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Comment · 19 hours ago
Perhaps it shows that it does not matter how good your engineering is, or if you have sped up feature development 10x, if the shop is not providing value then who cares?
Comment · 1 day ago
Do you really want to live in a world where you need to be logged in to call gcc?
Comment · 1 day ago
I have this realization recently that everyone that uses Claude Code or Codex have basically been running RCE code on a daily basis (me included). So much for "be careful about running curl | bash!". That puts it into perspective what does security and privacy really mean? For all I know, these CLIs could have been secretly scraping my entire directory. Who's checking?
Comment · 8 days ago
and what benefit does a golf course have to anyone? Unlike golf courses, AI summary is used by pretty much everyone. And if you dont think this is true, then you live in a bubble.
Comment · 11 days ago
And people wonder why I support and wish the Chinese models/companies succeed?
Comment · 20 days ago
The funny thing about comments like this is that the moment LLMs are going to replace everyone in the warehouse or the trucking industry, we suddenly have to do something against the LLM. But clearly they can't actually do anything meaningful and have been a waste of energy?

So just let them spend their money and they will eventually fail and bankrupt, right?

Comment · 20 days ago
I couldn't read past the first paragraph

> I mean, technically speaking, a video game from 1980 was likely to contain more logical branching points than a modern LLM's kernel, and was likely to be a lot more interesting to read.

Are you really saying that the "AI" in 1980 is _Really_ much more interesting than today's LLM? The author is either dishonest or ignorant.

Comment · 25 days ago
It fascinates me that there's something like this in something as solid and rigid like matrix multiplication. What causes something so rigid to break apart and "leak" at very large scale? Why does the "optimization" appear to be very, very small? Why does galactic algorithm exists? I can't imagine long division suddenly breaking apart after a billion digit, the structure seems very stable? I have heard before that matrix multiplication is apparently optimize-able at very, very large scale.

Does anyone have an intuition to what causes it? What happens at these large scale (or very small)?

Comment · 25 days ago
The other crucial part to this is the ability to actually encode and test the theorem (via Lean). Otherwise, we would be swarmed with a billion lines of theorems that no one will be able to ever understand and verify anyway.
Comment · 25 days ago
They are also releasing the weights so I am more inclined to think they are better than most.
Comment · 25 days ago
Yeap, I just need VSCode to look through the code. Its good enough for read-only purposes.
Comment · 26 days ago
Uhhh, it has always been the case. This libertarian idea of every man for himself is a sickening concept that does not work at scale. You are going to get psychopaths that genuinely does not need other people, then what do you do? He's just exercising his free will and rights after all.
Comment · 27 days ago
I would love to talk more with you about HFT work :) i am working in one myself! Please email [email protected] if you wanna have a chat!
Comment · 1 month ago
I am having a brain aneurysm trying to understand this

> Regulating gun ownership is exactly regulating the application. In your analogy, the gun is the AI. What you can do with the gun is the application.

From what I can tell, you are arguing that gun laws is reasonable.

> Different actors with different credentials in different contexts will have different requirements and permissions of what they can do with the technology, be it a gun or AI.

But this, is going against that, this is saying, "why should we ban AI or gun when they can be used for both good and bad. What we want is to ban bad, regardless of how it is achieved"

Comment · 1 month ago
> Side note, but it's always funny to me that whenever (and frequently) Japanese immigration policies are discussed on sites like HN and Reddit, there seems to always be a large number of clearly white people from America and Europe coming in to display their Japanese nationalism.

This? I am not commenting on this part. Hot take: I actually want Japan to stay Japan, I don't want Japan to turn into anything other than Japan. Its a good place to live in exactly because it is Japan. They don't have to change to accept more tourists, you have to change to be accepted by them.

No, I am not white, I am East Asian.

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