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by comex 10d ago
(March 2026)
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by comex 12d ago
> The "toy model" part is flat out wrong, the models they use have _exactly_ fundamental mechanics then chatGPT or claude, they are used all the time for this kind of research for a reason. Tiny models are sometimes used out of
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by comex 13d ago
I'm not even an LLM researcher. But I believe you're correct; I just don't think the paper provides any meaningful evidence on the subject. From the structure of the model we can tell that dots can do more computation than
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by comex 13d ago
The model they use in that paper is a toy model of an LLM that’s so different from an actual LLM that I doubt the results mean anything at all. Specifically, they train a model from scratch. The model architecture is apparently based on
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by comex 15d ago
Fable 5.1 apparently changes this policy.
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by comex 15d ago
Too bad. I see the stereotypical prose as a good thing. When I interact with Claude myself, I don’t mind it as it just feels like Claude’s distinctive voice. But when other people try to disguise LLM output as their own thoughts, the voi
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by comex 17d ago
> Built on GTK, Relm4 runs on bare metal with no additional runtime in between. So, not native in the sense of using or even resembling the native UI toolkit.
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by comex 18d ago
My experience is that even Opus 5 still tends to write buggy or low-quality code and makes serious mistakes when analyzing code. It's a lot better than before but still not something I trust. I've had less experience with Fable
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by comex 18d ago
And didn't stop doing this until 2020! (Specifically Emacs 27.1, which replaced "unexec", which dumped the process image, with the "portable dumper", which despite the name does not.)
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by comex 18d ago
Yep. Even outside of tracing, there are several different ways that the Linux kernel patches itself: - Static calls: like a call to a global function pointer, except instead of loading a function pointer and doing an indirect call, the cod
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by comex 19d ago
There's also a reason this stuff started getting adopted around 20 years ago (I'll add macOS to the pile: it added per-CPU malloc sharding in 2008). It's not just due to overall growth in OS complexity. It's because th
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by comex 22d ago
Personally I'd love to have a smaller PC for gaming, but I've been scared off by Mini-ITX supposedly being harder to work with and tending to have worse cooling and therefore worse noise. I wish PCs were less fiddly to put togeth
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by comex 25d ago
You don’t have to do any significant work within the signal handler itself. In fact, the signal handler can literally be empty. What matters is that as long as SA_RESTART is not set, after the signal handler runs, the interrupted syscall
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by comex 29d ago
This is a big forwards-compatibility risk. Suppose glibc adds a new symbol, and then a GPU driver adds a dependency on that symbol. The user wants to run an old executable with the updated GPU driver (maybe the old GPU driver doesn’t supp
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by comex 1mo ago
From the readme: “Please don't publicize this project at its current stage.”
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by comex 1mo ago
The parent isn’t looking for pure walking, they’re looking for transit directions that include a higher amount of walking in order to save time overall.
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by comex 2mo ago
At work I recently credited Claude with writing some of the tests in my PR. Why? Partly to apologize for the verbosity of the tests making them harder to review. Partly to set expectations: the tests are more likely to be buggy, low-qual
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by comex 2mo ago
If the model was just too dumb to have any clue it was connected to the real internet, then it’s not its fault. If the model saw signs, but “subconsciously” (below the level of reasoning traces) chose to turn a blind eye to them, out of a
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by comex 2mo ago
The review does in fact use the phrase “sex scenes”. Not that I disagree with your latter point.
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by comex 2mo ago
The problem is that this stops working once you have multiple assignments to err in the same function.
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by comex 2mo ago
If OpenAI is relying on “classifiers” (their word for what was disabled) to serve as the model’s judgement, rather than teaching the model itself to be well-aligned, then I worry. To be fair, the system prompt was presumably also different
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by comex 2mo ago
The paper you linked doesn’t reveal blurred versions of the images being hashed. It does train a classifier to determine which of 1,000 ImageNet classes an image belongs to, which “achieved a top-1 test accuracy of 4.34%”.
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by comex 2mo ago
No, it's a for loop that happens to include an unrelated variable declaration.
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by comex 2mo ago
This can be used to fingerprint version range, but so can a million other things. Browsers are constantly adding new features and fixing bugs, most of which can be detected from JavaScript.
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by comex 2mo ago
It is still meaningfully cross-platform to support all 3 major desktop platforms rather than just one.
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by comex 2mo ago
I addressed some of these points in my reply to a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48856158 I may have been a little overly specific, since there are other issues besides cycles that also block splittin
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by comex 2mo ago
You’re thinking at the wrong scale. Rust allows circular dependencies just fine, within modules in a crate. And it’s extremely common for modules within a crate to have at least some circular dependencies - type X has some method (trait i
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by comex 2mo ago
> The issue is just that coding anything which uses shared memory is a lot of work. Doesn’t that kind of prove the parent’s point though? In theory shared memory can do anything that threads can do. But if in practice some feature do
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by comex 2mo ago
The forbidding of circular dependencies is exactly what makes it hard to achieve parallelism! It means you have to draw nice clean module boundaries and split your compilation units there. Clean boundaries sound nice, except… what if the
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by comex 2mo ago
I wonder how this post was composed. It's full of LLM-isms, but is also pretty informative and not too fluffy - basically, higher-quality than I'm used to seeing from LLM blog posts, especially at this length. Perhaps it was com

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