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indoorfish··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
I expect it's actually not wasted and there's meaning behind what seems like nonsense to us in helping it achieve it's goal. Which is mildly chilling but not unexpected.
indoorfish··on In 2025, 49 percent of adults under age 30 lived with a parent [pdf]
hey man, the economy is doing great. If you aren't financially successful, it's because you are bad person. And you deserve it.
indoorfish··on Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program
De facto no choice is still no choice. A captured market isn't the same as people choosing convenience.
indoorfish··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Your comment gives strong "temporarily embarrassed oligarch asshat" vibes. Is that intentional?
indoorfish··on We must pace the frontier
Would this be similar to the deal of "we'll offshore all our manufacturing to you and you'll become a free, open, liberal democracy with open borders and multiculturalism?" Because I remember how that deal turned out.
indoorfish··on Gloria Steinem has died
"identity politics into second wave feminism and gay rights to stop discussion on class."

Is progressive and liberal. The original CIA was mostly well educated, wealthy guys from Yale, so of course it was?

indoorfish··on GPT-6 Astra
Well signing a contract is more about bearing responsibility, even if you granted LLMs "personhood" they cant' meaningfully bear responsibility. So unless OpenAI is ok with having their C-suite face every consequence for what their agents do, including jail time, fines etc, then it doesn't matter.
indoorfish··on GPT-6 Astra
That is an absolutely terrible benchmark. Inference over a bounded search space is not a good measure of what "intelligence" actually is. part of the reason they are using math and not something actually challenging like long distance interstate trucking is because it's so much simpler and easier than what make intelligence intelligent.
indoorfish··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
> Have you studied the DSA agenda in depth?

Yes, they are center-left at best, and your frenzied rebuttal against regular people trying to improve their lives and the country they live in is alarming. Free public transportation..the horror.

indoorfish··on U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues
I think they are commenting on the OP being in Ireland
indoorfish··on Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history
The joke at my school was when the engineering students failed (mech, EE, civ) out, they went into business, when they failed out of business they went into software engineering.
indoorfish··on Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history
they have, loudly and repeatedly, it doesn't really make it very far on HN for obvious reasons.
indoorfish··on Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
It's a religious belief that we're going to invent a machine god and our machine god will fight china's machine god.
indoorfish··on I Championed Prediction Markets. Look What They've Become
Gambling isn't some brilliant new idea, even if you rename it. I understand the technical distinction trying to be made, but seriously, it's gambling.

No one "bungled" anything. They just aren't being prosecuted..yet.

indoorfish··on What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
But software makes the most money? Look at the stock market. It must be the most important thing? right guys? right?
indoorfish··on Becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab
"Claude, make a me a blog template, that shows how minimalist I am"
indoorfish··on A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras
It's not flagged, more likely @dang or @tomhow got a call from Flock.
indoorfish··on NYC Apartment Aquaponics
It's just not very interesting as a whole. A quant and his programmer gf living in ny stack 3 fishtanks in a rack. It's questionable why it's even on here at all.
indoorfish··on Who Is America's Homer?
Man sees Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey (2026) one time..
indoorfish··on The biggest winners of the American economy fear they're sinking fast
A long time ago a very wise man told me that they way economy works is like a magnifying glass. Things are detected, the glass moves, and what's underneath is blessed with the political/economic grease to get the thing that is wanted going.

The question was always who moves the glass. It sounds like last calls for ladders being rolled up on the nouveau-riche.

indoorfish··on The US grocery slowdown is real
$7.35/lb where I am with a $600 deposit. It ends up being about $2k all things considered. It may even out, but a lot of folks don't have that kind of money around, ~5% of a yearly salary isn't nothing for a lot of people.

I completely forgot about needing a chest freezer and space for a chest freezer..that's also not nothing.

indoorfish··on Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse
How dare the people who take of the sick and dying be paid well. Unacceptable waste that must be optimized!

We're liberating them from work so they can focus on what matters

indoorfish··on Ford's Chairman Warns America Can't Keep Chinese Cars Out Forever
Why can't the US just steal the designs from China like China did from the US?
indoorfish··on What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? (2025)
Pressing needs like AI responses to questions on HN to promote themselves.
indoorfish··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
"My LLM of choice" is like when the news reporter says "confirmed by someone not authorized to speak publicly". It's not a meaningful report.
indoorfish··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
IKON passes don't grow on trees you know.. Someone has to rent out in Aspen.
indoorfish··on Protect your right to run local AI
This feels short-sighted unless you are ethnically han?
indoorfish··on Iraq warns it might leave OPEC if oil quota not raised
As dumb as it sounds, Iran if your watching, the US could use another state. citizenship and some mutual agreements about like rights and things, and sure, we need to cover hormuz.
indoorfish··on Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce
cut ties with israel at this point?
indoorfish··on U.S. science is in chaos
Sounds like the locals are just racist then?
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