lefty2

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by lefty2 8d ago
Even GPT Images 2.0 was already the best image generator that I have tried, however it has one massive disadvantage: draconian censorship. Even rendering a gun in a scene will get flagged as "violent" and I need to create a battle
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by lefty2 18d ago
The first version is already beating Rubin in the benchmarks, according to SemiAnalysis
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by lefty2 19d ago
So, Nvidia are backstopping $100B for the Ohio project, yet at the same time OpenAI are developing their Jalapeño processor, which will mean it will no longer need Nvidia GPUs for inference. That does not really make any sense to me.
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by lefty2 1mo ago
> Even Deepseek at its absurd prices is a very healthy business. Regarding their return on capex multiple, their CEO said they make a six-fold profit on their compute capex with 10 month recuperation. That's "theoretical profit
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by lefty2 1mo ago
Don't worry, if it escapes from the lab we can just blame it on the bats again
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by lefty2 1mo ago
I understand now. Flagged means inappropiate for Hacker News. Yeah, they always flag any article that is anti-AI - even if it is well reasoned
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by lefty2 1mo ago
flagged as what?
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by lefty2 1mo ago
> I literally do not write code anymore. but you are taking advantage of a subsidised service. What happens when developers are forced to pay the full price (i.e. $2000 a month instead of $200 a month)
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by lefty2 2mo ago
Also the agreement can be can be terminated with only 90 days notice
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by lefty2 2mo ago
yes, but not necessarily cheaper
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by lefty2 2mo ago
The Chinese models are only temporarily cheaper, because they are subsidised the same way that frontier models are. Once those companies need to make money the subsidy will disappear.
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by lefty2 2mo ago
According to the article they don't have to declare leases or GPUs until the datacenter becomes operational
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by lefty2 3mo ago
I tried both unordered_flat_map and hopscotch map with the pathfinding algorithm that my game uses. Both were slower than regular unordered_map. unordered_flat_map about 33% slower and hopscotch was 390% slower
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by lefty2 3mo ago
They would be jamming their own glide bombs and drones then. It would be more useful to jam Russian airspace to defeat Ukrainian drone attacks.
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by lefty2 4mo ago
> If / when enough companies exit the market That will only happen when the bubble bursts and those companies will exit by going bankrupt
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by lefty2 4mo ago
Who is it written by anyway? The author's name is not given in the article
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by lefty2 5mo ago
I wonder how many false positives there were. Typically this types of static analysis tools come up with a ton of potential bugs, but only a few of them are actual bugs.
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by lefty2 6mo ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2025/11/10/openai-spe...
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by lefty2 6mo ago
Sora was losing 15M a day and it was running at least 3 months, so that's a total 1.3 Billion. That's a pretty expensive experiment. It sounds like a company with lots of VC to burn and no discipline. Even Jensen Huang accused the
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by lefty2 6mo ago
also they need to pay back that in one year, so if OpenAI don't IPO this year they are screwed
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by lefty2 6mo ago
> -1 still produces -1 instead of 0 That could be a problem depending how you are using it.
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by lefty2 6mo ago
> The same trick can also be used for the other direction to save a division: > NewValue = OldValue >> 3; You need to be careful, because this doesn't work if the value is negative. A
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by lefty2 8mo ago
> Yes, OpenAI is burning $8-12B in 2025 OpenAI actually burnt $12B in just one quarter (not for the entire year as he claims) https://www.thurrott.com/a-i/openai-a-i/329108/openai-lost-1...
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by lefty2 8mo ago
c++ 03 was a lot easier. For instance, if you want to avoid unnecessary copy operations when returning a string, just return it in variable that you pass by reference (eg. void doSomething(string& str);) likewise avoid the vector class
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by lefty2 10mo ago
If it's untrustworthy, why do they prevent us from disabling "AI overview"?
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by lefty2 2y ago
Tanks don't really make any sense. MBTs are designed to fight other MBTs. Out of the thousands of tanks that have been taken out in Ukraine, 99.999% has been by drones, artillary or ATMs. You can count the tank versus tank battles on t
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by lefty2 3y ago
Does the analyst offer any explanation where he got his figures from? No. Then you should assume they were pulled out of the ass
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by lefty2 5y ago
How about "Facey McBookFace"?
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by lefty2 5y ago
Humans still sleep in two shifts. It's called the siesta
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by lefty2 5y ago
They don't want to close the loopholes, because the loopholes give American companies an advantage over foreign companies.

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