting to seize power via regulatory capture, using "X-Risk" and fantastical claims of sudden human extinction is maybe one of the most cynical ploys in the history of tech so far. Open source is one of
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
Here[1] is a detailed, thoughtful article demonstrating specifically that many outlets — including the NYT — make extremely significant errors increasingly often, using a recent major mistake as an example. And not only do they generally n
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
You're wrong on the basics: many people on earth are arguably most of the western world until the 19th century had families out of a sense of pragmatic and religious obligation to continue their line.[1] This is not love. But worse, no
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
Here's a great list of books about exactly those subjects.[1] I have enjoyed many of them. [1]: https://x.com/pmarca/status/1577365972469489665
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
Incredibly good line.
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
Read the other comments in this thread: HN, like much of west coast tech, has started to fracture along political lines. When I first joined HN many years ago, it was a haven for techno-optimism (not unlike this essay), but has fallen back
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
I already liked the piece, but the cynicism on display here makes me like it better. It may have struck a nerve, which is usually a positive indicator that a set of ideas is hitting something in the zeitgeist. The ideas aren't misunder
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
Hackers love techno-propaganda.
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
The list is labeled "Patron Saints" — only a following sentence mentions "reading their works". Many listed aren't really "authors" at all. And Ayn Rand would have enjoyed having "John Galt" list
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
I truly and thoroughly loved this essay, and am appalled (but not too surprised, unfortunately) by the pearl-clutching comments from a few apparent neoluddites in here.
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
This thread by Guido Appenzeller from a16z's AI team is a strong rebuttal of the Sequoia article.[1] I personally found Sequoia's argument a bit strange, since it not only misunderstands the unit economics of the industry at a bas
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by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
Even assuming otherwise ideal conditions, choosing between two (mostly similar) political parties doesn't contain enough expressive power. Choosing goods in markets does. It's a computation problem as much as anything else.

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