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orangecat
·قبل 3 ساعات·discuss
AI-written stories have won several awards, e.g. https://lithub.com/a-prize-winning-story-published-in-granta...
orangecat
·قبل 10 ساعات·discuss
I wanted to see how Fable could do at getting Linux running natively on my M4 Mac mini. Turns out pretty well: it patched the Asahi installer and m1n1 bootloader to support M4, and created a workflow where it could build, push, and debug kernels with no interaction on my part after the initial setup. It's now happily running headless with ssh access, and hopefully will have video soon after a USB DisplayLink adapter arrives. (No HDMI/Thunderbolt yet).

I don't know for a fact that earlier models wouldn't be able to do that, but I figure if they could we would have heard about it by now.
orangecat
·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
Most people who exercise regularly enjoy it.

There's a huge selection effect here.
orangecat
·قبل 8 أيام·discuss
"Computer" used to be a job title for a human. Was it sociopathic to introduce mechanical calculators because it made those jobs unnecessary?
orangecat
·قبل 10 أيام·discuss
the intelligence is being dialed down. Sonet 5 is a living proof of this.

Huh? Sonnet 5 is a strict improvement over Sonnet 4.6 at the same price.
orangecat
·قبل 11 يومًا·discuss
Yeah, it's a surprisingly resilient alliance of NIMBY homeowners who understand supply and demand, and "anti-gentification" types who don't.
orangecat
·قبل 11 يومًا·discuss
Maybe there's space for some government regulation?

The problem is largely due to government regulations that prevent people from building housing.
orangecat
·قبل 12 يومًا·discuss
An LLM can only output the mean next likely token, and then add a bunch of extra noise on top of that so it feels interesting and not repetitive.

So when an LLM was asked to analyze the unit distance conjecture, it just spat out a bunch of average-or-random tokens that coincidentally happened to correspond to a valid proof that had eluded humans for decades?
orangecat
·قبل 14 يومًا·discuss
at which point, bringing up every failure of free markets (like, obviously, US healthcare) is dismissed as "not really a free market"

I mean, it's not. In a free market you'd have a choice of insurance providers rather than having to take whatever plan your employer offers, and you'd have some idea of what the hospital is going to charge you beforehand rather than receiving random bills for weeks.
orangecat
·قبل 15 يومًا·discuss
It seems by definition "below par" of whatever human activity it's training on

How many sub-par mathematicians could solve the unit distance conjecture?
orangecat
·قبل 15 يومًا·discuss
Self checkout is absolutely more convenient if you're not buying a lot.

(I find ways to make it worth my while..)

If that means what it sounds like, congratulations on accelerating the descent to a low-trust society.
orangecat
·قبل 18 يومًا·discuss
If true then why are neither Anthropic or OpenAI dropping their API pricing

They are? In the before times of 2025, Opus 4.1 was $75 per million tokens. Opus 4.8 is $25, and Fable is/was $50.
orangecat
·قبل 18 يومًا·discuss
by basically any measure, a market with scalping is worse for everybody involved than one with scalping

Scalpers benefit customers who are willing to pay the market price but missed out on the lottery and otherwise wouldn't be able to buy at all.

Scalping also damages the demand for the product, since it creates a submarket that is volatile and unpredictable.

Basically the opposite. If there are scalpers, there is a predictable price that I can pay. If there aren't, I have to be lucky or have connections.

Which is why scalpers are bad people.

They are not.
orangecat
·قبل 18 يومًا·discuss
But they only need to do that because of the scalpers!

Scalpers can only profitably exist when demand at the list price exceeds supply. If you could magically ban scalping, then some number of willing customers wouldn't be able to buy at any price even after jumping through all the hoops.
orangecat
·قبل 19 يومًا·discuss
* If you hired a junior engineer or designer who refused to explain their thinking on their code*

Any explanation that someone gives of their thinking process is necessarily lossy and likely partially confabulated.
orangecat
·قبل 22 يومًا·discuss
It always amuses me when nuclear power is the one area where the left becomes Very Concerned about excessive government spending.

despite 70 years of tinkering and trying it hasn't managed to make a noticeable dent in fossil fuel

Except for France which came up with the clever strategy of "not banning it", but that was apparently a mistake and they should have just used fossil fuels?

Now their nuclear operator is €50 billion in the negatives

€50 billion for several decades of clean energy seems like a pretty good deal.
orangecat
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
And yet when there are objective results like "we ported Bun to Rust and 100% of the test suite passes" the response is "so what, the code is obviously crap and has tons of bugs that the tests don't cover".
orangecat
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
That's the point. Hetzner is presumably covering their costs, so it's a safe bet that AWS is profitable.
orangecat
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
No loopholes, no bad faith interpretation.

The endless cookie banners would beg to differ.
orangecat
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Entirely correct.

what they're saying is they want "a service that charges less money". But that idea conflicts with the venues/promoters/artists that want to charge more money.

And it also conflicts with the other fans who are willing to pay more. There is no possible world where you can reliably get Taylor Swift tickets for $25.