ceroxylon

I don't mind the subtle ML integrations that they have put in the photos app: plant ID, recognizing faces, removing background, OCR text search (even for handwriting!), etc.

I partially agree, but in this case it kinda illustrates that it may not be worth using Terra on any reasoning level below high; those are some awful penguins on bikes.

>Apple didn’t just mess with their own icons. They also dictated the shape of every third-party app icon

We will never know if this was AI generated or not, but I have started to flinch at this sentence structure.

My first thought was the people capturing encrypted data in the hopes that quantum computing can crack it in the foreseeable future.

Hopefully there is some sort of version history implemented or planned like they have in Cowork[0]... this sounds great until a co-worker hijacks your Claude session with a worse idea and derails it from what you were intending.

[0] "Editing this message will create a new conversation branch. You can switch between branches using the arrow navigation buttons."

There are no photos of Merer, they were actually extraterrestrial /s

I made a rough version of this in 2024[0], interesting to see that the idea is still around. I had the ability to set "quality thresholds", but it didn't seem to matter, the frontier models pretty much always agreed with each other and scored the answer highly, I should revisit it since it is a whole different ballgame than it was 2 years ago.

[0] https://github.com/Ceroxylon/konsensis

Yay, max level actually put one of the legs behind the frame!

One of the best lessons I've learned was that the happiest I've been (so far) was a time when I was dirt poor, while chasing my dream that everyone assured me ends in poverty.

Things have changed, but it takes some of the financial anxiety away when I remember that I would still give up everything to go back to that time.

First thing I checked as well! I've been Poke-sniped, there goes a few hours.

Why does the website automatically try to download a PDF called "Heat_Treatment_Report"?

Edit: It appears to be the missing content from the "Engineering - Heat Treatment Analysis" demo

Deepseek made their 75% discount permanent, so I can imagine that Anthropic didn't want any of the news stories around this to focus on or mention a price increase.

I really like that thinking level high gave the pelican a helmet.

They had affordable flights between places like LA and Vegas / Florida and Cancún so it became almost like a bus route for some people.

When I see the domain of a post is neal.fun, I instantly get a huge grin because I know I am about to be delighted. Thank you Neal! The beach yurt with the mushroom soup was a hilarious touch.

When I asked some frontier models, many said that Teresa T is "widely referenced", which is evidence of your popularity and the ripple effects of your posts, so it would be interesting to see the same result from an unknown blog.

i've been using the API for a portion of my work to prepare for this and test to see how much it will cost in the long term, turns out that was the short term.

it is rough, but it has taught me to treat every prompt and process with care since i watch the pennies and dollars burn instead of tokens, which is a good habit to get into anyway

The wolf photo for the article was the most eerie example for me... if I am reading about the natural world, I want to see a real photo of the natural world.

What is the moat of the major ticketing companies? Is it deals with venues? It is hard to rationalize how one company can even get a stranglehold on an entire market like this.

I feel like I could ping any random HN user and build something better in a week, which means it has been done many times already... why don't alternatives gain traction?

I have been thinking that these SWE benchmarks will continue to improve since these companies hire very intelligent software engineers, they can task a multitude of them to solve problems, and then train the model on those answers.

Data has always been the core of it all, onward to the next abstraction, I suppose.

Even with search grounding, it scored a 2.5/5 on a basic botanical benchmark. It would take much longer for the average human to do a similar write-up, but they would likely do better than 50% hallucination if they had access to a search engine.

I think a lot of Dwarkesh's mentality about AI being inevitable / ubiquitous comes from the same part of him that thinks that artificial things are "good enough", e.g. the way he allows his production team to use fake plastic plants on set. Is he correct? I'm not sure, but I know there are at least a few people who notice the difference.

I stopped reading at "San Francisco was always scary to walk"...

> Honestly?

oh no... this is one of my "uncanny valley" AI tropes

engagement bot on overdrive

Hallucinations galore, the 'daily digest' provided me with this gem: "Apple's supposedly revolutionary $1,199 MacBook Neo is getting schooled by $500 Windows machines that do basically the same thing without the premium"

There is no way to build a Macbook Neo for $1,199 and this is obviously snarky, auto-generated slop.

The readme is AI generated, so I am assuming the lack of effort and hand-off to the bots extends to the rest of this repository.

The contributors are a Google DRE, 5 bots / automating services, and a dev in Canada.

That's what taking a stand looks like... if any of these employees lose their job, they are welcome to come crash at my place for as long as they would like; they will have a roof over their head and I will cook them 3 meals a day.

That was my reaction when LLMs first started getting "good"

I turned to my friend and said "They've co-opted the structure of effective language!"

There is a play/pause button in the lower right corner.