lasky

bananas.

and what makes you think they won’t write binary?

I bet Elon’s group is training for that.

this is more about the supply and demand of capital in any given moment than it is about the outlook of the company.

as a litmus test: would you turn down the opportunity to buy OpenAI shares at this current valuation?

This is the origin of Shame.

I arrived at the same conclusion. Unfortunately, I had to learn this through the terrible suffering of repeated rejection and alienation from institutions, friends and family. It's incredibly true.

Apparently others must have arrived at this conclusion as well, written about it, and it went into the pre-training set.

Sadly, it also means there is no pure Science that pursues pure truth. Even physics. Scientific pursuits are always in service to a group over truth.

and I posit that good marketing copy genuinely teases the soul

Software was always supposed to be "Soft".

Now it is liquid.

best quote by Sheryl Sandberg:

"[FB] is given data by it's users, rather than us collecting it."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1j4N-3ZkB4&t=262s

Looks like Zuck having a HARD time taking accountability for any of the eventual social _consequences_ of his social _network_ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7UC2ie0XIE

One of the biggest shortcomings of our current modality of housing planning is that our grandchildren / great grandchildren don't have any representation at these zoning meetings.

Oh HN. The best of humanity.

I do. In claude design.

crackberry we called it

exactly.

These are the values MIT teaches young entrepreneurs who want to solve real problems and help real people?

It’s unexamined capital-optimizing society extracting garbage.

Go help people. Make enough money to keep the business growing.

Let the VC piggies keep funding founders whose primary motivation is billionaire status.

9 years!? What a tragic joke of a government agency responsible for making therapeutic treatments available.

why not just sell the damn thing but don’t market it for parkinson’s.

“The bank's BSA Officer and staff lacked sufficient skills and expertise to effectively manage the bank's BSA/AML program."

That's extraordinary language from a federal regulator.

how cool would it be if these smart peeps put all that brain power into models that actually improved people’s agency and mental health, instead of siphoning it

Not good.

Ursula sounds like a selfish cnut, too.

What dehumanizing stereotype did you read?

I suspect the reason what I wrote is hard for you to read, and elicits that reaction in you to find some story that might contradict my statement, is because people need to think of themselves as good people. It's too much of a cognitive dissonance and shameful to think otherwise.

May we teach our children the only thing that truly matters is how we regard the dignity of people.

I find most successful Americans I meet are so self-obsessed they are left with an incredibly low capacity for empathy for those in lower classes than them. Wild how they think they are so different than Nazis.

I won’t touch Meta models. I simply don’t trust or like Zuck and especially Wang

We are teaching machines to do the work.

Capital always prefers machines.

apparently hackernews devs don’t like this

This article reads like self-pity propaganda from the institutions and scientists who benefited from the old NASA funding model and now see that model being dismantled.

The underlying program was in trouble. NASA had already concluded before Isaacman took over that the existing Mars Sample Return architecture had become a roughly $8–11 billion project with samples potentially not reaching Earth until around 2040.

So yes: NASA killed the bloated $11B / 2040 version of Mars Sample Return.

Isaacman is pushing NASA’s Mars program toward cheaper, faster, modular missions, greater use of commercial spacecraft and launch providers, and infrastructure that can support both science and eventual human exploration.

That makes the “NASA is abandoning Mars science” framing fake news. NASA is abandoning a specific, extremely expensive architecture.

Isaacman has explicitly left open the possibility of retrieving Perseverance’s samples through a different approach.

The real question is to what extent the new model will actually deliver the samples faster and for dramatically less money.

“divert attention” away from a political economic issue that actually impacts hundreds of millions of peoples’ lives and livelihoods toward… a drama about rich pedophiles?

who cares. AI will translate brain waves to binary within 5 years.

big milestone. the iPhone design engineering group might be one of the most hardcore and intense engineering orgs in modern technology.

software people have no idea how incredibly cushy they (still) have it.

You should trust OpenAI.

AI will make the asset holders more productive and profitable.

It will raise the level of personal agency + stable family resources required to avoid crises and homelessness.

Society will increasingly organize around preventing class warfare.

50% of new jobs created in the last year are "pink-collar" aka healthcare, social services.

see: https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2026/health-care-and-social-ass...