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New comment by igor47 in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

igor47 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:58:03 +0000

No dude, it was an analogy. Sorry to pick on you, you're just another ignorant uninformed take in this thread, but come on. This technology is progressing at an insane rate, the shit it's doing now is science fiction from just a year or two ago, and people just keep on moving the goal posts, it's maddening. The technology is unpredictable and that in itself has risks. You must realize that the window of possibility is widening the further into the future we go! Can you pick people with epistemology you trust and see if there's anything you can learn in this moment? Can you try to challenge your own ideas instead of retreating into comfortable certitude? There are real risks here, they are worth taking seriously, and serious people are doing so!

New comment by igor47 in "Can AI design circuit boards yet?"

igor47 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 03:09:05 +0000

I worked on this product, which is available free for personal use: https://www.jitx.com/

I recommend the CLI, which I wrote specially to enable an easy LLM workflow: https://docs.jitx.com/en/latest/getting-started/cli/index.ht...

There's a companion Claude skill: https://github.com/JITx-Inc/jitx-skills

I would bet that using this, you could get pretty close to shippable PCB on first try. This is being used by some pretty big players to design complicated high frequency boards, and that's the main focus of the product, but it can handle basic designs just fine.

New comment by igor47 in "GPT-6 Astra"

igor47 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:26:38 +0000

Found the evals fan!

New comment by igor47 in "Creepy Crawlies"

igor47 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:49:02 +0000

Visions of vast data centers surrounded by fields of browning grass, in which aging, rusting, formerly extremely expensive hardware is spending billions of compute cycles looking at anime catgirls

New comment by igor47 in "Oceans hit highest temperature on record"

igor47 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:52:37 +0000

Warmer water holds less dissolved gases of all kinds, including CO2. You can see this yourself by heating water in your kitchen. Well below the boiling point, you can observe tiny bubbles, which are composed of nitrogen and oxygen dissolved in the water coming out of solution. The oceans will eventually become carbon sources, not carbon sinks, if they warm enough, but that's not projected to happen this century.

However, there are regions of the oceans which currently absorb lots of CO2 which will absorb much less as time goes on. One important example is the AMOC, which, by turning over lots of water, helps sink surface dissolved CO2 into the deeper ocean. In recent years, oceanographers have observed a weakening of the AMOC, which was predicted but is happening much earlier than expected. This is one of the important planetary tipping points, which could cause a dramatic shift in the planet's climate.

But don't worry -- the Trump administration is defunding programs like the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, decommissioning the Ocean Observatories Initiative, and is planning to shutter NOAA's research arm altogether -- thus solving the problem once and for all.

New comment by igor47 in "PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history"

igor47 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:26:06 +0000

> A number of prominent Westerners have spoken out against the dam over the years - Republican icon Barry Goldwater, former congressman and interior secretary Stewart Udall, his brother and another former congressman, Mo Udall, and David Brower, a patriarch of the environmental movement.

> All supported dam legislation in 1956. All now say it was a mistake. Goldwater calls the dam "the one vote I wish I could take back."

From https://lasvegassun.com/news/1997/may/26/once-proud-symbol-g...

I meant architect as in "political architect"

New comment by igor47 in "PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history"

igor47 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:37:50 +0000

This is a genuinely huge deal, and I think it's worth appreciating why hydro makes sense here specifically, even though the headline cost looks steep. On paper, this project runs around $5M per megawatt of capacity, while utility solar can be built for roughly a fifth of that. But that comparison is misleading once you factor in capacity factor --Churchill Falls runs near 74% of its max output almost all the time, while solar in most places only hits 20-25%. To match the same annual output, you'd need to build solar at more than 3x its nameplate capacity. And even then, batteries only solve the day/night problem. Labrador can get stretches of overcast, snowy weather for a week or more at a time, and multi-day battery storage is still wildly expensive compared to a reservoir that just stores water until it's needed. Try this same approach somewhere sunny and cloud-free like Texas, and solar+storage would almost certainly win, especially when accounting for the land area that needs to be submerged by the reservoir. This project makes sense because it's matched to the geography.

