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by est31 9d ago
The plutonomy transition is well under way. The sardinian seafront villa will likely retain and gain value as the early anthropic employee might like it, while the house in some flyover state might not find any buyers. The economy of the fu
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by est31 28d ago
With Lakebase Postgres you can do this very easily: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/oltp/projects/quickstart-... It is already a quite smooth experience, but there is work to make it even easier than
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by est31 29d ago
I doubt that if Norway buys OpenAI, it will be the company that captures the value. There is no inherent property to those model makers that they will capture the value of the AI boom. The model companies have a lot of competition from chin
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by est31 1mo ago
Mostly this is just about giving back the money RWE paid for the leases from the US government to build those turbines. Plus various fees. They could have went for suing for total profits too. > RWE U.S. Offshore secured these leases fro
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by est31 1mo ago
I think it's partially for responsibility reasons. Your employee approved the bash call? not our fault then!
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by est31 1mo ago
For example, protein folding has been figured out by AI. This was a very big moment for science and yielded a nobel prize. Alphafold 1 happened 4 years before the first version of ChatGPT and the LLM craze we see today. But yeah, most probl
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by est31 2mo ago
Yeah with China pumping state subventions into car manufacturing, they can outcompete any car manufacturer anywhere in the world. The leading battery technology is in Asia anyways. The German car industry will not die completely, as the EU
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by est31 2mo ago
cargo check is useful to verify the code compiles (it's extremely rare to have compilation errors that survive cargo check). But cargo build is required if you want to actually try out the code you wrote, e.g. in order to run a test th
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by est31 2mo ago
You can still get traction for your workout apps, CRMs etc with the right market research (you need to find a niche) and the right marketing. There are gazillions of candy crush remakes, but Royal Match, launched in 2021, still made it to t
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by est31 2mo ago
Is it the AI companies though that will capture the value that AI creates, or will it be the still-private startups, or new to-be-founded startups altogether? Startups are taking longer and longer to reach public markets, so more and more v
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by est31 2mo ago
Cursor has an import assistant from vs code settings. Ahere is no assistant for the inverse. Not even for moving between computers (at least a couple of months ago when I had the need haha).
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by est31 2mo ago
HIV virus inserts itself into the DNA of long lived cells in your organism, and it stays around as long as those cells stay around, which is (unless u have blood cancer and your doctors decide to kill those cells) your entire life. That con
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by est31 2mo ago
LLMs and their coding harnesses like CC, Codex, or such are a tool like git or bash or your favorite programming language. And like any tool, they have gotchas, weird concepts, and so on. Indeed it's nothing hard to learn but there is
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by est31 2mo ago
For rich people (meaning the ~3 billion people that have some sort of access to medical infrastructure), it is a solved problem, but there are quite many people without any access to it. Even for those "solved problem" people, tak
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by est31 2mo ago
> You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate. Aren't
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by est31 2mo ago
> The free software community complains all the time about binary blobs that are otherwise legal to freely distribute. Like firmwares. With software there are two things: the source code, and the binary. Firmware usually has restrictions
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by est31 2mo ago
Right but 2000 to 2010 didn't have similar progress, and especially 2010 to 2020 didn't. Sure, things have gotten better but not as much as the 1990 to 2000 leaps. And yes, laptop specs haven't changed much and this is partia
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by est31 2mo ago
I'm born and raised German, and above I mostly used the German ways of writing the town names (stripping the umlaut). Which as it turns out are not the same way you'd write it in english, interesting!
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by est31 2mo ago
I've never been to China either. It's a huge country and it probably depends on where you are (hong kong probably friendlier than a random place in the mainland), but from what I heard/read: * language issues. Many chinese do
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by est31 2mo ago
China is not very immigration friendly to non-han folks, but I guess chinese researchers won't make it to the US and this already will have a great effect on the chinese economy. Europe is in its own set of problems and it is not in th
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by est31 2mo ago
Yeah, Linux-the-kernel does have a stable ABI indeed, but this is not relevant for most ISV desktop software out there. In my comment above I was referring to Linux-the-OS (aka GNU/Linux). The userspace libs don't have a stable AB
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by est31 2mo ago
GPU/RAM/etc prices could continue to rise. If the world leaders decide it's time to build the robot armies, then that could price out the civilian uses for GPUs.
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by est31 2mo ago
Those solutions have moats: 1. the cloud moat is mostly around talent really. Try finding people who can self host the alternatives to S3 et al at the HA and the scale the businesses need. Those alternatives are usually not free either, and
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by est31 2mo ago
There is distillation going on where chinese providers give the model lots of outputs. We don't live in a world where chinese providers are not doing this so we can't compare the advantage of this distillation, but there is some a
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by est31 2mo ago
There is a lot of desertification of farmland going on, including in the USA. It gets abstracted away for richer countries as they can outbid the poorer countries for food. In developed economies, most of a particular piece of food's p
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by est31 3mo ago
Infineon still exists as a semiconductor manufacturer. Their stock has gone crazy since start of the year as well.
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by est31 3mo ago
Removing HEVC support wasn't their choice but probably stems from the licensing pools increasing their prices [1]. Windows media player probably sees very little usage nowadays and probably even less for HEVC, when most content playbac
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by est31 3mo ago
In order to kill all cancer cells in the body, it probably needs to be delivered to every single cell in the organism, and scan the nucleus of that cell. Viruses usually don't infect every single cell, just a small percentage. So one n
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by est31 3mo ago
Similar times and the Rust originator went on to work on Swift after it.
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by est31 3mo ago
A new generation of AI companies is out there to take over blue collar jobs as well. Check recent YC batches. Software engineering was a nice target because inputs and outputs are just data and you don't need to figure out robotics. Bu

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