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barbarr··on Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
Their demo stores are literally losing money...
barbarr··on Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia
I read the title as 5 km S of San Jose (as in bay area) at first
barbarr··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
Anyone know how much these founders generally pay themselves / how much they receive in liquidity each raise?
barbarr··on John Jumper to join Anthropic
He doesn't need the money though. I bet there's something cultural or structural going on at GDM that made him want to leave.
barbarr··on Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
Going off the other reply, I wonder if a highly-active secondary market means that companies can raise series [A-Z]+ rounds effectively forever, where each "round" just refers to a giant purchase of shares under strict company supervision. Is this the new game for startups?
barbarr··on Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation
So... Does the Gates foundation get an equity stake?
barbarr··on An opinionated take on how to do important research that matters
Unrelated, but I see the use of the phrase "taste" as having a strong Twitter / e/acc smell (in a negative way).

I tend to associate it with folks who are prepared to victim blame researchers for not adapting to the "new economy" as being people who have "bad taste" or "low agency", maybe as a way to rationalize/justify the upcoming inqeuality that AI will create.

Basically a recycling of the way "IQ"/smarts/hard-work has historically been used to justify disproportionate rewards for the upper class.

(Obviously a gigantic stretch on my part, and not saying the author is in this camp, but just wanted to vent somewhere)

barbarr··on Marcus AI Claims Dataset
I feel he'd want to rebut the use of an LLM for this task to begin with (i.e. find issues/nitpicks with the LLM judgment whether it said he's right or wrong)
barbarr··on Marcus AI Claims Dataset
Can't wait to see Gary Marcus's rebuttal
barbarr··on Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge
Getting SBF vibes from this. "Earn to give" is an inherently flawed philosophy.
barbarr··on Garment Notation Language: Formal descriptive language for clothing construction
It's Claude Code slop
barbarr··on Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019
I can't believe he was calling Greta a potential antichrist when there's... this
barbarr··on Over half of American adults can't read at 6th Grade Levels
This is already the case
barbarr··on Maggots, an efficient source of protein
Why are we pushing this when we have beans
barbarr··on Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
> He smirked. "Yes, I am."
barbarr··on Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator
The comments there are hilarious
barbarr··on Can someone explain why Bitcoin isn't crashing due to quantum?
+1, the tokens from before a quantum hack will be transferred to a new fork. So at that moment, the value of BTC will go to 0 and the value of BTC v2 will take the value of BTC.

However at the moment, the community seems to be leaning towards pay-for-quantum-resistance [0]

[0] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1670

barbarr··on OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals
This and stock buybacks make me question company valuations
barbarr··on Sora 2
Instagram reels are gonna get crazy
barbarr··on SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think
Why is apple doing protein folding?
barbarr··on Hundreds plunge into Chicago River in first open-water swim in nearly a century
Was a bit scared by the headline at first
barbarr··on Do YC after you graduate: Early decision for students
To what extent is YC's current strategy a form of "cookie-licking"? I.e. capture a small fraction of every plausible startup created by the next generation of students?
barbarr··on Third patient dies from acute liver failure caused by a Sarepta gene therapy
I'm guessing they were looking for preferential delivery to certain cell types, and AAVs just happened to have best profile for those. If anything, LNPs might aggregate in the liver even more than AAVs, which can lead to even worse hepatotoxicity if an immune response happens.
barbarr··on Third patient dies from acute liver failure caused by a Sarepta gene therapy
The issue was not the gene therapy itself, but the delivery mechanism. They used a virus to administer the gene therapy, and this virus (like most bloodstream impurities) aggregates in the liver. At low doses this is fine, but at high doses, your body's immune response will be laser-focused on the liver, and you die from the side effects of this response.
barbarr··on Don't Fall for AI: Reasons for Writers to Reject Slop
Same, ever since AI got big I've started to see typos and signs of amateurism in a positive light. I wonder how long it will be before people start generating slop with typos on purpose so that we think a human wrote it. Maybe we're already there.
barbarr··on Tiny-diffusion: A minimal implementation of probabilistic diffusion models
Very cool showing the outputs of hyperparameter search. Hopefully this gets someone out of a tuning tarpit!
barbarr··on Ask HN: Have you not accepted or left a job because it was immoral?
ohhh, yea I terribly misread that
barbarr··on Every 5x5 Nonogram
That puzzle has two solutions no?

     1 1 1   
     1 1 1 2 1
   2 x x . . .
   2 . . x x .
  11 x . . x .
  11 . x . . x
   1 . . x . .
and

     1 1 1   
     1 1 1 2 1
   2 x x . . .
   2 . . x x .
  11 . x . x .
  11 x . . . x
   1 . . x . .
(found these with an SMT solver :D)
barbarr··on Ask HN: Have you not accepted or left a job because it was immoral?
Wait, what about it made you want to throw up? Was it that the proceeds from lawsuits were being garnished by the law firm rather than going towards the families?
barbarr··on The Problem with AI Welfare
I have a criticism that is the opposite of the article. We already know an immense amount about animal welfare and have done relatively little about it. Even if the AI welfare research is true, what are the chances we'll actually act on it?
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