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by simonsarris 10mo ago
I always liked the definition of technology as "doing more with less". 100 oxen replaced by 1 gallon of diesel, etc. That it costs more does suggest it's "doing more with more", at least.
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
Can you talk a bit more about why its viewed as unsolvable?
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
"planting a bomb in front of a military camp" is like the textbook goal for bomb-planting devices (airplanes, artillery, MRLs), its one of the most normal scenarios out of all of normal war scenarios. Planting a bomb on each soldi
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
Interestingly, their slow 2020 hiring pace became a strength as the 2022 post-ZIRP layoff bloodbath hit as well. Though I don't know if they've had layoffs since.
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
There's no steering anything. You are not paying for yourself, you are paying for current retirees on the hopes that there will be enough people to pay for your. Current retirees are not getting enough from that, so they are accumulati
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
> How severe? A sustainable U.S. debt trajectory would entail elimination of nearly all defense spending or almost all non-defense discretionary outlays, he estimated. Reminder that infrastructure is ~3% of the budget, the military is ~1
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
I agree its not ideal, and I think that will fundamentally limit it for now. The problem (and my solution) is that x has a convenient way to get every user a name, a profile picture and a way to be linked-back to something else immediatel
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Show HN: Meetinghouse.cc – a place to find and be found(meetinghouse.cc)
3 points by simonsarris 10mo ago|5 comments
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
Didn't they announce all kinds of other things? A social network like X, and a browser, at least.
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
crazy enough since I was discussing it on Twitter for so long, I didn't think of that. I just added one to the site.
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Show HN: Meetinghouse.cc, a site to find and be found(meetinghouse.cc)
3 points by simonsarris 10mo ago|3 comments
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
Possibly as an American you haven't seen the prayer protests blocking streets in Montreal and elsewhere yet. https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1n3608j/leslie_robe... https://www.re
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by simonsarris 11mo ago
Part of the problem is that SROs work if any only if you are able to evict an unruly tenant at a moment's notice. If you have 5 people paying by the week, sharing 1 kitchen and 1 bathroom[1], and one of them becomes a menace, you nee
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by simonsarris 11mo ago
4 Months ago it was $12B, HN commentary here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573574
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by simonsarris 11mo ago
This is an out of date take. Not long after the fracking boom that began in the mid 2000's, The US is now by far the world's largest oil producer. We used to produce less oil than Saudi Arabia, now we produce 66% more. We produce
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by simonsarris 11mo ago
Yeah we have state liquor stores in NH and they are much more expensive[1] than driving down to Massachusetts and going to total wine. The point of the stores is not to supply people in the Shire with liquor for cheaper. It's to make i
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by simonsarris 11mo ago
We've been doing that for a long time. Average worker in 1900 worked 3000 hours 1950 worked 2000 hours 2023 worked 1790 hours There's been a decline as living standards (and expectations) have dramatically increas
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Viscerality(map.simonsarris.com)
2 points by simonsarris 11mo ago|0 comments
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by simonsarris 11mo ago
Why would anyone take a programming job over the summer fresh out of high school? What makes that a terrible deal? What is your counterfactual here?
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by simonsarris 11mo ago
We pay the interns. Is that not usual where you are?
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by simonsarris 11mo ago
My company has exclusively hired interns out of high school, including myself, since the mid 2000s. Every single hire was an intern first, either as a junior or senior in HS. The board is now 2/3rds former interns (I'm one of them
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by simonsarris 11mo ago
I don't really believe that, and I thought it was interesting on Meta's earnings call that Zuck (or the COO) said that it seems unlikely at this point that a single company will dominate every use of LLMs/image models, and th
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by simonsarris 1y ago
I mean, one could write something like "I cannot imagine why people actually like ski resorts" - 100% likelihood you lose money - the point of the game is fly down a mountain and not hit any trees (about 45 more deaths per year th
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by simonsarris 1y ago
huh, maybe I got in just before that. I ordered 1/31/2025, ship date 3/25/2025 from Hoovers in Iowa (even though I'm in NH they are very reliable), and there was plenty of stock.
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by simonsarris 1y ago
There is a wide space where LLMs and their offshoots make enormous productivity gains, while looking nothing like actual artificial intelligence (which has been rebranded AGI), and Nvidia turns out to have a justified valuation etc.
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by simonsarris 1y ago
> Capitalism is Luddite at a fundamental level You mean: Capitalism is luddite at the individual level. At the aggregate level, it's the opposite. > in a capitalist economy all participants are always incentivised to grow as larg
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by simonsarris 1y ago
Well, the goal-oriented behavior of the AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile is even more obvious. It might even have a higher success rate than CLI coding tools. But it's not helpful to claim it has any agency.
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by simonsarris 1y ago
Parent comment was correct to say "Probably nothing that you wouldn't find in any other construction site with heavy machinery." Actually they're extremely common anywhere any kind of finish construction is involved, inc
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by simonsarris 1y ago
The value of silver has also been decreasing arbitrarily as traders trade it! Just like real live dollar bills! That's literally what the article is about, Silver is finally making it back to prices (in real dollar bill terms) not se
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by simonsarris 1y ago
I mean, you can't use it in any meaningful way as currency without involving the "fake" dollars, whys it the real one? It's hard to even talk about it without mentioning those other dollars! Have to imagine someone carry

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