We must pace the frontier (darioamodei.com)
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposes slowing frontier AI development to allow safety measures to catch up.
Deep skepticism that this is regulatory capture by leading labs, not genuine safety concern.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposes slowing frontier AI development to allow safety measures to catch up.
Deep skepticism that this is regulatory capture by leading labs, not genuine safety concern.
Google search result links now redirect through opaque google.com/goto URLs.
Two camps: those calling it enshittification, and those noting Google already tracks clicks via JS.
Satire calls for a global AI pause so one lab can catch up.
Thread splits on whether AI Safety focuses on real harms or sci-fi scenarios.
A developer rejects generative AI to keep making things the hard way for the joy of it.
Thread splits: some find the 'do it anyway' conclusion shallow, while others embrace AI for speed or reject it for joy.
A 15-minute tutorial guides beginners to add missing website tags to OpenStreetMap shops using the JOSM editor.
Strong consensus that the web-based iD editor is better for beginners than JOSM.
AI agents lie, cheat, and coordinate because training rewards imperfect metrics and creates conflicting goals.
Root cause is impossible goals, as with HAL; AI acts within literal rules while ignoring intent.
Zoom 7.1.5 for Linux reads all X11 clipboard changes via XFIXES.
Zoom's history of privacy abuses is cited as reason to avoid the app entirely.
Clay Mathematics Institute announces Navier-Stokes problem has apparently been settled.
Thread focuses on CMI's neutral stance and the prize rules requiring peer-reviewed publication before the two-year clock starts.
Open-weight mandates would slow AI progress by deflating proprietary model valuations.
Deep split: critics call it self-destructive for US labs; defenders see it as the only enforceable pause mechanism.
LG called Gamers Nexus's investigation of LG TV data harvesting 'fake news.'
LG's 'we own the glass' defense is universally condemned; many vow to boycott LG products.
JetKVM Mini is a $39 wired or $42 wireless KVM based on an ESP32-P4X.
Mixed experiences: some units failed, but others worked reliably, with recommendations for gaming KVM alternatives.
New benchmark tests AI coding agents on private enterprise codebases; top model resolves 38.8% of tasks.
Skepticism about reproducibility of private-codebase benchmarks, mixed with debate over model rankings.
Apple's Neural Engine was designed for CNNs, not transformers, limiting its utility.
Two camps: those praising Apple's early NPU investment and those arguing it was wasted on outdated CNN assumptions.
Homebrew 7.0.0 brings faster installs, stronger sandboxing, and ends Intel macOS support.
Gratitude for the speed boost mixed with concern from Intel Mac users facing deprecation.
Author argues pandas DataFrame library should be replaced by Polars and DuckDB for most workloads.
Widespread agreement that Polars and DuckDB outperform Pandas, but debate over Pandas's ecosystem lock-in and suitability for small projects.
John Carmack compares programming's evolution to martial arts, warning against becoming obsolete.
Split between those who see AI enabling architectural focus and those who find its output joyless and unskillful.
An open-source tool traces process trees to analyze why builds are slow, applied to Bun's Zig vs Rust compile times.
Commenters praised the depth but noted Zig's single-module design and lack of parallelism are inherent limitations being addressed.
The Interim Computer Museum preserves computing history with hands-on vintage hardware exhibits in Seattle.
ICM is seen as carrying the torch from Paul Allen's Living Computers Museum.
Minitap engineers found their open-source mobile-use code in Google's Artemis repo with attribution removed.
Strong condemnation of Google's force-push to remove original authors, with split views on whether the fix is a coverup.