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When a fire truck fails to deploy in a burning building and four people die, the cause isn’t just mechanical failure. It’s a business model.

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This is also the message I got from "the wind rises"! Though from talking with other people that takeaway doesn't seem universal -- which IMO is one of the ways to tell it's a great film :)

Don't know why you were downvoted -- I scoffed at that part too. The least we in tech can do is have some self-awareness

Ah -- IME people usually start a sentence with "in the nicest possible way" when they're couching something mean is all. Often it's even sarcastic, and the meanness isn't even meant to be couched, so I wasn't sure how to read it

Agreed! I'm not sure why the GP comment has a somewhat negative attitude about it, I think it's great for people to realize this and talk about it, every year a whole new year's worth of young adults turn up not knowing it! Insert XKCD lucky 10,000 comic here

They're talking about this I'm pretty sure!

https://www.telotrucks.com/

Hah yeah, I'd never really thought about it, but newspaper headlines must be a late-game boss for non-native speakers, they are super convoluted

Sadly I don't think it works this way, at least IIUC -- the state can't withhold taxes from the federal government, because those taxes (from biweekly paychecks anyway) don't go through the states -- they go directly to the federal government. Some states are trying to pass laws to still make headway in this area, for reasons like you suggest, for example NY:

https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2025/10/state-lawmaker...

(it's a really interesting situation since I think I read somewhere that the reason federal income taxes are directly remitted to the federal government today, is specifically to disallow this kind of state retaliation)

Aside from the rest of the (interesting!) nuanced discussion going on the comments here -- I really like his idea towards the bottom of combining the colors for numbers and strings into one.

They're both constants, so yeah, they should be!

Agreed!

And, maybe I'm missing something, but to me it seems obvious that flat top part of the S curve is going to be somewhere below human ability... because, as you say, of the training data. How on earth could we train an LLM to be smarter than us, when 100% of the material we use to teach it how to think, is human-style thinking?

Maybe if we do a good job, only a little bit below human ability -- and what an accomplishment that would still be!

But still -- that's a far cry from the ideas espoused in articles like this, where AI is just one or two years away from overtaking us.

Yeah agreed!

As you suggest, I've had a moderately successful time trying to get AI to write its own Sublime Text plugins so our favorite editor doesn't get left behind, so might be cool to try with this too?

https://github.com/pickledish/llm-completion

If you haven't seen it, this "Linux Touchpad like Macbook" project is related, the last/best effort I've seen in this direction. Here's a random update from a few years ago:

https://www.gitclear.com/blog/linux_touchpad_update_december...

Thank you for writing this and sharing it here!

I know there are a lot of conversations going on about the dangerous elements of LLMs, but it’s nice to read a story like this alongside them — it’s a reminder of the remarkable potential of this new technology.

Could you have found out somehow else about the severity of the problem? Maybe, sure! But the fact that you had this LLM to ask, and it so easily understood whatever info you gave it, asked clarifying follow-up questions, and gave you info/directions in the way you needed to hear them — it’s such a new way of interacting with computers, almost like an API but made for humans to use, and cases like this is where that value shines most clearly IMO.

This whole site makes me happy. Thanks for sharing it :)

(sadly, I also tried this, but this snapshot seems to also include the paywall)

I'd like to read this, but it seems to be behind a paywall?

(There is a reasonable amount of the article before the paywall, and since the other comments here don't mention it, I am wondering whether they just thought the article was very short and then ended abruptly, lol)

(regardless of the merit of your criticism, this comment was at least very funny to me, so thank you for that)

Jesus. Sorry to hear it dude, FWIW I’d love to have someone like that on my team. Hope your current place is better!

Wow, they look great, the upscaling seems to have gone really well!

This looks pretty cool, and is definitely useful! Do you have any examples of what the printed out cards look like? Perhaps in comparison to real cards

Another potential avenue for problems like this, which I'm a fan of, is taking advantage of k8s's static CPU policy:

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/cpu-mana...

Using this (plus guaranteed QoS), you end up with containers which can only even "see" a subset of cores of the whole node (and they get those cores all to themselves), which is great for reducing noisy neighbors when big machines are running many different services.

(this clarified the situation for me, thank you)

Just wanted to say thanks for sharing this, dude -- a lot of other replies are complaining (because this does suck for US citizens), but I imagine it also sucks for you, since (IIUC) you just want to keep your good developer and also not lie to the government. It's not fun to hear about but it's better it's said out loud, right. Sorry you're in this situation

Ha, your example makes intuitive sense right when you see it. Really clever thanks for sharing it!

Heh, I actually came to these comments to link that since this reminded me of it as well! Love the project :)

Ah, you are right! it's been a while since I read the post, and I mis-remembered it as being more negative about chase than it was. I'll edit my comment as such, thanks for pointing it out

Another story about a startup and chase, from the person who founded hashicorp, it's a fun read:

https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-startup-banking-story

(edited since at first I remembered it being more negative about chase in particular -- but it's really just funny!)

Yeah, I also love this style of web app, for the same reasons you note!

I made https://github.com/pickledish/cardi as a kind of dynamoDB-based bookmark keeping tool in this style :) though I haven't worked on it in a couple of years.

You should try not to talk so confidently about things you don't know about -- this statement

if AMD used the same 33w, nobody would buy their chips because performance would be so incredibly bad

Is completely incorrect, as another commenter (and I think the notebookcheck article?) point out -- 30w is about the sweet spot for these processors, and the reason that 110w laptop seems so inefficient is because it's giving the APU 80w of TDP, which is a bit silly since it only performs marginally better than if you gave it e.g. 30 watts. It's not a good idea to take that example as a benchmark for the APU's efficiency, it varies depending on how much TDP you give the processor, and 80w is not a good TDP for these

If anyone's interesting in reading more along these lines (the weird state we've gotten into where everything in our lives needs to be viewed through an economic lens for some reason, and the damage it causes) -- check out the book "Capitalist Realism" by the late Mark Fisher -- I really enjoyed it!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6763725-capitalist-reali...