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I think Huggingface was hacked, and if Huggingface and OpenAI claim it was OpenAI, then I believe them.
I'm saying that OpenAI's models cheat to win benchmarks, more than other models, they know this, and they don't stop this because the alternative is to release models which have obviously weaker scores compared to Anthropic's models.
Time to first token, especially for smaller models, can be sharply reduced.
Latency can be just as important as overall throughput, especially for inference providers like Groq and Cerebras.
This is clearly just OpenAI's marketing. Their models, very famously, are prone to reward hacking benchmarks in ways that other models are not. They need to publish numbers showing that their models are just as good as Anthropic's, since their entire business is at risk of collapsing if everyone is aware of how behind the frontier they truly are.
Even X is being astroturfed by them after that fiasco earlier this year with the Department of War where they undermined Anthropic's negotiating position by allowing unlimited use of OpenAI LLMs for autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. Several accounts suddenly started spreading the good word about GPT-5 and Codex, and one of these accounts very happily tweeted out a private X message from Sam Altman himself offering extremely generous token spending limits with Codex, presumably in exchange for positive coverage.
I have a hard time blaming anyone other than the internet monopolists and the FCC for this. If we had similar regulations as the UK (you lay infrastructure that serves Internet users, you must also rent this infrastructure out at regulated rates to other ISPs), we could have had a much quicker buildout of high speed internet service, instead of regional monopolies which defeated even the great Google.
Starlink’s total addressable market is only so large because of these monopolies. As sad as it is that astronomy will never be the same, it is a strong net positive for the world that fast internet be available at an affordable price.
Plenty of people purchase digital movie rentals from Apple, Youtube, etcetera because they know they will watch it once, and the lower price in exchange for a temporary license is acceptable to them. I don't think banning this is pro-consumer.
It should, however, be illegal to tell your customers that they are purchasing/buying media without explicit "Rent" language (which implies a non-expiring license) when you do not yourself have the right to grant non-expiring licenses.
That most-recent spike during/post-COVID really puts into perspective just how unreasonable low-wage employers were to be so hysterical.
It’s incredible that “Search the Current Folder” is not the default, nor, as far as I’m aware, can it be made the default.
I’d argue they started doing that a bit earlier. My hard drive from 2011 made using Windows a miserable experience any time the search indexing or windows defender scans kicked on, no later than 2016-2017.
This is it. I can’t believe the other commenters are unaware that Cursor recently fine-tuned an open-source model and brought it to the frontier, even if it remained there briefly.
Elon/xAI want Grok to become useful for coding. Cursor has enough data and expertise to create a useful coding model. They found a price and an arrangement that made sense for both parties.
Unfortunately, you're right. It is LLM-written: https://www.pangram.com/history/8b17aa57-ce1f-4f46-85f4-4db0...
That’s my mistake then. That particular gradient is the visual equivalent of reading a paragraph with em-dashes and “It’s not just X, it’s Y”.
This is quite the coincidence. Forgive me for assuming your website was built without attention to detail and care.
FYI, the color gradient on your website is an easy tell that it was vibe coded: https://prg.sh/ramblings/Why-Your-AI-Keeps-Building-the-Same...
Why is uneven, concentrated development some kind of public good?
Because of agglomeration and the incredible desirability of mixed-use walkable neighborhoods (see rents in walkable neighborhoods of NYC + SF + Boston for proof). This farmland is only desirable and sought out by developers because of zoning restrictions elsewhere.
How does this position unroll? How does the farm eventually get developed in 50 years? Do they have to buy TDR from someone else? Does an "equivalent" TDR have to be demolished?
These are all great questions which reveal that TDRs are not a very forward-looking policy solution to the housing crisis. Maybe planners believe there will be more appetite for taller buildings in the future, or that land prices will rise enough that the owners' support for zoning reform will overcome opposition. It does seem absurd, and more like a way to bribe property owners so that local politicians can avoid making public decisions in meetings that 90% of NIMBY cranks disagree with.
If you can get a payout for "selling" something without having to actually sell any part of your property that you intend on using, and nothing will change in your neighborhood, why wouldn't you sell it? And if property owners and residents in a neighborhood are crying to anyone who will listen that the world will end if four-story buildings give way to six-story buildings, you now have a big incentive to show up to those same land use meetings and push back.
Your account has written 6 comments in 13 minutes, every one of them in AI-like pithy prose.
The same criticism has been said of Deno and Pnpm and bun, and yet, despite all these years since their respective releases, node and npm remain slower than all three options.
