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fauigerzigerkon I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists

It's definitely an improvement. Most people would not want to depend on their neighbours for opening zip files. I know I wouldn't.

And if one of my neighbours ever asked me to help them open a zip file, I would not leave before I'm absolutely sure that they can do it themselves next time.

fauigerzigerkon I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists

>My neighbors for example are normal working ppl they don’t know how to open a zip file (they call me to help them with something like this) and they are in their early 40s so not that old. Sure companies and workflows are going to become agentic but not everyone needs it or even wants it.

Maybe not everyone (yet) but your neighbours clearly do need it.

fauigerzigerkon Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair

I agree. Judgement on love affairs and judgement on chip strategy are completely unrelated categories of judgement.

"Bad judgement" is a tool used in political rhetoric used to blame someone when there's nothing of any substance to blame them for.

However, all of this changes if it turns out that he gave his lover's company any kind of preferential treatment or that she was involved in China related lobbying.

This is what the investigation will focus on in my opinion. If they find anything at all then he will have to resign.

fauigerzigerkon Goodbye Claude, hello Pi

You can use VSCode over SSH as well.

fauigerzigerkon AI is dramatically accelerating AI research

I think we have very good reason to fear big accidents. But some AI algo going rogue isn't exercising real societal power. Power-seeking and self-preservation is nothing special. We all do that. That doesn't mean every group of intelligent people with a bit of money is always on the cusp of world domination.

Edit: And when somebody asks to be directed, that's called seeking advice. What I meant is having the legal authority to make people do things while not acting on other people's behalf.

fauigerzigerkon AI is dramatically accelerating AI research

It's not an absolute impossibility, but most of the power that humans have comes from being able to direct other people, deploy large sums of money and do all of this over extended periods of time. Being intelligent doesn't give you that power automatically.

fauigerzigerkon Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

>That plan doesn't even exist

Gemini AI Plus does exist. Consumer plans are called Free, Plus, Pro and Ultra:

https://gemini.google/subscriptions/

fauigerzigerkon Nasdaq plummets 4% into correction territory

OK, they are jumping up and down but they're doing it in the most efficient way possible. It has been proven time and time again!

fauigerzigerkon Nasdaq plummets 4% into correction territory

True, but open weights models need data centers too. So it depends on which companies we're talking about.

fauigerzigerkon Nasdaq plummets 4% into correction territory

I doubt it would have stopped politicians from exploiting the issue, but the answer to your question is yes. Companies could have spent more money on energy infrastructure, which would have increased their cost and - all other things being equal - lowered their share price.

That said, a lower share price is not a cost to the company, except perhaps in terms of stock based compensation.

fauigerzigerkon A thousand fewer paths to root

>Unfortunately, they don't have the people nor the incentive to actually look into that.

These are relatively simple statistics. Some are even trivial. I don't see why it requires any people at all.

It wouldn't even have to be done by OpenAI. Given a list of vulnerabilities, it wouldn't be too hard for third parties to collect these statistics.

fauigerzigerkon Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out

Wasn't that mostly China? It would have to be countries that are not under chip sanctions.

fauigerzigerkon Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out

I agree, but it would have to be a place with plenty of energy and the only such place outside the US is a war zone.

Perhaps one option is building data centers along with solar power plants in sunny countries that have a lot of space. I'm not sure about the water/cooling situation though.

fauigerzigerkon Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out

Yes, but if data center space gets tight, it creates an incentive to replace old inefficient models with better ones, i.e. sqeueeze more performance out of limited data center space.

fauigerzigerkon Mac at any scale

The very purpose of these hosted Mac instances is to help people not buy a Mac of their own. Any higher margins would have to compensate Apple for this cannibalisation.

fauigerzigerkon Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM

My arguments are not about any specific technology.

But in a very roundabout way you are right. You have to take some risks and do some things that may not work out. Otherwise you're not going to be participating in anything useful either.

fauigerzigerkon Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM

>You don‘t need to earn a lot of money when your basic needs are met

But your basic needs are not going to be met if your country drifts into poverty.

You will not have access to the best cancer drugs for instance. You are going to watch your loved ones die from preventable causes while richer people survive.

Europe cannot afford to miss technology wave after technology wave using inequality in the US as an excuse. Poverty causes fear, suffering and conflict.

>The drawback you’re listing there, in addition to being dubious, seems to be exclusively for the owners of the company

I don't think staying at the top of your game (or getting there) is only for the benefit of employers. I understood the comment as advice from a senior colleague talking to juniors who were headed for disaster.

Caring about your own education, productivity and employability is not a gift to employers. On the contrary, it puts you in a better negotiating position vis-a-vis employers.

fauigerzigerkon Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now

If the parts you need from a larger third party library are small and simple, that makes sense. But I don't think the general idea of reusing battle tested code across many projects is obsolete because of AI.

fauigerzigerkon ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging

>I would feel better giving money to a company led by a man who has stated repeatedly why he wants "maximum truth-seeking AI"

Everyone claims to be interested in the truth. Ideologically driven political agitators are not particularly credible on that point though.

fauigerzigerkon Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe

Strange. My Lloyds login has never failed since I opened the account 11 years ago.

The usability of their mobile app is atrocious though. Good thing they have a website.

fauigerzigerkon WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator

That would be a plausible explanation if both actions had the same effect.

fauigerzigerkon New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing

Where does it say that in the guidelines?

fauigerzigerkon Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts

>Imagine someone asks you: see that guy across the street? Do I have your consent to search his pockets? If you say yes, what does it mean? Precisely nothing.

I think if you have some kind of authority over the place where this happens and/or if you facilitate an illegal action then you could be breaking the law.

fauigerzigerkon State of Devs 2026

That sounds absolutely true until you compare it to at least 95% of other jobs.

At that point you would have to accept that almost everything humans are working on day in day out is pretty trivial.

fauigerzigerkon Mistral Large 4

>Fair enough, but it sure meets the definition of 'helpful intervention'.

I don't see how. Anyone can buy electricity without any intervention from the government. An intervention is an action that changes what would happen by default.

fauigerzigerkon Mistral Large 4

>Investors, but also the government in allowing these companies to siphon electricity away passing the increased cost to the consumers

Not arbitrarily banning companies from buying a product from a supplier doesn't meet my definition of the term "subsidy".

fauigerzigerkon Apple and a Hacker's Future

>...but can't make any big steps to avoid alienating the userbase.

I think the way this could work is by linking certain capabilities to MDM or a developer program membership. Organisations and people who really need it would still be able to get it but regular users would not.

fauigerzigerkon Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

You would have gotten your money's worth out of an Air as well, but it would get support for many more years.

fauigerzigerkon Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

You only learn after the fact which features you're not getting though. It's not an informed a choice.

fauigerzigerkon Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

It's not just a question of experience though. The Neo can be perfectly sufficient for you right now but that doesn't change the fact that Apple obsoletes devices based on RAM.

E.g., the iPhone 15, released 3 years ago, doesn't get Apple Intelligence because it has just 6GB of RAM.

I wouldn't buy a device that is already at the very lowest end of supported hardware the day it's released. It could cut the years of meaningful OS upgrades by half or perhaps even by two thirds.

It's uneconomical.