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by mrandish 9mo ago
> I have not see any reporting or evidence at all that Anthropic or OpenAI is able to make money on inference yet. Anthropic planning an IPO this year is a broad meta-indicator that internally they believe they'll be able to reach b
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Interesting that it seems better. Maybe something about adding a highly specific yet unusual qualifier focusing attention?
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by mrandish 9mo ago
After the negative reactions to GPT 5, we may see model versioning that asymptotically approaches the next whole number without ever reaching it. "New for 2030: Claude 4.9.2!"
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by mrandish 9mo ago
In other words, is it a pelican or a pelican't?
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> it has a noticeable impact on device functionality. The lack of optional granularity on security settings is super frustrating because it leads to many users just opting out of any heightened security.
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by mrandish 9mo ago
I would have thought reporters with confidential sources at that level would already exercise basic security hygiene. Hopefully, this incident is a wake up call for the rest.
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> You can also unironically spot most types of AI writing this way. I have no idea if specialized tools can reliably detect AI writing but, as someone whose writing on forums like HN has been accused a couple of times of being AI, I can
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> Ground-based solar panels have been getting more cost effective for decades and show no sign of slowing down. I'm no expert on solar but I thought there was some upper limit on how much power ground-based solar panels can generate
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> just (expensive) magic trick Related: as an actual magician, although no longer performing professionally, I was telling another magician friend the other day that IMHO, LLMs are the single greatest magic trick ever invented judging
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Yeah, that hits different.
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Deepak... is that you? Dammit! In trying to link to it, I just discovered the wonderful site wisdomofchopra.com is no more. Probably because Chopra recently expanded his grift from books and seminars to an online AI, so the old 2012 random
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> I’ve been experimenting with PAIO (Personal AI Operator) as a middle ground. Haven't heard of that one. Bookmarked. Thanks for the tip.
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> ... but the impact is high. Wow. I kind of regret the effort supplying supporting facts and reasoning demonstrating the impact is almost invariably zero or negligible. > Most things that are worth doing could ruin your life. You cou
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Sure. Anything's possible. My point was that any company response in this particular case is vanishingly unlikely. > They could have been bought by a bigger company. Any acquisition (or bankruptcy) in the 2000s is highly likely to
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by mrandish 9mo ago
This is a good step. It's unfortunate it came after significant user blow back from rapidly deploying AI features without surfacing these controls. I hope the Firefox team learns from this because a vibrant, healthy Firefox is vital as
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Well said. When I read stuff like this implying 'consciousness studies' can be a hard science, the undefined and ill-defined terms just keep piling up until I nope out. I'm lucky if I make it past the abstract to maybe the th
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Another poster found grabs of the company's website on archive.org. The last date it existed to be grabbed was in 2001. I think the OP is fine on this one. Other than that, there's virtually no mention of the company or software a
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by mrandish 9mo ago
The weird thing is I generally agree with Gary on most of his points. He makes interesting observations that often turn out to be correct. But the Gary Marcus blog post pattern cannot be denied.
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by mrandish 9mo ago
The Gary Marcus blog post drinking game. Take a drink whenever the post: * Discusses how a new AI thing isn't really new since it's pretty much the same as an older AI thing. * Links to where and when Gary Marcus predicted this ne
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by mrandish 9mo ago
It's a good question and I'm not actually sure as I'm not a hardware guy, just a user who's looked into these productz. So far, the popular Android TV set-top boxes (or sticks) I've seen use SoCs that seem dedicated
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Yesterday I tried to explain to my spouse what Moltbook was and why it's interesting - and largely failed. After reading this article, I forwarded it to her. Mission accomplished. Some nice turns of phrase too... > The hyper-realit
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by mrandish 9mo ago
The original poster stated > "The human brain is mutable, the human "soul" is a concept thats not proven yet and likely isn't real." The soul is "a concept that's not proven yet." It's unprove
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by mrandish 9mo ago
I'd love to buy a newer, better streaming box than the several I already have but after spending quite a bit of time investigating, the state of Android TV-based streaming boxes & sticks is awful. That's one reason NVidia&#x27
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> I would imagine it's incredibly expensive to maintain. Everything that flies is expensive to maintain but the costs to maintain most older aircraft tends to be much lower than new ones, sometimes even if certain unavailable parts
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Yeah, I full-stopped on that sentence because it was just so bizarre. I can understand making a counter-to-reality claim and then supporting the claim with context and interpretation to build toward a deeper point. But he just asserts somet
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Agreed. I was going to add (but didn't) that the first evidence of an 'AI unlock' on SaaS wouldn't be internal builds but many new, much cheaper competitors appearing for leading SaaS tools. Your point about the best arg
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Some interesting long-term, directional ideas about the future of software dev here but the implied near-termness of SaaS being disintermediated ignores how management in large orgs evaluates build vs buy Saas decisions. 'Build' g
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Neat! Over 300,000, putting me in the top 1,000.
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> automatically update their work location to reflect the building they're working from. So, either this minimal description is A: an attempt to mask the feature's true purpose of dystopian pocket spying under an innocent-sound
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> Although source compatible with the earlier Motorola 6800, the 6809 offered significant improvements over it and 8-bit contemporaries like the MOS Technology 6502 For those who don't know the history, the 6502 was initially the 65

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