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The day the sale to Musk became final is the day I deleted my account and blocked the domains on the firewall here. I have yet to find a single reason to regret that decision and I do not understand local and national authorities as well as other public entities for not doing the same thing. They are giving Musk more power and the only thing that will eventually happen is that he will abuse that power.
From my point of view, they cannot even prove that, because in most cases there is no validation if the TLA+ model actually maps to the e.g. C code that was written.
I only believe in formal methods where we always have a machine validated way from model to implementation.
Good for them, now they need to take it one step further for an even shorter and better title. And we should all follow suit.
I would still go with the Raspberry Pi, because it is designed from the ground up for Linux, while most mini PC home labs are the usual hit-and-miss with Linux distros.
When you define yourself solely by work, you lose your entire identity when you retire. Most people don't have hobbies, so work is literally the one thing they have in their lives.
This is only increase offshoring even further, unless the new administration now finds a way to tax VPN connections between company sites.
Or in the connections in case the part is not soldered in place.
If you're looking for role models I would not recommend Steve Jobs.
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Even after Jobs started paying more attention to Brennan-Jobs, her mother, Chrisann Brennan, apparently felt uncomfortable leaving him with her alone after an incident in which he questioned and teased the then-9-year-old Brennan-Jobs about her sexual attractions and proclivities.
When Brennan went to live with him as a teen, he forbade her from seeing her mother for 6 months. After moving in with them, Brennan told her stepmother, Laurene Powell-Jobs, that she felt lonely and asked that they tell her goodnight in the evenings... Powell-Jobs responded, "We're cold people."
Once, as Jobs groped his wife and pretended to be having sex with her, he demanded that Brennan stay in the room, calling it a "family moment." He repeatedly withheld money from her, told her that she would get "nothing" from his wealth — and even refused to install heat in her bedroom.
When she started to become active in her high school, Jobs got on Brennan for not spending more time with the family, telling her, "This isn't working out. You're not succeeding as a member of this family."
At one point, neighbors of the family were so worried about Brennan that they helped her move into their house. They also helped her pay for college.https://finance.yahoo.com/news/memoir-steve-jobs-apos-daught...
If you spot any that live longer than a few comments please pass that info to Dan & Tom.
I am quite sure that isn't using the plain Android APIs, and has a bunch of needless libraries.
Use plain Java, regular Android views, handle yourself the ifdefs for Android versions, and the 5 MB won't be there.
User issues have an annoying habit of eventually becoming investor issues so you better deal with them while they are still 'just' user issues.
Technical person that knows UNIX since being introduced to it via Xenix in 1993, and has used plenty of UNIX flavours since then.
Some of us like the experience of Visual Studio, being able to do graphics development with modern graphics APIs that don't require a bazillion of code lines, with debuggers, not having to spend weekends trying to understand why yet again YouTube videos are not being hardware accelerated, scout for hardware that is supposed to work and then fails because the new firmaware update is no longer compatible,....
Imagine being incapable of empathy.
Just install proper development tools on the device, some examples from my setup,
- Pydroid
- C# Shell .NET IDE
- Pascal N-IDE
- Shader Editor
Risk taking is more frowned upon in Europe, and it's really hard to start a new business there, because of how employee friendly the laws are.
One of the things that makes starting a startup in US so favorable is that you can fire anyone at any time for any or no reason, which means you can easily retool or cut costs.
And if you're not looking to start a startup, the huge different in salaries and concentration of talent in the US, especially in certain cities, is a huge draw.
>Yet he was known for taking LSD, living with monks and yogis in India, visiting the Hari Krishna temples, visiting the Zen Buddhist temples, giving a copy of Autobiography of a Yogi to everyone who attended his funeral, and I’m just learning now that he wrote horoscope software. I suspect there was much more unexplored depth to his spiritual beliefs
Does that sound like some real depth?
This part "known for taking LSD, living with monks and yogis in India, visiting the Hari Krishna temples, visiting the Zen Buddhist temples" basically describes any self-respecting hipster hippie in the late 60s/early 70s. There were even bus services that catered to the market, and many celebs at the time (most famously The Beatles) did the same:
>What bothers me about posts like this is: mid-level engineers are not tasked with atomic, greenfield projects
They get those ocassionally all the time though too. Depends on the company. In some software houses it's constant "greenfield projects", one after another. And even in companies with 1-2 pieces of main established software to maintain, there are all kinds of smaller utilities or pipelines needed.
