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271.
by loeg 4mo ago
Where are you seeing billionaires not supporting the rule of law (and Zuckerberg in particular)?
272.
by loeg 4mo ago
To be a little pedantic, the usual zstd levels are positive integers (1-22 default 3). The negative integers denote "fast" modes with worse compression (there are only a few of these).
273.
by loeg 4mo ago
This is how it has always been? C-suite is incentivized to make big speculative changes; if it goes well, they get credit. If not, oh well.
274.
by loeg 4mo ago
30 minutes outside of the suburbs doesn't sound like an awful commute.
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by loeg 4mo ago
On-site natural gas turbines at a handful of DCs are genuinely loud. In general I agree that DCs are mostly fine neighbors, but maybe louder power plants aren't.
276.
by loeg 4mo ago
There's just a lot of fresh water almost anywhere you'd want to site a DC. In places where water is more expensive, obviously it doesn't make sense.
277.
by loeg 4mo ago
Evaporative cooling consumes less expensive electricity than air conditioning. Electricity is much more expensive than water (for the same cooling load) in most places DCs are located.
278.
by loeg 4mo ago
You have to design your hardware to tolerate being run in consistently hotter conditions. There's a tradeoff between cooling cost and failure rate / capex.
279.
by loeg 4mo ago
Not a P2P innovation with Bittorrent, FWIW. Kademlia DHT (used in eMule/LimeWire/Gnutella P2P networks) long predates Bittorrent.
280.
by loeg 4mo ago
What? GP's claim is that hair provides a similar benefit. VA is simply not testing heads with hair on them -- their tests can't "show otherwise" (your claim).
281.
by loeg 4mo ago
Is it worth helmets that are 100g heavier and don't breathe as well, though?
282.
by loeg 4mo ago
VA's test dummy doesn't have hair.
283.
by loeg 4mo ago
The target market is media (and social media). This won't be sold.
284.
by loeg 4mo ago
It might make more sense to put this in the glasses than attached to the helmet, which is ultimately a consumable. But I basically agree with sibling comment that no one really wants this. (I race bikes and know a lot of other racers.)
285.
by loeg 4mo ago
It's not intended to be a real helmet. It's a prototype / marketing exercise. It is inevitably too expensive and/or heavy to be a practical helmet.
286.
by loeg 4mo ago
Then do?
287.
by loeg 4mo ago
I believe I already addressed this in my earlier remarks ("almost no money, especially 401(k) money, is in [Nasdaq 100 tracking funds]").
288.
by loeg 4mo ago
CRSP is float-weighted!
289.
by loeg 4mo ago
Nasdaq isn't super relevant.
290.
by loeg 4mo ago
The relevant indices (S&P500, Vanguard) buy in proportion to available float -- i.e., its market cap is weighted by 5%. Only Nasdaq 100 ignores float, stupidly, but almost no money, especially 401(k) money, is in that.
291.
by loeg 4mo ago
E.g., by physically crushing up tablets and dissolving them in a solution.
292.
by loeg 4mo ago
Hm. Why wouldn't it work? The user wrote to the physical page backing both the non-doubled and doubled extent.
293.
by loeg 4mo ago
Not 30-50%.
294.
by loeg 4mo ago
Have you done the I-90 <-> SR 18 interchange out by Preston yet?
295.
by loeg 4mo ago
It would be totally fine to put one of those articles as the associated URL with this headline, just not the St Louis Fed chart. The HN guidelines call for HN headlines to use the same headline as the linked article, not one made up out of
296.
by loeg 4mo ago
"Editorialized" headline. Or rather, the linked page is just data, captioned "Industrial Production: Manufacturing: Durable Goods: Battery." Yes, yes, line go up. This is probably good. But the headline only exists on
297.
by loeg 4mo ago
> This is interesting to me because reducing context & token usage is in the user's best interest but not in the financial interest of AI vendors. AI vendors still need to compete with each other both in terms of token cost and
298.
by loeg 4mo ago
Eh, maybe. It's not clear that some won't be returned to their old roles eventually. Personally, I think I'd prefer the layoff with severance over this kind of transfer.
299.
by loeg 4mo ago
> If someone was using Fable they don’t have any second best alternative outside of Anthropic. GPT-5.5 isn't awful.
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by loeg 4mo ago
Which is of course better than zero sandbox escapes.

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