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ApolloFortyNine··on OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
If you are a legally operating company in the US just saying it's banned is enough, the threat of enforcement is enough pressure.

You and I obviously can just use a VPN, but 99% of usage is likely as part of a company.

ApolloFortyNine··on Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
The problem is, as anyone trying to address security concerns in claude can attest to, the guardrails trigger even when trying to address real bugs. Good cyber defense requires an understanding of the offense.

How you avoid the "fix my code" attack, the code being someone else's code, I do not know. But nerfing the model doesn't seem like the best path forward either.

ApolloFortyNine··on Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome
If the one other competitor didn't allow it, then would we be allowed to complain in your mind?

This argument is terrible, we're lucky the one other competitor, for now, allows installing what you want or people like you would argue everything is fine.

ApolloFortyNine··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
What is up with this attitude in this thread? AI has taken off programming basically this year, the end of last at best. The first truly capable LLM, ChatGPT, isn't even 4 years old yet.

Just a crazy amount of doom and gloom all around this thread.

ApolloFortyNine··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
I have no idea if anthropic can actually make money at their subsidized subscription rates (you can easily hit your monthly cost in one 5 hour session if you price out the tokens through the api), but if subscriptions didn't exist, I do think everyone would be on deepseek 4.1 and just not look back.
ApolloFortyNine··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
Imo deepseek 4.1 (and a lot of the cheaper models, Luna is similar) show the issues in benchmarks. At this point.

In actual day to day development the differences are a lot harder to spot. Maybe deepseek is worse, but I asked it to run until it was able to launch itself and verify it worked as expected, and it did. Maybe it wasted some turns, idk, but when it said it was done, it was done.

I have no doubt there's things it's worse at, but what percentage of development is truly novel?

ApolloFortyNine··on “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
I'm in the same boat, I guess I had this naive idea that unsolved math problems would mean something if they were solved. But it seems like a lot of them at least were more thought experiments than anything else.
ApolloFortyNine··on “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
Interesting claim. That's true for old models that simply have no way to explain, LLMs however can. [1]

[1] https://dev.to/natcher/researchers-develop-method-to-train-l...

ApolloFortyNine··on JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
IMO what's being called an 'Agent Development Environment' solves this issue for you. I like Orca but there's a few dozen of them.

Basically they give you a way to view the code the llm has generated/changed easily, annotate that code for the llm, and manage multiple agents and at once.

ApolloFortyNine··on Claude Says
There's definitely times where the question is 'hard' enough (usually having to do with something so business specific the LLM won't have a great answer) where a true human answer is needed, but I do regularly still get asked questions of 'why is x failing' with a datadog link. And if you shove the exact logs they've already found that contain a stack trace, the LLM instantly tells you exactly what was wrong.
ApolloFortyNine··on Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
Do you think I made up the quote? Should I quote it again?
ApolloFortyNine··on Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
From the article

>More than 5,500 people in Vermont have similar home battery systems.

This is _literally_ a rounding error. It's less than 1% of Vermont.

So it's your comment that's truly baffling, though I'm sure others would appreciate if you posted your own source. There's certainly no power plant getting shut down because 5,500 customers have batteries, but again I'd love to be proven wrong.

ApolloFortyNine··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
The speed of deepseek is insane to experience after using claude code with opus for so long. Not only is the tps roughly 3x faster, but the round trip times are magnitudes faster.
ApolloFortyNine··on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?
That source has nothing to do with 'on teacher' violence, just general violence. A school fight would count as an incident for instance.
ApolloFortyNine··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
I know everyone says this is political but it actually seems like a textbook designation. Anthropic wanted to have rules on how the military used AI, the military said no and therefore doesn't want anthropic used anywhere in their supply line.

This is like a pen manufacturer not wanting their pens used to sign drone strike orders, now the military needs to have a special box of pens that don't have stipulations attached. With AI usage it would be the same thing except applied to entire product chains. It seems like it would just add more complexity to operations.

You can agree with the rules anthropic wanted, but having rules set by a private company at all that apply to the military does seem fair for the military to object to.

>The Department reasonably feared that Anthropic might manipulate Claude’s design to prevent it from performing national-security functions that the Department deems contractually authorized and necessary

Though they'd probably put the DoD on the cybersecurity whitelist today, the very idea of the claude whitelists for certain functionality already exists and is being used by them today.

ApolloFortyNine··on Claude Opus 5.5
>Because Opus 5.5 is comparable to Claude Mythos 5.1 in biology and cybersecurity, we’re deploying it with safeguards similar to those on Claude Fable 5.1. Vetted organizations can apply today to our Life Sciences Verification Program to use Opus 5.5 for biology research. In the coming weeks we will also be expanding access to our Cyber Verification Program, and verified cybersecurity practitioners will be able to use Opus 5.5 for their work.

