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Saline9515··on LongCat-2.5: Native Multimodality for Agentic Tasks
It's much cheaper than frontier models, too, so it's not an exact comparison.
Saline9515··on An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them
To be noted too that old wheat varieties weren't likely cultivated with modern fertilizers, which increase considerably the yield, too.
Saline9515··on Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
Do you imply that it was really cheap, just like solar+batteries?
Saline9515··on Mortality Among People with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
CBT helps to an extent, however it can't replace meds for things such as long drives or reading unstimulating things (in my case, law or math). Also it requires a lot of routine and discipline (=energy) which can be hard to achieve consistently.

The first psychiatrist I saw told me to do CBT alone, but I also needed to change jobs to a complete different field as doing boring excels would never be possible for me. I mean, it's true but not very practical and quite risky as a life path.

Saline9515··on MiniMax M3.1 Flash
With the old GPT-3 api in the olden days, you could set the seed and get deterministic outputs! Interesting results could be drawn from it, as for instance if you use the prompts "a blue bird"/"a blue bird in the sky" the blue bird would have the same look in both with similar seeds.
Saline9515··on Tesla Roadster
When all of your industry will have gone to China and you'll have no knowledge and specialised workers left, you'll have only your eyes to cry.
Saline9515··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
The US market isn't a pool large enough? Why don't they publish the ad on their website then?
Saline9515··on An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows
I agree, searches return very often blank pages and I find myself more and more using google instead. I won't likely renew my subscription.
Saline9515··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
Meta has at the moment also a massive direct effect as it is a monopoly on its advertising segment.

The effect on economy I'm talking about is a functional one, ads and slop will continue to be served on your social network of choice. Second order like "bad vibes" will be forgotten in a month, a quarter at max and then hedge fund managers will move to something else.

Saline9515··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
Search for "meta glasses led bypass" on youtube.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bAw1ybPuzPk

Saline9515··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
I'm not saying that we should or shouldn't, I would like to know the line of demarcation. Splitting Meta would have a very low effect on the economy as the services are individually profitable and would continue to be operated, without the all-knowing centralized database/24h Telescreen.

At some point, similar to the camera/face recognition debate, it's about a choice of society that we want to live in. I think that's an interesting debate.

Saline9515··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
They are designed to be easy to bypass. Plenty of tutorials exist online and I can't imagine that Meta engineers didn't know about it beforehand.
Saline9515··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
This line of argument ("think of the retirees!!!") could be used in many cases, however when is it acceptable to break companies for the greater (non-financial) good?

On a parallel, can't we criticize any decision reducing the market cap of companies as an attack on the retirement portfolios? Say, if we required connected glasses to display a red light of more than x lumens when recording, would that be ok, even if it decreased Meta's market cap?

Saline9515··on MiMo v2.6
I used 2.6 Pro and it seems to overthink way too much, leading indeed to very slow build time.
Saline9515··on Grok 4.7
Again, this is vagueposting, what do you have against snapcompaction? It seems to be a nifty way to save token costs. At least it's an interesting innovation. https://x.com/_can1357/article/2064802476742574459?lang=en
Saline9515··on Grok 4.7
Can you explain your opinion? I'm curious but such vague comments won't convince me.
Saline9515··on Grok 4.7
I tried in Omp (Oh-my-pi), and so far it's really problematic.

It will loop in thinking mode ("Let me implement those fixes: Fix 1, Fix 2, Fix 3 .... Fix 80, Fix 81"), ignore the AGENTS.md instructions, corrupt plan files, etc etc... I have 5.6 Sol as advisor/watchdog, and it blocks every turn, I never saw this. Quite a shame, 4.6 wasn't so bad.

Saline9515··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
Hosting a nitter instance on a Rpi or a phone behind tailscale is trivial in the post-llm age, if anyone wants to try it.
Saline9515··on Let's make quality the norm again
I don't know how it is in your country but carpenters are required to be trained and to insure their works for a decade in France, for instance.
Saline9515··on Let's make quality the norm again
Most cars are rented nowadays and they are less durable than ever. It's better for the manufacturer to lease and then get you to upgrade periodically to keep you as a novelty-seeking consumer.

Long warranty is better as there is no other incentive who has to pay if the product breaks down. Cars should have a 7 years warranty by default for instance.

Saline9515··on Let's make quality the norm again
You are right, it's easier to bake in quality decreases (aka "cost reductions") to keep the price stable than increase the price. Users usually don't see it directly, and since the whole industry does the same there is no real alternative.

A good way to see this is in clothing: my wife likes to buy vintage clothes, part because of the style, but also because most of them are actually well made and sturdy.

Nowadays it's almost impossible to get the same quality and finishes, even with the more expensive brands. Due to the mass-production of low quality clothing, (most) consumers don't even have a clear idea of what "quality" looks like, which further reduces incentives for manufacturers.

For comparison, some niche menswear brands keep the quality stable (as their specific consumer base asks for it). Say Northampton leather shoes for instance (Crockett and Jones et al.), which are still made in the UK (not in an mafia-ran sweatshop in Italia for luxury goods...).

Their products are amazing, and...the price grows 5-10% per year steadily.

Saline9515··on Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
Devin lacks many features and doesn't even have an exec mode. Other than they subsidize the subscription, the added value here is low.
Saline9515··on Making Teenagers Read Newspapers. A Nationwide Experiment in French High Schools
From today's front page, this kind of article: https://archive.md/Dr1fm

Selection at university, which happens everywhere else in the world, is "controversial". When you read the article, you realize that the main opponents are communists (well, the Stalinist branch, since France has 3 or 4 communist parties), who do around 2-3% in elections. So it's not very controversial, actually.

The Diplo is biased but doesn't try to hide their bias with this kind of tedious astroturfing, which I believe is quite toxic for teenagers reading a newspaper. It's a different format, I agree with that, though.

Saline9515··on Making Teenagers Read Newspapers. A Nationwide Experiment in French High Schools
Le Monde is mainly entertainment/preachy articles nowadays. Content and writing is usually better in the "Le Monde Diplomatique", although it's more politically biased.

English version: https://mondediplo.com/

Saline9515··on Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
I would read a statistics textbook, if there were plenty of exercises, with the answer and explanation, which is usually lacking in textbooks.

Ready the theory is nice but you only learn by solving problems that uses it.

Saline9515··on IBM Bob
What is good about it then? What model do you use? Which integration are we talking about? Is it open source? How much the "transparent pricing" "bobcoin" is worth?
Saline9515··on Muse Spark 1.3
I believe that you can still use 5.3 Codex in the eponym CLI tool, the "Spark" fast version. I hope that it will lighten your day! :-)
Saline9515··on European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy
This is not exactly, both french and dutch referenda were
Saline9515··on US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati
It's a common point made by Marxists.

https://marxist.com/socialism-in-one-country-how-stalin-aban...

Saline9515··on US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati
Sanctioning an email provider doesn't have anything to do with human rights, just like breaking the cables of a high speed train because you want your communist utopia to be realized has nothing to do with democracy.
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