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donsupreme··on Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers
TikTok and social media
donsupreme··on David Sacks on X: Some thoughts on Dario's post
man why is this even flagged?
donsupreme··on Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2026 Results [pdf]
priced in
donsupreme··on Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech
I am tired boss
donsupreme··on Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title
Should be 'Michael Jordan of spreadsheets'
donsupreme··on Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue
> Internal docs: Meta earned $18B+ in annual ad sales from China in 2024, making up 10%+ of its global revenue, with $3B+ linked to fraudulent ads, like for scams
donsupreme··on SpaceX in Talks for Share Sale That Would Boost Valuation to $800B
is it really absurd? They have massive moat and virtually have no competitors globally.
donsupreme··on Manganese is Lyme disease's double-edge sword
It appears that the body cannot produce manganese on its own it is an essential trace mineral that must be obtained from the diet.

I wonder if a prolonged water fast would do the job.

donsupreme··on GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients
I hypothesize that the appetite-suppressing effect of GLP-1 agonists contributes to the normalization of dopamine signaling in the brain. By mitigating the exaggerated dopamine fluctuations seen in food and sugar addiction, GLP-1 may promote a return to dopamine homeostasis, thereby reducing compulsive or addiction-like reward-seeking behaviors.
donsupreme··on AppLovin nonconsensual installs
I really hope Unity gain more mobile gaming ads market shares away from AppLovin.
donsupreme··on Klarna CEO Makes Employees Review His AI-Generated Vibe Coding Projects
> “Rather than disturbing my poor engineers and product people with what is half good ideas and half bad ideas, now I test it myself. I come say, ‘Look, I’ve actually made this work, this is how it works, what do you think, could we do it this way?’” he said.
donsupreme··on Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome
They definitely will in China or Russia
donsupreme··on Building better AI tools
Many analog to this IRL:

1) I can't remember the last time I write something meaningfully long with an actual pen/pencil. My handwriting is beyond horrible.

2) I can't no longer find my way driving without a GPS. Reading a map? lol

donsupreme··on Ask HN: Is it okay to stop chasing expertise?
In the age of AI, expertise alone isn't going to cut. It has to be super deep expertise to outperform AI.
donsupreme··on How bad are childhood literacy rates?
At some AI going to be the best teacher for any children
donsupreme··on Longevity Is Now a Factor When Picking an Embryo for IVF
straight up Gattaca

> Nucleus also provides probability assessments for the embryos’ IQ, height and eye color. Sadeghi said that Nucleus informs customers of the strength of the various predictions. IQ predictions are limited in accuracy, according to the company.

donsupreme··on Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport
3 in critical condition so I read.
donsupreme··on Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout
> I've tried their 7b model

Anything other than their 671b model are just distilled models on top of Qwen and Llama using their 671b reasoning data output, right?

donsupreme··on Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to Lead Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
Does Elon need to divest his business holdings to run a government agency that can directly affect his investment?
donsupreme··on Chinese student faces criminal charges for voting in Michigan. Ballot will count
total = total - 1
donsupreme··on Trump claims Tim Cook called him about EU fining Apple $17B
Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, et al, are not stupid. They know full well their conversation with Trump will come out publicly, they knew that before calling him.
donsupreme··on California fails to track its homelessness spending or results, a new audit says
You didn't mention that the administrative costs of the oversight committee were later found to be unauditable as well.
donsupreme··on Beirut airport bans pagers, walkie-talkies on all flights
how soon will US overreact and start banning within US airport and other public places?
donsupreme··on Sam Altman on opeanai non disparagement exit clause
lol this is flagged by YC
donsupreme··on Gradient AI Releases 1M Context Llama 3 8B
> We trained on 320M total tokens, which is < 0.002% of Lamma-3's original pre-training data.

This isn't training on top of existing weights from Llama-3, it's training using their own long context data, and it such a tiny set I wondering how strong its reasoning capability is.

donsupreme··on Sora: Creating video from text
All current form of entertainment will be impacted, all of them.

Except for live sporting events.

This is why I think megacorps all going to bid for sport league streaming right. That's the only one that AI can't touch.

donsupreme··on Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was fired from Y Combinator by his mentor
When Ilya signed the letter, most of the researchers would follow suit.

As for the rest of the non-researching roles, most of them were hired after Altman's expansion for commercial operation. The existence and future prospersity of their jobs rely on having someone like Altman to push for profitabilty/go-to-market vision.

donsupreme··on Sam Altman: if I start going off, board should go after me for my shares
why is this flagged?
donsupreme··on GM's Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve "autonomous" driving
> staff intervened to assist Cruise's vehicles every 2.5 to five miles
donsupreme··on Show HN: AI for Automated SEO (Loyae.com)
> Unlike GPT, which only uses encoder blocks, or BERT, which only uses decoder blocks

I think you meant the reverse, autoregressive model like GPT uses only the decoder while autoencoder like BERT only uses the encoder.

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