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It can’t. And it won’t.

Yes. There are families on the fringe that tries to make it work. But it’s an exception. Not a norm.

To be clear, we have not yet determined whether Claude Opus 4 has definitively passed the Capabilities Threshold that requires ASL-3 protections. Rather, due to continued improvements in CBRN-related knowledge and capabilities, we have determined that clearly ruling out ASL-3 risks is not possible for Claude Opus 4 in the way it was for every previous model, and more detailed study is required to conclusively assess the model’s level of risk. (We have ruled out that Claude Opus 4 needs the ASL-4 Standard, as required by our RSP, and, similarly, we have ruled out that Claude Sonnet 4 needs the ASL-3 Standard.)

I’m not convinced by Tyler’s take.

If Claude’s Constitutional AI research is legit, what prevents China to pull a few strings through SAE and nudge the model to be more aligned with China’s political economy ideal? It’s not like the web doesn’t have enough left-leaning training dataset.

Growing up in China (and left 15 years ago), I don’t feel the “Grand Strategy” kind of person tends to survive in the harsh dog-eat-dog hand combat nature of political life in China.

Lastly, there was a popular lie in China around 1840/First Opium War: the British empire eats so much meat that they need our tea. Surely they can’t attack us if they don’t want to get digestive problems.

Could Tyler be drinking too much tea?

This is totally a thing.

I think it also strengthens the neural pathway so that <speculation>when the next time you face the many options, the weight would be just slightly higher</>.

(I am assuming human brain works similar to how neural net works. I can be wrong here. )

Don't be silly. :-).

We have 350k and the training costs more like 5k.

Like I said in the question. It's proven to be hugely helpful to our app.

Our internal discussion is whether we should keep it as a secret weapon/asset or maybe we can monetise it to extend our runway.

PS. Alex, you are a husband/father just like I am. A snarky comment just isn't very helpful. Are you making the internet better place?

Wikipedia entry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Chongren

“Zhang had been a street sweeper during the Cultural Revolution,[1] before becoming the head of the Fine Arts Academy in Shanghai during the 1970s.”

Goodness me. Got pointers for me to read? Thanks.

Are there any quantities data for the performance comparison like they did for Aurora vs MySQL? Thanks

Fun story: four years ago, I hired Adrian to move a second-hand piano into our house. We lived on a very steep area with a narrow elbow driveway. Adrian has this incredible spatial memory and fine motor control that I still find it hard to believe how he did it.

He loaded the piano in his trailer and basically backed his BMW all the way up with half meter at most on each side, slowly through that elbow bend and parked the trailer's door right on where we planned to unload the piano. Maybe 2cm away from where he intended to land it.

If they are selling it as an art, sure they can, at least, handle “&lt;” “&amp;” properly?

Who wants to buy a piece of art that can’t compile? ;-)

Yup. Totally agree with you on that. And yes this one is a constructive proposal.

My problem is on the like part.

Where shall we draw the line and how do we decide? To me this is a far more interesting discussion. (Maybe it has happened. I don’t go to many conferences these days so I might be missing something here. )

She mentioned http.client vs requests, datetime vs. moments etc, which are also quite correct to me. How about the cgilibs? Or pickle? Or the collections? Or unittest? Stay or go?

Lastly, the title of the talk can be tempered a bit. No? We all know what a leaking battery mean right? Toxic.

The problem with rants is it stings and it divides.

When it comes to constructive criticism, I think Amber did a good job with her criticism but can do better at the constructive front. Her problem statement was spot on and I agree that the direction she proposed is a good one.

However, to separate the standard library from the core is probably even more dramatic than the Python 2 to 3 migration. Is that what the community can afford at the moment? What's needed to make the transition? What's the opportunity costs? i.e. what other developments we can do for a bigger impact? What are the pros and cons?

I find it interesting that nobody has asked this question: what is your life situation?

Do you have a family? House/mortgage? Health insurance? You mentioned that CoCalc hires some engineers, some hat’s the burn rate? What do you need to keep working on it?

If you have got your baseline covered, William, i’d say go for it. Your heart is clearly on this path.

So beautiful.

Chris was the founder of fatbrain which went the ”traditional way”. So I guess he learned a few things there.

What’s interesting about photo related business is that longevity really matters. It’s hard to imagine handing your family memories to a fast-pivot-exit-happy “startup”. There are many YC companies founded in this area but none had survived so far?

I keep telling myself: "embrace changes. an upgrade is great; new defaults are cool; performance improvements are great; just do it; just do it".

Yeah.

One day.

PS. I do miss the days when you can just read a book and `man` your way around the dev environment.

The video above was 7-week before the Trump campaign and this one is after the result and a sort of review of the "success":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bG5ps5KdDo

There are many remote areas in the South Island that are hard to get to. For example, West coast and particular the Haast area, wasn’t connected to the rest of the country until late 1980s. That is, 130 years after Western people started colonisation here.

Previously the only way to get to these remote areas is via light aircraft and helicopters. “Flying doctor” and nurses weren’t uncommon. (Our midwife used to fly in, deliver a baby and fly back home for tea.)

Public transportation, especially long distance ones, are poor. (Comparing to Switzerland and China.) Dunedin is only 100 miles away from Queenstown but it usually takes us 4:30 to 5:00 to get there by car.

