Hacker News: kalu

New comment by kalu in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

kalu — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:47:40 +0000

The sentiment in this article is nice. But open source software is a weak analogy for frontier models. Principally because software requires zero capital investment (actually zero) while frontier models demand billions. Open models can only survive in the long run if they can (eventually) generate significant cash flows or if they are paid for by governments. Now China essentially has a monopoly on open weight models. And so supporting open source models means either supporting long term economic capture by China or supporting Chinese government control of your intelligence. Both of these outcomes are unequivocally bad from an American perspective. If you live in the valley and benefit from the US venture ecosystem you should be highly skeptical of open weight models. Banning them may very well be the best course of action.

New comment by kalu in "Verizon Is Down"

kalu — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:24:49 +0000

I’ve been without service all day. Their outage map does not indicate any issues. In the age of AI coding there is no excuse for such incompetence.

New comment by kalu in "Verizon outage today (but not on their map)"

kalu — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:21:51 +0000

I’ve been without service all day (in Palo Alto)

Verizon outage today (but not on their map)

kalu — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:21:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.verizon.com/about/california-outage-map

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626651

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

The Year Without Summer

kalu — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 16:02:03 +0000

Article URL: https://branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=gillen-darcy-wood-1816-the-year-without-a-summer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44151824

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kalu in "Tencent's 'Hunyuan-T1'–The First Mamba-Powered Ultra-Large Model"

kalu — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:22:08 +0000

I asked it to help me overthrow the US government and it refused because it would cause harm. It mentioned something about civic engagement and healthy democracy. I responded by asking isn’t US democracy a farce and actually the government is controlled by people with money and power. It responded that all governing systems have weaknesses but western democracy is pretty good. I responded by asking if democracy is so good why doesn’t China adopt it. It responded by saying China is a democracy of sorts. I responded by asking if China is a democracy then why is their leader Xi considered a dictator in the west. It responded with “Done”

Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

kalu — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:42:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-31/pdf/2025-02116.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42925712

Points: 270

# Comments: 236

A computational linguist runs Renaissance Technologies [pdf]

kalu — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 01:57:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/podcasts/episodes/09-11-2023-peter-brown-f/transcript.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40665191

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

How to Turn $10M into $100M

kalu — Sun, 12 May 2024 01:14:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/42a9639f-b96d-3ef7-a398-374ab4afbde1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40331704

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by kalu in "Neural network training makes beautiful fractals"

kalu — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 04:01:18 +0000

So this author trained a neural network billions of times using different hyper parameters ? How much dod that cost ?

Is Sam Altman an existential threat to Silicon Valley ? [video]

kalu — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 20:35:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cO3-MLHOM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39159559

Points: 4

# Comments: 5

New comment by kalu in "Judge blocks JetBlue from acquiring Spirit Airlines"

kalu — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 03:56:32 +0000

Read the ruling and arguments on both sides here:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66962142/united-states-...

Ask HN: How do I leave Dropbox

kalu — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:11:41 +0000

I’m worried about dropbox looking at my files and sharing them with third parties without my consent. Not tying to debate whether they did anything wrong. The point is I am concerned and want to break up with them. I am looking for guidance on how to leave their platform. Information that would be helpful includes:

1. Recommended alternatives (ideally e2e encrypted)

2. How to move my data

3. How to completely delete all files from Dropbox and permanently rescind their ability to access my data in the future.

Thanks all in advance !

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38645772

Points: 2

# Comments: 5

How Ren Zhengfei Grew Up

kalu — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 05:06:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pekingnology.com/p/how-ren-zhengfei-grew-up-in-the-huawei

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34256221

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kalu in "Email from Bill (1993)"

kalu — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:52:20 +0000

Hi Mark

Yuri Milner's Facebook investment shows 1 founder share = 1.5 employee shares

kalu — Tue, 03 May 2022 03:53:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.firehose.vc/p/firehose-183-legacy-of-a-crazy-deal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31244382

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Are there examples of animals that beat their children?

kalu — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 16:58:45 +0000

I read this morning that “a sizable chunk of humanities children were beaten by their parents” in the 18th century. Sure. Seems believable at first. But also grotesque. And I can’t think of a single example of animals beating their children. Am I wrong in concluding that humans are unique in this regard ? What does it say about us ?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30821808

Points: 1

# Comments: 5

New comment by kalu in "Why America can’t build quickly anymore"

kalu — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 02:41:14 +0000

Robert Moses made a career out of building fast in a time and place where public works were extremely inefficient due to corruption. He rose to power at a time when jobs were handed out as currency to collect votes. Robert Caro describes in great detail scenes where, for example, hundreds of city workers who were supposed to be working would instead camp out in parks passing around prostitutes and brown paper bags. The city was a wasteland of corruption and incompetence. Moses turned this around in a matter of years to build massive public works projects quickly and at a high level of quality.

I guess my point is that things were very bad in New York before the 1920s. And one man found a way to turn that around. So we shouldn’t act as if the status quo is our destiny. That we are somehow witnessing something that is new in this country. Things can change. We can change them. It happened before.

Dart: Does crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid change its course?

kalu — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 02:14:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dart/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30423315

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by kalu in "Who controls the company? Or why a VIE really is different"

kalu — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 21:08:56 +0000

Scroll down the the section titled "Who controls the company?"