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flexagoon··on I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus
> If you cannot focus, just focus more?

Why don't homeless people just get a house?

flexagoon··on Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos
Closed models just don't show this thinking process directly to the user
flexagoon··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
"Introducing our latest model, CIaude, spelled with a capital "i" and legally distinct from Claude!"
flexagoon··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
> Given how verbose claude models have become, wiki articles are probably less verbose too

Telling models to respond in the style of Wikipedia is one of the best ways to make their output bearable in my experience (for chat models, not agents)

flexagoon··on Surprise, pay $1000
That is insane. What's the point of overdraft limit if it doesn't limit your overdraft?
flexagoon··on Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12
Happened in 2020 apparently

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/npm-is-joinin...

flexagoon··on If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
Fable would be unusable for you in a more literal way, since it just directly refuses to answer any query even remotely related to biology
flexagoon··on EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
It's banned in the EU mostly for animal welfare reasons, not for food quality reasons.
flexagoon··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
Why would you want less people to live in a lovely place?
flexagoon··on Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
Feels weird to ship a website without mobile support in this day. The desktop version looks nice though
flexagoon··on MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
No, I mean Pro. I use it through OpenCode Go so I don't know what provider it uses under the hood, but it's very fast in my experience.
flexagoon··on EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
> but for Food related stuff, EU standards and regulation are truly superior for consumers, relative to US and other countries

That is mostly a myth. EU and US take different approaches to setting food safety regulations, which means they have different lists of banned substances. The EU bans a lot of substances that have no evidence of actual adverse effects just out of an abundance of caution or sometimes even because of uninformed public perception, which is why their regulations seem more comprehensive, but the vast majority of that has no real positive effect on consumers.

https://blog.ansi.org/ansi/differences-between-eu-and-us-foo...

In terms of actual food safety, the US is basically the same as the EU (it technically ranks even higher than most EU countries on the "Quality and Safety" criterion of the Global Food Security Index, but the top countries are all very close)

https://insights.economistenterprise.com/sustainability/proj...

(Before anyone accuses me of something, I live in the EU and generally prefer EU in terms of lawmaking and regulations. It's just that food safety specifically is a point of comparison which is much less true than people usually think)

flexagoon··on EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
They don't "poison the people" unless the pesticides are found in a toxic dose (they are not).

Of course, the legal limits are purposefully designed to be well below the LOAEL, and those companies that were found to contain levels above them should face consequences. But to claim they "poison the people" isn't true.

flexagoon··on MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
True, but why would end users care about that? If anything, training on synthetic AI output is more ethical than on scraped human works (of course, not to say the Chinese labs aren't doing the latter)
flexagoon··on MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
I'm using Deepseek-v4-pro as my main model and this is sometimes pretty annoying, I have to do some easy boring task, think "I'll just leave the agent to do it and go take a nap", but it's already done writing the code before I even walk away from the computer
flexagoon··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
Yes, it's based on free-float cap, so while it isn't ideal, it shouldn't be a huge deal for individual investors.
flexagoon··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
Same question. It seems like they have had fast track rules for a pretty long time and will include SpaceX

https://www.msci.com/indexes/markets-in-motion/megacap-ipos

flexagoon··on Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things
I disagree. I think the commit description should be "stop the engine wear", not "change the oil". I much prefer commit messages describing why you did the changes, because the explanation of what you did is already there - the code diff itself.
flexagoon··on Hacker News, Sans AI
I've been thinking of making something like this for myself for quite a while now, glad I'm not the only one who had the idea and someone actually did it before I got to it
flexagoon··on Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform
Of course, I understand why some maintenance is required. I just don't get why there is apparently a big maintenance burden over something that is usually a single small feature of a service
flexagoon··on Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform
Why is DigiD even a product that needs constant maintenance? From my experience using it it's just a pretty simple authentication/data sharing system. Every oauth provider has something similar. Why is it a whole separate product that is owned by some company?
flexagoon··on When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
Traces and memory are text. A gigabyte of text is an insane amount. That is an equivalent of tens of millions of lines of code, or hundreds of millions of AI tokens.
flexagoon··on Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot
This is a life changer. I've literally had friends ask me how I tie my shoes so fast a few times after learning this method.
flexagoon··on Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
> Download and run the Erlang installer Download and run the Elixir installer

No, you just install the elixir package from a package manager. Windows not including a proper one by default is not a fault of the language.

flexagoon··on Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
They're different languages with different syntax and different features. Them using tge same VM doesn't really make them competing products, just like Java, Scala, and Clojure all use JVM and yet are all different languages
flexagoon··on Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
If I understand correctly that you think Elixir is not yet "convenient to use", I suggest you still give it a shot if you haven't. I'm generally a huge hater of dynamically typed languages, and I still love using Elixir.
flexagoon··on DaVinci Resolve 21
Resolve was a much better experience for me than kdenlive. But you can easily try it out for yourself because most of it is completely free (in fact you probably won't ever need the paid features for what you do)
flexagoon··on Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia
For me, the worst part about Jupyter is not that the cells don't automatically recalculate (I can handle pressing recalc below), but that the output is affected by the order you run the cells in. With Jupyter, there are many situations where to re-run the cell you also have to first re-run all the cells above that one, and it doesn't tell you which ones. Automatic recalculation can be disabled even in reactive notebooks.
flexagoon··on Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia
Reactive notebooks are so much better. Using Pluto or Livebook makes you realize how inconvenient and illogical Jupyter is in comparison.
flexagoon··on Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
Yet they're the one consistently getting higher returns
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