Hacker News: essive

New comment by essive in "Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2"

essive — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:54:31 +0000

It was a joke, son

New comment by essive in "Amazon circumvents Gilroy community vote for AI data center"

essive — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:54:52 +0000

Everyone should read "Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development" by David Harvey. Written 25 years ago, it accurately predicts the data center trend - geography usurped by capatalistic growth.

New comment by essive in "Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2"

essive — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:41:45 +0000

As did the reMarkable support for that device...

New comment by essive in "Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2"

essive — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:39:45 +0000

LOL - agreed. I was a bit shocked by the title being the type that gets bonded with my devices. I still use my Windows laptop from 2017 and my M1 Macbook Pro from 2021 daily. Additionally, my Kindles are from 2010.

New comment by essive in "US accuses China of industrial-scale AI model distillation, will share Intel"

essive — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:23:10 +0000

"The US wants China to stop distilling its AI models, stop smuggling its chips, and stop fine-tuning its open-source models for military use." Sure - you tell'em USA!...as if China is going to stop.

New comment by essive in "Republicans want to tax EV drivers $200/year in new transport bill"

essive — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:59:06 +0000

Couple of references for road funding ev tax: - https://slate.com/business/2021/03/vmt-tax-buttigieg-driving... - https://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/transportation/2023-02-22/demo...

New comment by essive in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)"

essive — Wed, 01 May 2024 18:35:04 +0000

Your group looking for any other position types besides Applied Scientists?

New comment by essive in "We’ll call it AI to sell it, machine learning to build it"

essive — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:53:11 +0000

Right! And what it 'really' is will push the philosophical 'hard problem' of consciousness. Will we be able to penetrate something human-like to know if it is conscious?

New comment by essive in "We’ll call it AI to sell it, machine learning to build it"

essive — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:50:45 +0000

If it passes the Turing Test then it's just semantics after that - linear regression gains artificial consciousness

New comment by essive in "Language Models Represent Space and Time"

essive — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 19:14:08 +0000

I think the term "world model" is a highly overloaded term. What does it really mean in your opinion?

New comment by essive in "Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”"

essive — Fri, 05 May 2023 16:45:34 +0000

You must mean the new Albert Clippy!

New comment by essive in "Tell HN: Google search partial outage while rolling out new search?"

essive — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 01:17:34 +0000

Verizon network outages all over the country this afternoon - maybe that?

New comment by essive in "I worked at Google; now I’m an AI researcher. Here’s why slowing AI dev is wise"

essive — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 22:19:04 +0000

Agreed. You simply cannot pause an emerging technology as powerful as AI. We all know the US Government will not stop especially within defense circles much less other countries. This same dilemma has appeared multiple times and just has to evolve through learning and development.

New comment by essive in "Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas"

essive — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 16:39:53 +0000

Agreed - I have the very same issue as well. Google Keep is my goto mobile app for most of my note capture just due to its speed and ease of use. Now I have a few github utilities to download my Keep notes to markdown for Obsidian use later - but that isn't really ideal yet.

PS - all I can say about Canvas is 'wow'!!! Awesome feature!

New comment by essive in "Show HN: Nebula – a distributed graph database written in C++"

essive — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 02:33:03 +0000

I just thought it seemed a bit odd to me to have the project tied to large organizations in China so much. I’m not saying to “buy American” but I do think it’s reasonable to be perplexed.

New comment by essive in "Show HN: Nebula – a distributed graph database written in C++"

essive — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:26:33 +0000

Why is this project tied so specifically to China? Honest question here....

New comment by essive in "We tried to hustle our way into YC after we got rejected"

essive — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:56:34 +0000

Too much emphasis on YC - there are others

New comment by essive in "Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?"

essive — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 22:17:34 +0000

Good list! You should add Orientalism by Said and Open Society and Its Enemies by Popper - both classics!

New comment by essive in "Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?"

essive — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 22:10:19 +0000

Good list - except for Phoenix Project - sorry you had to read it - utter insipid crap.

New comment by essive in "Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?"

essive — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 22:08:47 +0000

Great picks!