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Comment · 9 hours ago
Looks like Microsoft forgot to talk to hardware manufacturers about this feature...
Comment · 9 hours ago

    I did not leave X the platform, but I did leave X the interface

Left Facebook and twitter 6-7 years ago. If you just can't leave something without constantly trying to reach back to it in some shape, then you are no different from the junkie that thinks he can quit anytime if he really wanted to.

Rant aside, beside social media minimalism I am also a big fan of compute minimalism. I don't use VScode with 100+ plugins or a zsh maxed up with so much bells and whistles that the terminal looks like Christmas and respond with the speed of microsoft powershell.

But I guess most people in SF are in the opposite camp.

Comment · 10 hours ago
The API access is paid for B2B customers, which includes some of the big labs.

They haven't received much of investment.

Comment · 10 hours ago
This has not been my experience.

I often use the smaller flash models. These may need a nudge once in a while, but not significantly more than what I need to do with the much more expensive Anthropic models.

The end product is often the same. Sometimes a model surprises me with a specially clever solution but this is random and can happen with any model, open or closed.

Comment · 10 hours ago
Someone needs to show increased traffic to not get fired in the next 10% round.
Comment · 23 hours ago
First of all, I am a huge fan. I bought the book, but haven't read it yet.

I am not sure I belive the story about thr manuscript however. It surfaced just as the Internet was becoming a thing. Coincidence?

Comment · 1 day ago
No, this is not true. Author is trying to make A and O look better than they really are.

Google and Facebook are doing this, but these two were also considered to be the worst in class among the US labs until very recently.

A and O can't do this. And as we recently saw with fable, Anthropic can seriously benchmax their releases.

Comment · 1 day ago
Lets face it, contractors in many other countries have done the same.

NSA probably detected this leak while going through openai data to datamine other countries :)

Comment · 1 day ago

    Andy Yen, the CEO of Proton, had a message for an employee in the company’s security Slack channel who urged the company to at least take a few days to pentest newly written code before pushing it live. “That’s bullshit and loser thinking...”
Ah, that explains the recent enshitification. Add some AI slop to this mess and you will soon be the centerpiece of haveibeenpwned
Comment · 2 days ago
I dont know if this is an extreme opinion.

Elon helped Trump get elected, who has been hostile towards Canada and its economy.

Comment · 2 days ago
Tesla dropped their prices significantly to turn the trend from previous year.
Comment · 2 days ago
Is this AI security slop or a real issue? Can the phone actually receive these kind of messages from the network?

Also, I don't understand Googles position here. On android the phone ia not part of the OS and can be updated via an app or framework update. Why not just fix this as a functional bug?

Comment · 2 days ago
FYI, first thing those programs check is your nationality.

Guess how many countries are on the not-naughty list?

Comment · 3 days ago
Comment · 3 days ago
Their previous updates have sometimes been really bad for Chinese models. Either by exclusion, delays or simply weighting things differently so OpenAI looks better.

This feels like the opposite of benchmaxing. Maybe "minbenching" can become a word now?

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