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541.
by twoodfin 10mo ago
A pie that includes sand which is now turned into GPUs that can solve complex problems described in English. Value that was unlocked fairly recently from “one pie”.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
Why do you say the ATTO 3 is comparable to the Tesla? Seems like a completely different class of EV from a power and range perspective.
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The Bell Curve of Global CO2 Emission Intensity (2023)(frbsf.org)
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
I’m going to guess that a true competitive push into the US market would have marginal costs that exceed getting into Oz. But anyway your comment inspired me to do some digging: The high end Sea Lion 7 from BYD apparently tops out at around
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
The obsession seems mostly based around the naive assumption that you can take a Shenzhen sticker price, convert to USD, and that’s what the car would sell for at a US dealer, were it not for tariffs. This is the wrong mental model for a fe
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Versant: Decoding the OpenVerse (2022) [pdf](opentext.com)
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
Right but the inspiration for this article is using Java as a terminal vibe coding language, so the aot step would be part of the critical path. I’m not surprised this was not obvious to the LLM that “cleaned up my notes” for the “author”.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
If we’re talking about invention rather than discovery, who created the inflection point between potential and actual use seems relevant if not dispositive.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
I don’t recall seeing entire economies betting on 4GLs. Not even a nitpick because the scale is indeed orders of magnitude different, but… There was a lot of chatter, government attention, and both public and private money chasing 4GL’s
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
I don’t know, either, but I’ve got data from the Fed, what would you suggest looking at instead?
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
You don’t have to have an enormous amount of stored wealth to be on a livable fixed income (e.g. a municipal pension) and that income could be very lightly taxed today relative to a viable consumption tax.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
The problem with a consumption tax is not the steady state, but the transition from the current state. How do you take a retiree couple whose main income-earning days are far behind them, and ask them to pay 25% or more on their consumption
553.
by twoodfin 10mo ago
And people say Ayn Rand was a juvenile fantasist! Don’t worry, the rich will keep working to fund our society. They don’t have any choice, they’re so obsessed with little pieces of paper.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
The shibboleths aren’t the problem with AI writing; the problem is that it’s bad writing. Good writing uses novel combinations of tools (vocabulary, rhetoric, metaphor) to communicate novel ideas. Bad writing is a cargo cult of those tools.
555.
by twoodfin 10mo ago
The problem is deeper than that: The majority of hn readers seem to prefer the AI voice. De gustibus non est disputandum (The writers of HBO’s Westworld deserve a retroactive Emmy. We’re speedrunning to their speculative fantasy much
556.
by twoodfin 10mo ago
“Disposable income” is what’s left after debt repayment and essentials like food, health care, and shelter. What did you think it meant? I can’t make sense of your reply.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
We don’t ask people to accept less, quite the opposite: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A229RX0
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
Great point. I’m trying to imagine, with the full benefit of hindsight, who that might have been in that era. Jim Clark is the best I can come up with.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
A stable kernel API?
560.
by twoodfin 10mo ago
HN’s front page isn’t 20% AI-generated—sorry, “cleaned up from my notes”—but it’s a lot closer than it was a few weeks ago. The problem is that it’s working; HN voters seem to love the stuff.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
I don’t think that’s a solution. The problem isn’t the surface tics—em dashes, short exclamatory sentences, lists of three, “Not X: Y!”. Those are symptoms of the deep, statistically-built tissue of LLM “understanding” of “how to write a te
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
Indeed, I am coming around in the past few weeks to realization and acceptance that the LLM editorial voice is a benefit to an order of magnitude more hn readers than those (like us) for whom it is ice pick in the nostril stuff. Oh well, al
563.
by twoodfin 10mo ago
I think the key misalignment here is whether the output of an appropriately prompted LLM can ever be considered an “act of kindness”.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
What made git special & powerful from the start was its data model: Like the network databases of old, but embedded in a Merkle tree for independent evolution and verifiability. Scaling that data model beyond projects the size of the Li
565.
by twoodfin 10mo ago
And now we’re told that bet was such a sure thing that regulators should have blocked it!
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
I’m whatever the opposite is of a devoted fan of Newsom, but I think describing the cause of this aggregate mess as PG&E buying politicians is well off the mark. The problem is that PG&E is just one player in a system built up over
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
The redirect on the French Laundry thing is going to be epic.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
Thanks, my bad. I didn’t continue reading past the sections on Entity Framework and AutoMapper.
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
How does C# the language or C# the language standard evolution process accommodate a new keyword with such a generic name? Is it context-dependent?
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by twoodfin 10mo ago
Indeed. “No modals” has been a rallying cry since Larry Tesler and the Macintosh, but I haven’t seen a useful dissection of the problems with the other extreme. As you point out, VSCode in particular is loaded with ever-changing user feedba

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