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JoshTko··on Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)
If one was aware that the prosperity disparity is predominantly due to circumstance and if one had empathy for other fellow human beings. Then I think it would be a natural response to want to alleviate other's suffering by sharing some of their prosperity. You can call it guilt, or perhaps just empathy. The other heritable attributes can't be easily be shared.
JoshTko··on Stoicism's Appeal to the Rich and Powerful (2019)
Almost universally prosperity is gained through privilege, compounded over generations. Privilege being rules/customs/systems that favored your group over others.
JoshTko··on The world should mitigate risks from the United States, not from China
I guess we really are entering this darkest timeline.
JoshTko··on White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal
Such a neutral term of such an insane decision
JoshTko··on U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico
This is just cruel
JoshTko··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
podcast app is the worst, I can never find what I'm looking for
JoshTko··on The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed"
Midterms would be way to late
JoshTko··on Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?
I'm doing the same, about 50% of the way there. The soft power is why the world admired and trusted the US as a safe haven. Now we're the unreliable bully. No one wants to invest in that.
JoshTko··on DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes
We all know what efficient healthcare systems should look like, there are a dozen countries with lower overall healthcare spend per capita than US with better outcomes. What specific skillset of RFK do you find as compelling evidence they they will be extract higher efficiency similar to these other nations?
JoshTko··on Recording reveals new details on controversial DOGE employee Edward Coristine
It speaks volumes on how careful DOGE's processes are.
JoshTko··on DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes
And illegally
JoshTko··on DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes
HN isn't just about tech, it's also about hacking. And this article is definitely about hacking.
JoshTko··on Train Your Own O1 Preview Model Within $450
Has anyone tested if the consensus of top 4-5 mini models together would out perform the best frontier model?
JoshTko··on US Judge invalidates blood glucose sensor patent, opens door for Apple Watch
The market is likely for folks that are unaware that they have some glucose issue.
JoshTko··on US Judge invalidates blood glucose sensor patent, opens door for Apple Watch
Startup opportunity for a light based 3rd tooth scanner?
JoshTko··on Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
This, they don't care about normal citizens, they just need to purge democrat military personnel
JoshTko··on [dead]
Seems like widespread interest by HN posters
JoshTko··on OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
I wish I could upvote this twice
JoshTko··on OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
No. Before Deepseek R1, Nvidia was charging $100 for a $20 shovel in the gold rush. Now, every Fortune 100 can build an O1-level model with currently existing (and soon to be online) infra. Healthy demand for H100 and Blackwell will remain, but paying $100 for a $20 shovel is unlikely.

Nvidia will definitely stay profitable for now though, as long as Deepseek’s breakthroughs are not further improved upon. But if others find additional compression gains, Nvidia won’t recapture its old premium. Its stock hinged on 80% margins and 75% annual growth, Deepseek broke that premise.

JoshTko··on FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security
This would be awesome, few if any companies would be able to take the risk of storing customer info, since they would need very good security, and very good reason for every piece of data they store, and insurance to cover themselves in case they do lose your data. In fact companies would go out of their way to not store any of your data.
JoshTko··on The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia
This is exactly where Deepseeks enhancements come into play. Essentially deepseek lets the model think out loud via chain of thought (o1 and Claude also do this) but DS also does not supervise the chain of thought, and simply rewards CoT that get the answer correctly. This is just one of the half dozen training optimization that Deepseek has come up with.
JoshTko··on Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans
Future "free" LLM models will recommend advertisers products
JoshTko··on Explainer: What's r1 and everything else?
AI will improve at an exponential rate once it can independently improve AI performance. For example. Once AI can organically identify, test, confirm, deploy an improvement like R1 vs o1 (in terms of perf/watt) then we'll see exponential improvement. Honestly though, that still seems possible within 5 years or less, maybe 3.
JoshTko··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
It's a slot machine, a scroll is an arm pull. Sometimes you get a brain tickle and you keep on scrolling to get more. I'd bet money that the brain activity is exactly the same.
JoshTko··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
Not exactly the same but ChatGPT's firing and rehiring of Sam Altman seems to be in the same vein
JoshTko··on No Calls
I'm confused by this, why would sales team know in detail the vRAM contribution to sales price, and how is it relevant to your purchase decision? I've never heard of enterprise/SAAS pricing to be based primarily using cost plus pricing.
JoshTko··on Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'
Which interview was this?
JoshTko··on 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation
This seems to be a new shakedown racket of a business. "Subscribe for our services, or be victim to our shoddy automated takedown notices". Not too dissimilar to online ID protection services, that simultaneously sell your information
JoshTko··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
TLDR, I've let how I think and what I value to be entirely determined by capitalism. I then (essentially) won capitalism. Hence I don't know what to do since capitalism has no meaning beyond achieving extreme relative wealth accumulation.
JoshTko··on 30% drop in O1-preview accuracy when Putnam problems are slightly variated
o1 also gets it wrong. It answered

"The doctor is the boy’s other parent—specifically his mother, who wasn’t in the accident."

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