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Hawkenfall

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Hawkenfall··on ChatGPT Pro 500
Why would I pay $500 now when the $200 features were just rug-pulled? I mean, Pro 1000 is on the horizon at this point, no?
Hawkenfall··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
This appears to be only for Mythos 5 access, NOT Fable 5.
Hawkenfall··on Claude Fable 5
> To release the model both safely and quickly, we’ve tuned these safeguards conservatively—they’ll sometimes catch harmless requests, though they trigger, on average, in less than 5% of sessions.

While I appreciate being conservative, ~5% at the scale Anthropic is operating at is too massive a number. Speaking from my own experience, the actual number is higher than that as well (working on pretty benign tasks such as porting an old open source game into a different language). Opus 4.8 itself even identifies the gaurd's false-positives when its sub-agents are being blocked.

Hawkenfall··on The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)
Not sure how you came to draw this conclusion, as there's lots of data out there showing droves of Computer Science graduates here in the states unable to land jobs.
Hawkenfall··on Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver
Cruise was actually just about to return to market after the October incident [1]. We had reached efficacy on all (much harder) internal safety benchmarks showing the car had significantly improved.

GM pulled the rug on us a day or two before announcing. The current Cruise CEO wasn't aware at all either. I have my own conspiracies of why GM did this, but GM also has a long history of fumbling the ball.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/nhtsa-robotaxi-cru...

[2] https://www.theautopian.com/here-are-five-times-gm-developed...!

Hawkenfall··on $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
It's just a hosted Postgres database, you could run this locally with Docker for example: https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres
Hawkenfall··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview: even better coding performance
You can do this with https://openrouter.ai/
Hawkenfall··on Google will keep cookies and skip opt-out option in Chrome
Nope, this caters to shareholders
Hawkenfall··on Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution
I've only done paper trading so far, but yes it was profitable.

I've learned a lot by building it, so for me the effort has been worth it.

Hawkenfall··on Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution
I've built (now improving) a fully automated real-time ML stock trader in Rust. It's hosted on-prem via 6 Raspberry Pis using Kubernetes.
Hawkenfall··on Most people think the U.S. crime rate is rising. They're wrong
I spy a paradoxical comment
Hawkenfall··on CISA: The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history
How was this quantified? If there are numbers to demonstrate it's the most secure compared to previous years, why not show them? Qualitative statements with no foundation only draw speculation.
Hawkenfall··on Benchmarking deep learning activation functions on MNIST [OC]
A more in-depth paper about this found the Swish activation often outperformed other functions: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05941