Being trans, I feel this so much.

On a side note, it was interesting after Trump was elected where some of my co-workers wanted to use old pronouns after some laws changed _in meetings_ and I realized the only thing stopping them was the awkwardness it would have been for _them_ in that situation

In the Before Times, I thought that asking Americans to mind pronouns would never work -- not because they were mean, but because it would require the average American to learn what a "pronoun" was.

Of course, it turned out that the average American had no problem learning what a pronoun was if it gave them the opportunity to be mean. Sigh.

There was a certain dark humor from all the people proudly proclaiming to be "against pronouns".

They're using the analogy of mining for gold. the cost of a shovel/pitchfork goes up when the price of gold goes down - which is a double whammy

you didn't answer the question. A shovel in this case is the equipment + energy needed to mine (GPU's etc.)

Which is pretty much obvious to anyone who has heard of bitcoin in the year of our lord 2026

Especially since the "sell shovels during a gold rush" has been used to apply to nVidia

But the person upstream hasn’t. It’s not obvious to them. Which is why a good answer has to include the detail.

It's by design.

I think it’s different.

use openrouter, and call it a day. auto switching between providers, connectivity to all clouds and even works with free models

Yeah, that's what I've been doing. But in terms of privacy policies, I have to review(and trust) 2 providers instead of 1. OpenRouter and whatever provider is used for any particular model. I agree with you that it is more convenient though.

I don't see it as adding fuel to the fire. I see it as helping the market price companies correctly

Its a balancing act.

So we get so worked up over this stuff, and for good reason. But personally I'm taking another stance...

let them..

It's not my choice to make someone understand what's best for an individual or as a group. Let them make these decisions, and learn for themselves. Will this cause issues where I am at risk of getting measles? Or that kids could get sick over non pasteurized milk? yes, but we're back in a place where people have to feel the pain.

That's not to judge, or belittle or put anyone down. There's people who have views and values that conflict and that's OK.. Even if it's not the best for us a whole.

People can feel the pain without drawing the right conclusions to rectify the situation. For centuries people thought bad things happened because the gods were displeased. Some still do.

And many of those that still do would drag us kicking and screaming back to the days where talking out against the word of god was a capital crime.

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

Douglas Adams

I agree with this, but think of in more of an evolutionary lens.

I've come to the place where every time we think we have solved a problem, we may not have and have created a new tree of problems.

I am one of those knuckle heads that decided to give carnivore diet a try, and my wife and I have had amazing results on a number of metrics. We were also not even eating junk food or that much processed food.

The sheer complexity of how we live demands humility, and in many ways the skeptics have valids point in many ways.

I look to the Amish, for example, as a way that probably not that bad to live considering how much of the modern world has problems.

At core, some people choose to be experiments, and some decide to the control. This is the reality I believe, and this is how the whole remains robust over the long term.

I can understand your viewpoint, but I don't think I could bring myself to agree with you.

Healthcare is a necessary service. The healthy foods website that RFK Jr set up was recently in the news for describing the "best foods to put up your ass". That's the technology that's being advocated for here. There's no quality bar. There's no regulation on accuracy. It's almost certainly the case that if you meet with an AI avatar, you couldn't sue its operator for medical malpractice.

The issue, fundamentally, isn't that you're giving people a choice. It's that this will be the only choice. If healthcare companies don't need to open offices in rural locations, they won't. Even if you're fine with this technology, it'll quickly become the case that it's the only option many people have regardless of whether they want it or not.

I read a thread of stories today about people's parents using technology. One person's mom tried searching for energy drink ingredients and accidentally registered her house as a business on Google Maps. These are the people who are suddenly going to have to interface with an AI avatar about their health. We're replacing medical professionals with a glorified phone tree with RAG search. It's literally going to kill people who don't have a choice.

Is the "them" you are talking about the people who want to implement this, or the people they want to implement it for?

So the system is corrupted by money and influence and your idea is to "let the people feel the pain."

The Hacker News casual misanthropy bubbles up to the top yet again.

Instead of trying to use your hacker instincts to find a solution you're just got to rest on your heels and let people suffer? What a waste of talent this represents.

"The common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

I'm right there with you, and to be honest Lua just works. I helped with Neovim when it started ~10 years ago, and didn't understand the big deal about implementing lua.. But now that it's here, I can't believe it wasn't forked and implemented sooner

Totally worth it. I tied it to openrouter.ai so that I could use 'all the AI's' (TM)

Totally worth it

While I get your view, I think examples would help to move the conversation along in a more constructive manner

I'm curious what your suggest mmap pragma would be.

PRAGMA mmap_size=268435456;

for example? I'm surprised by the downvotes. Using mmap significantly reduced my average read query time; durations about 70% the length!