panarky

6 ms·

91.
by panarky 6mo ago
If you run Windows 11 with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Outlook on a 4GB machine you're gonna have a bad day.
92.
by panarky 6mo ago
There's nothing about RAG that requires embeddings. The retrieval part can be grep if you don't care about semantic search.
93.
by panarky 6mo ago
You overestimate the base. The war machine is already rewriting this as Iranian hostility. The base is incapable of seeing this as a failure of their cult leader. Instead they'll see it as the very rationale and justification of the wa
94.
by panarky 7mo ago
The big lesson from the US/Israel war against Iran is that the power balance has shifted away from strike capability toward defense magazine depth. You can't win with stand-off strike capability. You can't seize and control t
95.
by panarky 7mo ago
I treat people who blindly believe an LLM the same way I treat people who blindly believe a religion or a political ideology or medical advice from Instagram. If they ask what I think, I tell them. If they don't want my opinion I keep
96.
by panarky 7mo ago
Just like the rules say it's uninteresting and off-topic to complain that HN is turning into Reddit, it's equally uninteresting and off-topic to accuse posters of AI crimes. And everyone's personal AI detector has a ridiculou
97.
by panarky 7mo ago
That's what they always say. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Political_Responsibilit...
98.
Gemini Embedding 2: natively multimodal embedding model(blog.google)
36 points by panarky 7mo ago|5 comments
99.
by panarky 7mo ago
I find it amusing that Franco ran with the promise of "justice for those with clean hands," and then immediately enacted the Law of Political Responsibilities to institutionalize the summary execution of tens of thousands of his p
100.
by panarky 7mo ago
Does everyone just easily accuse genuine, literate humans of "cheating" with AI when there's no way they could know that? There are a lot of unique aspects of the writing in this post that LLMs don't typically generate o
101.
by panarky 8mo ago
When a human writes the code should all their slack messages about the project be committed into the repo?
102.
by panarky 8mo ago
Authoritarian nations continue to have elections, turnout is near 100%, and Dear Leader wins with 90% of the vote.
103.
by panarky 8mo ago
Does the Defense Production Act force employees to continue working at Anthropic?
104.
by panarky 8mo ago
Not just the mobile app, but also Claude Code Web is super unreliable. Frequently chews through lots of expensive Opus tokens, then it just stops with no communication about why or what's next. No way to tell what it's done, what&
105.
by panarky 8mo ago
If you pay $249 to get $1,200 of compute, "cheap" seems like the right word.
106.
by panarky 8mo ago
LLMs are too smart to use meaningless terms like "containment terminal". This smells like an ignorant human who played Fallout 4 and is now pretending to be knowledgeable.
107.
by panarky 8mo ago
> we can assume similar issues arise in more complex cases I would assume similar issues are more rare in longer, more complex prompts. This prompt is ambiguous about the position of the car because it's so short. If it were longe
108.
by panarky 8mo ago
Is there any evidence that Apple fights administrative subpoenas issued by US federal agencies? Or is Google just more transparent than Apple about the government orders it complies with? For example, after the Department of Justice demande
109.
by panarky 8mo ago
You're unstated assumption is that machine-written code is lower quality than human-written code. That may be true for the top 5% of developers today. But I didn't think that assumption is true for the median developer today, and
110.
by panarky 8mo ago
You'd think so, and we don't know about today's incident yet, but recent Github incidents have been attributed specifically to Azure, and Azure itself has had a lot of downtime recently that lasts for many hours.
111.
by panarky 8mo ago
Migrations of Actions and Copilot to Azure completed in 2024. Pages and Packages completed in 2025. Core platform and databases began in October 2025 and are in progress, with traffic split between the legacy Github data center and Azure.
112.
by panarky 8mo ago
Github lost at least one 9, if not two, since last year's "existential" migration to Azure.
113.
by panarky 8mo ago
Some people like to spin their own wool, weave their own cloth, sew their own clothes. A few even make a good living by selling their artisanal creations. Good for them! It's great when people can earn a living doing what they love. Bu
114.
by panarky 8mo ago
Other than the NYT and WSJ, the only national example I can think of is The Guardian's US operation, but that one is supported by a trust plus recurring donations from readers. There are some good regional examples that show people wil
115.
by panarky 8mo ago
I don't know how to quantify "national appeal", but the Post had about 2.5 million paid subscribers in 2023 and ~800 newsroom staff, while The Atlantic had about 1.1 million paid subscribers and ~200 newsroom staff. Now the P
116.
by panarky 8mo ago
Before Google, web search was a toxic stew of conflicts of interest. It was impossible to tell if search results were paid ads or the best possible results for your query. Google changed all that, and put a clear wall between organic result
117.
by panarky 8mo ago
> They historically had the best political coverage of DC And then Bezos replaced veteran leaders with ideological leaders from the Murdoch empire. Then Bezos put his thumb on the scale and vetoed the paper's presidential endorsemen
118.
by panarky 8mo ago
Keep everyone precarious and fearful, stringing together multiple bullshit jobs to make the rent, always one car repair or health scare away from the abyss. Let owners/exploiters suppress the wages they pay workers in the name of effic
119.
by panarky 8mo ago
So much the better?
120.
by panarky 8mo ago
If the islanders are ever to band together and liberate themselves by seizing the magic stone, then they must first stop praising the owner for making them work, and they must stop plotting to destroy the magic stone that could liberate the

More ›