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bildung commented on Mistral 3 family of models released mistral.ai/news/mistral-3... · Posted by u/pember

Mistral is founded by multiple Meta engineers, no?

Funded mostly by US VCs?

Hosted primarily on Azure?

Do you really have to go out of your way to start calling their competition "data leeches" for out-executing them?

bildung · 16 days ago

I didn't mean to imply US bad EU good. As such, this isn't about which passport the VCs have, but about local hosting and open weight models. A closed model from a US company always comes with the risk of data exfiltration either for training or thanks to CLOUD Act etc (i.e. industrial espionage).

And personally I don't care at all about the performance delta - we are talking about a difference of 6 to at most 12 months here, between closed source SOTA and open weight models.

bildung commented on Mistral 3 family of models released mistral.ai/news/mistral-3... · Posted by u/pember

constantcrying · 17 days ago

The lack of the comparison (which absolutely was done), tells you exactly what you need to know.

bildung · 16 days ago

I think people from the US often aren't aware how many companies from the EU simply won't risk losing their data to the providers you have in mind, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. They simply are no option at all.

The company I work for for example, a mid-sized tech business, currently investigates their local hosting options for LLMs. So Mistral certainly will be an option, among the Qwen familiy and Deepseek.

Mistral is positioning themselves for that market, not the one you have in mind. Comparing their models with Claude etc. would mean associating themselves with the data leeches, which they probably try to avoid.

bildung commented on Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost nbcnews.com/politics/poli... · Posted by u/jnord

the_gipsy · 19 days ago

America is on a isolation downward spiral.

Russia will conquer Ukraine, any other prediction at this point is absurd.

See point one, America is alone now, it will take decades to repair the damage.

bildung · 19 days ago

> Russia will conquer Ukraine, any other prediction at this point is absurd.

Are you sure? They are advancing, sure, put look what they paid for to achieve this: 300k dead, 700k wounded, depletion of their souvereign wealth fund, 20%+ inflation, lower oil production and so on.

bildung commented on Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost nbcnews.com/politics/poli... · Posted by u/jnord

collinmcnulty · 19 days ago

I think widening the aperture outside the USA shows how big societal progress has come out of universities of the type we now recognize, starting with 1800s Germany. Even within the USA, the technological and social progress that percolated on universities had big impacts beyond the people actually enrolled and were essential in providing the basis for the employment of many other Americans.

Finally, it’s worth qualifying the idea of America’s decline. The USA is still THE powerhouse economy of the world. We have huge problems with unequal distribution and things are seriously politically messed up, but in terms of raw productivity, we are doing gangbusters. And solving the political and inequality issues call for a more educated populace, not less.

bildung · 19 days ago

> The USA is still THE powerhouse economy of the world.

Things look decidedly different if you exclude the ad companies (Google, Meta, ...) and associated shovel sellers, see the WaPo article about the S&P 493 from a few days ago.

bildung commented on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030 ft.com/content/23e54a28-6... · Posted by u/akira_067

akira_067 · 23 days ago

They may not be shipping good enough products, but on the flip side it still feels like they have almost no competition outside of coding and image gen. The EOL termination of 4-o should be some evidence of this.

bildung · 23 days ago

OTOH, why don't they ship good enough products? To me all of OpenAIs recent investments strongly suggest they hit a dead end with their current LLM approach. After all, if they knew the path ahead for GPT looks great, why don't they invest into training the next big thing instead of doing datacenters with the intention of renting them out?

bildung commented on Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled jayd.ml/2025/11/10/someon... · Posted by u/jaydenmilne

ChrisMarshallNY · 23 days ago

Apple TV apps, in general, are terrible. Every single one [that I routinely use] (including Apple’s apps) regularly crash or lock up, often leaving it to me, to force-quit.

Amazon has started getting into a state, lately, where it ignores the remote, unless I go back, then go forward again.

This kind of “quality” is considered “acceptable,” in today’s world.

AppleTV has a JavaScript-based development system. It also has a fairly classic native Swift system (which I use). I suspect most apps are JavaScript, though.

[EDIT: Added the “routinely use” qualifier]

bildung · 23 days ago

I have zero experience with these, but every app crashing could also indicate a hardware issue. Faulty memory perhaps?

bildung commented on LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs lapdhelicoptertracker.com... · Posted by u/polalavik

0xbadcafebee · a month ago

That 46 million could be spent on education, transportation, aid for low-income families, the homeless, jobs programs, small business tax breaks, infrastructure renewal, public works, etc. According to the report, not only are they largely not used for anything productive, there's potential harms to both people and the environment. And as many have pointed out, the same work can be done with drones.

bildung · a month ago

To drive this point further: The one stable causal relastionship relevant here is the one between inequality and crime. Reduce inequality in ways 0xbadcafebee suggested would reduce inequality - though probably not in sizes measureable after a few years.

bildung commented on LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs lapdhelicoptertracker.com... · Posted by u/polalavik

shoddydoordesk · a month ago

So your proposal is to just let the criminals run away? And that somehow won't embolden them further?

"Once this baby hits 88mph, we're home free!"

Air support is used to coordinate with law enforcement up ahead to deploy spikes to end the chase.

You are just repeating empty political talking points that simply don't work in the real world.

bildung · a month ago

It's probably reasonable to take a step back here and ask: Why is this not a universal problem? It's not as if every juristication outside the US simply lets criminals run away.

bildung commented on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla manualdousuario.net/en/mo... · Posted by u/rpgbr

boplicity · a month ago

Automatic captions has been transformative, in terms of accessibility, and seems to be something people universally want. Most people don't think of it as AI though, even when it is LLM software creating the captions. There are many more ways that AI tools could be embedded "invisibly" into our day-to-day lives, and I expect they will be.

bildung · a month ago

Do you have an example of a good implementation of ai captions? I've only experienced those on youtube, and they are really bad. The automatic dubbing is even worse, but still.

On second thought this probably depends on the caption language.

bildung commented on Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting - heres what we learned levs.fyi/blog/2-years-of-... · Posted by u/Ostatnigrosh

etothet · a month ago

This is exactly what Devin (https://devin.ai) is designed to do. Their deepwiki feature is free. I’ve personally had decent success with it, but YMMV.

bildung · a month ago

Apparently it's also shit. There was a discussion about it a few days ago that contains multiple project maintainers pointing out deepwiki didn't get their repos at all https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45884169