Gemini isn't code red for Anthropic. Gemini threatens none of Anthropic's positioning in the market.
Yes it does. I never use Claude anymore outside of agentic tasks.
Readit Newsralusek commented on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
ralusek commented on The time has come to declare war on AI sfgate.com/tech/article/t... · Posted by u/megamike
Going to war with AI is pointless. It’s not going anywhere.
Acknowledging that the world has already been turned upside down however, rather than burying our head in the sand (present company excluded), is necessary.
Valve is one of the few companies regularly seen on HN where the headline is something like "[company] is secretly doing something really great" as opposed to "[company] is secretly doing something evil"
It genuinely makes me see the value in private companies. Public companies must grow. They're accountable to so many different interests. Private companies can be happy sitting at whatever profit level they want. They can take time to tinker on something that they care about. If it doesn't pay off, that's fine.
I think I would say it this way: private companies can be good or bad, but public companies must ultimately become bad.
ralusek commented on Claude Status – Elevated error rates on the API status.claude.com/inciden... · Posted by u/throwpoaster
Comments are kind of embarrassing how many people seem to derive a sense of identity from not using AI. Before LLMs, I didn’t use them to code. Then there were LLMs, and I used them a little to code. Then they got better at code, and now I use them a little more.
Probably 20% of the code I produce is generated by LLMs, but all of the code I produce at this point is sanity checked by them. They’re insanely useful.
Zero of my identity is tied to how much of the code I write involves AI.
Something I find weird about AI image generation models is that even though they no longer produce weird "artifacts" that give away that the fact that it was AI generated, you can still recognize that it's AI due to stylistic choices.
Not all examples they gave were like this. The example they gave of the word "Typography" would have fooled me as human-made. The infographics stood out though. I would have immediately noticed that the String of Turtles infographic was AI generated because of the stylistic choices. Same for the guide on how to make chai. I would be "suspicious" of the example they gave of the weather forecast but wouldn't immediately flag at as AI generated.
Similar note, earlier I was able to tell if something was AI generated right off the bat by noticing that it had a "Deviant Art" quality to it. My immediate guess is that certain sources of training data are over-represented.
It's a bit odd to say, but another big clue identifying something as AI-generated is that it simply looks "too good" for what it is being used for. If I see a little info graphic demonstrating something relatively mundane, and it has nice 3D rendered characters or graphical elements, at this point it's basically guaranteed to be AI, because you just sort of intuitively know when something would've justified the human labor necessary to produce that.
ralusek commented on Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law montananewsroom.com/monta... · Posted by u/bilsbie
I feel like this was a mistake: “must be limited to those demonstrably necessary and narrowly tailored to fulfill a compelling government interest in public health or safety”
So, public health or safety, in the hands of a tyrant how broad can that get? I imagine that by enshrining this in law, Montana has accidentally given a future leader the ability to confiscate all computing technology.
It appears to be a law that is simply adding restrictions to what the state can do (like the first amendment, the best sorts of laws IMO). It’s not granting people limited rights. Any existing rights people had under the fourth or first example, for example, are still in place, this just sounds like further restrictions on the state.
I think you might be reading a bit too much into this.
He’s been with Meta for 11 years and is likely in a very comfortable financial position, given the substantial stock options he’s received over that time.
He also mentioned the arrival of a new child, and it’s well known that Meta's work-life balance isn’t always ideal.
On top of that, Meta, like many major tech companies, has been shifting its focus toward LLM-based AI, moving away from more traditional PyTorch use cases.
Considering all of this, it seems like a natural time for him to move on and pursue new, more exciting opportunities.
> toward LLM-based AI, moving away from more traditional PyTorch use cases
Wait, are LLMs not built with PyTorch?
ralusek commented on Do you know that there is an HTML tables API? christianheilmann.com/202... · Posted by u/begoon
The worst thing on the modern web is people using divs for table data. What do you mean this table isn’t sortable? M365 Admin is the worst offender I’ve come across on this. Just terrible table implementations on almost every page.
Using HTML Tables doesn’t just make your data sortable
ralusek commented on Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs. 18 planetscale.com/blog/benc... · Posted by u/bddicken
Working at IT places in the late 2000s, it was still pretty common place for there to be a server rooms. Even for a large org with multiple sites 100s of kms a part, you could manage it with a pretty small team. And it is a lot easier to build resilient applications now than it was back then from what I remember.
Cloud costs are getting large enough that I know I’ve got one foot out the door and a long term plan to move back to having our own servers and spend the money we save on people. I can only see cloud getting even more expensive, not less.
And it’ll be so good and cheap that you’ll figure “hell, I could sell our excess compute resources for a fraction of AWS.” And then I’ll buy them, you’ll be the new cloud. And then more people will, and eventually this server infrastructure business will dwarf your actual business. And then some person in 10 years will complain about your IOPS pricing, and start their own server room.