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If this is true, than Anthropic, Google and maybe OpenAI models will keep getting better and better and everyone else will be left in the dust - as they won't have access to so much customer data.

The employees are hoping to become very very rich after the IPO and after they are allowed to sell the shares given to them - risking a likely multi-million dollar pay back to leak a model that will be superseded by publicly available models in a couple of years is not a likely decision.

We are really getting close to singularity - the pace of LLM improvement is constantly accelerating.

If China switches to war time economy, they can produce very easily 1M Shahed like drones every month. Plus many millions of FPV/AI controlled drones. Plus massive number of missiles, including hyper sonic and supersonic. They can kill everyone in Taiwan with just drones and missiles if they decide to commit to it.

But given the advances that China has had in EVs, drones, solar, batteries, wind turbines, AI, nuclear energy, smartphones and other advanced industries IMHO it doesn't make sense for them to start a war right now. Better to keep growing their industry and exports and take over Taiwan sometime later.

What do you think about Cursor?

Interesting. When reading dystopian SciFi books, about a future where big corporations are above state governments and dominate the world I couldn't quite believe it. But such future becomes a lot more believable now.

The big tech is going to be one of the big winners from Internet Access Control. This will give them a more reliable way to link a user account to an actual human being - a link that can be monetized in a variety of ways. All kind of political regimes can use such regulations to enhance their control of the population. And the loosers are going to be the Internet users and small companies.

The unfortunate true is IAC is coming to most countries in the world, no matter how much the Hacker News audience hates it...

With $5k you have to make compromises. Which compromises you are willing to make depends on what you want to do - and so there will be different optimal setup.

Can even network 4 of these together, using a pretty cheap InfiniBand switch. There is a YouTube video of a guy building and benchmarking such setup.

For 5K one can get a desktop PC with RTX 5090, that has 3x more compute, but 4x less VRAM - so depending on the workload may be a better option.

The governments may have by that time armies of drones and robots, controlled by a few loyal people or AI.

Those people may have armed robot guards.

The counter argument to that is what happened with horses. Since domestication every advance of human civilization lead to having more horses. Until cars were invented and improved - which eliminated overnight 90% of the number of horses used.

So the fact that in the past new technologies have created new jobs is not a guarantee that AI will create new jobs.

On top of that have a look what happened say during the industrial revolution in Britain. You'd have a village with 2000 workers producing clothes or materials to make clothes. A rich guy opens a factory in that village that employees 200 people and produces more than the whole village before that. 90% are unemployed, the 10% that work in factory have far worse working conditions. Studying graves from that time shows the height of people went down during the industrial revolution - as the conditions in the factories were far worse than what they had before. Hence the luddite movement - but as the reach people owned the mass media, the luddites were portrayed as crazy. Eventually, many years later, new better jobs did appear.

From the decoherence / Many-Worlds view: No collapse occurred. Only entanglement happened.

I think you're right, the many worlds interpretation makes the most sense. Unfortunately out current technology is very far from delivering any experimental confirmation or denial of any of the mainstream interpretations.

Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve? I don’t think so.

Zurek’s Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism is thought-provoking, but it’s still speculation without broad buy-in from researchers. We might need ASI to crack these mysteries — our brains weren’t built for this kind of problem.

Perfect timing from Windsurf - future for medium sized AI startups is uncertain and $3B are a lot of money.

He built a team, that in turn designed and built the rocket. IMHO his political views are borderline crazy, but can't deny that Mr Musk has mad skills to attract and motivate top talent to work for him.

Another review (Just Josh) here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIRFjNmcjiM - probably a better one.

Looks like an interesting service. Maybe you can provide a little bit of extra explanation what you're doing. SaaS is an overused term and it means different things to different people.

Passengers going through without document checks is a minor element of Schengen. The heavy hitter are the trucks passing borders much faster and with no admin expenses - saves EU countries many billions of EUR annually.

Thanks for providing a valuable service to the Internet community and good luck :)

Life's too short to give a real email address to any random web site that requires registration. One reason is privacy, as they will inevitably sell one's data to a thousand data brokers. Second reason is to avoid having to deal with all the spam, that will again inevitably come. Even if unsubscribed from everything, we've change our policy emails and other nonsense will keep wasting one's time.

This statement is completely wrong. There are millions of engineers in the world and most of them live in countries like China, India and Russia. Very few of them use MacBooks.

The vast majority of the software engineers in big companies (that employ a lot more people than big tech and startups combined) who use Java and C# also have predominately Windows laptops (as their employers can manage Windows laptops a lot easier, have agreements with vendors like Dell to buy them with a discount, have software like AV that doesn't support MacOS, etc.).

On top of that MacBooks don't have the best screens and are not the best built. Many Windows laptops have OLED screens or 4K IPS screens. There are premium Windows laptops made out of magnesium and carbon fiber.

Good one, I'll have a look. Are there any good videos on YouTube on the topic of origin of intelligence? I can't seem to find any.

OpenAI will no longer require an account to use ChatGPT, the company’s free AI platform. However, this only applies to ChatGPT, as other OpenAI products, like DALL-E 3, cost money to access and will still require an account for access. “We’re rolling this out gradually, with the aim to make AI accessible to anyone curious about its capabilities,” OpenAI said

IMHO that's a bad idea - making government services depend on a commercial entity. The bank can close your account with them at will.

In Norway and Sweden they also have something similar called BankID.

Interesting question, I'd like to know this also.

Guess it's going to be a variant of Llama or Grok.

At least 7.6 million existing AT&T account holders and 65.4 million former users hit by the breach, the company says.