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Praying this isn't another Llama4 situation where the benchmark numbers are cooked. 84.6% on Arc-AGI is incredible!

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No, just when Europeans (like yourself) need a reminder that they're not exceptional in their "level headedness" and "soberness", and in fact are anti-exceptional when it comes to …

This has never been the case across the history of humanity -- there has never existed a non-biased institution, and it's incredibly naive to think that a German think tank funded …

Today the S&P500 is at an all-time high, energy prices are at all-time lows, and there is no clear indication of recession. This, all in spite of the fact that for the last decade,…

Blind person uses Meta Raybans glasses as a sight aid to help navigate her surroundings. For instance, asking the glasses what aisle of the supermarket she's looking at. Wanted to …

One should be suspicious of ulterior motives when the CEO of an AI company makes a claim like this. On one hand, LLMs do require significant amounts of compute to train. But the ot…

> do you commit feature flags It doesn’t really matter how you manage changes to feature flags, but using version control gives you a couple of nice benefits: * gives developers th…

> You don't seem to understand what a conditional is; you'd have a hard time doing math or formal CS. Ad hominems are against TOS. Answering the question is irrelevant if it’s the …

This is a classic example of the xy problem https://xyproblem.info/ , where the author is asking for advice on his solution (how to study react on a vacation without internet), whe…

I feel like this is a solvable problem: 1) make feature flags be configured to have an expiration date. If over the expiration date, auto-generate a task to clean up your FF 2) If …

Ads are not at all horrible. Ads help connect products with the niche markets of people that could benefit from them. Many cool products are too niche and would not be able to exis…

Ads are human reviewed. Either you’re exceptionally unlucky with reviewers or there’s more to the story here.

> [At larger companies...] Talking to users is for PMs, silly! You stick to what you’re good at. At best you get a summary of user insights and a reasonable task priority list deri…

Building products and slowly grinding away at improving DAU is Meta's bread and butter. This has been the case with IG Stories vs Snap, now IG Reels vs Tiktok (IG Reels rev set to …

This type of hiring is most likely reserved for Yann LeCun caliber talent. If you walk in to FB HQ without an appointment, 1) they wouldn’t let you in, and 2) you’d probably just m…

This is a perfect example of how GDPR can present challenges to innovation. The fact the top comment in this announcement revolves around GDPR compliance and associated fines raise…

In fact, I would go further and say we would actually be worse off without personalized advertising. Personalized ads help connect innovative products with the people who would ben…

1) This is the largest launch of a social media platform this decade. Higher growth than ChatGPT, and already over 50MM signups https://www.quiverquant.com/threadstracker/ 2) Zero …

This has already be debunked https://www.threads.net/t/CuXRXDdNOtH/ You can "deactivate" your account and delete all of your posts individually, which is effectively equivalent to …

Tangential, but I think strong social skills are very important if you want to improve as a software engineer. Examples of strong social skill would be being able to set project di…

Targeted Advertising serves a valuable role in free markets by giving exposure to innovative and novel products that improve people's lives. Without advertising, there would be no …

This is slightly off-topic, but this post makes me feel sincerely nostalgic for building games in Eclipse and Swing back in the day. Growing up, Notch's live streams[1] where he wo…