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l5870uoo9y··on Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
You can checkout the pull requests related to LibJS: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/pulls?q=is%3Apr+...
l5870uoo9y··on Zero downtime migrations at petabyte scale (2024)
What does it cost to host a 400TB database?
l5870uoo9y··on Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging
One of Europe's leading nutrition experts also highlighted energy drinks in connection with the growing incidence of colon cancer among young people.
l5870uoo9y··on GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
It's roughly three times cheaper than GPT-5.2-codex, which in turn reflects the difference in energy cost between US and China.
l5870uoo9y··on Speed up responses with fast mode
It doesn’t say how much faster it is but from my experience with OpenAI’s “service_tier=priority” option on SQLAI.ai is that it’s twice as fast.
l5870uoo9y··on You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers
While Cloudflare is long-established, the Workers platform is relatively new and did have the issues you described; however, over the past few months it has become stable. Compared to Vercel, it is more technical and advanced.
l5870uoo9y··on You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare Workers has really improved lately, e.g. "Observations" and "Metrics", and on top of that their product suite keeps growing all the time. If you use Astro[1] together with Cloudflare then you have a solution that is at least on par with NextJS and Vercel, but that only costs a fraction. My latest project[2] also uses Astro and Cloudflare and it is rendered on the "edge" (i.e. SSR) in about 100ms – you won't get better performance.

[1]: https://astro.build

[2]: https://www.viewdiff.ai

l5870uoo9y··on AI is a business model stress test
Killed by AI or competitors offering Tailwind templates and UI kits at a much lower price or for free?
l5870uoo9y··on Sergey Brin's Unretirement
It sounds similar to people living long-term on welfare in Denmark. They have food and housing, but their life is devoid of meaning.
l5870uoo9y··on The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law
The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) introduces (yet another) massive administrative burden on EU companies requiring them to check all their subcontractors by "identify actual or potential risks and harm to human rights and the environment as well as establishing processes and standards to diminish these risks". Using human rights and climate arguments the EU micro-manages everything and I have given up on the idea that the EU can be reformed.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Sustainability_Due_D...

l5870uoo9y··on Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window
Am I the only one who can't see what the problem is in that screencast? Click on the window you want to use or tab through until you find the right one.
l5870uoo9y··on Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
You can also give AI models Nobel-prize winning world literature and ask why this is bad and they will tear apart the text, without ever thinking "wait this is some of the best writing produced by man".
l5870uoo9y··on Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
> These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people.

The whole mess surrounding Grok's ridiculous overestimation of Elon's abilities in comparison to other world stars, did not so much show Grok's sycophancy or bias towards Elon, as it showed that Grok fundamentally cannot compare (generalize) or has a deeper understanding of what the generated text is about. Calling for more research and less scaling is essentially saying; we don't know where to go from here. Seems reasonable.

l5870uoo9y··on Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
Overnight success takes years (he has been doing the podcast for 5 years).
l5870uoo9y··on 'The French people want to save us': help pours in for glassmaker Duralex
Bought one in Berlin and I would say they are 2-3 times the price of the cheapest competitor, but still worth it. I believe the US used to have their own more rectangular version of the glass.
l5870uoo9y··on 210 IQ Is Not Enough
What is the biggest problem: that smart people achieve too little, or that dumb people achieve too much?
l5870uoo9y··on Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
> Mario Draghi has argued that the EU's internal barriers, which are equivalent to a high tariff rate, cost more than external tariffs. He has cited IMF estimates that show these internal barriers are equivalent to a \(45\%\) tariff on manufactured goods and a \(110\%\) tariff on services. These internal market restrictions, which include regulatory hurdles and bureaucracy, hinder cross-border competition and have a significant negative impact on the EU's economy.

Source: https://iep.unibocconi.eu/europes-internal-tariffs-why-imfs-...

l5870uoo9y··on Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
I disagree with this otherwise seemingly reasonable position. Draghi's latest report pointed out that overregulation is a major problem in the EU and costs EU companies the equivalent of a 50% tariff (if I remember correctly). Of course, Draghi's report has led to nothing more than a few headlines.
l5870uoo9y··on Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
The fundamental problem in Europe is the perception that companies are inherently ill-intentioned, requiring micro-management through massive bureaucracy. It is a moralising and irresponsible attitude that older people can afford to adopt, but like so many other things, it hits younger generations mercilessly hard.
l5870uoo9y··on GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients
Took "water fasting" to mean fasting even without water, apparently it is the opposite.
l5870uoo9y··on GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients
There is no such thing as water fasting. I would characterize it as an eating disorder.
l5870uoo9y··on iPhone Pocket
Except microplastics rub off and penetrate the skin barrier.
l5870uoo9y··on SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia
Isn't it merely a matter of time before China has an alternative?
l5870uoo9y··on European Commission plans “digital omnibus” package to simplify its tech laws
Another factor in being competitive in artificial intelligence is the price of electricity, which is four times higher in the EU than in the US. Changing this would require a break with the “green industrial complex”, which is close to untouchable (to many EU politicians).
l5870uoo9y··on Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses
Logistics in war is essential so it’s not a stretch. You can easily extend that line of thought to anything from drones to cars.
l5870uoo9y··on Developers are choosing older AI models
To those who complain about GPT5 being slow; I recently migrated https://app.sqlai.ai and found that setting service_tier = “priority” makes it reason twice as fast.
l5870uoo9y··on Why does Swiss cheese have holes?
Another fact about Emmentaler cheese is that it has a relative low salt content compared to other cheeses.
l5870uoo9y··on A definition of AGI
Long-term memory storage capacity[1] scores 0 for both GPT-4 and GPT-5. Are there any workable ideas or concepts for solving this?

[1]: The capability to continually learn new information (associative, meaningful, and verbatim). (from the publication)

l5870uoo9y··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
Static content resolves correctly but data fetching is still not functional.
l5870uoo9y··on Space Elevator
It is appreciated that you can change the temperature unit by clicking on it, and how surprisingly cold and changeable the temperature is as you travel up through the atomic sphere (down to -84C, -119F).
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