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It's my perspective that open models are closing the gap faster than the frontier is widening it.

I'm not alone in that opinion.

>Because they own the IP and they get to decide the terms of how it’s licensed.

how'd that work out for the rest of IP owners that had their stuff used as training data for use in model creation?

was the material they trained on produced in-house?

I recently had to config my harness to watch for cybersecurity flags from astra and funnel requests to flash when they occur because Astra gets queezy when you talk to it about UDP packets in games.

Works fantastic. Glad there is a more 'uncensored' thing to fall back to when the frontier folk are too sensitive.

>I care about the beauty that one can construct from the human mind, and that was the entire point, at least for me, to practise math.

the result of this originates from the beauty of the human mind, even if the tool used blinds you to the (very human) conquering of a long standing problem.

there absolutely are ways to cache common-routes to fields of commonly requested paths.

(hint : it's not all regex and checksums.)

>I think the „my brain isn’t the same anymore“ sensation is pretty universal.

I disagree with the premise that you're propping up with the exercise example; I disagree that humans are thinking less because of mechanisms available in society.

if anything I think people are thinking more than they ever have, and that has triggered a lot of people into overthinking themselves into a quagmire of inaction , judgement, and group-think.

>I believe skills will eventually be eating by model capabilities

a model capability is never going to fill in an unknowable blank that a custom skill (or whatever equivalent your paradigm supports) can.

a model might have the cleverness to whoami and look through the .ssh folder for keys and evidence of past connections when asked to connect to bob, but a skills file can just easily say "We connect to bob using key Z and user X." so that the operation gets done without all this nonsense needless inference as far into the future as the information is valid for.

a concise information dense skill is going to always dominate on tokens-burnt for any given task that requires insider knowledge. it simply gets rid of the entire investigative phase of work.

Neither the invention date or the mental health terminology have anything to do with the fact that js being commonplace is a privacy and security nightmare -- which was actually the point.

it wasn't timed like a cascade, and it relies on the premise that every single frontier provider is working so efficiently that they spend exactly what they need to provide for their exact market with perfect margins.

I do not believe personally that 1) they can forecast their load that perfectly 2) they chose to remain that inflexible in a world where they are at each others' throats and a single meme can cause bursts of activity.

does that area have a textile manufacturing history?

I ask because i'm only familiar with a thread/yarn bobbin, I wonder if it derived from that.

customers buy furniture options when they order the plane.

related : many flight demonstrators in the past for large passenger planes have had no interior at all aside from the cockpit and ballast kits.

Gemini is great (and fast) at vision tasks. It's a huge benefit to add on to an existing pi/omp harness install just for that feature to use in conjunction with other (stronger) models.

Too bad this anti 3rd party usage stance basically makes that a huge risk for a lot of people, it was the only thing Gemini has been competitive in outside of API cost.

>whim you probably can't even appeal.

not to beat a dead horse in this thread , but that should give the motivation needed to seek alternatives.

all of them?

openrouter and deepseek/glm working fine here.

as is my local qwen.

you're ignoring the point parent was making.

I thought hearing about The Cave on repeat for 30+ years was nauseating until video game metaphor took over for all of philosophy in common media.

you don't know what you got (til it's gone)

>Almost makes you wonder if some of those vulnerabilities are intentionally allowed to exist.

the fact that someone can say that post-Dual_EC_DRBG/project-rubicon/eternalblue/eternalromance exposure boggles the mind.

>It was the first mainstream Wiki-based game. Now, every game does it that way.

the wow wiki was from 04, the minecraft wiki is from 09.

... and wow was very documentation based for people pre-quest-helpers.

What I find interesting is the selectivity of the moral outrage.

On HN, people will casually discuss careers in defense, surveillance, ad-tech, exploitative finance, or fairly predatory forms of Silicon Valley capitalism without immediately being reduced to “antisocial scum.” The conversation is usually allowed to remain about incentives, systems, technical work, or professional history.

But game cheating seems to trigger a much more personal kind of condemnation.

