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matkoniecz

4,122 karma · joined June 21, 2019

Feel free to ask me about OSM mapping ( best at https://www.openstreetmap.org/message/new/Mateusz%20Konieczny - requires OSM account but it is needed for mapping anyway, please note that you write based on HN profile )

see also https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contact_channels https://community.osm.be/ for more standard communication channels

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matkoniecz··on United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers
> Doorman fallacy strikes again.

In am not getting why this would be the name of such claim

maybe I am not elite and rich or infirm enough - but I do not get why I would pay extra for doorman or similar servants.

matkoniecz··on United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers
> Which is actually worse

why?

given "Airline tickets were more expensive"

matkoniecz··on Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data
What is source of this claim?

(observed error rate for me is much much much lower than 1/10)

matkoniecz··on Tracking Anthropic-discovered vulnerabilities
> If the concern is cost, Anthropic offers a Claude for OSS program.

thanks! It turns out that I am apparently qualifying for it and I was unaware

lets see whether Anthropic agrees

matkoniecz··on Stable URLs for 42,000 Huts and Peaks
note: OSM id are not promised to be perfectly stable

for example something mapped as a node may be remapped as an area (closed way)

matkoniecz··on Fossil CO2 emissions decrease by 0.4% in 2026
Pakistan had country-wide blackout in 2023 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Pakistan_blackout ) and it was part of pattern.

In such situation own supply of power is much more valuable.

And I bet that it was not government run build-out, unless you count failing to have consistently working power grid.

matkoniecz··on Fossil CO2 emissions decrease in 2026
> There is no excuse for every government in the world to not be covering every bit of rooftop or scrap land with solar.

is it intentional hyperbole and you mean something else, or are you making exactly this kind of claim?

because there are many many caveats to add here (even if we go with plan that specifically governments should be doing it)

For start: land with legitimate environmental protection, land where connecting power would be ruinously expensive, area likely to be destroyed by floods and landslides or scheduled to be overbuilt and so on...

matkoniecz··on Queens Public library under ransomware attack e-borrowing suspended
> Not sure if you can escalate to a sales rep to get a personalized quote or non-profit discount from there.

some groups offer it (not out of goodness: rather on price discrimination grounds)

matkoniecz··on Upload Your RAM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie#Lying_by_omission
matkoniecz··on Humans will never again create a project quite like Wikipedia
It failed less than communism and feudalism. Which other alternatives you see?
matkoniecz··on Humans will never again create a project quite like Wikipedia
> Even if there was no currently "known" alternative, the proper course of action is to research that and find one?

please test it properly before putting it in production, communism went poorly

> Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

note that I am not arguing that better system is impossible - that would be silly

but "destroy capitalism" attempts went remarkably badly so far

matkoniecz··on Humans will never again create a project quite like Wikipedia
> The problem isn't "corporations", it's capitalism.

well, other systems were tried and were worse (feudalism, communism etc)

in practice capitalism with some regulations is better than known alternatives

> Contributing to open source software or commons like Wikipedia definitely is questionable

what is not questionable then?

matkoniecz··on Humans will never again create a project like Wikipedia
> Good AI contributions are better than lazy crap or trolling from humans, right?

but worse than no contributions at all

> we'll just have to converge on the idea that quality is what matters.

for me it is not changed at all, just that volume of spam increased and it is now harder to detect

matkoniecz··on Humans will never again create a project quite like Wikipedia
Well run soup kitchens ban buying in bulk
matkoniecz··on Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3
> You can buy a GPU that can run Qwen 3.8 flash next for about 9 months worth of the highest tier Claude Code subscription.

which GPU?

also, so, 90 months of my subscription? And I also would need to buy new RAM and other parts of a computer?

matkoniecz··on Upload Your RAM
Yes. And pretending that other parts I mentioned do not matter is exactly lying by omission
matkoniecz··on GitHub Down Again?
Why it is liability?
matkoniecz··on GitHub Down Again?
Why you think that code from Codeberg is not used to train LLMs?

(You are not required to agree for such use in tos, but it will be used anyway)

(Not by Codeberg operators, to be clear)

matkoniecz··on Upload Your RAM
In which way?
matkoniecz··on Upload Your RAM
We are not getting this level of scarcity yet, so that mechanism (life of death desperation of rich players) is not entering picture yet.

Also, it is not likely to happen any time soon.

We have less rich gamers deciding to not upgrade their PCs at most.

matkoniecz··on Upload Your RAM
OPEC that in an equivalent situation was desperately trying to increase oil production, to discourage looking for alternatives to oil? This OPEC?
matkoniecz··on Upload Your RAM
Altman is still lying by omission[0] by implicating that various important costs are not real

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50400515 for longer comment on that

And "if all current AI users" is a strawman, people using free chatgpt once or twice a day are not going to buy RAM to run own LLMs.

matkoniecz··on Upload Your RAM
> and are now not scaling up production according to demand

1) boom and bust cycle in memory industry is a repeated problem

2) companies are not obligated to scale up

> and is being taken out of context

no it is not - Altman is lying by omission[0] by implicating that various important costs are not real

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50400515 for longer comment on that

matkoniecz··on What do the next 4000 emoji look like?
♠ or ⬅ or ° are not emoji, right?
matkoniecz··on What do the next 4000 emoji look like?
> Regardless, let's discuss the real issue here: Hacker News should support emoji

it should not, in my opinion

matkoniecz··on Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T
he said nothing about being happy
matkoniecz··on Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T
> At least in a rationed system that allocates supply fairly

if you assume crazy fairy land that is not going to happen, then you can assume cheap and plentiful RAM for better results

matkoniecz··on September in Servo: <progress>, rounded rectangles, and more
Depends on a project, some are ideologically opposed to LLMs and would consider it as a betrayal to do this.
matkoniecz··on Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T
> Altman was simply making an accurate observation about DRAM

no, he was lying by omission

"it's quite terrible" only if you ignore all the problems with plans they promote and measure it only in metrics Altman wants to measure, as they support his plans

For start, Altman would charge as much as possible to optimize profits, so very significant part of efficiency increase would become profits of "Open"AI.

As another obvious problem: handing so much power to a specific company has own costs.

There are so many problems here with this specific part - starting from their power dictating how can you use it, access to your data. And that part is getting worse for anyone not planning to obey all decisions coming from USA. We have already seen export controls being invoked.

But wider, if you think that outsourcing thinking to a specific SaaS has no costs, beyond current subscription costs, then I have several thousands of bridges for sale.

matkoniecz··on Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T
Claude also has higher bound. Once it proposed running 16 concurrent subagents and it went through 5h limit (and substantial part of weekly) in minutes.

Overall it would go through weekly usage within 40 minutes, if not for 5h session limit.

Running on 10000 computers will just hit all the limits at once.

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