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conceptionon 10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years

https://www.crfb.org/socialsecurityreformer/

It’s actually pretty easy- pick three or four options that have the very wealthy kick back into society what they have been syphoning out and it balances.

conceptionon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

The power imbalance allows one side to exhibit restraint and use more civilized options. These aren’t actors on the same footing. It’s a nuclear power with a multi billion dollar military against some of the poorest people on the planet.

conceptionon U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982

If the Republicans actually had that position instead of being funded heavily by oil money they would be #1 Super Top Solar/Green energy party because that is the path to energy independence and to truly reduce the influence of OPEC - even outside of the fact that peak oil is over and it will continue to get more and more expensive to pull oil out of the earth. But they’re not because your assumptions are misplaced.

conceptionon Sonnet 5.5

Or if its luna at 1000 tok/sec. Speed is what most of my peers care most about these days since less intelligent models can do most grunt work just fine.

conceptionon Sonnet 5.5

You’ve never heard of anyone using gmail for email?

conceptionon Sonnet 5.5

Is this low quality content relative to most HN comments?

conceptionon Musk, the Movie

What else should the richest man on the planet be doing about global warming? Really? Dude literally had full access to the US government and…? Like… he could tweet on it to start?

conceptionon Ember-1

Why does Cursor or Devin make their own models? If you use their models, then you can't fallback to other people's models on openrouter or anyplace else. You just stick with them.

conceptionon Ember-1

Mimo has entered the conversation.

conceptionon "Someone just sent me an ad that features an AI version of me. What do I do?"

Only the first generation to experience it. Gen two would just think it’s how things are.

Point- advertising to children in general used to be considered morally and ethically wrong and yet paw patrol exists today.

conceptionon Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons

Certainly for some but unlike evolution and the big bang, nebulous concepts, proven life on another planet will be a cultural change. We won’t be the only life in the universe and that will have a profound impact on how we look at the stars moving forward.

conceptionon Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service

For a hot minute Eucalyptus https://www.eucalyptus.cloud was amazing - even matching aws bugs to keep compatibility. Wish it had rue support/resources to keep going. Maybe a viber will pick up and get it more up to date.

conceptionon Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons

A majority of the planet thinks life started here. Finding it elsewhere would culturally be a cosmic (puns) shift of before alien life existed verifiably and after.

conceptionon DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)

Yeah if they had the resources of an OpenAI or anthropic they’d be OpenAI or Anthropic. Scrappy underdogs have to be nimble and innovative.

conceptionon How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance

As long as they think these leopards won’t eat their faces, that is.

conceptionon "Someone just sent me an ad that features an AI version of me. What do I do?"

Ads of you wearing the clothes they are trying to sell you. Yet another torment nexus to build!

conceptionon Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2

White listing doesn’t protect against supply chain attacks. You need some sort of behavioral analysis.

conceptionon Too AI; Didn't Read

What the industry is discovering is that copywriting is actually a skill. And it becomes pretty obvious if you don’t have any of it.

conceptionon Security auditing in the age of (good enough) AI

All security is a negotiation of allocating resources. It always ends with “well, that’s good enough for this.” There is never a “Ahhhh we’re done!” It can always be “more secure”.

conceptionon Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog's back.

"I could not help myself. It is my nature."

Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.

conceptionon Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers

It’s not just hackers - since legitimate sites block AI crawlers, the AI are just grabbing whatever will let them read anything - killing legit sites and feeding slop farms and feeding misinformation! The future is so bright!

conceptionon Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second

It was better when they had gemma at 1k. Inco does DS flash at about 600. A few places will do K3 and GLM in the hundreds.

Such a tiny model at that t/s is less impressive than it would have been four months ago.

conceptionon There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy

In the world of protein low carb pop tarts juice is poison.

conceptionon Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)

That ceiling set in… June. Yes. Slowing down for sure.

conceptionon Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)

Unless the 100% is super intelligence. Thats the bet being made with our economy/society.

conceptionon MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

That looks like you aren’t using the ultra speed endpoint.

conceptionon MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

DS 4.1 is good but it’s clearly not as “smart” as non-flash models- it just doesn’t have the training data. Without a solid plan, it goes off the rails pretty regularly.

conceptionon MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

https://marginlab.ai/trackers/codex/

By and large they don’t. I have seen this drop a few times, eg before fable came out opus dropped a lot probably due to less compute available.

My guess is it’s a combination of getting used to the new cliff models fall off on and forgetting that model performance drops significantly when context fills up.

So new model comes out, people try it and it’s amazing on a task or two. Then they start using it, context window fills up and it gets a lot worse.