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ApolloFortyNine··on Claude Says
There's definitely times where the question is 'hard' enough (usually having to do with something so business specific the LLM won't have a great answer) where a true human answer is needed, but I do regularly still get asked questions of 'why is x failing' with a datadog link. And if you shove the exact logs they've already found that contain a stack trace, the LLM instantly tells you exactly what was wrong.
ApolloFortyNine··on Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
Do you think I made up the quote? Should I quote it again?
ApolloFortyNine··on Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
From the article

>More than 5,500 people in Vermont have similar home battery systems.

This is _literally_ a rounding error. It's less than 1% of Vermont.

So it's your comment that's truly baffling, though I'm sure others would appreciate if you posted your own source. There's certainly no power plant getting shut down because 5,500 customers have batteries, but again I'd love to be proven wrong.

ApolloFortyNine··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
The speed of deepseek is insane to experience after using claude code with opus for so long. Not only is the tps roughly 3x faster, but the round trip times are magnitudes faster.
ApolloFortyNine··on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?
That source has nothing to do with 'on teacher' violence, just general violence. A school fight would count as an incident for instance.
ApolloFortyNine··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
I know everyone says this is political but it actually seems like a textbook designation. Anthropic wanted to have rules on how the military used AI, the military said no and therefore doesn't want anthropic used anywhere in their supply line.

This is like a pen manufacturer not wanting their pens used to sign drone strike orders, now the military needs to have a special box of pens that don't have stipulations attached. With AI usage it would be the same thing except applied to entire product chains. It seems like it would just add more complexity to operations.

You can agree with the rules anthropic wanted, but having rules set by a private company at all that apply to the military does seem fair for the military to object to.

>The Department reasonably feared that Anthropic might manipulate Claude’s design to prevent it from performing national-security functions that the Department deems contractually authorized and necessary

Though they'd probably put the DoD on the cybersecurity whitelist today, the very idea of the claude whitelists for certain functionality already exists and is being used by them today.

ApolloFortyNine··on Claude Opus 5.5
>Because Opus 5.5 is comparable to Claude Mythos 5.1 in biology and cybersecurity, we’re deploying it with safeguards similar to those on Claude Fable 5.1. Vetted organizations can apply today to our Life Sciences Verification Program to use Opus 5.5 for biology research. In the coming weeks we will also be expanding access to our Cyber Verification Program, and verified cybersecurity practitioners will be able to use Opus 5.5 for their work.

Ah, they're spreading their limits to all their models it seems. Definitely not a good thing long term in my opinion.

ApolloFortyNine··on M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review
The model being tested is 18k as configured.

I didn't expect this to make the 5090 to look like a good deal.

ApolloFortyNine··on Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
>* Ads underneath videos for products from the channel owner. > >* Sponsorships within videos from the channel owner.

I actually agree this is a bit annoying, but also the alternative is Google banning Youtubers from finding their own advertising partners, which I'm sure people would hate.

ApolloFortyNine··on Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
>https://freedns.afraid.org/

This dude has been doing it for 25 years, and actually this is a dns provider for domain names which I'm decently sure makes it more complicated than public dns.

They're allowed to say they don't want to pay for it anymore, I just think their logic is bad. Or maybe their lawyer said they're running risks just ignoring takedown and they didn't want to deal with it anymore.

ApolloFortyNine··on Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap
Last time I read about these handicapped games in Go I saw that the model isn't trained to play from behind, so while in a normal game of Go, those 50 move Joseki's or any large move combo that's an 'even trade' will inevitably let the AI claw a lead at some point, the AI is already behind.

It's similar in chess but there's a model specifically trained to play a knight down, and it's pretty cool to see the insane tactics it'll try. Though a knight down is considerably more than a 2 stone handicap in Go.

ApolloFortyNine··on AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
Imo if you compare what Google does to the one other mobile OS manufacturer with any users, claiming Google should be fined is something like the cop pulling you over for going 8 over the speed limit while Apple is doing triple digits and just ran two people over.

'Why not both' is an argument, but clear as day what Apple does is worse. There's no alternative.

ApolloFortyNine··on AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
>Corporation like Google should have been fined to the edge of bankruptcy for such predatory behaviour.

Google has an alternative at least (can download other app stores, apks, and have been able to for 15 years), I have no idea how Apple has been allowed to get away with what they do.

ApolloFortyNine··on Don't use musl if you care about performance
Glibc is lgpl, you _definitely_ don't need to comply with GPL to link to it.
ApolloFortyNine··on Australia Bans Generative A.I. From Official Music Charts
Well they banned AI vocals at all too, so you can spend 6 months composing a track, add AI vocals, and your entire song is banned. Really the entire genre of edm could often switch out whatever vocals they have...

I have zero idea how much this matters since I don't really think anyone views the charts to find their next song to listen to. If a song with AI vocals is good it (might) pop off, I don't think getting on the charts at that point would matter.

ApolloFortyNine··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
It's not popular to mention but the US is the most immigrated to country on the planet, almost 4x the next country.

But really, immigrating to any country is quite complex. It's far from "just fill out a form" for pretty much every western country.

