pureagave (u/pureagave)

pureagave commented on FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/echelon_musk

bix6 · a month ago

I find the political discussions on here interesting and generally of decent+ caliber. Plus so much of what’s happening is tech related / enabled.

There’s 30 posts on the front page. If someone doesn’t care about politics why can’t they just ignore that 1 post instead of flagging it into oblivion?

pureagave · a month ago

I agree that it is slightly better than Reddit but often it just turns into a mess that doesn't touch on tech.

They are plenty of places for political discussions. HN is a rare great place for tech so personally I'd rather keep it that way.

pureagave commented on Scott Adams has died youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_Jr... · Posted by u/ekianjo

ActorNightly · a month ago

>Adams had a normal range of beliefs.

Manifesting things into reality through writing them often enough is FAR from a normal belief. Dude was a bit looney from the get go

pureagave · a month ago

I think the commentor was talking about Adams's support for Trump. While maybe not normal on Reddit, HN or San Francisco, it's normal enough that more than half the voters agreed with Scott Adams.

pureagave commented on Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin nvidianews.nvidia.com/new... · Posted by u/TSiege

wmf · a month ago

170 kW

pureagave · a month ago

100% this. But don't forget the garden hose running full blast so you can cool it! It's not impossible to get up and running for fun for an hour, but this isn't a run 24/7 kinda setup any more than getting an old mainframe running in one's garage is practical.

pureagave commented on LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf] ctan.math.illinois.edu/gr... · Posted by u/zahrevsky

pureagave · a month ago

This is wonderful to see. I was a student and then entered into the tech industry in the mid 90's and at that time the Internet had fun whimsical things like this almost weekly.

pureagave commented on Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/randycupertino

NewsaHackO · a month ago

That's ironic, as most evidence-based medicine says the completely opposite. There is a clear connection between violence and exogenous testosterone use.

pureagave · a month ago

Exactly. We have the phrase "roid-rage" for a reason.

pureagave commented on Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/randycupertino

pureagave · a month ago

Maybe the estate should look into whomever was selling him testosterone enanthate so that he could have testosterone levels of 5,000 or more. I suspect that had more to do with his degraded mental situation than his AI chats.

pureagave commented on Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay philippdubach.com/posts/n... · Posted by u/7777777phil

dazc · a month ago

If I'm buying shoes that were made in the third world for minimal cost then branding is not a guarantee of quality that it once was. This has been the case for at least the past ten years but it goes to show that if you have a well-known brand you can keep milking it for a long time before the market turns against you.

pureagave · a month ago

While a brand isn't a guarantee of quality, brands can work with their manufacture to hit the level of material and assembly quality they need for their products. The same manufacture will likely produce different products with very different results and costs.

pureagave commented on Grok Sexual Images Draw Rebuke, France Flags Content as Illegal finance.yahoo.com/news/gr... · Posted by u/akutlay

ben_w · a month ago

> No, they likely won't. AI has become far too big to fail at this point. So much money has been invested in it that speculation on AI alone is holding back a global economic collapse. Governments and companies have invested in AI so deeply that all failure modes have become existential.

Not in Europe it hasn't, and definitely not for specifically image generation, where it seems to be filling the same role as clipart, stock photos, and style transfer that can be done in other ways.

Image editing is the latest hotness in GenAI image models, but knowledge of this doesn't seem to have percolated very far around the economy, only with weird toys like this one currently causing drama.

> If models can't be contained, controlled or properly regulated then they simply won't be contained, controlled or properly regulated.

I wish I could've shown this kind of message to people 3.5 years ago, or even 2 years ago, saying that AI will never take over because we can always just switch it off.

Mind you, for 2 years ago I did, and they still didn't like it.

pureagave · a month ago

I'm sorry to tell you this, but the EU has already been lost.

pureagave commented on Grok Sexual Images Draw Rebuke, France Flags Content as Illegal finance.yahoo.com/news/gr... · Posted by u/akutlay

BigTTYGothGF · a month ago

Then maybe they shouldn't go to market.

pureagave · a month ago

AI is a nation defense issue. No nation has the luxury to stop their AI companies without the risk of losing national sovereignty.

pureagave commented on Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline arstechnica.com/cars/2026... · Posted by u/rbanffy

tzs · a month ago

> This is the $1T question. What happens when Tesla finally gets valued as a car manufacturer, with side businesses in cheap but unreliable solar, and over-priced grid storage?

They are the 14th largest car maker in the world by annual units sold, and almost in the top 10 by annual revenue from cars.

Surely that is good enough to maintain a market cap that is 50% higher than the combined market caps of the top 10 (Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai-Kia, Renault-Nissan, General Motors, Stellantis, Honda, Ford, BYD, and Suzuki)?

pureagave · a month ago

Wasn't the model Y the best selling car in the world in 2024?