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Sure but the robots that extend our capabilities often start by replicating our current capabilities, even if those are as simple as folding clothes. It provides a baseline for the next generation of robots that can do more.

Is there evidence of any state-sponsored bots at all? It seems like this has become an accepted fact but I don’t see any data indicating it’s actually real.

Off topic, but how do you operate without email? Is it not essential for many government services and utilities where you are?

(Here, it is technically optional for utilities but is an additional $10/month to have your electricity bill posted to you instead of emailed. The tax office requires email as does my bank though - I just checked.)

Fable 5 Is Back 21 days ago

Batch can take up to 24 hours (and often does) and may never complete if it gets cancelled so it’d be hard to build a user workflow around unless you kick off planning on Friday and come back Monday

Preliminary trials with Claude Mythos Preview showed that it would not provide an apples-to-apples comparison with other models because of how we had set up the experiment and how the model was served.

What does this mean? My guess is they couldn’t co-locate Mythos close enough to reduce latency?

(I’m assuming this experiment pre-dates the export controls)

[dead] 7 months ago

Beyond the other comments denouncing it as AI slop, it’s fundamentally wrong. GMV aka marketplace thru-revenue is strictly defined by accounting standards and most tax offices (including the IRS and ATO). It’s not something you just decide to have. One of the core principles of it is that the consumer is aware that the revenue will flow through (eg, if buying something on Etsy/Amazon, that is obvious while others like Uber are more contentious). Using a different model provider is unlikely to pass the test.

This would’ve been a fascinating article if written by an accounting expert but is unfortunately just slop.

I want to like Zoo but the rendering engine is so buggy currently that it’s not really usable for more than simple shapes. The text-to-CAD feature they highlight is slow and error-prone, so much so that they explicitly use a “prebuilt” version in the tutorial, and each time I tried it, it gave tool errors or took so long I just did it manually.

It’s the symbol to the left of the URL > Show Certificate. They even make it available on iOS Safari (Page Info > Connection Security Details), but if it’s expired, you’ll know by the big red warning page.

Not quite - while you can reduce oxygen levels, they have to be kept within 4pp so at worst, will make you light headed. Many athletes train at the same levels though so it’s easy to overcome.

Gartner claims 25% of the Fortune 500 are currently working to move back to on-prem for the majority of their applications. It’s not sexy so doesn’t appear in tech news as much but it’s happening

I’ve worked in a lot of enterprises on “tiny projects” but never on something that only went to 5 users. In one role I was the sole maintainer of a “small internal tool”…that had 1,000 daily users logging 5 hours/day each.

Visiting Us 1 year ago

Epic is used extensively in the UK, Europe and Australia so to say it’s a regional thing seems odd? They’re speculated to be one of the largest privately held companies in the world.

There’s a whole concept of records management in enterprises that manages the disposal of data. It’s far more complex than just purge dates as there’s often regulatory requirements and legal discovery issues so <2% of data is actually disposed due to perceived risk.

For personal data, the concept would be simpler but still has requirements like say tax records need to be kept 7 years.

They didn’t want to make a breaking change but didn’t:

1. Use UUIDv7, which has the same sortability without breaking the ID format, or

2. Repackage the ULIDs to maintain consistency

And then broke pagination with this change?

How was this ever approved by a change control board? Or do they not have one?