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"OpenAI executive hypes up new model"

Don't get me wrong, the benchmark jumps are good and I'm excited to try it, but only one or two of the benchmark jumps could be described as better than incremental.

"Claude 3.7"?

I think the better comparison point is Opus 5. I'm also using both and I think overall I like Opus slightly better, but I'm still using Codex a lot for any project requiring image handling.

Are there any figure to back up people moving to Codex?

I think it definitely makes sense since it's still the best Google has to offer in the "pro" tier.

AI sense of humor benchmark: http://witbench.com/

You mean he fired one person who threatened to quit if the changes to the paper weren't to their liking? Or am I misremembering?

"Uncharitable interpretation" is putting it mildly. I don't know the context for the quote but imagine being the CEO. You might give one hour interview outlining the tradeoffs you need to do to keep things running, and a random blogger takes a 5 second clip, makes an absurd interpretation and ends up on hackernews.

Having a "lighter standard" simply means people will have to write native apps, one per platform. I understand Apple wants this, but for Mozilla that should be the antithesis of what they're trying to achieve.

>I can't think of any existing lasers which you are intended to look at during daily use

Iphone face unlock users lidar to scan your face when you look at it.

If that was true they would've already released a full, no safety driver service. They have not.

I agree, it seems like Seedream has the neck at same length as Nano Banana but also made the giraffe crouch down, making a major modification to the overall picture.

It's not irrelevant that it's Israel in question. There's not many countries that have been found to be committing genocide (by UN), are actively involved in a war or where the leaders are sought by ICC.

Exactly this. Top 1% of artists earn about as much as the average software engineer. Ranking people purely based on salary is turning h1b into a visa for people in specific professions.

I'd say this goes for a lot of developers too. The amount of push back I see online when Chrome implements something that was previously only available in app land is weirdly high. Like do you seriously want to write separate ios app for everything?

I have the exact same experience. I felt like I went back to a phone from 2018.

As long as they have your credit card on file you have an incentive to behave.

I don't understand how Google is willing to do this but won't sell TPUs to other days centers. It should be obvious from Nvidia's market cap that they're missing a huge opportunity.

>They will remain behind in LLMs

The latest Gemini version (1206) is at least tied for the best LLM, if not the best outright.

>China is using more energy and resources that rest of the world combined

This isn't obviously true even with a cursory glance at the statistics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...). This isn't the forum to fire off false one-liners.

SF traffic seems harder to handle than LA traffic.

I disagree with the assessment of the title. It's specifically trying to not be evil and going overboard with it that got Google into this mess. It's almost fascinating how the values of one culture (Google's bay area centric one) differ so much from the rest of the world.

Wrong, it's because being an animation artist is much more often a career of passion, which brings down the salaries in the industry due to increased labor supply.

Salaries vary by field. You can be an incredibly talented animation artist but you'll still get paid less than the average software engineer.

There is a difference between trivially bypassing protections and having to go though some effort to bypass it.

I honestly find it absurd that we have a perfectly good solution for gaming in the form of online streaming services like geforce now, but they somehow just haven't gained much adoption. Games not being available for a platform should be a thing of the past already.

Self commenting code gets outdated quickly too. Not the code itself, but the names. Just because a developer managed to embed their comments into function and variable names doesn't suddenly make them immune to staleness.

That's funny, I wonder how nobody thought to challenge that.

>I think it's also worth pointing out that up to a point, code that's testable tends to be more maintainable. This largely has to do with coupling and cohesion. Code that's hard to test in indicative of too much coupling and/or not enough cohesion.

I feel like whenever someone complains that the code is hard to test, there's always someone who's quick to claim that it's just indicative of problems with the code itself, rather than an issue with writing tests. This rings false to me.

Making code testable is simply one aspect that you need to take into consideration when writing code, along with readability, extensibility, modifiability etc. If you remove one of those constraints, it often becomes easier to focus on optimizing for the other constraints. I don't believe that adding testability as a constraint somehow makes the code better - more often, it just forces you to write the code in a certain way which feels 'logical' when considering the constraint of testability, but makes it harder to optimize the other constraints. The feeling of 'revelation' when you end up needing to modify code to make it more testable is mostly just the constraints imposed onto the code.

No limit holdem has been essentially solved. Pluribus & co not withstanding, you just haven't heard of it because the people who have solved it are busy printing money in online poker (yes, I know they try to detect bots, and no, they can't detect them all). With stakes this high, academic progress lags the 'actual' state-of-the-art by years.