profsummergig

IMHO, the biggest problem with the future of open weights models is that currently, open weights models are the result of philanthropy by some private org. (e.g. DeepSeek).

The spigot can be turned off at any time.

Until there's some sort of "community owned hardware", open weights models are always at risk of being discontinued.

"the selflessly-helping side of the Valley"

Never having lived in the valley, I've struggled to understand what it means.

Can anyone share some examples?

"every single person with a retirement account, or student savings account, or mutual fund, will be forced - not asked, not suggested - required by law, to buy SpaceX stock."

Anyone know what she means here? Does she mean this happens to those who will buy index funds? If so, nobody's being forced to buy an index fund. It's a choice made by the retirement account company.

These sites that are serving exotic malware and are taken over by feds. Is it the feds serving this malware, or is it happening despite the feds having taken over them?

Question: if I want to become a dark web researcher, how would I go about getting permission to do so without being suspected of being a malfeasant in the DW? Are there any authorities I can preemptively inform? I'm in the US.

My comment was based on Saudi Arabia's expat policy. Not on the dataset. Saudi Arabia doesn't welcome foreigners moving there to become citizens.

These are expats, not immigrants. They aren't welcome to become citizens in Saudi Arabia.

Also, I'd guess that more strawberries are grown today than ever before. After their artificial essence was created in the labs.

I enjoyed the article. It was very evocative.

The bias to action. Buffett and Taleb write about it. People feel like they have to "earn" their time. If something is good, or good enough, they still have to do some sort of "improvement" because they want to feel like they earned their salary.

NSA employees must be the final boss of this kind of stuff.

Imagine if government approvals were that easy for things the country actually needed, like safe nuclear energy and bullet trains.

Everyone seems to mention Claude.

I use Gemini.

My question for those who have lots of experience with both: is there a significant difference between the two in coding?

(Reason I prefer Gemini: my first vibe code, I used Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini to "one-shot" the same software goal. Only Gemini's code worked right off-the-bat.)

Serious questions:

1) I use "socials" anonymously. Have anon accounts on X, IG, FB. If asked to disclose them at the border (am US citizen, but it's happening to them too), do I disclose the anon accounts?

2) Nothing too controversial in my "socials" (I'm careful), but there's still stuff there that could embarrass me (e.g. mocking or abusing people on X). What would happen if I scrubbed my socials before a trip? Would they be able to find out that I scrubbed, and then construe something about me?

3) Relatedly, is there a recommended way to scrub one's socials?

4) Is something like HN considered part of "socials"? I assume Reddit is. So HN must be too? I've had multiple accounts on HN over the years (been serially banned until I stopped leaving controversial comments). What am I expected to do in such an instance? Do I disclose all the HN accounts?

5) Relatedly, I have multiple X accounts (squatting on usernames). Do I disclose all the accounts?

> "most Americans of their intelligence would be aware"

that would still leave up to 49% Americans not being aware. so how did you conclude that they were not Americans? Also, how did you measure their intelligence?

> "slightly more common among immigrant families than locals"

even if true, how did you conclude that these were not Americans?

> "Americans, on average, are more individualist and hesitate more when asked by family to do something criminal"

even if on average Americans are more so, how did you conclude that these were not Americans?

> "A lot of immigrants eventually adopt anglicised names"

from your sentence it seems a lot of them don't. so how did you conclude that these were not Americans?

It would be a disaster for immigrants in your area if you were ever hired into some kind of investigative/law enforcement role.

Maybe, give them estrogen injections too.

I don't have cable, and will not be able to watch this show. But I was wondering if there's truth to the billionaire class being hypocritical and thin-skinned.

Then I remembered when Silicon Valley Bank collapsed.

I was aghast that anti-government crypto-state-libertarian, Dr. Balaji Srinivasan (former Coinbase COO), called for a bailout of the bank by the government.

I thought it seemed hypocritical.

I wonder how many future "Al-Khwarizmis" will be obliterated today in the bridge attacks.

You'd have to go in the same jurisdiction as they're incorporated. I think (IANAL).

Is it firmly established that high LDL is bad for longevity? I've read conflicting information on the issue.

I don't have their names, but you can look them up. The super-rich leftists are the people who funded the politicians elected to various positions in Monterey, CA who have opposed desal in the area despite drought-like conditions for a decade.

Also, the super-rich leftists are the people who funded the politicians in CA who have banned nuclear power in the state, and also various kinds of mining in the state.

This might help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159430

I've noticed that it's super-rich leftists who oppose permits for new housing, not all leftists.

An interesting group of people they are, the super-rich leftists. The way they weaponize the environment to prevent others having what they want... really makes you wonder.

FWIW, I found it quite useful. I liked that a huge amount of AI/LLM concepts are mentioned and compared. So it's a handy reference.

This was exactly their thinking. Build an ecosystem by starting with easier things, and progressively doing more difficult things.

Some years ago, Modi announced that he was going to make India go all-in on semiconductors. When I read that the first facility to begin commercial production was going to be Micron with memory chips, I did an eyeroll. Memory chips? And just an assembly and testing facility? To me that seemed like an easy cop-out. To me (my admittedly naive self), wafer fabs and CPUs seemed like the real game.

Now, with what has happened with memory chip prices, it almost seems like they got lucky (the Micron facility is doing commercial shipments now).

Obama used to talk about having "spooky" good luck. I think Modi has some of that too.

We are not far away from an era where AI will code up a Windows clone.

If MS doesn't protect the user-experience of Windows users, it's over for them.

Some may find this classic relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessne...

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said "a faster horse" -- Henry Ford.

The end goal of AI + Robotics has to be robots doing surgery on humans, for a little more than the price of electricity.

This is amazing, and there should be these for every profession and job in the world.

However, I also want to be able to auto-speedrun something like this, without intentionally "playing" a game. So that I can sit back and watch what's involved in a profession, without having to make lots of decisions.

> "A clock that ticks seconds irregularly but is accurate for minutes."

Sounds like something that could be tried as a fix for a kind of OCD (obsessive seconds counting).