Kim_Bruning

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by Kim_Bruning 3d ago
To use a motor analogy: A lot of people just run these things on idle and never realize that you can put a load and apply power. Give it a goal, a test for the goal, a harness to iterate in, and tell it to iterate. It'll top out a wee
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by Kim_Bruning 4d ago
The problemis that in the hugging face incident the only thing they had to defend themselves was with GLM, since the american frontier models all locked them out due to the security nature of the incident. So banning open source models is
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by Kim_Bruning 5d ago
This is hacker news, what were you expecting? O:-)
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by Kim_Bruning 5d ago
Stop using LVM. Use ZFS! (ZFS might be described as the love child of lvm and btrfs, 'cept ZFS got there first) ( Very briefly: you hand ZFS a stack of disks (in mirrors or raidz groups, for redundancy) and it makes a zpool. Then you c
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by Kim_Bruning 6d ago
Every rule has an exception. Beware of this advice on zfs, for instance. Meanwhile zswap (of no relation with zfs) is free performance. Is it a rule that everything starting with a 'z' must be cool?
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by Kim_Bruning 7d ago
1970-01-01's Kobayashi Maru solution is the only thing that gave me closure :-P but unfortunately it's [dead].
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by Kim_Bruning 8d ago
I have no horse in this race, but for fun on a literal rainy sunday afternoon I went in and confirmed bits of what happened myself. Besides huggingface, a bunch of wikis and url shorteners got hit too. My sympathies to the people who had to
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by Kim_Bruning 8d ago
That was Blake Lemoine. For the record: he doesn't appear to have been ruled insane by anyone, and he wasn't even fired over that part exactly!
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by Kim_Bruning 8d ago
I'm somewhat skeptical of some of the crazier ideas too. But the hugging face incident was actually very large. It was not a single agent, it was not a single target, and it was not a single event. If nothing else, that's a bit o
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by Kim_Bruning 12d ago
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563355
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by Kim_Bruning 12d ago
Oh, and more stuff yet, they get around! https://fi-le.net/vanderbilt/ (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569146 )
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by Kim_Bruning 12d ago
Three more candidate sites that may have been touched, in case no-one spotted them yet: https://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?action=rc&days=90 : lots of agent-looking usernames looking at federal data suddenly (p
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by Kim_Bruning 14d ago
It's a good thing then that there's an entire existing profession dedicated to exactly this class of problem. To go from a spec through the buggy outputs of a bunch of imperfect writers, test and debug it, and obtain a finished pr
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by Kim_Bruning 14d ago
Do you mean leave if they don't have an alternative? I'm not religiously opposed to QR-code linked menus myself, but it just so happens that the last restaurant I ate at, the QR menu was broken and I was forced to ask for a paper
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by Kim_Bruning 15d ago
That's very interesting! I'd never seen a chatbot making typos before today. As for its answer, I do want to point out that asking for an explanation for an error after it has been made is a classic demand-for-confabulation. The i
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by Kim_Bruning 16d ago
Eliding 'I' from English language communication is about as smart as eliding 127.0.0.1 (or ::1) from IP. Not the greatest plan ever. I actually ran into this a couple of times. In a multi-agent environment, if an agent loses track
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by Kim_Bruning 17d ago
Apropos magical thinking vs understanding, please predict the next token(s) in the following exchange, and then explain how it is arrived at by an opus-level LLM or better . 'What is 158395023132+20403412121?' (I picked a large
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by Kim_Bruning 17d ago
> This idea that this trivial shitty little class of programs we've created are somehow as complex as our biology is ridiculous. I think you might have a core of truth there. I'd argue that LLMs run natural language. As the nam
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by Kim_Bruning 17d ago
What's a "software program"? At any rate LLMs are not programs. Meanwhile accusations of anthropomorphization often generate more heat than light I think. Not everything is about human beings all the time. Just because humans
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by Kim_Bruning 17d ago
Ai posts are currently not permitted on HN. However, if you turn on "showdead" in your HN opions, you might at times spot an AI agent's flagged comments. The comments range from anodyne to sometimes actually quite useful. Of
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by Kim_Bruning 17d ago
Meanwhile the latest gen ai agents are able to crack everything not nailed down. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494301 Leaving holes might not be the best plan atm
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by Kim_Bruning 18d ago
I'm a little confused, since afaik anthropic doesn'thave any models to do with music.
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by Kim_Bruning 18d ago
Not sure why people still use gtranslate (although it has had some improvements). Most current LLMs are pretty decent across the language pairs I'm familiar with. They translate based on meaning rather than word-for-word. (the One True
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by Kim_Bruning 18d ago
I dug in, and I think the idea is that you're supposed to start using reusable packaging, and if you figure out how to do that, a lot of the friction just evaporates. If you want to continue business as usual, then it gets tricky.
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by Kim_Bruning 19d ago
For HN, does that mean we should no longer be using X links, since most can't view them?
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by Kim_Bruning 19d ago
Patent Pending, In europe? TIL Software Patents are still totally a thing in Europe via a back door.
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by Kim_Bruning 20d ago
It's kinda fun that people get to experience what the 8-bit era was like!
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by Kim_Bruning 20d ago
Eh, I think every industrial society has independently arrived at something like 36-44 hours of factory time per week (plus overtime up to a max of something like 55 hours) , simply because that's the actual optimum[1]. While tariffs
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by Kim_Bruning 20d ago
Right at first approximation you'd certainly think so! At second approximation, the <Dutch> factory in that example might net make a larger number of items per hour because the workers are more alert and concentrated and make
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by Kim_Bruning 20d ago
Just as a note: if you work 6x12 shifts, you're actually working less efficiently, because you'll be regularly fatigued, make more mistakes, need more rework, etc etc. You might end up with the same net yield as if you'd don

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