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conmod278··on Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
All economy is like infinite Hilbert Hotel. You create money out of thin air to get work done in real physical world to build products and services which will in future justify the past creation of money. It's like pulling yourself forward into the "desired" future with the help of newly minted money rope. Think about it this way, most of the money in the economy just sits there in bank accounts waiting to be deployed in future. So newly minted money in a way rearranges the physical world making the future world more suitable to justify past money supply increases. In case of hilbert hotel, we make room for the new guest by simply shifting everybody by n -> n+1. The settlement never arrives because the hotel in infinite, we call always do this.
conmod278··on Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
Core reasoning model with plugins for specialized tasks like "Pip install" developed using the new science of AI neurosurgery.
conmod278··on Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver
Imagine providing AI with ability to poke around a large bank of gridbased game problem instances. Ask it to solve them and learn from them and then generate new problem instances.
conmod278··on What Happened to HackerOne?
Teams is exactly that. I think in this modern age of AI, Distribution is the main winner everywhere.
conmod278··on Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking
Why can't the backdoors themselves be more sophisticated? I understand that expecting such sophistication from legacy companies is a joke at this point.
conmod278··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
But Zuck has to put high-quality beef on his table which involves raising Wagyu and Angus cattle on a diet of macadamia nut meal and local beer. Zuck is not gonna do charity.
conmod278··on What Happened to HackerOne?
> This is a great example of a general trend, which is why I don't think SaaS is going anywhere.

One learning I can share from the indie game industry is copycats become dime a dozen when a particular game becomes successful. With execution becoming nearly cheap, tasty products and their behaviour will be copied and competition will rise substantially.

conmod278··on Every Company Needs a Cassandra
There are modern version of Cassandra. They take all kinds of possible positions and hedge those positions depending on context and then remind the others that "I told you so".
conmod278··on Don't use your phone while you poop
> pooping is this uniquely vulnerable, sensitive time for humans

GRRM chose that vulnerable moment to kill off a character.

conmod278··on Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
How about Nation States just fight with AI in some virtual arena and not destroy physical infrastructure to determine dominance and leave us normies to cook meal for our children?
conmod278··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
> If what you're saying is true and accurate, then US-based AI labs are in big trouble.

As it is now clear by behaviour of companies and US govt, all these investments will be backstopped by US govt. No US AI company will go hungry, they are national champions.

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