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Claude Sonnet 4.5 10 months ago

It was there a few (<5? I think?) minutes after the Anthropic post went out. If you look at Windsurf's web traffic it looks like they did a thing (model is an int) to make it so the IDE doesn't need to update to get new models.

Qwen3-VL 10 months ago

you can’t tell if someone is American or Chinese by looking at their name

I actually claim something even stronger, which is it’s what’s in your heart that really determines if you’re American :)

Perfume reviews 1 year ago

The price shown is dynamically updated to today’s dollars, and the subscript is the original value at the publishing date of the source text.

inflation adjustment: Inflation.hs provides a Pandoc Markdown plugin which allows automatic inflation adjusting of dollar amounts, presenting the nominal amount & a current real amount, with a syntax like [$5]($1980).

I don’t know why they don’t advertise their oversubscription rate. The FCC should probably require this to be disclosed in some standard location. So many people are mad because “I paid for a gigabit and I can’t use the whole thing”… but like you didn’t pay for a gigabit you paid for a gigabit shared among 100 other people, which means peak-of-sums you should usually get gigabit, but it’s not guaranteed.

The internet is a series of tubes! You can get a dedicated gigabit sized tube but it’ll cost 1-2 orders of magnitude more.

E: Even elsewhere on this thread people are like

I dunno, I pay $70 a month for gigabit from Google Fiber and absolutely saturate that thing all day long up and down.

Yes! You are the noisy neighbor getting lucky that your neighbors aren’t also noisy!

[Writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.

- Socrates (written down by Plato)

I have no idea what code is running on a server I can't access.

That's like... the whole point? You have some kind of hardware-based measured boot thing that can provide a cryptographic attestation that the code it's running is the same as the code that's been reviewed by an independent auditor. If the auditor confirms that the data isn't being stored, just processed and thrown away, that's almost as good as on-device compute for 99.999% of users. (On-device compute can also be backdoored, so you have to trust this even in the case that everything is local.)

The presentation was fairly detail-light so I don't know if this is actually what they're doing, but it's nice to see some effort in this direction.

E: I roughly agree with this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40638740) later down the thread -- what exactly the auditors are verifying is the key important bit.

TL;DR: It’s not good to exercise too much with no rest. Your body won’t actually be able to repair itself to how you were before the workout, let alone improve at all. Someone’s coach gave them a training plan that was bad and caused this.

Yeah... hopefully the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon X chips get integrated properly by someone so there's actual competition. Mobile data in my laptop also sounds like it would be pretty nice. Not holding my breath though, Microsoft may still mess it up on the Windows side :(

GPT Best Practices 3 years ago

* Use delimiters to clearly indicate distinct parts of the input

* Specify the desired length of the output

You should do this if you ask a human to write something too, given no other context. Splitting things up with delimiters helps humans understand text. The desired length of the output is also very clearly useful information.

* Ask the model to adopt a persona

This is maybe a bit more of a stretch but if you hired a writer to write for you, you would tell them who you are so they can have some context right? That’s basically what this is.

For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

because 3D printing arbitrary geometry, especially with arbitrary materials is Really Hard

a human has to look at how it's printed- two very similar shapes might take vastly different times to print and require different amounts of support material, etc.

Just because it’s electric (feels really nice to drive), the range is good, and there’s a lot of storage space.

Also, some other cars at the same price range have weird feature omissions like no rear seat-warmers or no automatic wipers, etc.

But yes it’s clearly not as well put together as other cars. I don’t see how these are mutually exclusive.

They make mod chips for the Nintendo Switch that let you load arbitrary games without protection. Compared to the actual Homebrew community, which doesn’t actively advertise or support features like that.

They were probably first to market, but then the community found the RCM bug and now Xecutor is pretty irrelevant.

Side note: “So long Gary Bowser“