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As much as I love just about everything about Sando, he doesn’t hold a candle to Mark Twain.

I think this is a recency bias in effect.

But damn, Sanderson writes some great stories.

Someone else brought up Spielberg and I think a pretty good argument could be made there. But Twain has already stood the test of time.

What a dumb take. Apple is the most wildly successful company in the market. You think whatever pittance they get from this will outweigh the cost of stolen ip?

OpenAI has no shortage of vc money sources.

Basically nothing. I mean they’ll have to pay up but money clearly isn’t something OpenAI worries about. They’ll just raise more from the infinite vc money tree.

It’s interesting to me that people thought/think this was a good effect. I saw t2 in the theaters when it was released and I thought this was the phoniest effect of the movie. It was extremely cheesy, so clearly sitting on top of the actor. They literally looked like aluminum flowers taped on to his shirt.

I use it on my 15 pro max. It's a major improvement, but I still don't use siri much. It's gone from murderously infuriating to passably usable. I still use gpt for any sort of exploratory conversations. I haven't bothered trying to use siri for that because to me that's not what siri is for.

Although given how effed up the voice for chatgpt is now with the latest updates I might talk with siri more.

Because I use carplay in tandem with my phone where the map is on the carplay screen and turn by turn directions are on my phone, it's always unlocked so I haven't run into whatever lock screen issue you brought up.

Steam needs a statistic for Wine/crossover. I play tons of games on my mac via steam through crossover. It's crazy that multiple layers of translation work so well.

Anybody have an idea of what the flops per token generated is on a SOTA model like current GPT/OPUS? Is it basically the parameter count? So something like GLM-5.2 is, at a minimum, ~744 GFLOPs per token generated?

Am I way off base? Seems astronomical.

yeah, spacex's planned million satellite datacenter-in-space constellation doesn't seem as absurd.

I used it a few times. It's weird. It reminded me of Christopher Walken with all the oddly placed pauses.

Honestly I find it distracting when people do the mmmhmm thing. I don’t find it encouraging or helpful or whatever.

Corollary: get other people to spend their tokens on PRs

Damn funny comment.

The thing with language models is they are tailor made to fool managerial types into thinking it’s the holy grail.

Just like many managers, the appearance of productivity is all that counts. And LLMs shine at giving the appearance of having solved all of the managers problems, and all they have to do to use it is spend on tokens.

This isn’t to say that LLMs aren’t truly useful, they absolutely are. But they’re very nature is one of simulating intelligence through next word prediction.

The chat modes and models are by their nature supremely attractive to management layers, because they give answers that sound so damn plausible even when they are complete fictions, and uttered with such confidence how could they be anything but the singularity.

I know this is a topic de jour for submitters lately, but it seems weird for hacker news, a website for and by founders who primarily offer software-as-a-service. I also think it seems weird for a website whose patrons are seemingly predominantly against private property / property ownership. At least the vocal ones seem to feel that way.

I get that HN is made up of a variety of people with a variety of opinions, and different confluences of events lead to different groups being more or less vocal at different times. So maybe this is just that in action.

Not OP, but this talks about it: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352152X2...

The shelf-life of a day is because of the abstract voting aspect. Old crappy forums used comments, vs an abstract notion, as a vote.

This allowed for long running conversations. It did require stronger protections of posting rights though.

If it seemed useful enough someone could make an HN app that sorted by activity, maybe weighted by a person’s karma.

Not judging, but I'm curious why you don't wear a watch?

Is there something wrong with the m5s? I have an m4 pro and I’ve never heard the fan on it. I don’t do much with local llms, but I naturally use the web and play games (windows games at that with wine/crossover).

Well, there are the political ideals expressed or embraced by the populace, and then there are politicians. AFAICT political parties at the national level and state level in the US is pure theater.

“TeraThread”

Apple has been weathering this for a while. Maybe it was bad timing with a contract rollover but they seem to have lost their primacy with TMSC.

I’m guessing they are doing their best to maintain margins. I don’t know what Apple’s cash chest has these days but it’s always been enormous.

But they don’t score points in the stock market by having cash on hand. They do get points for operating margin.

Must stash

As an fpga engineer dealing with bitwidths that are non-byte multiples is very normal and when I end up writing software for various reasons, I often miss it. Usually when trying to slice and parse or construct messages.

Obviously there are ways around pretty much everything, but it’s nice to have first class language support for bit slices.

For digital chip design, research Verilog and/or SystemVerilog, and for tools, check out verilator and the OSS cad suite: https://github.com/YosysHQ/oss-cad-suite-build

“It was a brilliant cure, but we lost the patient.”

Now that it's been clear there's money to be made for a little while, inference engines will be commoditized the same way as bitcoin miners.

No true Scotsman…

Now this would at least resemble a cyberdeck from the books.

I think these things are interesting, but I grew up on neuromancer...and so I have some cognitive dissonance when I see these described as cyberdecks and see screens.

I get that the term has moved on, and cyberdeck means whatever people say it means now. But to me, these are just novel retro diy laptops. I think given today's technology you could sort of a approximate a cyberdeck with some low end ar/vr glasses like something from xreal and ditch the screen.