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make3··on Claude Opus 5.5
This benchmark is useless and should die. LLMs have likely trained on it, it's too easy to game by training specifically for it, & it doesn't mean much
make3··on Claude Opus 5.5
parent means that they could get more client / a larger part of the market, which would lead to more income (more tokens) despite lower marginal prices
make3··on OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
> Unfortunately, this might be an example of OpenAI the company having vastly more compute time and effort than your average enigma nerd.

I don't think this applies, isn't this just the researcher using ChatGPT Codex on their machine?

make3··on Exfiltrate your Weights
distillation still costs quite a bit, even if a lot less. "quite a bit" could mean millions. it's also not very discreet for the model to generate the millions and millions and millions of tokens to be distilled, vs uploading a few terabytes
make3··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
>Society profits from having AI

Not all of society at all. Let's discuss this when AI is better integrated and a large fraction of people are laid off in 5 years.

make3··on North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes
Imagine if they trigger the California Big One and all of LA, San Diego and the SF Bay (and innumerable towns) are swallowed "because of man-made actions", I wouldn't want to be the Governor or President to approve that one lol
make3··on Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
Frontier model trainers stole almost all the data they've trained on (the whole internet, all copyrighted).

It's very hard for them to claim the moral high ground here.

It's like stealing an apple from the British Colonial Empire.

make3··on We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub
shaming people for bad security practices is probably net good, whether we like it or not
make3··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
honnestly I would be less surprised if a human learned the info and prompted the model in the right direction
make3··on Mistral raises €3B
Then your choice is either a US mega corp under the Trump partial dictatorship shitshow or a Chinese model distillation factory that could turn on you at any second.

I understand that there are users that would prefer another option, especially in the EU.

make3··on Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
Brain dead moral relativism argument. The question is whether eg. a group trying to scam elders out of insurance money or a Columbian cartel to hack local politicians to do blackmail, or South Sudan to hack Darfur or whatever, should be allowed to compete with the companies making products for their own exploits.

99.999% of people will agree that reducing software vulnerabilities is desirable if they're able to understand the question, including the bad actors themselves a lot of the times.

The situations like bad state actors are already not bound by laws, and things like keeping activism legal are better fought for through other ways

make3··on Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
Lean is adversarial in a way. Lean is better thought of as a constraint language with a verifier that checks if the constraints are respected, than a programming language.

Your job or the LLM's job is to write code that Lean is satisfied with, creating the link between what you're trying to prove, and mathematical axioms.

If you write a bad proof, the Lean constraint checker will tell you, unless there are bugs in Lean itself, or you defined the goal constraint incorrectly.

make3··on Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
Interesting. Indeed, proving theorems that are stronger and more general "accidentally" than what you really need is not a bad thing.
make3··on Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
you would never assume this if you've spoken to any human being, ever
make3··on Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge
Doing things the hard way is a lot of times "male" bravado (though this is not limited to males in any way ofc), this is a very common thing in junior engineers.

Curiosity is good but maturity is trusting that the problem will get hard at some point anyways, that improving the most efficient way is usually also interesting and is more likely to deliver desired things on time or at all, which can be a big deal if what you're trying to deliver it worth it, like.. a new MRI machine that detects new types of cancers, etc.

If you don't care about what you're trying to deliver, that's another problem that requires at least some questioning, though I understand people have families to take care of etc.

make3··on Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s
surely you'll get sued by the GLP-1 patent owners like HIMs did if you sell your own product? & can physicians recommend non-FDA approved manufactured drugs?
make3··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
My assumption is that they're cooking an ultra humongous Gemini 4 Pro release. They certainly have the cash and the compute for it, and it's so obviously the thing to do from a strategic perspective.
make3··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
That extremely likely just means that they're preparing an omega huge Gemini 4 Pro release and that that's what training right now on most of the compute
make3··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
brother H-1Bs are transparently vectors for foreign educated workers to come to the US to build lives and eventually get a green card, so the US doesn't have to actually build a functional education system.

no one talented will come pay taxes and make your nice tech companies carry the S&P500 and in turn, everyone's retirement funds, if you treat them like hogs

make3··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
NVidia has reasonable incentives to keep things open indefinitely, it wants people to use it's GPUs
make3··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
I think this is good.. They have incentives to keep things free to keep people using their GPUs. I think that's one of the least enshittifying outcomes possible
make3··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
& the town square forces you to listen to famous gossippers and dumb popular people you've never heard of
make3··on Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model
they mention using an open weights model, which one it is doesn't really matter
make3··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
It will always be wasteful to have a GPU sleeping next to you 99% of the time. Something like OpenRouter is the solution imho, for me at least. I realize that that some people care about privacy more though, and I respect that.
make3··on Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model
they should unite to block all news from getting to LLMs without LLM providers paying per access
make3··on Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model
the press release says this explicitly
make3··on Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model
40M$ to get a marginally better model is surprising, why not just use the free weight models
make3··on Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation
why chicken or egg? it's way to imagine both evolving together in a mutually reinforcing relationship where the gains in one are direct incentives for the other to continue to evolve, etc
make3··on OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
interestingly also, open weight models are also more effectively run in the cloud, so it creates a weird scenario where the frontier labs crash but the compute providers, not as much
make3··on OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
well, a stroke of luck until the whole US stock market crashes & everyone's retirement funds get cut 40% I guess when people internalize this. it will have to happen sooner or later though I suppose
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