So if you see this news from these perspectives, you’ll see why it’s so cool and why the downsides aren’t that bad at all.

Python 2.7 by default?

More, please.

This is a sad news, especially to those of us who have been in the industry long enough to remember what kind of company Qihoo is.

Qihoo has often been surrounded by rumors of foul play, fraud, and dirty tricks. Its apps have been banned from the iTunes store before

Well, the same team started by building Malware, tons of them, and then hijacked computers to manipulate Alexa ranking or DDoS competitors websites.

Then they turned around and started a new company to built anti-Malware software that had, and still probably has, an enormous market share, which gives them more machines to sell adverts.

RIP, Opera.

Derek, we met a while ago when you came down to Dunedin. I'm glad you finally made the move down here.

What I found very interesting is that your decisions are driven not by where to move TO, but what you're moving away FROM. Your trip to Oregon, then to Singapore and now NZ seems to follow the similar route. From a vastly different culture and super-densely-populated .sg to the extreme remote and lonesome place like .nz.

I feel that's probably not the best way to go for it. Instead of trial-and-error, how about a search algorithm? Instead of "Why am I here", why not ask "Where do I WANT to be?".

Here was the list of criteria me and my wife came up when we were drifting around for a year to look for a city to settle down.

Crucial: 1) Small country with around 5M population. Coming from China, I feel lots of the problems of modern society & politics is there because of the large degree of separation. 2) Walkabout city. We love walking. I want to make sure the walk from home to office takes no more than 30 minutes. 3) Close to nature. Tramping is our main hobby. We want to start walking in the wild with less than 1 hour drive. (Reality is the closest one is 5 minutes walk from home but that's a bonus.) 4) With a high quality university. This gives us the continuous flow of different ideas even the city is small. 5) Price is moderate. We want to have the leisure time to spend with our families and work on our hobbies. Affordable housing and reasonable prices give us the lifestyle we want without having to work our butts off.

Ok to give up: 1) Museums, galleries and fine restaurants. Even when we were living in Seattle or Boston, we spend more time on solitude activities like walking and reading. So cultural stuffs are great but we won't die if we don't have them. 2) Varieties of products/shops. We don't buy a lot of stuff and when we do, we buy ones that last very very long but not particularly in-the-fashion. So don't have much choices is not a big problem for us. 3) Weather. I love San Diego's weather. Never too cold. Never too hot. But if it's a city that rains a lot and doesn't have a proper hot summary, we're fine with that.

We visited and stayed in more than 40 cities during that year. Some we stayed 2 months, others a few days. When we started the trip, we have never heard of Dunedin. But those criteria helped us to quickly sift through the options and lead us to this unusual decision.

Three years later, we still feel grateful that we made that choice. Life is good here.

A warm welcome from Dunedin, New Zealand.

Roger.

We chose neutral, low intrusiveness sound for the small projects. If you listen carefully, you should be able to distinguish the quick and light taps. It's much faster than the other sounds. The text stream will move too fast to be readable if we also display the contents from the small projects.

This is fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

My gut feeling is that those leaks are the "socket connections" that Firefox hasn't garbage collected yet. The demo you are seeing is using long poll so there might be some good number of socket churns.

FWIW, WebSocket support is high on our priority list. We just need to find the time to implement that.

Audio support on mobile devices is ... shitty. You're right that there is no sound on iPad but weirdly enough, iPhone+Safari seems to work, at least last time I checked.

Our focus in the next 2-3 months is on the desktop clients. We'll release a OSX desktop app next week, then a Windows app after that. Mobile is crucial in the long run but unfortunately we can't do much until the browser vendors provide better support for playing sounds.

Hey, that's not quite true. ;-)

I wrote most of our javascript on firefox. My firefox has no add-ons except the Firebug. Could it be one of your extensions? Have you tried refreshing it? Which version/OS?

We use howler.js to play the sounds. I have to say that I was a bit surprised to find Chrome/Safari/IE can play mp3 but Firefox plays ogg. I even had to submit a patch[1] so that howler.js can work on firefox under some weird edge cases.

[1] https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js/pull/62

A bit more background on this project for those curious minds:

Aldo and I each wrote a blog post on why we are building this:

http://beachmonks.com/posts/intro/choir.html

http://beachmonks.com/posts/explained/choir-explained.html

We've been slowly onboarding brave alpha users. We want to learn as much as we can from these early adopters, and plan to share our results in the form of short interviews published on our blog.

The first of these - with Ryan Baker of Timely - is up now.

http://beachmonks.com/posts/interviews/timely/that-siren-sou...

Good point and I agree that we human beings are wired towards photos.

My criticism is not "Text vs. Photo" but rather how to design for "Text AND Photo". The problem with the current design is 1) if there is photo, it's really hard to notice the text; 2) if there is no photo, the text reading experience is suboptimal too.

IMHO, a good design is the one where different elements can co-exist in harmony instead of try to shout louder than the others. It is from this perspective that the new Google+ design failed.

Aldo is a perfectionist. He keeps on pushing off the release date so that he can iron out every single bug he knew of, non-trivial part of which are caused by other services. The world does become a better place with this whole new version of mitmproxy.