>But day to day, when I ask it "build me this feature" it uses strange abstractions, and often requires several attempts on my part to do it in the way I consider "right".
In some cases that's legit. In other cases it's just "it did it well, but not how I'd done it", which is often needless stickness to some particular style (often a contention between 2 human programmers too).
Basically, what FloorEgg says in this thread: "There are two types of right/wrong ways to build: the context specific right/wrong way to build something and an overly generalized engineer specific right/wrong way to build things."
And you can always not just tell it "build me this feature", but tell it (high level way) how to do it, and give it a generic context about such preferences too.
> Now imagine what the competitive landscape for that bakery would look like if all of that friction for new competitors disappeared. Margin would tend toward zero.
This is the goal. It's the point of having a free market.
>2) Claude Code has been around for almost a year and is being built by an entire team, yet doesn't seem to have benefited from this approach. The program is becoming buggier and less reliable over time, and development speed seems indistinguishable from anything else.
Not my experience at all (macOS Tahoe/iTerm2, no tmux).
Speaking of either Claude Code as a tool, or Claude 4.5 as an LLM used with coding.
Yes thank you! I find I get more than enough done (and more than enough code to review) by prompting the agent step by step. I want to see what kind of projects are getting done with multiple async autonomous agents. Was hoping to find youtube videos of someone setting up a project for multiple agents so I could see the cadence of the human stepping in and making directions
Additionally, this will make it look like you're a spammer.
The funniest part of that whole thing was when someone said "I trusted you, but you use light mode on your terminal" and then he replied that people stop by his desk daily just to make fun of him for it.
I'm fine with social media, but not with the illusion of it from Facebook, Instagram, etc. Those are ad delivery systems. I'm on Discord, Github, Substack, and Reddit.
I retired when my first kid was born. I had plenty to keep me busy playing with her, taking care of her, traveling with her. And then we had the second one, and were extra busy.
But I was still "working" the whole time. I was running a small startup, and still keeping up on tech and taking speaking gigs. I was not great at fully retiring.
I unretired when the second kid got to 1st grade. We could no longer travel on a whim and the house was empty 6 hours a day. I didn't seek work, but someone reached out with an interesting job and I didn't say no.
Funny enough, my wife and I were just talking about how we were both bad at retirement (she also retired and has since gone back to work). But we talked about how the next retirement will be better, because the kids will be gone and we'll just sit around making art and building Lego all day.
We'll see if that actually happens!
I had an app I wanted for over a decade. I even wrote a prototype 10 years ago. It was fine but wasn't good enough to use, so I didn't use it.
This weekend I explained to Claude what I wanted the app to do, and then gave it the crappy code I wrote 10 years ago as a starting point.
It made the app exactly as I described it the first time. From there, now that I had a working app that I liked, I iterated a few times to add new features. Only once did it not get it correct, and I had to tell it what I thought the problem was (that it made the viewport too small). And after that it was working again.
I did in 30 minutes with Claude what I had try to do in a few hours previously.
Where it got stuck however was when I asked it to convert it to a screensaver for the Mac. It just had no idea what to do. But that was Claude on the web, not Claude Code. I'm going to try it with CC and see if I can get it.
I also did the same thing with a Chrome plugin for Gmail. Something I've wanted for nearly 20 years, and could never figure out how to do (basically sort by sender). I got Opus 4.5 to make me a plugin to do it and it only took a few iterations.
I look forward to finally getting all those small apps and plugins I've wanted forever.
> Tough week for Tesla
Tesla’s R&D has been shit for years. The value it brings to the table is mass-manufacturing expertise.
Tesla can bomb the robot for a while. As long as it keeps its plants online, it can buy or partner with one of these guys with its manufacturing platform (and political connections).
Not a bullish case. But also not a death knell.
There are at least 18 humanoid robots good enough to have Youtube videos of them moving around. Some are far more agile than this one.
Needs more manipulation. Such elaborate fingers and all it does is mime carrying a box. There are some brief material handling demos at the end, but nothing challenging.
There's been considerable progress in robot manipulation in the past year, after many decades of very slow progress. This year's new manipulation demos have been for fixed base robot hands. Robot manipulation still isn't good enough for Amazon's bin picking. The best demo of 2025 is two robot hands opening a padlock with a key, with one hand holding the lock while the other uses the key.
We'll probably see this start to come together in 2026.
