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Claude has been so bad that I find it easier to hand write commit messages and PR description. It works much better than nudging Claude to write things down in a readable and meaningful way.

I wouldn't call it absurd, but very questionable at least. Most companies are not going to even consider throwing money at this adventure.

I was learning classic buffer overflow techniques on vulnerable C programs and how modern compilers mitigate these issues with default compiler flags.

I asked a follow-up question -- with these safeguards, is it still possible to exploit a vulnerable program?

Claude refused to answer.

Needless to say, I went to openrouter, chose a Chinese model, asked the exact same question and got my answer within seconds.

If the author had put a TL;DR at the beginning of the article I wouldn't have had to scroll all the way to the end to find the conclusion, because the slop is otherwise unreadable.

In academic journals, we call that "abstract".

There is no amount of words that can explain it. If you don't have first hand experience, you are not going to understand it. And it's fine if you never use Garmin (or another bike computer), and you can be the biggest skeptic, but I don't think it's helpful to describe he experience with words.

Their podcast is full of factual errors without correction whatsoever.

I'll put it this way -- I listen to them for general entertainment but not for information.

If you had ever used the actual product you wouldn't have made the comment.

It's very unlikely that you'll forget to turn off the computer in the first place. And the whole experience is very smooth.

Don't expect to see a Verge article written with something like a New Yorker style handbook in mind. It's hard enough for them to get all the facts correct.

Recently sold a "Google (Nest) Home Audio" device after it failed to accomplish very basic tasks like "turn on the light". I wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible before it's completely useless. Like, it would succeed about 20% of the time on a good day. That number used to be 80%-90%.

I wonder if I live in an alternate universe because I am only seeing good news about Gemini coming out of Google.

I had this issue on Firefox on a Linux machine but didn't see it when on a Mac. I gave up figuring out why -- every other website worked fine.

I have been using adblockers since perhaps 2012 and now have it on my router.

I don't think I missed anything, or in some cases where ads are unavoidable, ever decided to buy something because of ads. I do my own research for purchases.

In other words, the conversion rate is near zero for me.

I don't care what others do, but it's a waste of compute and network bandwidth to try to target me. Ad lords had better use that resource to target someone else.

My Comcast Internet gives me 300 down 10 up.

This may sound weird, but: Alternatives will appear, just like how Chinese people have been able to live their lives without access to Google, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp etc. The alternatives may not be good -- I'd argue the Chinese version of Google (Baidu) is quite a lot worse in many ways -- but they work and are good enough for most people.

> additional rogue activity

> misaligned model activity

> when AI systems behave in undesired ways

We cannot say the h word now?

> It can't be that they don't have enough compute.

How do you know?

Every cloud provider (AWS, Azure etc) is struggling with meeting LLM demand.

Source: first hand info

If you ever look at what's in the Common Crawl the amount of Chinese porn crap is jarring.

I don't think "which one to get" has been a problem for choosing cars -- much easier than choosing between i3/i5/i7 (or whatever they are called these days), and most consumers understand what they mean and the tradeoffs. It basically comes down to these questions -- do you want to pay more on the car to save on gas in the long run (hybrid)? Do you want to be able to plugin and charge your vehicle similar to an EV (PHEV)? Do you want to get rid of gas completely (EV)? And I'm sure salespeople will happily walk this over for a buyer.

> efficient structural layout

They don't need to be the most efficient on the market. Efficiency varies a lot among cars, and people don't make purchase decisions solely based on that (if at all).

Was looking for this.

5 minutes into this I realized that I would much rather just watch the original video.

While the text doesn't appear to be AI generated, it feels very similar to the meeting digest created by Microsoft Copilot. They are ok if I am in a hurry or just want to look something up, but I avoid them for high quality talk.

> Steam Frame will be a big deal outside of VR

It's delusional to think people are going to drop $1k on an optional, almost-single-purpose gadget when most don't even spend that much on a laptop.

The only thing people are spending that much on are phones. But that's something people use all the time for years.

Farmers doesn't move fast and break things.

/s

That why I don't read the news part of xda-developers. Their staff seem to make a lot of basic technical errors despite what xda-developers is known for.

(Although xda-developers forum isn't exactly a great place for technical discussions either. Not following standard software engineering practice and instead using forum posts to track bugs and announce releases in 2020s is beyond me.)

FYI when Apple Vision Pro was announced plenty of posts were downvoted for perfectly legit doubts/criticism that proved to be correct

"we finally have something ..." maybe do a search first.

Both of which are not appealing at all to the average consumer. Most people have better use for their $1k.

I have to point out that all of these are terrible options for the general mass who are remotely interested in VR. If you are an enthusiastic who don't mind dropping $1000 on something completely optional to your everyday life, great, but otherwise they are terrible in value considering what they provide.

I have watched hundreds of movies with my 27" 4k monitor, or 24" 1080p monitor a few years back. Screen size is never something that bothered me. And I know people who watched more stuff on their laptop screen with terrible color accuracy.

I have a VR headset, but other than the one time I tried Skybox just to see what it looks like, it never occurred to me to take the headset out to watch a full length movie. It's just not worth it.

Makes me wonder how often people use it for "watching content on a gigantic screen at home", or it's just mostly theoretical in VR headset marketing material.

VR desktop: that's supposedly the "killer application" of Apple Vision Pro back in 2005 (and only usable on high resolution headsets like those). Guess what, these days nobody talks about it. I haven't seen anyone bringing it up on HN for a long time.

Google search.

P.S. only the oldest that I can track down.

> construct a cheap shade over the entire canal no

Unless you can provide concrete numbers and do a side-by-side comparison, you have already lost the argument.

Plus I am sure you are not the first person to come up with the idea.

The earliest that I can track down is https://www.tumblr.com/michaelblume/169525456166/tech-enthus...

One thing I do know is that an Anthropic employee is definitely NOT going to blame this on the model they are using.