Given xAI's gross disregard for environmental regulations in building Colossus, the reason for building datacenters in space seems obvious: there's no EPA in space.
Readit Newscornonthecobra commented on Data centers in space makes no sense civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
cornonthecobra commented on 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? waspdev.com/articles/2026... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
The meaning of kilo, mega, giga, tera, etc. are unambiguous: SI prefixes defined as powers of 10, not 2. 1 TB is 10*12 bytes, not 2*40 bytes.
The misuse of those prefixes as powers of 1024, while useful as shorthand for computer memory where binary addressing means, is still exactly that: a misuse of SI prefixes.
There's now a separate set of base-2 prefixes to solve this, and people need to update their language accordingly.
cornonthecobra commented on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft theverge.com/tech/865689/... · Posted by u/Anon84
There’s got to be solid reasons why they do this and have done so for so damn long. At the very least institutional reasons. At best, actual research that suggests they make more money this way. But as a consumer, I hate it.
It's because Microsoft isn't a software company. They're a marketing company that happens to make software and a few other bits.
We're now on the back end of that, where Microsoft must again make products with independent substance, but are instead drowning in their own infrastructural muck.
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Install the Youtube Control Panel extension by soitis. It's available for all desktop and mobile browsers, and does a lot to restore sanity on YouTube.
If you want something lighter for Firefox Android. There is also the Background Video Player extension.
>We brought GPT‑4o back after hearing clear feedback from a subset of Plus and Pro users, who told us they needed more time to transition key use cases, like creative ideation, and that they preferred GPT‑4o’s conversational style and warmth.
This does verify the idea that OpenAI does not make models sycophantic due to attempted subversion by buttering up users so that that they use the product more, its because people actually want AI to talk to them like that. To me, that's insane, but they have to play the market I guess
Put on a good show, offer something novel, and people will gleefully march right off a cliff while admiring their shiny new purchase.
cornonthecobra commented on The behavioral cost of personalized pricing digitalseams.com/blog/the... · Posted by u/bobbiechen
This is why I rarely join those 'customer loyalty' programs that almost every store offers.
I say 'no thanks' when the cashier wants to know my phone number, even if I am paying cash.
It is almost impossible to remain anonymous in the consumer space, even if you are really trying.
the only place i have one is a grocery store where their loyalty program price is listed on the shelf tag and is lower, often by quite a bit (a third to half off is common). even then, i use one of the meme phone numbers (local area code + 867-5309, 678-999-8212, 281-330-8004, etc.).
Piracy is allowed on HN now?
Maybe a nit, but this isn't piracy. Windows has been officially free to download and install since Windows XP. That was when Microsoft switched to their Product Activation DRM, and the license key became the bit you paid for.
Tangent: I miss MSDN AA
At some point we went through the looking glass where the stock is the product.
Is this a new phenomena? Stocks aren't new. Why is the modern market treated like this? Did Henry Ford make his vehicles shitter to increase his stock value?
It's the private equity era. Much like how legislative behaviour is now dictated by the wealthy even to the point of contradicting the will/desire of informed voters, corporate behaviour is now dictated by private equity investment to the point of contradicting the demand from informed user/consumers.
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