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Many occupations have been made obsolete throughout history, and this article examines none of them. I'm not sympathetic to "this time it's different", I think people are just too …

This would be more convincing if those providers had converged on a number that was not the exact pricing of DeepSeek themselves. Clearly DeepSeek is setting the price here and wit…

DeepSeek has announced an upcoming "significant increase" in price, so this line may have to move to the right soon. https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/

Obviously not based on DNA/RNA. I think it is pretty lacking in imagination to believe that DNA/RNA in liquid water is the only possible configuration of atoms that could make a se…

I wonder if we will ever discover life inside stars. There's definitely complex stuff going on in there.

No, the login wall was first added by pre-Elon management https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28289263

The login wall predates Elon BTW https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28289263

Twitter was famously unreliable for practically its entire existence. Don't remember the "fail whale?"

X has the best tools for managing your feed of any social network. "Mute words" is a godsend and can practically eliminate any topic you hate (politics of course). The Following ta…

Agreed, we have probably seen only the tip of the iceberg on that. I wouldn't want to be holding niche crypto coins right now.

I don't really find the "because it's difficult" arguments convincing at all. Especially the one claiming it's hard because it requires designing and running a large number of test…

Yeah I can see people using these as proxies for age discrimination

Apple leaks like a sieve. The extreme secrecy culture is a pointless drag on productivity, maintained long past its usefulness for the sole benefit of the execs practicing their St…

Uhh, strong reject

Oh yeah the estimation problems are terrible. The probability ones are at least notionally trying to test your math skills. But still pretty far from being relevant in almost all c…

That's why the problem statement specifies that the bowling ball sinks.

Most things that can fairly be described as a "small dip" should decrease travel time. When I was presented with the problem it came with illustrations to clarify. Surprisingly har…

Once long ago when I interviewed at Apple I was asked the classic "fork in the road, two guys, one always tells the truth and one always lies" riddle, with complete earnestness as …

This guy actually built an algae farm to test how much you need to breathe. https://youtu.be/AAbyUaLN2QA

Cost, weight, durability. For cameras, bandwidth.

I actually like Tau's videos a lot better than Google's. An agile robot getting out of a car carrying a tote is actually novel and difficult and useful. In contrast, what Google is…

I do not. A ban on capable open-weight models for an indefinite period of time falls into the category of bans on open-weight models. If you wanted Anthropic's statement to be true…

My point is that advocating a de facto ban on capable open source models is inconsistent with Dario's statement here that "Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights m…

OK that is a position they could take but my point is that's inconsistent with "Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models". What you're describing is a ban on …