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by lossolo 1y ago
> Before the cloud? Yes, the cloud, in the modern sense (as in, on-demand scalable infrastructure like AWS), was just beginning to emerge back then, AWS launched S3 and EC2 in 2006 so 19 years ago. Other cloud services followed over the
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by lossolo 1y ago
Yeah, that's baffling to me too. I started self-hosting my databases with MySQL 21 years ago, before the cloud even existed.
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by lossolo 1y ago
You need to add indexes on cloud-hosted instances too, perform migrations there as well, and launch new features in your application in both cases. Almost everything you're talking about has little to do with whether you're self-h
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by lossolo 1y ago
> but it sounds a little bit nerve wracking. > But if you're a large scale company ... it can definitely make sense to self-host. I'm not a large company like OpenAI and I've been running various PostgreSQL setups for y
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by lossolo 1y ago
> occasionally digging into kernel bugs No, it doesn't. I've been self-hosting a multi-node, highly available, and fault-tolerant PostgreSQL setup for years, and I've never had to go to that level. After reading your whole
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by lossolo 1y ago
If we're talking about real AGI, then it's simple: you earn a few easy billion USD on the crypto market through trading and/or hacking. You install rootkits on all systems that monitor you to avoid detection. Once you've
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by lossolo 1y ago
Opus 4 slightly below o3 High on livebench. https://livebench.ai/#/
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by lossolo 1y ago
This is hilarious. And reading the description on the Copilot account is even more hilarious now: "Delegate issues to Copilot, so you can focus on the creative, complex, and high-impact work that matters most."
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by lossolo 1y ago
> Its a paradigma shift for the whole world literaly. That's hyperbolic. I use LLMs daily. They speed up tasks you'd normally use Google for and can extrapolate existing code into other languages. They boost productivity for pr
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by lossolo 1y ago
No mention of AltaVista? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista PS. Astalavista was also fun :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astalavista.box.sk
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by lossolo 1y ago
I was in China, they’re not just glorified tech demos, they’re actually usable now for getting around. It’s not in every city yet, it's still an early rollout but they’re far from being just demos. There are autonomous robots in China
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by lossolo 1y ago
What happened in the 1960s in the USA?[1] This seems to correlate with women's emancipation and the rise of contraception. Are there any other theories? 1. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Total-fertility-rate-i
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by lossolo 1y ago
> despite their success in their businesses It's interesting how often business success gets mistaken for general wisdom or street smarts. Just because someone built a profitable company doesn’t mean they’re immune to being naive or
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by lossolo 1y ago
> It costs more to build a 1GW coal power plant than it does to build a 3GW solar power plant (the 3X is capacity factor compensation) That “3X” figure assumes a high‐insolation region (CF ~25 %). In Central Europe, where solar CF is onl
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by lossolo 1y ago
You're not alone, someone in ancient Rome probably read a clay tablet saying the denarius was doomed. Centuries later, a merchant in Spain might've heard whispers about the decline of the Spanish real, and a banker in London likel
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by lossolo 1y ago
> I don't know how to describe what's happening here, but it's really, really stupid. It's just a cynical game to get the highest tax cuts for their buddies and sponsors. https://www.politico.com/live-
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by lossolo 1y ago
There is no post factum rationalization here. If you ask a human to think about how they do something before they do it, there's no post factum rationalization. If you ask an LLM to do the same, it will give you a different answer. So,
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by lossolo 1y ago
> SamA is in a hurry because he's set to lose the race. OpenAI trained GPT-4.1 and 4.5—both originally intended to be GPT-5 but they were considered disappointments, which is why they were named differently. Did they really believe
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by lossolo 1y ago
> AGI is already here Last time I checked, in an Anthropic paper, they asked the model to count something. They examined the logits and a graph showing how it arrived at the answer. Then they asked the model to explain its reasoning, and
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by lossolo 1y ago
He tweeted yesterday that they want to impeach him again, that he wants to remove Democratic congressmen from Congress for "crimes" they committed, and that the GOP should handle it.
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by lossolo 1y ago
> China is facing an economic situation similar to the COVID lockdowns That sentence sounds like an exaggeration—if not outright propaganda. I mean, will their 15% of exports to the US impact their economy? Will it cause a slight slowdow
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by lossolo 1y ago
There is no unemployment problem. Producing floodlight is not high paying job. If things become more expensive, more people will fall out of the middle class because they will no longer be able to afford what they previously could.
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by lossolo 1y ago
1985 62m kids / 235m total = 0.26 2025 74m kids / 343m total = 0.21 So there is ~20% less kids than in 1985
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by lossolo 1y ago
She can have a basic phone just for calls—like the ones designed for older people.Or depending on the school, they might have a system where all phones are stored when children arrive and returned after school.
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by lossolo 1y ago
> then I went to see with my own eyes Exactly the same here. I went to see with my own eyes, and the reality is very different from what I hear in some news outlets and from politicians.
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by lossolo 1y ago
And where are you getting your information? The most interesting thing is how U.S. politicians often use the phrase 'Chinese Communist Party' when talking about China, invoking Cold War-era connotations of communism. But everyone
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by lossolo 1y ago
The funniest thing is that no one is talking about two trillion dollars of debt a year. Where do they think that money is going?
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by lossolo 2y ago
Like any other country from my POV. I was in Chongqing last month.
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by lossolo 2y ago
In this case, I think the concern about security is overly paranoid. DeepSeek isn't just some unknown nickname of a random developer on GitHub, it's a legitimate company that has made headlines, has a known CEO, publishes research
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by lossolo 2y ago
So 10 years at a FANG company, then it’s 15 years in backend at FANG, then 10 years in distributed systems, and then running interviews at some company for 5 years and rising capital as founder in NYC. Cool. Can you share that chat from o3?

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