simplyluke

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by simplyluke 1mo ago
These differences are prominent even in the same harness (cursor) in my experience. Opus is wordy to the point of exhaustion, GPT is better, Grok is very direct.
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by simplyluke 1mo ago
> Benchmarks are almost useless I both agree with this but also find most insistence that Model A is the "best" is social hype divorced from capabilities.
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by simplyluke 1mo ago
I've been hearing this myth since ChatGPT came out - that the labs have superAI that they're just slowly trickling out as competition forces them to. Everyone in silicon valley has a cousin who's supposedly seen Anthropic&#x2
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by simplyluke 1mo ago
I'm convinced a lot of the anti-open-weight model comments at this point are inorganic traffic - there's trillions in investor money riding on a world where these models aren't cheap commodities. Having actually used things l
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by simplyluke 2mo ago
Not really. The US has widely legalized gambling of various forms (sports, prediction markets, etc) in recent years. I'd argue that even more so than nicotine there is zero benefit to gambling.
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by simplyluke 2mo ago
I redid my home network this year largely to be able to get off of cloud-based cameras and properly VLAN untrusted devices.
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by simplyluke 2mo ago
The UK is not proposing disallowing 16-17 year olds (or any children) from carrying smart phones on public transit, though, which makes the entire article fall apart. The author leaps from a proposed ban on 15 year olds using tiktok to whol
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by simplyluke 2mo ago
The article spends a long time conflating actual proposed policy in the UK with things that aren't being proposed and sound much worse. I did some googling, the UK's gone a bit further than the US in proposing that < 16 year ol
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by simplyluke 2mo ago
How many people are arrested for social media posts and other speech in each country?
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
I’ll toss $10k in the s&p and you buy the rig and we’ll see who feels like they made a better call?
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
"Token salesman finds conclusive evidence that more tokens = more better"
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
We have decades upon decades of hardware getting dramatically cheaper year over year for the same performance, and ~1 year of the inverse due to dramatic buildout for AI. It's a surprising example of the recency bias to me to assume an
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
Anthropic's own models perform differently under the same version depending on how much they've decided to quietly downgrade them.
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
I've been using it for a week via opencode in a large, mature codebase for some moderately ambitious feature development, and a bit of debugging. Explicit purpose is evaluating if it may be a good substitute to save money for many task
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
That's probably more precise.
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
> I honestly don't get the hostility against local models in this thread Consider that there are literally trillions of dollars being wagered on this not being the future state of computing. Not even speculating that HN is being ast
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
I really think giving it a year for the hardware market to come back to earth and spending a fraction of that for API access to the same models is a better use of the money.
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
The open source models have gotten heavily conflated with local development. While that is cool and I'm excited about the future of local LLMs, it is not necessary to play around with these models. Without shilling for companies I
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
> will likely be resale-able for what I paid for it for the next 7-10 years There is not a period in the history of computing where this is true of consumer hardware over a decade for anything other than hardware already at the very bott
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
I think we should go one level higher and question when having opinions and being a multi-dimensional human became a professional risk. That has certainly not always been the case.
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
Prices have gone down for the entire history of computing reliably with the past year being an extremely notable deviation from that trend line. I'm pretty sure prices are going down. Maybe not complete builds in nominal dollars, but $
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
US standards are bad at considering everyone outside the vehicle in general. Headlights are another great example. I've seen videos of headlight designers bragging about how they can put a dim spot in the exact place the regulators mea
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
The times article goes very in depth on this. Yes, it is an issue, but it explains at most 10% of the increase in fatalities. Getting hit by any vehicle over 20mph is going to be a very bad time, it is going to be somewhat worse if it&#x2
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
I can't speak to Australia, and yeah, western Europe has a lot less big trucks, but Canada has as many large 4x4 trucks as anywhere in the US in my experience and has seen decreasing deaths. The times article touches on this but the mo
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
Read the linked article (or even the quoted portion). Americans have a very different attitude of the acceptability of using those phones.
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
The problem is that other countries have seen nearly identical trends in vehicle market share trending towards larger vehicles and have seen sustained declines in pedestrian fatalities. John Burn-Murdoch went deep on this in the FT a couple
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
The times article hand-waves away distracted driving by saying that other countries haven't seen a similarly large increase. The problem with that is that vehicle sizes in all other countries have also been increasing, and other count
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
As people are correctly pointing out, WA is reclassifying certain e-motos as motorcycles, which is to say they'll require a license and insurance to be used on public roads - two things that are already required for all SUVs and trucks
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
There's some of that, a lot of it though is e-dirtbikes that can pretty easily do 35+mph stock and 50+ with light modifications. A friend of mine has one and I've ridden it. It's a motorcycle with mountain bike brakes. I don&
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by simplyluke 3mo ago
You don't even need to run them locally for them to be a threat. Plenty of companies are looking at paying third party companies to host these models and they come in at fractions of the price of the frontier labs.

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