I like how the Unicode Consortium really doesn't want to accept any more flags, but you can still probably shoehorn them in if you're Apple or Google and you have a glyph sequence that is backwards compatible. One way of getting things done -- just do it.
I knew the details behind this because Windows 10 didn't include font with the trans flag by default, and so it always rendered as flag + trans symbol. I eventually installed the emoji font from the Windows 11 betas and found much of what I read to suddenly be a lot nicer looking.
P.S. I love the effects on this website :3
Hypersnake! We need hypersnake! Snake on the surface of a hypersphere [1]! (Cubes can come too.)
"Even the ones that can be kept outside a fridge shouldn't be kept above room temperature".
I do actually think you're right, but the counterpoint is that airlines have slowed down all their flights to save money, and no one has come in offering a faster flight in exchange for more money.
Maybe the delta just isn't enough to matter? Or maybe people aren't willing to pay for it.
Shades of the Silicon Valley No Poach cartel.
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
> After 2 million kilometers (1.25 million miles), CATL’s EV batteries retained about 400 km (250 mi) of range. Competitor cells, on the other hand, retained considerably less, at around 350 km (218 mi) and less.
> The data is based on 12 electric vehicles, 100 sample batteries, and real-world applications across four major cities in China. You can see in the chart from Morgan Stanley Research that Models 11 and 12, which use CATL batteries, exhibit considerably slower degradation than the other suppliers.
> For example, CATL is one of four LFP battery suppliers at the Zhangbei National Wind-Solar-Storage Demonstration Project in China. CATL’s batteries are the only ones that have never been replaced, retaining over 90% of residual capacity after 14 years.
This is incredible performance considering 1.25M miles simulated and almost fifteen years of service life.
I don't know, I can tell a story about how fixed move-in fees are better than security deposits, even though you always pay the fee and sometimes get the deposit back. The fixed fee is part of the price of the apartment, and has to react to market conditions. The security deposit is basically a lie told to renters.
I'm fairly sure that levelsio didn't popularize SSHing into a computer from your phone to run a program. We were all doing it before LLMs.
> not games, desktops, web/db servers, lightweight stuff like that.
Things like games, desktops, browsers, and such were designed for computers with a handful of cores, but the core count will only go up on these devices - a very pedestrian desktop these days has more than 8 cores.
If you want to make software that’ll run well enough 10 years from now, you’d better start using computers from 10 years from now. A 256 core chip might be just that.
I've been having a surprising amount of success recently telling Claude Code to test the frontend it's building using Playwright, including interacting with the UI and having it take its own screenshots to feed into its vision ability to "see" what's going on.
I don't think that's how it works. Otherwise, a level 3 engineer would be working 40 hours a week but 4 engineer would be working 60 hours a week, which isn't the case.
These additional things a senior does that a junior doesn't aren't "write more code", they're "coordinate with people outside your team more", "be more self-directed", "be more reliable", etc. Things which don't take more time, but which juniors don't do.
It should start at score 50, which is when the game actually gets interesting.
They were laid for to optimize profits, replacement by offshore workers, and the aspirational promise of generative AI. Value discovery remains to be seen.
Artificial Intelligence and the Labor Market [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43235781 - March 2025 (2 comments)
HN Search: offshoring - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Paper. Goes in a pile. Pile goes in a scanner. Digital files from scanner get automatically processed into digital files, OCR, indexed, etc.
Ah, the good old days when everyone was on a computer using a screen between 640 and 1024 pixels wide. :)
I think a lot of the reason web design is more boring now is because you have to make it work on all sorts of different screen sizes with responsive design. There are a lot of tools to make this easy, but you still need start with a simple base so it looks ok on the smallest mobile screen.
It's way too early to make firm predictions here, but if you're not already in the field it's helpful to know there's been 20 years of effort at automating "pen-testing", and the specific subset of testing this project focused on (network pentesting --- as opposed to app pentesting, which targets specifically identified network applications) is already essentially fully automated.
I would expect over the medium term agent platforms to trounce un-augmented human testing teams in basically all the "routinized" pentesting tasks --- network, web, mobile, source code reviews. There are too many aspects of the work that are just perfect fits for agent loops.
A service where your limo drives out to the aircraft, with all searches and paperwork pre-done, would have about the same time gain as going Mach 1.7 vs. Mach 0.85.
Also you can use the same touchscreen for different vehicles and the manufacturing of that is always the same or if there is variation it is over smaller numbers of parameters: maybe a bigger or a brighter touchscreen.
