rstuart4133

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by rstuart4133 5d ago
He used LOC, and it isn't bad. Just this week I had a LLM do a small task, and it produced 500 LOC, every little detail beautifully abstracted out. But 500 LOC for such a simple change looked suspicious to me. As everything must pas
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by rstuart4133 11d ago
> if it takes humans a month to find out something has been happening at all, That time is more reflective of the security posture of OpenAI than "humans" in general. Alibaba had a similar incident. Their internal networking te
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by rstuart4133 13d ago
Given the inequality in the USA, it would be more relevant to the rest of the world if he used the mode instead of the median. The mode is what most of the population gets to experience. In most OECD countries, the mode and median are a c
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by rstuart4133 14d ago
It definitely steers. For example if it suggests travel plans, the booking links it provides give Alphabet a cut. As you say it was subtle, along the lines of "oh, if you are planning on going to the place you are researching, here ar
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by rstuart4133 17d ago
It's not hard to test. Go to a page that demands PoW, change your IP and see what happens. I just did it. Spoiler: kernel.org asks for a new PoW. If the source IP was an issue, you could do it other ways: for example, make the cooki
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by rstuart4133 18d ago
> This indicates you might be in a bubble. He didn't say he was surprised by the options offered. He said he was reassured by what he considered to be the common sense option winning. As was I. It didn't just win. Debian uses C
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by rstuart4133 21d ago
> LLM outputs cannot be copyrighted. For stuff that isn't Debian supplied Debians only contribution is the packaging. Debian considers "Public Domain" is a perfectly acceptable licence for the packaging work. So LLM produc
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by rstuart4133 23d ago
It is indeed puzzling. Back in the day, I built myself a music playing device using TTL gates, eagerly studied what CPU's looked like inside and in general wanted to know how everything worked - even though it had no hope of replicati
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by rstuart4133 23d ago
This is just Pournelle’s iron law isn't it? https://executivecoachinglondon.com/career-development/pourn...
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by rstuart4133 27d ago
You are equating n LLM's output with FORTRAN? The only time you really need to look at core dumps of a FORTRAN compiler is when you think the compiler has a bug. Apart from that, the abstraction doesn't leak. You don't need
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by rstuart4133 27d ago
Canada copied Australia - we did it first in 2021. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448241232296 This is just an extension to 2021. The pigs have come back. They want more gravy.
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by rstuart4133 27d ago
Fairy Wrens are mentioned: https://fatbirder.com/ornithology/maluridae-australasian-wre... Pity they don't show them in their natural habitat: sitting on a car mirror, shitting on it.
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by rstuart4133 1mo ago
you must have stolen it off me.
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by rstuart4133 1mo ago
> Utility scale batteries are now at ~$66m/GWh That equates to AUD$66/kWh, after shipping, installation and connection to the grid. It seems very low. Have you got citations for that number?
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by rstuart4133 1mo ago
In related news "Big US‑style trucks are killing more pedestrians in Australia": https://theconversation.com/big-us-style-trucks-are-killing-...
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by rstuart4133 1mo ago
You mentioned in your you were interested in seeing the 18A replacement for the N100 series. My understanding is the Wildcat lake 304 is that replacement, and it's been "released" for a while. It can be configured down to 10W
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by rstuart4133 1mo ago
What part of "Amazon's margin is a competitors opportunity" aren't you groking?
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by rstuart4133 1mo ago
I have no idea what a drone factory is, but my mental image is a building with drone parts on one side, people assembling with glue, screwdrivers and soldering irons in the middle, and finished drones in boxes at the far end. It that buildi
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by rstuart4133 1mo ago
> Why cut revenue to nearly half? Because, to quote Jeff Bezos, your margin is my opportunity. And did he ever squeeze every drop from that opportunity. Just ask the brick and mortar stores in your street. > I’m not convinced that bas
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by rstuart4133 1mo ago
> Read that phrase back and then ask "is this the future of computing that we wanted?" It is what I want. If you own a mobile phone it's unavoidable. The physical SIM is a guarded area with secrets you can't know or t
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by rstuart4133 1mo ago
In Australia, the cause isn't a mystery. A judge ruled publishers are liable for defamatory comments. Within a few weeks, all the comment sections were gone: https://www.sydney.edu.au/law/news-and-events/new
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by rstuart4133 2mo ago
Yes, Norway leads. But it's not an apples with apples comparison. Norway is a smallish country (you can fit 24 Norway's in Australia - so less range anxiety), whose government pushed the transition to EV's hard. Australia h
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by rstuart4133 2mo ago
And this pairs nicely with Jane Street's observation that agentic coding changes the formal proof equation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064854 Formal proofs of code are almost beyond the capabilities of the
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by rstuart4133 2mo ago
> invest in high risk shares because a big win is the only way to afford a nice home. Here I was thinking The Squid Game was a work of fiction.
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by rstuart4133 2mo ago
You are being far too kind. A primate's body shape may be optimal for life in the trees, but it sure isn't optimal for any of the industrial or household tasks we want a robot to do. There are millions of robots around the world
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by rstuart4133 2mo ago
If your objection is to someone giving an LLM a few dot points asking it to turn them into an article, then that clearly isn't what happened here. The research idea seems novel, the author put a bit of work into exploring the idea, th
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by rstuart4133 2mo ago
+1 This anti LLM crusade on HN is driving me nuts. It means I have to view with showdead on, because otherwise I miss clear, insightful and consequently interesting posts because someone to an dislike to am em dash. Dead posts are so fain
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by rstuart4133 2mo ago
I'm not the OP, but I think he's saying something much simpler than that. Typically with a recursive algorithm, the state you need to push is tiny. Usually a word or two. But often you need a lot of temporaries to calculate tha
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by rstuart4133 2mo ago
> what "maintainable" is is probably some high dimensional space described by these signals; it'd probably require some human labeling to figure out where this space is Maybe, but "maintainable" has a simple defi
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by rstuart4133 2mo ago
> what should be done about open weight bioweapon and cyber-offense capabilities? Like the others here I know almost nothing about bio weapons, but I think perhaps the fact that smallpox's genome sequence has publicly available in s

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