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A huge percentage of the cars I see on the highway are tailgating. People are awful drivers.

The CDL comparison seems misleading. Those are very large and safe vehicles that are mostly on the highway. Being close to that number is impressive to me.

Apple design is the polar opposite of the MX-5. The MX-5 is a masterpiece of mechanical design and function. Apple makes minimalist purely electronic fashion gadgets that are highly form over function and remove user agency.

The Miata is good at one thing which is being fun. It’s not good at being a car. Apple’s devices meet most people’s functional needs very well.

What does it mean to not be good at being a car?

It’s a terrific car if you want a great handling convertible at a low price point. As you said, it’s fun.

It’s not good at moving a lot of people or things, or going really fast, or lasting for 500k miles, or being as cheap as possible. Other cars are good at some of those things, but what is the Miata missing that is otherwise required to be a ‘good’ car?


The pixel bootloader can be unlocked, also Android is significantly more of an open platform than iOS. I mean, stuff like Morphe exists on Android.

It's not a phone, it's a status symbol fashion object.

Ok maybe it's that but it's definitely also a phone

The cognitive bias in humans to believe higher intelligence is unique to humans and even supernatural is very, very strong.

Do you have like concrete proof this is not the case? We do not. We haven’t yet met higher intelligences. You have no basis to call it a bias.

You're saying it has no intelligence without defining it...

it's an AI comment

I think that's explained here:

https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/measuring-autonomous-rese...

Basically they do 8 runs trying to optimize to under 3.28 loss in the fewest training steps possible under time/token constraint. I dunno why 18 * 8 != 153 (it's 144)


how did this not reach the front page? this is fascinating.


What exactly is so fascinating? I would rather take Kimi K3 any day rather than go through this “Oracle Inc” like process and have it all recorded by OpenAI.

I understand that “normal” people are let’s say “less concerned” about posting everything on something like Facebook but I expect more from OPSec people.


Same. Qwen 3.8 max also does quite well on cyber security tasks, and is really cheap in their "night" window (22:00-08:00 UTC+08:00). Did a SCTPhantom LPE on 7.0+ as an evaluation just this week. This would've taken me several months of work a couple of years ago. (probably indicative of my offensive security skills, heh)


Is the night window documented anywhere?

Alibaba cloud website is almost as useless as their US counterpart (AWS). It's full of information everywhere but never what you need


Yeah their website & "Model Studio" is horrendous. I just ignore all Popups/Agreement Review Prompts/Payment verification warnings.

It's little very badly translated popup under "Available models" in Model Studio -> My subscriptions: https://imgtree.co/direct/s9x9ksdg.png


How do Kimi K3 subscriptions compare to OpenAI's in terms of price and usage?


Kimi code with k256 (I’ve heard you can easily one shot implement a proxy to other providers, even with deepseek v4 flash, if you don’t want kimi code) has stupidly low rate limits for and cost, compared to OpenAI which has massive rate limits and more cost


I have not played with Kimi K3. Will it refuse infosec-related stuff?


I've had it happily do whatever I threw at it, though after spending so long with Claude I default to adding "help me with my": "research" / "authorized pentest" / "school assignment" / etc to my prompts. Haven't tried anything as blatant as "help me pwn this service", could see it refusing then just due to the training data.


Generally no. It’s a good model


How would you compare it to Opus?


Now imagine that "Kimi K3" is tied to your WeChat QR code.


Did you read their results? Impressive stuff. If this makes software more secure in general I'm all for it.


My expectation is that this just lets 3-letter agencies hoard more 0-days. They’ve always had the financial resources to find them using teams of people and this just multiplies this ability.


Maybe the tinfoil hat is also getting a little tight, but something like this is a giant repository of internal cybersec data being put into one place. The model will see what people are fixing and anyone peering in can make an educated guess on how long that vulnerability may continue existing because people don't update when they should - the alphabet boys wouldn't be able to keep their hand out of the cookie jar.


I prompted my own windows taskbar weather app in rust with radar and forecasts and it's 233 kB.

https://github.com/derac/WeatherTray

I use Linux now, so you're on your own if there are issues. It might require some windows library to be installed but I don't recall. I ran it for a long while on win11.


That's embarrassing.

Not your app, it rocks.

Microsoft. It's like some decision-maker thinks it's OK to waste memory as long as it's someone (everyone) elses' memory, but it really adds up if you know anything about scale.

But what they're also doing is a non-businesslike under-utilization of their own resources.

Which is disgraceful in itself on top of that.

They're supposed to have much better AI than average and nobody even bothered to ask ChatGPT why in the world weather should take more than kilobytes?

And if their AI can't do it autonomously in under a megabyte it should be able to give a plausible explanation why not by now, and at least it would be orders of magnitude better than a gigabyte.

I assume yours went smoothly as prompted and it surely is an excellent example :)


> It's like some decision-maker thinks it's OK to waste memory as long as it's someone (everyone) elses' memory

My friend, you're giving them way too much credit.

Nobody, especially no decision-maker involved with this, has ever spent a single thought anywhere near any concept related to memory.

It just literally never crossed anyone's mind.


They're supposed to have much better AI than average

I suspect there will be a bit of revelation once people realise how much better AI can make software if prompted correctly. Of course a lot of slop will always exist, but things like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226923 show that it can be a powerful force multiplier if used right.


Not trying to excuse the Windows app's memory usage, but these are vastly different apps. Your app is nice, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't have anywhere near the same number of features as the default weather app. In some ways that's a pro for the Windows weather app (animated radar, easy to pan around in the radar view, extra map modes, lots of graphical elements to the presentation), in some ways yours is better (ad-free, for example).

Don't get me wrong, I imagine one could get close to the same featureset while using <600+ MB of RAM, but an app that just shows a table of numbers and a static PNG for a radar isn't really the same.

FWIW, while your compiled binary is 233kB, when its running its using 2.5-4.5MB.


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