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The download still says "2.0 (2.7.1)"

They're just not putting minor versions in the headlines

Correlation and causation and all that.

A number of the women in my wife's family have been diagnosed with Alzheimers. All of the women I know in her family also hate driving, because they find it very stressful.

It's plausible that people prone to Alzheimers are less likely to be comfortable driving.

I do like it.

One of the quotes that always sticks with me is:

"Most of our so-called reasoning consists of finding arguments to go on believing as we already do." -- James Harvey Robinson.

I've long since come to the conclusion that humans choose their positions based on gut reactions and almost all of their arguments for holding that position come after the fact.

I think OpenAI is just getting beaten so badly in the Enterprise space that they have to make rosy predictions about the consumer space.

I expect that a lot of the money will be in Enterprise AI.

I think you can both be sad that something you built was destroyed, and also aware that you already sold it and are not somehow personally a victim.

It's tough for me to square the two things happening simultaneously in AI right now:

1. LLM Model providers are starting to charge real costs to users, revealing that AI usage is much more expensive than the subsidized rates we've been seeing for years.

2. Google is now using an LLM to answer every single google search that happens, for which Google bears the entire cost.

I did an analysis of reconstruction spending in Afghanistan sometime around 2010, just looking at what money was spent where and what the impacts were. Infrastructure spending was the only thing that had any measurable return. Building roads in a given region reduced violence.

In order to make this viable, wouldn't you have to verify identity repeatedly? What's to stop me from providing a valid identity and then handing my account over to an agent after I'm verified?

> But these measures were implemented poorly and needed to be paired with matchmaking to not destroy the platform.

As a parent, my experience in discussion with other parents is: "Don't ever let your child onto Roblox, it is utterly toxic and should be avoided at all costs."

From that perspective, I think most parents view the destruction of the platform as neutral to positive, and it suggests that the status quo would destroy the platform anyway.

Of course that's true, and I'll happily join the United Technology Workers Union when it exists. In the meantime, I don't think you can fault people for taking the safest option for their families instead of sticking it to the man.

Practically speaking, the person who stays has three months salary, plus severance and then unemployment. The person who quits loses their entire income stream immediately.

Do you think your small act of defiance has a bigger impact on you, or on the company? Now imagine you have a family at home that depends on your income and do the math again.

Even within the UI, Opus 4.6 is just under "More Models >", as is Sonnet 4.5. It's not gone.

American here. I was at a party when I saw the news and gleefully announced it to the table I was sitting at. We were all pleased with both the result and the concession.

...we know.

Oh dear.

I've been avoiding Chrome-based browsers for many years now but have only recently become aware of how catastrophically low the Firefox market share is. I'm kind of shocked that more people aren't choosing to avoid Chrome.

Seems like all of OpenAI's "deals" are announcement fodder with no real contract, primed to quietly fall through later.

For all of the article's brown-nosing, there doesn't seem anything particularly groundbreaking about this thesis: the internet was once thought of as a mechanism for the unvarnished spread of information and is now utilized by those with power and influence as a mechanic for careful information control. Am I missing something?

Hilariously, the article manages to have a right-wing bent to this revelation, as though it's those insidious liberals buying up the world's information streams and intentionally breaking them.

Okay, buddy.

I didn't realize Firefox's market share had gotten so low. Now I'm sad.

Need is definitely too strong a word, but I think we can agree that uv has so far been the best solution to a problem that plagued python development for a really long time.

As someone who loves Astral and hates OpenAI, this is making me pretty sad.

And this is how you get Moltbook.

That can't be whole story, though. They're still profitable.

I have always asserted, and will continue to assert, that Tuesday is the funniest day of the week. If you construct a joke for which the punchline must be a day of the week, Tuesday is nearly always the correct ending.

I'd like to see evidence that open models are closing that gap. That would be promising.

The labor market is cratering, but tech worker pay remains higher in the US than anywhere else on the planet.

I'm actually in the process of building a home NAS server primarily for this purpose. Delighted to hear everyone has such a good experience.

I cannot even imagine the horror and the relief. I imagine if I were those paramedics, getting a card or a picture from that kid would make my whole year.

Drivers in Hawaii have taken this to an extreme level and will stop in the middle of the road to let pedestrians or other cars go ahead of them even when they have the right of way. And they throw the shaka when they do it.