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by twoodfin 6mo ago
We already have SOTA local inference devices in everyone’s pocket, which also provide high bandwidth access to SOTA data center inference at what is rapidly becoming commodity pricing. What comparable gap is there to bridge?
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
You could have said the same thing about steam power or electricity. And it’s not just an analogy: The magic of these things is in being universal information engines. You spend capital to build them, using well-understood, scalable techniq
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
I don’t imagine Apple views fab technology as a potential differentiator worth the massive investment. This is about diversifying their supply chain as they have done all over the place for decades. Displays, for example.
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
There’s no rule against submitting LLM-written—ahem, “cleaned up my notes”—articles, just comments.
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
You don’t have to guess. Wikipedia’s cite for the claim of decline says: Enforcement of the RPA is overseen by the Federal Trade Commission, but cases have declined since the 1980s due to the complexity of the law and the requirement to pr
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
Robinson-Patman is a bad law. Even if it were a good law, it would be effectively impossible to enforce equitably and not capriciously, which is probably why it hasn’t been. The government telling competitive buyers and sellers which kinds
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
I think that’s right, but it’s fair to point out that Windows 95 was (if you believe Steven Sinofsky, who should know) heavily influenced by NeXT! https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/009-passwo...
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
Alaska Airlines apparently does or did this kind of thing: My sister in law had a “subscription” that was good for monthly tickets between San Diego and wine country.
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
I’m confident that any unhappiness with Claude Code is at least 95% downstream of Anthropic seeing demand scale their revenue by ~3X in 6 months from a $multi-billion annual base. Their product focus, roadmap, or execution is likely a round
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the US employment model. Businesses can do all sorts of dumb things that end up making them unable to continue to invest in employees. The check against that is the greedy owners. Regulations design
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
I have the same reaction to Banksy, and figure he and his audience just have to be in on the joke? I can’t discount there’s some layered irony going on in conversation between the artist and the intellectual / capitalist / trend-s
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
Apple is the best (not perfect!) when it comes to product marketing in the sense of delivering products the market wants. So there is surely a market reason why the iPhone Pro line went highly saturated (and black was conspicuously removed!
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
Gotta go back two weeks, but this is the kind of comment I had in mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808139
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
Exactly backwards: These articles suck because the writing sucks. There was this morning a well-written, engaging article about building a Gameboy emulator in F# that the author admitted using some LLM help to compose. Easy upvote. It’s not
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
Here’s a sample of my “flagged” list from just the past few days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952807 https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
My point is that most of these “vibe articles” are pretty bad. They’re muddled in their ideas and full of gaps in logic or fact. But the aesthetics are tuned enough to get upvotes from this same audience that thinks AI music is going nowher
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
hn consumers by and large weren’t upvoting AI-written technology articles 12 months ago. The models got better, and now multiple such articles appear on the front page daily—with glowing comments. Humanity’s aesthetics are not (apparently)
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
There are some interesting ideas here. How to do an ORM-style mapping between agent token streams and an evolving relational schema feels like a genuinely important problem. The LLM-assisted writeup, though, spends too many tokens arguing,
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
The real dead giveaway is that the writing is bad.
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
Or on a commodity EC2 instance with a relatively cheap inference sidecar.
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
I’d be shocked if this wasn’t the reason.
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
That’s not how it was understood at the time of ratification. Letters and the post office were a thing then, mentioned elsewhere in the Constitution. If the framers of the 4th amendment wanted it to cover them they would have written the am
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
Why isn’t the obvious story right? Anthropic is capturing exploding enterprise demand via their agentic tools, OpenAI is failing (relatively) to do so. They’re stuck trying to squeeze more $$ out of consumer chatbots that have reached the s
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
Presumably because they think agents will become the dominant primary users of tools like Blender, and want a seat at the architectural table to help accelerate that & create useful synergies with Anthropic products and models? The pres
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
OK well now you have to look at changing the economy-wide energy mix or embracing de-growth. Switching data centers to 100% solar or nuclear or … solves Wired’s complaint but not this one.
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
Very quick Googling suggests Wired’s estimate would be ~1.9% of US emissions. AI data center investment is, at core, a bet on increasing the productivity of labor. That’s what businesses will pay for, and what will earn the big money. If US
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
Bank records are correspondence between a person and the bank, not “persons, houses, papers, and effects” as protected by the Fourth Amendment. As such, they’re subject to subpoena. Now, Congress could extend similar protections to bank rec
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
The Python example is fascinating, and a good rejoinder to anyone still dismissing LLM’s as stochastic parrots.
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
Waymo didn’t “say” this. Or at least the article this article references doesn’t claim they did. It’s a now third-hand paraphrase from an SF bike advocate who says he heard it from some unnamed representative of Waymo. If someone has someth

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