serf

also way slower if we're just going against 'nvidia hardware'.

this comment has always existed behind every apple release, most especially anything vaguely pro-ish.

to answer your question : looking at the aftermarket availability of Apple's prior best and brightest : practically no one buys them.

"people here buy them" , well, 'here' is one of the most affluent groups of people in the world.

They're available as movie and television set pieces (undoubtedly disappearing into the home of someone close to the staff post-production), and for administrative/boss types that can slip the cost into a ledger somewhere that few will ever see.

It has been a hobby of mine every few years to check out the apple site and see how big I can option a machine. My record was when I was in high school years ago and was able to option some pro studio-ish apple desktop thing to like 61,000 usd out the door.

since pre-unix MIT time-sharing machines in the mid 60s.

probably before then somewhere on some physical bulletin board somewhre.

a GUID isn't an indicator, it's a fingerprint.

so unless you want to draw a distinction between 'user' and 'machine' , yeah it is for identifying users.

to believe otherwise, especially with Microsoft involved, would be incredibly naive to their history.

I thought Brion James was fantastic in The Fifth Element because he's one of the few slapstick outlets. He comes off as sorta military-scary, and ends up frozen like a Looney-Tunes popsicle in the freezer a few minutes later , and dead-pan military is a kind-of-funny partner to Corbin being an outlaw bachelor. He then remains the dead-pan receiver of abuse from the president, etc.

I agree about Harrison Ford, though I don't know who would've done it better at that moment in history.

aside : The Fifth Element is considered to be one of the noisiest distracting sci-fi movies ever, so to hear your main distraction was Brion James made me grin.

I just want a version that includes the prophet Mercer stuff.

felt like a huge component to drop out.

was any evidence ever given?

>"The trained eye, weary of vibe coded designs, will see Claude Code’s aesthetic fingerprint all over this. "

yeah, everyone is re-doing old interfaces with LLMs.

>"They're hosted on AlexHost"

yeah, they're selling grey market pharma.

Now, I have no problems saying that the whole thing is a bot driven scam -- it probably is , grey market web is filled with scams -- but there was no evidence given; just an ad for a magic tool that detects AI... somehow.

...which makes me feel like an asshole for putting in the time looking for the anchor and hoping it wasn't an advertisement.

>Closed source apps that compile fully static, these tend to be stable and Just Run in my experience... but open source apps? Good luck trying to bring these to even compile 10 years afterwards without going through an insane dance with Docker...

who cares?

when a closed source app fails the door is shut for good on self-remediation, unless you want to reverse engineer/break the law.

when an open source app fails to compile you can choose to put the time in to get the thing working. it's not a shut door, it's just a long path.

doesn't that just mean that either a) you're using the wrong benchmark to judge or b) the benchmark that YOU need doesn't exist.

"dislike ai? prove so by using an alternative ai."

I don't think this train is going to stop, but to pretend that the anti-AI proponents are suggesting moving away from frontier labs and into open-source is short-selling their desires; these people want literal bans, arms exclusions, and penalties for use.

it's more capable (and slower,63t/s ish) than most flash models i've played with.

they knowingly and willfully broke copyright laws the world over in the faces of some of the most powerful corporations , but somehow some magical post-training method to discern provenance is going to be the legal gotcha that bothers the AI groups?

seems unlikely to me .

underwhelming specs, price, ergonomics. marketed for pros, but gated from them by a $240/yr contract for a fedora reskin.

another step back towards unix I guess, but bell didn't charge yearly.

(edit, remembered it wasnt at&t)

zoom users often have little choice but to use zoom.

wayland doesn't have that need.

>I don’t get how this is not the top post on HN. This should be like alarm bells going off, canary in the coal mine type of stuff.

we don't all buy everything sama says as factual.

>We’re hitting the frontier of the frontier where we can’t go further because it’s literally getting dangerous to go further.

the boy (the industry) cried wolf too many times with 'fable is a world ending event' type self-promotion; regardless of truth or not these kind of steps have jaded people.

my read : "We are doing poorly in financials so we'll give ourselves a bit of breathing room and a momentum shove by claiming our work is so advanced that it's dangerous while simultaneously spinning down expenses."

