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New comment by tuatoru in "Show HN: PlugClaw – Private AI agent hardware for any phone or PC"

tuatoru — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:47:51 +0000

Tagline: "What You Really Need Is an AI That Gets Things Done"

Does not have a mechanical arm or any ability to move itself.

New comment by tuatoru in "Terra Incognita: The Economics of a Shrinking World [pdf]"

tuatoru — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:45:00 +0000

Fernandez-Villaverde says he goes to each country's national statistical agency's website, and uses their numbers for births and deaths and population, and computes fertility and replacement rate, and the trajectory of population for each country from that.

He says he has no idea where the UN gets its numbers, despite asking several times. He is a professor of economics and demography, so he's not going to just make stuff up.

New comment by tuatoru in "Terra Incognita: The Economics of a Shrinking World [pdf]"

tuatoru — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:39:24 +0000

The tech connection on this is that phones expand the radius of the circle of peers - people that a given person can see and copy. But most of the problem is as Fernandez-Villaverde says: modernity itself, the expansion of money into more and more areas of life.

New comment by tuatoru in "Every Check Was Green. Five Guarantees Were Not"

tuatoru — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:38:34 +0000

> The part I'd take elsewhere:

Please, please do not write like an AI.

New comment by tuatoru in "I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead)"

tuatoru — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:49:59 +0000

With all the world's knowledge freely available on the web, people still do this.

Unless it's an April Fool joke, in June.

New comment by tuatoru in "OpenAI's new device will be hockey puck-sized and cost over $300"

tuatoru — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:47:46 +0000

> it feels… deeply uncomfortable talking to a machine like you would a person.

That's why the form factor should be a wand. Flourish it to activate, and speak your spell.

New comment by tuatoru in "If AI Is Taking Jobs, Your HR People May Be First to Go"

tuatoru — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 03:47:42 +0000

Now imagine them with a big lever in the form of AI.

New comment by tuatoru in "If you can't be bothered writing it, I can't be bothered reading it"

tuatoru — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:06:43 +0000

TL;DR

And saw a few AI tells on the scroll down. The use of the the word 'honest' in any of its forms, and short sentences in headings.

Rule One for writers: respect the readers' time. Strip out every unnecessary word. Every.

New comment by tuatoru in "DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status"

tuatoru — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:43:16 +0000

The UK. It wants to steal Norway's vast stores of electricity.

New comment by tuatoru in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

tuatoru — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:34:07 +0000

Germany had no good alternative because its politicians deliberately put it in the position of having no good alternative.

Something is wrong with Germany. Go to Our World InData's Electricity Production per Capita page and have a look at Germany, Vietnam, and say Israel.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-electricity-ge...

New comment by tuatoru in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

tuatoru — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:19:13 +0000

"It's just brute-forcing the search space."

New comment by tuatoru in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

tuatoru — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:59:38 +0000

In accounting this is the concept of "materiality". If some asks "is this material?", they are asking if it's worth spending significant time looking at it or deciding.

Remember to * 3 when assessing. Choose wrong, and you do the job, undo it, and do it again.

New comment by tuatoru in "The death and rebirth of my home server"

tuatoru — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:42:44 +0000

Early on Raspbian didn't specify noatime or even relatime; every time something was read off disk, a write happened.

Let alone things like putting /var/tmp and/or /var/log in RAM, or long commit intervals.

No idea what the current situation is; Pis are too dear for the likes of me now.

New comment by tuatoru in "Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home"

tuatoru — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:34:36 +0000

On doctors, I read a substack by a doctor who stopped using an AI notetaker after trying it for a year. They weren't his notes, and there was too much extraneous detail.

Can't find it with a quick search, but the point of the essay was that making the notes by hand reinforced the essentials of each case in the doctor's mind, so they were there for the next appointment two weeks later.

New comment by tuatoru in "Why Is Europe So Ill-Equipped to Handle Heat Waves?"

tuatoru — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:38:15 +0000

Baron von Masoch was European.

New comment by tuatoru in "The unbearable cheapness of open weight models"

tuatoru — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:35:57 +0000

Yes. Many industries are zero-sum-ish in nature,have winner-take-all dynamics or reputational costs for cheaping out. Financial trading. Big law. Military. National Security. Big insurance. Management consulting. Advertising.

For others even a small edge can be important. Pharma and Biochem research. Research in general. Any industry where there are major reputational risks.

It may not make sense to use the most expensive model to replace your payroll clerk, but there are plenty of use cases for the best available.

New comment by tuatoru in "The unbearable cheapness of open weight models"

tuatoru — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:30:07 +0000

Europe has Mistral.

You and readers may be interested in Europe 2031

1. https://europe2031.ai/

New comment by tuatoru in "The unbearable cheapness of open weight models"

tuatoru — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:27:15 +0000

Cheaper until you factor in security and liability, which are going to get increasingly salient over time.

New comment by tuatoru in "The unbearable cheapness of open weight models"

tuatoru — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:25:21 +0000

Deepseek's price looks unsustainable. Ant have said their operating margin is 70%. A leaner company could maybe raise that to 90%.

Most of the cost of supplying inference compute is depreciation of the GPUs. Maybe Deepseek is anticipating a 50 year life for theirs.

New comment by tuatoru in "Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)"

tuatoru — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:10:10 +0000

Far canal, why is this news?