square_usual

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by square_usual 5d ago
It's crazy that the top comment on HN these days is this kind of crackpot conspiracy thinking.
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by square_usual 6d ago
That's their API pricing. There's no way they actually paid $15M in compute. I'd say much more likely it's in the order of $1M.
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by square_usual 6d ago
> and learned of the general approach they were taking. Only after learning the secret to cracking the problem did they send the first prompt. Do you have any evidence of this? They don't dispute the timeline, but they never said th
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by square_usual 6d ago
I think this is stupid, for three reasons: 1. The researches didn't actually have the breakthroughs. In the Navier-Stokes case they didn't solve the full problem, in this case too they didn't actually have the solution, they
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by square_usual 14d ago
The tweet is from Asha Sharma, the leader of Xbox! > It's also only referencing hardware sales. Not the Xbox division. No??? You can quibble about the article, but you must've failed to read: > The fourth quarter alone sho
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by square_usual 14d ago
You can search "Xbox revenue 2026" and one of the first results is this: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/xbox-revenue-f... Note that I said "YoY", and the numbers you're citi
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by square_usual 14d ago
> and the thing that is continuing to scale well or pretty well is inference No, the models are just more intelligent. GPT 5.6 Sol can do more in fewer output tokens than any model from late 2025. Test-time compute isn't the only le
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by square_usual 14d ago
> Ed Zitron doesn't say that AI doesn't work, that its impact on the world will not increase He's said variants of both of these things before! That's the point OP makes too, people say "He doesn't say that&
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by square_usual 15d ago
In the first paragraph: > While videogames are as profitable as ever on paper And the linked article is about revenue going up YoY, not profit. And then it says: > It's remarkably dissonant with, say, the current 'Xbox reset
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by square_usual 21d ago
Huh? Qwen released the weights of 3.8 Max, the only difference is the vision capability is "closed": https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
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by square_usual 21d ago
Xi has made it official policy, see his keynote speech at their World AI Conference last month: > We should seize this rare, historic opportunity to encourage open source, openness, collaboration and sharing. [1] People have pointed that
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by square_usual 29d ago
It's simple, they aren't subsidizing tokens at all.
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by square_usual 1mo ago
You thought this helped your case??? My dude it literally says bacon flavored bits!
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by square_usual 1mo ago
Brother I don't know what to tell you. Chick'n, Bac'n, Be'ef etc. are well-known vegan susbtitutes for the pun'd meats. Most of them explicitly say they're vegan on the box. That's not shrinkflation, you j
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by square_usual 1mo ago
> I think it's pretty reasonable to think that an extreme climate would cause extreme mortality. No, it's not reasonable. They're using the same label, but there's no evidence showing that.
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by square_usual 2mo ago
Easy enough to explain: they're benchmaxxing. Fable is intelligent but not benchmaxxed. Opus is less intelligent but benchmaxxed.
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by square_usual 2mo ago
Huh? I went through the first ten messages in his thread and there's no praise there at all.
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by square_usual 2mo ago
Photos of the food, at least in the US, started with "immigrant" restaurants. When Thai/Vietnamese/Chinese restaurants started opening up in areas without high concentrations of those people, they'd put photos in th
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by square_usual 2mo ago
You can't imagine someone getting excited about difficult problems as an engineer? And you can't imagine why there's creativity involved? I don't know, it feels like you can't process the output of human creativity.
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by square_usual 2mo ago
The higher margin is mostly coming from assembly costs, right? I can't imagine it comes from the actual cost of the battery being so much higher. I hope that once they start pushing these out and retool factories for them they can sell
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by square_usual 2mo ago
It's not really a small percentage of users. All users will have trouble with the battery - eventually. My DS4s ran out of battery life in about three years of usage; I still have one of them that I use wired with my PC, but I absolute
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by square_usual 2mo ago
Yeah, I strongly remember getting Sonnet 3.5 with Aider to boostrap an (albeit basic) project and getting it to work. Especially vivid because I told my roommate at the time about it and he also tried it out and was also shocked. I'd p
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by square_usual 2mo ago
> How much React code you wrote 6-8 years ago will work perfectly and identically with today’s React toolchain? Today's Elm toolchain is the Elm toolchain of 6 years ago!
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by square_usual 3mo ago
I'm so happy I have something I can link to that clearly and patiently engages with all the people who concern troll about Wikipedia. It genuinely bothers me how the temperature of the conversation about wikipedia (even here on HN) has
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by square_usual 3mo ago
> when Android Auto connects on my phone, it tends to stop me from using the maps app on the phone This is on Google Maps. Nothing about Auto/CarPlay prevents this. Google just chose to do this.
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by square_usual 3mo ago
I'm skeptical there actually is a difference. I've compared my iPad with the white point, brightness and color filters set for comfort and it's no worse for reading than a Kindle Paperwhite with the reading light on (which yo
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by square_usual 3mo ago
Yeah for the first time in a long time I ended up using my entire weekly quota. Usually I go slow but with Fable I actively saw a huge benefit in pushing it and doing much more.
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by square_usual 3mo ago
If you think so you've only ever worked in a trash org. If my productivity was hurt by things outside my control I'd expect (and have had) managers to fight for me.
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by square_usual 3mo ago
This is insane reporting. Their own article says the data center buildout happened in 2017. The article they link about it says the same thing. And so rate changes now - in 2026, nearly a full decade after those DCs were built out - are s
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by square_usual 3mo ago
> As a workplace I'm glad we're not a monoculture of 100% like-minded individuals. But if you're tolerant of someone in your workplace that wants to make it a monoculture, and then succeeds in doing so, will you remain gla

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