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There has been a long discussion and "conflict" of opinions regarding the use of AI in kernel dev.

Linus is pro-AI as a tool ( and I mostly agree, there are consequences however that at least need to be talked about ). That's why I was talking about firing up those AI machines and fix those CVEs ( "make no mistakes" ).

But it seems every Linux topic related to security or languages is the ultimate mine field for knee-jerk reactions. :)

Petty theft, snatching, pickpockets, scams, etc are relatively uncommon compared to e.g. many popular places in Europe.

Yes, in non-popular places in Europe those are also quite uncommon, even more then in the US on average..

So the lesson here is that those type of crimes are common in tourist heavy places, like.. Times Square in NYC for example.

It can be.

Because most automations never capture the complete scope of the job/task ( not even close ). Just like neurons, if you don't use it you lose it and when the inevitable problems come, nobody knows the why, the how and the what. At that point someone smart would incorporate all those real costs and opportunity loses on the "automating everything" equation. But they usually don't.

Of course automating tasks is a must, but it's very far from being a black and white situation. These dynamics have been happening for centuries by now, nothing new.

Good for you, just try to remember those old days when you complained about bosses and "whine" about things to your friends and some work colleges about day to day stuff. Now think what you would say about a situation when you were fed up and had to quit because you couldn't take it anymore and every day you had these tasks going against your values ( doesn't matter if they are "right" or "wrong", they are yours ).

Also, Google is a multi-billion dreadnought with hundreds of millions of dollars for PR, lawyers and lobbying every year. I'm sure they can take a post about someone "whining" and quitting their job in disagreement. Something tells me Google be fine...

That AI segment was a boomer core slop fest. But to be fair, it's clear that Apple is not on the AI bleeding edge and it appears it doesn't want to be, it cannot afford to ignore it tho.

Let's hope they don't get overconfident with Gemini and pull a MS Copilot..

Don't want to be too harsh, maybe I'm missing something, but the CPU is at least 2 years old, internally it has been a complete shitshow and that's a minor hiccup when compared to the firmware and software situation.

It's an interesting "newcomer" and the more the better but calling this a "beast" and a "game changer" is ridiculous to say the least.

Then there is the price..

I get the feeling this also means AI works very well for the general coding tasks and that's their biggest success in terms of difficulty AND people paying for it.

Of course every AI company has been over promising and pumping the numbers as much as possible but OpenAI has been hitting the reality wall more because both their people not being able to keep improving at a faster rate and their whole cost structure and financial plates spinning.

This doesn't invalidate the fact Anthropic is also overhyped to the max for their IPO.

Ferrari Luce 2 months ago

Someone inside Ferrari had the terrible idea of greenlighting this and even more terrible lack of courage to not cancel this mistake because it was the baby turd of Jony Ive and Marc Newson.

Fortunately everyone will laugh and cringe, the usual car "journalists" will bite their tongues because they don't want to lose access, time will pass and it will be forgotten because Ferrari can afford to make these mistakes ( for now.. )

Good source.

The only complain I have ( not really directed at the article, but.. ) is to put all these theories and somewhat private experiments into the same room as pure gambling schemes turbocharged by "the algorithm" and political corruption.

While far from Heaven's gates, some guy trying to predict the price of corn next year is not in the same plane as those who had the "very original" idea every guy in his early 20s had at some point but never went further because he read some articles about "the law". Like it or not, the laws or the remnants of it were put in place due to the obvious degenerate attitudes and it's consequences gambling was always known for.

And no, it's not a "market", even Uber appears to have some usefulness to offset all the lying, corruption and criminality they had to do in order to become what they are. These ones don't even take you places other than gambler addiction.

End of run, sorry.

Great to know, but what was the cost both in terms of $$ and tokens used?

Not to invalidate these benchmark results because they are useful, but the real usefulness it what they are capable to do when real people interact with them at scale.

Regardless, these are good news, because now that Microsoft is basically giving up their all-in strategy with Github's Copilot and Anthropic is playing the "I'm too good for you" game, it's about time for them to get pressed into not making this AI world into a divide between the haves and the have-nots.

This is such a rug pull.

I'm a paying customer and I did not receive ANY communication about this. Was using Opus this afternoon and then it disappeared.

Microsoft really can't stop being Microsoft. I don't dispute the need to charge more for those models, but there is a basic decency to do things and as usual the Big Tech fuckery and complete lack of morals makes them do this in a way that generates total mistrust where it could be just annoyance.

