unclebucknasty

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by unclebucknasty 23d ago
That's exactly what it feels like and it makes perfect sense, given the known compute constraints.
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by unclebucknasty 25d ago
What do you mean? As in, they are reallocating compute away from previous models? If so, I would think that would result in worsened performance, not quality (unless you are also suggesting they may be quantizing).
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by unclebucknasty 25d ago
You mean like quantized?
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by unclebucknasty 25d ago
> I thought models are getting dumber, but benchmarks were convincing opposite > Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 seems worse models than Opus 4.6 After all we've heard about benchmark cheating, I'm earnestly not sure which or whether
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by unclebucknasty 25d ago
> It's an empty point and a boring one and leads nowhere. But, is it true ? > It means nothing...shallow... Ironically, the entirety of your comment just repeats that the GP comment means nothing. There is no further explanati
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by unclebucknasty 25d ago
Maybe true if the discussion was an explicit comparison between the U.S. and modern Europe. As it is, no one was discussing Europe, let alone holding it up as a model society.
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by unclebucknasty 26d ago
> This differentiates the US from who, exactly? What-aboutism is not a very compelling argument.
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by unclebucknasty 26d ago
I sometimes wonder what the tipping point is for people, or whether there actually is one for many. It's as if they are looking for an exacting duplicate of previous regimes before they become concerned—the agency name must be "St
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by unclebucknasty 26d ago
History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. -Mark Twain
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
This is what I meant by "imposing specific choices, determined by a key". Maybe "impose" or "specific" were too strong in my attempt to simplify? I attempted to clarify that the impositions themselves are not d
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
Simple version: In instances wherein the otherwise statistically chosen next word is a "toss-up", watermarking removes the randomness by imposing specific choices, determined by a key. This then becomes a detectable pattern when s
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
The style... CC: "The problem is that I overreached..." [Wall of words here] "Two things: window surface is limited. Extract template. Buffer result and add to surface. Then, follow-up with new model..." Me: What do you
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
I noticed a few releases ago a shift to a kind of conversational shorthand that seems to be intensifying—using phrases instead of complete sentences and its own style of jargon, wherein it introduces new terminology on the fly. This is espe
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Sergey Brin has spent $100M to fight California's proposed billionaire tax(fortune.com)
20 points by unclebucknasty 1mo ago|11 comments
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
You're running Cloudflare Pages on a home server?
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
What would really be crazy is if there were a platform on which people provided commentary about other people's commentary on other people's commentary.
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
To GP's point, any connected server can become a liability, even if it is intended to just host static HTML (or for some other purpose).
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
> Is it the AI or the number of cameras? To be clear, the controversy didn't just arise with AI—it only intensified. > we should pay a team to spend hundreds of man hours... Some argue that none of it should be happening, so wo
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
> There is zero privacy in public spaces You've agreed that this fact does not preclude uncomfortable scenarios, even for yourself. So, the discussion is about where people fall in their comfort. I would sum up my response to the r
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
> maybe exposes hypocrisy I don't know that hypocrisy is the word, but it does seem that you're going a long way to carve out an exception, where there is no real difference. That is, it appears that you've simply decided
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
> I would certainly feel different if followed by an actual human Why would this bother you? Because of the prospect of physical harm, or the idea that they are watching you/invading your privacy?
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
> upvotes-to-comments ratio Makes far more sense than comment count alone.
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
Seems unlikely. Using comment count as an indicator of poor quality discussion would treat topics with intense interest and engaging discussion like flame wars. So, I find this explanation hard to believe, especially given that the mods her
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
1000% astroturfing—and across social media. Too many posts of the same quality at the same time(s). These things ran in cycles, spinning up and dissipating just as suddenly. E.g. the entire framing to combat complaints about shortcomings wa
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Ask HN: Is this normal HN ranking?
5 points by unclebucknasty 1mo ago|9 comments
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
> The question I hear is "why shouldn't we be pulling over stolen cars?". It's a much harder one to answer than the straw man questions we set up for these things. The "why shouldn't we be pulling over stol
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
Sounds about right. Tangentially, but related: I'm old enough to remember when the spirit of your comment was pervasive on HN.
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
> LLM prose is annoyingly dense, and the useful information gets lost in a bunch of noise. This problem doesn't get talked about enough and is second only to the hallucination problem IMO. AI produces so much noise to wade through
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
I've (elsewhere) written about this diminishing return effect on LLM utility in relation to increasing expertise. The question: what's the net positive gain of turning people who know nothing in a given field into sub-novices, whi
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
Interesting premise, but there's not much real world meaning here without stats on the percentage of agent-offered commands that are actually dangerous. If that number is something like 10%, then we have a really big problem. But, if i

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