gen220

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by gen220 13d ago
archived article: https://archive.ph/YRYU9
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Virginia Community Voids a $100B Data Center Project(bloomberg.com)
14 points by gen220 13d ago|2 comments
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by gen220 14d ago
Founders swim in the incentive pool of VCs, who swim in the incentive pool of LPs, who swim in the incentive pool of capital-c Capital. When you architect your industry around "number goes up" as the number one priority that every
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by gen220 21d ago
Yes I tweaked it! The number and copy were mismatched and are no longer! That worst day is likely an overlapping incidents accounting issue; I tried to account for overlapping incidents in another view but probably failed to port it over th
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by gen220 21d ago
Hey! isgithubcooked.com is my site; I made this site in February '26, I think The contribution graph as an outage calendar idea is a commonly recurring one :). I definitely saw it somewhere else as a static asset first before I made th
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by gen220 22d ago
Also, isn't it a major plot point that replicants are not allowed on Earth? So Deckard being a replicant operating on Earth is illegal; making his status as a replicant "obvious", by endowing him with superhuman traits (or ev
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by gen220 22d ago
It's challenging to disentangle the effects from AI from the cyclical supply and demand cycle of junior engineers in a post-ZIRP world. People who are currently junior engineers (i.e. graduating class of 2024+) chose their majors in a
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by gen220 22d ago
To be clear, I'm not trying to argue that this project is ecologically beneficial or neutral (I think that part is beyond debate for many reasons including the noise pollution you've identified) I was just trying to say that the m
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by gen220 22d ago
Building multi-decade service life infrastructure on the coast in this era of the Anthropocene actually requires you (from an engineering point of view, not merely a regulatory one) to have a buffer zone of wetlands, marshes and sea walls t
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by gen220 28d ago
Really cool to see the difference in token usage across different harnesses. These kind of independently-verified data points will be super important for companies (and individuals!) trying to measure RoI on token spend as they recover from
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by gen220 1mo ago
Yea to be clear I think >70% of the information is not profession specific. I just think about all the content I’ve consumed in my life to become a professional software developer and I would be very surprised if it couldn’t be adequatel
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by gen220 1mo ago
IDK, 30GB is a lot of data when we're talking about text! Moby Dick, uncompressed, is ~1MB. Compressed, it's around 500KB. I feel fairly certain that one could fit all of the textual knowledge required to cultivate a world-class
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by gen220 1mo ago
just curious; which fable/opus versions are you using? Fable-1m-max-thinking output, despite being incredibly slow and expensive, feels like it bucked a trend towards superficial loquaciousness in their models that had been building si
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by gen220 2mo ago
On your second part: Many of the most valuable companies in the world (who, incidentally, are spending the most money on frontier model inference), already have "the expensive part", the labeled dataset. The cost of maintaining th
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by gen220 2mo ago
Thank you to the HTMX-folks for keeping software fun! I've been a happy HTMX user and Grug essay forwarder since it first made the rounds here on HN. This was an instant purchase :)
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by gen220 2mo ago
And another nontrivial one, in compound indices it’s really important that you order your columns in descending selectivity order. I.e. the column with the most unique values should go first. In degenerate table/index situations, this
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by gen220 2mo ago
If you have a horizontally scaled app (many 100s of API servers and async workers) you’re also probably going to need a connection pooling proxy like pgbouncer! with separate pools for separate connection configs (lower/higher timeouts
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by gen220 3mo ago
> It's different now and children are being encouraged to transition. They aren't just told that some are naturally uncomfortable with their gender, but that conforming to a gender is abnormal. Way more are doing it than before
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by gen220 3mo ago
I’m curious, do you personally know anybody who’s gone through gender-affirming-care? For me it was a really confusing issue until I became close friends with someone whose childhood best friend is trans. If he was born a decade earlier, he
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by gen220 3mo ago
Disclosure that I work for Graphite->Cursor->??? :^) FWIW, Origin is owned by the Graphite folks inside of Cursor: the project was announced by Tomas, Graphite co-founder, at Cursor's Compile conference today. https://
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by gen220 3mo ago
Amazon is a large Anthropic shareholder (>5% of the cap table). I think it’s impossible to interpret the actions of their executives here without considering this information.
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by gen220 3mo ago
Is there an explainer for people who are broadly familiar with the DB space? It sounds like you're building an equivalent to Vitesse for Postgres, but it's not super clear from the article (which I know is not the point of this, b
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by gen220 3mo ago
At this point I have a workflow that is fairly rote. I've yet to use a model newer than 4.6-1M-XHIGH that I trust to earn a higher ROI on that workflow, and not for lack of trying! I personally don't believe in any sort of cabal (
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by gen220 3mo ago
I would encourage you to look into the open evals of some of these benchmarks (find one that actually is open-data, this is itself a good challenge), read the results generated and assess them for yourself. This is what myself and my cowork
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by gen220 3mo ago
Actually anecdata I gather on my job from myself and coworkers is the only benchmark I trust anymore, because it so heavily diverges from the “benchmarks”.
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SpaceX Sets Price for $1.77T IPO(cnbc.com)
16 points by gen220 4mo ago|0 comments
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by gen220 4mo ago
at risk of quoting myself... :) > By offering frontier inference closer to cost *and* open-sourcing everything that's sub-frontier It's two prongs! One prong is that their frontier inference pricing is significantly cheaper&#x2
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by gen220 4mo ago
A big part of the frontier labs abilities to charge 80% gross margins on inference is having the cornered resource of frontier models. If that inference becomes popular and valuable enough that those companies make billions of dollars in pr
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by gen220 4mo ago
How many failed foundation model training run cycles do you think these companies can tank before the bubble pops and deepseek/etc. catch up to frontier quality? If Ant, OAI, etc. aren't able to make 20-30% improvements on Opus 4.
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by gen220 4mo ago
It’s not easy to buy such a large tranche of shares at a fixed and fair price in a single transaction! Both parties get something they want this transaction. Alphabet gets the Berkshire halo effect and a guaranteed buyer of $10 billion wort

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