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by twoodfin 1y ago
OK, which sectors were monopolies (or even duopolies) in the 1970’s that have survived to this day? Maybe oil? A few agricultural sectors? If you actually look at the corporations that are consuming Americans’ income in 2025 vs. the equival
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by twoodfin 1y ago
How does Stoller explain why since the 1970’s there’s been massive turnover whether you look at the largest 10 companies, the largest 100, or the largest 1,000?
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by twoodfin 1y ago
But these aren’t replicators owned by a monopolist. There are a number of highly funded, highly competitive vendors at every level of the stack.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
How so?
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Self-supervised learning, JEPA, world models, and the future of AI [video](youtube.com)
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by twoodfin 1y ago
What I’m imagining is essentially a supply chain attack: The victim (mistakenly) trusts the attacker to supply an encoder. The encoder appears to function normally, but in fact will subtly leak information smuggled in decoded values of the
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by twoodfin 1y ago
The obvious concern would be data-dependent backdoors for malicious “decoding”, i.e. correctly decoding ordinary data, but manipulating the decoding of targeted data in some compromising way. That relies on some rather far-fetched assumptio
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by twoodfin 1y ago
If this is a real market, I’d expect AWS to introduce S3 Junkyard with a similar durability and cost structure. They probably still won’t budge on the egress fees.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
hn discussion of the GTA bug that triggered this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43772311
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by twoodfin 1y ago
The side effects of “Buy American” rules do not include a dynamic, competitive domestic bus manufacturing industry. Just the opposite. If the Chinese want to subsidize our mass transit buildout, why not let them? Are busses really critical
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by twoodfin 1y ago
As edited by ChatGPT…
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by twoodfin 1y ago
This is one of those comments that make me wish hn gave out a daily use “super upvote”. I’d only extend that point 2 is true for many cutting-edge treatments beyond simply drug development & is tied to point 1: If you pay doctors top-fl
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by twoodfin 1y ago
She was forced to sign it?
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Sure. Was that what happened here, or was it an everyday contract to enforce confidentiality in return for some benefit?
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by twoodfin 1y ago
She wasn’t required. She had the agency to choose not to sign it.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Nathan Fielder is a genius. The Rehearsal is less in-the-moment cringe and more soul-soaking cringe. Amazing stuff.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
If Intel had a server SKU with fully integrated, competitive performance GPU cores that work with CUDA + unified memory, they’d sell billions worth in a day to the CSPs alone. Sounds like they will someday soon. There will always be giant,
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by twoodfin 1y ago
I think they’re trying to maintain the stick for ordinary “Cocoa” app developers, but otherwise leave themselves the room to keep using the technology where it makes sense.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
UTF-8 is indeed a genius design. But of course it’s crucially dependent on the decision for ASCII to use only 7 bits, which even in 1963 was kind of an odd choice. Was this just historical luck? Is there a world where the designers of ASCII
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by twoodfin 1y ago
This is part two of a seminar series: https://people.csail.mit.edu//jhbrown/scheme/
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Specifically, it leaks a kernel address inside a security-sensitive structure, which is supposed to be unpredictable / unknowable because the layout of kernel memory is randomized. If you have another exploit that will write bytes unde
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by twoodfin 1y ago
I’d think a more informative headline would end “…as consumers rush to get ahead of expiring tax credits.”
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Rational by what calculus?
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by twoodfin 1y ago
For example, half of parents are transferring an average of $1,500/month, tax-free, to their adult children. Why do they get to do this? For the same reason we have a generous gift tax exemption applicable to any gift from anyone to
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Capital gains absolutely have tax implications. Just like my house rising $100K in (unrealized) value over a year.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Fortunately for the coach, the gospels are not binding precedent.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
We should be immediately suspicious when we get any solicitation to "renew" something "expired" in a security domain. Swapping un-compromised secrets is essentially always more risky than leaving them be. Regardless of w
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Perfect example of why habituating users to renewing credentials (typically password expiration) is a terrible practice.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
I can’t vouch for its scientific plausibility, but one of my favorite bullets to add to this list comes from Frank Robinson’s novel-length scifi exploration of the plausibility of extraterrestrial life: “The next step is crucial. The simpl
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Has anyone implemented it yet?

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