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setgree commented on Meta's new A.I. superstars are chafing against the rest of the company   nytimes.com/2025/12/10/te... · Posted by u/furcyd
WhyOhWhyQ · 2 days ago
Can somebody explain to me how giving a 28 year old kid 250 million (or was it 1 billion) to run your AI lab is a good idea? Or is it actually a dumb idea? I think it is a dumb idea, but maybe somebody can make it make sense.
setgree · a day ago
well if the expected value of developing AGI is 100 quadrillion dollars -- 1000X bigger than the entire global economy -- and you think this person has a .01% chance of getting there in any given year, you should pay him 10 trillion dollars a year :)
setgree commented on Meta's new A.I. superstars are chafing against the rest of the company   nytimes.com/2025/12/10/te... · Posted by u/furcyd
setgree · 2 days ago
I'm as ready to hate on Meta as anyone but this article is a bit of a nothingburger.

So there are disagreements about resource allocation among staff. That's normal and healthy. The CEO's job is to resolve those disagreements and it sounds like Zuck is doing it. The suggestion to train Meta's products on Instagram and Facebook data was perfectly reasonable from the POV of the needs of Cox's teams. You'd want your skip-level to advocate for you the same way. It was also fine for AW to push back.

>. On Thursday, Mr. Wang plans to host his annual A.I. holiday party in San Francisco with Elad Gil, a start-up investor...It’s unclear if any top Meta executives were invited.

Egads, they _might_ not get invited to a 28-year-old's holiday party? However will they recover??

setgree commented on Size of Life   neal.fun/size-of-life/... · Posted by u/eatonphil
simonw · 8 days ago
He was also responsible for one of the worst web pages ever created: https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/

(It's utterly brilliant but monstrous.)

setgree · 7 days ago
I'll just stick to Baldur's Gate II, thanks -- my favorite inventory management simulation
setgree commented on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free   riviantrackr.com/news/riv... · Posted by u/doctoboggan
TulliusCicero · 7 days ago
Autonomy subscriptions are how things are going to go, I called this a long time ago. It makes too much sense in terms of continuous development and operations/support to not have a subscription -- and subscriptions will likely double as insurance at some point in the future (once the car is driving itself 100% of the time, and liability is always with the self driving stack anyway).

Of course, people won't like this, I'm not exactly enthused either, but the alternative would be a corporation constantly providing -- for free -- updates and even support if your car gets into an accident or stuck. That doesn't really make sense from a business perspective.

setgree · 7 days ago
The other possible future is you rent the car for exactly when you need it and don’t pay a monthly bill— or your monthly bill pays for a certain number of rides/minutes/miles per month. In which case the subscription costs are managed by the provider, who might be the manufacturer and might not.

At least in cities, a fully-functioning, on-demand autonomous fleet would probably be superior to car ownership in just about every way except as a status symbol.

setgree commented on Size of Life   neal.fun/size-of-life/... · Posted by u/eatonphil
cs702 · 8 days ago
Beautiful. It's clearly a labor of love.

The authors deserve our support. Buy them a coffee via the provided link.

Thank you for sharing this on HN.

setgree · 8 days ago
He has many other cool visualizations!

Space Elevator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640226

Deep Sea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21850527

setgree commented on Starcloud   blogs.nvidia.com/blog/sta... · Posted by u/jonbaer
api · 2 months ago
This is a big thing never shown in sci-fi. For example, those huge torch ships in The Expanse would need gigantic radiators. Even if the drive were upwards of 90% efficient the waste heat would melt the engine and the rest of the ship.

Even the ISS has sizable radiators. The Shuttle had deployable radiators in the form of the bay doors if my memory serves me correctly.

Oddly enough the otherwise dumb Avatar films are among the only ones to show starships with something approaching proper radiators.

There’s no air resistance in space so radiators don’t impact your flight characteristics.

setgree · 2 months ago
Neal Stephenson's _Seveneves_ covers these dynamics in detail :)
setgree commented on Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs   guru3d.com/story/synology... · Posted by u/baobun
osivertsson · 2 months ago
When leadership makes decisions that are so out of touch with their customers it also severely impacts internal morale.

Yeah, so they reversed eventually. But the technical and support people at Synology probably tried to fight this and lost. That feeling of being ignored despite having given this company your everything for many years. I bet many woke up feeling that the magic that made Synology a good place to work is gone.

My guess is they will continue to lose the most valuable employees unless they replace management with some internally well-respected staff that understands their customers well.

setgree · 2 months ago
"That feeling of being ignored despite having given this company your everything for many years" is a strong argument against giving a company your "everything." They'll cut you loose in a minute.
setgree commented on Just let me select text   aartaka.me/select-text.ht... · Posted by u/ayoisaiah
setgree · 3 months ago
I wonder if Bumble/Hinge/etc. set profiles to be non-searchable as a kind of minimum barrier to doxxing. I have many objections to modern dating apps [0], but there's an actual tradeoff/problem here that they're trying to deal with. I don't think that uploading a screenshot to ChatGPT/Claude to figure out the translation is an unreasonable ask.

[0] https://setharielgreen.com/blog/date-me-docs-obviously/

setgree commented on Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant   theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/pseudolus
setgree · 4 months ago
> While it is still an emerging technology being used only on a modest scale as yet, it does have an advantage over some other renewable energies in that it is available around the clock.

I notice the 'some' here, and the absence of the word 'nuclear' from the article, which of course is also available around the clock. Most readers will know something about Japan's troubled relationship with nuclear power and can fill in that context themselves, but to my eyes, it's a startling omission.

setgree commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
limaoscarjuliet · 4 months ago
I paid a ticket for this in NYC.
setgree · 4 months ago
Great! and if enforcement were consistent, rule-breaking behavior would probably decline:

> Quick, clear and consistent also works in controlling crime. It’s not a coincidence that the same approach works for parenting and crime control because the problems are largely the same. Moreover, in both domains quick, clear and consistent punishment need not be severe.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/09/wh...

u/setgree

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