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The bet isn't that people will be able to automatically reply on bugs and rack up API charges.

The bet is on using AI to gain competitive advantage. You don't win the stock market or make the deadliest drone by switching to the cheap model

rcpton $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol

Genghis Khan

https://youtu.be/P_SlAzsXa7E

rcpton Deadly bacteria found in city's wastewater system tied to Meta data center

Just to be clear this happened during construction. It has nothing to do with whether or not computers go inside of the building.

rcpton Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera

My comma.ai does this but when I have sunglasses on it beeps too much. That's fine with me but wow I can't imagine how most of the population will react

rcpton Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply

Those workers pay quite a lot of federal taxes

rcpton Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply

People in London buy Instagram ads to sell products to people in Birmingham and that money comes into the US. There are plenty of ways for you to catch some of it.

rcpton "Beyond the limit": Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky

Why are they bright? Do they have big lights flashing or is it reflection

rcpton Ask HN: What is everyone in SF talking about?

Examples of SEIU ballot box warfare

+ Proposition 8 (2018)

+ Proposition 23 (2020)

+ Proposition 29 (2022)

Probably their best example is "Healthcare Worker Minimum Wage Drive (SB 525)". They created a bunch of populist local initiatives about minimum that would have been a logistical nightmare for hospitals. In exchange for pulling their measures they got SB 525 passed as a truce.

I hate these tactics. California direct democracy is awful yes, but the way this group weaponizes it is downright disgusting.

> It sounds like you consider "economically explosive populist slop" is anything that helps poor people.

But honestly it sounds like you're just flat out not interested. You are the perfect target for their bullshit and I'm sure they couldn't be happier about whatever is in your head

rcpton Ask HN: What is everyone in SF talking about?

https://calmatters.org/health/2020/10/california-healthcare-...

SEIU UHW has a history of bringing economically explosive populist slop to the ballot as a negotiating tactic. Usually it's in the form of something about dialysis clinics but this time they're trying a different angle.

What about that were you specifically "interested" in?

rcpton Ask HN: What is everyone in SF talking about?

Anyone who's not able to populism their way into a cash blast for their org.

I am not a billionaire. But I don't want to risk losing my job or moving out of state so that the dialysis people can cash a paycheck.

rcpton 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake

rcpton SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

https://grokipedia.com/page/2020_United_States_presidential_...

Dude

rcpton White House delays US voting-machine vulnerability report

"tsk tsk"

rcpton White House delays US voting-machine vulnerability report

Seems to be an exclusive article that's also paywall. Anyone know the story?

Ensuring secure elections and auditing extensively seems like good practice. However the issue has become political and neither party is interested in that. The right claims fraud with no good evidence, in response the left has decided that our elections perfectly secure and to suggest otherwise gets you a sound "tsk tsk"

rcpton SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

That wasn't really an ad hominem attack.

If you're going to use the model to learn history you're going to learn the version of history that the model teaches you. A little bit of digging around grokpedia should give you some idea of what that model thinks

rcpton Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri

Have you considered becoming a shareholder?

rcpton Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri

That video is completely fake btw.

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-benn-jordan-data-center...

rcpton Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri

Can you explain how new data centers "destroy democracy"?

Pretty sure that problem is not limited by computer power

rcpton A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)

Those two guys removed an established easement. Sure one can argue that it should never have been installed in the first place, but it was and apparently it became widely used. They had no business taking it down.

rcpton What the fuck happened to nerds

I don't there's any reasonable way to have a conversation about trends when you're only talking about a dozen famous people.

Yes Elon lost his marbles but my colleagues have not suddenly become "tech bro" that we constantly hear about today.

rcpton What the fuck happened to nerds

20 years in and my coworkers are about the same. What's changed is the public perception.

Arguably because of the media

https://x.com/i/status/1588231892792328192

rcpton xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab

I think the only way it makes sense is if local busybodies succeed in banning data centers from the ground.

rcpton Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

I was messing with a stray cat in Yunnan.

rcpton Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

"We're traveling to Tokyo on our way home from China. We'd like to plan a trip accessible by train that hits some beaches, some hot springs, and allows me to get the 4th does of a rabies vaccine sequence (the first three shots were rabvac)"

rcpton When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

Solved a bunch of Erdos problems.

rcpton The dead economy theory

That's roughly what Elon thought about Twitter. The app is so much worse now.

rcpton Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

The water usage is floating point error compared to ethanol and the electricity prices near the centers are some of the cheapest you can get. In terms of the physical world this is maybe the lowest impact industry in history.

rcpton Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

Such as

rcpton Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

No they aren't.

rcpton Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

They really aren't.