Mihaly Hanics

@X__Anderson @cesifoti Out of curiousity, what do you think, how does Denmark compare?

Well, since Sweden is the most innovative EU country, other countries in the EU should look to Sweden in how to become more innovative. A few suggestions: Copy the ISK system in order to get the public to participate in the stock market to a much higher degree. Lower corporate taxes. Remove wealth tax, inheritance tax and gift tax, so that capital don’t flee and is instead reinvested in local markets. Reduce burdensome regulations etc.. But overall, EU will need unified capital markets, which should move towards the Swedish model, imo.

Europe is one of the best places in the world to live, but one of the hardest places to build and scale a company. After 5+ years in France, following 16+ in the US, I have a conflicted admiration for Europe. On the one hand, Europe has great potential. When I lived in the US, I was skeptical of the European quality-of-life argument. But after getting used to Sunday morning markets, walkable cities, and 4.5 meter ceilings, I get it. There are things that you simply cannot import or experience as a tourist. These things can make Europe very attractive for creative and intellectual work. I honestly believe some parts of Europe are the “best neighborhood” in the planet. But that’s not the full story. I am not only a husband and a dad. I am also an entrepreneur. I founded a company in the US 12+ years ago that has offices in the US and Chile and clients throughout the world. I live in France, yet I have not opened a subsidiary here. That is telling. We once hired someone in France through one of those remote employment platforms. The person received about 5,000 euros net per month, which is considered a very good salary here. But the total cost to the company was closer to 13,000 per month. That makes hiring feel less like a relationship between a company and a worker, and more like renting someone from the state. At the same time, you take an enormous amount of legal and administrative responsibility. The presumption is that all companies should operate like a 1960s car manufacturer. The response is simple. Don’t set up operations in Europe. But this is not a remote-work story. I know many small entrepreneurs in France who do not want to cross the threshold from being a one-person activity to becoming an employer. They sometimes refuse a new customer to stay small and avoid the obligations that come with hiring one person. That should worry us. Many social protections here are described as being provided by the state, but in practice, a lot of the cost and complexity of the implementation falls on the administrative shoulders of entrepreneurs. That is reasonable for a large energy company or bank. But for a small business, it is the difference between an entrepreneur waking up on a Monday to think about product or paperwork. Growth is not the enemy of the European social model. It is what enabled it. Much of the quality of life we enjoy here today dates back to growth incubated in the past. Growth that is increasingly hard to find. France once led frontier industries, like bicycles in the 1860s, cinema in the 1890s, and aviation and automobiles soon after. Since then, Europe built a more humane social model. But that model was built on the assumption that Europe and the US were the only two rich and industrialized places in the world. That is no longer true. Global competition in the 21st century is not what it used to be 50 years ago, and the padding built to protect us, may have grown into the handbrake that constrains the growth of the small and flexible firms we need to compete in new frontier sectors. We should be able to be critical about Europe in our own terms, without comparing ourselves to the US or China. Innovative parts of Europe, like Sweden or Switzerland, operate differently and provide clues. Sweden has embraced a dynamic of capitalization in its pension system for a long time in a continent where fewer people buy stocks. Switzerland, a place that shares an enormous amount of geography and culture with its neighbors, is built in part on strong internal competition among its cantons. But neither can light a candle to a French open-air market on a Sunday morning. A market where cash is king, and for a reason. Europe may be the best place in the world to live. But it is also one of the most challenging places to build and scale an innovative activity. The goal is not to weaken the European model. But to get to a place where we can lead again by example. The world will follow us, but only if we are ahead.

@cesifoti @maxx_healthspan I was in Toulouse a few years ago, can confirm it's a gem :) How did you like living in Budapest when you were more present at Corvinus?

@maxx_healthspan I love living in downtown Toulouse. Super walkable, pretty, safe, great food. Not too expensive.

Vor genau einem Jahr habe ich einen Raspberry Zero2 W in Paraffinöl versenkt. Das Öl sorgt dafür, dass der Prozessor auch unter Höchstlast kaum wärmer wird als Zimmertemperatur. Seitdem berechnet er mit einem BOINC-Client für die Mathematisch-Physikalische Fakultät in Prag 24/7 Asteroidendaten. So ermitteln wir die Umlaufbahnen aller Asteroiden und wissen, wo die ihre Bahnen ziehen und auch, ob wir uns Sorgen machen müssen, dass uns einer in Zukunft trifft. Ein genau baugleicher Zero2 W mit genau der gleichen Software führt genau die gleiche Aufgabe ungekühlt aus. Und jetzt stellt sich die Frage: Macht perfekte Kühlung einen Leistungsunterschied aus? Und die Antwort ist: Ja! Und zwar signifikant! – 5,97 % So das wäre auch geklärt. 😀