I think of an initiative GM had, I think circa 2000, to standardize branding across all their vehicles and notably use the same buttons from the bottom of the line compacts up to flagships like the HUMMER, Cadillac, and the GMC Suburban. Sensitized by media coverage whenever I looked at these buttons sitting in a GM car or looking through the windows I felt that it diluted the higher end brands.
Most parents prefer to spell it "parent".
> The crucial feature would be that nobody would have to pay to get listed, or only a small nominal fee that anyone can afford
You see the contradiction.
You’re essentially saying no bad ads, only good ads, without defunding the difference. (Anyone can afford a Google or Meta ad in the way they could a White Pages listing.)
I'm saying that most people --- and functionally all the people who feel victimized by insiders --- on Polymarket are gambling, not predicting. I feel pretty comfortable with how sound that argument is. I agree that there are users of prediction markets who are neither "insiders" (for whatever definition of that you want to use) nor gamblers, but they're participating with the understanding that they're bidding alongside insiders. And they're a tiny cohort.
If it helps, draw a line between "entertainment" and "enterprise", and use whatever term you like for uses on the "entertainment" side of the line. Either way: it has stark implications for the notion of insider impropriety.
I never used Spotify, keep buying CDs, and occasionally MP3 from digital stores.
Still doing the modern version of mix tapes.
Haven't lost anything, and is with a smile I observe kids today being responsible for the revival of portable tape and CD players.
Or just forgive them, which is half the cost of total PPP loan forgiveness. But the point is to make these people suffer, which debt forgiveness would not enable. For other comparison, student loan debt forgiveness would cost less than half a year of 2026 US military spending (~$900B).
Garnishing these wages is a regressive, punitive tax that will further slow an economy very near recession territory. But I digress, as if facts mattered. The best we can do is help those who want to leave expat out of the US on whatever visa they can to developed countries and walk away from this debt.
> In particular, the Paycheck Protection Program has so far forgiven $757 billion in loans to private businesses, according to government databases — nearly double what the Biden administration's student-loan forgiveness would have cost.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ppp-loan-forgiveness-student-lo...
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-does-the-us-spend-on-...
https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2025/12/17/senate-passe...
RE 1. - the example still stands. Travel time is best understood as falling into buckets. Roughly:
- < 1h - can go there for lunch, or as part of running some errands;
- 2-3 hours - can fly over, have a full day of work at remote location (or sight-seeing), and get back home for supper;
- 4-8 hours - can fly over, do something useful, fly back overnight or next morning;
- > 8 hours - definitely a multi-day trip.
(There are more buckets still, if you consider long-distance travel by sea or land, and then more when considering how people perceived travel in historical times.)
As long as the travel time stays in the same bucket, reducing (or increasing) it doesn't matter much to the travelers. However, going up or down a bucket is a huge qualitative change, and one people - especially the business travelers - are more than happy to pay premium for.
So back to our supersonic planes, cutting down the LA-Seattle travel time from 3 hours to 1.5 hours (and accounting for airport overhead), doesn't affect the kind of trips people take. Cutting down travel from LA to Dubai from your 15 hours to 5 hours means it suddenly makes sense for corporate executives to fly over in person for single-day meetings, where previously it wouldn't.
This is also why it's the business customers that are always the target for such ideas - regular people are much more price sensitive than corporations, and are fine with long and hard flights if it means they can afford them. Meanwhile, paying an extra $10k to get the executive on an important meeting might actually be worth it for a large company.
I think the benefit of a discrete optocoupler is in keeping the communication point-to-point, so no other device (malicious or otherwise) can "listen in". A low-power light signal won't penetrate a solid enclosure; it's much harder to prevent mechanical vibrations from leaking information beyond the coupler - you'd need to keep the speaker and microphone on some kind of suspension (springs and shock absorbers) acting as a low-pass filter.
> Of course, at time of writing, RMS is still alive and the optimal headline is a falsehood..
That's where Betteridge's law of headlines comes to the rescue! Just rephrase the headline as a question - "Is Richard Stallman dead?".
If your revenue comes from parasitical strategies it's negative sum and the economy is better off without it.
My oven has a knob on it for temperature. That's it. It's been working just fine for 30 years.
Oh, and a switch for the light.
Next, replace the incomprehensible icons with text.
