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jvsg_··on How much of HN is AI?
that new traffic likely was from AI and their scrapers. So no, not much of a net positive.
jvsg_··on Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout
Please educate me what exactly is the conspiracy theory here. Are you saying it is beneath Citadel to play this trick?
jvsg_··on Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout
Citadel spread the rumor that the Fed was going to hike rates this week. This led to Situational Awareness getting margin called on their longs.
jvsg_··on Why the government took home prices out of its main inflation index
you vill get ze downvotes and be happy
jvsg_··on Ask HN: How do you sync your computer’s development configurations/environment?
Stow requires LaTex support to build from source. I tweaked it[0] to make sure it builds without it.

[0] https://github.com/jvsg/stow-simple

jvsg_··on May 2022 core update releasing for Google Search
if google search was already so bad in an environment of free money, I shudder to think what happens when that money supply ends.
jvsg_··on Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
and you don't need bandwidth for netflix?
jvsg_··on Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored
fyi, IQ shredder means social and technological innovation that keeps higher IQ people from reproducing, and hence lowering down of IQ over generations. Nothing to do with distractions and hazards.
jvsg_··on Top Chess Engine Championship
is there anything of this sort, but for go?
jvsg_··on Tarrare
How do eat snakes and lizards whole, and not get sick? Not only this guy seems to be mentally ill, but also superhuman.
jvsg_··on Francis Fukuyama – Against Identity Politics
Could you explain ego rent? Google didn't give me an answer (it sucks these days tbh).
jvsg_··on Google and Facebook execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves
this was demonstrated in the case of tiktok. Essentially, every other player tried to emulate them, and then facebook lobbied USA and it's minions (like india) to mount pressure on tiktok for being "chinese spy app".
jvsg_··on 500M Avira antivirus users introduced to cryptomining
exactly. This was my first thought too. Perhaps they envisoned it that way to sell more copies of their product.