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14u2c··on Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
If Americans see an Asian person working at a US business, they will assume that person is an American. They may even ask what state you are from. It's honestly one of the nice things about the place, you can belong even if you are not from there.
14u2c··on Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck
I mean iterating to build the technology required to visit the moon, starting way back with fire and a stick. No different than an LLM iterating to build software. As you said human fluid intelligence has likely not changed significantly.
14u2c··on Tiny Black Holes May Be Exploding Stars Across the Milky Way
5AU seems incredibly close. That's inside the orbit of jupiter. How would it not destabilize the entire system?
14u2c··on Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck
>So if they were so smart, why didn't they go to the moon?

Because the requisite amount of iterations for their/our level of intelligence had not yet occurred. After a 100 billion lifetimes or so we got there.

Presumably entities with greater intelligence would require fewer iterations.

14u2c··on More German than many Germans
Is it typical for a company to run the busses? Somewhat interesting as that's one thing in the US that is rarely privatized. The driver, etc. will be a direct employees of the municipality.
14u2c··on Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
The feature is half baked. Just today I had to spend ~1hr untangling a mess it created. And there was no way to reorder the Stack without discarding PRs that already had many comments. I'm not an intentional an early adopter, someone on the team clicked the tooltip.
14u2c··on Microsoft Confirms Windows GDID Device Identifier That Cannot Be Disabled
> The ID is generated when Windows is set up with a Microsoft Account

So not only was this “hacker” using Windows and Edge, they singed in to windows with a Microsoft account. And then used that same computer for their social media. Nice.

14u2c··on Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM
Depending on the question that possibility can be quite rare these days. If you ask “How does x work in this codebase?”, it will read a bunch of files and give you a very likely to be accurate answer. If your using a platform without that context and ask it something more abstract, well, your mileage will vary.
14u2c··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
Not in most of Western and Central Europe. Everyone speaks great English.

It actually can be a problem because most people switch to English as soon as they realize your are not a native speaker, which can make learning harder.

14u2c··on I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
>Agreed, but I think using the same device to access your password manager and for dev is asking for trouble in the first place.

That seems somewhat unrealistic? There are many passwords you need to use as part of dev work.

14u2c··on MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C
You've cherry picked a very specific example that is designed to run in 3d engines. For anything rendering at standard OS api level level (the vast majority libs), accessibility is fine as evaluation criteria.
14u2c··on US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks
And that's fine of course, but it's worth noting that you're making a decision driven by emotion rather than data.
14u2c··on GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands
Nvidia will certainly be pleased.
14u2c··on DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]
> DeepSeek can surpass proprietary models by “profiting” from open research and open source, why couldn’t the proprietary models do the same?

DeepSeek did something legitimately innovative with their addition of Group Relative Policy Optimization. Other firms are certainly free to innovate as well.

14u2c··on UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan
Doesn't seems so surprising to me. Most school shootings are perpetrated by those involved in the school community in some way. Similar domestic violence, humans are a lot more likely to commit these types of crimes against those they know personally.
14u2c··on Satellites Spotting Ships
In Southeast Asia? The US military probably didn't even hear about it until after it was missing for a bit.
14u2c··on First look at the upcoming Starlink Mini
Buy a $50 inverter. They are tiny and it's not like this thing is using enough power for the efficiency hit to make a difference.
14u2c··on Boeing Starliner Stuck on Space Station as More Leaks Discovered
Except that this was a fixed price contract. If they don't get it right the pork train does come to an end.
14u2c··on SEQUOIA: Exact Llama2-70B on an RTX4090 with half-second per-token latency
Most of the big "investments" in OpenAI are in the form of compute credits. I fail to see the downside of that.
14u2c··on US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana
Nope, it's just a regular ATM operated by a 3rd party company. You get cash from it then give them the cash. The store will also often reimburse for the ATM fee.
14u2c··on Google lays off its Python team
Because they still pay $500k cash.
14u2c··on Huawei's latest flagship smartphone contains no world-shaking silicon surprises
> (1) there are only about 3 big browser vendors in the world, and even Firefox and Safari are lagging in features and bug fixes

Are you forgetting WeChat? Because that's all they likely care about.

14u2c··on Namecheap Disrupting Itself with Spaceship
Why not use something like Cloudflare for DNS? You'll never have to deal with the registrar again after setting name servers.
14u2c··on U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing
> How does the FAA get experience manufacturing planes without manufacturing planes?

By hiring people who have worked in plane manufacturing.

14u2c··on Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]
This is absolutely correct. It goes beyond just the US too. In my estimation non-proliferation a core objective of the UN security council.
14u2c··on Vice website is shutting down
Absolutely. It's all over the videos themselves too.
14u2c··on Over 50% of the population of Germany does not own their home
Many US cities have similar laws...
14u2c··on Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)
I mean test driven development is a the practice used by many organizations and individuals.
14u2c··on As much as you ever wanted to know about 155M artillery shell production
They been sending arn for 50 years now.
14u2c··on Apple Vision Pro review
Absolutely. This is how RDP works as well. It's one the few areas where I think the Windows ecosystem has a better approach.
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