New comment by igor47 in "PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history"

igor47 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:27:26 +0000

One problem with hydro is we've long ago exhausted the easy wins, and then went on to build the kinda wash outs. See the fight over Glen canyon, which even its architect went on to admit was a mistake. The wins now are in closed loop pumped hydro; see https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-deal-with-pumped-hydro

New comment by igor47 in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

igor47 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:25:52 +0000

I tried repeatedly with several credit unions, with poor results. The final straw was the patelco hack that made the entire bank unavailable for over a week. In the aftermath they implanted crazy security measures where talking to a rep required 6 layers of increasingly invasive authentication. But... The hack was of the bank infrastructure. It had nothing to do with individualized fraud, all accounts were affected --it was just security theater. I went back to a major bank after that.

New comment by igor47 in "Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks"

igor47 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:54:29 +0000

I migrated to mise from just. Mise handles more stuff (tool versions, environment vars) and also has nicer ergonomics for specifying tasks

New comment by igor47 in "Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours"

igor47 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:22:07 +0000

Woosh

New comment by igor47 in "OpenAI’s amazing — but vastly oversold — new model Astra"

igor47 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:08:26 +0000

Can someone give me the current consensus on Howard Gartner/multiple intelligence vs. g, or general intelligence? Is this even something that people still discuss and research in academia, or did the whole field get tainted by accusations of racism and counter accusations of censorship? Gary's claim here rests on an implicit disregard of general intelligence, which seems counter intuitive to me, but it's been a long time since I've looked into it

New comment by igor47 in "Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1"

igor47 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:02:05 +0000

I've been thinking of making a service which automatically sends deletion requests for all my service companies every month. Like, I currently keep a bunch of spyware features in my car turned of, but I have to keep location turned on to use the built in navigation which keeps track of range for me. Would be nice to have a ceiling on that data's retention.

Long term, if compliance with data deletion requests becomes a pain, maybe companies will finally give us an opt out of surveillance capitalism? Or maybe they'll just lock me out of my own car (I guess it's their car since I don't have root on it, lol)

New comment by igor47 in "Let's make the worst Htmx"

igor47 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:51:24 +0000

I still write tsx and my components look very similar to react -- just no hooks. The difference is I render to html server side and send the rendered html. Look into it in hono

New comment by igor47 in "Let's make the worst Htmx"

igor47 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:45:32 +0000

I do get kind of annoyed that htmx submits forms using form url encoding. It's non trivial to validate, see https://igor.moomers.org/posts/zod-schemas-htmx

As a result for POST requests you have to have htmx routes that accept urlencode and API routes that accept JSON, and JSON is far superior. But for outputs I actually think separating your UI and API is helpful. The code reuse is not worth the entanglement of concerns.

New comment by igor47 in "Let's make the worst Htmx"

igor47 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:58:04 +0000

Why are you so wedded to JSON responses? HTMX is meant to be used to render html; my big HTMX app basically never(1) renders JSON, so much so that I have a standing instruction to coding agents that if they're rendering JSON they're probably doing something wrong. If you're attached to JSON because you're working with external API s you don't control, a good place to perform those kinds of actions is in your backend, which can then return html to your frontend

(1) the exception is I think in one place concerned a flow for uploading images, where client side requests a signed url, uploads to that url, then registers completion. Getting the signed url back is JSON meant for the uploader

New comment by igor47 in "Chip stocks slide in US and Asia as AI jitters rattle investors"

igor47 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Hmm. I'm as big an environmentalist as anyone, but I'm pretty sceptical of the data centers as eco disasters narrative. Your sources indicate that renewables already meet over 50% of new data center demand, and the demand is predicted to drive advancements in technologies like SMRs. The water use of a data center is less than a golf course. Gas and coal cannot compete with renewables on price and speed of deployment, and increased utilization of the existing grid can help cover fixed costs which dominate the cost structure, resulting in decreased prices overall even as we increase deployment of renewables.

New comment by igor47 in "Our position on open-weights models"

igor47 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:38:14 +0000

Addressed in the source, but there's an asymmetry favoring the attackers. They only have to find one exploit once. The defenders have to be perfect all the time.

New comment by igor47 in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

igor47 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:18:05 +0000

I wonder if it was just a start up issue? Some kind of initial scan of your database?

New comment by igor47 in "Inside the 24 hours that led to pulling Fable 5"

igor47 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:11:49 +0000

But it's not though. The root of the problem is politics, and the root of that problem is self -interest.