selcuka

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by selcuka 6mo ago
You speak like you and I discussed this before, and you remember where the original goalposts were. Many analysts suggested that the attack was a smoke-and-mirrors, and the actual goal has always been financial. Similar to the tariffs story
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by selcuka 6mo ago
Not sure, but any event, positive or negative, will benefit those who know the exact timing in advance.
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by selcuka 6mo ago
> For what reason would they attack a single school? Couldn't it be to terrorise the other side while still being able to claim that it was a mistake? Remember that the school was hit by three distinct strikes.
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by selcuka 6mo ago
It was a 1.5B parameter model. It was still impressive for 2019, but yeah, it was nothing to worry about.
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by selcuka 6mo ago
Here's a 13-byte demo that runs on Chrome browsers: chrome://dino
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by selcuka 6mo ago
Some might argue that the US's (or the POTUS's) objective was simply to disrupt the financial markets.
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by selcuka 6mo ago
The Federal Reserve's Real Broad Dollar Index (RTWEXBGS) is 113.51 as of February. Not saying it would crash losing all of that 13.51 excess overnight, but it's still overvalued against foreign currencies.
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by selcuka 6mo ago
> It takes billions of dollars of hardware to train a SOTA LLM and it's increasing all the time. True, but it's also true that the returns from throwing money to the problem are diminishing. Unless one of those big players inve
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by selcuka 6mo ago
So you installed a text editor and wanted to edit /etc/hosts. Should the OS permit you to save your changes or not? Now what should happen if the text editor decides to modify /etc/hosts without your knowledge?
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by selcuka 7mo ago
Reminded me of the XKCD [1] that points out the problem with average scores. [1] https://xkcd.com/937/
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by selcuka 7mo ago
In general you can't without patching the app itself, statically or at runtime using something like Frida.
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by selcuka 7mo ago
This is even worse. My Claude Code instance can theoretically write the same code as your instance for a similar prompt. Why should one of us be able to have the copyright?
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by selcuka 7mo ago
No, they are different entities. Having the same founder does not mean much in this context. You signed a contract with 23andme, not Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.
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by selcuka 7mo ago
Interesting. Qwen 3.5 0.8B failed the test for me.
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by selcuka 7mo ago
> I think it’s pretty cynical to assume that this is “good enough for most people” It's a deduction, not an assumption. Obviously it's "good enough" for "most people". Otherwise nobody would be using the fre
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by selcuka 7mo ago
Any citations? Because that was my impression, too. I want frontier model performance for my coding assistant, but "most users" could do with smaller/faster models. ChatGPT free falls back to GPT-5.2 Mini after a few interact
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by selcuka 7mo ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356968
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by selcuka 7mo ago
I was once asked to migrate a Microsoft Access application to C#/MS SQL Server because it was too slow. I just added a few database indexes to make it an order of magnitude faster. (They still wanted to go ahead with the migration, but
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by selcuka 7mo ago
> The model itself has cost billions of dollars to train But that has nothing to do with this use case, right? By the same logic, Linux has millions of man-hours went into it but we can use it for free on a $7 VPS. > service shuts dow
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by selcuka 7mo ago
Aren't LLMs commodity products these days? It's the same thing as running this on a $7 VPS that you don't "own". I don't think switching to a different provider, or running an open one locally would affect the
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by selcuka 7mo ago
It's a race to the bottom. DeepSeek beats all others (single-shot), and it is ~50% cheaper than the cost of local electricity only. > DeepSeek V3.2 Reasoning 86.2% ~$0.002 API, single-shot > ATLAS V3 (pass@1-v(k=3)) 74.6% ~$
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by selcuka 7mo ago
> have made it clear that anyone who has worked on these products should not be hired. That's a bit cruel. Sometimes tech workers don't have the luxury of choosing their workplaces. Also companies pivot. So, say, a cryptocurren
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by selcuka 7mo ago
Not all people do. Also it may be a different version that doesn't support the command line arguments that you use, or it may not have been compiled with the flags that you want. It's just less headache to vendor it.
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by selcuka 7mo ago
Sure, but it also allows your customers to modify the source code you provided, and distribute/sell it. With MIT they can simply relicence it and sell binary-only versions. The open-ness stops at that point.
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by selcuka 7mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031580
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by selcuka 7mo ago
Not trying to sound like a luddite (I don't "vibe code" but I use LLM assistance), but after learning that Claude Code is a React app, I'm not surprised by anything anymore.
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by selcuka 7mo ago
> The app is vibecoded. The author isn't making decisions about these tradeoffs and possibly wasn't aware of the implications of these decisions at all. The I agree, but to be fair this is how I would code it, too. I would have
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by selcuka 7mo ago
Bubba Gump Shrimp Company?
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by selcuka 7mo ago
Text mode with user-definable multi-colour characters was mostly a 8-bit exclusive feature. Another reason C64 used that trick was the hardware scroll feature, which allowed shifting the whole screen between 0 to 7 pixels. It was much faste
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by selcuka 7mo ago
That was made by Jeroen Tel, one of the wizards of the C64 music scene. See this for another example of a technical feat with the SID chip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYnwR16NbPE

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