Catalogs - offline and on-line, commercial and government. Deprived of constant noise and overstimulation of advertising, people will actively seek such information out, whether because they have a problem to solve, or just out of curiosity. All we're talking about here is switching from current "push" model of advertising back to "pull" model.
Who here never browsed a product or company catalog they found, just because they were curious?
It's not a one-time cost, it's a subscription now.
See also: a post from a couple days ago which came to the same conclusion that Opus 4.5 is an inflection point above Sonnet 4.5 despite that conclusion being counterintuitive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46495539
It's hard to say if Opus 4.5 itself will change everything given the cost/latency issues, but now that all the labs will have very good synthetic agentic data thanks to Opus 4.5, I will be very interested to see what the LLMs release this year will be able to do. A Sonnet 4.7 that can do agentic coding as well as Opus 4.5 but at Sonnet's speed/price would be the real gamechanger: with Claude Code on the $20/mo plan, you can barely do more than one or two prompts with Opus 4.5 per session.
Why would they help you sleep and take a gamble on subliminal anything working when they can just do it when you're awake?
The biggest problem here isn't the numbers, but the usual manipulative rhetoric of putting people who "voted for it" and those who "sat on their elbows" into the same bucket, to vilify them together.
I'll skip the philosophical argument for the absurdity of this view in general, because the numbers you provided speak even louder. Consider that both big parties got pretty much the same amount of votes[0] - so whether or not the 36% of population who didn't vote are seen as complicit villains, depended on how a different 0.5% of the population (or 0.15% of the voters) voted!
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[0] - I'd argue that 0.2% difference is within margin of statistical error, but that's a whole other discussion.
Most people install induction stoves as part of a larger kitchen or home reno. If you're switching over from gas you probably didn't have a 50amp 220V circuit anywhere near the stove. But kitchen renos have to bring the kitchen up to code, so if you're bringing in an electrician anyway to redo all the wiring, might as well put in a circuit for the induction stove, and code requires that it be on a GFCI.
The folks who just want a drop-in replacement are probably not getting induction - they're the ones who complain about the necessary electrical upgrades being too expensive.
I'm not a heavy claude code user, but opencode is pretty cool. Would love to hear your experience on the differences.
Though if you don't do it, someone eventually decides to start a competing company, fix all the problems, demonstrate that they can be fixed, take all your customers, and put management out of a job.
Earlier today I said we were navigating uncharted waters, but that’s not quite true. As this article points out, we were at a similar point prior to WWI. What we have now that we didn’t then is nuclear weapons and ICBMs. If we, as a civilisation, decide to continue on this path, there will be nuclear proliferation, as this is the only current way a nation can use to force itself into a seat at the adults table. Trump wouldn’t dare do the same stunt with North Korea.
> Dense cities in other parts of the world rely on mass transit to move people
But they don’t solve the fundamental problems with mass transit: comfort, convenience, and trip times.
I was just at Disney World and joking to my wife that the park is propaganda to get people to use public transit because Walt loved trains. (You can’t get into the parks by driving. Only the train, bus, or gondola. If you drive you have to park at this giant lot and take the train from there.)
But even within that self contained environment—where land for transit infrastructure is basically free because Disney bought it all decades ago—public transit still isn’t great. Trying to get three kids and all their shit out the door to catch a bus or train, having to fold up strollers, etc., just sucks in comparison to throwing them into a car.
It works alright for me.
I would rather not trust non-European companies with my data, given current geopolitics, but here we are.
I genuinely struggle to understand how apps can get that large. Games with hi-res graphics, sure. But Gmail barely has any assets. And they aren't shipping with custom runtimes or anything of that sort (like an Electron app) because Apple doesn't allow it. So how much code can you possibly write that compiles to 700 MB?
> For most of that period, the size of the Gmail app hovered around 12 MB, with a sudden jump to more than 200 MB near the start of 2017... The Gmail app, on the App Store, is currently 760.7 MB in size.
With charts:
https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/the-top-iphone-apps-are-tak...
I had no idea common apps used to be just 10-30 MB. But are now hundreds of MB.
Something like Gmail doesn't have massive hi-resolution bitmap graphics. Since the article doesn't give any answer, I'm assuming it's a hand-wavy "frameworks", but that's an enormous amount of compiled code.
> "army ordered civilians to evacuate from warzone so it's genocide" is not as great argument as you think
The trick, though, was to keep doing it, over and over, expanding the area each time, so people never stop having to evacuate, or give up and stay in place to die.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c299pl8j8w7o
"More than three-quarters of Gaza's territory have been designated as evacuation zones by the Israeli military since the war against Hamas began in October, an analysis by BBC Arabic has found."
