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New comment by toephu2 in "Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence"

toephu2 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:53:31 +0000

Is it open source?

New comment by toephu2 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

toephu2 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:24:55 +0000

Why are you comparing it to building expensive modern hospitals? Why don't you compare every other tech acquisition to that? because that's not a relevant comparison, and building expensive modern hospitals has nothing to do with the goal of for-profit corporations.

SpaceX has 3 major businesses: Space, Starlink, and AI.

This acquisition helps with the 3rd one.

New comment by toephu2 in "Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway"

toephu2 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:13:53 +0000

Japan has plenty of monorails and they work great. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monorails_in_Japan

New comment by toephu2 in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

toephu2 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:55:49 +0000

"One of the most prolific criminals in all of San Francisco tells @adam22 that “crime in San Francisco is over with” because of Flock cameras + drones. He complains that he can’t even do drivebys anymore.

It’s simple: when the risk of getting caught is too high, crime plummets."

https://x.com/rahul/status/2063984276610114001

OpenAI Kicks Off IPO Process in Test of Investor Appetite for Top AI Labs

toephu2 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:34:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-kicks-off-ipo-process-in-test-of-investor-appetite-for-top-ai-labs-eb7bebe1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452481

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers

toephu2 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:06:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/google-to-pay-spacex-920-million-a-month-for-xai-compute-capacity.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48417490

Points: 327

# Comments: 955

New comment by toephu2 in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

toephu2 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:40:05 +0000

Followup: I closed out Claude completely, iterm2 completely. Reopened iterm2, and it appears iterm2 is using about 500MB of memory. So this has nothing to do with Claude Code CLI.

New comment by toephu2 in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

toephu2 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:45:44 +0000

I have iterm2 open right now with Claude in a long session and it's only using 500MB of memory.

New comment by toephu2 in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

toephu2 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:19:25 +0000

Lookup China subreddits and on YouTube. Tons of Americans wish they could just pick up and move to China. Most Americans that visit China for the first time love it. It is pretty awesome. Have you been?

New comment by toephu2 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

toephu2 — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:29:34 +0000

The rapid release cadence and rate of innovation of Anthropic (and OpenAI) is impressive. And obviously it's because these are startups solely dedicated to AI so they can move quickly. Big Tech (like Google) won't be able to keep up with the pace of them (too much bureaucracy and red tape at Google). Classic Innovator's Dilemma. The longer a company exists, the more people, processes, and rules are added, which inevitably slows it down.

Jeff Bezos said this too, Amazon won't last forever. Eventually some startup is going to come and eat its lunch.

New comment by toephu2 in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

toephu2 — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:36:36 +0000

U.S. citizens still need to pay taxes on their winnings.

Kalshi and Polymarket require you to provide your SSN.

New comment by toephu2 in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

toephu2 — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:34:19 +0000

As Steve Jobs famously told Drew Houston..."you have a feature, not a product."

Jobs was ultimately right in the end.

New comment by toephu2 in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

toephu2 — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:32:27 +0000

Because there is PR speak, and then there is reality.

New comment by toephu2 in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

toephu2 — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:24:07 +0000

Easier to get a temporary talent visa? Maybe, for some profiles. Easier to get permanent residence? Almost certainly not. The U.S. green card system is backlogged and maddening, but it is still a mass immigration system. China’s green card is closer to an exceptional-status program (it's 100x harder to get a green card in China than a green card in USA).

Also if you really want to immigrate to a country you eventually probably want to become a citizen of said country right? USA has pathways for this (albeit getting harder with this new admin). However in China it's nearly impossible.

New comment by toephu2 in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

toephu2 — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:27:38 +0000

> So why are Japanese companies like this? Why do they do so many different things? And how do they manage to do so all those different things so well?

Author says: Japanese companies excel in lots of very different domains because it’s inherent in how they’re structured.

My response: No mention of culture? Sure maybe it is because of how they are structured somewhat, but it's also because of their culture. Japanese are masters of their craft. Look at the best pizza place in the world, the best burger maker in the world.. they are not in Italy or America, but in Tokyo.

Japanese take pride in their work and master their craft. A small pizza-shop owner in Tokyo doesn't make great pizza because of how it was structured. It's cultural. Japan takes Western concepts, and applies an obsessive cultural devotion to mastery (Shokunin).

Look at all the foreign-things Japan is now famous for: Japanese Whiskey, Denim, bread making, Japanese curry, etc.

New comment by toephu2 in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

toephu2 — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:16:43 +0000

Along with the local Canadian salary it entails?

New comment by toephu2 in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

toephu2 — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:41:55 +0000

Andrej Karpathy is from Europe (Slovakia).

New comment by toephu2 in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

toephu2 — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:19:15 +0000

Have a phones-free classroom. Problem solved.

New comment by toephu2 in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

toephu2 — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:45:54 +0000

For travel? I prefer Poland over Paris.

Poland is an underrated European destination (and I assume most Eastern European former USSR-aligned countries are too). If you haven't been you should definitely visit. I've been to both Paris and Warsaw recently and tbh I prefer Warsaw over Paris. Warsaw is clean (little graffiti, little trash on streets), safe, no homeless, etc and is a relatively high-trust society (another comment in this thread also mentioned that). Police actually enforce laws. The worst I saw was a drunk man on the street (although not violent or anything), and within minutes 4 police officers came to him. Few tourists. Everyone knows English.

Paris: I won't go into the negatives here (like the Africans/gypsies trying to scam you, sell you useless stuff, etc), it was nice overall, a little dirty, but I actually liked Warsaw better.

New comment by toephu2 in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

toephu2 — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:12:42 +0000

> funded by Middle East non-democratic governments

What's the problem here exactly? Are you insinuating any non-democratic government is bad and evil and only democratic governments are the correct and right way to govern? sort of like: "there is only one true prophet, and it's the one I follow, and all the others are false!"