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by Wowfunhappy 5d ago
> What is actually stopping these model companies from running a model at full capacity on release then once its name rings out, start serving users quantized garbage? ...I mean, if they were actually doing this despite saying that they
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by Wowfunhappy 5d ago
The original source appears to be ArsTechnica: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/republican-bill-...
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by Wowfunhappy 5d ago
When something is new, its capabilities feel incredible. Over time, those same capabilities become mundane, and you start to notice the flaws. (Now, if TFA is actually measuring reasoning tokens, that's quite different! It's not e
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by Wowfunhappy 5d ago
If it's circumventable, how does it prevent fraud? Seems like it would likely just hurt the enthusiasts. You can already check whether the RAM has been swapped via https://geekworm.com/blogs/news/prevent-ram-s
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by Wowfunhappy 6d ago
Well, for a torrent to stay healthy, users have to seed after download, so it can't possibly have the same UX as a standard browser file download unless you want to either kill the ecosystem or hide from the user what is consuming uplo
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by Wowfunhappy 8d ago
Hi Chris Chibnall, great to see you on Hacker News. :) In all seriousness we clearly have very different taste! I just found the Chibnall episodes boring. I wanted to like them! I think GGP shares my taste though, based on their comment.
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by Wowfunhappy 10d ago
But that's from, like, floating point errors, right? If you used higher precision that wouldn't happen, it's just because we're cheap in how we do rounding. I can see how you'd nitpick this, but to me this is a dete
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by Wowfunhappy 10d ago
The Chibnall episodes sucked but then Russel T David came back as showrunner. If you haven't seen the first three episodes he did, with David Tennant returning as the doctor, you're missing out. I liked the regular season that fol
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by Wowfunhappy 10d ago
The randomness is something we add on purpose; you can set an LLM's "temperature" to 0 to get deterministic output. This tends to make the quality of its responses worse for reasons I don't think anyone really understand
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by Wowfunhappy 10d ago
Trump won the popular vote once, not consistently, against an understudy candidate who was pushed on stage at the last minute. Also, opinions have shifted since that time as people have noticed how unhinged Trump is.
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My Dumbphone Made My Life Better. It Made Everyone Else's Worse(nytimes.com)
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by Wowfunhappy 11d ago
I had a TP Link wireless adapter (I think that was the name) for my HTC Vive. I was kind of skeptical going in, but it worked shockingly well--no detectable added latency. The only thing I lost was the ability to use the Vive's camera,
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by Wowfunhappy 11d ago
> To be clear, you don't have to run things on it, you can stream wirelessly from your PC. But the hardware is adding weight and bulk to something that you really, desperately want to be as small and light and possible.
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by Wowfunhappy 12d ago
> What claude dosnt have is an off day, its just the same. But it... does. In some sessions it will get particularly paranoid, apologetic, self-doubtful, or suspicious. I'd say these traits are always there but they can become more
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by Wowfunhappy 16d ago
I love this!!
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by Wowfunhappy 16d ago
> If you’re doing this type of accusation [...] odds are you’re never coming back. [...] Crashing out and waging war on the board will lead to that outcome. ...one exception comes to my mind, and it's Steve Jobs. Probably a total ou
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by Wowfunhappy 16d ago
No, you can't, unless the apps are designed for different aspect ratios.
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by Wowfunhappy 20d ago
I think 1,000 years maybe doesn't matter that much. However, these predictions are imperfect. If they're aiming for 1,000 years, that makes me more confident the disc will be readable in 100 years, which may matter more.
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by Wowfunhappy 20d ago
> I’m trying to avoid screens at least one day out of the week, and this is my way of encouraging others to consider doing the same. Sorry but I find this incredibly paternalistic. What if I am avoiding screens one day out of the week—
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by Wowfunhappy 20d ago
Both Anthropic and OpenAI will sometimes make important announcements only on Twitter.
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by Wowfunhappy 21d ago
I don't think it's good to make myself less informed. I have no intention of chatting on Twitter casually or browsing it for fun, but if a major announcement is posted only on Twitter—and I don't know why people keep doing th
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by Wowfunhappy 22d ago
Not that it matters for anything—she got the work done on the free plan and was happy—but my strategy in this situation is always to subscribe and immediately cancel. The cancellation does not actually take effect until the end of your bill
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by Wowfunhappy 22d ago
I never assumed the data on how people lived ten thousand years ago was 100% accurate. Of course it's not. I had assumed it came from real research and the citation links were accurate. When you see a picture of a dinosaur (in an educa
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by Wowfunhappy 22d ago
The website is quite clear that the stories are made up based on statistical likelihood, so that part didn't bother me at all. It's a cool way to explore the statistics. What bothers me is that the statistics themselves are bad.
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by Wowfunhappy 22d ago
Until I read the comments here, I did not notice the stats were bad. I was just skimming the facts I thought were interesting, not looking for contradictions. The site itself is a really cool concept! I just wish the information was accurat
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by Wowfunhappy 22d ago
Yes, presumably that's why she did not update the website for 20 years! If once she's decided to update the website—surely it's worth more then $20 at that point? Otherwise, she probably shouldn't be spending any time on
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by Wowfunhappy 22d ago
Of course, those are all great reasons to make a website. But this website was for a woman's psychology practice. I don't imagine she made it for fun or to express her creativity. The purpose of a psychology practice's we
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by Wowfunhappy 22d ago
Presumably a nicer website could lead to more customers. Otherwise why update the website at all?
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by Wowfunhappy 22d ago
Not that I'm in favor of spending money unnecessarily, but I find it kind of surprising she didn't just spend the $20, given this was a website for her professional money-making business.
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by Wowfunhappy 23d ago
But they are not writing with AI. That's a big difference!

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