its main Chinese competitor GLM is like making 50 cents USD each in the past 6 months from its 40 million "developer users", calling your flagship model "AI coding agent" is like telling investors "we are doing this for fun, not for money".
anthropic playbook does include the false claim publicly made by its CEO that "in six months AI would be writing 90 percent of code". he made that claim 10 months ago. it is a criminal offence for intentionally misleading investors in many countries.
so when MiniMax released a pretty capable model, you choose to ignore the model itself and just focus a single sentence they wrote in the release note and started bad mouthing it.
It’s called bikeshedding and yes it’s a cultural thing on HN. [1]
Most people here are big company worker bees where they take zero risks and do very little of substance.
In these organizations, it’s common for large groups of people to get together in “meetings” and endlessly nitpick surface-level details of unimportant things while completely missing the big picture because it’s far too complex to allow for easy opinions or smart-sounding critique.
I’m not even sitting at the table. I’m a spectator. What’s your argument/allegiance here? The original article is hyped-up drivel. The model could be amazing and that’s still the case.
a model is not software, it is a bunch of weights.
you are more than welcomed to pick whatever model or software you choose to trust, that is totally fine. However, that is vastly different from bad mouthing a model or software just because its release note contains a single sentence you don't like.
the only contribution of that paper is they found & reported that there are potentially dozens of temperature sensors in a typical server.
the method of using two PPS signals configured to be some delta time apart to detect jitter is not new. the whole learning the tempco of the crystal thing is like 80 years old.
they also avoided touching the most critical part of the issue - how would you be sure that such learned tempco is accurate enough for the estimated bound.
1. using a second hand single frequency Ublox LEA-M8T GNSS receiver is not a good idea in 2025 when a dual frequency GNSS receiver chip can be purchased online for as little as $20-30. buy one of those ublox ZED-F9P receivers with the 2018/2019 firmware, they get you the exact same timing performance as ZED-F9T with QEerr support. PPS jitter is going to drop from 20ns to less than 2ns after qErr compensation.
2. you can replace that highly unstable crystal oscillator with a $10 used OCXO + $20 PLL board and save that PID temperature controller to be used as the secondary oven for that OCXO. people have been doing that for Raspberry Pi for ages.
3. or you can configure your GNSS receiver to output a 10Hz signal from the PPSOUT pin so chrony can get 10 updates per second, GNSS receiver's internal TCXO is going to be more stable than raspberry Pi's crystal oscillator.
4. for more fun - just keep measuring the frequency drift vs. temperature change. a sample set of 24-48 hours of such measurements should be enough to figure out the tempco of that unstable crystal oscillator so you can get chrony to do the drift compensation. from memory, chrony supports such a temperature compensation lookup table to be specified.
1 - I like to consider myself an expert eBay-er (my ebay account can legally buy alcohol in the US, and I am myself only 36 years old) but I have not found any ZED-F9P for less than $90 ish. I am aware of the Quactel (sp) modules, and am considering a set for some RTK experiments. Is that what you're referring to?
2 - I've thought about replacing with ocxo but the pads are tiny. My soldering skills aren't nearly as good as my ebaying skills.
3 - it is outputting 16 Hz, chrony is doing dpoll -4 poll 4.
4 - I have done tempcomp (it is not active for the post referenced by this HN post). Fun stuff and probably my next writeup.
there are good deals on ebay atm. e.g. brand new ublox zed-f9p dev board pin compatible with the M8T receiver you are using. it also comes with dual frequency antenna. it is not a second hand chip, but a brand new module ready to be plugged into your system.
www.ebay.com/itm/277500530946
I usually buy my second hand electronics stuff from www.goofish.com, the home base of all those "From China" ebay vendors.
It is China's national interests to see a stable America that can continue to maintain the post WWII world order that benefited China so much for so long. Without the US, who is going to maintain peace in the middle east, Africa and other places? without such peace, how could China export its goods and services?
"West" != America.
Your claim also implies that China and Russia are operating on the same level. That is laughable at best - Russia is a failed rogue state with the economic size comparable only to a Chinese province, it is left behind in ALL modern techs and its military hardware are aging fast. It is the complete opposite of the path took by China.
The whole sentiment with that is china uptakes the mantle. It already is in terms of infrastructure investments, selling goods and arms, import and export agreements. The same neoliberal playbook that made the US what it is. Only from a much more focused regime with little in the way of internal division or even external threats at this point.
that is why the task was delegated to the agent designed and maintained by Dario Amodei's company. the outcome is clear - claude doesn't buy Dario Amodei's crap.
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