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New comment by bdbdbdb in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

bdbdbdb — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:02:49 +0000

Harnesses could have solved things like the bathroom remodel, maybe, but the main point about how LLMs don't understand is the key here. You can make chatgpt better at rendering 3d scenes but you can't make it think, not really. Reasoning was only ever a feedback loop.

Anyone who has worked with LLMs has experienced all the issues he talks about here, we're either optimistic and imagine they'll be fixed, or we're pessimistic and we say they are inherent to the nature of the technology and will never be fixed

New comment by bdbdbdb in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

bdbdbdb — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:41:26 +0000

Well we've already found out because Israel broke it. With Gaza they've gotten used to very flexible ceasefires where you can still bomb the other side repeatedly and the ceasefire "holds". Iran has shown that this will not work with them, and they closed the strait again

New comment by bdbdbdb in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

bdbdbdb — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:13:20 +0000

This thing will absolutely see the light of day because this is all hype toward a release.

And even if it weren't, they seem to imply that Mythos will find a way, like it's dinosaurs in Jurassic park or something

New comment by bdbdbdb in "Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal"

bdbdbdb — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:49:12 +0000

They left "obeying the law" behind a long, long time ago

New comment by bdbdbdb in "Trump says a 'whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran deal isn't reached"

bdbdbdb — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:09:09 +0000

Maybe another football organisation should give him a peace prize

New comment by bdbdbdb in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

bdbdbdb — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:25:00 +0000

I don't understand

New comment by bdbdbdb in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

bdbdbdb — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:15:53 +0000

> Neither Biden nor Harris were sensible candidates.

I just can't fathom how you can think this. How 25% of your country can think this. How 50% thought it wasn't worth voting for either.

America has lost its marbles

New comment by bdbdbdb in "Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs"

bdbdbdb — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:21:05 +0000

Dumb question - and I'm not trying diminish the achievement here, I just genuinely don't understand:

Why would people want to spend $200 to train a coding model when there are free coding models?

New comment by bdbdbdb in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

bdbdbdb — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:15:37 +0000

I was also very confused, but after some reading I figured it out.

> In an interview with NBC News from space, NASA astronaut Christina Koch described seeing the moon out the window of the Orion capsule and realizing that it looked different from what she was accustomed to on Earth.

> “The darker parts just aren’t quite in the right place,” she said. “And something about you senses that is not the moon that I’m used to seeing.”

They are not on the other side of the moon seeing the full dark side, but from their position they're seeing the moon at a slight angle, meaning that SOME of what they now see is "the dark side", or the part we can never see from earth since the same side always faces us

New comment by bdbdbdb in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

bdbdbdb — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:05:11 +0000

> Lots of human adults can do complex abstract thinking but when you ask them to count it's "one... two... three... five... wait I got lost".

LOL, an AI wrote this

New comment by bdbdbdb in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

bdbdbdb — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:03:12 +0000

> Random citizens are at such an information disadvantage that I think it would be impossible to have an informed opinion as an outsider on the reasoning.

Are you an insider then?

New comment by bdbdbdb in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

bdbdbdb — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:01:18 +0000

Translation:

It joke. No yell at me. It kind of work?

New comment by bdbdbdb in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

bdbdbdb — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:53:26 +0000

This. We all thought Trump was a crazy accident but the fact that he almost beat Biden, and then did beat Harris, means we just can't trust Americans to put sensible people in charge. Assuming a democrat takes the office next, they will inherit an economy in tatters, a failing infrastructure and a broken strategic alliance. They'll have four years to try to fix all of that while the republicans blame them for everything they've inherited, and four years from that the American people will have largely forgotten how Trump and his minions trailed dog shit all through the house and they'll vote for the next right wing dick that's been groomed for the job - probably Pete Hegseth, or Don Jr, or Mark Wayne Mullin

New comment by bdbdbdb in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

bdbdbdb — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:02:20 +0000

We always talk about what these powerful people "have done", as if it's all over. Surely Epstein's death did not bring about the end of billionaire sex trafficking? Someone stepped in. These guys are still raping people on private planes and private islands

New comment by bdbdbdb in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

bdbdbdb — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:57:48 +0000

Why did he start the war?

New comment by bdbdbdb in "Show HN: EU Leadership – Live API data site comparing Europe to the world"

bdbdbdb — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:51:22 +0000

The EU leadership I'm most proud of at this moment is our collective unwillingness to back up the US over the Iran war. I just wish we'd stood up to them sooner.

New comment by bdbdbdb in "Show HN: EU Leadership – Live API data site comparing Europe to the world"

bdbdbdb — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:46:22 +0000

"Oh sure the EU is great now, but wait a few years" fox news, probably

New comment by bdbdbdb in "Show HN: Sundial – a new way to look at a weather forecast"

bdbdbdb — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:41:29 +0000

I absolutely love this, it's beautiful. Kudos for the truly original ideas here in the UI. I love to see radial design patterns - everything is boring grids and rows and columns

New comment by bdbdbdb in "$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks"

bdbdbdb — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:22:40 +0000

This is the kind of innovation I love to see. The big AI companies days are numbered if we can have the same quality in house

New comment by bdbdbdb in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

bdbdbdb — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:28:31 +0000

I guess when it can't be tripped up by simple things like multiplying numbers, counting to 100 sequentially or counting letters in a string without writing a python program, then I might believe it.

Also no matter how many math problems it solves it still gets lost in a codebase