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slashdev··on Nano Banana Pro
You'd need a similar law around posting AI photos/videos without disclosure. Which maybe is where we're heading.

It still won't prevent it, but it would prevent large players from doing it.

slashdev··on Nano Banana Pro
If there was a standardized identifier, there would be software dedicated to just removing it.

I don't see how it would defeat the cat and mouse game.

slashdev··on US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
Why do you blame Trump for the shutdown? Isn't it caused by Congress basically failing to agree on a funding continuation? (I think it's been ages since they could actually go further and agree on a budget). Government shutdowns are common under both Republican and Democrat administrations.

You can say he refuses to compromise, but clearly so does the other side, hence the impasse.

slashdev··on Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir
Disagreeing with this:

> Or you could end up getting margin called

That's not how puts work. The premium you shelled out when you bought them is your maximum loss. You won't get margin called if you paid cash.

Unlike shorts the losses are limited, but you also have to time it correctly. Theta decay hurts.

slashdev··on Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir
These are puts, you buy them, they have a fixed expiration date at which point they will be worthless if the price is above the strike price.

Fixed down side, upside is $100 per contract per dollar the stock is below the strike at expiry. You can also sell them before then, and price depends on time to expiry, volatility, and distance to the strike price. See Black-Scholes model for more info.

slashdev··on How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise
I’m not asking if it makes sense, I’m simply pointing out that by that measure this is much less extreme than 2000. As I stated, I think we’re in a bubble, so valuations won’t make much sense.

If you have a better measure, share it. I trust data more than your or my feelings on the matter.

slashdev··on How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise
More money is lost by bears fighting a bull market, than in actual bear market crashes.

I’ve made that mistake already.

I’m nervous about the economic data and the sky high valuations, but I’ll invest with the trend until the trend changes.

slashdev··on How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise
Nvidia has a trailing PE of 50. Cisco was 200 At the height of the dotcom bubble.

Nowhere near that level. There’s real demand and real revenue this time.

It won’t grow as fast as investors expect, which makes it a bubble if I’m right about that. But not comparable to the dotcom bubble. Not yet anyway.

slashdev··on How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise
If we’re both willing to pay that in a free market economy, then we both leave the deal happy.

Things are worth what people are willing to pay for them. And that can change over time.

Sentiment matters more than fundamental value in the short term.

Long term, on a timescale of a decade or more, it’s different.

slashdev··on How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise
The same way the stock market invents a trillion dollars of fake wealth on a strong up day?

That's capital markets working as intended. It's not necessarily doomed to end in a fiery crash, although corrections along the way are a natural part of the process.

It seems very bubbly to me, but not dotcom level bubbly. Not yet anyway. Maybe we're in 1998 right now.

slashdev··on Why Is SQLite Coded In C
That's a better word, thank you
slashdev··on Why Is SQLite Coded In C
The founders came from ScyllaDb, I wouldn't be so quick to count them out. The repo has a lot of contributors and traction. As long as the company survives, I think it has a bright future.
slashdev··on Why Is SQLite Coded In C
Could also be an outcome. It is MIT open-source though.
slashdev··on Why Is SQLite Coded In C
> They just use the name for promotional/aspirational purposes. Which feels incredibly icky.

The aim is to be compatible with sqlite, and a drop-in replacement for it, so I think it's fair use.

> Also, this is a VC backed project. Everyone has to eat, but I suspect that Turso will not go out of its way to offer a Public Domain offering or 50 year support in the way that SQLite has.

It's MIT license open-source. And unlike sqlite, encourages outside contribution. For this reason, I think it can "win".

slashdev··on Why Is SQLite Coded In C
It's a ground up rewrite. It's not an official rewrite, if that's what you mean. Words are hard.
slashdev··on Why Is SQLite Coded In C
This is ignoring the elephant in the room: SQLite is being rewritten in Rust and it's going quite well. https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso

It has async I/O support on Linux with io_uring, vector support, BEGIN CONCURRENT for improved write throughput using multi-version concurrency control (MVCC), Encryption at rest, incremental computation using DBSP for incremental view maintenance and query subscriptions.

