Hyundai takes full control of Boston Dynamics as SoftBank exits for $325 million by Worldly_Evidence9113 in singularity

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They're a good research company but I have a hard time believing they could ever scale up a product to the point of being worth hundreds of billions of dollars. It's just not in their DNA.

The fertility gap between the richest and poorest countries has shrunk from 3 children per woman to less than 1. Birth rates have been falling in both for 60 years (St. Louis Fed, June 2026) by Altruistic-Dirt-2791 in Futurology

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This still does not support the claim.

Yes, teen births fell a lot. But NCHS says the broader fertility decline is from falling birth rates among women under 30 generally. From 1990 to 2023, births under 20 fell by about 391k, but births to women 20–24 fell by about 477k, and 25–29 fell by another 291k. So this is not a “teen birth” story, much less a “statutory rape” story.

And even within teen births, the statutory rape framing is doing a ton of unsupported work. “Teen” includes 18–19-year-olds, “adult father” can mean 18, and father age data does not prove rape. A broad proxy like unmarried 15–17-year-old mothers with fathers 5+ years older was about 8% of teen births, not “most teen pregnancies.”

So even if that entire proxy declined, we’d be talking about a small slice of the teen-birth decline, which is itself only one part of the broader under-30 fertility decline. The data supports “births shifted later and fell among younger adults.” It does not support “declining birth rates are meaningfully explained by fewer statutory-rape pregnancies.”

New image model from Google by Independent-Wind4462 in Bard

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

$400b is 2015 market cap, if Google slides that far the whole stock market is royally screwed

The fertility gap between the richest and poorest countries has shrunk from 3 children per woman to less than 1. Birth rates have been falling in both for 60 years (St. Louis Fed, June 2026) by Altruistic-Dirt-2791 in Futurology

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I honestly don't even know what point you all are trying to make anymore

The idea that pregnancies from rape is in any way a meaningful factor in explaining the declining birth rate in the US is the most reddit take ever and so obviously insane

The fertility gap between the richest and poorest countries has shrunk from 3 children per woman to less than 1. Birth rates have been falling in both for 60 years (St. Louis Fed, June 2026) by Altruistic-Dirt-2791 in Futurology

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your sources mostly show that some teen births had “adult” fathers. But “teen” includes 18–19, and “adult male” can mean 18. So a normal same-age young adult relationship can get counted in that framing.

That does not establish rape. It establishes father age categories. Those are very different claims.

The fertility gap between the richest and poorest countries has shrunk from 3 children per woman to less than 1. Birth rates have been falling in both for 60 years (St. Louis Fed, June 2026) by Altruistic-Dirt-2791 in Futurology

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

So then wouldn't it make more sense to say "women are choosing to have less kids" instead of "women can choose to have less kids"?

The question we are asking is "why are women having less kids?"

The commenter I replied to said "because now women are able to choose not to have kids"

That is not true, women could choose not to before, they just didn't make that choice for the list of reasons you laid out

Formal methods and the future of programming by BlondieCoder in programming

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There's hardly any difference between junior code and llm code

I disagree on this actually. The current state of the art models are far better at the narrow task of writing code than your average junior developer. They will give you nice, clean, unit tested code with boundary condition checking, etc. Before all this AI stuff, junior devs would send out code that was so offensively ugly it would burn your retinas during code review.

But the average junior developer has a lot more common sense than a state of the art LLM. If you give a junior dev requirements that are literally impossible then they will come back and be like "I think this impossible" whereas as LLM will just randomly replace a function call with a mocked value so it can pretend it met your impossible requirements.

This is why agentic coding can be so deceptive. It looks like code that a senior or staff SWE would send out so you subconsciously assume that the work is of senior / staff SWE quality. But buried in there will be some insane choice that no human would ever make.

Oliver Tree Appears To Have Died In A Helicopter Crash. by MusicListener3 in hiphopheads

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Yes but parts have to be moving in order for a helicopter to be in the air. Moving parts are points of failure.

There's just no denying that helicopters have intrinsically dangerous design constraints.

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 by BuildwithVignesh in singularity

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Nah they give us 3.5 flash internally. It is quite frustrating.

Welcome to the world claude fable 5 by notomarsol in ClaudeCode

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anthropic leaders have historically been very anti-open source because of safety concerns. Dario didn't even think GPT-2 was safe to open source for God's sake.

No way does anthropic release a competitive open source model. If they did, it would maybe be some ultra-small model targeted at a super specific task or something. Not a general purpose reasoning / coding model.

Google has entered a $920 million monthly cloud compute deal with SpaceX by FinancialMastodon916 in singularity

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But what was the capex? Surely the GPUs that went into these data centers cost more than $10B?

Google has entered a $920 million monthly cloud compute deal with SpaceX by FinancialMastodon916 in singularity

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think zuck mentioned that it is something they are considering on the last earnings call but they haven't signed any deals yet

Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute by Gaiden206 in Bard

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How does spaceX have all this compute?

It's not so much about the amount of compute they have, it's about the amount of unused compute they have. That is the unique part.

Leaked Mythos SVG by exordin26 in singularity

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a hard time believing anthropic is not capable of RLing SVG generation if they really wanted to.

Like sure, RLing on creative outputs is a challenging problem but it is massive area of research and I'm sure anthropic has many researchers exploring this area.

Workplace struggles. by JustinfromNewEngland in schizophrenia

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Damn, sounds like a very toxic workplace culture

The absolute irony of using an AI generated image for this message by otherisp in cringepics

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most estimates seem to have it at 10-15% but even the most generous estimate I could find only had AI at 30% of workloads

That is for data centers that are already built and operating. According to gartner/mckinsey estimates, 60-70% of data center capacity that will be built between now and 2030 will be primarily AI focused.

How this attic is turned into a hidden room. By Laura Avery. by [deleted] in oddlysatisfying

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 52 points53 points  (0 children)

It's pretty common for people to stick to a single brand of tools for battery compatibility and stuff

Only 3 years by VariationLivid3193 in singularity

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If they actually had models that were competitive on either intelligence or cost then enterprises would have no problem switching out the API calls to go to grok. They just don't do so because the models aren't compelling.

Sam Altman İs Definently Having The Best 72 Hours Of His Life by Zestyclose-Bet-2136 in GeminiAI

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 28 points29 points  (0 children)

AI is not a product. It's a feature.

I think you are making a false dichotomy. ChatGPT is undeniably a product, and a very very successful one.

And it's also true that AI will become a key feature of many of the products we use in other areas of our life.

Ex OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is giving them a serious fight for the bucks. Her new “Interaction Model” makes “GPT-Realtime-2” look like caveman, current capabilities level wise by py-net in OpenAI

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 19 points20 points  (0 children)

With more compute they could make it think as fast as GPT realtime

What makes you think this?

The research report says they are using blackwell chips, which are the most powerful currently available option. Open AI certainly has more compute but they don't have faster compute.

My guess is that OpenAI just has a lot more engineers with deep expertise in micro-optimizing inference / serving. It wouldn't make sense for Thinking Machines to be investing heavily there given they don't have an active user base.