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by skybrian 5mo ago
It makes good financial sense for a company to sell shares when the price is high and do stock buybacks when it's low. I guess they think the price is on the high side? Also, selling shares puts them in a better position to survive a d
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by skybrian 5mo ago
If the S&P 500 dropped 20%, that's about a year's growth. Long-term investors who bought before that would be poorer than they thought they were, but they're not worse off than they started and there wouldn't be any
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I thought it was mostly capital costs (chips), not operating costs (electricity).
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by skybrian 5mo ago
If we get low enough latency, there's no reason to multitask. You can ask it to do one thing at a time and immediately see what it did. That's a nice way to work! This is normal interactive UI for tasks that aren't compute-in
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by skybrian 5mo ago
If success depends on the people involved, some teams will get good results and others will get bad results, and there’s no contradiction. But it also means the results don’t generalize. [1] To avoid coercion, you might need to start a new
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Any Internet service could cancel your account. This isn't unique to AI.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
How will anyone find them, though, if there's so much slop that people stop looking?
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by skybrian 5mo ago
It looks like farming is declining in New York? > Over the past 10 years the number of farms and amount of land actively being farmed in the United States has steadily decreased. Between 2015 and 2025 the number of farms decreased by alm
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I have a project where I asked the coding agent to write a design doc for each new feature. It now has 80 or so design docs, which aren’t kept up to date, so it’s a historical reference that we don’t go back to in practice. At some point I
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by skybrian 5mo ago
You might be interested in this graph, [1] which suggests that the amount of time that AI's can run on their own has been increasing. Perhaps it will hit diminishing returns, but that seems difficult to predict. [1] https://
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Maybe, but an alternative argument that building an ecosystem is more valuable in the long run. We started out with many companies forbidding their employees to use remote LLMs on their source code because of security concerns. Now many com
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by skybrian 5mo ago
The videos I'm complaining about on the NYT aren't ads. They seem to think they're CNN or something. I don't want CNN. I want a newspaper.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
People have been warning about AI coming for decades. For better or worse, it's embedded in popular culture, in science fiction books and movies. But that's different from figuring out practically what to do. It's cultural ev
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I wonder how this plays out. Perhaps programmers in these countries will use cheaper models like Deepseek and they will be able to compete better, so offshoring continues?
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I expect them to treat subscribers well so they will renew.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Another example of being user-hostile is that they put videos on the front page that autoplay and can't be paused. I will not renew either.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
If they're all the same, why are there fire risk maps for California showing some places to be riskier than others?
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by skybrian 5mo ago
If we ask "what is it conscious of when it writes something" then training time is irrelevant. The software that does the inference is clearly just computer code. What we're left with is a fictional character being briefly co
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I think Chiang is right about this, but there is a related philosophical mystery. The trend from Deep Blue to AlphaGo to LLMs solving Erdos problems suggests that Peter Watts was onto something when he wrote Blindsight. Reasoning ability
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by skybrian 5mo ago
It's an extra 18k a year for developer tools when they're paying how much a year per developer? Having software developers at all isn't cheap. Also, I don't believe you need to spend $1500 a month on a coding agent if yo
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by skybrian 5mo ago
There are alternatives, but being able to use an external amplified speaker and also move around easily would be nice. Maybe it's not feasible yet.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
What I mean is, it seems like people should moving away from places with high wildfire risk? If so, building more housing as YIMBY encourages is counterproductive. Instead, they should disallow building there. There are similar arguments ab
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I'm interested in audio out because I dabble in musical instruments. What's the state of Bluetooth audio out on microcontrollers? Is low latency and high quality output possible?
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I’m usually pretty YIMBY, but I would make an exception for a place that just had a catastrophic wildfire. (That is, unless something’s been done to lower the wildfire risk.)
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by skybrian 5mo ago
> Don’t look for a section on permissions or consent in that document, by the way. There isn’t one. And nothing about nerd lawyer stuff like “opt out of sale” or “objections to processing” in there, either. The Big Tech companies want a
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Yes, it flips it from “don’t use a remote LLM on our code because security” to “we must run an LLM on our code because security.”
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by skybrian 5mo ago
This is just cover for being sore that you don’t have access yet <- see what I did there? People and organizations can have mixed motivations. It’s often not “just” one thing.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
It’s true that providing security services to so many organizations will likely put them in a position to earn lots of money. It makes them an essential service, sort of like what happened with Cloudflare and denial-of-service attacks. (The
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by skybrian 5mo ago
More money for less stock, because Google’s stock has gone up in price. By contrast, a stock buyback makes sense when the stock is cheap. So I guess Google doesn’t think their stock is particularly cheap, but Berkshire Hathaway wants to b
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by skybrian 5mo ago
From Matt Levine’s column today: > The index demand is not 100% of the stock available in the IPO, or 110%, or even 50%. But it’s plausibly more than 25%. It’s not a short squeeze, but it’s a lot. Add a reported 30% allocation to retail,

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