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Ruliology is the nerdiest word ever invented, kudos to Stephen Wolfram.

Cutting QA on your core product is a very Boeing choice.

Polarization, reflecting the polarization in economics and politics?

I think that pure white (255) and pure black (0) should be using extremely sparingly. #FFFFFF? Why not #f6f6ef or #eceff4? Lower contrast can improve legibility, too much contrast can hinder it. #000000? Why not #121821, a dark shade of blue? Nothing in real life is perfectly dark.

Thankfully HN has remained pleasingly off-white.

That is a very Russian way of solving the problem.

If Microsoft Office is an AI app then Microsoft is the #1 AI company in the world!

Everything in economics always boils down to 1. supply and demand and 2. taxation.

One can simply look at historical income taxes in the USA and their progressiveness and conclude that over time taxes tend to regress until some economic calamity or war happens, after which taxes become extremely progressive again for a short while (top income tax rate bracket of 75% to 90%).

See for yourself, it's all there:

https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/fed_individual_r...

Think about the world's poorest man, and how disconnected he is from the rest of humanity. Now think of the world's richest man. They are equally disconnected.

Not to accuse the Germans but politicians rarely protest lobbying when it involves bribes.

Musk's greatest achievements are in the field of financial engineering. I wish he could write a book about it, because it's the only part about his life that's remained invisible.

In the 1900s we called "control over technology" something else, I believe it was "seizing the means of production".

I think it's quite obvious why Lisa Su isn't motivated to financially crush her first cousin once removed. AMD is doing quite well in the CPU space and as such isn't even forced to compete in the GPU space. AMD could take market share from Nvidia, but they don't have to, because there is no one else who would take it either.

Zen has replaced Arc for me nicely.

One of two legal outcomes must follow from OpenAI's piracy.

1. OpenAI must be fined according to law.

2. Piracy is decriminalized.

Failing to do neither is an admission that the US has become a corporatocracy. That is, a form of oligarchy where the rule of law is not by a majority or plurality of people, but by a number or corporations you can count with one hand.

Thankfully biology has redundancy, so a single cosmic bit flip does not send humans into a BSOD.

"This is also why periodontitis and gum disease is a predictor for vascular diseases: Bacteria enter the bloodstream through inflamed oral mucosa and form plaques along the blood vessels."

And yet in the year 2025 dental care is globally treated as seperate from other healthcare, a strange historical artifact that clings on.

Preventative treatment for disease is ten, hundred, thousand times cheaper than treatment ex post facto.

They are complementary sensors. It's a much easier engineering feat to combine two (cheap) sensors that are good at different things and fusing this information than creating one perfect sensor that does everything.

Private moon landers (the Japanese being most recent one) keep crashing because they rely on a single high-quality altimeter and expect it to work perfectly, all the time. If they had a complementary low-quality backup altimeter that operated independently, they would have had a less failure prone distance estimation system.

Absolutely. The goal of self-driving is to be better than human drivers. Even the best drivers struggle with the sun shining from low angles, or road reflections, or snow, and so on.

Camera vision and LIDAR perfectly complement each other. Camera vision is no good detecting unknown/outlier obstacles quickly and accurately. LIDAR is great at detecting unknown obstacles quickly and accurately.

You can tune the camera obstacle detection to be hyper-sensitive, which results in phantom braking, causing Passengers to feel that the car is "unreliable" while it actually is safer. Humans are better at braking the appropriate amount when they see something strange, dynamically tuning their sensitivity in a new situation.

You can lax the sensitivity, which will reduce false alarms, but will actually cause more crashes, deaths, and injuries. You don't want your customers to feel unsafe, so from a business perspective you will inevitably reduce the sensitivity.

As a control engineer who knows something about sensor fusion - No LIDAR no ride. Musk can brute-force his unsafe robotaxis on the road but they won't be as safe as Waymo. Maybe people won't care if the price is slightly cheaper vs. competition, I don't know.

Plant-based protein will not succeed as long as government subsidize meat production.

I've heard that catastrophes occur when three things go wrong (at the same time).

Resource inequality and thus wealth inequality is rather bad because one person is generally unable to allocate resources efficiently after a certain point of excess. Resource inequality leads to inefficient resource allocation.

Low interest rates.

Scientists are an intransigent minority.

When we are awake, we see with our eyes the ground truth.

When we are asleep, our eyes are closed.

Just like a dream. Electrons running through our brains have no permanence, atoms in the real world do.

If there's anything in the name, I would guess an anti-satellite EMP.

Does this explain the rarity of antimatter?