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by torginus 3mo ago
Yes, but how much would be a static Sonnet 3.5 be worth today? Its just about 2 years old. I'm not even going to ask about 3yo models like GPT4.
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by torginus 3mo ago
Upper bound of AI progress - recursive self improvement. In this case AI will be responsible for building better models, making people who own datacenters the winners. Anthropic/OAI is cooked. Lower bound of AI progress - plateau. Prog
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by torginus 3mo ago
Eh, I take what I can get. A lawyer doesn't argue that his client is innocent (though that might be tha case), because of some innate sense of justice, but because he gets to paid so.
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by torginus 3mo ago
Just because a guy wears a fitted suit doesn't mean he'll be good at handling your money. Likewise if you buy tens of thousands of euros worth of incredibly overbuilt teutonic industrial equipment in matching colors and snap-in ca
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by torginus 3mo ago
The problem with super smart people is that they often succeed without having to or bothering to understand even the most basic common sense techinques. I had a friend who told me a story, that when he was a kid, he found a copy of the Borl
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by torginus 3mo ago
I cannot make sense of a single word of this essay. What sort of insight am I missing? There's not a peep here about write barriers, futexes, OS schedulers, critical paths and/or how they relate to Zen or whatever. This article ca
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by torginus 3mo ago
Yeah, it sounds more like they found 19 regressions after the migration so far.
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by torginus 3mo ago
> 4. One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes: rather than a market product, https://www.theregister.com/software/2000/07/31&#
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by torginus 3mo ago
I think it's safe to assume the Chinese models will try to steal your corporate IP and business know-how. It's also safe to assume US models will do that too.
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by torginus 3mo ago
I've been trying Chinese models, like GLM 5.2, as substitutes for Claude or GPT5.X, and my experience is that they underperformed them in real world metrics like prompt adherence, hallucination or code quality, even though they benchma
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by torginus 3mo ago
Afaik, for a MoE model, total size doesn't matter that much for how heavy it is to run, the size and number of active experts at any given time does. Of course, you still have to store the whole model in fast memory, so there's th
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by torginus 3mo ago
I mean, lots of things have been developed in European countries, and said countries either never commercialized the technology well enough, or lost leadership. I'm sure that prior to WW2, Brits would've treated the idea that they
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by torginus 3mo ago
From what I can tell, China has a capitalism problem, not an industrial wealth problem - they could house every one of their citizens in a decent apartment and give them gadgets and a car to drive, yet half the country is third-world poor s
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by torginus 3mo ago
Sorry, but I have a thought that's off topic: If Kimi is good enough to improve itself, what's preventing someone who owns a big datacenter and nothing else, to just run Kimi to do AI research, thereby rendering the frontier labs
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by torginus 3mo ago
Opus/Sol/Fable are valuable because of their reasoning and coding ability, not their bedside manners. While still not okay, I suspect the latter is what gets stolen by Chinese distillation (and some evidence suggest this happens t
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by torginus 3mo ago
This is good and interesting research, and I think it proves Kimi was trained on Claude's outputs, but only for English conversation and essays. Their style is similar, which is tbh somewhat expected for a Chinese company - I don'
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by torginus 3mo ago
This. A decade ago, during my summer internship in the first year of college, I got put on a hardware project, basically designing a remote monitoring device for a telco. I wrote the software, and my friend designed the PCB for the digital
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by torginus 3mo ago
There has recently been a post about the Cyberpunk genre here on HN. I find the parallels between that and the AGI hype noteworthy. Authors in the 80s imagined a dark and dystopian future, driven mainly by the growth of computer technology.
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by torginus 3mo ago
'Open weight' is roughly analogous to 'freeware' - software that's free to use, but closed source. We haven't seen a third category - 'paid weight' - software where you pay for the weights, but you ke
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by torginus 3mo ago
Can't you do infinity read replicas? I don't think the write load on lobster.rs is severe - maybe 1 comment/sec, with an acceptable replication delay of 60 sec? If you can do that, you can have infinity instances.
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by torginus 3mo ago
> A lot of the ways in which the zig compiler works doesn't use pointers, it uses indices. This stuff is easier to write as safe code, not less easy. I respectfully disagree. This is only true if you view malloc as qualitatively dif
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by torginus 3mo ago
First, this is legal: if err := do_something() ;err != nil { return nil, err } Not horrible imo. But I've found that verbose error handling and explicit errors made me consider which parts of the code can re
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by torginus 3mo ago
Considering the Chinese are one of the major contributors to AI, I would think this was a solved problem by now, at least in some other CLI based coding agent.
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by torginus 3mo ago
If you look at the list of contributors, you see Claude and Copilot, but on the other hand, You can see a huge, functional codebase going back to as far as 2024, so its safe to say its not vibecoded. https://github.com/Davi
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by torginus 3mo ago
I don't find Go especially verbose - in fact, due to the economy of syntax, Go code without the usual syntax sugar features ends up similar in length to other curly brace languages. I tested this with C# and Typescript, where I migrate
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by torginus 3mo ago
I think people who want to project a 'cracked' (god I hate that word) agentic engineer vibe. But my experience with basically everyone in my immediate vicinity, is that people have no respect or awe for the 'tell the robot to
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by torginus 3mo ago
They could've at least made something custom, and claim it was designed with help from GPT 5.6 The price for that HW basically implies it either has sizeable margins or is made with artisan methods.
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by torginus 3mo ago
My (non-motivated, don't have NASDAQ or SpaceX) take is that isn't this how these funds are supposed to behave? You buy NASDAQ if you can take risk, S&P otherwise. If you check out what companies are in the NASDAQ, it's
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by torginus 3mo ago
Still wild to name a sandboxing software after one of the most infamous Soviet Gulags in history.
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by torginus 3mo ago
I asked Claude Code to rawdog a change in a frontend repo, no way to run tests. It created some private puppeteer instance in some scratch directory, installed Chrome, wrote tests, ran them, and then reported success. None of which I'd

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