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vlon Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer

This page really needs to explain what is “resin printer” and why would I need it. I have no idea how is it different from my regular 3D printer.

vlon Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon's Producer

For me it says “you read your last free article”

vlon Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues

You say “they” as there is a single coherent mind in this case. In the large orgs there are a lot of little independent minds doing their little things, barely producing coherent result through shared incentives.

In this case most simple explanation is inaction. Yeah, it was coming, but nobody was exactly in position or cared enough to do something about it.

vlon Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues

When your business model is to provide valuable thing for free to corner out competition out of business, don’t be surprised that your service gets to be used asymmetrically.

vlon Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer

Should we introduce change to add [paywall] or something to paywalled links?

vlon Our $445M Series D

It’s not like they get magical components or firmware. All it takes is supporting specific rack configurations from top vendors. Or, if you want more lockdown, reselling custom-ordered racks with your software on top.

vlon Our $445M Series D

But why sell hardware then? From customer perspective, wouldn't buying racks from Dell or HP be more stable procurement-wise and equally manageable by the excellent Oxide software stack (if such thing exists)?

vlon Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

How can this practically work though? As Earth goes around the Sun 90 degrees, orbit will become half-shadowed.

vlon Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

>Corolla is expected to come in several powertrains, including gas, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric.

And also it’s just going to be confusing for the customers. Which one to get? Which one is better? It’s hard to imagine how same platform can have efficient structural layout for the large battery and for the ICE engine.

EV is much about software as well, and Toyota is not going to shine in this area either…

vlon The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

Also for traditional fuel you don’t have to carry half of the fuel - oxidizer comes from air. And then when you spend fuel, you have less weight to carry (which becomes noticeable on the plane).

vlon Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage

” But he will not receive a royal allowance, nor will he be expected to take on official duties, and he has no rights to the Belgian throne.”

So it seems nothing will change for him.

vlon Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper

I trained to play insane, usually a just bit slower than average, after using hints for couple times.

I suggest larger levels (yes, scrolling and zooming might be required). After all, minesweeper is the most interesting on the largest level.

vlon Claude Opus 5

The simple fact is that economy can’t be 100% services. Who is going to pay these baristas if nobody else earns anything?

vlon Claude Opus 5

The only reason you can figure it out is because of the system prompt which is designed to make model “useful”, safe and compliant.

Raw modern LLM with different pre-prompt will easily fool anyone.

vlon Claude Opus 5

Or another way to see it is that current models are AGI as it was defined before, and the goal post is being moved.

vlon Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price

Does market closing and not trading continuously affects this?

If market opens at significantly different price, you may be forced to liquidate and loose more than expected.

vlon Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

Frontier labs release frontier models to the public only if there is market pressure to do so. Anthropic is not even hiding that they have been using Mythos internally for months now.

I wouldn’t be surprised if OpenAI (so much for “open”) is using GPT-6 internally already.

It appears that peasants like us are not going to get access to frontier AI anymore at any price.

vlon Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

This is strategy by Chinese government, so much of US economy is invested in AI. Releasing free or cheap versions of the models undermines US economic growth. It’s asymmetric strategy that makes sense if you are close second in AI race. If situation is reversed, US would do the same.

vlon Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

France’s football team is second only to England’s and Argentina’s.

It’s a miracle that in language same words have different meanings depending on context. If this wouldn’t be the case we could have hardcoded NLP algorithmically without inventing these expensive LLMs!

vlon Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

While you are technically correct, in English it’s perfectly fine to say it this way as well.

“Second only” here has meaning “next after”, not “number two”.

vlon Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode

Bespoke solutions are better in many cases. They do exact things required for the project without taking extra dependency. Reducing dependencies is beneficial, because dependencies require management. So with llms economy of taking dependency shifted.

vlon Claude Fable 5 Backlash Grows

I uploaded my blood test results and prompted pedestrian medical question. I shut it down because it's "bio research".

vlon Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

I really don’t understand what SD card reader on MacBook Pro is for.

All small cameras and devices use micro SD. Professional cameras don’t use SD since forever now. Basically I always need an adapter now.

vlon The disappearance of Japan's animators

So for new Ghost in the Shell is it a good idea to watch previous ones before watching the new one? If so, it what order? Is movie worth watching at all?

vlon SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

Usually the grants are restructured. Ie instead of what was vested and unvested rank-and-file gets new 4 year grants. And then it works exactly the way you would expect: everyone works for 4 years and then leaves.

vlon Where is the AI jobs crisis?

What people don’t get that traditional software jobs are gone.

There is no need for developers, testers, PMs, TPMs, devops, leads anymore. Communication burden and structure imposed by these roles is too high when you have AI. It doesn’t make sense to tell somebody to do something and for them to type it into the AI. You can type it into the AI yourself without wasting the time.

There is new job - software creator. Think of it as a single person replacing a team. This job requires different mix of skills, and different level of autonomy. Hiring needs to be adapted to this really, and people need to adapt. Some will shine in this new world, and those who still narrowly think of themselves as specialists in the specific old role are going to be jobless.

vlon United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert

What transmitters? Now calls happen over WiFi which companies sell.

vlon United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert

Now wait for manufactures introducing mandatory flight mode on devices (with Apple leading the way) that “trusted partners”, like airlines will be able to force-activate themselves.

vlon United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert

Because they knew it’s not a real threat and they wanted to land at United hub for cost saving reasons.

vlon United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert

What is even better now phone calls are prohibited, but all these airlines had actual credit card phones installed in every seat just 20-15 years ago and really wanted you to do phone calls for $1 a minute. And some people did, and it was annoying, and it was “fine”. Now that they can’t charge extra suddenly it’s “against regulations”.