simonebrunozzi

Reminds me of Core War (1984) [0].

Although, in Core War you could write your own code. Here it's just AIs. Both interesting, in different ways.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

Hey, Eric! What happened to the island? https://time.com/archive/6735546/hes-the-master-of-his-domai...

Are you back in Sausalito now for good?

A good framework would have been this: for the options you received, let's see what you did. Did you trade them 3 years later, resulting in $X amount? Then, let's assume you would have done the same with the missing stock options. I would guess that the amount would be really negligible - in the tens or hundreds of thousands, at most. Ethically, I think this is where I would consider it fair to both parties.

Then, you neglected this for ~30 years. It's fair to say that Nvidia doesn't owe you anything at this point.

> Then, in April 1996 - by which time I’d expatriated to the Kingdom of Tonga...

This is why I still love California so much. The chance of things like this is just much higher than in any other place on Earth.

I'm Italian, too. A country with a weaker energy infrastructure is prone to being controlled better.

Italy lost WWII, and became a de facto protectorate/colony of the US. I wouldn't be surprised if behind the nuclear referendum in the 80s there way to gentle hand of US services.

I can't claim to know more than you; but I think I know enough about corporate america and Meta and Zuck that the idea of multiple lawyers, instead of just one, is at least plausible.

Thanks a lot for this. I really appreciate you correcting your previous statement.

And, please, if you find what I do annoying (posting submissions frequently), let me know here, or email me (it's in my profile) and I will be happy to hear your arguments.

Yes, the name is absolutely a genius move.

I would bet my money that there's a dozen lawyers at work, right now, in Meta's HQ, to get a sense of what options they have to harass, shut down, or do something else to the creator of this app. And I would also bet that Zuck is furious about it.

Why did you lie?

I posted 3-4 things in the last 2 hours, not 50. That's probably why I haven't been flagged.

If you believe me, I do it by hand, and I do it for things that I genuinely believe can be interesting for the HN community.

And yes, a secondary benefit of my submissions is that they also act as a sort of bookmark, because obviously when I submit something that I deem interesting, it's also good to be able to easily retrieve it later.

Great! I thought it was about this, and you saved me the time to look for the exact comment. Wow, 19 years ago... Time really flies.

I don't think so.

Bending Spoons need "great" deals to go after, such as Airtable, etc. Dropbox has a market cap of ~$8B, and it's not "cheap" compared to revenues, etc.

If Dropbox goes "down" in the next few years, perhaps you will eventually be right.

There is no easy way, as a society, to "label" certain wealth as obtained with illicit or unethical activities.

It would be... interesting? (and dangerous?) to be able to meet someone at a party, and have a notification such as "this dude earned a billion dollar by scamming people".

I would agree with you generally, but in this particular case, the distinction seems important because a significant percentage of the world population believes that agents can be self-aware, a-là Terminator etc.

> Frankly, I was hoping for a deeper, more interesting conclusion.

Pretty much this. There was a lot of build up in the first paragraphs, only to conclude something that, at least in my view, is remarkably uninteresting.

Wow, after a lot of code, the animations at the bottom of the article are really mind-blowing. Super well done.

> Through chatting to Shad I came to realise there are only really three paths open to me. I can start using generative AI to feel like I’m “keeping up” or “competing”, but then I won’t enjoy the work. I could stop making things entirely, but as any creative person will know that’s never really an option. Or, I can keep making things the way I enjoy, keep learning, keep doing it the hard way, for no real concrete reason other than I want to do it. That’s why we make games. That’s why we make anything.

So, a very long blurb to simply say that you can avoid using genAI and just do things "the hard way". And why? Just because he wants to do it.

Frankly, I was hoping for a deeper, more interesting conclusion.

I disagree with your read of that blog post.

In fact, in various parts of the text, DHH is actually trying to distinguish between a "simple" view that it's a "far right" political agenda, and instead the fact that people feel loss of identity, and lack of security.

I don't know enough about DHH to state for sure that he is, or he is not, a right wing or fascist supporter, but in my view that blog post isn't proof of that. I've read it and found it to be an attempt at reframing the problem with a fresh view.

Tangentially related: what would be the equivalent of this, but for learning how to play piano? "Piano learning for the 21st-Century middle age guy".

Any help is appreciated! Including a device, or a service, that could be particularly useful.

Your comment is a good reminder of why I love the HN community so much. Having acccess to knowledge in specific domains, like in this case, is truly a gem.

And thanks!

Apparently, he has at least one. [0]

[0]: https://babynames.com/blogs/celebrities/all-of-elon-musks-ch...

Can you provide some examples of these errors? Asking genuinely.

Give me Master of Orion II, please. Incredible gameplay. Never played this NMS, but based on the comments here, it seems the most boring thing ever.

> the devs strongly discourage single-booting

Weird. Do you know why?

You can remove all notifications.

I have done so with all my devices since ~15 years ago. It's incredibly refreshing. When I see others reacting monkey-style to any notification or vibration from their phone or watch, I secretly smile inside.

I would have guessed the opposite.

Could you share a couple of these studies you are citing? Curious to read more.

You remind me of the (in)famous comment by Steve Ballmer when the iPhone was first introduced .

> "Bill's frustration is not unreasonable."

LOL.

What would be the best way to dual boot MacOS and Asahi on a Macbook M2 ?

Sorry to be that guy, but... Please consider donating a significant amount to them, given that they have been a cornerstone of your very successful career.

I did something similar in the past, in relation to Ubuntu, and I never regretted it, even if that money would have been very useful if spent in other ways.

Nice article by Stephen Diehl - I really liked his latest on crypto.

I noticed that in certain sections there seems to be a heavy use of LLM-assisted writing, such as this one:

> The platforms did not invent fear, greed, loneliness, or status anxiety. They industrialised their extraction. Their recommendation systems are vast reinforcement-learning loops that continuously experiment on human weakness. Each objective is a moving composite of high-dimensional signals for attention, retention, and conversion, dispersed across models, metrics, tests, and feedback systems. The subject cannot see the experiment. The operator cannot fully explain it. The regulator can barely comprehend it. The loop knows only that one stimulus keeps a person scrolling while another lets them leave. Calm accuracy loses. Threat, transgression, humiliation, and impossible promises win. The resulting social damage appears nowhere in the objective function. It arrives as an externality.

Not sure what you think of it.

In my view, his ideas are nice and interesting, and I would rather read less verbose, less "perfect" blog posts, and reduce or remove the use of LLMs.