oceanplexian

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by oceanplexian 3mo ago
I was in Italy 6 months ago, more than one person told me they are at the point of desperation due to the incredibly low wages (<3000 EUR/month).
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by oceanplexian 3mo ago
> OpenAI genuinely have AI technologies that can improve chip design (bold, unlikely claim, needs evidence) Why is that a bold and unlikely claim? Are you saying that AI, which has been proven to cure diseases, solve our hardest math pro
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by oceanplexian 3mo ago
AI is the canary in the coal mine. They don't have an AI problem they have an everything problem. Inability to maintain energy security, declines in manufacturing, their social programs are no longer sustainable (Pension age rises and
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by oceanplexian 3mo ago
I live a few hours outside Las Vegas and it's a lot more survivable than you would think given primitive technology and some knowledge. I have one of those portable evaporative coolers and they don't need much power (50-100W). I h
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by oceanplexian 4mo ago
Yeah, 20 months of Claude Max until they rugpull you. I’m spending 7-10k/month in raw token costs on Claude Max. Having an alternative is a nice insurance policy.
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by oceanplexian 4mo ago
It depends what you’re using it for. Real time interactive Claude code session? No, it’s kind of impractical. But if you already have agent loops dialed in (For example I have one that uses a browser testing framework), it wouldn’t really a
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by oceanplexian 4mo ago
As soon as Llama came out I had a realization what was coming and went all-in on hardware with the assumption open source would catch up with GPT4. Surprise, it did, we now have small models that absolutely crush GPT4 in performance. It was
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by oceanplexian 4mo ago
One solution is that United States radically supports free speech and provides Starlink access to Europeans as a humanitarian act. It would be similar to Radio Free Europe which was broadcast to the former Soviet States.
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by oceanplexian 4mo ago
Too many people are seeing this like engineers and not like bureaucrats. They won't be able to block all VPN services, and they don't really care. VPN still works in China. The entire point is to acclimate the public to a system o
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by oceanplexian 4mo ago
Yeah, great article. But it should get to the point. The reason you need to physically remove yourself is because of the insane lunatics that blast trash music and do a dance while aggressively panhandling or screaming at you for trying to
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by oceanplexian 4mo ago
A lot of this is over my head but why would you do compression when GPU time is the most expensive thing in the world right now? KV can be trivially stored on ram or even a spinning disk and retrieved on the order of milliseconds. See LM ca
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by oceanplexian 4mo ago
Why is it such a dramatic statement for Boris to claim that he no longer writes code? Are people on HN still typing out functions by hand one character at a time? It would be like a developer in 2020 claiming that he only writes assembly be
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by oceanplexian 4mo ago
I installed 4 mini splits with it two years ago and they are still working great and blowing ice cold air. It walked me through measuring refrigerant, subcool and superheat, pulling the vacuum, brazing the lines, exactly what tools to buy,
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by oceanplexian 4mo ago
Saying that society is divided on AI therefore HN, being society, should also be divided is an absurd take. I expect the people in here to be domain experts, understand simple concepts like closed loop water cooling, deterministic vs non-de
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by oceanplexian 4mo ago
The short answer is all those problems have already been solved. Israel desalinates 75-85% of its drinking water. The problem is political and economic dysfunction. California for example could be doing widespread desalination with nuclear
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by oceanplexian 4mo ago
I’d love more datacenters so I can colo my pet projects and startup like I was doing in the early 2000s The point where we decided we would put all infrastructure in N. Virginia, stop owning hardware and rent it from a corporation charging
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by oceanplexian 4mo ago
Don’t be fooled, they already 100% do that if you use any of these products.
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by oceanplexian 4mo ago
Claude is something like $35 per million tokens. If I was using API pricing I could trivially spend $100 in a single hour long coding session, with /fast turned on in about 10 minutes. Not sure how you guys are using it.
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by oceanplexian 4mo ago
Or you could let information be free, at least the stuff that’s on the public net. As for issues like bots overloading websites or using too many resources scaling laws will take care of it quickly, it’s not like you can’t serve thousands o
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by oceanplexian 4mo ago
I feel like these arguments are always framed as an evil corporation wants to take advantage of consumers. Except that's misdirection. The guilty party isn't the corporation, it's you, the consumer. And the corporations are a
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by oceanplexian 5mo ago
14 years is impressive? Wait until you find out how long a real book can last.
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by oceanplexian 5mo ago
The word loses all meaning then, because so were the ancestors of the indigenous people who crossed the Bearing Strait.
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by oceanplexian 5mo ago
What position was Kamala Harris in the DNC Primaries before she was appointed as the General Election Candidate? First place? Second Place? Surely she must have been in the top 3?
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by oceanplexian 5mo ago
These vehicle emissions laws are almost always fake compliance theater and were dreamed up by idiots. They are a huge drag on the economy and achieve absolutely nothing. For example, the reason we don’t have super efficient turbodiesel subc
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by oceanplexian 5mo ago
> They're both doing well but I'd lean towards China is winning on atoms in light of a huge manufacturing base they can AI-ify. Why would an American company outsource manufacturing to China if the labor cost is the same in bot
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by oceanplexian 5mo ago
It’s actually harder (requires more advanced technology) to refine heavy and sour crude. The US refining industry process this type of oil mainly because it’s more profitable not because of some limitation. American oil on the other hand (A
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by oceanplexian 5mo ago
Texas has plenty of refineries and the children there aren’t dying or choking on the air.
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by oceanplexian 5mo ago
It’s not enough to “make a profit”. Southwest has 30B in assets and makes $441M in profit. Like most airlines it’s a miracle of modern economics and should practically be considered a charity or a nonprofit. You would make more in treasurie
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by oceanplexian 5mo ago
Kroger and the others operate razor thin margins. They offer programs for low income consumers, support local and national charities, do second chance hiring and specifically create unique roles for people with disabilities. They aren’t req
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by oceanplexian 5mo ago
They have to operate in California though, so I don't blame them. This is a state that made me a criminal for putting the wrong air filter on my car (Clearly my bad for putting on the 49 State legal version that makes the tailpipe emis

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