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x187463··on Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2
I've very interested in the improvements to robotics control capabilities. This model was able to outperform specialized robotics models. It's the bitter lesson coming for robotics.
x187463··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
It's Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe. In the US, it's still FSD.
x187463··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
It's called Supervised Full Self Driving (FSD) and that is an accurate name given it controls every aspect of the vehicle's operation, only requiring the driver to pay attention as a supervisor. And, essentially, the same software and hardware available on a Model 3 and Model Y is present on the CyberCabs that are driving people around a few cities, now, without input mechanisms. Elon is a PoS, and it took a decade longer than he said, but the cars are driving themselves.
x187463··on Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out
The world is bigger than the US. If the political climate in the US obstructs the build out, the build out will occur somewhere else.
x187463··on Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
Is this basically the bitter lesson applied to the very act of creating model weights? Absolutely wild, and the implications for RSI are noteworthy.
x187463··on Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5
Carbon scoring below Opus 5.5 on coding highlights how magnificent Opus 5.5 is as a coding agent. With just a $20/month sub, it performs a ton of work at a very high quality.
x187463··on AI promised less work. I've never worked more
For those of us stuck in an office building, at a desk, AI models have enabled handling multiple tasks as a same time as fast as we can think. I'm absolutely doing multiple times the work I was doing before and the time between tasks is basically zero. Same pay, though, and drastically increased productivity and sense of effort.
x187463··on Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers
Right, I'd rather lose 15% of cost to waste/inefficiency than increase cost by 25% to put money in someone's pocket.
x187463··on Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers
Alternate headline: "Profit-seeking organizations seek profit"
x187463··on Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier
I've always been frustrated by the intense focus the modern economy has on advertising. If I am interested in a product, I would much rather discover it by searching. Having advertisements forced upon me at every turn is a massive waste of resources (time and attention) given only a fraction of a percent of the products have any relevance to my life. I block every form of advertising I can reasonably block. If a company raises the friction sufficiently, I'll find a way around it. I'm mostly an amoral participant in the economy. I pay for YouTube, Disney, etc. but if they make giving them money an unpleasant experience, I have no qualms employing a usenet subscription and *arr stack to dodge the whole thing.
x187463··on SF Tesla motorist fatally strikes man crossing highway while car was in FSD mode
> The crash occurred around 2:30 a.m. on Interstate 80 westbound at the Interstate 780 interchange, where the Tesla’s dash camera showed the 71-year-old Vallejo man entering the freeway from the right shoulder while the car was traveling at about 70 miles per hour, according to the California Highway Patrol.

> The Tesla braked and veered to the left as the man walked into the car’s path but was unable to avoid crashing the right front portion of the car into the pedestrian, CHP officials said.

FSD attempted to avoid the pedestrian who, for some reason, walked into 70MPH freeway traffic. FSD has fast reaction times to this sort of thing so there's a good chance the guy either came out from behind something or made a very unexpected motion into traffic. A dash cam video is necessary to draw any conclusions about fault or the reasonableness of FSD's response.

x187463··on Claude Duet
I appreciate how Anthropic keeps the Pro tier priced around OpenAI's Plus tier. The extra tier with OpenAI invites additional product subscription gates. Functionally, Anthropic will have a frontier model driving a personal agent available a 1/5 the cost of OpenAI. Astra may be a bigger model, but is there a meaningful qualitative difference between a personal agent running Opus 5.5 vs GPT6 Astra?
x187463··on The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]
They're all equally contributing to mathematics?
x187463··on Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities
This thread contains an enormous amount of negativity that just doesn't make sense here. OAI are giving developers and security researchers access to AI models so they can check their software for vulnerabilities. What's the problem? Sure, there's marketing around the success stories.

Some people are acting like this is only a problem because labs are releasing models that can find and exploit these vulnerabilities in the first place. This is a nonsense claim. Humans have been discovering vulnerabilities and privately weaponizing exploits just fine for decades. We are collectively raising the floor for security.

x187463··on I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories
The difference is the open and self-hosted models are not far behind the closed models. You can't rugpull if you don't own the rug.
x187463··on I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories
Self-hosted and/or open models are fast approaching (or have reached) the quality bar necessary to handle a great deal of software development work. The models needed to cause the OP's problem are becoming commoditized.
x187463··on CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership
Using AI as a tool to investigate the mysteries of the universe is a huge win for humanity. Generating slop images to confuse people online is not. AI is tool, we like when tools are used for good.
x187463··on I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories
This is not representative of what's actually going on, though. It's much more like an artisan carpenter who wants to build houses using bespoke hand-tools and precise joinery. That's great, and there are beautiful works of art created by those skills. But in the last year robots were developed that build homes exactly to spec. The robots work 24/7 and finish entire houses in a few days. That same skilled carpenter is being hired to monitor the robots and check over their work. There is, economically speaking, no place in the process for him to apply his craft. In the time he rips a single board, the robots build the wall. In the time he drives a handful of nails, the drywall is up and the paint is drying. He costs $200/hr, the robots cost $1/hr.

The carpenter is free to exercise his craft as he see's fit, but it's going to take place mostly in his personal workshop, for personal reasons, not to develop homes or run a business in the way he did before.

We can talk for ages about the quality of the robot's work, the maintainability of the resulting home, etc. But it's clear that, at this time, the market and ecosystem are embracing the robots whole-heartedly so those of us used to the old ways are having to rapidly adjust.

x187463··on I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one
My dude, reading AI writing on a product page is not in the universe of being sexually assaulted.
x187463··on I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one
I dislike one-shot LLM prose as much as the next person, but there's no chance this use case ever goes away. Writing is difficult and takes a long time. Using an LLM to write for you gets your message across with the least effort. It's here to stay. Our only hope is that the models simply start writing better.
x187463··on OpenCode 2.0
https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects

All of the common terminals run TTE surprisingly well. That's 60fps, pushing many megabytes per second of text and control sequences.

x187463··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
It's not just about who they hire, it's about who is brought into the country, which is much more under the purview of the federal government than traditional hiring decisions. They can hire anybody they want, but they'll have to keep them remote.
x187463··on 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished
This was my first thought so I scrolled to find this comment. It's a fantastic episode. It's a shame Reply All fell apart. However, PJ Vogt went on to make a new podcast called Search Engine and it's also great.
x187463··on House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k
Colin Furze has entered the chat.
x187463··on GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence
You can't fathom how 'top human engineers' could take advantage of exclusive access to a frontier model at ultrafast speeds and limitless token budgets to conduct research?
x187463··on Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude
I've found basically all of the release presentations are completely irrelevant and seem to target a very narrow subset of the population. They're always reserving something like a restaurant or a sports venue or generating a new slide deck for their business meeting. Perhaps these companies would do better if they could make a use case for regular people. You know, the 90% of the folks out there working normal jobs and not spending infinite money. I don't think I know a single person who has made a restaurant reservation more than once or twice (mostly never) in their entire life. Maybe I'm the weirdo here, but I can't relate to any of these demonstrations.
x187463··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
This has 'social media will bring us all together' vibes.
x187463··on ChatGPT claims rogue AI attacked more companies
As for prosecution, none of the victims in this case have any interest in pressing charges.
x187463··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
At this point, it's kind of a hackernews thing. Simon posts them as a single comment in the relevant thread. It's okay for this place to have a little bit of a sense of community, and you can just ignore the comment.
x187463··on Slate EV truck starts at $24,950
Is that under-appreciated? It's kind of the whole deal aside from environmental concerns.
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