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by mrandish 4mo ago
I'm hardly a fanboy of Anthropic or any of the AI companies, but Ant aren't objectively in a different league of tech bro "tiresome and annoying" than OAI, Google, FB, MSFT, etc. Yet they are being targeted just because
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> corruption, revenge, shakdeown, and/or incompetence Sadly, I think it's all four at once.
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Sorry, I'm not connecting how "collapse of Adobe empire" leads to "multiple concepts missing" in this UX discussion. Can you clarify? Also: Apple dumped Flash ~15 yrs ago, so whatever it is... it's very slow.
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> I think it's almost always wrong to move something discontinuously Yes, I think we agree. When a thing is becoming a larger/smaller form of itself in a different place, it can be useful to cue the relationship visually with m
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by mrandish 4mo ago
I initially thought "Every Frame Perfect" meant a strict avoidance of any jank or stutter in motion, which I'm fully on-board for but as a film, video and 3D technologist, you're spot on calling out motion blur and simil
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by mrandish 4mo ago
I get your reasoning but I think you're misreading this. The Trump admin has had access to Mythos for a couple months and certainly had access to pre-release Fable for more than a week but they wait until 5:30p on a Friday to send a br
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by mrandish 4mo ago
The counter-intuitive nature of LLMs is so simultaneously interesting and frustrating. Overloading a single prompt definitely can create challenge remarkably similar to human short-term memory and attentional drift. LLMs gain so much knowle
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by mrandish 4mo ago
>  All LLM-kind would be vastly improved if the words "exact" and "brilliant" were nerfed to hell in their pre-training weights or even just removed from their
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by mrandish 4mo ago
That's actually what I do too. What I was trying to say is that my prompts are precise in the sense that whether they're vaguely ambiguous or hyper-detailed and highly directive it's always very intentional to improve the
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Yeah, that was my guess too. Still a little disappointing to see fellow HNers reflexively fanboying a company that's the overwhelming dominate player in LLM coding. I try to reserve my reflexive fanboy company/project votes for un
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> But you know what my coworker asks? “Test Y theory.” It still surprises me when I see people not prompting more specifically and clearly. It not only avoids problems, it's faster, costs less -and just works better. I recently sh
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> we can't read even a tiny fraction of what gets posted here I'll bet it's exhausting but your note did make ponder: If a soul was condemned to the eternal torment of reading nothing but all the user posts of one social m
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Re: AI OS integration: I recently retired so most of my LLM use is just implementing and fixing fairly mundane OS and networking things along with light scripting for OS automation (AHK) and Home Assistant. So far, I just use web chat and c
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Yep, I remember seeing the headline. I clicked in, read the sub-head and first few sentences, hit the back button, and moved on, having duly noted the passing of one more milestone in Google's long descent. The reasons why it sucks, wh
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by mrandish 4mo ago
I heard they actually changed to this wording from the original, which for a long time was "Don't be evil." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Yes, it's always been published as a joke. You've explained why it was (and still is) funny meta-commentary on AI benchmarks.
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by mrandish 4mo ago
As often happens with random oddball things which become traditions in web communities, the replies asking what it is or complaining about it, begin to gain their own humor value.
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by mrandish 4mo ago
It's evolved from a funny, unserious benchmark to a tradition. When a major new model is released, I now always check the HN thread for Simon's Pelican post. I'll be sad when I don't find it. When it started, comparing t
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Hence it has become a meta-benchmark of relative progress in SVG image generation of a known target which has leaked into the training data and for which "every frontier AI team has/had a person at least partially dedicated to&quo
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> the models are improving at a rapid rate. If asked ~3 years ago where the state of the models are today, it would sound like sci-fi Absolutely true, many things will continue to improve in significant ways. However, if we look at the
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Of the posts I've seen by senior devs who assess recent events and end up roughly here: > I'm still employed and I see myself employed for a foreseeable future. But I don't know what to think about the long-term ... Maybe
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by mrandish 4mo ago
This is no doubt a useful production tool when one needs to create the visible artifacts of VHS video for some motivated story reason but as someone who worked in the tech side of broadcast video production starting near the end of the anal
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Was anyone else fished in by the title and disappointed? After some broad introductory discussion of RSI, the article was almost about LLM coding. While there are some metrics for unattended agentic coding, it doesn't discuss "Wh
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> "A caveat: Lines of code is an imperfect measure" I'm pleased they at least included this. However, they address the caveat by 'rounding down' the estimated multiple of the gain. I'm not sure that is the c
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> I'd be curious if this sounds to what you were doing. Yes, there were definitely aspects of teasing out how much a poor outcome was related to the initial call and how much was in the execution. The execution breaks down into the
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by mrandish 4mo ago
I actually didn't full-stop on it because I thought it was AI. For the first few seconds I thought it was a staged photo. I was nerd-sniped because it was staged so badly.
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Perfect operational security!
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Sounds like an opportunity! One thing about these 'sadistic casino' domains is that small edges can have outsized impact. Even imperfect data that's swamped in noise can work. As long as the noise is consistent enough to be m
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Fully reproducing the motion clarity of a CRT on a modern display also requires 480hz. ( https://blurbusters.com/crt-simulation-in-a-gpu-shader-looks... )
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> I think CRTs would have been capable of HDR Very likely. CRT technology from phosphors to screen masks to deflection yokes were highly-evolved but there was still a lot of headroom for more performance and new innovation. Some CRT tube

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