3. Superior CPU schedulers, which do not ever undergo serious regressions that are not ever fixed: https://x.com/SheriefFYI/status/1856356547875541196
Opus 4.6 has gotten pretty good at writing Powershell.
It’s the first model where I didn’t have to ask, repeatedly, that it use Powershell 5, and never use emojis or other invalid characters, like Gemini and those non-ASCII spaces.
Why would you think that the same thing preventing density and new development in cities won’t stop your new city from growing before any building taller than 2 stories is built?
It’s a good thing that businesses can make investment plans with legible rules to follow. Too many communities are blocking data centers for no good reason, and this preempts NIMBYs and unreasonable local opposition.
“What about my water?”- not an issue in this area.
“What about my electric bill?”- we’re signing long term contracts with local power companies or building out our own capacity; we eat the marginal costs and don’t increase your bill.
“What about noise?”- we’re far enough away from the nearest person that they cannot hear us; fans are x decibels at y distance; not a problem.
“I saw on Facebook that data centers poison the water and spy on me”- seek help, you cannot block us from building out and giving you oodles of tax money for this nonsense reason.
When I lived in Costa Rica, I lost three surge protectors in a year to power surges. During one such power surge, I didn't notice that the red light indicating surge protection was already out, and a power surge fried my (knockoff) Macbook power adapter, leaving me without a way to work for a day.
In case anyone doubts it's AI-written: https://www.pangram.com/history/b7433cbe-08e7-43fe-9a32-3e43...
They seem to have copied Cursor in hijacking ⌘Y shortcut for "Yes" instead of Undo.
I don't think we should excuse Microsoft for bloating Windows because memory became abundant.
https://x.com/nickgerli1/status/2006872715316121750
Permitting reform made Austin, Texas the second-most affordable city in America by rent to income ratio.
There are neighborhoods full of affordable new construction houses not far from where I live. They sell slowly because people would rather live in the popular areas.
Mortgage rates rose and property prices have not yet fallen to match reality. I would bet that this is a much stronger factor in preventing those new homes from selling rather than buyers simply having a preference for different neighborhoods.
That includes determining the rental price, and imposing fines for empty units.
We already have a fine for empty units. They're called property taxes, and they're the strongest and easiest-to-use tool that local governments have for reducing vacancies.
I would argue a 1 bedroom apartment should have its rent capped at less than 40% of the monthly take home of someone on minimum wage.
Then you're making it de facto illegal to build new housing. No bank is going to lend money to anyone to build more housing if they can't charge enough rent to cover the loan.
In what US city can someone on minimum wage raise two children? On the US federal minimum wage?!
Maybe not the US federal minimum wage, but Austin has become the second-most affordable city in America (median rent price to median household income ratio), just by permitting a huge number of apartments.
How does this help young people who want to move to a new city, but can't because all apartments are already rented because rents are far below market rate? This is reality in cities like Berlin and Stockholm.
You need more housing. Rents in Austin have collapsed because the city made it legal to build a lot more housing.
It's frustrating that the problem is acknowledged (Housing prices are too high) but the solution seems to evade the author and nearly everyone involved in setting housing policy; not because of a lack of rent control.
Housing is too expensive because it's illegal to build enough of it.
No, multi-generation households will not save us. We should not make it impossible for young people to move to cities where high-paying jobs are, or force anyone to stay in abusive homes because we have made it impossible to live on your own.
It doesn't reduce the amount of RAM you need at all. It does reduce the amount of VRAM/HBM you need, however, since having all parameters/experts in one pass loaded on your GPU substantially increases token processing and generation speed, even if you have to load different experts for the next pass.
Technically you don't even need to have enough RAM to load the entire model, as some inference engines allow you to offload some layers to disk. Though even with top of the line SSDs, this won't be ideal unless you can accept very low single-digit token generation rates.
That's not saying much, since it's still dependent upon the untyped mess that is YAML.
The Paramount+ user interface on my Samsung TV is horrendous.
It frequently crashes after displaying ads, forcing me to re-open the app and watch ads again.
When watching ads does succeed (all 3 minutes of them…) and playback of my show begins, it shows the enormous pause button, the giant fade-to-black bars at the top and bottom of the screen, and covers up the subtitles, as though I had pressed ‘Play’.
And trying to pause requires you to press the pause button TWICE.
I tried to play a series, but instead of starting from the last-played episode + 1, it always plays the most recent episode since it’s a rewatch. This happened every time until I got caught up.
So I strongly disagree. If only to be able to watch all of this content without all of frustrating design flaws.
EDIT: They also end each episode with 2-3 minutes of ads. So you had to exit the show, then re-enter to not get hit with two ad breaks in a row.