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> You do realize that this kind of rant leads to AI designed to better emulate humans?

Obligatory https://xkcd.com/810

> it used to be relatively difficult/expensive/obscure

I don't know I fully agree with this. Consoles always had the "walled garden" thing going for them, but on the other side of things, developing games became so cheap and easy during the personal computer revolution that whole industry collapsed in '83 under a massive flood of shovelware...

Somehow this particular formulation makes me scream internally. It's not the classic print edition of the NYT that everybody grew up with, it's the click-maxing online version...

> What worries me still is the push to more <Cotton Gin> as a response even while <Cotton Gin> is a main driver for jobs being cut

Welcome to the Industrial Revolution, comrade Marx! We must seize the means of production

This is just the model editing weights in the same way humans do when we jailbreak/ablate models. The method isn't novel, the interesting bit is that Astra will do it at all (I'd expect some safeguards in this area around jailbreaks)

> Anthropic's numbers show why. More than 90% of the code added to its software in September was written by Claude. Meanwhile, revenue has grown vastly faster than headcount.

Correlation does not equal causation?

The preview version was free on OpenCode for a couple of weeks, so it certainly works. I didn't feed it anything beyond simple coding tasks though

> looks more like performance art

Not that I think this particular instance is particularly high-effort, but almost all revolutionary acts appear performative. That's kind of the point?

You don't bring publicity to your cause by keeping your head down and staying quiet (and as they say, any publicity is good publicity).

I didn't have any issues setting this up in Debian

It's the default that a bunch of vendors package. For example, Nvidia's official CUDA images used to only be provided for Ubuntu (they have since expanded their offerings somewhat)

> "The free operating system that I use is not giving me enterprise level security updates"

Canonical absolutely is marketing enterprise security updates (at least for those who pay). I don't see this in the paid ESM updates channel yet either?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that exactly no one is going to migrate from (famously bug-ridden) Auth0 to a vibe-coded reimplementation thereof, for the single most security-critical item in their tech stack

> Why not support one of those ventures or build a platform to help amplify them?

Because they're all deeply mired in their own bureaucracy, and the ramp up to be a major contributor takes years?

> It upsets me somewhat that they’re protesting things like lock-in only after being laid off

One of the keys to a successful revolution is not purging all your allies by means of purity tests.

We can cheer someone on when they strike back at the establishment, regardless of how recently they may have joined the cause.

These rules are not new, right? They appear to match the previous guidance (restrictions on top-10 models, exemption for open-source collaboration)

His character is some sort of hereditary noble who also happens to be the most decorated captain in starfleet, in command of the fleet flagship, allowed to galavant about with little to no effective oversight... Oh, and he quickly befriends a literal god, who watches over him from then on.

I don't think "lack of power" is one of Picard's defining attributes

In a company that regularly ingests terabytes of data from the open internet? I doubt they'd even blink

I don't think casuals have 8TB of disk space either

No doubt it's fake, but 8 TB of weights would be a pretty crazy way to package malware

I remember have a very long argument with a team I worked on, who were mostly convinced our service couldn't handle requests any faster because the CPUs were already at 100%. In the end we tripled the requests-per-second by cleaning up the service's memory access patterns...

Celiac has a very high incidence in northern Spain as well - they attribute it to having a very similar Celtic genetic profile as the Irish.

> It's where influential folks post. Whether you like it or not.

It's where a bunch of rich (and often very right-leaning) assholes post. I'm not clear that correlates with "influential" outside of very specific circles - certainly all the thinkers and doers I used to follow on twitter left long since.

> Even Zuckerberg tweets.

Having worked for the man some time ago, I'm pretty sure a bowl of oatmeal has more insightful things to say

I mean, the rest of us just stopped going there. The interesting tech discussions long since left twitter, and if you are jonesing for a fix there is always bluesky or mastodon

> if you spent a lot of time on X you will likely remember a particular one: everyone seemed to be suddenly becoming fans of Adolf Hitler... I did not leave X the platform, but I did leave X the interface

You know, it really is entirely optional to hang out at the Nazi bar.

> A phone connected to cell is an always-on tracking device

A phone connected to wifi is also an always-on tracking device. You can't really escape this without removing the "phone" part of the equation

I don't see how the cost of inferencing existing models can become prohibitive. Multiple providers are selling DeepSeek 4.1 Flash tokens at just above cost, and seem to be doing so profitably.

What we do potentially lose out on are the next few generations of models in the case of a market correction, as the big labs won't be able to afford training anymore.

> AI results from search engines don't generate the click-through revenue that search ads did

The question in my mind, is what were all the Google execs smoking when they decided to kill the golden goose?

It's not like this is a non-obvious outcome of sending all your most valuable searches to an in-house AI answer instead of an ad click...

> On the other hand kings had free-range organic grown meat prepared by personal cook anytime they wanted which is a true luxury even

There is no refrigeration, so "fresh" meat has to be slaughtered the same day. Kings tended to live in populated areas, so wild game would be scarce. Majority of meat would have been pork kept in pens (not free-range in the modern sense), or mutton/goat (free range, but typically older and tougher). At the same time, even a king likely wasn't slaughtering 365 pigs/year just to have fresh meat every day - lots of dried, smoked, or even salted meat in the diet...

That's a really concrete demonstration of gerrymandering. Assign it in schools!

I'm actually unsure whether this is satire or not, which says volumes about the current moment