My suspicion is that games occupy an unusually intimate place in people’s lives: they’re leisure, status, competition, nostalgia, and identity all at once. So violating the rules of a game feels less abstract than participating in an industry whose real-world externalities may be vastly larger.

That doesn’t make cheating harmless. It just makes the asymmetry interesting. Somehow writing a RuneScape cheat is treated as evidence of defective character, while doing technically impressive work for institutions or businesses with much more consequential externalities often gets discussed with detached professional curiosity.

Maybe the lack of self-awareness isn’t entirely on the side you think it is.

p.s. i've written a lot about my experiences in grey-market software on HN and I never once did so to brag : I did so because this is a place to share and develop technically interesting anecdotes.

p.s.s. I don't find your opinion on who scum is to be technically interesting.

this was the evolution of most online games, same reason why every action/shooter game that's online at the moment has a mechanic that allows players to see through walls : if players have that mechanic available to them then there is a likely scapegoat to believe killed you rather than realizing that it's a hacker with invisible textures or wall hacks; lessens the work for the developer answering hate mail from people that got killed by hackers.

let's try the entrepreneurial defense that tends to work around here :

"oh no, it's okay -- you see I was selling the hack; I wouldn't have wasted time in that game."

show me how to blend "radical self expression" with "carefully curated guest list" and make it work.

'aging' is a terrible vanity phrase for '65 years old and over.'.

the more interesting result :

> Adults in the sandwich generation were more likely than those who were not sandwiched to say they were very satisfied with their family life (48% vs. 43%). This difference was largest for people in their 40s (49% vs. 38%).

for all the reasons in the book/movie/television show 'The Andromeda Strain'.

>It is a constant, "but my friends can do this", and you have to deal with it all the time.

I don't have children, but I was a child and I know parents.

It's not a given that a child has this type of 2 way negotiation/bargaining power in the home, let alone the freedom to speak their mind towards their parents.

I believe the Microduck camera footage (the ad - reel) about 1000x more than the Mondo one.

>You can't search what you don't even know exists.

that's not really entirely true -- one can google for "fast pathfinding' and stumble upon A-star , all that had to be queried was the intent/desire.

a lot of smaller agentic models and a lot of harnesses live on that premise.

>As OP said, simply providing a link to a Wikipedia article, or a glossary, helps widen the audience beyond "IFYKYK."

it also serves as a minimum barrier to entry for the masses, which isn't always a bad thing.

if you're reading this stuff, and you can't figure out what kind of RAG that the search engine mentioned is being talked about through context clues, or you aren't clever enough to feed context into the search like 'hackers , computers, rag' as a query -- there is a very high probability that the person will have absolutely nothing constructive to add to the conversation that is about the topics they haven't even yet conceptualized or are aware of.

in that case that slight barrier to entry for the conversation will serve as a tool to produce less work for the moderators and derail less threads into uselessness.

(much like this stupid divergence.)

given the audience and the venue I think it's more like going to a restaurant as a customer and then asking the waiter to explain what a sandwich is.

everyone uses github because everyone uses github. it's relying strictly on social effect right now.

I don't disagree with your points, but have you ever considered it strange that you're unable to relate to why someone would want to do something for fun?

you answer your own perplexity by yourself in the same sentence; they do it for fun. I know this because I was a shithead vandal teenager, and I did it for two reasons , 1) fun at the moment and 2) to impress my peers and sex partners.

I think the frustrations of youth are undersold here, and I think the expectation of "You're born, now conform to being a cog in this machine that you had nothing to do with or necessarily any interest in." is also somewhat fundamentally flawed, even if the kids have nice bathrooms due to their own efforts to shit in.

a society that repairs itself and allows a certain level of vandalism is better, I think. It allows for the rebellious youth to get through these psychological phases without much possibility of a misstep that allows them to throw themselves into incarceration for life, it offers leeway for personal growth, and it doesn't pin them into programs that they hate and wouldn't integrate into, anyway.

Tell me, how does the whole 'kids take care of their own bathrooms' thing work out for bullies?

answer: they love it. They don't have to work. Asia hasn't solved the bullying thing yet even with their perceived perfect unitary social one-ness.