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correlator··on Gemini 3.7 Flash
We run a platform that serves models from many of the frontier players to power conversations and workflows. Gemini flash-2.5 was a game changer for us when it came out. Cheap, fast, and reliable.

We are now considering dropping support for the model family all together. All of their models require significant scrubbing of errant thinking blocks, inner monologues, and it's consuming more engineering resources than it's worth.

correlator··on Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
Does this mean that when you disable, all labels are deleted, and when you turn it back on it has to re-scan all of your photos? Could this be a cost-saving measure?
correlator··on Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas
That sounds really cool. The background does provide a lot of perspective on your views. It makes a lot of sense. Thank you for keeping us safe on the road!
correlator··on Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas
Out of curiosity, have you ever attempted to create something from scratch and bring it to market? Not as an employee, but as someone trying to figure it out?

Your work history will impact the way you view this issue IMO.

correlator··on Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
Definitely agree! It's just strange seeing Devoret without Schoelkopf!
correlator··on Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners
The company would have more cash in the bank when he exercises those options.

They also wouldn't have to pay to create a new pay package to replace the voided one. This process is surprisingly expensive to create and implement a CEO pay package.

There were more reasons that shareholders voted for the package in the revote, but omitting others as I don't think they are related to financials

correlator··on Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners
As of December 31st, 2024, Tesla has around $17b in cash and cash equivalents, $122b in assets, and $49b in liabilities

It doesn't seem likely the government will have to bail them out.

correlator··on Web apps built with Ruby on Rails
This is a great point. I often ask LLMs which coding language they are most proficient in, and Python is the most typical response. This has makes me want to write more Python.
correlator··on Stimulation Clicker
reminds me of cookie clicker!
correlator··on GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house
Wow that must have been a wild experience 10 years ago!

Today, I think they should do this. It is rare I need to touch the wheel or pedal these days and people should experience it.

correlator··on GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house
I love the tesla service. Bought my car without talking to a single sales person, they come to my home to rotate my tires on my schedule. Only complaint is cosmetic service tends to have a long appointment wait time, but things like a cracked windshield were immediately serviced.

I don't know how I will switch to another car brand after this.

correlator··on Willow, Our Quantum Chip
I met julian touring UCSB as perspective grad students. We sat together at dinner and he was really smart, kind, and outgoing. Great to see him presenting this work!
correlator··on I Tried Tesla FSD
TLDR They drove down narrow 1-lane streets and had to disengage once. While this sounds quite impressive, the article spends a lot of time focused on fear of FSD. There's even a hypothetical comment that he will surely be hit by an FSD enabled car.
correlator··on EU's concealment of secret 'expert list' on CSAM regulation is maladministration
Any citations?
correlator··on YouTube's ad blocker crackdown escalates, aggravating users
I can just close the popup and play the video. Does that not work for anyone else?
correlator··on My Unhealthy Relationship with Keyboards
You get used to the layer keys for arrows within a day or two.
correlator··on Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic
I would think that AWS also offers a lot of distribution opportunities for Anthropic.
correlator··on Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
There is clearly a lot of information to share. It's worth considering this could be step 1 of n as opposed to assuming the worst possible intention.
correlator··on Launch HN: Metal (YC W23) – Embeddings as a Service
Very interesting project, congratulations on the launch! I've been playing with embedding search/clustering on larger documents, and I find that segmentation strategies can be quite tricky and heavily impact results. Do you offer any segmentation strategies via API, or do you expect this potentially personalized feature will be handled by devs on their own servers?
correlator··on I unschool my 5 kids. This is how much it costs
I don't think this will be a popular opinion, but IMHO learning how to deal with those things is a valuable thing that schooling provides.
correlator··on Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023
It looks like you need to pay for a full year upfront to keep the legacy pricing. The month to month payment plans are seeing a price increase.
correlator··on Show HN: Create a paid link to anything
Seems like an interesting approach to doing things like online paid concerts. I don't know the space well, there may already be solutions for this in the market. Still, if this is successful, I imagine Twitch/Youtube etc. could quickly add this.
correlator··on TSMC to begin 3nm chip production next month
Feynman gave a lot of talks about the natural limits of information storage, but knowing the theory and seeing it done in practice are two different animals!
correlator··on Programming breakthroughs we need
Ruby was also the first thought in my mind reading this article.
correlator··on Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’
It could be :)

Another possible explanation is: A bad economy lead to a lot of layoffs: https://layoffs.fyi/. These layoffs resulted in employees being upset and quitting in addition to layoffs. Now there are a lot of job seekers and fewer jobs making it a bad time to quit.

IDK :shrug:

correlator··on Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’
You're right, but to reason about a hypothetical scenario, we've got to make assumptions. Identifying under-performers with perfect precision is my assumption of a spherical cow! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
correlator··on Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’
The market is really hot right now, and yes, a lot of people may be quitting. There are also a lot of hiring freezes and layoffs happening at the same time.

If a lot of people continue to quit while available jobs continue to decline, the result is fewer people feeling comfortable quitting.

correlator··on Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’
Yes,

Team of 5 and 1 person is coasting. Get rid of the 1 and you just reduced burn by 20%.

You lose the output of the coasting team member, but that's small to begin with by the scenario's setup.

If you believe coasting is contagious (why am I working so hard when clearly I don't have to like this other person), you could potentially see a boost in output.

Of course, this needs to be weighed against the risk of everyone being upset and leaving after such a decision, but in this market, that risk may be mitigated.

PS. It's really hard to make specific statements about vague hypothetical scenarios :)

correlator··on Airflow's Problem
Airflow with a celery backend is a pretty sweet combination. In that instance, airflow just gives you a nice scheduler to manage all the celery jobs.
correlator··on Why America can’t build
From my experience NIMBYs are typically local property owners who don't want their view, neighborhood, etc. to change. These folks could be better off financially than their YIMBY counterparts who maybe don't own all that same property.

If there's a group of people with money and a group with less debating the same issue, I would expect the politician to support the party most likely to make large campaign contributions.

I have no data to support this idea and should not be taken seriously in this context.

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