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New comment by meta_x_ai in "Mullenweg Shuts Down WordPress Sustainability Team, Igniting Backlash"

meta_x_ai — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 17:31:10 +0000

or may be typical leaders have a better vision of what "sustainability" means.

"Hire great engineers that have sustainability in their bones"

Actual implementation by the grifters : Hire other grifters with Sustainability in their resume, whose only job is to act as gatekeepers with psuedo-science garbage and make this team as big as the Engineering Team.

It's perfectly fine for the leader to look at the implementation and say "what's this fucking bullshit and cut everything".

These concepts are of course completely alien to leader/rich-hating HN

New comment by meta_x_ai in "I'm quitting the Washington Post"

meta_x_ai — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:30:22 +0000

The money was spent in Democratic-heavy zipcodes, not rural areas

New comment by meta_x_ai in "I'm quitting the Washington Post"

meta_x_ai — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 01:31:54 +0000

Why wasn't such cartoon made when Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to essentially increase Get-out-to-vote in essentially largely democratic areas.

Delusional to think the WP and NYT journalists are coming at this at a highly non-partisan way.

The entire mainstream media is Anti-Trump, Anti-GOP.

I remember how MSM treated Javier Millei as the next hitler

New comment by meta_x_ai in "U.S. appeals court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules"

meta_x_ai — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:22:45 +0000

Thank god for John Roberts for preventing governmental overreach by unelected bureaucrats which has become increasingly ideological

New comment by meta_x_ai in "How I run LLMs locally"

meta_x_ai — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 19:20:59 +0000

Why would you waste time in Good models when there are great models?

New comment by meta_x_ai in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

meta_x_ai — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 21:50:35 +0000

Looks like it's not updated for nearly a year and I'm guessing Gemini 2.0 Flash with 2m context will simply crush it

New comment by meta_x_ai in "GitHub Copilot is now available for free"

meta_x_ai — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 20:34:46 +0000

A software developer's time is much more precious than wasting time on sub-optimal models.

Open Weights models has it's place (in training custom agents and custom services), but if you are knowledge worker, using a model even 5% less than SOTA is extremely dumb

Whisk

meta_x_ai — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 20:12:36 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/labsdotgoogle/status/1868709196432392569

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42434896

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Whisk – Images as Prompt

meta_x_ai — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:52:13 +0000

Article URL: https://labs.google/fx/tools/whisk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42433394

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by meta_x_ai in "Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history"

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:49:19 +0000

As a South Indian My name (in public school records) till I was age 21, was .

I was forced to pick the last name for passport purposes and typically i either have the option of attaching my dad's name or my dad's town name.

My wife, didn't even do that and when she migrated to US, she was LNU (short for Last Name Unknown). While applying for greencard we decided it was too much of a hassle for her and she attached her father's name

New comment by meta_x_ai in "Canvas"

meta_x_ai — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:40:53 +0000

gemini-exp-1206 and I'm pretty sure Gemini 2.0 Pro will beat it

https://livebench.ai/#/

New comment by meta_x_ai in "Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era"

meta_x_ai — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:09:05 +0000

Google has 4 Billion users. It's delusional to think that you don't know anyone or you live in an incredibly small bubble

New comment by meta_x_ai in "Canvas"

meta_x_ai — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 22:45:31 +0000

chatGPT's popularity and almost becoming a verb, says otherwise

New comment by meta_x_ai in "Canvas"

meta_x_ai — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 20:13:09 +0000

OpenAI has completely pivoted to a Product company (vs a Model / API company)

The minute they switch to API is the time their userbase realizes that OpenAI neither has the best model nor the most cost-effective one nor the fastest one.

So, their business strategy is subscription and bundle a bunch of products and market it to the mass.

They have a brand "chatGPT" recognition and they'll milk that.

Sam is more of a Steve Jobs than a Bill Gates personality or at least wannabe

New comment by meta_x_ai in "Sora is here"

meta_x_ai — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:09:25 +0000

A picture is worth a thousand words.

A word is worth a thousand pictures. (E.g Love)

It is abstraction all the way

New comment by meta_x_ai in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"

meta_x_ai — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:04:02 +0000

Exploring via Search can become O(1) instead of M^N

New comment by meta_x_ai in "Amazon Nova"

meta_x_ai — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:35:46 +0000

None of those matters (except multimodal). If you are running a business, the only thing that matters is

a) How does it perform on my set of evals

b) What is the cost/latency of serving it to my consumers.

It shouldn't matter to me how many parameters, corpus it is trained on, whether it's LLM or Transformer or something else

New comment by meta_x_ai in "MTA's A.I. bus cameras issue mistaken parking violations"

meta_x_ai — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:02:21 +0000

If you prevent government from launching technologies for every software bug / mistake, you will get a bloated government which will do everything manually increasing it's cost to taxpayers and decrease in quality of services.

The key is still to launch fast and iterate over bugs especially in the realm of traffic / parking violations which at the most causes annoyances to people ( I mean the same people are willing to sit in front of Holland Tunnel for an hour )

New comment by meta_x_ai in "Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC companies, data shows"

meta_x_ai — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 18:20:34 +0000

HN has turned into an anti-billionaire, anti-VC, anti-success cesspool. It's a very dangerous echo chamber that'll destroy within

New comment by meta_x_ai in "Starlink Direct to Cell"

meta_x_ai — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 06:03:51 +0000

You have no idea the margins at which Elon Musk operates.

If you read his biography he is obsessive about cost cutting like no else in the history of mankind. There are plenty of examples where Musk brings down the cost of a component by 90%.

No other leader takes risks like Musk and hence he will always push frontiers.

His companies never get lazy or bloated even if it reaches $10T market cap.

Musk methods can't be replicated because it is the anti-thesis of every management practice.