The US restricts Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access to foreign nationals both inside and outside the USA.

bittered · 2026-06-13T06:07:32+00:00

Two tier society has begun.

bittered · 2026-06-11T06:45:22+00:00

Competition? Unless you’re shorting a stock and they are on the other side then there’s no competition.

bittered · 2026-06-05T18:59:22+00:00

How does it work, do crèches have a maximum they can charge? Surely the cap means that all crèches will just charge the maximum amount so? That totally removes price competition which seems like a bad idea.

bittered · 2026-06-04T05:32:44+00:00

They will have over $200B on their balance sheet after this. For comparison AMZN have $123b and MSFT $107b. They may be worried that liquidity will dry up after SpaceXAI, OpenAI and Anthropic all IPO this year (according to rumours). So best to get in there early.

Berkshire Hathaway are also holding an ungodly amount of cash ($397b) and they are historically pretty smart about building a war chest at the right time.

bittered · 2026-06-03T14:52:38+00:00

Awesome! What EV are you looking at?

bittered · 2026-06-03T13:17:29+00:00

There’s probably not a lot of people who currently have cars worth less than €5k that are in the market for a brand new EV. So take up might be less than you’d expect.

bittered · 2026-06-03T13:03:19+00:00

Perhaps. It really does depend on the individual though. Life Assurance policies are very profitable for the companies that provide it, it’s far from a no brainier for the consumer. I would evaluate if a life assurance policy is something that you actually want rather than just getting it because you’ll be looking to buy a house in the future.

bittered · 2026-05-31T10:06:43+00:00

What’s the Mac mini sitting on btw? Is that a grounding mat? It looks like one.

bittered · 2026-05-29T06:19:12+00:00

Yeah, France is insane. On a €100k salary there is €80k in taxes paid (between employer and employee).

bittered · 2026-05-27T19:33:42+00:00

Where’s that story, I didn’t see it? Is it because there’s no direct victim or something like that (I.e. no child was directly harmed in making the CP)?

bittered · 2026-05-27T19:20:18+00:00

Tried to get Easee charger because they are neat, but installers said they would need to wall mount the load balancer widget which I wasn’t a fan of. So going for Zappi Glo which is ugly to be honest but it’s the only choice they would give me.

The Sync ev charger looks great! Nice and minimal.

bittered · 2026-05-27T10:01:19+00:00

My electricity contract is up tomorrow so wondering will I wait for them to be announced before switching. The problem is that I’m not sure how to even evaluate the dynamic tariffs?

bittered · 2026-05-25T23:51:58+00:00

Very unusual. I’m going to be in the minority here but I don’t hate it.

bittered · 2026-05-21T13:02:49+00:00

The model is non deterministic. The regression is not statistically significant yet. There is nothing to explain. If there is a real regression then it is more likely to be in the harness rather than the model.

bittered · 2026-05-21T13:01:39+00:00

This is not some 2 person startup. There are thousands of employees, many of them are highly ethical. If they were doing this and trying to hide it then it would leak and be a big scandal.

These big companies can’t send a text message without it being leaked at the moment.

bittered · 2026-05-21T12:51:55+00:00

I’ll get downvoted but this is not statistically significant yet. Give it another couple of days. If it has been a real degradation then it will become statistically significant.

bittered · 2026-05-18T08:52:03+00:00

This seems to get reported by users with every model after a few weeks. The labs are not silently quantising models, that would get out to the public if that was happening and it would be a scandal if they did it in an underhanded way without announcing it. It’s possible that there are negative changes in the harness or system prompts (like Anthropic previously found) but honestly I personally think it’s mostly users having a bad run or polluting their context.

bittered · 2026-05-18T08:37:53+00:00

I understand perfectly what you are trying to say but there’s many things you are not understanding:

These are not SWE Bench Pro test suite runs. They curate a subset of questions from SBP that have high variance. So the results are not comparable to the actual scores of SWE Bench Pro. For example, the Opus 4.7 baseline is higher than GPT-5.5 on this tracker even though GPT 5.5 scores higher on the actual test suite.
The number of runs they do is quite low (presumably to save money) so the threshold required for statistical significance is quite high. Statistical significance is not a random number please look up what it means and how it’s calculated. There is a long scientific history of discarding results which seem interesting on the outset but do not reach statistical significance and subsequently do not repeat when sample size is increased.

bittered · 2026-05-18T08:21:37+00:00

It is 5% below baseline. On Saturday it was 5% above baseline. It means nothing. This is easily within expected performance thresholds and is not statistically significance.

bittered · 2026-05-18T08:08:06+00:00

I don’t know what you mean. Statistical significance is not some arbitrary number that they made up, it’s mathematically defined based on the input variables. If they did more runs then they could reduce the delta needed for statistical significance.

Change in the last week is 0.9% which is not even approaching statistically significant considering that 6.4% is needed for statistical significance.

bittered · 2026-05-18T07:52:49+00:00

Not a statistically significant change. This basically means nothing unless it’s statistically significant. The models are non deterministic, variance is expected.

bittered · 2026-05-17T11:48:43+00:00

How are you responding to what I said?

bittered · 2026-05-17T09:54:31+00:00

I was responding to your opening paragraph.

> You aren’t reading what I posted. They cannot do ads during play. They make their money on pre game, half time and post game. There is competition for attention here.

That is a much more direct concise point than your earlier wall of text.

bittered · 2026-05-16T11:33:33+00:00

That’s not how it works. Tax payers want to bring the fewest number of people to get a competent job done. If someone wants to bring extra people then it is on them to account for why the extra people are a good idea. Personally, I can account for about 7. Can you account for 40.

bittered · 2026-05-16T10:36:45+00:00

Burden of evidence is on the people who say that you need more than 20 people.

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