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orsorna··on Grok 4.6
The reason he said that is because he's a rube.
orsorna··on Discovery Loop
Is the demand low because the capital requirements to perform the research aren't there? Excluding wages...granted, for an average research project I don't know what % goes to wages and admin overhead. Probably the bulk?
orsorna··on I'll be stepping back from leading product for X
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orsorna··on Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
Really hate this characterization, although to be fair I love the ops/infra side of things more. I've used to set up so many parts of my homelab manually, but now I can just get it all done. I've spent countless hours maintaining a Rpi server at the infancy of my interest in computing. Truly a lot of it is maintenance and busywork tasks. I am having more fun than ever. Perhaps some people like those busywork sysadmin tasks and gain enjoyment of the homelab hobby just from that...honestly I can't say I really understand it.
orsorna··on Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
Same reason why grifters adopted web3 when Web 3.0 was already an established term.
orsorna··on AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions
If you only have a fixed amount of money to put aside every month, DCA makes sense. That applies to 99% of people. Not terrible at all.
orsorna··on Show HN: A local merge queue for parallel Claude Code agents
I have CI set up so that I can just let that handle builds and exclusive locks for me, but there are particular limitations (network connectivity is mandatory). I did this because I wanted to avoid something like you built, which theoretically can't scale as well as a dev box (much easier to extend deploy environments versus my local machine). I can see that you are working within resource constraints though which is admirable :)
orsorna··on Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago
Why would you bring a mission to a hostile island otherwise?
orsorna··on Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago
Great point until the end. None of your descriptions imply a lack of morality for living isolated from a greater civilization. If anything, such small societies inhabit a neutral position, in that they don't care, which is something you already stated.

I think the only people arguing that the North Sentinelese are immoral are religious, for instance (hence why most attempts to visit are done by missions). The general consensus is otherwise awe for being separated from the rest of us, relatively unmolested.

orsorna··on Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine?
Why do we not treat this as an ill?
orsorna··on Show HN: Yorishiro – a macOS terminal where AI agents live
I'm not interested in humanizing agents. That being said, cool framework for modifying the avatar to be...well, anything else I'd want. Without looking at the code I guess I just need to provide a different rigged model?
orsorna··on LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals
Funny because out of all the distros, Gentoo benefits from LLM usage, at least as a power user. I have fixed many-an-issues just having LLMs write patches in a way that portage automatically builds them, or rapidly put together ebuilds. I respect upstream decision though and don't share my changes (and realistically who would want them)
orsorna··on Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
I figured the subsidization is to entice people to give training data.

Are your thought patterns worth 9800 dollars a month?

What's the RoR on analyzing those thought patterns?

orsorna··on Gumroad Says That It's Now Spending as Much on Human Employees as AI Tokens
This guy is kind of a tool.

The reason why in 2021 that many of the wages were contractors is that he fired and rehired a lot of them to satisfy that arrangement.

Last year he worked at DOGE and wrote a sobering blogpost about getting let go from there.

Safe to say he doesn't really care about what people thinks as long as he gets cash.

orsorna··on Washington blocks Kalshi's sports prediction market over state gambling law
*event's probability
orsorna··on Washington blocks Kalshi's sports prediction market over state gambling law
It falls apart if the event being insured can be influenced by at least one person. Because if one person can influence that event, then there is an avenue for that event's to be modified.
orsorna··on SPCX is now Wall Street's most shorted new stock
Over two weeks ago, calls outnumbered puts 5 to 1 according to an article by SeekingAlpha. I am wondering if this flip is too reactive. I can't discount the "Musk premium" that keeps people enamored with his securities and cause unpredictability.
orsorna··on What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions?
If you treat prestige acceptance rates as a derivative of the progression of racial policy, it absolutely makes sense why affirmative action is in place given the history of racial justice in America.

Can you really claim that the trend won't reverse if purely meritocratic admissions are reinstated (disregarding legacy admits...although very unfair to disregard since their racial makeup heavily tracks with asian/white/etc)

It's simply a single lever to change the racial makeup of the upper class. And certainly it goes both ways, but to simply remove it with no solution implies a regression to the former system, which was all but equal, much less equitable.

orsorna··on Fable extended until 19 July
For my needs, Opus does these kind of "long horizon tasks" well enough already, with additional tooling.

As long as you are chunking out the tasks generated from the plan, you can manually (or write an orchestrator to...) give the component tasks to agents that pass along inputs and outputs per the dependency graph derived from the plan.

You can write this plan yourself or review it with the agent. Chunking tasks out of the plan like this has the added benefit of being able to swap for a different model when the time comes (looking forward to Opus-level models I can run on my consumer card...)

Not really convinced using Fable and trusting the harness to orchestrate for you is worth the intelligence upgrade. An understanding of an high level implementation plan of your task is also necessary when working with colleagues who rightfully quiz you. Especially since, at least for my work, there isn't a lot that Opus struggles with.

orsorna··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
This is fairly funny to me because I reckon most residents only had to do research to get in. EMT and tech experience are negative differentiators in getting into medical school, which is a shame.
orsorna··on Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July
Lawful does not equate to moral.
orsorna··on HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
You know you're not writing for LinkedIn? So platitudes about drifting away, watching your project "succeed" by being really popular, is not relevant to the main concerns pushed by this piece. Particularly brushing off the non deterministic score calculation.
orsorna··on I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code
About 1/1000 of the duration of their interview process where they gloat about wasting your time.
orsorna··on White House app auto-downloads to government phones, can't be uninstalled
Feds use profile management? Is that news?

The weirdness of the WH app is notable enough but standard organization practices aren't.

orsorna··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
>You aren't even being roped into it with taxes, nor do you have to buy a single share.

Because of the eventual index inclusions, and insane market cap, this affects nearly everyone with a retirement account. Unless you aren't tracking big indexes for some reason.

orsorna··on FarOutCompany
I was there.

I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.

orsorna··on Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO
Wow sounds very family friendly!
orsorna··on Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight
The exact quote "python is for brahmins" brings up top links on incels.is and 4chan, so perhaps OC's character is something worth dismissing.
orsorna··on Shift from a leader-follower to a leader-leader approach
The exception!
orsorna··on I made my phone slow on purpose
Your comment carries disdain for people who lack "self control" from engaging with algorithms that are proficiently designed to keep you engaged with the content, as if checking little boxes in the user's grey matter. Does your grey matter have foolproof methods to avert manipulation from processes that have billions of dollars and thousands of man hours poured into figuring out how to keep you engaged? Are you immune to tricks being developed in the future right now? Who's to say you haven't been manipulated through multiple degrees of separation?
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