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blitzaron Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections

The guardrails are only for users that are profiled as MAGA or those who struggle with reality.

blitzaron US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans

all those people doing 72f should be in prison for violating the terms of their freedom

blitzaron Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers

Unwillingness to grind and memorise leetcode is a signal the candidate is not serious about getting the job ... in no way is it a signal of their coding ability

blitzaron US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans

there is protesting and then there is rioting and looting - its petty criminality and nothing grand like beheading elites

blitzaron Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers

The heart of the coding interview is to get signal on a candidates’ willingness to join the cult.

blitzaron US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans

France just banned rioting

blitzaron US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans

> Meanwhile there are more heat deaths in Europe than gun deaths in America.

You suggesting that in the name of freedom - everyone must have air conditioning and cool their homes to 60F?

blitzaron Git for the US Code

Or just name the pile of slop "The Patriot Act" - then you can legally hang anyone treasonous enough to votes against whatever may be inside.

blitzaron Git for the US Code

> you should only care who voted for it

even then you have three-line whips and numerous reasons to vote for / against things that are wrapped up in party politics and other stupid games

once something is passed; the intent of the writer, the intent of those that voted for it and the meaning of the words in the final legislation can all be wildly different.

blitzaron Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce

9 figure signing bonuses are a horrible problem to have

blitzaron Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear

Residential electricity pricing is 3x-4x wholesale pricing.

blitzaron Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear

> protects American companies who operate in the green energy generation

Wont someone think of the big beautiful clean coal companies

blitzaron Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?

the real shovels are gpus

blitzaron How employment is changing at Anthropic

> There simply is no way to separate what’s reporting and what’s advertising.

The company is literally trying to sell itself via an IPO ... every single word they say is advertising.

blitzaron How employment is changing at Anthropic

100x the output ... 0.0001x the quality

blitzaron The Public Pays to Produce Research. Shareholders Collect the Return

open access before Ai was mostly slop - with Ai its going to be a higher volume of slop.

blitzaron The Public Pays to Produce Research. Shareholders Collect the Return

your taxes, and a few extra trillion borrowed from future generations

blitzaron I electrified my push scooter with a power drill

Its got the blue steel paint job

blitzaron Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall

I am a philistine when it comes to turn of the century art - but I am fairly certain that is an iPhone duo

blitzaron New 'Super Ice' 10 Times Stronger, Bringing It Close to the Strength of Concrete

igloo skyscrapers

blitzaron The insider trading you're allowed to do

If he structured a divorce, with a judge signed cash settlement to manufacture an insider trade to cash out before the stock went to 0 ... he deserves the title "The smartest guy in the room".

blitzaron New Apple TV 4K

I really hope this time its different and siri doesn't suck ... but then at the end of the day when i am watching tv I don't really need a llm to assist me.

As far as I can tell its a hardware bump and some supercharging price bump.

blitzaron CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

> done putting so much money into politics

Will be done by the end of the year (tm)

blitzaron Were Software Engineers blue-collar workers all along?

At what size of pension / investment fund invested in stocks does one become a capital owner? 1mil? 10mil? 100mil?

blitzaron Were software engineers blue-collar workers all along?

White needs money and means to wash and doesn't hide dirt / grease / filth which blue covers up well (blue collar was heavy cotton / denim / canvas)

blitzaron 'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey

It depends on what your definition of "is" is

blitzaron Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF

NVIDIA would have a market cap of 50 trillion if it matched the TSLA pe ...

blitzaron Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer

> The affidavits ... Prosecutors have since conceded

So who is going down for perjury?

blitzaron Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

> remote maintenance without staff on-site to OK and verify it - who could then do the maintenance themselves

These are minimum wage workers - they don't have bean bags in the nap room, employee massages and stock options.