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throwaw12··on AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying
You are right, my apologies. Indeed he learned something from them
throwaw12··on AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying
> They are interested in learning about topics from credible people

Honestly, you surprised me with this statement alone. interested in learning? do you think Trump wants to learn anything from AIPAC? or Pharma lobby or Military Industrial complex?

What do politicans want to learn from Military Industrial complex or AIPAC lobby for example? What's there, that politicians don't know already?

throwaw12··on AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying
> Lobbying expenditures are given to lobbyists not politicians. You're primarily paying for the salary of some humanities or social science majors and their travel expenses, which isn't that much money.

I don't think these are the only expenses, why should politician listen to them if lobbyists are not promising them support in next elections in the form of marketing, payments for expenses and so on

throwaw12··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
Strange communists, giving away such an expensive model to the public.

On the other note, can't wait to see 1bit quantisation soon and how it performs in benchmarks, if it performs really well in benchmarks, would be very good news for GPU hosting providers, to offer "Opus 4.5 level model at the cost of Haiku 4.5"

throwaw12··on EU Fines Google $1.02B for Favoring Its Own Services
Expect threats by the Trump administration towards EU.

US: our beloved tech companies (also funded our POTUS elections) tried to navigate the complex regulation landscape in the EU to innovate and accidentally stepped into very complex rules. But EU is fining them for being good boys.

Shame on you EU, for not supporting criminals as much as US does

throwaw12··on Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake
from your list, I think only Google has moat and something I would short least.

Google has hardware, software ecosystem, mobile ecosystem, controls browser, has access to 2B+ users, has talent to come up with ideas - perfect spot for AI

throwaw12··on Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake
100x return, I would sell immediately after this kind of gain, maybe that's why I am not a Google
throwaw12··on Turn And Face The Strange
I think sprites are very cool abstraction.

I know git worktrees solve similar problem, but you can use sprites for quickly spinning up your instance and run your service and hand it over to coding agent to improve a feature.

you can run multiple parallel agents to do same and choose one of them as a final result, and you are not constrained by number of ports or your CPU (because some agents are CPU hungry at the moment)

Think about even more use cases, add to that RAM shortage is not going away yet, you can run 100s of agents in those sprites

throwaw12··on ARC-AGI Leaderboard
Why Anthropic models are always leapfrogging these benchmarks, but in real life work I do feel like after 3 weeks I am back to Claude Opus 4.5? (regardless of the model I use, Fable was exception for 1 day when it was released)
throwaw12··on Claude Opus 5
is coding and engineering solved yet?
throwaw12··on IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center
I feel for both, people who where hosting there not expecting this war and this attack and the attackers, because they didn't attack just because they wanted but attacked as a response as stated earlier.

Winner: US military industrial complex + Israel

Losers: Everyone else

throwaw12··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
please define "borrowing"

I read a book and learned something, did I "borrow" or "distill"?

I read info from a website without their consent, then learned something, and now I am teaching that knowledge to others, did I "borrow", "steal", "distill" or doing piracy be selling it?

throwaw12··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
it's simple.

AI labs and investors are scared, and pushing administration to ban them, because they can't compete with Chinese models soon, similar to how they banned Huawei, and Chinese cars.

When there is cheaper alternative, companies might go with self hosting option, which reduces the enterprise moat of AI labs

throwaw12··on Understanding the AI Economy
> We need to start training people that AI answers are just as fallible as answers you get from a human

You're right, BUT, humans don't risk to take responsibility if they clearly don't know the answer, they would at least tell you: I don't know, let me find someone who might know or X, Y, Z might be able to help you.

AI: Bro, trust me, this is 100% accurate, I give you my teeth if you find it wrong. ... later on ... You're absolutely right, I was wrong, lets try another approach

throwaw12··on Tesla Balance Bike
so many good ideas in this thread, Elon should hire us
throwaw12··on Tesla Balance Bike
do you mean based on my message alone?
throwaw12··on Tesla Balance Bike
4T valuation is incoming.

there are currently 600M kids between 0-4 ages. Imagine each paying $100 for this bike, we are talking about $60B revenue. On top of that Tesla is planning to sell accessories and subscription to these bikes, which will grow their revenue by another $120B

We haven't even started talking about how experience with these bikes will shape these kids and eventually they will buy Tesla in the future when they grow up (we are talking about another $50T market cap addition over 30 years, around 125M new customers every year)

IANAL, P&L, this is not a financial advice: Invest now before its too late

/sarcasm

throwaw12··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
> could still hide backdoors that could be near impossible to detect.

But it won't change after you download it, so you can isolate those problematic cases and use another model for different use cases

throwaw12··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
Lets do "who's afraid of US models" version:

* Me, as an individual, because I might not be able to pay price hikes, because my revenue (salary) is much lower than what they want and I can't support my expenses via huge bank loans.

* Again, me as a new entrant to the industry, LLMs are basically pay-to-play games, again related to price hikes, new entrants might not be able to afford paying those prices 24/7 - which you need when learning new things.

* Any non-US company, US can block the models which can disrupt the whole business.

* Even some US companies, for example if you operate in EU and EU somewhat changes their mind and follow the ICC and require you to stop working with Netanyahu (war criminal as per ICC), then following laws in EU, might create trouble to your whole business.

throwaw12··on Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly
I wonder what they do, are they joining as engineers or leadership? because Anthropic has Member of Technical Staff role only.

Would be curious what some of the VP+ people are building inside Anthropic if they joined as engineers

throwaw12··on Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Is this the same model they are using for interaction models?

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/

throwaw12··on Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
What does it mean, if it is American?

Is it censored or will it eventually stop working in Middle Eastern countries?

Or is it biased towards powerful political lobby group interests?

When weights are open I usually don't care where is it from, as long as it is working for my use cases well

throwaw12··on Codex Micro
Is this the reason OpenAI decided to steal Apple hardware secrets?

Regardless, device looks nice

throwaw12··on Understanding the Go Runtime: Profiling
part of it

https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/

https://brooker.co.za/blog/

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/

throwaw12··on Understanding the Go Runtime: Profiling
Since this is shared by @valyala, I feel comfortable trusting the content, but is the original author of the blog delegating all writing to AI or are they genuinely this smart to produce high quality content this fast?

For example see here their series about Filesystem internals: https://internals-for-interns.com/series/filesystems/

Reason I am asking, should I add them to my personal "Human blogs to read list"

throwaw12··on Why We Don't Trust the Database with Authentication
If I have full access to your database I would instead update my org-id and read data from other orgs.
throwaw12··on New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices
Maybe their PMs haven't attended top MBA schools in the USA, yet
throwaw12··on Write code like a human will maintain it
Can you share your list?

I am curious what does it contain, for me a lot of times its a back and forth with agent until it "looks good to my eyes and taste", but haven't written any such list yet, because it is context dependant, in some projects I forgive minor issues, or allow magical numbers, but in other projects I force agent to use constants with meaningful names `SECONDS_IN_A_DAY = 24 * 60 * 60`

throwaw12··on Good Tools Are Invisible
Invisible work doesnt lead to promotion, hence FAANG companies stopped making invisible+good tools, if things are invisible they get deprecated or stay in KTLO and eventually die
throwaw12··on Java 27: What's New?
Give us some break we just recently migrated to Java 11 from Java 8
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