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New comment by coeneedell in "Code is run more than read (2023)"

coeneedell — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:23:56 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations?...

Um I’m pretty sure that’s not the only evidence for insect population declines.

New comment by coeneedell in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"

coeneedell — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:20:18 +0000

I’m gonna need a more detailed argument than that.

New comment by coeneedell in "Our Agreement with the Department of War"

coeneedell — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:33:21 +0000

I have the right not to sell poison to someone who I have reason to believe will use it to kill a third party. The idea of simply trusting the patron to be responsible makes sense when the patron is anonymous or a new contact. It’s generally good to assume good intentions in the absence of evidence, I think. If the government is not anonymous enough to get this treatment.

New comment by coeneedell in "White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue""

coeneedell — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:23:04 +0000

Violating the laws of our country while being in a position of public trust reaches a higher standard than “politicians I don’t like” IMHO.

New comment by coeneedell in "Americans Overwhelmingly Support Science, but Some Think the U.S. Is Lagging"

coeneedell — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:54:46 +0000

I don’t see how you can make this claim when the budget balance at universities is extremely tilted towards stem. The budget for the kind of programs you seem to be complaining about come out to percents. Hard to say universities are “more interested” in very very small parts of their budget. What is happening now though is the federal government holds back billions of dollars in medical research grants, punishing, in some cases even killing patients, over “ideological” issues.

New comment by coeneedell in "The Post-American Internet"

coeneedell — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:57:28 +0000

Then you’re not paying attention. The US is currently experiencing the largest wave of mass protests in its history. The corporate media is simply ignoring it. Practically every trump administration action has triggered nation-wide protests.

https://ash.harvard.edu/programs/crowd-counting-consortium/

New comment by coeneedell in "Anthropic: You can't change your Claude account email address"

coeneedell — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:54:28 +0000

You made a throwaway account to say this?

New comment by coeneedell in "Uv overtakes pip in CI"

coeneedell — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 15:41:50 +0000

Yeah I see now I was mixing techniques in two sections of that document

New comment by coeneedell in "Uv overtakes pip in CI"

coeneedell — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 23:04:15 +0000

I haven’t really had this issue. UV’s recommendation is to mount the uv.lock and install those manages package versions to the container’s global pip environment. We haven’t had much issue at my work, where we use this to auto-manage python developer’s execution environments at scale.

New comment by coeneedell in "Which table format do LLMs understand best?"

coeneedell — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:58:04 +0000

“Agents that extract the data” Are we really reinventing data frame readers to have an LLM in the critical path?

New comment by coeneedell in "Which table format do LLMs understand best?"

coeneedell — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:51:56 +0000

Do you measure your results in a repeatable way? In a way where your hypotheses about accuracy are falsifiable? Or do they just “feel” right?

New comment by coeneedell in "Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place"

coeneedell — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 15:34:10 +0000

It’s basically impossible to make a career as a scientist these days without constantly promoting yourself and your work unfortunately. It’s very tiring and makes it difficult to focus on science. This is one of the reasons I changed careers.

New comment by coeneedell in "Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum"

coeneedell — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:05:56 +0000

What do pilots use them for?

New comment by coeneedell in "'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback"

coeneedell — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:07:05 +0000

IIRC the rules system for magic the gathering: Arena is generated by a sort of compiler fed the rules. You might not even need a modern coding assistant to build out something reasonable in a DSL that is perfect, then have people (or an LLM after fine tuning) transforms rule books into the DSL.

New comment by coeneedell in "Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection"

coeneedell — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:17:43 +0000

I think you misunderstood my answer. There is established research showing that deepfake detection models transfer learning within architectures.

New comment by coeneedell in "Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection"

coeneedell — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:15:12 +0000

There are three observations that are helpful to know about here: A: High quality, battle tested architectures are sold via an API and samples are therefore easy to retrieve at scale. B: lower quality, novel architectures are often published on GitHub and can be scaled on budget compute resources. C: Often these models perform well at classifying content generated by architectures similar to those they were trained on, even if that architecture is not identical.

As for actual lead time associated with our actual strategy, that’s probably not something I can talk about publicly. I can say I’m working on making it happen faster.

New comment by coeneedell in "Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection"

coeneedell — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:09:28 +0000

This is definitely a concern, but this is more or less how the cybersecurity space already works. Having dedicated researchers and a good business model helps a lot for keeping detectors like RD on the forefront of capabilities.

New comment by coeneedell in "LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them"

coeneedell — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:53:08 +0000

LeBron James still knows more about how to play basketball than whoever is in the mech suit opposite him.

New comment by coeneedell in "Bispecific antibodies potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern"

coeneedell — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:39:13 +0000

Really difficult to argue that “both sides are equally to blame for the bad discourse” when one side had a mob of terrorists storm the capitol (then pardoned all of them) and the other side held up tiny signs during a speech.

New comment by coeneedell in "Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked"

coeneedell — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:42:03 +0000

This is a chicken-egg problem. Those cities became tier 1 cities over time because of their proactive public transit strategies.