<jon lovitz : "Yeah, too dangerous, yeahh -- that's the ticket.">

>Yes, there are trade-offs, but you can get really great tires on all three.

there is another metric at play with Michelin, they're consistently one of the most expensive options in every segment.

this is a common concept in space-craft thought experiments because of the dual-use nature; can shield yourself with a big water balloon essentially at the tip of the space craft to catch all those pesky extra energetic particles that are bombarding you against your fantastically high velocity, while also providing water to grow things in, or whatever.

then neutron activation becomes even more nuanced because it affects not only your craft/infrastructure/armor but your semi-perishable goods.

the picture of that GPU installed on the side of the firewall tunnel reminded myself and my husband of a gadget they would have shown off in the original Batman series.

"Golly gee whilikers Batman, what is this high tech contraption?"

"It's a car tracker my good lad, see how sleek and easy to hide it is?"

https://blog.comma.ai/img/chestnut/install_footwell.png

this is becoming less true with every generation of model.

a decent model with a decent harness will determine when the knowledge base is lacking and attempt to fill the holes; thus the good general models can be very easily brought up to speed on niche domains.

it's a proposed and planned feature by the looks of it :

https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/issues/1651

>Pick something slightly esoteric (eg Haskell) and the quality of public code is very high, because you only have enthusiasts writing it.

that and the language supports (enforces) good decision making; static typing w/ inference and a functional style as a first class concept.

which then rolls into the same result : higher quality code available.

there is a relationship there, but there is also a relationship to the safety of the language and the guard rails in place.

it's a lot harder to experience an agent telling you with certainty that something incomplete is totally finished if there is a comprehensive test suite, a hard failing compiler, a strict type system, etc.

LLMs like to produce a lot of JS and python that silently fails in a graceful way -- why is that? because those languages support that kind of a failure.

when using something like go/rust the LLMs are more likely to re-iterate rather than declaring a victory when they get a strict compiler barking in their face, refusing to output.

conceptually it's a cool idea.

practically the results seem about as coherent as

  import random; print(random.choice(list(my_dict)))

..but way slower

is there a practical use to a model this small?

Well you don't actually know that from the story.

Being in the same yacht club as the owner of the building conveys these kind of powers - it's like no one has encountered preferential treatment, good or bad, before.

If a professional group of people are wasting their time and attention on you then it's fruitful to imagine what resources they may have to leverage against you, I don't think that's hard to argue.

Few people cave when there are lots of eyes on them., and less people make empty threats with a bar full of spectators - that's why punches get thrown.

Regardless : 'I'm a renter' is by no means a strong argument unless you have a very specifically worded renter agreement -- it's pretty obviously a bad idea to anger the crowd of presumably better paying tenants, what would you do as a land owner, kick out the group every other tenant hates or change policy to protect the small fry?

I felt zero sympathy after the author decided to ignore any possible valid reasoning under the cemented position of 'well I pay rent' -- that's not maturity.

Further more, my rule: the more someone tells you how mature their position is and how child like you're being the more the odds increase that the only problem is that your opponent doesn't have a mirror or an ounce of introspection.

At the very least it's a cliff hanger.

If the authority figure has the balls to say 'fine, I'll get your contract terminated' I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if that was exactly the outcome.

Neat to read about that technique being used in port of Los Angeles while sitting here eating breakfast in my boat. Unexpected.

Because llms can write like anyone in the same way that a type writer can; with a skilled human typist behind it.

You see a lot of crap for the same reason most code is crap - the human who did the thing sucked. Language models aren't magic, they're just a compiler that guarantees an output regardless of input quality and structure.

That doesn't mean much wrt to the capability of the model.

The world is filed with crap literature, movies, stories, and advertisements written by honest to God human professionals in their respective field, and we trained these things in that environment. It's not surprising to me that they need a nudge to get to Hemingway when the corpus average is presumably so low.

Mine too. That and 'adult humor' joke books that were big in the 60s.