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by hdivider 8d ago
My take: 1. It shows what even this wave of AI can actually do. 2. I wish it were done by different folks, ideally under some kind of public control like NASA research or the NPR model. 3. Keep in mind: natural science is different. It&#x27
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by hdivider 1mo ago
Isn't it significant in some sense that this was discovered in China first, and not the US? In the sense of: we didn't know splitting the atom would change warfare forever, back when Einstein and others published on it. We don&#x2
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by hdivider 2mo ago
I think what doesn't get surfaced enough is that the cost of AI tokens is likely to decrease as new computing hardware gets scaled, such as neuromorphic (or later, photonic) computing. To assume the current cost of Claude Code and the
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by hdivider 4mo ago
The strategy for many folks will likely be to wait it out until the next administration when hopefully some amount of sanity returns. The question buried in much of the detail: there is an indication this doesn't apply for H1B's a
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by hdivider 5mo ago
I think the main concern would be escalation, e.g. Netanyahu feeling emboldened to use his weapons too. And of course Putin, to try to shock Ukrainian forces and population (good luck). Alliances might get reshuffled as everyone realizes th
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by hdivider 5mo ago
Let me articulate the thing which I believe is on many people's minds: What is the chance the president will order a nuclear strike on Iran as this war proceeds? We would hope the odds are vanishingly small, because doing so would be p
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by hdivider 6mo ago
Even if clearly one side is correct without any doubt whatsoever, beyond any question? Such as 2+2=4 -- we should accept a situation where some people insist this is not true? It seems irrational.
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by hdivider 6mo ago
I agree entirely. HN tends to be incredibly nitpicky and dystopian. I think it's because so many HNers work in dystopian software-only companies, not doing much in the physical world, away from the algorithms. Incredible technological
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by hdivider 6mo ago
This is far bigger than people think. So much advanced equipment is just sitting there in labs, waiting for humans to finally go and make experiments. Which they eventually get round to, sort of, when they can secure funding and when the
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by hdivider 6mo ago
Yes, precisely. And then as I anticipated, the "it works for me" stories, even here in this thread. Wish we could get past this steady-state in the Linux ecosystem. Imagine a Linux distro largely displaced Windows and Mac simply d
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by hdivider 6mo ago
I really hope you're right. The challenge with Linux still seems to be practicalities -- like in particular, does Zoom run well on most distributions? Reports seem to be of system crashes and degraded performance. I imagine there are l
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by hdivider 6mo ago
Here's a standard-structure, VC-funded, exit-oriented startup to consider: make video calls reliable. As in, you provide a guarantee and pay the customer if the call didn't work. Wired headphones could be one part of the solution.
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by hdivider 6mo ago
I saw "cleanroom as a service" and thought great! Don't need to build a facility to do materials science or photonics or certain aerospace R&D...but nope, not that kind of cleanroom. :)
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by hdivider 6mo ago
It's curious to me why we have no theory of intelligence. By which I mean an actual hard and verified theory, as in physics for gravity, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics. Intelligence is simply not well-understood at a mathematical
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by hdivider 7mo ago
This is a good counter in my view to the singularity argument: https://timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/why-agi-will-not-happen/ I think if we obtain relevant-scale quantum computers, and/or other compute
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by hdivider 7mo ago
Wait till the Chinese land on the Moon first in this new space race. There will be a Sputnik moment, massive additional investment, and this will inevitably impact sci-fi. Just like in the previous space race, we had to fall quite a bit beh
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by hdivider 8mo ago
Yes to both I'd say. The south polar region will be contested because of the presence of water-ice and abundant sunlight.
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by hdivider 8mo ago
I agree there is a lot of chaos over there, and numerous challenges. But I don't see China collapsing anytime soon, nothing like the Soviet Union. It's going to be a long-term space race.
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by hdivider 8mo ago
This space race is different for one core reason: China is more stable than the Soviet Union was in the 1960s. If we beat the Chinese somehow, I don't think they'll just dismantle their space program and focus on Earth. They'
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by hdivider 8mo ago
Even that would be quite niche for OpenAI. They raised far too much capital, and now have to deliver on AGI, fast. Or an ultra-high-growth segment, which has not materialized. The reason? I can give you the full source for Sam Altman: while
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by hdivider 10mo ago
This always reminds me of a fragment of lost tragic ancient Greek verse, quoted only in Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric : Often, when the gods bring great prosperity as a gift for men They do so not out of goodwill towards them But so th
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by hdivider 10mo ago
Here's what I don't understand. Developers who get excited by agentic development put out posts like this. (I get excited too.) Other developers tend to point out objections in terms of maintainability, scalability, overly complic
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by hdivider 10mo ago
In short: yes. It can be done. Clean, almost limitless energy, funded in a way to provide effectively free electricity for ordinary people. Restrictions would have to be in place to prevent true excess, but regulations already handle such
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by hdivider 1y ago
Excellent thank you. This helps an extraordinary person in need who currently can't afford legal services. To everyone else: I've worked with Peter before and he's the real deal, and a pleasure to work with.
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by hdivider 1y ago
Hi Peter, Asking for someone else: is the NIW category still backlogged? If the goal is to get a green card within the STEM-OPT extension timeline of 2 years, for someone who has very high achievements that fit either NIW or EB1A categories
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by hdivider 1y ago
I think it's partly because we all just have way too much to do. Every day. All day. And the harder you work, it seems the more you have to do. On top of cognitive processing of all the ambient events in our time, which is a heavy load
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H.R.1 – One Big Beautiful Bill Act(congress.gov)
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by hdivider 1y ago
A step in the right direction. Wish the UK would have their version of the SBIR/STTR program too -- and open to all , not just Oxbridge and other elites. Mandatory small business set-asides, especially for large defense procurement, h
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by hdivider 1y ago
Are you seeing any changes in the difficulty of the EB1A, or is it about the same as in the previous administration?
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by hdivider 1y ago
Are marriage-based green card applications still being processed at some pace when the petitioner's spouse is also a green card holder? I hear these days this category is ultra slow with no option to expedite.

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