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New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "European AI. A playbook to own it"

tjwebbnorfolk — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:37:23 +0000

No one is saying "ignore regulations". The US has regulations also. Every country does.

The EU has taken it to another level.

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "European AI. A playbook to own it"

tjwebbnorfolk — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:08:31 +0000

I hope one day soon EU politicians ask themselves why it might be that there is only one single domestic AI lab that is basically an also-ran at this point.

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "European AI. A playbook to own it"

tjwebbnorfolk — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:03:49 +0000

Not just startups or funding. Google alone has more AI compute than China and the EU combined.

There's no shortage of capital in Europe. But nobody wants to take the risk. Meanwhile in the US, people are putting 10-100x the capital at risk. So you can say what you want about it looking scary to you to invest in the US, but the people with capital to invest clearly don't see it that way.

More often when you hear VCs give interviews, they are saying the opposite: that never-ending EU regulations introduce more business risk than anything the US president could possibly do.

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet"

tjwebbnorfolk — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:38:35 +0000

Nobody is talking about you bludgeoning your neighbor. The point here is that there's no reason to leave your doors unlocked if you have the option of locking them. There's no reason to be weaker than you have to be.

Our military is and should be strong. If a company is willing to help them be stronger, I don't know why we'd be against that.

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet"

tjwebbnorfolk — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:25:44 +0000

I must be missing your point. You're talking about a thought / belief framework. I'm talking about how the world actually works. In any fight between theory and practice, practice always wins.

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet"

tjwebbnorfolk — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:03:00 +0000

> and the world is controlled by the people who can do that better than others

Yes, welcome to Earth.

There's absolutely no morality in deciding to be weaker than you have to be. If you are eaten by a predator when you had the option not to be eaten, you're not some high-minded righteous peace-lover, you're simply dead.

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "Helium is hard to replace"

tjwebbnorfolk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:54:00 +0000

There's a fundamental disagreement among people on what "help" really is.

Giving money to someone who could otherwise work is very different from giving food to a single mother who is already working 10 hours a day. Giving needles to a drug addict "helps" them in a certain way, yes. But it also enables their addiction to continue.

Yea it's easy for everyone to say "I believe in helping people!!". But which side of the fence you sit on in the US is non-trivially determined by what you believe "help" looks like in practice.

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "Endian wars and anti-portability: this again?"

tjwebbnorfolk — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:04:34 +0000

> and you refuse a community port to another architecture, you are doing a huge disservice to your community

Someone who has a computer that my software can't run on isn't in my community. If they really want to use the software, they have the option of: 1) get a different computer, or 2) maintain their own custom-special port of my software forever.

In other words, they have to JOIN the community if the want the BENEFITS of the community. It's not my job to extend my community to encompass every possible use case and hardware platform.

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

tjwebbnorfolk — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:50:39 +0000

you going for the cherry-picked-but-functionally-meaningless statistic of the week award?

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

tjwebbnorfolk — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:46:21 +0000

There are a lot of things you can do in a rich, tiny, homogenous country that you can't do in a enormous, diverse country.

If my house were a country, I'd be in the top 0.1% of household internet speeds compared to other countries. Obviously everyone should be just like me!

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

tjwebbnorfolk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:25:40 +0000

There is a difference between "fake it till you make it" and "blatant widespread fraud", but the line is blurrier than many startups would like to admit.

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

tjwebbnorfolk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:37:08 +0000

All of gemma's main competitors have larger models in the 80-240b range that take advantage of larger VRAM GPUs and dual-GPU setups.

Personally I have 2x RTX 6000 PROs and right now am running the 235b-parameter Qwen model with very good results. I also occasionally use gpt-oss:120b. I would like to see a gemma model in the same range.

Also many people are running these on Mac Minis now with 128GB+ of unified RAM.

Aiming for the "runs on a single H100" tagline doesn't make a lot of sense to me, because most people do not have H100s anyway.

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

tjwebbnorfolk — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:24:03 +0000

Will larger-parameter versions be released?

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

tjwebbnorfolk — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:40:05 +0000

does this violate GDPR?

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "Show HN: ProofShot – Give AI coding agents eyes to verify the UI they build"

tjwebbnorfolk — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:39:28 +0000

VSCode and Antigravity already do this. What am I missing?

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"

tjwebbnorfolk — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:54:15 +0000

Just because you don't like it doesn't make it "unethical".

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "What Young Workers Are Doing to AI-Proof Themselves"

tjwebbnorfolk — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:31:40 +0000

Pipes don't care about how much you would like to spend on it. They will leak when they are ready to leak.

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

tjwebbnorfolk — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:19:15 +0000

We do not lose water on the east coast when the power goes out

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

tjwebbnorfolk — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:39:12 +0000

I was in New Orleans last year and everything looked brand new. The whole city was basically rebuilt 15 years ago.

New comment by tjwebbnorfolk in "How long does it take to get last liquid drops from kitchen containers?"

tjwebbnorfolk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:22:23 +0000

Yea, this could have been a youtube video.