It’s not the only animal like this! The Iberian Ribbed Newt (Pleurodeles waltl) will push its own ribcage out of its chest (turning them into spikes) and secretes toxic venom through those bones…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_ribbed_newt

The actual thing they need to do in order to compete is in-source parts manufacturing in order to take advantage of economies of scale… Like the Chinese EV manufacturers do.

Basically, toss out the Chicago school of economics thinking and go back to their roots as an all-things manufacturer. Ideally, they’d innovate as part of that by adopting new technologies like 3D printing to bring costs down and accelerate improvements.

I don’t mean “3D printing for prototyping.” They already do that. I mean, 3D print the final part. If it works for fucking rockets going into space, it can work for cars too. Especially electric vehicles which are much simpler to make.

If you want unautomatable, ludicrously expensive, insecure mountains of instability… Go for it👍

Proving once again that windows isn’t ready for the desktop.

Qwen3.6 27B for running locally (16GB 4060 Ti) and I do often cheat and use Ollama Cloud to run gpt-oss:120B which is still surprisingly good but I’ve been trying to use GLM 5.2 lately just to try it out.

The trick is to pit these models against themselves as adversaries to spot hallucinations. That really improves the output.

Over time, though I’ve found that I’ve gotten better at using these models. Once you’ve got some solid .md files for context and you get used to the types of prompts that work best (with these models) I seem to be having less and less trouble over time. As in, I have to make fewer fixes or re-runs.

Note: You have to fix stuff constantly with the big models too. So it’s not like any of them are perfect. You have to get used to using them effectively over time or you’ll just end up with problems down the line.

Ugh. I’m sick of the reporting on data centers! There’s only one (realistic) concern when it comes to data centers and it’s this: Power consumption.

Everything else is either myths (e.g. water usage) or minor points that may or may not bother the locals (using up land that could’ve been a farm or a school or whatever).

Also, there’s many kinds and sizes of data centers! Consider for a moment that nearly every school or modern business has a data center of some kind in their building(s). You have to put those servers somewhere!

People talk about data centers like the world just collectively decided that every single one that’s ever built from now until the end of time will be as big as an airport and use up more power than a small city. That’s not reality! Most data centers are just small portions of a larger business campus.

Yet now we’re trying to regulate something so common and necessary that is going to pointlessly increase the costs of everything for everyone. Stop for a moment and think about it:

• Without data centers we wouldn’t even have the Internet.
• Not all data centers are being used for AI stuff. AI accounts for a large chunk of BIG data center construction right now but that’s not always going to be the case! Also, small data centers (in comparison) are the norm and have been being constructed for decades without anyone giving a damn or noticing their presence.
• It’s cheaper for everyone to build a handful of really big data centers in a few strategic locations (i.e. where power is cheap and there’s plenty of fiber) than a lot of big/medium data centers all over the place. This is also the most environmentally friendly way to do it.

If we want to actually do the right thing when it comes to data center regulations there’s really only one thing to be concerned about: Power usage. It’s also really easy to fix!

We just need a regulation that requires all data centers over a certain size to be powered via renewable energy. BAM! Problem solved.

It’s just that no politicians have the guts to force such a thing and that too drives me nuts!

Solar is already the cheapest power generation option and there’s plenty of space (in the US) to install more than enough solar panels to power all the data centers in the world (really, we have so much space!). Also, data centers can be anywhere! That AI video generation service could be out in the middle of the desert in Nevada and it wouldn’t have an impact on the user experience in the slightest… Even if the user was in Australia (on the other side of the world)!

Big AI investors should be worried! I use AI every day at work (mostly for code-related things) and the open weights/free models are nearly as good as their ridiculously expensive services. Which are only getting more expensive over time!

Not only that, but the free stuff is improving at a faster rate than the models Big AI is putting out. The only thing keeping Big AI alive right now is coasting. Businesses haven’t figured out that they can self-host the free models with their own (or rented) hardware for a fraction of the cost.

As soon as these businesses figure out that you can configure Copilot in Visual Studio Code to use FREE models that are 90% as good as Big AI, it’s over for Big AI.

There’s also dozens of great tools to run ChatGPT-like interfaces using local models and they let you switch which models you want to use on-the-fly. Also, we’ve got ZeroClaw now which works better with free/tiny models for most of the stuff you’d want to use it for.

Aside: Big AI also has a Big Problem with security that goes away if you use local AI models: You never have to worry about leaking credentials or proprietary/confidential information to the cloud/Big AI.

…and as long as Americans are up in arms about data centers, we’ll never take the lead ever again.

The chances this fixes it are… Remote.

While I sort of agree with you that that is his angle, service jobs that aren’t easily automatable will continue to climb in the “job stability and pay rate” category until the world figures out how to deal with Baumol’s Cost Disease:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

The AI paradox: It’s both original (hallucinating) and plagiarizing (copying things, word-for-word).

The suspects were audibly upset that their underground cartel has finally come to light.

Doesn’t matter. It’s the act of recording that’s setting people off, not the publishing.

