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I find the number of children killed by human drivers repulsive.

> Take Muhammad, a fresh arrival from Syria, who drives a taxi. What will his next job be that is that easy and he already knows how to do?

Remotely operating a taxi (or some other semi-autonomous robot) from Syria?

> China forces its citizens to work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week.

As someone who lived there for 5 years, this is laughable and totally untrue.

I'm guessing you heard that some tech companies have a 996 policy and inferred that the government is somehow imposing this on every single worker in China.

If my aunt had wheels, she'd be a bike.

Why apologies to Meta? If that is the source, Meta are the ones fingerprinting browsers and inadvertently disclosing details. That's their FU, not Wipr.

If you live outside China or Taiwan, you are much more at risk of being bombed or threatened by the USA.

The Chinese government is pretty despicable, but it's mostly focused inwards. 200 dead schoolgirls in Iran would tell you that for everyone else, the USA poses the much bigger risk.

Last I checked, Uber underperformed the S&P index since its IPO. Even Softbank didn't make a great return on its investment. The growth story was definitely oversold.

Also, Uber was peak ZIRP + COVID, money was cheap and growth was easy. I think the mountain to climb is a lot steeper now.

Bet you they won't, because many (most?) Singaporeans think that owning a car is somehow a life achievement.

Thanks! Hope it was helpful.

There's a difference between "this is allowed under their ToS" and "it is academically unethical to fail to credit the people whose specific conversations were fed into a model that was used to solve a problem".

I don't think these people would be so miffed if they had been properly credited - that's how academia works (at least, that's my understanding of it).

> Dart is a really _ugly_ language with lots of tiny annoyances. Its as if someone took worst parts of Java and Javascript and turned them into a language. Terrible to write, terrible to read, terrible to use.

While I’m a bit ambivalent towards Flutter, I totally disagree with you on Dart. To me it’s a better version of Java/Typescript with a very mature cross-platform and JIT/AOT compiler. Admittedly there are some things I wish they would take from TS (like discriminated unions), and I haven’t tried “modern” Java either so maybe that’s improved, but even so, I rarely feel like Dart is getting in the way.

> how come Impeller still wasn't the default engine for all platforms

Because Impeller has had quite a bumpy ride. Even as recently as June I reported a bug/regression with basic stuff (lines with partial transparency on desktop). All my Android apps are still built with --no-enable-impeller because I've had many instances where the app just shows a blank screen due to driver conflicts.

It may be getting close to stable now, but it wasn't a smooth transition at all.

> But that’s it. I never use Google outside of that. It’s just ads, and most of the web is just ads or AI slop.

Funnily enough, their core revenue driver (Google Ads) is very broken too. I'm trying to run some ads, but for a week they haven't been showing due to some invisible combination of flags when the campaign was created. There's no way of knowing they're not showing from the dashboard, it only becomes apparent when you try and preview the ads with one of your search terms.

I know everyone is long Google but that experience seriously makes me question how valuable their ad business will stay in the future.

Probably explains why Microsoft hasn't made a good product in...as long as I can remember. It's all shibboleths and gate-keeping.

"made with Swift" buries the lede a bit here, it's actually using Skia via the Flutter engine under the hood to draw windows, compositing, etc. The Swift part is just the author rewriting parts of the Flutter API surface (not my cup of tea personally, but I try not to miss the forest for the trees). Really cool project!

How much usage do you get out of the $100 Moonshot plan? I haven't heard great things.

He was directly asked in a Bloomberg interview whether Claude was used in the bombing of the girl’s school in Iran, and his answer was “We don’t know”.

His redline was autonomous weapons, not the death of 100 innocent girls.

Still there for me: "The full model weights will be released by July 27, 2026"

If you're on Bandcamp or Soundcloud it's usually because you want to support artists directly, I doubt many people are purely interested in getting free music rips.

Completely agree. Slow but smart models (Fable, Sol, GLM5.2 etc) are great, but they leave me with zero mental model of the code that's been written. Most of the time my mind wanders off and I go check social media or fire off a prompt for some other random project, it's a big productivity drain.

Working with models that are super fast, but slightly dumber (like mimo-v2.5-pro-ultraspeed) is amazing, I feel like I'm still the one that's actually making every decision.

Or he just finds it an incredible time-saving tool to help him do more maths.

I'm not a regular v2.5 user, so I don't really know. But given the TileRT team write-up says the entire network gets quantized to FP8 (and experts get quantized to FP4)[0], I'm assuming there's at least a modest drop in quality.

[0] https://www.tilert.ai/blog/breaking-1000-tps.html

Related, I was given access to mimo-v2.5-ultraspeed, which is amazing. This is now my expectation for speed, it’s fast enough for me to stay mentally engaged rather than getting distracted waiting for the agent to churn.

I was playing with Hy3 via openrouter yesterday (and I've also been using DS4 Flash/Pro as a daily driver since I cancelled my Anthropic sub a week ago).

I've found DS4 Flash to be very temperental (via Claude Code). The speed is great, but it often builds a completely wrong mental model and charges off down the wrong path. I find myself needing to rein it in regularly (and also compact the history, which undercuts the whole cache price advantage).

Hy3 isn't as fast, but so far it seems to stay on track much more reliably than DS4 Flash. It also doesn't seem to degrade as much with longer context. I'm not sure what the real pricing is, but I feel like it's a very competitive model.

As an aside, I also nabbed a 50m token pack for LongCat 2.0 to give it a whirl. Not free, but it's so cheap they're basically giving it away. Very impressed too - seems roughly on par with Hy3. Not frontier-level intelligence, but a dependable workhorse that can navigate a codebase well and can reliably execute what you tell it to do.

Maybe this is what Medusa Halo will turn out to be?

> If you look at everything through their safe AGI mission it all makes sense.

Except for, you know, all the outside investors and the forthcoming IPO.

Not saying the results were bad - quite the opposite. But it was very slow (and if I was paying API rates, hideously expensive).

From my brief window of Fable usage, speed wasn't its strong point at all.

For actually building software, I'm starting to suspect a human with a dumber (but faster) model is going to get the job done quicker than Fable (and possibly even cheaper). Bug-finding and vulnerability detection is a different story.

I haven't tried their Hermes agent yet, because I only want a coding agent and I wasn't sure if theirs was suitable. Would you recommend it?

This is a blast from the past. Knoppix saved my life a few times, it was the easiest way to mount a drive with a broken partition table or something else went that haywire with a dual-boot system. It was also the safest option for doing something on a public computer without leaving a trace (though back then NIC drivers were always a bit finicky).

My first Knoppix CD may have actually come by way of the front cover of Linux Magazine.