I've had the $20/month account for OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic for months. Anthropic consistently has more downtime and throws more errors than the other two. Claude (on the web) also has a lot of seemingly false positive errors. It will claim an error occurred but then work normally. I genuinely like Claude the best but its performance does not inspire confidence.
It raises the question: can a colony of individual animals (zooids in this case) that work cooperatively be called a singular animal itself? I think biologists say yes, but it’s an interesting taxonomic boundary.
AFAIK, a "super-organism" composed of individual entities is defined as one where the long-term fitness interests of those individuals and their groups are completely and permanently aligned.
For example an ant colony is a super-organism. That’s why it makes sense for a soldier ant to die for her queen.
Some of the "entities" aren't aligned always, like when a person is pregnant for example. I think also our (human) cells doesn't operate as semi-autonomous agents with independent nervous systems and agency, unlike a ant colony.
We think cows are singular animals, despite being made up of lots of different organisms with different DNA. (Much of the diversity happening in the gut.)
> Under Assembly Bill 723, real estate agents and brokers who display photos of a home that have been digitally altered with editing software or artificial intelligence must include a “reasonably conspicuous” statement “disclosing that the image has been altered.”
It depends what you consider a problem. Deliberate trolling is probably uncommon, but annoying people regurgitating what they've been told by mainstream media was, and is, all too common.
I can see the future. In a few years, HN will consist entirely of:
1) Bots posting “Show HN” of things they’ve vibecoded
2) Bots replying to those posts,
3) Bots asking whether the bots in #2 even read TFA, and finally
4) Bots posting the HN guideline where it says you shouldn’t ask people whether they have read TFA.
…And amid the smouldering ruins of civilization, the last human, dang, will be there, posting links to all the times this particular thing has been posted to HN before.
I don’t mind the occasional joke in an hn thread. I’ve made several myself. But I’m disappointed that this thread is seemingly all jokes and no actual discussion of the article.
I’m no mathematician, but as best I can tell, this is describing a novel approach to the “lazy caterers problem”: “Given an integer n, denoting the number of cuts that can be made on a pancake, find the maximum number of pieces that can be formed by making n cuts.” [1]
Their method was to use weirdly shaped, sometimes infinite knives, computing optimal arrangements, and recognizing the resulting region counts as known integer sequences.
There are numerous typos in this piece. Somewhat ironic for an article about a company that made typewriters:
"In the 1400s, Ivrea gained small Jewish community..." That one is the second sentence.
"...the company released the Modello Portatile 1, or MP1, create by Gino Martinoli, Adriano Olivetti, Riccardo Levi, Aldo Magnelli, and Adriano Magnelli."
"In 1938, the Italian racial laws made things difficult and dangerous for his wife, Laura, and several of members of his research team."
"Phenolic resin a was cheap, heat-resistant, nonconductive, synthetic plastic first patented in 1907."
"The material ceased being used with arrival of ABS and PVC."
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