elliotec

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by elliotec 7d ago
You’d think the most powerful AI could make a website that doesn’t completely break usability by destroying scroll.
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by elliotec 13d ago
EU and China are perfect inversions of your point. China suppressing ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity for homogeneity has caused immeasurable suffering and imperialistic destruction. EU explicitly embracing ethnic, cultural, and l
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by elliotec 13d ago
Apparently it may surprise you that driving on both the left or right side of the road depends on which country of the EU you’re in. Another great example of the perverse idea that “same == better”
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by elliotec 14d ago
I don't know where "here" is, but yes, translation can be hard. That's fine. It doesn't mean we can't get along or have a peaceful world full of diversity in language and culture. We just need to get better at
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by elliotec 24d ago
A robots.txt explicitly allowing LLMs has nothing to do with whether it was made for humans or not and is generally the right move assuming you want your site picked up and recommended by AI tools. No different than allowing search engine c
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by elliotec 1mo ago
We know with extremely high certainty that classical psychedelics effect other animals similarly given the neuroscience [1]. But this is not a classical psychedelic. We don't know how it works yet, what receptors it operates on, or wha
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by elliotec 1mo ago
They just said they work on Gemma at Deepmind. That stands to reason that as of time of writing, we should assume the answer is yes.
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by elliotec 1mo ago
Rails 8's default Active Job backend is solid_queue. It lives in the same single Postgres as everything else (including solid_cache). No Redis or anything to have to wrangle. Recurring scheduling is built in. Another big plus for using
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by elliotec 1mo ago
Thanks! One minor note, it's got pretty much all accessible research on psychedelics, but it's not exactly specific to psychedelics. About half the corpus is research on meditation/contemplative traditions and philosophy of m
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by elliotec 1mo ago
Hey, thanks so much for the kind words and taking a look! Search observation: What you're noticing with search is the currently intended behavior, but you raise an interesting point. I'm using tsvector for Postgres full-text searc
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by elliotec 1mo ago
Yeah I’ve used mainly Claude code and recently kimi with pi for dev. Honestly the vast majority of features and improvements happened in the last few months with AI enablement. The Fable fake-outs really pushed me to optimize my time with i
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by elliotec 1mo ago
It does not - yet. I explicitly chose to keep it academic for now, but I considered over and over if I want to pull in subjective experience or legal content and decided to focus on academia for the initial push. That said, I've been w
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by elliotec 1mo ago
Thanks for taking a look! Yeah, these programs are very new and pretty uncommon (for now). As for why I chose Rails - I just know Rails really well. I've been using it since 2012 or so, and it's basically muscle memory now. The mo
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by elliotec 1mo ago
Thank you! I couldn't agree more. Big questions to answer, and your framing is exactly why I went into this.
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by elliotec 1mo ago
I've been building https://consciousnesslibrary.org , an open library for psychedelic and consciousness research that pulls from over a dozen academic APIs every 20 minutes, dedupes them, organizes by relevance, and synthesi
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by elliotec 1mo ago
I built an open library for psychedelic and consciousness research that pulls from over a dozen academic APIs every 20 minutes, dedupes them, organizes by relevance, and synthesizes evidence. I just finished my master's in Psychedelics
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Show HN: 35k+ paper psychedelic library that knows LSD from Lumpy Skin Disease(consciousnesslibrary.org)
31 points by elliotec 1mo ago|12 comments
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by elliotec 1mo ago
You're not helping though. If you want that to be different, focus on different things rather than bringing attention to what you're complaining about.
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by elliotec 1mo ago
Could also play around with the multiplier logic, and do more cookieclicker-esque type gamification. Is it open source? I'd be down to play around with it on a branch i can push up if you're interested.
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by elliotec 1mo ago
It's fun! Cool way for new projects to compete to get a backlink, assuming the hall of fame persists forever. Maybe more pomp and circumstance for crossing some number milestones. A confetti explosion when you double the lead, a cool a
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by elliotec 2mo ago
Better you holding the bag than me. Unfortunately all of us will be holding parts of it.
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by elliotec 2mo ago
If that ends up being true, they should be very surprised. We're looking at ~$725B combined hyperscaler capex in 2026 (on a path to $1.08T by 2028) against roughly $25B of AI service revenue in 2025 on $250B+ of infrastructure spend.
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by elliotec 2mo ago
The comment I made above the reply you're responding to was at 9 votes then a few seconds after that reply was made, it dropped to 4. Suspicious indeed, I've never seen that type of swing on HN.
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by elliotec 2mo ago
The sources say over 40% of incremental demand will need to be met with gas and coal over the next 4 years, which have 30-40 year book lives. So we're locking in that much more non-renewable energy for at least a generation. The water
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by elliotec 2mo ago
I'm mostly talking about incredibly environmentally destructive data centers and energy use on the current trajectory. Not even thinking about water problems, the gas and coal requirements alone are climate disasters. [1] [2] But if it
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by elliotec 2mo ago
I'm cautiously optimistic that this is the beginning of a much needed correction toward sobriety with regards to AI investment. The macro effects of all the money going into AI are apocalyptic. Maybe we can take some deep breaths and m
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by elliotec 2mo ago
Indeed, the core of this misalignment is that we have a foundational difference of opinion on that. The only caveat I'd push is not that I believe that "individuals are mostly fine," but that as a whole, separate from the sta
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by elliotec 2mo ago
It should not be an easy choice to trust the latter. Sure, "literal terrorists" exist, but guess what? State terrorism (and state-sponsored terrorism) in the form of massacres, genocide, torture, forced disappearances, etc. is far
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by elliotec 2mo ago
Closed-weight models can also pose biological risk, arguably more so than open-weight models, given the fact that they're being used by state actors (the United States military) to kill people right now. Who should we fear more? All of
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by elliotec 2mo ago
This is highly contested, most likely not true, and probably not measurable anyway. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976251335583

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