At a certain point, it becomes plain old ethnic cleansing.
That's valuable real estate for housing. House people, not cars.
NY Times Obit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46513592 - January 2026
Indeed, just keep pulling the policy ratchet if tech tries to subvert.
To give you a real answer, yes, the Overton window has shifted. Anything at all that is perceived as limiting what a business can charge or negotiate is considered leftist now. Banning junk fees is a limit on what businesses can charge/negotiate.
I too have the lifetime pass. A group of us collectively manages >1PB of content via Plex. But we need an offramp to derisk enshittification, and Jellyfin is that readiness capability. If you have no option to switch to when the time comes, you are SOL. Even if I did not use Jellyfin today (I do for a music catalog, but it is not primary), I am willing to provide them recurring donations to make sure they are ready when I need them.
(ymmv, I work in risk management, a component of which is vendor risk management, so the professional mental model gets applied to home systems when applicable; rug pull? not on my watch, and the rug pull will happen eventually)
Okay, yeah, and those manufacturers’ opinions are both obvious reflections of market position independent of the merits, what do people who actually run inference say?
(Also, the NPUs usually aren't any more separate from the GPU than tensor cores are separate from an Nvidia GPU, they are integrated with the CPU and iGPU.)
It's about more than just costs. Plex started out as a home media server (a direct port of XBMC/Kodi in fact), but over time due to its success the creators decided they wanted to turn it into Netflix instead. So using Plex to stream your own media to your own local or remote devices is being made harder with every update.
Mamdani is actually a democratic socialist, it's just that this distinction doesn't exist in US english.
This is the way. May you enjoy your home.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46507661 - January 2026 (3 comments)
is that actually surprising ?
once data leaves the fs and is all (or in part) bought into a processes memory, access is just limited by the memory bandwidth.
ofcourse if you start touching uncached data things slow down, but just for a short while…
Yeah, the tiered pricing changes for M2M[0] in 2024 didn't make much sense to me. I guess I don't understand their COGS, though.
0: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/05/amazon-co...
Great work, thanks for sharing. Is there any specific citation you'd like used when this is shared with policymakers?
There is nothing a hot shower, a hot cup of coffee, and a phone on do not disturb can't fix in my experience.
> "most likely to get upvoted" for which "Richard Stallman is Dead" is the optimal title
This is extremely funny, and reminds me of the famous newspaper headline "Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead". Of course, at time of writing, RMS is still alive and the optimal headline is a falsehood..
DO-178C isn’t there yet, but I believe I heard that it’s coming. In general, Ferrous Systems works with customer demand, which has been more automotive to start.
This is software coming from a server, not hardware. It doesn't matter which device it's run on, or whether it's in your home or not.
Another problem I'm starting to see lately is accounts on Reddit posting vague positive comments to farm karma, make the accounts look real, run cover for other AI posts from the same account, etc. I'd love to see a world where we have more positive comments on articles but positivity on a post is starting to be a weak (but growing) spam indicator!
Yes and no.
I think what'll happen here is that these computing price increases will be what finally makes certain ML startups un-economical. That's what will precipitate the AI bubble burst. The whole thing runs on investor capital, so it keeps going until some investors lose their capital. Once the bubble bursts, you're going to get some really cheap GPUs, RAM, and hard drives (as well as cloud computing prices), as many of the more marginal data centers go out of business and liquidate their hardware.
It's going to be a rough couple years for hobbyist computer aficionados though. In the near future I'd try to wait this one out and get a job at an AI startup instead.
Negative posts that I post tend to do better than neutral or positive ones. I have a classifier that judges titles on "most likely to get upvoted" for which "Richard Stallman is Dead" is the optimal title, and another that judges on "likely to have a comments/vote ratio > 0.5" [1]. The first one is a crummy model in terms of ROC, the second is pretty good and favors things that are clickbaity, about the battle of the sexes, and oddly, about cars.
But that 35 as an average score is hard for me to believe at first, I mean, the median HN post gets no votes, last time I looked the mean was around 8 or so. What is he sampling from?
[1] comments/votes = 0.5 is close to the mean
I hope we go back into old days up to the late 1990's, and current generation of developers learn to target the computers users can afford.
No fewer than the number of start-ups that flop each year, so that's not a hindrance as far as I'm concerned.