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New comment by Avshalom in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"

Avshalom — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:42:21 +0000

"every 5th article is about no-code-solutions that sometimes work" might be unexpected but it's hardly the stuff of institutionalization.

New comment by Avshalom in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Avshalom — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:51:08 +0000

Well it's a good thing we blew up those children before they could blow up those children I guess...

A least Iran isn't poised to come out of this in a stronger position than it started.

New comment by Avshalom in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Avshalom — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:42:43 +0000

No available evidence suggests that Trump and Hegseth don't just like blowing up children.

New comment by Avshalom in "The Oxford Comma – Why and Why Not (2024)"

Avshalom — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:53:31 +0000

I mean first off: no the exact same image is conjured because we are reading this in context of knowing who jfk and stalin are and we know they aren't strippers and all language is contextual.

That said:

We invited the stripper, JFK, and Stalin to the party.

We invited the stripper, JFK and Stalin to the party.

The supposed ambiguity is back. Although again there is no ambiguity to the reader. The juxtaposition of the two versions wouldn't work as a joke if there was any ambiguity

New comment by Avshalom in "BMW M3 Touring 24H: April Fools’ joke comes true!"

Avshalom — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:06:57 +0000

Obviously Volvo/Polestar needs to whip up a V60 BTCC edition to compete.

Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

Avshalom — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:57:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/podcast/898715/superhuman-grammarly-expert-review-shishir-mehrotra-interview-ai-impersonation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492098

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Avshalom in "Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome"

Avshalom — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:02:21 +0000

John Nelson Darby largely. The Catholic Church's official stance is that any sort of literal antichrist and apocalypse is heretical.

New comment by Avshalom in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

Avshalom — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:13:56 +0000

I mean arsenic is objectively unhealthy. None of the other things in your parenthetical are

New comment by Avshalom in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

Avshalom — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:36:26 +0000

Man, putting a burger between two pieces of bread with onion, lettuce, tomato and pickle isn't compensating elsewhere

New comment by Avshalom in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

Avshalom — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:37:58 +0000

Right, so because no one in this thread has the ability to remember past their own personal preferences:

The demographic that Beyond and Impossible claimed to be chasing was the like 85% of Americans that answered polls about wanting to eat less meat (back in the early 201Xs). "Meatless Monday", weeknight vegetarian... Whatever. Thats who they pitched investors on.

It's also a market that never materialized, whether because it was always a mirage of push polling or because an ascendant fascist GOP has made meat eating a cornerstone of their identity or COVID or whatever.

New comment by Avshalom in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

Avshalom — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:45:53 +0000

>>I don't like how he's been biasing Grok, etc.

>>But, what exactly is so bad about Grokipedia

New comment by Avshalom in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

Avshalom — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:30:12 +0000

https://youtu.be/GcqQ1ebBqkc?t=1027 is on such but he doesn't actually say that each model has been profitable.

He says "You paid $100 million and then it made $200 million of revenue. There's some cost to inference with the model, but let's just assume in this cartoonish cartoon example that even if you add those two up, you're kind of in a good state. So, if every model was a company, the model is actually, in this example is actually profitable. What's going on is that at the same time"

importantly you'll notice that he's talking revenue, and assumes that inference is cheap enough/profitable enough that 100M + Inferance_Over_Lifetime < 200M

New comment by Avshalom in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

Avshalom — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:35:15 +0000

Well that's a problem the software industry has been building for itself for decades.

Software has, since at least the adoption of "agile" created an industry culture of not just refusing to build to specs but insisting that specs are impossible to get from a customer.

New comment by Avshalom in "What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?"

Avshalom — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:36:27 +0000

>key leaders of the AI labs struggle openly with the morality of what they are building

they definitely are not.

New comment by Avshalom in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

Avshalom — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:05:12 +0000

Flock would not exist if they held ethics as a priority. It's The Panopticon from the well known book The Panopticon is Unethical

Nearly half of 50-cal ammo seized by Mexico came from US Army plant

Avshalom — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:51:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.icij.org/news/2026/02/nearly-half-of-powerful-50-caliber-ammo-seized-by-mexican-government-came-from-us-army-plant-defense-minister-says/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128604

Points: 16

# Comments: 2

New comment by Avshalom in "Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index"

Avshalom — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:55:16 +0000

I have a minor in CS and no -producing the assignment by the deadline is important- grades are not based on quantity of code vs classmates.

New comment by Avshalom in "Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index"

Avshalom — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:44:34 +0000

what class are you in that "producing output at a [rapid] pace" is relevant to the grade?

New comment by Avshalom in "Pipelined Relational Query Language, Pronounced "Prequel""

Avshalom — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:59:28 +0000

I continue to pronounce it S-Q-L... and G-U-I; generally I pronounce most things as initialism and I'm right to do so.

New comment by Avshalom in "An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia"

Avshalom — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:36:21 +0000

Yeah but it's february.