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by _fizz_buzz_ 8d ago
> If global warming disrupts 99% of all crop production, the remaining 1% is still plenty enough to sustain a stable, if miserable, population. That is extinctesque enough for me. An AI extinction would probably be similiar.
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by _fizz_buzz_ 8d ago
Can someone explain if i understand this correctly: Are they saying that they started training this new model on August 28th and then started using it on September 1st? Does training a new model only take 3 days?
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by _fizz_buzz_ 16d ago
> I've heard it said that true understanding is demonstrated when someone can explain difficult concepts well. I think this not generally. I worked together with this amazing engineer, but he really struggled to sometimes explain wh
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by _fizz_buzz_ 24d ago
Why are people so negative about this? It feels like a fun project and at 17 the stakes are not really high. Something one could easily do on summer break in a couple of weeks.
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by _fizz_buzz_ 26d ago
Probably some of those issues are not a big problem when you have a good salary (like child/healthcare). And a Silicon Valley salary in Idaho sounds like a pretty sweet deal.
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by _fizz_buzz_ 1mo ago
I feel your argument is shifting. Also, it was Fraunhofer that was threatening developers at the end of the 90s not Thomson. Fraunhofer will very aggressively defend their patents/licenses.
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by _fizz_buzz_ 1mo ago
Fraunhofer absolutely does licensing. That is one of their main sources of income. Also,your retelling of the story is off: https://www.4ipcouncil.com/features/mp3-digital-audio-coding
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by _fizz_buzz_ 1mo ago
I am from Germany and public transit is hit and miss here also. Big cities like cologne are great. My commute to work is also fine with public transit (although I mostly bike, actually) But very often there are places I have to go where pub
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by _fizz_buzz_ 2mo ago
Yeah, fake testimonials and sales numbers are problematic both in the US and in the EU and can actually get fairly expensive. I would just leave this stuff off or be very prepared to back the claims. I think a problem is that a competitor (
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by _fizz_buzz_ 2mo ago
So, OpenAI and Anthropic say the Chinese models are only as good because they distill their models. How true is that. I am sure it adds something. But is it more like a marginal 1% improvement or something really significant?
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by _fizz_buzz_ 2mo ago
> Claude just gave up and did an HTML/CSS implementation but I insisted on native SwiftUI+Metal. That sounds very odd and very contrary to my experience. You don’t say which model you actually used, but I never had opus 4.8 (or sonn
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by _fizz_buzz_ 3mo ago
I think (but I have no actual insides), they picked 800V dc for datacenter also because that is commonly used for the DC bus in EVs. So, one can share a lot of components across industries. Also, 800V just kind of works well for power trans
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by _fizz_buzz_ 3mo ago
> Not a fair comparison. 30-40x population difference. I've always found that argument puzzling. A population 30 times larger also means roughly 30 times the technicians, funding, and resources etc. Although, you have a very good po
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by _fizz_buzz_ 3mo ago
Tesla might actually support car play soonish: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-13/tesla-is-...
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by _fizz_buzz_ 3mo ago
Infineon is betting big on the 800V dc power distribution that seems to become the new standard for AI data centers which is directly relevant for the chips that are made in this fab.
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by _fizz_buzz_ 3mo ago
Unfortunately it feels close to zero sum to me. I am getting absolutely drowned in AI generated personal sales pitches now. That obviously scraped my name/company online and automated the email. I feel sales becomes even more relient o
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by _fizz_buzz_ 3mo ago
> How does anthropic know my "kernel" project isn't a personal toy and not the Linux kernel? The Linux Kernel is in its training data. I just tested it. I copied about 20 random lines from the linux kernel and asked which
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by _fizz_buzz_ 4mo ago
My understanding is that a lot of AI data centers are still heavily relying on spinning HDDs, which is why seagate, western digital are selling more HDDs than ever before.
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by _fizz_buzz_ 4mo ago
In 2004 people were predicting that the real estate bubble would burst and then nothing happened. Until it did.
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by _fizz_buzz_ 4mo ago
When you first built it, were you aware there was market for the data? Or was this something you discovered afterwards? It makes sense, but I wouldn’t have guessed it.
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by _fizz_buzz_ 4mo ago
> 2. Talent & compute: due to #1, Silicon Valley can outbid Europe for the best talent and hardware. Watch an OpenAI launch video and listen to all the European accents. There is definitely a lot of truth to that. Maybe a bit of an a
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by _fizz_buzz_ 4mo ago
Absolutely not. My wife could apply for German permanent residency as well as now German citizenship from within Germany. She has been living in Germany for 10 years now and at no point in the process did she have to go through a German con
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by _fizz_buzz_ 4mo ago
So, I experimented a little bit with smaller models and the problem I faced is that it would simply not call a tool that is available, but instead just describe the tool. Is this something that Forge can help with?
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by _fizz_buzz_ 4mo ago
I think it had more to do with the reality of the market. Solar panels have become incredibly cheap and that's because they are mass produced and standardized. Everything in the manufacturing process has been optimized. Now it is techn
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by _fizz_buzz_ 4mo ago
My understanding is that the US doesn’t really have an official category called “medium sized”. So I think the “small business” category is better compared to EU’s SME category (small-medium-enterprise), which is often lumped together.
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by _fizz_buzz_ 4mo ago
I have recently played around with lots of data from measurements and one can totally dump everything into context and let Claude try to analyze data that way. It burns through a lot of tokens. It is smarter to save data to disk and let Cla
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by _fizz_buzz_ 4mo ago
I have been experimenting on using AI for hardware development. I showed some experiments on HN a couple of weeks ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801255 ). I am now trying to make my approach a little bit more co
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by _fizz_buzz_ 4mo ago
Even ExxonMobil scientists came to the conclusion. They made an internal study in the 70s and it was actually incredibly solid: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063
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by _fizz_buzz_ 4mo ago
Just look at any glaciar in the Alps (or almost anywhere in the world really). Over the last 50 years, your liftime, there have been enourmous changes.
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by _fizz_buzz_ 4mo ago
Lots of opensource project use the Linux Foundation to handle their funding. My understanding is that e.g. corporate sponsors for the KiCad project will actually transfer the money to the Linux Foundation but the money is then earmarked for

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