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bs7280 commented on NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing inpractice.yimbyaction.or... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

darkwater · 3 days ago

It's this really YIMBY or actually YIYBY ? It's difficult to tell checking the whole website.

Edit to be more explicit: are the people that sent/asked to send the 2 letters to the City Council residents of Rancho Palos Verdes?

bs7280 · 3 days ago

More housing in the next town over helps everyone looking for a house in the surrounding towns. We all share a backyard called earth.

bs7280 commented on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler anthropic.com/engineering... · Posted by u/modeless

geooff_ · 4 days ago

Maybe I'm naive, but I find these re-engineering complex product posts underwhelming. C Compilers exist and realistically Claudes training corpus contains a ton of C Compiler code. The task is already perfectly defined. There exists a benchmark of well-adopted codebases that can be used to prove if this is a working solution. Half the difficulty in making something is proving it works and is complete.

IMO a simpler novel product that humans enjoy is 10x more impressive than rehashing a solved problem, regardless of difficulty.

bs7280 · 4 days ago

I don't see this as just exercise in making a new useful thing, but benchmarking the SOTA models ability to create a massive* project on its own, with some verifiable metrics of success. I believe they were able to build FFMPEG with this rust compiler?

How much would it cost to pay someone to make a C compiler in rust? A lot more than $20k

* massive meaning "total context needed" >> model context window

bs7280 commented on Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery github.com/puemos/craftpl... · Posted by u/deofoo

larodi · 6 days ago

Good, I will with great pleasure now reiterate my point about people now producing their own code, even complex stuff, rather than downloading potentially malicious and foreign code. Which as a tendency threatens ALL clumsy big ERP service providers selling you SAAS.

Go ahead - I'm ready to be down-voted again and again until folks realize it is inevitable, as is inevitable that many companies in the area of business software are going down down down.

bs7280 · 5 days ago

This point on security is great point that I have not fully appreciated until now. I have been telling people that my own ability to use claude code has been a game changer for what sort of tools I will or will not pay for or use. This includes random self host services.

For personal use, those making their own software will still be a minority for a while, but at my job we are seeing potential to save $1M-$10M a year by rolling a custom tool vs paying for a commercial one. The saving here come from the tool doing a better job, not the license we pay.

bs7280 commented on Data centers in space makes no sense civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon

vel0city · 6 days ago

We're able to make 3D computer chips on Earth today, and I don't know about you but all my organs managed to get made just fine on Earth. Doesn't seem like we need zero g to do either of these things.

Either way, this isn't about 3D printing organs, this is about launching AI compute into space. To do important stuff, like making AI generated CSAM without worry of government intervention.

bs7280 · 5 days ago

The first two kidneys are free its the third one that gets tricky

bs7280 commented on Data centers in space makes no sense civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon

vel0city · 6 days ago

What if instead we moved it all to a closer rock that has even more water, even more materials to manufacture crude (and even advanced) things, even more surface, more protection from radiation, and even crazier still had significantly less launch costs?

Almost any reason why the moon is better than in orbit is a point for putting it on earth.

bs7280 · 6 days ago

I think there's something to be said about imagining a future where we can keep the earth clean of all the nasty industrial processes we have grown accustomed to living next to. A big part about this proposed idea is that you could do a lot of manufactoring in space.

I have long theorized there will be some game changing manufacturing processes that can only be done in a zero gravity environment. EX:

- 3d printing human organ replacements to solve the organ donor problem

- stronger materials

- 3d computer chips

I do not work in material science, so these crude ideas are just that, but the important part I'm getting at is that we can make things in space without any launches once that industry is bootstrapped.

bs7280 commented on Data centers in space makes no sense civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon

bs7280 · 6 days ago

As a thought experiment, if humanity wanted to go all in on trying to move industrial processes and data centers off planet, would it make more sense to do so on the moon?

The moon has:

- Some water

- Some materials that can be used to manufacture crude things (like heat sinks?)

- a ton of area to brute force the heat sink problem

- a surface to burry the data centers under to solve the radiation problem

- close enough to earth that remote controlled semi-automated robots work

I think this would only work if some powerful entity wanted to commit to a hyper-scale effort.

bs7280 commented on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE nbcnews.com/tech/internet... · Posted by u/duxup

bs7280 · 13 days ago

A wise man told me, you know signal works because its banned in Russia. I also find it incredibly ironic that they have a problem with this, when the DoD is flagrantly using signal for classified communications.

bs7280 commented on The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets jbecker.dev/research/pred... · Posted by u/jonbecker

baobabKoodaa · 21 days ago

If I live in a country that is under threat of being attacked by U.S. it is nice to have a website where I can look to get a reasonable probability that the attack happens

bs7280 · 20 days ago

The existence of the odds making for a way increases the odds a war happens to begin with.

bs7280 commented on The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets jbecker.dev/research/pred... · Posted by u/jonbecker

monero-xmr · 21 days ago

You can also just... not place bets on completely bizarre prediction markets like "how many times this person says this word". The market can sort it out, etc.

bs7280 · 21 days ago

You have completely missed my point. I don't give 2 shits about people losing money gambling. I give a shit about the Whitehouse doing insane things just so they can use the insider information to personally make money. Did you know on Oct 10th someone made $200M on a BTC short position made 30 minutes before Trumps announcement of 100% tariffs on China?

bs7280 commented on The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets jbecker.dev/research/pred... · Posted by u/jonbecker

wyager · 21 days ago

> Its the fact that it gives very powerful people a vehicle to make lobsided bets on outcomes they control.

OK, and? The market is just paying them to make information about their decisions public.

bs7280 · 21 days ago

I replied to 1 comment below yours - but I want to ask, how do you think this incentivizes people to make info about decisions public? That would lower the return on their bets.