Think for yourself. @dartmouth & @ycombinator (W25) alum.
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Danylo Borodchuk retweeted
For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-W…
I'm gonna be completely honest:
Talking to Gemini 4 Argon feels like a never-ending stream of essays from your favorite philosopher.
I might have gemini-psychosis, but it's just so good.
Danylo Borodchuk retweeted
This was inevitable
As a lifelong Apple fanboy, I was particularly vocal and critical of Apple being practically non-existent in the AI wars the past few years
But if their bet on Apple silicon pays off via private inference it will be the most Apple way to dominate AI ever
Apple is working on a new app called Harbor
Harbor turns your Mac into a private AI inference server. Run open-weight models locally on Apple silicon—your data never leaves your hardware, and nothing reaches the cloud. Connect multiple Mac computers over Thunderbolt 5 to pool unified memory, enabling large models and higher concurrency that a single computer can handle alone.
Set up in minutes, not hours Harbor automatically detects your devices over Thunderbolt 5 to form a cluster. Plug in, start, and you’re running—no manual configuration, no command line, no infrastructure expertise required.
Download and run models directly Browse, download, and load open-weight models from within the app. Harbor handles model management so you can focus on the work, not the setup.
Cluster for scale Connect two or more Thunderbolt 5-capable Mac computers and Harbor pools their unified memory into a single inference resource. Run models that exceed any single computer’s capacity, or serve more concurrent requests across your cluster.
Harbor is currently in a private preview under the Claris brand.
Understanding technology and human psychology is all you need to win.
Building? Technology.
Science? Technology.
Selling? Psychology.
Economics? Also psychology.
Capitalism? Also, believe it or not, psychology.
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Danylo Borodchuk retweeted
Today, I stood with Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky to announce his $100 million gift to San Francisco’s parks. This is the largest single-donor gift to the city in San Francisco’s history, and will support the development of new parks, upgrades to existing spaces, expanded hours at recreation facilities, and much more.
An initial $39 million will help unlock five projects in neighborhoods across our city. SoMa, the Mission, Bayview-Hunters Point, Potrero Hill, and downtown will all see transformational projects finish sooner, bringing more welcoming public spaces to residents across San Francisco.
As Mayor, one of my top priorities is making San Francisco a city where families can put down roots and build their futures. Earlier this year, we launched our Family Opportunity Agenda—a citywide effort to bring down the cost of living and expand economic mobility for San Francisco families.
We're building more housing, protecting tenants, expanding access to affordable childcare, and keeping public transportation safe, reliable, and affordable. We're also investing in the public spaces families rely on every day.
Our parks are an essential part of what makes San Francisco such a special place to raise a family. Our recreation programs provide exceptional and affordable opportunities for San Francisco families. With this investment, we're bringing those opportunities to more neighborhoods across our city, expanding access to recreation, and making our parks even better for the families who use them.
San Francisco has created enormous opportunity for the people who have built their businesses here. And with that success comes a responsibility to give back to the city that helped make it possible. So, my ask to every leader who sees what Brian has done today is simple: help us create more opportunities for the people who call San Francisco home. Now is the time. Our city is coming back. Don’t just watch it from the sidelines. Be a part of it.
Danylo Borodchuk retweeted
Keep an eye on these two new focus areas on Anthropic. The jump is huge.
Danylo Borodchuk retweeted
since when is it uncool to give something your all? this place is filled with such losers
Danylo Borodchuk retweeted
Dwarkesh: Why would we want to sell China the materials for a serious cyberweapon? It's like selling them nukes with a casing that says 'made by Boeing' and claiming that's good for the US
Jensen: Comparing AI to nukes is lunacy. Enriched uranium is a lousy analogy. It's an illogical analogy. What we have to recognize is that AI is a five-layered cake.
Danylo Borodchuk retweeted
A shame that every hero of this era
will slowly go down without having won the game
Breaking news from @ianmking: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits to extramarital affair and the company board is now investigating him being targeted by a Chinese espionage plot. He remains CEO for now. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Danylo Borodchuk retweeted
Ok hear me out: This is the system functioning as intended.
Democrats in power expand government broadly and somewhat indiscriminately, without careful regard for which policies make sense.
Republicans in power do the opposite, taking a hatchet to things and trying to downsize the scope and scale of government by any means.
On short timescales, this looks like utter chaos, but the American experiment has been enormously successful. How can this be?
Well the thing about government is that successful initiatives, the ones that prove themselves, have quite a bit of sticking power. Over time, the healthy parts of government survive. This is why America has coexisting social safety nets and private enterprise. Neither party supports this combination on their own, but it *really* works.
Eventually, political fluctuations may be so violent that cracks in the system start to appear, but the party whiplash of American politics is *the* feature, not a bug. The main failure mode is likely one party remaining in power for too long, as without each other, our parties govern unsustainably. Checks and balances do not always happen in real time, but when you zoom out beyond one electoral cycle, we have a beautiful thing going.
Once you break into circles of extremely effective people you realize that all the “mid tier successors” love to social climb and play status games. Whereas, the truly elite executioners don’t do this at all.
Social climbers play these games so much, and it’s so ingrained into their way of life, that they project these beliefs onto truly exceptional people by interpreting their singular focus on work as “counter signaling”.
I can promise you, these people are not “counter signaling.” In fact, they don’t even think about this thing at all. Instead they are just so focused on providing effective output of their work, that all of these social signaling games become noise and fall into the background.
The most brutal pill for social signaling normies is that no amount of “signaling” can replace meaningful work.
The Ultimate Status Flex: Countersignaling
Very successful people can often engage in counter-signaling, or doing things that look low status but don’t hurt their status the way they would for most others.
Here’s an example from the advertising executive Rory Sutherland. If you work at Pizza Hut and ride a bike to work, it’s probably because you can’t afford a car. It’s a necessity.
But if you’re a top executive and ride a bike to work, it’s a high-status activity because it’s a choice.
In the simplified model, low status is riding a bike to work. Medium status is driving an expensive car to work. High status is riding a bike to work.
You can see this with restaurant menus too.
Cheap fast food restaurant menu: “Hamburger”
Mid-tier chain restaurant: “Wood-fired sizzled USDA grade beef on our house made sesame bun”
Upscale chic restaurant: “Hamburger”
Counter-signaling, whether it’s the CEO on a bicycle or the upscale restaurant with a minimalist menu, is an expression of confidence. Of feeling secure in one’s position.
A study found that PhD students at lower-ranked universities used more complex language in their dissertation titles. Students at higher-ranked universities used simpler language. It’s as if they’re saying they have little need to impress you with a sophisticated title. They already study at an elite program and have nothing to prove.
At some universities, they reserve parking spots for Nobel Prize winners. You’re more likely to see a basic sedan or a 15-year-old beater parked there than a luxury car. “I won a Nobel prize, I don’t need to impress anyone with how expensive my car is. I’m too busy advancing the limits of our knowledge.”
