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Proton should be receiving billions in investments from European companies, just like Anthropic and OpenAI do.

According to the article:

Australia does order that personal information collected for age verification “must be destroyed once all purposes have been met.”

First observation: if you use social media, your privacy is already decimated.

So the article is not really defending privacy; it's simply defending social media. (Under-16s are an important demographic they don't want to lose).

That said, the article is forced to concede:

Australia does order that personal information collected for age verification “must be destroyed once all purposes have been met.”

Let's repeat:

Social media MUST DESTROY all personal information collected for age verification.

But let's be honest: if you really value your privacy, you shouldn't be using social media.

Interesting reading.

They are still focusing on "catastrophic risks" related to chemical and biological weapons production; or misaligned models wreaking havoc.

But they are not addressing the elephant in the room:

* Political risks, such as dictators using AI to implement opressive bureaucracy. * Socio-economic risks, such as mass unemployement.

Considering the advances in software and hardware, I would expect that in 2 or 3 years.

And I hope we will eventually reach a point where models become "good enough" for certain tasks, and we won't have to replace them every 6 months.

(That would be similar to the evolution of other technologies like personal computers and smartphones.)

I use Claude Opus (4.5, 4.6) all the time and catch it making making subtle mistakes, all the time.

Didn't we make subtle mistakes without AI?

Why did we spend so much time debugging and doing code reviews?

Are you really being more productive (let’s say 3x times more)

At least 2x more productive, and that's huge.

Even as a principal engineer, there is an infinite number of things you don't know.

Suppose you get out of your comfort zone to do something entirely new; AI will be much more helpful for you than it is for people who spent years developing their skills.

AI is the great equalizer.

The scary thing is that Amodei only opposes to domestic mass-surveilance.

He doesn't seem to care if the DoW uses his AI for international spying.

That's one more reason why Europe needs sovereign tech.

"When our time traveler peered into the windows of these shops, the first thing he'd notice was how large all the watches were."

My only question about this entire essay is... where did this time traveler came from???

"Our" time traveler was never mentioned until this line.

To run Llama 3.1 8B locally, you would need a GPU with a minimum of 16 GB of VRAM, such as an NVIDIA RTX 3090.

Talas promises a 10x higher throughtput, being 10x cheaper and using 10x less electricity.

Looks like a good value proposition.

The possibility that anyone can easily replicate any startup scares A16Z.

The irony is that the outage was caused by a change from the "Code Orange: Fail Small initiative".

They definitely failed big this time.

Engineers have been vibe coding a lot recently...

I'm not sure if this is real account or AI slop -- possibly a mix of both.

But the US is a f*cking dystopia at this point.

How come the richest country of the world - the model of capitalism - allows so many of their citizens go homeless?

It's mindblowing.

Microsoft fell into this trap in the 90s -- they believed that they could hide the DOS prompt, and make everything "easier" with wizards where you just go through a series of screens clicking "next", "next", "finish".

Yes, it was easier. But it dumbed down a generation of developers.

It took them two decades to try to come up with Powershell, but it was too late.

The others are also paying. Make it configurable...

Personally, I get creeped out by how many things CC is doing and tokens it's burning in the background. It has a strong "trust me bro" vibe that I dislike.

100% this.

It might be convenient to hide information from non-technical users; but software engineers need to know what is happening. If it is not visible by default, it should be configurable via dotfiles.

It requires deep understanding of customer usage to know whether it's a mistake at all

Software developers like customizable tools.

That's why IDEs still have "vim keybindings" and many other options.

Your user is highly skilled - let him decide what he wants to see.

Product managers are fooling themselves if they think they can "improve the user experience" for developers -- developers can't agree on the simplest things such as key bindings (vim, emacs) or identation (tabs, spaces).

Make the application configurable. Developers like to tinker with their tools.

As far as I remember, SolidGoldMagikarp was a bug caused by millions of posts on reddit by the same user ("SolidGoldMagikarp") in a specific sub-reddit.

There was no problem with the token per se, but the fact it was like a strange attractor in multidimensional space, disconnected from any useful information.

When the LLM was induced to use it in its output, the next predicted token would be random gibberish.

Haha, I don't know why but I also "see" it as a light blue seahorse, and it's facing left.

The easy solution would be to use something like Amazon S3 to store documents as objects and let them worry about backup; but governments are worried (and rightly so) about the US government spying on them.

Thus, the not-so-easy-but-arguably-better solution would be to self-host an open source S3-compatible object storage solution.

Are there any good open source alternatives to S3?