Atreiden

Not when pronounced correctly as A-Aron

Just wanted to say thank you for all your contributions to our industry, Mitchell. I love Ghostty and your vision here, and evangelize it whenever I can.

It's a pleasure reading your posts.

What's crazy is that portal started as a tech demo, and only had about 3 hours of game time (unless you got into speedrunning).

The staying power it's had is unbelievable. Right place, right time, I guess!

Saying AI now doubleplus ungood. It is goodthink to accept SI > humans and thoughtcrime otherwise

It's not really magical thinking; if the grid moves to solar/nuclear/wind then there are virtually no emissions here.

Yes, we're not there yet, and that's why I prefaced with "True", but I think this kind of splitting hairs is part of the problem. EVs are vastly better for the environment and have no emissions of their own. Yes emissions do come from somewhere in the current state, but path to a cleaner environment is not radically far away and the thesis that "emissions come from somewhere so that's not a reason to buy an EV" is ludicrous at best and disingenuous at worst.

True, but that's not a limitation of EVs but rather the state of energy production in most countries. An economy that moves towards solar/nuclear/wind will see blanket decreases in emissions across the entire fleet of EVs it supports.

Not to mention that even in the current state of affairs in the US, the emissions are far lower on average. Even in states where production is 60% coal: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2023/ph240/stafford1/

I share this perspective and hate the straw-man from pro-prediction-marketists that those opposed are moralists and puritans who can't accept that people like to bet on sports.

Prediction markets are a way of effectively placing a "bounty" on something you would like to happen. Or capitalizing on one of these existing bounties because you're able to affect the result. It's a way to commodify power (and information of course, which is what these platforms bill themselves for), converting it into money, which can you can build further power with.

At this point, a hole in the market is open for a competitor offering a private SaaS solution. The downward trend has had a long tail, but these outages seem to have become business as usual for GitHub in 2026.

There are indeed quite a few parallels. But to make sure I understand your position - are you claiming that the risks to global society posed by climate change are insignificant?

Extinction is much less interesting to discuss because it's so binary. Global catastrophe is much more interesting to discuss because the topic then becomes about failure modes, cascading failures, and the impact of those failures.

This is what many have been forecasting (myself included), but the open-weights models coming out of China pose a serious problem for that approach

What does the existence of this do to wages and compensation for the workers in the industries it upsets?

It depresses them. Significantly. White collar jobs constitute the bulk of global purchasing power. What happens to the economy when aggregate purchasing power drops? The naive response is "prices fall until equilibrium is reached again"

But what if the needle continues moving so quickly that equilibrium is never reached?

This is the K-shaped-economy concern. The ultra wealthy and those who own the "AI means of production" will become unfathomably wealthy at the expense of everyone else.

Why should this not be a concern? Historically, this trend has always precipitated bloody conflict.

Work smarter, not harder!

This is the most accurate parallel as far as I can tell. I've not seen any evidence that Anthropic deliberately built automated systems or escape hatches that literally prevent the US Government from using Claude to do these things. Other than the basic AI Safety mechanisms in place for everyone/general use. It's almost the reverse, where they explicitly don't want to strip away guardrails that say things like "don't kill people".

The intent and framing matters a lot here. Refusal to remove safety features is a LOT different than deliberately building mechanisms to sabotage would-be operations.

Be sure to eat plenty of rocks in your daily diet, they are chock full of valuable minerals!

Not sure I totally understand what you mean by light alarms. Do you just flash ceiling lights to notify the user of something?

This was a very interesting exercise that offered me some new perspective, thank you!

The top concern I've gotten from dev teams when proposing HA distributed postgres (e.g through RDS Aurora global) is that eventual consistency is not suitable for many workloads.

Does Neki solve for this, and if so how? My understanding of CAP theorem is that this basically requires some compromises around availability, but I'm curious as to what that looks like in practice here.

I read through it and had a few things I've flagged in my head - the ego fluffing, repeated usage of "Millennial" to the point of redundancy, and the framing of things in terms of "big picture", but can you elaborate on "deep brainwashing techniques"? I'm genuinely interested. This entire email thread feels a bit surreal to me

To me, this is the correct focus. Look at the current state of the world. "What were the humans doing in all this?" applies to so many of our contemporary failures that it should be assumed the default. Nobody is at the wheel, and the car is veering slowly (then very quickly) off the road.

We haven't even been able to coordinate around the global, existential threat of Climate Change, despite overwhelming data from the last 30 years indicating, clearly, that the consequences will be severe. We still haven't moved, 30 years later, after some of these consequences began coming to fruition.

Do you think we will get our acts together in time to coordinate sufficiently to protect against autonomous, self-preserving, self-replicating AI systems? Or will we watch the money lines go up and up, until someone realizes we aren't actually running the show anymore?

The sad part is that I can't even say that's definitively the less desirable outcome. The machines seem to have demonstrated that they coordinate very efficiently.

Nice one, Poe would be proud

I'm encountering the same behavior. I've tried 4-8bit quants and get 14-17 tok/s with one run that achieved 19. I'm eagerly awaiting dflash2 support in Unsloth or LM Studio, as allegedly that should increase throughput to around 30tok/s, which is the baseline for what I consider at least somewhat interactive.

Jealous of the folks with 5090s running ninfer and getting >100tok/s. At those speeds it's a true frontier replacement IMO.

Thanks for sharing, this was lovely

A little bit of JavaScript might have been nice. Tapping through a dozen ramens required me to then hit back a dozen times to return.

Leverage. Some of those people will turn out to be significant political figures.

We live in an information-driven world. Our economy is driven by information. Geopolitics is driven by information. War is driven by information.

An historically adversarial competitor country that is able to slowly amass lengthy dossiers on our public figures private lives will have an asymmetrical advantage in any geopolitical engagement. This doesn't even require scandal, the traditional leverage. Just the ability to see a few of someone's cards makes knowing what move they will make next, and what bluffs to call, significantly easier.

For the record, I don't think our own government, or any other, should have this information either. As was demonstrated back in 2015 by CA, this type of information can be used to effectively manipulate and influence people's decisions.

"I think that AI will probably, most likely, sort of lead to the end of the world. But in the meantime, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning."

— Sam Altman

What about it reads to you as low quality? The intention seems to be to convey alarm through description of catastrophe, which was effective for me.

Through the lens of information warfare, it's hard not to view those comments as an astroturfing campaign from the exact organizations who would want device attestation

Ignoring the whataboutism here, what about it was distasteful?

Please see HN rule #1, this is not the community for that kind of discourse.

I took those distance estimates to mean "as measured by the instruments".

The longer they're in it, the larger the estimate, and they've hypothesized that it will approach the size of the universe itself.

But then private shareholders are able to extract shareholder value from the subsidiary, so the "nonprofit" component is utterly meaningless here.

How is this not illegal? What prevents any nonprofit from doing this to sidestep its filing status and extract profit?