Don't worry, just a few more months until we get AGI and all of our problems magically disappear as the singularity changes everything forever. Why care for current iterations of nature, when we will all get to…
I agree with you--but just fyi I think "antifragile" is generally used in the opposite to what you mean. If I'm remember correctly Taleb has tried to coin it as a precise word to describe the inverse of your phenomena:…
Tell me you don't understand Taleb without telling me you don't understand Taleb.
The cult in this case is TESCREAL, not everyone working on AI. Last I checked not all the "several thousand skilled workers" in AI subscribe to TESCREAL ideology, although it has been a while since I've been to the Bay.…
Do you see the pattern as new accounts tending to boost or criticis $LLM_PROVIDER? I think I see both... Either way, I agree that HN is quickly becoming more manipulated and low SNR, like the rest of the entire internet.
"Carefully and thoughtfully" is antithetical to the approach to benchmarks these days. Maybe back when this was a scientific endeavor; not now when enormous, enormous amounts of capital are on the line. Along with an…
I am having a similar sentiment change about our industry as well. The more AI's marketing plays purely on fear and shame, the more I want to see it fail. If Anthropic, OpenAI, and the other power players continue in…
Interesting: New account, made approximately 20 minutes after this was posted, to solely call this out as slop. Someone either hates Anthropic, or something fishy is going on here. Honestly I'm pretty tired of…
Completely agreed. It looks like there is a concerted effort to "massage" opinion away from any substantial questioning of the ethics, companies, and people behind the AI push. Some of this inevitabilism is organic of…
The opening line of my parent comment is: "This is impressive, no question." I am impressed, and the chain you are replying to is questioning how much that impression should be tempered. They pay people for expert…
- https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/831818/ai-mercor-handshake-scale-surge-staffing-companies - https://outlier.ai/math/en-us - https://www.opentrain.ai/ - https://www.pin.com/blog/ai-labs-hiring-train-models/ Much…
It is interesting to me how controversial this post is. It has the highest upvotes, and most disagreeing comments, of anything I've typed up on HN. I'll gladly admit I think what these companies are doing is unethical,…
Thank you for engaging with my comment in a kind and authentic way.
I'm not letting the government read my brainwaves. In all seriousness though: My suggestion is that those shepherding the frontier of AI start acting with more transparency, and stop acting in ways that encourage…
This is impressive, no question. Without knowing all this model has been trained on though, it is pretty hard to ascertain the extent to which it arrived to this "on its own". The entire AI industry has been (not so…
HN is enormously influential for programmers and employees within the tech industry. Who happen to be exactly who Anthropic, and other AI companies, desperately need adoption from...
This is such an excellent summary of everything wrong with Silicon Valley's current ethos.
My understanding is that the shortage has more to do with DRAM manufacturer capacity, rather than specifically making chips with high RAM amounts. From TrendForce's analysis: "The laptop market's 2026 shipments have…
Can't imagine this'll help the RAM shortage.
That is what I had heard. Checking now: The way they describe it in their FAQ is that if the price changes, then they will bill you the new price. But I read that as regarding if the primary model provider changes their…
Streaming, caching, and tool calling can get pretty expensive with scale, even when you don't touch inference. Maybe they're doing something clever and are quite profitable.. or maybe they've already taken $40mm from…
If you need to self-host, self-host. Sourcehut is obviously not a replacement for that. But, if not: It is different because Drew DeVault is scathingly anti-AI, and has a history of sticking to strong opinions (for…
Everyone seems to believe OpenRouter isn't subsidizing but, until they publish audited financials, I personally doubt it.
Hate GitHub being down, plus hate AI stealing your code? Join sourcehut--it has worked great for me, and I'd love to see it flourish as a platform.
This is hilarious. Seems like kind of a random image for a model to memorize, but it could be. There is definitely enough empirical validation that shows image models retain lots of original copies in their weights,…
Don't worry, just a few more months until we get AGI and all of our problems magically disappear as the singularity changes everything forever. Why care for current iterations of nature, when we will all get to…
I agree with you--but just fyi I think "antifragile" is generally used in the opposite to what you mean. If I'm remember correctly Taleb has tried to coin it as a precise word to describe the inverse of your phenomena:…
Tell me you don't understand Taleb without telling me you don't understand Taleb.
The cult in this case is TESCREAL, not everyone working on AI. Last I checked not all the "several thousand skilled workers" in AI subscribe to TESCREAL ideology, although it has been a while since I've been to the Bay.…
Do you see the pattern as new accounts tending to boost or criticis $LLM_PROVIDER? I think I see both... Either way, I agree that HN is quickly becoming more manipulated and low SNR, like the rest of the entire internet.
"Carefully and thoughtfully" is antithetical to the approach to benchmarks these days. Maybe back when this was a scientific endeavor; not now when enormous, enormous amounts of capital are on the line. Along with an…
I am having a similar sentiment change about our industry as well. The more AI's marketing plays purely on fear and shame, the more I want to see it fail. If Anthropic, OpenAI, and the other power players continue in…
Interesting: New account, made approximately 20 minutes after this was posted, to solely call this out as slop. Someone either hates Anthropic, or something fishy is going on here. Honestly I'm pretty tired of…
Completely agreed. It looks like there is a concerted effort to "massage" opinion away from any substantial questioning of the ethics, companies, and people behind the AI push. Some of this inevitabilism is organic of…
The opening line of my parent comment is: "This is impressive, no question." I am impressed, and the chain you are replying to is questioning how much that impression should be tempered. They pay people for expert…
- https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/831818/ai-mercor-handshake-scale-surge-staffing-companies - https://outlier.ai/math/en-us - https://www.opentrain.ai/ - https://www.pin.com/blog/ai-labs-hiring-train-models/ Much…
It is interesting to me how controversial this post is. It has the highest upvotes, and most disagreeing comments, of anything I've typed up on HN. I'll gladly admit I think what these companies are doing is unethical,…
Thank you for engaging with my comment in a kind and authentic way.
I'm not letting the government read my brainwaves. In all seriousness though: My suggestion is that those shepherding the frontier of AI start acting with more transparency, and stop acting in ways that encourage…
This is impressive, no question. Without knowing all this model has been trained on though, it is pretty hard to ascertain the extent to which it arrived to this "on its own". The entire AI industry has been (not so…
HN is enormously influential for programmers and employees within the tech industry. Who happen to be exactly who Anthropic, and other AI companies, desperately need adoption from...
This is such an excellent summary of everything wrong with Silicon Valley's current ethos.
My understanding is that the shortage has more to do with DRAM manufacturer capacity, rather than specifically making chips with high RAM amounts. From TrendForce's analysis: "The laptop market's 2026 shipments have…
Can't imagine this'll help the RAM shortage.
That is what I had heard. Checking now: The way they describe it in their FAQ is that if the price changes, then they will bill you the new price. But I read that as regarding if the primary model provider changes their…
Streaming, caching, and tool calling can get pretty expensive with scale, even when you don't touch inference. Maybe they're doing something clever and are quite profitable.. or maybe they've already taken $40mm from…
If you need to self-host, self-host. Sourcehut is obviously not a replacement for that. But, if not: It is different because Drew DeVault is scathingly anti-AI, and has a history of sticking to strong opinions (for…
Everyone seems to believe OpenRouter isn't subsidizing but, until they publish audited financials, I personally doubt it.
Hate GitHub being down, plus hate AI stealing your code? Join sourcehut--it has worked great for me, and I'd love to see it flourish as a platform.
This is hilarious. Seems like kind of a random image for a model to memorize, but it could be. There is definitely enough empirical validation that shows image models retain lots of original copies in their weights,…