ApolloFortyNine··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
As an interviewee I've read "we're not sponsoring visas at this time" a million times.
ApolloFortyNine··on Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
>Meta will impose daily usage limits and restrict nighttime usage by children who use Facebook and Instagram, and enhance measures to prevent children from accessing age-restricted content.

Even if we assume children don't find a way around this, they will simply switch to a different social media app after their two hours are up, or switch to an app that doesn't have the two hour limit at all.

This is clearly a rule that would have to be mandated by the government, or perhaps parental controls on their devices (not sure why parenting was ruled out here apparently). Same with whatever opinions people have on an algorithm showing you content you'd enjoy, which has always been the goal of media since the concept of a magazine was created, they just didn't have the right tools available.

It also will only punish kids who actually gave their age no? That's not actually required (yet) to sign up for a social media app. I was probably 9 when I started clicking a random year for my age when signing up. Doesn't take you long to figure out you have to jump through hoops when your honest.

Really I have no idea what this case accomplished besides being a tax on a successful company.

ApolloFortyNine··on Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
I think in pretty much every state releasing the refrigerant 'requires' a license (if it's not a DIY model).

And in my state, I copy pasted what was required for a 'residential' HVAC license (idk if you meant commercial HVAC or just making money on installs).

ApolloFortyNine··on Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
In my state they require:

>160 hours of education/vocational training and 2 years’ verifiable experience in the trade

To get the license to install minisplits (two years experience generally means working an apprenticeship).

It's no wonder install costs are so much in the US. And as you've experienced, they're hardly rocket science to install. The 160 hours training would be more than enough, I'm not sure why 2 years experience gets tacked on the end.

ApolloFortyNine··on Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
Minisplits install costs are the biggest scam in the US, in Japan installs regularly cost under $1000 (that includes the minisplit!).

They're literally designed to be easy to install, but in the US licensing requirements tend to be insane (in my state it's 2 years apprenticeship experience for their 'easier to get' mini-split license) and HVAC companies make more off whole home systems.

These things are regularly installed DIY by homeowners (illegally most of the time but you know), it doesn't take two years of experience to be able to install these without issue. 2 weeks, or half a dozen installs surely would be more than enough.

ApolloFortyNine··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
This is why we have judges, I wonder if this has been ruled on already. If you filled out a notebook in a special cipher with the cipher stored separately beside it, then when a cop asked for the notebook you handed the cipher over and then burned the cipher right in front of them, is that destruction of evidence? Idk at the end of the day it does have the same result as destroying the data.

>"He" (by which I mean, technically the agents)

Under the same logic you could mail a bomb to anyone and say you didn't kill anyone, they did. It was just rigged to blow when they opened the box.

ApolloFortyNine··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
Well even today this guy could have just said 'I will not unlock this device' and they can seize it for some time, but they can't deny you entry. Which is pretty much the same scenario you created except the guy literally can't unlock it (but that doesn't actually matter here, he never _had_ to unlock it).
ApolloFortyNine··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
You are correct, you have to give up the phone but can't be compelled to give up the password, and you'd get it back some indeterminate amount of time later.

It's actually been on the books for a while (decades at least) that customs can search you at the border without a warrant even if you are a citizen.

This case seems to have become a big 'Trump bad' poster child (people are calling the US East Germany in these comments...), but if this exact scenario happened at least in the last two decades (I found an example upholding the searches from 2004) then it would at least be possible to charge them with deleting evidence. Even this probably would have been nothing if he refused to give up his password, not being required to provide a password has been upheld for years. They can seize your phone for some time but I'm unsure on the times they ask and then just let you move on when they find out your a citizen.

ApolloFortyNine··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
This has been legal since long before Trump, if you don't like it there's laws in motion to ban it you can support, but entering across a border you've been allowed to be searched without a warrant for decades at least. And if you're being searched and then you destroy what they're trying to search... Here you are.
ApolloFortyNine··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
But if you use any decent amount of tokens, it's probably worth saving the 15% by moving to the provider they're proxying.

And if it's not worth it, then are you spending enough where it even effects Openrouter's bottom line?

With enough devs playing with hobby projects I'm not doubting it's profitable, only that $7 billion seems way too high.

ApolloFortyNine··on Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
I must have missed when I could install Android apps on iOS (if Apple actually allowed users to install their own software there's a 99% chance this would exist by now funnily enough).

Yea defining the market is 95% of anti trust cases. But asking yourself 'if Microsoft did what Apple is doing' should be enough to show at some point, it is a market.

ApolloFortyNine··on Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
You're creating strawmen here, but it's funny you mention Epic since, yes, they were more than willing to do that, and they have done that. As soon as they were allowed to do so.
ApolloFortyNine··on Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
iPhone apps.

If it helps, think if Windows apps had a 5% Microsoft tax and had to be approved by Apple.

ApolloFortyNine··on Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
>For App Store apps that link out of the app to complete purchases, the commission will be 15 percent. Developers in the programs mentioned above will pay a reduced rate of 10 percent.

This is one of the most 'evil' policies I've simply ever heard of. I know today it's not even allowed to mention it, but it seems like the most slam dunk monopoly abuse possible. The damage to customers is clear, a company could charge 15% less and receive the same amount if they were simply 'allowed' to tell customers to go to their site. Somehow Fortnite did exactly this, got banned for it, and it still wasn't enough to put an end to it.

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