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sidcool

16,694 karma · joined March 4, 2011

Java/Scala/Ruby/Python/Rust/DevOps/Kotlin engineer
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sidcool··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
They are going to end up paying much lesser. And that amount would be a loose change compared to what money they bring in.
sidcool··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
Which model is it?
sidcool··on Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
That was sarcasm.
sidcool··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
I feel likely Demis wants to focus on research and healthcare with AI. Gemini is under huge pressure to monetize. This seems like a good step.
sidcool··on Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
I am cynical about this, but I would be careful about giving Meta access even to my open source code by myself.
sidcool··on Discovery Loop
I am available for hire.
sidcool··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
Sundar Pichai: @DemisHassabis is stepping up to become Chair of @GoogleDeepMind & Chief Scientist of Alphabet, in addition to leading @IsomorphicLabs.

https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2085033425736745093

So it's not stepping down, right?

sidcool··on Apple is getting this wrong
Yes. Corrected.
sidcool··on Apple is getting this wrong
Small digression. Silicon Valley never ceases to deliver top quality entertainment. We desperately need new iteration of Silicon Valley series.

On a serious notes, this seems like a desperate attempt to sway public opinion, but hey, Apple is no saint either. This will be a fun season.

sidcool··on Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
AI denial is stuck in 2023.
sidcool··on Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
At this time, a generic AI snark is tiring. AI is not perfect, but it's an amazingly useful tool, we should accept it and move on.
sidcool··on Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
They don't mention Grok at all.
sidcool··on Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake
There would be some laws in place. And it would also stress the relationship with Elon.
sidcool··on India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch
Yes, that's what I meant.
sidcool··on India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch
Only the third country to achieve this. Kudos.

There's another startup trying reusable rockets.

sidcool··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
Why are output tokens costlier?
sidcool··on Qwen 3.8
These models are great, but what's the potential use? No small entity can run them.
sidcool··on Grok Build is open source
Sometimes the tactical thing is to do the right thing.
sidcool··on Telegram Serverless
I did not understand this. What does this do exactly?
sidcool··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Apple was smart to move to Gemini before suing OpenAI. But I feel nothing's gonna come out of it.
sidcool··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
I don't like him. I don't hate him either. He's not a thing in my life. But the companies are, SpaceX etc. do impact me.

Basically I would hate to see HN become Reddit.

sidcool··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
I did not get it. But may be the onus is to not have a collective bias?
sidcool··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
I understand no one here likes Elon. But does it mean we find justifications for our collective bias in everything his companies do?
sidcool··on Garnix Is Joining Shopify
garnix will be shutting down and deleting all user data on July 15th. Read the blog post here (OP's link). wut?
sidcool··on GPT-5.6
The claims are pretty bold. I think 5.6 may exceed Fable.
sidcool··on Resetting Xbox
When all other revenue sources dry up, workforce cutting is the only thing that remains. Bosses and Wall Street loves it.
sidcool··on Workers Cache
CPU time is not billed
sidcool··on GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
Genuinely curious. Say GLM 5.2 is better than Opus. But how does one go about using it by themselves?
sidcool··on Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs
I think what's shown in The Sopranos is close to the truth. Schemes like HUD or feed the poor etc are a front to some money laundering scheme. And it's widespread.
sidcool··on Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models
How do they figure out it's being used by Meta?
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