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by zarzavat 3mo ago
> If every road were free of traffic, every destination had unlimited parking at the door, everyone already owned a car, and driving carried no direct or indirect costs, almost everyone would drive everywhere. What kind of nonsense is th
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
Nobody could have predicted this.
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
If open source code can have political beliefs then the only reasonable solution is to live as a hermit. I can guarantee that there is software on your computer written by communists, nazis, mormons, every single political ideology is repre
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
It's actually simpler: your code is not the valuable part, it's the telemetry/metadata/conversation surrounding your session that's valuable. Every time you press escape, every time tell Claude/Codex that it&#x
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
This is a predictable consequence of age verification laws and social media bans. Formerly VPNs were a nice to have but now they are a necessity in many countries to navigate the modern internet. The cheapest way to get a VPN (and if you&#x
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
Unfortunately those portable units are scams aimed at people who don't understand how air conditioning works or what an air conditioner is supposed to look like.
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
It's nothing new. In 2003 there was a huge heatwave and thousands of people died: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heatwave The reason is simple to understand. For the majority of the time the AC would
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
I wish that society can learn about and apply the concept of a wet bulb temperature. A dry bulb temperature of 30C contains little information regarding safety. Humans are wet and we cool ourselves with evaporation.
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
Anthropic really needs to get Opus 5 out ASAP. The gap between Opus 4.8 and Fable is large enough to drive a GPT 5.6 sized bus through. A better Opus would take some of the heat off.
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
This is also what I noticed, it's hella slow and the quality doesn't match the thinking time. Either it's just launch day load or else they went full GLM-5.2 thinkmaxxing.
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
Either way, there's something fundamentally inefficient about the whole business of training LLMs. The human brain manages to self-organize with only a fraction of the information that LLMs get trained on. To train an LLM you need a lo
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
The way I'd describe it, Fable is the first model that's good enough. If all I had was Fable for the next couple of years then I'd be totally fine with that. I have never felt that about any version of Opus.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
There's a simpler explanation. Social media rewards surprise and hype, not truth. Don't expect objectivity from someone who gets paid by the view.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
It's fine to support such configurations by accident, but you shouldn't try to support them intentionally. You will end up dropping support eventually regardless but the skeletons will live on in your codebase as tech debt. The ne
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
What's with the lack of capitalization?
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
The article was for a public company. There are not many viagra companies that go public, except for Pfizer. Deletion should be reserved for cases where the entire edit history is worthless or must be deleted for legal reasons etc. Articles
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Every metric becomes a target (Goodhart's law). Also, the plural of anecdote is not data. The subjective anecdotes from HN users matter because they are not data and are much harder to game. Not impossible to game, always be aware of
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Apple claims their price increases are temporary too. I'll believe it when I see it. The capacity limitations are not going away any time soon.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
They can just strip out any problematic content and protect it. At least leave the lede and the infobox and whatever else can be salvaged. Deleting the article means you can't even see the edit history to see why it was deleted. Whatev
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
API prices are the new normal. I doubt that prices will drop to the level of the subsidized subscriptions any time soon. Usage is growing exponentially but capacity cannot. There is no reason for them to waste their capacity on subscription
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Fable changes the game yet again, because it's API-only. You're not likely to want to run Fable in a loop any more than you want to take a bunch of dollar bills and light them on fire. Every invocation of Fable has to be intention
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
I was researching a public company the other day and I open their Wikipedia page: deleted. I get it, probably it had been massaged by their PR department. But deleting the article punishes the readers by removing the very space for critical
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Even if you control for age and wealth, the people who used iPhones in 2008, i.e. tech hipsters, are obviously different in tangible ways from the people who didn't use iPhones in 2008. It's not possible to prove causality from th
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
I think you have Stockholm syndrome. It's not worth having any loyalty to such an organization. Since they don't want you to work, just spend your working hours looking for a new job.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Don't worry, now that Fable is freely available, a Chinese distill will be out a few months from now. To riff on Musk, the US AI industry is the bootloader for the Chinese AI industry.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
You have to consider the context which is that Sweden does have an awful lot of fake refugees mixed in with the real refugees. "Parasite" is harsh but unfortunately all too accurate for some of the migrants who are essentially g
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
There are other ways to lower blood pressure than sun exposure. Article is insane and confuses necessary and sufficient conditions.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
They're running a business not a charity. Their job is to manufacture what the market as a whole demands. If they can make more money making HBM than DDR4 then they have to make HBM. Why would a business go out of its way to make less
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
This article is about current level AI, not future AGI. The common definition of AGI is intelligence that matches a human's, so there would be no need for a human to supervise every action of the AGI any more than a CEO supervises ever
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
It seems unlikely that running a website without age verification will be illegal across the entire planet.

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