I don’t know what the law is in Belgium but I bet it’s the act of recording without consent that’s illegal. Many European nations have laws like that and it seems short-sighted and wrong. It enables corruption.

These are both anti-data center messages. That’s orthogonal to AI.

I bet if you asked these people if we should get rid of all data centers they’d say, “yes.” Completely unaware that they’re using (and relying on) services running out of data centers every day.

I’m surprised farmers aren’t up in arms about this. This is the exact data that goes into the weather models that they rely on.

Is it going to rain much this season? Who TF knows! Trump removed all the sensors!

Are they really concerned that giant, ugly glasses contain not-actually-hidden-at-all cameras when actual devices, specifically designed to be hidden exist that do a vastly superior job?

This article is clickbait.

Aside: IMHO, recording anyone in public should always be allowed. The fact that it’s men recording women shouldn’t matter in the slightest. You have no expectation of privacy when you’re in public.

If we ban recording in public without permission, tons of crimes will go unreported and actual villains will be able to get away with all sorts of horrific crimes. Imagine getting arrested or fined for recording someone being mugged, or kidnapped, or similar.

Are the cops beating someone to death right in front of you? Better not record that without asking for permission! Just walk out into the open and kindly ask for permission from both the cops and the victim.

I kinda feel bad about it, but whenever I see news that criminals have successfully dug a tunnel, I think, “cool!”. Then I want to see pictures and I judge them.

From the pics, I’d give this tunnel a 7 out of ten. The walls are a bit messy, indicating they ran into some trouble while digging, but other than that it looks like it was built to last and could serve as a nice place to hang out on really hot days.

It looks like the average person could stand up in there! The floors are nice and level too.

Not enough space to pass by someone pushing a cart full of drugs ore/rocks but nothing’s perfect. “Just climb over” is a suitable option when a tunnel is almost exclusively used in a one-way fashion.

Intellectual property can’t be “stolen”. That’s not a thing.

It can be copied, though but that doesn’t sound nearly as nefarious.

Remember: When you “steal” something, that’s “theft”. It means the original owner doesn’t have it anymore. If the AI companies were actually stealing the NYT’s IP, they’d head into the office and find all their computers/servers were missing and when we search the Internet Archive for older articles they’d be gone. Stolen!

…but all that is neither here nor there because what this guy is actually bitching about is AI summaries of the news. Whether you think AI can do a good job doing that doesn’t matter. It’s the fact that AI can read the whole article on behalf of the user and then present the content in any form that doesn’t include the original advertisements.

Hypothetical: Imagine you’ve got a 100% free and open source AI model installed and setup on your local computer (e.g. in a chat window, as an extension in your browser, integrated in the OS, etc… doesn’t matter). You ask it:

What's today's news about beans?

The AI model then calls curl a few dozen times (or just uses its internal URL loading capabilities), hitting the New York Times website. It then generates some summaries based on what it found along with links to the original articles (so you can verify or dive deeper into any given story).

The NYT chief is saying is that should be illegal. It’s “theft”!

To that I say, “bullshit!” I will run whatever TF AI model I want and use it however I want, thank you very much!

It’s important to note that the Big AI companies paid the New York Times to load all their historical articles into their training data. So that aspect of AI is not at issue.

“If you’re sitting at home, which is true for the millions of people who are able-bodied on Medicaid, on average, you’re spending 6.1 hours watching television, or just hanging around,” Oz said. “So, as a path to prosperity, Congress very wisely said, ‘Let’s get you back into the workforce.’”

Why? Why do they need to be in the workforce? I pay taxes so people like that stay out of the workforce!

If they’re on Medicaid there’s a reason for that. Why TF should we be making them work? Just “because”?

Not everyone is meant to work! Some people are born to be wards of the state. Pretending people like this don’t exist is insanity.

Other people get sick or have accidents that make them wards of the state. That’s what “the system” is for!

Also, let’s not pretend that this doesn’t cost much. The elderly, and people on permanent disability are the most expensive to care for. That’s why the Trump administration wants to kick them off… Because for each person that actually needs this vital government service that they kick off, they can save something like $100,000-130,000 (yes, that’s the real figure… It’s from Kaiser Family Foundation data).

This is why it wouldn’t really cost that much to move everyone off private health insurance and into a socialized program (e.g. Medicare for all or similar proposals). Because we’re already paying for the most expensive people/illnesses, tacking on the remaining healthy population would only add a marginal amount to the total cost and save taxpayers enormous amounts of money (compared to the amounts they’re currently paying for health insurance).

That might be OK but don’t put denture tablets into your dishwasher. There’s two problems:

• Denture tablets are meant to work inside a single glass of water overnight. Dishwashers will use 3-4 gallons of water, so you’d need a lot of tablets for it to actually do anything at all.
• Denture tablets often have “flavoring” that’s meant to stick to the dentures long after using them. The hot water of the dishwasher can amplify that effect, leaving your dishes tasting like mint for a few cycles. Not a big deal (it’s not toxic or anything) but mint flavor doesn’t go well with everything 😁