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ahtihn··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Serving Opus 4.8 isn't worth a trillion+ valuation.

The valuation of the AI labs is based on continual improvements of their models.

Open weight models are going to catch up to Opus 4.8 and at that point the model is a pure commodity.

ahtihn··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
How many entreprise customers that aren't in the defense sector currently have R&D departments entirely composed of US citizens?

And what does it mean for indirect access to the models, through say agents working off ticket systems.

The problem here is that the valuations of these AI companies was based on the fact that they'd keep improving models. A company that just serves the latest Opus isn't worth trillions.

ahtihn··on Claude Fable 5
> Back-end improvements (if done right), should improve platform speed, stability, scalability etc. which should have revenue implication

Depends entirely on the domain. If you're selling entreprise software, this kind of stuff barely matters for sales.

It can reduce operational costs which is good but there's a limit to how much that's worth.

ahtihn··on Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health
I prefer being alone but also feel worse after prolonged periods alone.

Preferring something doesn't mean it's good for you.

ahtihn··on India's surprise baby bust
> Those last few generations have no technology, they're huddled around in the dark trying not to starve.

At that point, the birth rate would quickly rise again, no?

Because if you're back to living in a pre-industrial society, kids suddenly have value again.

So it's likely that either there's a point of equilibrium or the population keeps swinging up and down. Total extinction seems unlikely.

ahtihn··on When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
Why do billionaires keep working, keep amassing more money, donate to politicians, buy media companies?

They want influence and power. Being at the top of a hierarchy of millions, billions of people.

If there are no massess the 1000th billionaire will be a the bottom of the hierarchy instead of near the top. They don't want that. The masses are needed to give them the sense of power.

What these people want is power and control. Eliminating the masses goes against that.

ahtihn··on Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers
My experience in Europe is that healthcare is expensive but efficient, bureaucracy is fine and salaries are very high. Guess which country I live in.

Point is "Europe" is way too diverse to generalize like that.

ahtihn··on Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care
> Many people can't afford to have kids

Wrong. Poor people have 0 problems having kids.

People can afford kids, they don't want to compromise on lifestyle.

ahtihn··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
> License can not order someone to publish something.

No it can't, you are right.

By default, you don't have any right to use any given software. The license outlines the conditions under which you have are permitted to use it. If you don't comply with the conditions, you aren't permitted to use it.

The license isn't ordering you to do anything, you can simply not use the software!

ahtihn··on Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
Having good intentions doesn't give a free pass to be obnoxious.
ahtihn··on Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
Copy/pasting a question to LLM and pasting back the output isn't an attempt ar being helpful. It's the equivalent of a lmgtfy link.
ahtihn··on Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue
> You also have to pay taxes on that $5000 like other revenue.

Businesses do not pay taxes on revenue, they pay taxes on profit.

Other taxes may be applicable though (such as VAT or sales taxes).

ahtihn··on Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
That's like saying if you accuse someone of murder and they get convicted, you've altered their life forever.

That's not a burden, it's justice.

ahtihn··on Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga
The judiciary is part of the state. The government is also part of the state. They are different parts.
ahtihn··on Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
If they can't serve all their existing customers maybe they should stop accepting new customers until they can?
ahtihn··on No one owes you supply-chain security
You're confused.

Do you know what you pay for when you pay Red Hat? Exactly the kind of guarantees people seem to expect from free software. You're not paying for the software, you're paying for the contractual support relationship. If you're updating your RHEL server through the channels you are paying for, you'd absolutely be able to sue Red Hat if they were distributing compromised software.

The cost matters. No one's taking on legal liability free of charge.

You can't expect any guarantees of fitness for purpose, safety or whatever if you're getting something for free. The moment you pay though, things change and licenses can't absolve you from everything.

ahtihn··on No one owes you supply-chain security
The analogy is more like

"Here's a free car on a parking lot. You can take it if you want it for free. The car hasn't been inspected and there are no guarantees that it's road-worthy".

I think this is perfectly acceptable in most countries and I doubt you'd have any standing to sue if the car turns out to have safety issues.

ahtihn··on No one owes you supply-chain security
Are companies that are compromised by supply chain attacks held responsible for their negligent behavior?

Blindly pulling updates from providers that offer you no contractual guarantees has to be gross negligence right?

ahtihn··on Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
Anthropic clearly showed that they have a choice.
ahtihn··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
So you don’t use any other open source software at all then?

The risk with OpenClaw et al isn't that the software itself is compromised. The risk is that what it does is fundamentally insecure and Claude Code isn't any better

ahtihn··on Signing data structures the wrong way
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the article but I'm fairly sure the magic number is not transmitted.

It's used exactly as you say: a shared context used as input for the signature that is not transmitted.

ahtihn··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
> Given that Iran was able to close it? Definitely not "secure" then, no. Let alone now.

They were able to yet didn't because doing it was sure to provoke a response. In fact if Iran acted first to close the strait it would surely have pulled in all of the European powers.

The only reason they clode the strait is because the US struck first so they had nothing to lose anymore.

"Securing the strait" is completely incoherent as an objective for this war.

ahtihn··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
> If US sets its war goal at "secure the strait and the oil fields"

You mean the strait that was perfectly secure before this war? Amazing objective.

"Dismantle the regime" is the only objective that is coherent with what the US did and it's very unlikely they'll achieve it at this point.

ahtihn··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
> Should I buy Xmas presents? Who knows!

If losing your job means you can't afford buying presents, isn't it good to know your job is at risk?

Better than buying presents and then getting fired right?

ahtihn··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
As a European, this seems normal?

When someone is fired, they generally stop working immediately while getting paid through the notice period.

ahtihn··on The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner
> an innocent person

They are absolutely not innocent. They have agency!

They decided ruining other people's life is better than whatever the consequences are for themselves.

It's only normal that people they target retaliate.

ahtihn··on The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner
> Sometimes the "scammer" you're talking to is practically a slave that will be beaten if they don't hit their numbers:

Doing crime to save your own life does not excuse the crime.

They're attemtping to ruin someone else's life to save their own.

ahtihn··on We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year
Why are engineers spending their week-end on saving their company money especially if the company clearly doesn't care to allocate resources to the problem?

I get that it's fun and there's personal satisfaction in it, but it just reinforces to management that they don't need to care about allocating resources to optimisation, the problem will just take care of itself for free.

ahtihn··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
> Of course, we all know there's no difference in the level of intellect or strategy between men and women.

Do we?

I thought it was commonly accepted that the average and median are the same but that men have more outliers on both sides.

ahtihn··on French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?
Cough, though, tough, ...

Good luck guessing the pronounciation just gotta learn it. Clearly the superior system.

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