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Oh I see. so it’s my fault now that I didn’t understand what you were describing.

And no. I don’t have any friends not even at work.

I think it’s the opposite of messy tbh. It’s clear cut. You might not like it but that’s a separate discussion.

Re your colleague: I wouldn’t want to talk about it other than showing empathy for the person. At your workplace… outside of work you can talk whatever you want.

For me personally the line is crossed when you start making judgments.

Having an appointment with the embassy is not political. Saying the government shouldn’t force people to go to the embassy is.

I am not sure why, but many people (news / media outlets?) love end of world scenarios.

too often pessimists are treated as serious, critical thinkers, while optimists are dismissed as naive or foolish.

remember this guy Michael Burry who saw the 2008 housing crash coming, bet everything against it, and made a fortune?

but then he spent the next 15 years trying to pull off the exact same trick, lost a ton of money fighting a massive bull market, and finally had to shut down his hedge fund because lightning just wouldn't strike twice.

how I deal with this: focus on what you can control. reading news in general seems to be difficult. what can I personally do about all that? very little tbh.

Sometimes I read a book out loud and think about something completely different.

I wonder if reading aloud might be like walking. I can be walking and speaking to a person at the same time.

I warned people 2 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368668

Education can work if there is a convincing story.

What’s the story here other than a gruesome image?

I wish their storytelling matched their visual designs in terms of imagination.

I somewhere read about a service that would use AI generated voices to combat these scam calls, basically talking to the forever. Forgot the name though...

Yes I can second that.

During that time I was working for a large Telco. I could see how Nokia operated. They did everything the telco asked for, they installed any bloatware just to keep their sales numbers high.

Apple in contrast would say: if you ever touch the user experience on our phone we will go to the other big Telco in your country. Guess who won.

Whenever I suspect an article is LLM authored I stop reading it immediately and instead give it to my LLM tool of choice to summarize/ paraphrase.

This way I can at least somewhat control the style of the output.

Al Gore is definitely one of them!

Simple answers: because it makes for a good headline.

You mean P1-SUN interceptor drones?

Reminds me of the (infamous) eBay sellers back in the days who collected perfect ratings for a couple of years just to suddenly turn into scammers, pulling off what was known as a "long con" or "exit scam."

Presenting a product prototype or idea at a meeting is vastly different from an ex-employee stealing corporate secrets - to me at least.

Maybe. But those people might care about their IP being stolen by Codex.

On telegram?

We had some friends over last form the US. One 11 yr kid in the group was bored and said: ok I’m gonna go home now, I need the keys please.

He walked home by himself - maybe 500 meters… For us Europeans it was nothing to notice really, but the Americans were absolutely shocked.

Tokens per task might be the better choice

I’ve shared this before, I really like this quote:

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."

H.L. Mencken

Genuinely curious: How do you know?

Really depends on how you define high-intensity.

To build muscle, you need to push yourself to a limit. You can reduce the weight and increase the repetitions. This approach is just as effective and lowers the risk of injury.

This is a serious issue for young people I think.

I have seen outputs that look good but the actual content is bad. If you’re inexperienced in a field you can’t see it because AI makes anything look right.

I have gotten very good results with AI but you can’t take the first answer at face value. You need to be suspicious and challenging until you tweak out the right answer over time.

If they’re expecting profits like the VC backed US companies how come they behave so differently?

Even if they were fully self-financed, which isn’t the case, they would expect something in return.

Who is financing DeepSeek and what are they expecting in return?

Has it ever been sane?

Most relevant xkcd I thing:

https://xkcd.com/2501/

I think it’s a bit ignorant to lump Europe into one.

Europe has roughly 750 mn people. When you’re in the southern parts many homes actually do have AC.

We’re not stupid. Many new buildings have ACs. The northern parts just haven’t adapted to the increased temperatures at scale yet.

Isaac Asimov