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YetAnotherNick··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
How is it corrupted by vendors and password manager? Why is password manager being passkey so bad or do you believe password manager should have no role there?

How would it look if it wasn't corrupted?

YetAnotherNick··on Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
What copyright law helps them? They have the least to worry about copyright as even if someone copies the movie script or something it's not like their views will be gone because of that.

I am not against trademark. e.g. Disney has a right on who can sell Mickey Mouse figurine, or Marvel has right over Iron man character and franchise.

YetAnotherNick··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
ChatGPT supports left wing American narrative and according to them Vietnam war was American's fault. Could you try asking people killed due to left wing American ideology.
YetAnotherNick··on Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Do any of these even have match a year old Deepseek 3.1?
YetAnotherNick··on Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)
Is this a sarcasm? I hate them trying to upsell their stuff or lie about the products(almost all of the product marketing in beauty industry is a lie) or oversell their services.

If I were to guess, I think what you mean interacting with them not the money extraction part?

YetAnotherNick··on Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages
Source? The only news I can find about is EU users can uninstall it.
YetAnotherNick··on Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages
Checked what in EU? Do Microsoft not bundle their own browser in Windows in EU?
YetAnotherNick··on IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
Why is density any bit important? All I care about is the price per transistor, and the power usage(mostly gate charge and leakage current?).
YetAnotherNick··on The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A"
So by extension, the question "The first letter of Oman is _", and "O is the first letter of country _" the same for humans?
YetAnotherNick··on VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO
> A 10 year old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLIAoW4QxIs

YetAnotherNick··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
Germany gets pollution from all around due to bad coal, just like they got deaths due to Chernobyl.
YetAnotherNick··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
I tracked down the source once and almost all of the fossil fuel deaths boiled down to deaths due to particulate matter in developing countries. It is highly preventible and only occurs because of no oversight or corruption. If we scale nuclear and have profit maximisation as objective and have no standards in factory, it will have significantly worse fate.
YetAnotherNick··on Stop Using JWTs
There isn't any point in the article or video that describes why it is worse than session token in any way. Personally, I think 5 minute expiry is too long and I think 10-30s expiry is the ideal range, so that one page load requires 1 token.

> Sessions need to have longer lifespans than that.

Why is this JWT issue. JWTs generally have refresh token, which are database validated and we need to just refresh once for 100s of calls in 5 minute.

> "stateless"

Yeah this sounds bad and I don't think people do it.

> JWTs which just store a simple session token are inefficient and less flexible than a regular session cookie, and don't gain you any advantage.

Ok, but it is not worse too.

> The JWT specification itself is not trusted by security experts. This should preclude all usage of them for anything related to security and authentication. The original spec specifically made it possible to create fake tokens, and is likely to contain other mistakes. This article delves deeper into the problems with the JWT (family) specification.

What are they even trying to say?

YetAnotherNick··on GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands
3 Times As Many Europeans Move to the US, than the Other Way Around.

[1]: https://mises.org/mises-wire/3-times-many-europeans-move-us-...

YetAnotherNick··on Formal methods and the future of programming
> TLA+, which has gained quite a lot of popularity

Why do you think that? Outside of just toy examples, and vague examples of "AWS uses that", I don't know of any actual code which has TLA. Most of the things you can do with TLA, you can do with informal math notation quite easily.

Do you have any real world long term usage examples?

YetAnotherNick··on GLM 5.2 Is Out
Most of qwen's model is open source, but qwen max is closed source.

Also if you believe that they are not burning billions for charity, in my thinking making the model closed or restricted is the way to earn return on their investment.

YetAnotherNick··on Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
I have made very falsifiable statement.
YetAnotherNick··on Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute
They are not. The amount of conspiracy in high ranked HN comments for AI companies is insane.
YetAnotherNick··on Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute
I don't think they are most efficient for small GPUs. I think they might only be the one which have capex and certainty required for multimillion dollar purchase of GB200 NVL72 or something of that scale.
YetAnotherNick··on Mathematician solves origami donut efficiency challenge with fewest folds
Not showing what it looks like after folding is criminal.
YetAnotherNick··on Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
I have many diverse friend groups. And HN is lot lot more anti AI then even the worst of the non technical groups I am in. e.g. [1] is so detached from reality and got to front page for multiple days recently. Or [2].

I have never seen a positive story(I am not talking about things like current model, just how positive AI could be like the Sam Altman post) in front page for a long time. Feel free to disprove me.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323101

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259784

YetAnotherNick··on Please Use AI
Why do these kind of articles getting into front page in HN everyday. There is nothing substantive and these are the empty kind of articles that anti AI folks should be against.

No one is forcing you or pressuring you to not call friend to ask for recipe. Even AI would say that you should talk to friends.

YetAnotherNick··on Claude Opus 4.8
Where did 4 order of magnitude even come from? If I were to guess it is just 5x larger based on the pricing, so not even 1 order of magnitude.

> Mythos is not 4 orders of magnitude larger than Opus

Again can you define this. How would 4 order of magnitude better look like?

YetAnotherNick··on Claude Opus 4.8
Lot of the things aren't facts that could be stated. No one can just see the dictionary or translation of words and start talking in that language.

There isn't a clear definition of what is knowledge and what is intelligence. Is being able to write in C knowledge? Is knowing undefined behaviour in that knowledge?

YetAnotherNick··on Claude Opus 4.8
What do you mean by 3-4 orders of magnitude better? Was Einstein 3-4 order of magnitude better than us?

Meaningful in the sense it could find security vulnerabilities in browser and kernel that >99% of the engineers couldn't find.

YetAnotherNick··on Claude Opus 4.8
> It is almost guaranteed that a 60-90B model can outperform current SOTA in coding tasks within 2-3 years.

I am ready to bet against this. Knowledge benchmark like SimpleQA isn't increasing for small models.

> It is far less clear that a 1.2T model will be meaningfully better enough to justify training it.

Well for one, we know for certain there is Mythos which is meaningfully better. And I think there is a lot of juice left to squeeze for Mythos class model.

YetAnotherNick··on Claude Opus 4.8
At least they show competitors in any benchmark, compared to OpenAI which likes to pretend that there isn't any competitor.
YetAnotherNick··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Those numbers don't even track even in the same sentence. If it is $2T/year by the end of 2029, it would be something < $6T cumulative in 3 years.
YetAnotherNick··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
> $5t to $10t to make back in the next 5 years

Wait what? They spent 2 order of magnitude less on hardware.

YetAnotherNick··on Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training
Did you even try to verify your claims. I tested it on few translations on wikipedia articles using [1] and it takes 15-20% more tokens for Norwegian.

English performs the best because there is more data in English and high quality sources are either only in English or there is a good translation in English.

[1]: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

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