Hacker News: Me1000

New comment by Me1000 in "Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide"

Me1000 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:56:55 +0000

Wouldn’t it be better to use a grammar in the token sampler? Tuning is fine, but doesn’t guarantee a syntactical correct structured output. But if the sampler is grammar aware it could.

New comment by Me1000 in "Why Objective-C"

Me1000 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:42:19 +0000

You can send messages to null, sendings messages to a deallocated pointer is going to be a bad time.

New comment by Me1000 in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

Me1000 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:51:02 +0000

Then you go to another supplier. But any company with proper counsel will tell them the same thing: don't break the law, which is exactly what they're trying to coerce Anthropic into doing. DoD requests do not supersede the law.

New comment by Me1000 in "U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025"

Me1000 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:44:20 +0000

ADP is reporting only 22,000: https://adpemploymentreport.com

New comment by Me1000 in "Crafting Interpreters"

Me1000 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:16:31 +0000

You should read the book! :)

New comment by Me1000 in "Americans overestimate how many social media users post harmful content"

Me1000 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:12:50 +0000

The premise of this study is a bit misguided, imho. I have absolutely no idea how many people _post_ harmful content. But we have a lot of data that suggests a _lot_ of people consume harmful content.

Most users don't post much of anything at all on most social media platforms.

New comment by Me1000 in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

Me1000 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:06:47 +0000

Maybe it's a lack of imagination on my part, but how do spammers abuse self-hosted runners?

New comment by Me1000 in "Orion 1.0"

Me1000 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:18:49 +0000

Hi! Congratulations on the launch. Is your intention to ship using WebKit on Window and Linux too?

New comment by Me1000 in "What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality"

Me1000 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:08:01 +0000

Claude has a sycophancy problem too. I actually ended up canceling my subscription because I got sick of being "absolutely right" about everything.

New comment by Me1000 in "U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD""

Me1000 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 20:00:36 +0000

That link says "Content Unavailable" for me, possibly region locked? I changed the "mx" in your link to "us" but same error.

New comment by Me1000 in "U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD""

Me1000 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:54:52 +0000

This is an old relatively low budget TV movie, it's not on TV+ (which I subscribe to). Nor can you rent it on iTunes, it doesn't even show up when you search for it. Same for Prime Video, etc.

New comment by Me1000 in "U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD""

Me1000 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:54:12 +0000

Not OP, but yes believe it or not it's impossible to find certain movies anywhere other than pirating them. One example is "Pirates of Silicon Valley", I watched it when I was young and recently wanted to watch it again. I pay for basically all the streaming services, I'm would have been happy to rent it from any service at all. I spent several hours trying to find a way to pay to watch it and never could.

New comment by Me1000 in "All BART trains were stopped due to ‘computer networking problem’"

Me1000 — Sat, 10 May 2025 02:12:15 +0000

I'm pretty sure it's just being used as a turn of phrase here. Under the bridge means commuters are riding BART, over the bridge means they're driving.

New comment by Me1000 in "Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster"

Me1000 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 06:27:13 +0000

There’s an important distinction between the open weight model itself and the deepseek app. The hosted model has a filter, the open weight does not.

New comment by Me1000 in "FBI arrests judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities"

Me1000 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:16:43 +0000

Yet it's interesting how we put the blame and punishment on the people being taken advantage of, and not the employers who are exploiting them. If both parties are breaking the law shouldn't we at the very least ensure that the business owner who is exploiting any number of workers is held to the same standard as an undocumented person whose only crime was not having the proper paperwork?

New comment by Me1000 in "BitNet b1.58 2B4T Technical Report"

Me1000 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:46:55 +0000

This is a technology demo, not a model you'd want to use. Because Bitnet models are only average 1.58 bits per weight you'd expect to need the model to be much larger than your fp8/fp16 counterparts in terms of parameter count. Plus this is only a 2 billion parameter model in the first place, even fp16 2B parameter models generally perform pretty poorly.

New comment by Me1000 in "Reasoning models don't always say what they think"

Me1000 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:21:44 +0000

I'm also confused by that, but it could just be the model being agreeable. I've seen multiple examples posted online though where it's fairly clear that the COT output is not included in subsequent turns. I don't believe Anthropic is public about it (could be wrong), but I know that the Qwen team specifically recommend against including COT tokensfrom previous inferences.

New comment by Me1000 in "NASA to launch space observatory that will map 450M galaxies"

Me1000 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:01:29 +0000

This administration under through Elon is pushing to cut 50% of NASA's science funding. Mapping galaxies we'll never visit is a purely scientific endeavor. Trump seems to care more about military expansion or for lack of a better term more "masculine" expansion of space. The science stuff is not interesting to him, and I'm honestly not sure I think Musk cares about it that much anymore either.

New comment by Me1000 in "Ozempic is causing trouble on Savile Row"

Me1000 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:07:19 +0000

I'm not a hater (or OP), but I think it's because GLP-1s are often talked about as if they're a kind of miracle drug. And it's very rare that drugs don't have some kind of side effects, especially after long term use. They might not even be universal, and we might not know what they are for years.

Yes, I understand there's an obesity epidemic, I also understand that GLP-1 drugs can have benefits outside of overeating. But with any drug, it's worth being thoughtful about its use.

New comment by Me1000 in "DeepSeek-R1"

Me1000 — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:34:12 +0000

Although I haven’t used these new models. The censorship you describe hasn’t historically been baked into the models as far as I’ve seen. It exists solely as a filter on the hosted version. IOW it’s doing exactly what Gemini does when you ask it an election related question: it just refuses to send it to the model and gives you back a canned response.