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they're not sure if the vaccine will last in your system for more than 30 years

Vaccines don't really last in your system more than a few days (although some cells get dragged off to the lymph nodes and get harshly interrogated for longer than that). It is the T-cell and B-cell responses that are persistent for years.

and that subsequent doses may be less effective

They should activate B cells that you already have and produce high-affinity mature antibodies.

Almost as good as when they call everyone else "NPCs" and claim they're all performatively "virtue signalling".

Many people think that viruses are as benign as common flu (influenza)

Had influenza in 2018, as a 46-year-old and it was not particularly benign.

3 days straight of 103 degree fever and think I had mild long-covid-ish symptoms for the next year or so.

You could still generate a mess for 5-10 years at that altitude. Even if it self-clears you still destroy the constellation and deny access to LEO for years.

I think the usable counterpoint here is that you can refrain from excessively DRY'ing code up and defer it until later.

There's a huge cost to Clean-Code-style DRY'ing of your codebase which is that you wind up creating all kinds of little functions that all add cognitive overhead to reading your codebase, and that premature DRY'ing can lead to picking the wrong abstractions.

If you can tolerate a bunch of copypasta, you can sit back after you've written 5,000 or 10,000 lines of code and can look at the actual result, instead of speculating, and make better-informed decisions about how to clean the codebase up. If you're making those decisions the first time you copy a bit of code around, you can wind up making a worse mess, since you often don't know where you're going.

I've seen a lot of human-written tests that wind up testing the testing framework and not the actual code.

If you just focus on capitalism, the apparent paradoxes dissolve.

The wealthy clique in SF aren't really left-wing.

Neither is the Seattle Times.

In an ideal world, generated non-consensual imagery should be illegal through invasion of privacy through misappropriation of name or likeness, but I think only a limited number of states have those laws.

It isn't even necessarily just Chesterton's Fences. The problem can just be picking your battles. Processes that are working well enough for the team don't need to be fixed right away to be better, and that'll dump a bunch of cognitive load onto the team in the short term. If you show up and on day one you want to fix 4 different processes, the team is going to hear that over the next 3 months you want to completely change how they do all their work, while they need to keep the rest of their work going. That is moving a whole lot of proverbial cheese all at once. Of course, teams can stagnate, and some of this can be good, but you need to spread it out, do the politics up front to get people to agree that processes need to get upgraded, and ease them into the changes over time.

That slide should probably be the main focus, with the rest supplementary.

That is the slide that is likely to pop the economy.

That is the load-bearing detail.

The capitalist free market in the United States is a lie.

Regulatory capture now ensures that billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations can put you out of business and sell whatever remains for parts.

If they don't decide to squash you, you're just lucky.

There should be.

I had claude throw something like "the last time I did <x>..." at me.

They seem to be trying to pump up the "humanity" to keep people engaged with it, which really backfires with me.

They might have to hire some people and create some jobs...

Oh, the humanity...

Don't forget the blatant grift and corruption.

Not a headscratcher at all, if you understand how our economy and politics are actually run.

The 12k number is an estimate, and only 1k were convicted. And the law they're being charged with breaking covers things like threats to assault someone, false bomb threats, harassment of ex-partners, threats sent to MPs, serious domestic abuse-related crimes, etc. There's no breakdown of what each charge was for.

If you make a bomb threat or threaten to kill someone else over social media, you really should get arrested and prosecuted because that isn't an exercise of "first amendment rights".

Anthropic is at least renting their datacenters, not owning, so all the capital accounting bullshit is getting laundered by someone else, who will wind up holding that bag.

And Anthropic is currently cornering the enterprise coding market, and they were smart to avoid video. Under current economic conditions they're a lot closer to being profitable than anyone else, and they can take advantage of crashing prices for compute if we hit a datacenter-buildout-glut.

Laughs in 2005-era VMWare and EMC...

I deliberately didn't mention any threat vector.

I would assume China is working on liberating Anthropic weights through the battle-tested strategy of finding someone in a privileged position and getting them laid, etc.

Hackers didn't use to spend a lot of time defending trillion-dollar corporations and their intellectual property rights.

"Information wants to be free"

Anthropic profited from training its models on all kinds of copyrighted information, live by the sword, die by the sword...

Their model weights, training data, training methods, etc are all going to leak to China over time.

Nobody on a site named _Hacker_ news should be all that upset about this.

It is doable, but it is harder for the average redditor to compute something reasonable than just looking at GVW.

You should really take into account driver height, pedestrian height and hood slope and length and height.

For ROI though you can run 24/7 agentic-style workloads, constantly churning through all your source code looking for security bugs (or whatever) and you DONT pay per-token costs.

A DeepSeek instance running 24/7 in a cloud provider will beat doing that with Claude which could bankrupt you with 100x more costs, even though it might find more.

And DeepSeek may find enough to keep your engineering team saturated and busy fixing things.

I'm way more concerned about getting run over or T-boned by a distracted driver in a huge pickup, and literally nothing is getting done about that.

Weight of SUVs/Trucks isn't really the right metric to use though.

The proportion of them which have a grill height which impairs visibility of the average height pedestrian would be a "better" metric, except it isn't as easy to cleanly define that.

With me driving in my 2000s Ranger, I can at least see adults walking in front of it just fine, even though it is bigger than a 1980 Toyota pickup.

Okay, now do the times when some reckless driver nearly got you killed...

And corporations could run DeepSeek models on cloud hardware.

I'd guess Anthropic will probably win, and LLMs will probably still be with us and be much better in 10 years time.

But next year we could be in the middle of a massive $600B/yr capital-spending bubble deflating hard with unemployment accelerating towards 10% (or higher).

The internet never failed, but the telcom/dotcom collapse still happened in 2001.