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Comment #49116148
> Why do you feel that creating the LLM from scratch is sufficient to trust it If you're doing the training yourself, you at least have a verifiable supply chain and an audit trail…
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Comment #49074760
> I don’t trust hosted LLMs for anything that needs to be private I'd update this to 'I don’t LLMs for anything that needs to be private' What's to prevent the LLM from sliding a h…
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Comment #49021194
To be fair - I'd much rather the name be overwrought but clear (once you know or have the decryption key to translate) than to have to look up an even uglier chart that i have ~no …
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Comment #49020927
i mean; that sounds like a win for GH right?
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Comment #48951612
> but everyone sees the writing on the wall i'm... not sure? This assumes ~stagnation in task-possibility. We've had ~exponential progress for like 3+ years now; I'd have never dre…
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Comment #48674544
and honestly that's my entire point. There is no Good Guy here.
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Comment #48674532
> and were not called the attackers. This is the mental mental leaps I'm struggling with here. Did you not live through that era where they were explicitly and repeatedly called ou…
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Comment #48673843
i mean, i got 5 replies in a minute of asking, and none deny it's an "attack", they simply say "good". HN should be better discourse.
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Comment #48673816
> to give me a cheaper service that fits my use case? Because they aren't giving you a cheaper service that fits your use case. Best Case scenario, it's a trillion-dollar behemoth …
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Comment #48673748
>We are just very pleased with it regardless You don't trust the multi-billion dollar behemoth, but you trust the militarized multi-trillion dollar behemoth to play 'robin hood'? i…
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Comment #48673688
> Distillation is NOT an attack. From the article - > 28.8 million exchanges with Claude through almost 25,000 fraudulent accounts wouldn't that be considered an attack? Not sure w…
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Comment #48635585
> are you seeing large token usage by GLM 5.2 the statement isn't "GLM 5.2 has large token usage", it's "GLM 5.2 has large token usage vs modern Opus". I haven't used it, but this …
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Comment #48498073
I ~never liked kids. I debated having them, then kind of settled on it (was planned). I expected to be be present but... aloof? Like my dad was. Instead, I have buddies . I wouldn'…
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Comment #48475756
I had no idea I would turn into a helicopter. it's kind of crazy how it rewires you.
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Comment #48475673
my youngest is 8, and it still physically hurt to read the intro.
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Comment #48475655
> no company will justify spending $20k/month when they can hire 10 more developers instead. one big enough to license the model and self host on existing infra.
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Comment #48103886
Huh. This surprises me. Digging, it seems it looks like it comes down to interpreted + dynamically typed vs compiled and statically typed. TIL. If i were to start a truly vibe proj…
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Comment #47980886
same. My first real exposure to coding was hacking Drug Wars on my brothers old ti-89 in math class.
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Comment #47761259
didn't msft write an ~entire new file system specifically to scale git to the windows code base? I have fuzzy memories on reading about it.
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Comment #47596426
i assume they simply fixed the status page in 2018.. lol.
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Comment #47394981
Does October 7th count?
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Comment #47394955
I bought my LR Model 3 in 2020 for ~42,000, ~15k cheaper than a v6 3 Series at the time. A v6 5 series is another significant jump up in price/market. > Not sure which car you comp…
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Comment #47371955
> Why did Tesla work initially? Becaues they were ~first to market - and honestly, as a tesla driver for the last 6 years - It's the best car I ever owned (including Toyota, Mazda,…
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Comment #47370115
humans are naturally slimy. Anything you touch for 8h/day will be slimy in turn. Some of us are slimier than others.
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Comment #47294148
> Would the world be safer (or more endangered) if Iran had a nuclear weapon Is there any chance this invasion has ~anything to do with Iran having nuclear weapons?