dannyw

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by dannyw 5d ago
I’m an introvert who hates small talk, yet across countries; I’ve found the value of human drivers to far outweigh the small ‘cost’. From knowing the area and telling me the Alamo location has moved (and not updating their address on their
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by dannyw 5d ago
They aren't even standard on the model! One of the brands swapped pin-outs mid production run (but same SKU number and no changes in model name/packaging); and even sent back a RMA'd replacement with a different set of pinout
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by dannyw 5d ago
Fireworks has high variance amongst models and while some are served correctly; many of them are junk / broken and degraded and it seems like they don’t even know; because even running 1k MMLU Pro questions would flag it very quickly.
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by dannyw 5d ago
Bedrock Claude is absolutely not identical to 1P Claude. They’re close enough to not matter though.
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by dannyw 5d ago
This is a link to their configurable workstation on consumer boards. They offer TR or Xeon based boards too; it's just a different link/SKU: https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-major So they offer both optio
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by dannyw 5d ago
As a vibe test, I tried some system prompting in DSv4 Flash to the effect of ~"Always do your internal thinking in Chinese, and always respond to the user in English" (but translated to Mandarin). Subjectively it seemed to reason
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by dannyw 5d ago
I still find it hilariously ironic that my RTX 5090, which export controlled and illegal to sell to China, says "MADE IN CHINA" on it.
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by dannyw 6d ago
You need far more absurdly expensive RAM (RDIMM/ECC?) for a threadripper. Like 4x more expensive.
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by dannyw 6d ago
Ease of setup and accepting the lock-in; in exchange for OpenAI handling security-patching the environment, scaling containers, etc. It's an option.
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by dannyw 6d ago
Some people/companies/whatever might like the convenience and scalability of managed solutions, especially if you're say, just building something simple like a Slack bot with your custom workplace tools/data. Yes, the lo
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by dannyw 7d ago
Nah, it’s an optional feature, so by using it you provide express consent. GDPR gives users more data ownership; GDPR does not stop you from choosing to do what you want with your data. It’s likely DMA — Apple would be required to provide A
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by dannyw 8d ago
The way I see it, it’s all about how you use it. Let people have tools; their output stands on its own legs. As pro software, the UI has a learning curve. Many YouTube videos are out of date, or unnecessarily drawn out. Additionally, as a h
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by dannyw 11d ago
"Video game" is the medium, the challenge and test is figuring out how to win; when given no instructions, and specifically designed to be private. ARC-AGI takes it very seriously: they've never tested Fable, because they won
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by dannyw 13d ago
I really, really don't find the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index credible anymore. It's some weighted score of benchmarks, and benchmarks increasingly don't reflect how good a model is. That should be obvious if you com
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by dannyw 13d ago
Anecdotal experiences from my external early testing of Astra: if you love Sol (like I do) and wished it was smarter at everything, but especially better at high-level tasks and discussions; I think you'll LOVE Astra. Astra retains the
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by dannyw 13d ago
Precisely. BIS does not consider cloud compute services to be exports. There are some rules around when you knowingly know that a customer is military or WMD, and you obviously can’t supply services to someone on the entity list; but KYC-th
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by dannyw 14d ago
Are you using direct or via OpenRouter? I think OpenRouter Luna always uses the `flex` tier, which is quite a bit slower.
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by dannyw 14d ago
That’s incompatible with the file not leaving your browser, which you can trivially verify with the Network tab in chrome (or wireshack, etc). This is just a C2PA metadata checker.
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by dannyw 15d ago
The tests measure Fable 5.1 (with fallbacks). The increased cost can come from Fable 5.1 triggering fallbacks less; which means less (cheaper) Opus when AA ran it.
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by dannyw 16d ago
The new cloth is different. It's softer and thinner, but the same size. If you want to spend 12 minutes on what changed, AppleInsider made a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL-4kCkvEvQ This is actually the 4th A
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by dannyw 16d ago
The narrative — ie being associated and seen as an AI-winner — is worth billions of market capitalisation at Apple scale. I don’t think there’s a direct guerilla marketing division, but I would absolutely bet money that Apple’s marketing&#x
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by dannyw 18d ago
Comments that the HN community find interesting are surfaced higher. Just tap on the [-], and upvote what you find more interesting :)
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by dannyw 18d ago
I agree, and I think what you’re describing is only scratching the surface of what’s possible today. It’s even more powerful with large data and knowledge sources connected. Takes a lot of work to set up effectively, but when connected to S
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by dannyw 18d ago
I consider publicly enforced to be one where a government agency (e.g. the FDA), or prosecutors make judgements in what cases they file, make the arguments, etc. Otherwise, it's just a standard case between two private parties resolved
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by dannyw 18d ago
You can scale with more memory channels. Workstation/server platforms go up to 12 or 16 channels if I remember correctly. Consumer platforms have been stuck at dual channel for decades; most of it I attribute to intentional product seg
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by dannyw 19d ago
What do you do for long-running goals / tasks where you are not interactively prompting?
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by dannyw 19d ago
Companies are well within their rights to choose who they sell to. I don't see how this is 'privately enforced copyright'. Also, copyright has always been privately enforced anyway?
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by dannyw 19d ago
FP8 experts not BF16.
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by dannyw 19d ago
Try Parallel.ai (no affiliation). Instead of keywords, the model writes objectives.
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by dannyw 19d ago
I’ve found a very similar creative spark with Gemma4 base models. You’ll have to do old school prompting, but it’s kinda fun too.

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