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blog.alexellis.io 1mo ago

Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool

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gizmodo.com 8mo ago

Meta Says Porn Stash Was for 'Personal Use,' Not Training AI Models

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techcrunch.com 1y ago

Grok says its 'skeptical' about Holocaust death toll, blames 'programming error'

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www.backblaze.com 1y ago

B2 Overdrive: Terabit-Speed Throughput for AI/ML and HPC Workloads

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arstechnica.com 1y ago

Backblaze responds to claims of "sham accounting", "customer backups at risk"

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www.wired.com 1y ago

Trump administration's blockchain plan for USAID is a real head-scratcher

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conversableeconomist.com 1y ago

Private Credit: Replacing Banks for Business Loans?

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eclecticlight.co 1y ago

Browse your Mac's log with LogUI

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eclecticlight.co 1y ago

Increasingly Insecure in Sequoia

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go.dev 1y ago

Faster Go Maps with Swiss Tables

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eclecticlight.co 1y ago

Mac mini M4 Pro first impressions, cores and more

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www.jeffgeerling.com 1y ago

JetKVM: Tiny IP KVM That's Not an Apple Watch

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eclecticlight.co 1y ago

iCloud has changed in Sequoia: pinning and more

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arstechnica.com 1y ago

Tandem OLED is OLED's latest weapon in holding off MicroLED, QDEL

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www.cbsnews.com 1y ago

End of cash bail in Illinois has not resulted in more crime, has impacted courts

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sciencebasedmedicine.org 1y ago

Refuting: "US gov data" confirms "143,233% rise in cancer due to Covid vaccine"

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bsky.app 1y ago

One Million new Bluesky users in 3 days

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www.theverge.com 1y ago

Backpage co-founder sentenced to five years in prison

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arstechnica.com 1y ago

LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English

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techcrunch.com 1y ago

Lyft follows in Uber's footsteps with a rider verification program

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www.muckrock.com 1y ago

Our search for the best tabular-data extraction tool in 2024, and what we found

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www.theverge.com 1y ago

Trump announces The DeFiant Ones, a new cryptocurrency platform

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boltsmag.org 1y ago

Chicago Police Made Nearly 200k Secret Traffic Stops Last Year

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arstechnica.com 1y ago

Redbox app axed, dashing people's hopes of keeping purchased content

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daringfireball.net 2y ago

Base-Model RAM in Apple Devices

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arstechnica.com 2y ago

Three women contract HIV from dirty "vampire facials" at unlicensed spa

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olegkutkov.me 2y ago

Starlink terminal revision 4: overview and tests

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arstechnica.com 2y ago

Speedy SD Express cards have gone nowhere for years, Samsung could change that

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jalopnik.com 2y ago

Florida cop empties his gun, runs for cover after acorn falls on car

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 2y ago

Android malware Chameleon disables Fingerprint Unlock to steal PINs

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I’m trying to understand how this is useful information on its own?

Maybe I missed it, but it doesn’t tell you if it’s more successful for less overall cost?

I can easily make Sonnet 4.6 cost way more than any Opus model because while it’s cheaper per prompt it might take 10x more rounds (or never) solve a problem.

IMO it doesn’t handily beat it.

It’s typically equivalent, sometimes better, sometimes behind. Better at following a well defined plan, less good at concept exploration and planning imo.

At 1m context it’s basically the same price.

People keep saying this, but I’m not sure I buy it.

I was using both Codex and Claude Code heavily on some projects this weekend.

In one project Codex was screwing everything up and in another one absolutely killing it. I’ve seen the same from Claude.

In the bad Codex example it had the wrong idea and kept trying to figure out how to accomplish the same thing no matter how many times I attempt to correct it. Undoing the recent changes where it went down the wrong path was the only way to get things back on track.

I wonder if context poisoning is a bigger problem than people realize.

It’s not an issue with limitations of current technology. In some cases it’s just greed and laziness. I’ve had two vehicles that have the ability to be more friendly to other drivers, but that functionality is only enabled outside of the U.S. (matrix headlights or the equivalent).

GM vehicles had been notorious for having poorly adjusted headlights from the factory. The fact that Xenon systems seemed to always come with auto leveling and LED often does not is crazy.

Claude Opus 4.5 8 months ago

You should still give it a try. Can’t speak for their experience, but doesn’t ring true for me.

The man was prosecuted and the jury found him not guilty.

I would be curious to know what their reasoning was.

I think mine would be that since these agents seem to face absolutely no consequences for their far more egregious actions. Why should something so minor result in jail time. To be clear, I’m not talking about their lawful actions. I’m talking about them assaulting and abusing people and excessive use of force that’s been captured on camera all across the country.

True, but more and wider references seems to imply better when I’m not sure that’s true. Wikipedia is edited and it’s sources are curated. I think that’s a good thing.

That depends on a lot of factors, but for me personally, yes it is. Much worse.

Assuming we’re talking about hosting things for Internet users. My fiber internet connection has gone down multiple times, though relatively quickly restored. My power has gone out several times in the last year, with one storm having it out for nearly 24 hrs. I was sleep when it went out and I didn’t start the generator until it was out for 3-4 hours already, far longer than my UPSes could hold up. I’ve had to do maintenance and updates both physical and software.

All of those things contribute to a downtime significantly higher than I see with my stuff running on Linode, Fly.io or AWS.

I run Proxmox and K3s at home and it makes things far more reliable, but it’s also extra overhead for me to maintain.

Most or all of those things could be mitigated at home, but at what cost?

I’m asking you to provide evidence for your claim.

Personally, I don’t see Democrats talking about masculinity that seems to be an obsession of the right.

I think it’s a meaningful because some of the people talking about masculinity and how the Democrats or the liberals want to take that away or get rid of it have often been the worst examples of it in my opinion. I also think it’s worth noting the leaders of political parties and how they themselves represent the values they claim to be fighting for.

current left-wing philosophy that provides any sort of meaningful place or role for masculinity as it is commonly understood

I think this strongly depends on your reality and perception.

How is masculinity commonly understood and what examples do you have of the left and democrats not making space?

On the other side, how can you not see examples of toxic masculinity demonstrated from prominent Republicans including the president?

RFK Jr. Must Go 9 months ago

Meanwhile, a ProPublica review of federal data found that more than $40 million in grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health for dozens of autism-related research projects were canceled under Kennedy’s watch. Some had been awarded to universities the administration is now targeting, while others ran afoul of Trump’s “anti-woke” priorities by mentioning gender and other verboten terms. Among them was a grant to Harvard University to use data on nearly half a million Israeli children to evaluate whether men’s exposure to air pollution affects the risk of having a child with autism. (A small number of grants have been recently reinstated.) A survey of researchers conducted by the Autism Science Foundation, which tallied cuts to training grants and the anticipated cuts to future grants over the next few years, estimated that the total loss of funding could be tens of millions more.

https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-autism-environment...

So they cut funding then put it back for possibly fewer studies, but with new press release?

RFK Jr. Must Go 9 months ago

Status quo is preferable to regression and destruction in my view.

Building things takes time, destruction does not. The protest vote was in favor of destruction.

I don’t think Biden was status quo so much as he led a deliberate and traditional administration.