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neumann··on Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
compared to claude - how 'fast' is it in terms of throughput on your laptop?
neumann··on Our position on open-weights models
> 1. My primary concern is the risk that authoritarian governments—not solely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), although the CCP is clearly the most capable threat—build AI models that are more powerful than those built by the US, and use them to achieve permanent military superiority or perpetrate incredibly deep repression of their own people.

What a nice implicit way to say that it would be okay if the authoritarian government is the current US government trying to perpetrate incredibly deep repression of their own people.

neumann··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
I have a friend who is a peace negotiator in the balkans for 20 years. He has lots of amusing (to my horrifying) stories of cat and mouse interrogations with the FSB etc as he travels between Moscow, Kyiv and the West. He uses threema and signal for most diplomatic conversations, but when he travels he only carries burner phones.

If you don't trust a government, ensure you aren't carrying any information you don't want to give up before entering their borders where you will be under their power.

neumann··on Patreon laying off 20% of staff
based on how we've been behaving over the last 10 years, essentially yes. We are all just hoping to crawl up high enough that us and our offspring might survive while the world literally burns and billionaires and capitalism managed to destroy any movement to slow down our destruction of our environment and sustainable economies for faster short term extraction of profit and power for themselves.
neumann··on Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall
Maybe it's the worm doing it?
neumann··on Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse
Everyone pushing tools/AI during initial development/investment and building its demand in the cultural discourse always highlights its ability for good.

Now, like many tools, the majority of those selling AI to make money off of large enterprise sell its ability to increase productivity, efficiency, compliance. Either to make money or to minimise risk. And so like you say, they just become tools to make these metrics move or report them at higher granularity. And often there is either a lack of imagination or a willful ignorance of the perverse outcomes with relationship to humans because they are in service of the organisation not it's employees.

neumann··on Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models
I agree with everything you said about their situation, but it's not like that is what will be evaluated in an IPO. There will be continued hype by the companies, lobbying to win support of a corrupt administration, and a narrative spin by clueless media about this AI revolution that will give investors fomo.
neumann··on Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch
Red and Blue were so hard for me!
neumann··on How to earn a billion dollars
That's half my point. Because what you said might be true, and yet, the argument by Capital is often that they are working HARDER THAN EVERYONE else to get their wealth and everyone else is lazy. Which is a) both irrelevant as you state, and b) a sign they need the validation that they are putting in effort / more effort to justify what they are extracting from everyone else.
neumann··on How to earn a billion dollars
Yes their are. Majority of elected officials are just their instrument. The amount of money billionaires spend shaping media, lobbying and campaigns to get power and push propaganda to determine who is elected makes the fight to get people like AOC who are working in the interest of society so much harder.
neumann··on How to earn a billion dollars
100%

A lot of comments seem to not assume that ownership is equivalent to 'earning'. Why does capital need to pretend their wealth growth is equivalent to the effort of labour.

neumann··on Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
That was the conspiracy story about pokemon go when it first came out! That it will be used by the military!
neumann··on Can we have the day off?
we already are son.
neumann··on Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia
So fix it dear Henry.
neumann··on Flipper One – we need your help
It's typically the name for the front of computer programming that is 'doing human type stuff'. Once it's not on the front and the wave has passed, the AI name moves on.
neumann··on AI is a technology not a product
This is great when everyone is smart, aligned in the purpose, has no politics, dog in the fight, but awful everywhere else.

It's the difference between peer review by leaders in the field trying to make your paper better, and juniors wanting to be heard or insecure academics trying to get an ego boost by nit picking and wasting time.

Intellectual bloodbath sounds like so much of the latter with point scoring being the goal.

neumann··on Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin
I use jellyfin server on my NAS with wireguard + symfonium (android client) on my phone for streaming, but I mostly stream out of the house on my phone.
neumann··on When your digital life vanishes
+1

I have multiple syncthings between phone and home nas:

- Photos (immich on server/mobile). I use master on phone, so immich don't delete on phone, and then rotate my folders out of syncthing directory and then clean my on device camera photo every few months

- Notes: (Obsidian on server/mobile). flawless

- SyncFolder: random folder to move between the two.

neumann··on US to embed Palantir AI across military
You know they will try given everything else they are doing to influence elections so blatantly.
neumann··on John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists
They are not the fall guys. They are at the buffet with the biggest plates, and when the buffet ends, they'll have the most food on their plates.
neumann··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
They sold Motorola to Lenovo in 2014
neumann··on GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
Yeah - Stock Android! We are not in the states, but might have to investigate further if it works for others.
neumann··on GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
It's more frustrating because my partner's pixel 4A cannot use google pay or the bank apps because it is an invalid os - I am guessing due to lack of updates? So, perfectly fine hardware, but crippled in functionality due to the lack of software updates.
neumann··on Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
I tried to opposite because claude was not coding as well as codex some additional modules for my codebase and codex could. Then I tried to get claude to read and critique and it got so many fundamentals wrong I was wondering if I am using the wrong model.
neumann··on Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems
Which copilot?

github copilot? bing copilot? office365 copilot? office365 copilot chat? windows copilot? or one of those clippy like copilots in dev environments that can't do anything but point you to the wrong documentation?

neumann··on A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
I hear you. It's so prevalent now it is tiring. And LLMs has given them the last delusion that they are now also 'technical'.
neumann··on OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
What are you referring to?
neumann··on Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device
I have bought three for all my relatives since 2015, and finally bought one for myself. They are still in stock and sold by local brick and mortar retailers as well as online!

I use the n100 for jellyfin, and shield for streaming and controller with jellyfin client.

neumann··on Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The architectures of these models are a plenty good scientific basis for this statement.
neumann··on Quack-Cluster: A Serverless Distributed SQL Query Engine with DuckDB and Ray
Agreed, but maybe that's what you call it when you get your configs wrong
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