@marc_krenn @badlogicgames Quite insightful comment, thank you

lemme ramble for a bit cuz this grinds my gears more than I'd like to admit 😂 technologically and engineering-wise, this stuff is mega impressive. I respect the work a lot, and yes, I know it's a demo/dummy case. but like with most "humanoid demos", humanoids are not how you'd efficiently automate that task, or any (industrial) tasks for that matter. you could prolly 10x the throughput at 1/10th the price using 1950s tech. we don't, because A) humans are still cheaper (which says a lot) and B) the extra throughput usually isn't desired due to other bottlenecks. so as impressive as these humanoids are, I can't help but see them as highly polished, overengineered … let me put it this way: juicero on legs. "bbbut marc, humanoids are human-workplace compatible and flexible" I hear you say "one day conveyor belt, next day forklift operator replacement" if that's how you and your VC friends think factories work, I have some billion-dollar write-off news for you. if you want a glimpse of the future, go look at a SOTA amazon logistics warehouse or any chinese dark factory. you'll see surprisingly few tasks were humanoids wouldn't be the newly introduced bottleneck. look, I can see humanoids succeeding in specific niches: elderly/patient care (super important!), sex dolls, concierge bots for the top 10%, maybe some other weird edge cases. but as the default future of industrial automation? don't fool yourself, that's a completely made-up VC fairy tale to secretly fund the waifu bot.

wild. might look trivial. but some of the object manipulation is genuinely wild. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@alispahic_dev @unclebobmartin Using Claude through GitHub Copilot can often improve your "tokens experience" - GH counts requests, not tokens

@unclebobmartin They offer a much better limits for the same buck when compared to claude.

I just cancelled my Claude account. I've been using codex, and haven't used Claude in several weeks.

@DrinkEveryDrink @levelsio In the comparison I tried to point out the level of detail (to achieve "perfection") they focus on, providing highest quality being a core value. In software projects rather you are pushed to ship fast, but in any case nobody only keeps perfect code in the codebase

@HanicsResearch @levelsio Oh yeah we are directionally in agreement on the food thing I just think your being a little bit more of a dick about it than I would and I don't agree that it's more complex then SWE project / launches

Restaurant food is slop, and the reviews of the restaurant are slop 😂

@DrinkEveryDrink @levelsio I'm agreeing with you, it was more to a point to him thinking restaurants are slop - he must understand that a restaurant he will find in a touristic island will likely not care, but in a city you can always find quality. And I agree organic restaurants fit too and they are cheap

@HanicsResearch @levelsio Ok: Thats a little hyperbolic but: My point is - I am not rich. I eat out at a lot of restaurants. The restaurants I eat at are making their products from scratch (sauce's, stocks, purees, etc) with the exceptions of soy sauce & ketchup (which suck from scratch)

@DrinkEveryDrink @levelsio People of tech are unaware of haute cuisine values A great chef & sous-chef run a restaurant with more order (greater preparation) than any SW engineering project you've seen; and they customize meals for you Watch vids on Bocuse D'or Order, tidiness, health are core principles

@levelsio Just eat at better restaurants bro

@Eric_Solberg @levelsio damn, this comment of mine reads like AI with all the separated paragraphs

@Eric_Solberg @levelsio Write a review. Someone else before you likely did not feel like writing a review, and that is why you took the bait and visited. It's information that our society needs the most in order to improve.

This is the classic rule of thumb If you see more than ~8 menu items in a restaurant It's not freshly made but just heated up prefab microwave slop

Worse than that though is you get the smartest and best people in your country not working on producing better products and services that can compete worldwide But instead they get really good at writing subsidy/grant applications to win free money and become dependent on it

@loosenedspirit @Jesper_Bee @levelsio How much power does it consume?

@Jesper_Bee @levelsio My bathroom fan is on 24/7 for this reason

I still haven't solved the CO2 bedroom challenge You open the window and you wake up from a 6am garbage truck or barking dogs and sunlight You close it, you suffocate in 1200 ppl at 5am I guess you really need some mini tube in your wall with a vent that opens and closed based on internal CO2 but how do I build that?

@AdrMmp @VictorTaelin HTML parsing works when you can fully load all the content at once, but e.g. on Instagram and other apps they dynamically unload something if you have scrolled past it (i.e. you won't see it in the HTML, only the last 10 entities loaded).

@VictorTaelin I've resorted to chrome plugins and html parsing scripts just for this...

When the web became so copy-paste hostile? Why can't I ctrl+c an entire WhatsApp chat, thread on X, channel on Discord? Even ChatGPT doesn't allow you to ctrl+c a chat. I don't get it, why people don't demand this? Specially now that we can ctrl+c stuff to AI and ask questions

@th1nkp0l @VictorTaelin But once something has been loaded, why do they unload it? Instagram does this. When you scroll, after scrolling past an entity, it unloads it - i.e. if I try to select 50 entities while scrolling, it will only pick the last ~10. I'm wondering if OpenClaw / AI browsers can help

Last week I had to copy paste six months of Teams messages like 50 lines at a time because they lazy load the chat and you can’t Ctrl+C very much at once. It was a pain. At least I was able to get some surprisingly incredible technical process documentation out of it. I expected all of the context poison (random chatter, other work topics discussed) to throw the LLM off, but it didn’t matter.

@rtheoryxyz @VictorTaelin This is usually challenging to do for companies, so they'll just offer you one way to copy and limit other ways of copying

@rtheoryxyz @VictorTaelin Also because they want to gather all the data they can from your copying. E.g. when you click "share" on a YouTube video instead of just copying the URL, it generates you an encoded link that stores a bunch of information e.g. your username so they know who sent it, etc.

@kegashin @VictorTaelin Why do they want you to screenshot?

@VictorTaelin too much freedom to users I guess apps want you to search, scroll, screenshot, and stay as long as possible