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New comment by jelling in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

jelling — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:52:36 +0000

Did Anthropic, unlike Open AI, forget to offer free equity to the government?

“Thats a pretty nice IPO you got there… it would be a shame if something happened to it.”

New comment by jelling in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

jelling — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:04:16 +0000

This and we already did a dry run of ad-hoc distributions with COVID relief. They had to use the data from tax filings but it did work in terms of getting the money out there.

New comment by jelling in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

jelling — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:43:47 +0000

They borrowed $40B from JP Morgan. They literally did not have the money otherwise.

New comment by jelling in "The Death of the Cool"

jelling — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:56:10 +0000

> Dimes Square consists of a series of late-night interactions in a Chinatown apartment. The apartment belongs to Stefan, a rich, connected writer who has attracted a social circle by virtue of his strategically applied charm, vague promises of professional opportunities, and abundant supply of cocaine.

I lived for years in the LES adjacent to “Dimes Square” and I was on the periphery of the art scene.

Not covered in this essay at all is how the cost of living in NYC is dramatically higher than during the “good old days” of 80s and 90s downtown scene.

It was cheap for a reason - my cousin literally had an illegal art squat he paid $0 for - but low rent also changed who was able to be on the scene.

Add-in the skyrocketing costs of private colleges, and the scene increasingly is populated by the children of the very comfortable to the obscenely rich.

And unsurprisingly, those that grow up with status to are far more risk averse and solipsistic as well.

Warhol, Herring and Basquiat did not have trust funds, and it was all for the better.

New comment by jelling in "Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]"

jelling — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:25:51 +0000

I didn’t like studying chemistry at all when I was your age. But I also didn’t like physics until I took a class thar focused on it in a practical way. So definitely listen to your interests but perhaps you’ll find a better on-ramp to chemistry if you focus on food chemistry or something else more pragmatic.

But cheers for showing support to high quality science content on YT. Appreciation is a great instinct to nurture.

New comment by jelling in "Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025"

jelling — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:39:55 +0000

Same. We've all fooled ourselves into believing that an LLM / stochastic process was finally solved based on a good result. But the sample size is always to low to be meaningful.

New comment by jelling in "How Figma’s multiplayer technology works (2019)"

jelling — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 02:33:29 +0000

Yes and MSFT sells it on Azure as Signal iirc

New comment by jelling in "Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue"

jelling — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:43:31 +0000

NPR voice is a thing.

It started with Ira Glass voice and now the default voice is someone that sounds like they're not certain they should be saying the very banal thing they are about to say, followed by a hand-shake protocol of nervous laughter.

New comment by jelling in "An update to our pricing"

jelling — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 20:13:43 +0000

Clarifying the pricing would make it easier to value the revenue from current and future users. And naturally they rounded up to leave themselves literal margin for error.

New comment by jelling in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

jelling — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:20:45 +0000

Etymology: like others said, the old version of cap was short for a bullet. And that term most likely comes from “cap guns” which are/were you guys for kids that had a tiny tiny amount of gunpowder/similar so they made a small noise when fired.

So a bit of speculation, but it’s possible that the word cap has inverted twice over the years, from a toy/fake bullet, to a real bullet, and now back to being a synonym for fake, which it originally was.

New comment by jelling in "BioTerrorism Will Save Your Life with the 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective [video]"

jelling — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:39:38 +0000

Any guitarist that places outside of the house will have no problem inflicting enough damage on their guitar to make it unique.

New comment by jelling in "Scale Ruins Everything"

jelling — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:45:57 +0000

So did I and having chosen it once, I still thought "well, I'll hear this out..."

New comment by jelling in "Bacteria involved in gum disease linked to increased risk of head, neck cancer"

jelling — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:20:26 +0000

Try this: get the travel version of a water pick / flosser. They’re like $30 and you refill them from a tap. Now put it in your shower and make it part of your shower routine.

No mess. Easy to fill. No discomfort. Almost impossible not to use at that point.

New comment by jelling in "Do Art Scenes Lead to Gentrification? (2018)"

jelling — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 04:00:24 +0000

So he did what… made a boom bap, cat-in-the-hat rap musical and put it in midtown to save them the drive?

Lin-Manuel Miranda loves letting people think he came from the streets when his Dad is a political consultant that worked for multiple mayors and presidential campaigns and his mom is a psychologist. Lin Manuel went to one of the most prestigious magnet schools in the Upper East Side and then went Wesleyan, which is one of the most prestigious private liberal arts colleges.

He shouldn’t talk about his customers like that.

New comment by jelling in "New York Establishes Stringent Protections to Safeguard Kids on Social Media"

jelling — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 01:38:21 +0000

If you've ever seen someone that naturally takes to gambling - like they play, lose, and immediately think they must be due to win now! - that's probably a good analogy as any for how some brains can be more likely to get addicted to activities like this.

New comment by jelling in "The Antisocial Network: How the 90s Internet Died Like Diaryland (2014)"

jelling — Wed, 08 May 2024 04:33:57 +0000

IRC is back and I love it

New comment by jelling in "Reddit shares plunge 25% in two days, finish the week below first day close"

jelling — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 09:46:30 +0000

Reddit requested to interview me once. It was the least professional company with which I’ve spoken.

New comment by jelling in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

jelling — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 14:25:11 +0000

I had the same problem while designing an AI related tool and the solution is simple: ask the user a clarifying question as to whether they want a specific ethnic background or default to random.

No matter what technical solution they come up with, even if there were one, it will be a PR disaster. But if they just make the user choose the problem is solved.

New comment by jelling in "Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum"

jelling — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 15:09:37 +0000

Huh? Have you not used the search feature in Slack or Discord?

Whether it's a forum or a chat, the data structure is largely the same, especially with Slack/Discord as they have threads.

New comment by jelling in "OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired"

jelling — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 07:17:19 +0000

> What exactly is the problem here? Is a non-profit expected to exclusively help impoverished communities or something?

Yes. Yes and more yes.

That is why, at least in the U.S., we have given non-profits exemptions from taxation. Because they are supposed to be improving society, not profiting from it.