Hacker News: Ifkaluva

New comment by Ifkaluva in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

Ifkaluva — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:52:24 +0000

I am also on the job market, but as a Senior. Pro-tip: ask them this question before they ask you. “One quick question I have about the company culture, …”

New comment by Ifkaluva in "Open source AI must win"

Ifkaluva — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:36:38 +0000

You might be describing EleutherAI

New comment by Ifkaluva in "CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers"

Ifkaluva — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:09:48 +0000

I hope this finally works out. I remember almost exactly ten years ago I got excited about one of these proposed cancer cures, tried to talk about it at lunch with my coworkers, and they laughed at me for believing.

New comment by Ifkaluva in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

Ifkaluva — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:38:57 +0000

> so what may be happening is that bosses see that output is at 80% (productivity down!) but workers see that they can give that 80% output with 40% effort (productivity up!).

So why is it that the bosses are the ones that are so enthusiastic about adoption?

New comment by Ifkaluva in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

Ifkaluva — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:11:36 +0000

Not just “a startup”! Also, famously, Meta, with their famous AI usage dashboards

New comment by Ifkaluva in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

Ifkaluva — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:02:08 +0000

I guess an uncharitable way to read this might be “the ML engineers/scientists want to automate all of the jobs except their own.”

New comment by Ifkaluva in "India's surprise baby bust"

Ifkaluva — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:31:08 +0000

I’ve heard this theory before. I think in the medium term it will have some effect, but a lot of these ultra religious groups have high attrition.

In the long run, evolution will have to do the job properly and actually genetically make us want more kids.

New comment by Ifkaluva in "India's surprise baby bust"

Ifkaluva — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:26:06 +0000

I’m going to try to win the award for the most controversial theory on this thread.

The real reason we are having population shrinkage is because evolution did a crappy job. It didn’t tune us to want to have kids, it tuned us to want to have sex, and it linked to sex to reproduction.

As we got smarter, and eventually develop contraception, we are essentially reward hacking evolution’s crude hack.

What’s going to happen over the next few decades is that a few variants here and there are going to spread throughout the population that actually lead to more kids, not just through desire for sex. It will be a population crash, followed by a recovery.

New comment by Ifkaluva in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

Ifkaluva — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:46:22 +0000

I think TI calculators are not a source of distractions the way a phone or a laptop is

New comment by Ifkaluva in "Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T"

Ifkaluva — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:49:22 +0000

You’d think so, but I haven’t seen it explicitly discussed in their papers, and nobody else that I know of trains on that many tokens

New comment by Ifkaluva in "Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T"

Ifkaluva — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:40:11 +0000

Liquid does amazing work, but I kinda feel like they are overtraining their models. 38T tokens seems like a lot for an 8B model

New comment by Ifkaluva in "Can we have the day off?"

Ifkaluva — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:48:47 +0000

I would love to, but in some companies these days that’s really not an option

New comment by Ifkaluva in "Can we have the day off?"

Ifkaluva — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:14:56 +0000

I like vibe coding for personal projects where the code is a throwaway, but I hate vibecoding at work when I later have to stake my reputation in validity of results, as well as maintain the resulting implementation.

New comment by Ifkaluva in "Can we have the day off?"

Ifkaluva — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:09:47 +0000

It’s the healthcare for me.

New comment by Ifkaluva in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

Ifkaluva — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:47:55 +0000

And then it wants to edit some random upstream file that is not relevant to the task at hand and we should not edit it, so you tell it “and only edit the files affected by this commit”, and wait two more minutes.

And now it deletes a test, so you tell it “and don’t delete any tests”, and wait two more minutes.

And now it adds logic to disable the core functionality, so now you tell it “and don’t disable the core functionality”, and wait two more minutes.

Etc

New comment by Ifkaluva in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

Ifkaluva — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:39:50 +0000

They didn’t have showers, but you may recall Archimides shouted “Eureka!” after a famous bath time discovery

New comment by Ifkaluva in "Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)"

Ifkaluva — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:27:58 +0000

Would you happen to have more information about this online group? Would love to join it!

New comment by Ifkaluva in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

Ifkaluva — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:50:25 +0000

He may not be a brilliant researcher, but he is a brilliant teacher. I am glad he is joining Anthropic so he can stay up to date with the next round of things that he will teach :)

New comment by Ifkaluva in "Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz"

Ifkaluva — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:20:31 +0000

Well whatever debt they took on to refill it would have been paid off quickly.

Buy at $60, start a war with Iran, sell at the new price, profit.

I guess the reason they didn’t do this is they thought Iran would fold quickly and oil would become even cheaper than $60

New comment by Ifkaluva in "The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam"

Ifkaluva — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:53:34 +0000

“Content”