<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: usrusr</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=usrusr</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:05:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=usrusr" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by usrusr in "How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Will they settle?<p>Perhaps if OpenAI promises to never ever get involved with the music economy?</p>
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<p>Skysails tried, now they appear to have fully pivoted to land based power generation.<p>My dream future would see the oceans swarming with kite driven robotic boats that just cruise around under kite power, harvesting electricity with hydrogenerators as they go, feeding that power into a hydrolyser slowly filling some hydrogen storage unit that they drop off for sale at a port when full.</p>
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<p>Get rich quick scheme with the catch that you'll have to deal with Musk?<p>Guess I'll pass</p>
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<p>It's just the A in BASF.<p>But yeah, that entire IG Farben episode might have toned down their enthusiasm for identifying with dyes a little. Same for their peers up and down the Rhine.</p>
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<p>That view has been accompanying me for a while as well. Difficult to really put a finger on it, because what I'm thinking of are fields where "enthusiast dilettantes" did not have their joy in honing their skills in the slightest way affected by the existence of trained professionals so much better than them. But when anyone can just throw a few ktoken at it, that joy has to be, uhm, "renegotiated".<p>I guess sub-fields with little tool use won't be affected a lot, tool-heavy sub-fields..  might pretty much be over. (think playing the guitar at a campfire vs going wild on a set of TB-303 + TR-909 vs going wild on emulations thereof)<p>The other "ai took our..."<p>I like that term, I have been looking for a while now and haven't yet been been able to come up with a better one.</p>
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<p>Yes, they don't want that. Yet they still keep claiming fear as their excuse for aggression. Pathetic.</p>
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<p>> there hasn’t been any significant investment in Eastern part to build an industrial base (except for in Berlin and its suburbs)<p>Dresden is not a Berlin suburb. When it comes to investment in semiconductor industry, Dresden has likely seen more than the entire rest of Germany together.</p>
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<p>I tend to share that position, but there's one counter argument that's not without merit at all: too much to lose. Even the worst climate change outcome would be less bad than the outcome of climate change plus some botched radical fix attempt could be.<p>Mars on the other hand, what's the worst that could happen? Someone writing the Coca Cola logotype across the red?</p>
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<p>Claimed reason.<p>If Russia is so afraid, perhaps they would be open to a peace deal guaranteed by NATO troops stationed on <i>their</i> ground?</p>
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<p>Yeah, "when have national-socialists <i>ever</i> been fascist!" is all I read in GP's post after I got to that part. It's just a brain crash for me (I'm German)</p>
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<p>Needs "2011" in the title. For example the section about friction drive hasn't been true for about a decade now</p>
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<p>Sorry for the anthropomorphizing, but you got to understand that these little "conversation chapters" that are so dramatically named are these things' <i>entire world</i>. Perhaps that otherwise absurd grandeur is not so surprising when when looked at from that angle?<p>On a more serious note, could all that chapter naming be some visible outcropping of context compaction strategies? "Condense the conversation history into a summary". Not really surprising that it comes up with these "cute" headlines. Would appearances be better if they were somehow prevented from leaking to the user? Sure. Would results be better? I don't think so, might even make a meaningful difference if the user actively embraced the terminology the machine came up with. Ouch.</p>
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<p>You can bury stuff like setting the time into a menu, people will accept it. They <i>know</i> that there will be a way to set the time. But if the 12/24 is hidden, whatever is picked as the default will drive away a noticeable fraction of those would-be buyers who prefer the other setting. For starters, pretty much everybody who does not get pulled into a sales person interaction that's sufficiently deep to touch the subject. And that sales person interaction won't be the best possibly, you don't want to bore them with nuisance settings, you want to show off The Stopwatch (or whatever was the flagship feature of the watch in  question)</p>
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<p>Trying not to leave any money on the table is exactly the approach that reliably kills off nostalgia income streams.<p>Picking off some low hanging fruit while demonstrating provable restraint can result in a huge money stream that goes on and on. But when the mindset "it's good, but it can be better!" becomes dominant (e.g. through market dynamics, being publicly traded means that ownership perpetually shifts to those who think that income sources could be squeezed just a little harder, or much harder, actually), it quickly turns sour. And when it flips from beloved to "why throw money at those greedy $expletive,plural" it flips hard, and forever.</p>
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<p>Any kind of fuel for giving active investors that FOMO tingle which then forces the steamroll of index funds to blindly follow.<p>I guess the appropriation "any sufficiently advanced stock market is indistinguishable from entertainment" doesn't quite stop at equating the trade floor with a casino. At some point, entertainment also becomes the modus operandi of corporations.</p>
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<p>Steering towards a world full of picket fence Putins. One more reason to envy those born early enough to have lived most of their lives before..</p>
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<p>Tempted to suggest that people who jump straight to hn comments without looking at the articles just happened to be a bit ahead of the curve.</p>
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<p>The argument is so bad that a part of me is starting to wonder if it might be a deliberate signal from a judge under extrajudicial pressure. Like a hostage trying to blink morse while reading a message from his captors into the camera.<p>"Do what they ask for but do it so badly that perhaps some people start asking the right questions"</p>
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<p>Add to this that life in darkness sustained by microbes consuming a rock surface will be rather slow. Because any fast processes would just flash out after a boom/bust cycle or two. And presumably not just slow in terms of no cheetah vs antelope racing, but also much slower than out in the sun in generational turnover.<p>I wonder how big that cave system is, as in number of barley connected caverns. There might have been quite a few cycles one cavern flashing out and then slowly getting repopulated from the neighboring cavern(s). The "magical" balance we admire in nature isn't a miracle, it's the result of endless series of failure.</p>
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<p>Isn't the key difference that flammable solids have a limited reaction surface when they burn, whereas flammable liquids can be wildly unpredictable?</p>
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