Time will tell, but this may well be the future of SQLite.

slashdev··on Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
Until the politicians want to come after you for posts you make on HN, or any other infraction they decide is now an issue.

History is littered with the literal bones of people who thought they had nothing to fear from the state. The state is not your friend, and is not looking out for you.

slashdev··on Claude for Chrome
It’s going to be pretty easy to embed instructions to Claude in a malicious website telling it to submit sensitive things (and not report that is doing it.)

Then all you have to do is get Claude to visit it. I’m sure people will find hundreds of creative ways to achieve that.

slashdev··on From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]
If one conversation goes in a bad direction, it's often best to just start over. The bad context often poisons the existing session.
slashdev··on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
I think we might also be limited by energy.
slashdev··on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong
Yeah this one drove me crazy
slashdev··on Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in cyberattack
In the case they gain access to my account, I agree with how you presented it. If someone emptied my account with info about me they could find in data breaches, that shouldn’t be on me.

If they gave a loan or a credit card to someone pretending to be me. That’s now on my credit rating and historically very difficult to undo.

slashdev··on The story behind the photograph of a starving Gaza baby [video]
That's not true at all. The historic genocides I listed were apparent while in progress. The fact that after two years no genocide is apparent should make it obvious that no genocide is in progress.

That doesn't rule out one happening in the future, but why now? It's such a weak argument.

slashdev··on Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in cyberattack
That was hilarious, thanks for sharing!
slashdev··on Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in cyberattack
All these endless data breaches could be reduced if we fixed the incentives, but that's difficult. We could never stop it, because humans make mistakes, and big groups of humans make lots of mistakes. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

It seems to me a parallel path that should be pursued is to make the impact less damaging. Don't assume that things like birth dates, names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, SSNs, etc are private. Shut down the avenues that people use to "steal identities".

I hate the term stealing identity, because it implies the victim made some mistake to allow it to happen. When what really happened is the company was lazy to verify that the person they're doing business with is actually who they say they are. The onus and liability should be on the company involved. If a bank gives a loan to you under my name, it should be their problem, not mine. It would go away practically overnight as a problem if that were changed. Companies would be strict about verifying people, because otherwise they'd lose money. Incentives align.

Identify theft is not the only issue with data leaks / breaches, but it seems one of the more tractable.

slashdev··on The story behind the photograph of a starving Gaza baby [video]
You mean like your opinion?

Do you understand fog of war? Both sides say things that are false or exaggerated, and it's difficult to discern the truth because information is censored and journalists are restricted in their movement and what they can report. This not unique to this conflict, you see the same thing in the Russia-Ukraine war, and in the recent Thailand Cambodia skirmishes.

I don't trust what either side says, I assume the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

One of the more balanced and accurate sources, in my opinion, has been Preston Stewart on Youtube[1], especially on the Russia-Ukraine war. He sources things frequently from military bloggers from both sides in their native language and verifies what he can and is honest about what is unconfirmed.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@PrestonStewart

slashdev··on Purple Earth hypothesis
It might actually help with financing the things. I guess it is almost carbon neutral. Zero efficient though.
slashdev··on The story behind the photograph of a starving Gaza baby [video]
It has to be the most ineptly executed genocide in history - or it’s not a genocide.

There are really only those two options.

slashdev··on The photograph of a starving Gaza baby
I actually agree with this, which is why I don’t think Israel will let starvation happen in Gaza. They’ll do what they have to do, because the can’t afford to have their few remaining allies turn on them.

Time will tell. But they’re not that stupid. I don’t think they’re that evil too, but I don’t have to be right about that.

slashdev··on The story behind the photograph of a starving Gaza baby [video]
Are you telling me with a straight face that it’s a genocide because it doesn’t look like a genocide to trick people into believing it’s not a genocide?
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