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macOS 12 is EOL and is no longer receiving security updates.

There’s a strong chance it’s vulnerable, too

Re:Gemini 2.5 on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @07:03PM (#43477013)
Interestingly, the model hallucinated the ability to use a search tool when I was playing around with it
Re:My 16-month theanine self-experiment on Sunday March 09, 2025 @11:14AM (#43309742)
I thought I was crazy/imagining things, but I had a similar experience. Maybe I should try Suntheanine again
The M3 Ultra is the only configuration that supports 512GB and it has memory bandwidth of 819GB/s.
I wonder if they could fit a simple flip-out stand for some tilt without too many compromises
Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:18PM (#43007764)
OpenAI is currently in talks to raise at a $340B valuation.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/30/openai-said-to-be-in-talks...

Re:The Anthropic Economic Index on Monday February 10, 2025 @09:48AM (#43000909)
> Overall, we saw a slight lean towards augmentation, with 57% of tasks being augmented and 43% of tasks being automated.

I'd like to see a comparison to the data 6 months ago, before Sonnet 3.5. I suspect the automation rate will track up over time, but that may mostly be captured by API usage which isn't in the dataset.

The title here doesn't seem to match. The paper is called "TopoNets: High Performing Vision and Language Models with Brain-Like Topography"

Even with their new method, models with topography seem to perform worse than models without.

Re:No Calls on Thursday January 16, 2025 @10:21AM (#42726453)
My understanding is that enterprise purchasing teams are often evaluated based on their ability to secure discounts compared to the initial sticker price of the software. Therefore, having a firm sticker price might make them less incentivized to purchase your SaaS. I suspect many companies don't put pricing up front so the email can say "Normally, we charge X per seat, but we'll give you a special volume offer of Y"
Re:Okta – Username Above 52 Characters Security Advisory on Friday November 01, 2024 @10:11PM (#42023555)
It is listed on their security advisories page, which you can navigate to from that link:

https://trust.okta.com/security-advisories/

Re:FDA Authorizes First Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Software on Friday September 13, 2024 @10:53AM (#41531791)
Many people already have an iPhone, so that's a sunk cost.

Even not looking at the used market, a new iPhone SE is $430 (and likely to be substantially updated soon)

Re:Introducing Voice Isolator and Background Noise Remover on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @05:28PM (#40870164)
I assure you they didn't use an LLM to invent their pricing strategy. Elevenlabs subscription levels are designed around converting text-to-speech in the primary use-case. They charge by the character when converting text to speech, so characters are kind of the currency on their site. 1000 characters per minute makes sense in that context and I find it surprisingly expensive compared to generation
From the WHO report:

> This is in the context of increased population mixing following a period of reduced circulation of GAS during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The article is merely restating the WHO report and not adding any new political takes. The downvotes are because the comment is incorrect.

Apple introduced it as the "Pro" model which is the high end line in apple-parlance. I'd expect a future non-pro model to slot in under it with all the essential features.

I also wouldn't be surprised if the Vision Pro eventually retails for $2999 instead of $3499. Today, it's a relatively low volume product and I'd expect costs to fall when Apple makes a push for a larger market

Re:Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing? on Thursday January 11, 2024 @10:15PM (#38963216)
Reminds me of Clayton Christensen's talk at Google or argument in this article.

"Because they were taught to believe that the efficiency of capital was a virtue, financiers began measuring profitability not as dollars, yen, or yuan, but as ratios like RONA (return on net assets), ROIC (return on invested capital), and IRR (internal rate of return)...

All of this makes market-creating innovations appear less attractive as investments. Typically, they bear fruit only after five to 10 years; in contrast, efficiency innovations typically pay off within a year or two. What’s worse, growing market-creating innovations to scale uses capital, which must often be put onto the balance sheet. Efficiency innovations take capital off the balance sheet, however. To top it off, efficiency innovations almost always seem to entail less risk than market-creating ones, because a market for them already exists."

https://hbr.org/2014/06/the-capitalists-dilemma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHdS_4GsKmg

Re:Cavities were cured in 1985, and no one knows it yet on Monday September 25, 2023 @09:50AM (#37643792)
He gave a SkyTalk at DC30 on the same topic with a few more years of knowledge
Re:Comparing 60 LLMs with a set of 20 prompts on Saturday September 09, 2023 @12:06PM (#37446934)
That's a stop token, not a sarcasm tag
> Last week, while checking the device of an individual employed by a Washington DC-based civil society organization with international offices, Citizen Lab found an actively exploited zero-click vulnerability being used to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus mercenary spyware.

https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zer...

Re:Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $4.5B from $10B on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:58AM (#36535011)
Considering twitter's worth a third of what he paid for it, probably not

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-30/twitter-i...

Re:OpenLLaMA: An Open Reproduction of LLaMA on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @10:51AM (#35803101)
RedPajama is also training both foundation and instruct-tuned models

Source: https://twitter.com/togethercompute/status/16527350961501757...

Re:Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time on Thursday July 14, 2022 @01:59PM (#32099399)
This isn't true - vacancy rates are below the healthy threshold https://citylimits.org/2022/05/17/nycs-latest-vacancy-survey...
Re:Ask HN: State of PHP at Facebook? on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @12:29PM (#29015500)
HHVM is open source and seeing active development with weekly releases: https://hhvm.com/blog/

My understanding is they're waiting on the language stabilizing before making a push to open it up to the broader software engineering community.

They're still heavily invested in Hack and releasing research papers like https://engineering.fb.com/2021/03/03/developer-tools/hhvm-j....

Migrating to another language without an incremental adoption path likely isn't feasible for them

If he wrote a book with similar content, would you have the social expectation that book stores would sell it or a publishing house would publish it?
Unfortunately, it seems the service the extension used has been retired.
Re:Show HN: Subform, a UI layout tool on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @10:29PM (#16542077)
The issue is that Subform is 3x the price of Sketch (which lets you keep your current version when your license runs out) and 2x as expensive as Figma Pro and Framer.

Subform is in beta, and the others are finished and offer free trials.