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hcks commented on Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers apnews.com/article/trump-... · Posted by u/tedsanders

CSSer · a year ago

For less than this same price tag, we could’ve eliminated student loan debt for ~20 million Americans. It would in turn open a myriad number of opportunities, like owning a home and/or feeling more comfortable starting a family. It would stimulate the economy in predictable ways.

Instead we gave a small number of people all of this money for a moonshot in a state where they squabble over who’s allowed to use which bathroom and if I need an abortion I might die.

hcks · a year ago

I know!! Also we could have given an IPhone to 500 million of people for the amount!! It’s such a waste to think they’re investing it in the future instead

hcks commented on Calm tech certification "rewards" less distracting tech spectrum.ieee.org/calm-te... · Posted by u/headalgorithm

pedalpete · a year ago

We're building a neuromodulation sleep headband, and we've always had the aim of getting to the point where the user puts it on, it does it's thing (slow-wave enhancement) the person takes it off in the morning and goes about their day.

I don't even want to put IO into the device at all. Not only because it increases cost and size, but because I don't what the user having to interact. We have to find better ways to fit the device in your life, so you don't even think about it.

hcks · a year ago

At this point why not go low-tech and use healing crystals?

hcks commented on Jump Trading, Virtu and the 'hidden optical fibre cable' under an Ohio field ft.com/content/099342e4-c... · Posted by u/throwaway2037

usefulcat · a year ago

If there are multiple orders at the same price on the same side, how should we determine which ones are filled first?

Or put another way, how should we determine which orders are least likely to get filled?

hcks · a year ago

Well either volume weighted or randomised then

hcks commented on Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf] nobelprize.org/uploads/20... · Posted by u/drpossum

DiogenesKynikos · a year ago

There's a long backlog of major achievements in physics that haven't gotten a Nobel Prize in Physics.

Giving the prize to something that has essentially nothing to do with physics is just a slap in the face to the physics community.

hcks · a year ago

Could you please list say the top 5 Nobel worthy achievements of this backlog

hcks commented on Meta Movie Gen ai.meta.com/research/movi... · Posted by u/brianjking

pookha · a year ago

Facebook just spent 40 billion dollars on their AI infrastructure. Can they recoup those costs with stuff like this (especially after the VI debacle)? I doubt it. AI has been a wild ass jagged wasteland of economic failure since the 1950's and should be used with extreme caution by these companies...Like is it worth peoples time to spend ten\fifteen dollars (they have to eventually charge for this) to let AI create a, to be freank, half-assed valley of the uncanny movie? I respect the technology and what they're trying to accomplish but this just seems like they're going completely all in on an industry that's laid waste to smarter people than Mark.

hcks · a year ago

You're right, Meta shouldn't invest in a breakthrough technology. They should focus on what really matters: delivering short term value to shareholders

hcks commented on Meta Movie Gen ai.meta.com/research/movi... · Posted by u/brianjking

qwery · a year ago

What can you even say about this stuff? It's another incremental improvement, good job Mark. These new video clips of yours are certainly something. I don't know how you do it. Round of applause for Mark!

I will now review some of the standout clips.

That alien thing in the water is horrifying. The background fish look pretty convincing, except for the really flamboyant one in the dark.

I guess I should be impressed that the kite string seems to be rendered every frame and appears to be connected between the hand and the kite most of the time. The whole thing is really stressful though.

drunk sloth with weirdly crisp shadow should take the top slot from girl in danger of being stolen by kite.

man demonstrates novel chain sword fire stick with four or five dimensions might be better off in the bin...

> The camera is behind a man. The man is shirtless, wearing a green cloth around his waist. He is barefoot. With a fiery object in each hand, he creates wide circular motions. A calm sea is in the background. The atmosphere is mesmerizing, with the fire dance.

This just reads like slightly clumsy lyrics to a lost Ween song.

hcks · a year ago

Round of applause for this useless unsubstantiated comment

hcks commented on Pear AI founder: We made two big mistakes twitter.com/CodeFryingPan... · Posted by u/tosh

minimaxir · a year ago

Context: PearAI evidently forked an OSS code editor, then later got funding from Y Combinator for it. (relevant discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41697032)

As an aside, I'm starting to get annoyed with the "we moved fast and broke things, we're smol indie hackers" defense that has been popping up more lately in various contexts. The whole incident started because they got venture capital for their fork and were in a startup accelerator for several months: that's not moving fast or being indie.

hcks · a year ago

This outrage talk is ridiculous, you don’t have the morale high ground to judge people, they didn’t break anything, taking VC money isn’t bad, the incident was caused by sore losers looking for drama, etc etc