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by _jab 2mo ago
A bit off-topic from the core of the post, but: > At Anthropic we’re committed to cracking down on industrial-scale distillation through our own practices, including identifying and banning accounts that use our models in this way. This
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by _jab 3mo ago
Both can be true simultaneously. Anthropic can probably be trusted not to train on our Fable sessions, but eroding ZDR as the industry standard still sets a dangerous precedent. There's a parallel between data retention and general mas
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by _jab 4mo ago
It's pretty simple; organizations are willing to tolerate paying $1500/month/engineer, which seems to be roughly inline with "normal" consumption for most full-time engineers. If that number grows significantly, the
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by _jab 4mo ago
While $835k is undoubtedly a lot of money for this man, split among Tennessee's 7M residents, this works out to be less per taxpayer than the sales tax on a latte. Still, this idea bears merit for other reasons. Americans routinely und
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by _jab 5mo ago
This agreement feels so friendly towards OpenAI that it's not obvious to me why Microsoft accepted this. I guess Microsoft just realized that the previous agreement was kneecapping OpenAI so much that the investment was at risk, especi
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by _jab 5mo ago
> Vercel did not specify which of its systems were compromised I’m no security engineer, but this is flatly unacceptable, right? This feels like Vercel is covering its own ass in favor of helping its customers understand the impact of th
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by _jab 6mo ago
With intense competition for enterprise contracts coming from Anthropic, I thought this was OpenAI's time to get _less_ memey, not more. What the hell are they thinking?
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by _jab 6mo ago
Between the rounded corners that don't reach the edges of the viewport, and the behavior when opening a new app for the first time, it feels like Mac's UI is optimized around the assumption most users won't expand windows to
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by _jab 7mo ago
Sure, but it's not as if the DoD was planning on using Anthropic to _collect_ the data either? I assume that the hypothetical DoD use case Anthropic shied away from dealt with the processing of surveillance data, just like what Palanti
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by _jab 7mo ago
I've found current-generation Macs so capable that I've switched to using a Macbook Air. Would strongly recommend - it's still a powerful machine and it's significantly lighter and cheaper.
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by _jab 8mo ago
Completely agree. Crazier question: what’s wrong with a well-intentioned surveillance state? Preventing crime is a noble goal, and sometimes I just don’t think some vague notion of privacy is more important than that. I sometimes feel that
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by _jab 8mo ago
I'm pretty tempted to discredit this article on the basis of the author's lack of legal expertise, but to be honest I don't really have the expertise to properly comment here either. But I don't think the author is corre
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by _jab 8mo ago
I've often wondered whether the world would be better without ads. The incentive to create services (especially in social media) that strive to addict their users feels toxic to society. Often, it feels uncertain whether these services
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by _jab 10mo ago
Next.js is still pretty damn widely used.
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by _jab 10mo ago
This argument doesn’t make much sense to me. Claude Code, like any product, presumably has dozens of external dependencies. What’s so special about Bun specifically that motivated an acquisition?
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by _jab 10mo ago
The logical conclusion here would be to have no door for the bathroom, but to have specifically the toilet in a separate subroom. But I don’t think this makes much sense anyways. The hotel industry is not one that thrives from repeat patron
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by _jab 10mo ago
Programmatic tool invocation is a great idea, but it also increasingly raises the question of what the point of well-defined tools even is now. Most MCP servers are just wrappers around existing, well-known APIs. If agents are now given an
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by _jab 10mo ago
GitHub is pretty easily the most unreliable service I've used in the past five years. Is GitLab better in this regard? At this point my trust in GitHub is essentially zero - they don't deserve my money any longer.
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by _jab 10mo ago
One symptom of AGI fantasy that I particularly hate is the dismissal of applied AI companies as "wrappers" - as if they're not offering any real technical add on top of the models themselves. This seems to be a problem specif
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by _jab 10mo ago
In the US, one of the highest farebox recovery ratio transit systems has historically been BART, which is 2019 was 72%, and even today is around 50%. Unfortunately, having a very high ratio also makes systems much more vulnerable to collaps
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by _jab 11mo ago
Many questioning why Microsoft would agree to this, but to me the concessions they made strike me as minor. > OpenAI remains Microsoft’s frontier model partner and Microsoft continues to have exclusive IP rights and Azure API exclusivity
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Show HN: Sphinx – the Jupyter-native AI copilot for data scientists(sphinx.ai)
6 points by _jab 1y ago|2 comments
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by _jab 1y ago
Gotta be honest, I think the spoon bending metaphor is unhelpful, and only misleads the audience and buries the lede here. It took me a while to figure out what this repo actually does. But the insights are indeed interesting. I'm curi
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by _jab 1y ago
I'm skeptical of arguments like this. If we look at most impactful technologies since the year 2000, AI is not even in my top 3. Social networking, mobile computing, and cloud computing have all done more to alter society and daily lif
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by _jab 1y ago
AAVE is definitely underappreciated as the source of a lot of common modern slang. But in this case, the article makes it pretty clear that "try and" is not nearly modern enough to have come from AAVE - they show several attestati
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by _jab 1y ago
I've found that there's a pretty consistent relationship between how clearly I can imagine what the code should look like, and how effective vibe coding is. Part of the reason for that is that it means I'll be more opinionate
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by _jab 1y ago
I suspect practicality is not the goal here, but rather a proof of concept. Perhaps they saw speed as an important technical barrier to cross
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by _jab 1y ago
Sometimes when I give simpler technical questions (applies to system design too), candidates begin to massively overthink it. The question seems so simple that they start anticipating high-scope extensions that don't actually exist, li
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by _jab 1y ago
> Anthropic is saying that one out of every 20 users will hit the new limit. Very good point, I find it unlikely that 1/20 users is account sharing or running 24/7 agentic workflows.
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by _jab 1y ago
There’s a lot of ideation for coding HUDs in the comments, but ironically I think the core feature of most coding copilots is already best described as a HUD: tab completion. And interestingly, that is indeed the feature I find most compell

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