Ah, they're spreading their limits to all their models it seems. Definitely not a good thing long term in my opinion.

ApolloFortyNine··on M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review
The model being tested is 18k as configured.

I didn't expect this to make the 5090 to look like a good deal.

ApolloFortyNine··on Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
>* Ads underneath videos for products from the channel owner. > >* Sponsorships within videos from the channel owner.

I actually agree this is a bit annoying, but also the alternative is Google banning Youtubers from finding their own advertising partners, which I'm sure people would hate.

ApolloFortyNine··on Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
>https://freedns.afraid.org/

This dude has been doing it for 25 years, and actually this is a dns provider for domain names which I'm decently sure makes it more complicated than public dns.

They're allowed to say they don't want to pay for it anymore, I just think their logic is bad. Or maybe their lawyer said they're running risks just ignoring takedown and they didn't want to deal with it anymore.

ApolloFortyNine··on Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap
Last time I read about these handicapped games in Go I saw that the model isn't trained to play from behind, so while in a normal game of Go, those 50 move Joseki's or any large move combo that's an 'even trade' will inevitably let the AI claw a lead at some point, the AI is already behind.

It's similar in chess but there's a model specifically trained to play a knight down, and it's pretty cool to see the insane tactics it'll try. Though a knight down is considerably more than a 2 stone handicap in Go.

ApolloFortyNine··on AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
Imo if you compare what Google does to the one other mobile OS manufacturer with any users, claiming Google should be fined is something like the cop pulling you over for going 8 over the speed limit while Apple is doing triple digits and just ran two people over.

'Why not both' is an argument, but clear as day what Apple does is worse. There's no alternative.

ApolloFortyNine··on AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
>Corporation like Google should have been fined to the edge of bankruptcy for such predatory behaviour.

Google has an alternative at least (can download other app stores, apks, and have been able to for 15 years), I have no idea how Apple has been allowed to get away with what they do.

ApolloFortyNine··on Don't use musl if you care about performance
Glibc is lgpl, you _definitely_ don't need to comply with GPL to link to it.
ApolloFortyNine··on Australia Bans Generative A.I. From Official Music Charts
Well they banned AI vocals at all too, so you can spend 6 months composing a track, add AI vocals, and your entire song is banned. Really the entire genre of edm could often switch out whatever vocals they have...

I have zero idea how much this matters since I don't really think anyone views the charts to find their next song to listen to. If a song with AI vocals is good it (might) pop off, I don't think getting on the charts at that point would matter.

ApolloFortyNine··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
It's not popular to mention but the US is the most immigrated to country on the planet, almost 4x the next country.

But really, immigrating to any country is quite complex. It's far from "just fill out a form" for pretty much every western country.

ApolloFortyNine··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
As an interviewee I've read "we're not sponsoring visas at this time" a million times.
ApolloFortyNine··on Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
>Meta will impose daily usage limits and restrict nighttime usage by children who use Facebook and Instagram, and enhance measures to prevent children from accessing age-restricted content.

Even if we assume children don't find a way around this, they will simply switch to a different social media app after their two hours are up, or switch to an app that doesn't have the two hour limit at all.

This is clearly a rule that would have to be mandated by the government, or perhaps parental controls on their devices (not sure why parenting was ruled out here apparently). Same with whatever opinions people have on an algorithm showing you content you'd enjoy, which has always been the goal of media since the concept of a magazine was created, they just didn't have the right tools available.

It also will only punish kids who actually gave their age no? That's not actually required (yet) to sign up for a social media app. I was probably 9 when I started clicking a random year for my age when signing up. Doesn't take you long to figure out you have to jump through hoops when your honest.

Really I have no idea what this case accomplished besides being a tax on a successful company.

ApolloFortyNine··on Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
I think in pretty much every state releasing the refrigerant 'requires' a license (if it's not a DIY model).

And in my state, I copy pasted what was required for a 'residential' HVAC license (idk if you meant commercial HVAC or just making money on installs).

ApolloFortyNine··on Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
In my state they require:

>160 hours of education/vocational training and 2 years’ verifiable experience in the trade

To get the license to install minisplits (two years experience generally means working an apprenticeship).

It's no wonder install costs are so much in the US. And as you've experienced, they're hardly rocket science to install. The 160 hours training would be more than enough, I'm not sure why 2 years experience gets tacked on the end.

ApolloFortyNine··on Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
Minisplits install costs are the biggest scam in the US, in Japan installs regularly cost under $1000 (that includes the minisplit!).

They're literally designed to be easy to install, but in the US licensing requirements tend to be insane (in my state it's 2 years apprenticeship experience for their 'easier to get' mini-split license) and HVAC companies make more off whole home systems.

These things are regularly installed DIY by homeowners (illegally most of the time but you know), it doesn't take two years of experience to be able to install these without issue. 2 weeks, or half a dozen installs surely would be more than enough.

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