I'll see how Sonnet handles the most difficult problems but I'm foresee a subscription cancelation soon.

It appears what really ended their little scam was the $421 million of reported revenue based on complete lies.

Because lying to investors about product hasn't been really an issue lately, even Intel ~5 years ago did some presentations that were a complete fantasy back when they were desperate to keep their stock value but could not produce a chip smaller than 14nm.

If they prosecute CEOs based on lies to investors other than accounting, almost all AI startups would go down.

The more I live the more I believe people at the top operated in some sort of cult mentality. The level of gullibleness, temporary lack of critical thinking is only matched by their sociopathy and Machiavellianism.

I'm sure it's a great big model, but the level of hype and dishonesty is something out of Sam Altman's book.

Of course it's because of the upcoming IPO, but that's the end game, for now it's critical to get those private equity guys and bank institutions to believe the gospel and hold the bag, only then the suckers from the secondary markets will be allowed to be suckers too.

Lunar Flyby 4 months ago

Very cool pictures, especially those ones backlit by the Sun are something new. ie real photos that we usually only see in sci-fi games or movies.

But the real question is: Who of those 4 clogged up the toilet? That's what the public demands to know.

S3 Files 4 months ago

People and by people I mean architects and lead devs at big account orgs ( $$$ ) have been using S3 as a filesystem as one of the backbones of their usually wacky mega complex projects.

So there always been a pressure to AWS make it work like that. I suspect the amount of support tickets AWS receives related to "My S3 backed project is slow/fails sometimes/run into AWS limits (like the max number of buckets per account)" and "Why don't.." questions in the design phase which many times AWS people are in the room, serve as enough of a long applied pressure to overcome technical limitations of S3.

I'm not a fan of this type of "let's put a fresh coat on top of it and pretend it's something that fundamentally is not" abstractions. But I suspect here is a case of social pressure turbo charged by $$$.

Totally an organic and transparent marketplace that joins together publishers and consumers huh?

It has been down since the COVID boom for obvious reasons, and then it has gone even more.. Google needing the billions to put into the AI burner is just and unfortunate coincidence..

Please remind me: Is there any legitimate business venture that can operate outside the laws of the country they are registered?

If there is, why don’t these people who write blog posts and comments about how “this is all a scam!!” “It’s a psyop! “They” control it all!” If it’s all black and white, if there no real difference between a company like Proton and Google or Microsoft, then why don’t they create a business that provides a service where there’s no way to any government know anything at all, ever? They’ll be printing money..

But perhaps the conspiracy realm and public broadcast of ideals is more attractive than a real business.

Yes, you shouldn’t trust 100% in a person let alone a group of people that form a company. Grow up.

I'm sorry to be that guy, but can we reintroduce a good dose of skepticism in our mental diets?

BYD was already selling a ton of cars when the oil prices were "low", of course there's some very creative accounting business moves you would expect from a Chinese company like BYD ( companies from other places have their own peculiarities too ).

Gas prices have been "sky high" for a week and people who are under financial stress just decided to ditch their cars and buy a brand new BYD? Are we children now? listening bedtime stories?

The concept of electric vehicle is technically superior to support the context and lifestyle a large majority of people have. It will "win" over time. There is no need to this bullshit simplistic feel-good articles.

Btw, the the market movements of people trying to get rid of their gas-guzzling SUVs when prices are high and trade them for a smaller and more economical car ( what they should have been doing in the first place.. ) already happened in the past many times, there is no news here. But these movements don't happen in a time span of a week or a couple weeks.

Sorry for the rant, but between AI's "Absolutely, you're entirely right!" and these bullshit articles.. I don't know.

To be clear: EV's will "win" and BYD has been selling a ton of cars because they are cheap and not terrible right out of the gate, also people don't have much disposable income.

Tech directors, CEOs, managers, etc tend to be people with a certain personality and ( learned behaviors/thinking ) just like "technical people".

Yes, they tend to be incredible gullible to certain things, over-simplistic and over-confident but also very "agile" when it comes to sweep their failures under the rug and move on to keep their own neck in one piece. At this point in time even the median CEO knows AI has been way overhyped and they over invested to a point of absolute financial insanity.

The first line of defense about the pressure to deliver is to mandate their minions to use it as much as possible.

We spent a fortune on this over-rated Michelin star reservation, and now you kids are going to absolutely enjoy it, like it or not goddammit!