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by sdrinf 1mo ago
gemma-4 is an incredibly good model, beating several others five time its' size. Hope Jeff's departure won't impact their next-gen products! And best of success for their new ventures!
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by sdrinf 5mo ago
hi, great project! Windows support is sorely lacking, though. As someone working a lot with sandboxed LLMs right now, the options-space on windows for sandboxing is _extremely lacking_. Any plans to support it?
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by sdrinf 6mo ago
Just want to echo the recommendation for qwen3.5:9b. This is a smol, thinking, agentic tool-using, text-image multimodal creature, with very good internal chains of thought. CoT can be sometimes excessive, but it leads to very stable decisi
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by sdrinf 7mo ago
Counterpoint to peeps on this thread: * This approach is the _most consistent_ with retaining anonymity on the internet, while actually helping parents with their issues. If any age-relevant gatekeeping needs to be made on the internet at a
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by sdrinf 7mo ago
Taking the opposite side of that bet, here is why: * even if an openweight model appears on huggingface today, exceeding SOTA, given my extensive experience with a wide variety of model sizes, I would find it highly surprising the "99%
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by sdrinf 7mo ago
I'm working on something like this. Specifically, I'm doing recursive self-improvement via autocatalysis -but predominantly in writing/research / search tasks. It's very early, but shows some very interesting signs.
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by sdrinf 7mo ago
can someone please try running the experiment of "but what if just forking&spinning up an OSS clone, scaling up to take in the migrants, acquire network effects, collect roughly same subscription revenue, but run on just, like, 10
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by sdrinf 8mo ago
Besides the editorial control -which openai openly flagged to want to remain unbiased- there is a deeper issue with ads-based revenue models in AI: that of margins. If you want ads to cover compute & make margins -looking at roughly $50
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by sdrinf 8mo ago
Note: I strongly recommend against using Novita -their main gig is serving quantized versions of the model to offer it for cheaper / at better latency; but if you ran an eval against other providers vs novita, you can spot the quality
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by sdrinf 11mo ago
You have two options: * Use it as a "source": chatgpt -> settings -> apps & connectors -> add it as your connector. This supports only 2 functions: search, and fetch; details: https://help.openai.com/e
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by sdrinf 1y ago
The specific "anomaly" is that claude 4 / opus model _does not know_ because it is _not in its' training data_ what its own model version is; AND because it's training data amalgamates "claude" of previous
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by sdrinf 1y ago
I actually _like_ this, and so does the comfyweb & weebs who are a very significant portion of the driving force behind calm, decade-long projects.
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by sdrinf 1y ago
Follow-up question is big lulz: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/survey-results/daily/202... "And how effective do you think the new rules will be at preventing those younger than 18 from gaining
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by sdrinf 1y ago
This absolutely works... until, and when network effects kick in. Payment processors have major network effects in that infra setup is expensive, banks need to be onboarded one-by-one, and whichever network has the most consumers, businesse
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by sdrinf 1y ago
Early-40s here who still does all-nighters. How long is recovery time for you? What does it entails -ie what doesn't work as much as it should / takes longer while you recover?
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by sdrinf 2y ago
Mozilla is sooo fucked here. On one hand, it would take them approx ~1 sentence of blog to say "We won't sell your input info to anyone" and this drama goes away. OTOH: if the currently pending court case on anti-monopoly bar
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by sdrinf 2y ago
O1 for collabing on design docs, o1 for overall structure, break it into tasks per preference / sort; sonnet/o1 for executing each small tasks. O1 is higher quality, more nuanced, and has deeper understanding; the biggest downside
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by sdrinf 2y ago
Cease and desist letters. There are many, many people, and companies who operate under the false belief that the CAN-SPAM act does not apply to them; and eg create new mailing lists to blast many people with their spam. Some of these unfort
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by sdrinf 2y ago
Because hypotheticals have a process of moving into "stuff that's happening", on the timescale of years, decades. Once it's starts happening, speak; if speaking doesn't work, fight; if fighting doesn't work, mo
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by sdrinf 2y ago
* IA's most important function (at least for me) is holding copies of the World Wide Web as it was. * Given an annually compounding 30% linkrot, 99.92% of all the content ever published on the Internet is no longer available. * This ha
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by sdrinf 2y ago
For the moment, the best possible solution seems to me simply disabling auto-updates. On long-term, if supermium can port over the critical fixes from chromium, ubo v2 may still survive with chrome-ish packaging. For larger context, the eco
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by sdrinf 2y ago
For the moment, the best possible solution seems to me simply disabling auto-updates. On long-term, if supermium can port over the critical fixes from chromium, ubo v2 may still survive with chrome-ish packaging. For larger context, the eco
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Ask HN: Chatbox (GPT desktop front end) malware / supply chain attack risk?
1 points by sdrinf 2y ago|0 comments
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by sdrinf 2y ago
This article omits specificity of which GPT model. Re-running the experiment on the EU regulation paper using gpt-4-1106 (the current-best "intelligent" one): https://chatgpt.com/share/d5709aeb-d24c-488b-985
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by sdrinf 2y ago
Alternative hypothesis on "job to be done": individuals attempting to de-google themselves, at least on the productivity suite. This does involve the rest of the suite as well, as individual users do, actually, have docs on google
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by sdrinf 2y ago
Thanks, that makes sense!
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by sdrinf 2y ago
Question: why is clicking on the (test) phishing email's link "fail"? Isn't the whole contract between browsers and society that one can safely open any website they want (ie loading a webpage is safe), and what you do
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by sdrinf 2y ago
They're heuristics, but failure on them is extremely predictive, and for the n>25 ventures I had personal experience with, have a fitness of ~99% predictive power. What inspired that question?
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by sdrinf 2y ago
How did you met that person?
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by sdrinf 2y ago
I am the person described in the requirement list. I brought 2 startups from seed to series A, built a cashflow business of my own, led teams, have 5+ years of runway (yes, in San Francisco), and actively looking for a potential idea + busi

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