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New comment by catchnear4321 in "Uber is laying off 10% of staff"

catchnear4321 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:19:49 +0000

in-person collaboration requiring in-person more than collaboration, as collaboration is quite possible remotely, and even asynchronously.

“holing yourself up…”

but it wasn’t about conversation, it was about opinion.

New comment by catchnear4321 in "How much of HN is AI?"

catchnear4321 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:55:29 +0000

If you like.

New comment by catchnear4321 in "How much of HN is AI?"

catchnear4321 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:39:33 +0000

You seem a little upset.

New comment by catchnear4321 in "How much of HN is AI?"

catchnear4321 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:57:59 +0000

you’re welcome to believe whatever helps you through the day.

New comment by catchnear4321 in "How much of HN is AI?"

catchnear4321 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:48:11 +0000

You took all of one comment to categorize a person, and closed with your subjective experience.

Based on my experience, this isn’t typically done for kind reasons.

But what do I know, I am but one dumb monkey pushing tokens through tubes to what claim to be other monkeys but might be nothing of the sort.

New comment by catchnear4321 in "Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article"

catchnear4321 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:21:01 +0000

her name is claire

New comment by catchnear4321 in "Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise"

catchnear4321 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:25:06 +0000

could we just skip to the last goal post move i have a busy day

New comment by catchnear4321 in "Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs"

catchnear4321 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:48:24 +0000

To be fair, the point was more that cURL isn’t a local hf cache manager, much like it isn’t an inference backend, pointing out that avoiding additional dependencies manages risk at the cost of functionality and/or maintenance overhead…

New comment by catchnear4321 in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

catchnear4321 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:31:02 +0000

15 pro max is fine one handed sure, two handed is easier one still works just fine

fits in the pants pocket too

sent from my iphone

New comment by catchnear4321 in "Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI"

catchnear4321 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:00:52 +0000

you don’t seem amused so much as annoyed.

perhaps you can elaborate on how systemic death spirals are funny?

New comment by catchnear4321 in "Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness"

catchnear4321 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:42:44 +0000

is it unreasonable to say that Jane Street was simply paying a small price for some situational awareness?

New comment by catchnear4321 in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

catchnear4321 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:33:38 +0000

if capability is a commodity then the differentiator becomes taste.

New comment by catchnear4321 in ""AI" will never become conscious"

catchnear4321 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:51:19 +0000

> To evolve consciousness, an LLM would have to be programmed to evolve consciousness, and to do that, we would need to know what consciousness is and how to program it.

Since consciousness only counts when it is formed deliberately rather than accidentally. Though that would mean…

New comment by catchnear4321 in "Waymo in Dallas"

catchnear4321 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:58:29 +0000

yes yes you are the product.

New comment by catchnear4321 in "Waymo in Dallas"

catchnear4321 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:21:19 +0000

No human in the car?

New comment by catchnear4321 in "Drug reverses autism-like brain changes in adult mice within hours"

catchnear4321 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:00:54 +0000

it was a snarky one-liner made in good faith.

you put words in my mouth by suggesting i am against treatments, or cures, but that’s not really your point.

New comment by catchnear4321 in "Drug reverses autism-like brain changes in adult mice within hours"

catchnear4321 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:25:16 +0000

treating the dsm like a checklist of cures to complete sounds a bit like what might go in the dsm

New comment by catchnear4321 in "Hologram Works. Sponsor What Comes Next"

catchnear4321 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:04:22 +0000

i see one person saying it is now cheap to support the new hotness, which previously would have been its own project, and another saying it has become cheap again to do things the boring-yet-reliable way that maybe didn’t used to scale so great.

New comment by catchnear4321 in "Do Models Doubt?"

catchnear4321 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:23:23 +0000

surely you can almost hear it. “As a language model, I do not experience doubt like humans do.”

some take that as proof that no doubt is experienced. others, that no human doubt is experienced. there’s a chasm in the middle.

these words are all malleable as they are but crude carriers of shadows of ideas.

New comment by catchnear4321 in "AI Flight Pricing Can Push Travelers to the Limit of Their Ability to Pay"

catchnear4321 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 01:41:10 +0000

You talk about this well enough that, in this bright future, your groceries should probably cost 10% or more higher than the average. It sounds like you can afford it.

Technology is incredible.