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    Comment #49224665

    > This kind of takes makes me cringe. Why don't you go back to LinkedIn? This is not appropriate for HN. Please review the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.h…

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    Comment #49224309

    > I think the point is that it isn’t really a legitimate criticism of the device Tacking on emotional manipulation does not somehow make your point (more) valid. > Not having a fin…

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    Comment #49205736

    > Whataboutism is a word invented to deflect any criticism of western hypocrisy. Factually false. It's a logical fallacy, because you're attempting to manipulate the audience witho…

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    Comment #49205696

    > To everyone who is about to pile on regarding the lack of a fingerprint sensor This is a cheap way to try to subvert legitimate criticism by trying to shame others into not voici…

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    Comment #49196384

    > This is getting silly, I can’t tell whether you are kidding, never launched a Node-based app, or never checked htop. You're very much operating based on emotion rather than reaso…

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    Comment #49196175

    > For the record, I measure acceptable latency in milliseconds. I think it has something to do with my brain. That's a personal preference thing. You're not really being inconvenie…

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    Comment #49191963

    The claims being made here are fallacious in three extremely basic ways. First, "I regularly have 10+ instances of my harness running or idling on my laptop" implicitly asserts tha…

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    Comment #49191918

    >> Being contrarian for the sake of it is not good form. > Why would you say that? Because it's true. > Is it good form to post that someone is being contrarian for the sake of it?…

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    Comment #49191846

    This is factually false. A contrarian is "A person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people, usually because of non…

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    Comment #49191808

    The obvious solution is to have non-public benchmarks. It is exceedingly difficult to train on a proprietary benchmark administered by someone with half a brain (i.e. don't sign up…

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    Comment #49190741

    This is such a ridiculous and shallow cop-out. And it also is completely irrelevant to my challenge to show how proprietary benchmarking can be gamed, because it presumes (absolute…

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    Comment #49182934

    > Lots of praise for Pi in this thread, so I'll offer up a diverging opinion. Being reflexively contarian is not what HN is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45530593 > For…

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    Comment #49182387

    Please imagine that the benchmark runners are not making mistakes of the fourth grade level - which they won't be. If you assume this level of incompetence, then literally everythi…

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    Comment #49182376

    Artificial Analysis was an clearly meant to be an example. I was obviously talking about the ideal scenario of proprietary benchmarking, not how it might be being screwed up in pra…

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    Comment #49178517

    > Are subagents basic? I found them only useful in very few situations. I've found them to be extraordinarily helpful, because they allow me to much more carefully control context …

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    Comment #49178209

    > e.g. sentiment analysis when the user begins cursing at the agent, or checking whether the user continued another session with the generated code, or started a new session with t…

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    Comment #49178193

    > Proprietary or open didn't matter, because with enough attempts at something you can eventually sus out its operations and optimize accordingly (or distill, as we've seen with LL…

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    Comment #49174413

    > Building a new benchmark won’t solve the problem, either. It will if the benchmark is proprietary. If you can't train on it, then it's extremely difficult to game, and if it's ha…

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    Comment #49174371

    It's AI-generated, which is against the guidelines: > Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans.

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    Comment #49169408

    > should not discount that DeepSeek also gets paid in data, which is probably more valuable to them That's agentic feedback loops for training, right? Any more detail on this, such…

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    Comment #49169236

    This doesn't have anything to do with Google or OpenAI. I'm not Ilya Sutskever and it's not 2017, either. I'm not "whining" about anything. You made the claim "The Chinese have act…

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    Comment #49163680

    > You can replicate the architectural innovations, and try them for yourself with your own dataset. That's not related to my comment. My comment was pointing out that you can't ver…

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    Comment #49163315

    That's generally true, but consider this: If the consolidated (stolen) IP of millions of books remains under US LLM company control, then at the very least there's a chance of just…

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    Comment #49158000

    > The Chinese models are mostly very well documented in terms of architecture and training processes/flows, with what is missing to recreate them being the training data. ...and be…

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    Comment #49105479

    The Reddit comments are both older.