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by zarzavat 5mo ago
This article would be improved if the author passed it through an AI to tone it down. The writing style is too much for me.
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
> Geopolitical concerns, infrastructure/power availability, security, since these things are full of incredibly valuable hardware. The market decides that, not Elon. Do customers want to pay $X for compute in Iceland (or wherever),
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
Differentiating themselves can only be a bad thing for Apple. Google is way ahead of Apple in AI and likely always will be. Both Apple and Google end up advantaged by this relationship: Apple gets the same technology as Android, meaning the
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
> The US power grid is not able to keep up with demand, it's mired in red tape Why not build off-grid? > There's also a populist revolt against DCs and the infra upgrade costs being dumped on ratepayers. What about the other
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
The issue with AI datacenters in orbit is not science or engineering but economics. There is no practical reason why it can't be done, but why would anyone want to buy compute from such a datacenter when they could pay substantially le
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
It was when I was using an early version of GitHub Copilot. At first the completions were almost useless and had a kind of copy and paste feel, however one day it managed to reason thorough a complicated loop body much faster than I could h
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
It took the JS community many iterations to get to vite. Building it into the language just means you get stuck with a "good enough" solution that survives by inertia. We'd still be using webpack. I'm all for building th
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
The job of the window manager is to manage windows if the user wants it to do that . However there's many situations in which users want the application to be in charge of window positioning. Making a decision on the user's behal
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
This is great satire. If you read it as a parody it's uncomfortable, if you read it straight it's uncomfortable but in a different way.
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
Given the misadventures the missiles are currently being used for, it seems like less of a crisis and more of a blessing that the US's capacity for self-destruction isn't unlimited.
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
The choice is not between making one species of mosquito extinct or doing nothing. The choice is between making one species of mosquito extinct or using traditional mosquito control methods such as removing standing water. The traditional m
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
The geckos can eat other insects, they are not obligated to eat aedes aegypti. You would need to identify a creature that can't eat anything else, and then justify why humans have to die in order to support that creature's extreme
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
If anything the hard takeoff theory is too conservative. It turns out you don't need self-improvement to get to superintelligence. You just need a ridiculous amount of money. Where can you get a ridiculous amount of money? The market w
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
HN is social media...
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
I don't have any inside information so perhaps an ex-fruit can shed some light on it, but speculating it seems that Apple's organizational structure implicitly encodes the waterfall pattern. Apple has divisions for Design, Enginee
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
Apple should make their finance department use Numbers, it would be fixed in no time. I swear nobody at that company has ever opened Numbers, I don't understand how it can be so broken for so long.
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
I worry this is looking at where the ball is now instead of where it's going. The recent disproof of an Erdos conjecture should put to rest the idea that LLMs will reach a skill ceiling before they reach superintelligence. I believe we
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
What's incredible is that Anthropic are clearly not saints but Altman makes them look like the good guys, reinforcing their marketing. When Anthropic had the dispute with the Department of War over very meek conditions (a truly moral A
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
Exactly, people confuse "doesn't scale" with "is a bottleneck". There's many applications whereby hitting the limits of SQLite is either a physical impossibility, or implies that the application has achieved su
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
That's fine though. The value of unions is that they can force consumers to pay for better working conditions and prevent a race to the bottom. Consumers usually are workers themselves so they also benefit from raising the bar of worki
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
I would happily pay extra money for GTA 6 if it goes to improving working conditions. It's only negative for the consumer if the consumer views life as a zero sum game.
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
Is that truly a recurring expense though or just the cost of doing things now ? It remains to be seen whether any of this is sustainable.
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
This is the third time I've seen a website with this styling (serif, yellow and white on black). What's going on? Is it a template or some AI induced convergence?
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
If Go had just taken an off-the-shelf implementation of generics in 2009 then they could have spent the last 16 years deliberating over something useful, rather than attempting to reinvent programming language theory. The impression I have
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
Watching Go's development is like reliving the development of Java (which also didn't have generics at first), but over decades instead of years. Cannot wait for Go to implement an error handling system in the 2030s.
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
As far as I understand the terminology, if you're reviewing all the code then it's not "vibecoding" but just normal agent-based coding. Vibe coding has a strong implication for me that the code is not being read (hence t
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
You're absolutely right—the seahorse emoji was added in Unicode version 19.0.0 after OpenAI purchased the Unicode Consortium and converted it to a for-profit corporation.
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
The classic progression of an economy is resource -> manufacturing -> knowledge. AI turns this line into a circle by making knowledge a resource problem. Less developed economies with a lot of natural resources and manufacturing like
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
I'm not talking about the back button. I'm talking about history.back() API. If you have a "back" button that is inside the page's viewport, it should work based on the page's logical model. So you go back from
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
`history.back()` shouldn't even exist, it's almost never correct to use it instead of a logical back button that works on the logical navigation structure e.g. going up a level, or to the previous page, etc. For example, if you ar

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