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New comment by cshimmin in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

cshimmin — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:38:11 +0000

The 6 is part of 3.6, the model version. 35B parameters, A3B means it's a mixture of experts model with only 3B parameters active in any forward pass.

New comment by cshimmin in "Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense"

cshimmin — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:30:38 +0000

Incidentally, I recently learned the origin of the term. Cyber - short for cybernetic - is from the greek κυβερνήτης (kybernetes), meaning helmsman. The original use of cybernetics is in the context of automated control systems, so steering a rudder was a good analogy. It is also the origin for the name k8s.

New comment by cshimmin in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)"

cshimmin — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:13:35 +0000

Yeah perhaps a better term for Loser is Abstainer. Because the Sociopaths also can certainly lose at the game of maximum capitalist profit. Loser/Abstainer just chooses not to play the game.

New comment by cshimmin in "Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem"

cshimmin — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:08:01 +0000

It's basically just a way for the LLM to lazy-load curated information, tools, and scripts into context. The benefit of making it a "standard" is that future generations of LLMs will be trained on this pattern specifically, and will get quite good at it.

New comment by cshimmin in "Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”"

cshimmin — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:38:16 +0000

Was this after you and two zany friends made a scheme to divert a fraction of a penny from each of your employer's transactions into a bank account that you control? And then you gave it all back but the building burned down and Milton made off with the cash?

New comment by cshimmin in "Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025"

cshimmin — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 14:35:28 +0000

So… your argument is that it’s not counterculture unless it’s mainstream culture? And that one should only credit derivative works once they become mainstream, rather than the original inspiring works because they were too obscure?

I don’t think anyone is trying to “gotcha” you. You’ve just got a bad take.

New comment by cshimmin in "Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale"

cshimmin — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:00:32 +0000

If I understood correctly, the global lock is so that notify events are emitted in order. Would it make sense to have a variant that doesn't make this ordering guarantee if you don't care about it, so that you can "notify" within transactions without locking the whole thing?

New comment by cshimmin in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)"

cshimmin — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 04:12:00 +0000

P-1 AI | Hybrid (SF) and Remote (US) roles | Full time

P-1 is trying to do for physical engineering (mechanical, aerospace, electrical), what Devin, Cursor et al. are doing for the software world. Founded by ex Airbus execs and DARPA program managers, we've just raised a $23 million seed round. Our goal is to solve engineering AGI to enable humans to scale engineering complexity by orders of magnitude.

We have several roles open including:

* Research Scientist - Applied AI

Looking for creative people to innovate on agentic AI systems for specialized engineering domains.

* ML Engineer - Training and AI Infra (ad should post tomorrow)

We're doing a lot of LLM fine-tuning and reinforcement learning. We need someone who can make our GPU cluster sing!

* Software Engineer - AI Evals and Test

We believe it's essential develop rigorous, domain-specific evaluations in order to ensure we're making progress on real world issues -- not just hill-climbing on general purpose benchmarks.

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New comment by cshimmin in "Meta announces Oakley smart glasses"

cshimmin — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:38:20 +0000

some of us have to wear glasses anyway :/

New comment by cshimmin in "Guess I'm a Rationalist Now"

cshimmin — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:32:44 +0000

Thank you for finally making this make sense to me.

New comment by cshimmin in "O3 Turns Pro"

cshimmin — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:05:12 +0000

almost as though the AIs were trained on a corpus of text written by... humans

New comment by cshimmin in "Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book"

cshimmin — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 02:56:50 +0000

It’s not unreasonable to suspect they are doing the same. The article starts with a description of a lawsuit NY Times brought against OpenAI for similar reasons. The big difference is that research presented here is only possible with open weight models. OAI and Anthropic don’t make the base models available, so it’s easier to hide the fact that you’ve used copyrighted material by instruction post-training. And I’m not sure you can get the logprobs for specific tokens from their APIs either (which is what the researchers did to make the figures and come up with a concrete number like 42%)

New comment by cshimmin in "Square Theory"

cshimmin — Tue, 27 May 2025 17:44:37 +0000

My favorite example, which was an honest translation error from a non-native speaker friend: Hand job (he meant to say manual labor)

New comment by cshimmin in "Show HN: Lazy Tetris"

cshimmin — Tue, 27 May 2025 17:36:52 +0000

There's a board-game version of Tetris that I've been playing with my toddler, and is pretty much the same low-stress approach. It's also multiplayer (the next piece everyone must use is decided by drawing cards from a deck). The only shortcoming is that you can't do the maneuver where you slide a piece sideways just as it hits the bottom to slot it into place under another piece. Highly recommend!

New comment by cshimmin in "Show HN: BetterFriend – a CRM just to be a better friend"

cshimmin — Sun, 25 May 2025 17:37:38 +0000

“I've moved around a lot - and I realized I'm losing track of friends across a lot of apps, locations, and time-zones.”

From the first sentence, sounds like this isn’t an option. I can relate.

New comment by cshimmin in "Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears"

cshimmin — Sun, 25 May 2025 17:32:56 +0000

You don’t have to convince me that this is a bad thing for America. Yes it’s exactly how turkey and russia and other failed/failing democracies got to where they are.

New comment by cshimmin in "Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears"

cshimmin — Sun, 25 May 2025 01:38:13 +0000

One thing you need to keep in mind is that in the US things are stacked against people who would want to protest or engage in any kind of activism.

Take a day off work to go to a rally or peaceful protest? “At will” employment means you can be fired the next day, no reason given. You got fired? Virtually all workers in the US get their health insurance through their employer, so now you and your family just lost access to medical care. It’s a really rough job market in many sectors, so it could take a few months to get a job. But since you got fired without cause, you can at least try to claim some unemployment benefits. In California, that maxes out at something like $450 a week.

Meanwhile in France if they want to fire you they have to give like 3 months notice (or pay you out for that time). Healthcare is socialized so no worries there. And if you still can’t find a job in a few months IIRC there’s fairly reasonable social benefits available.

New comment by cshimmin in "Applications of Classical Physics"

cshimmin — Sun, 11 May 2025 21:58:09 +0000

Interesting that they changed the author order to put Kip Thorne first... marketing?

New comment by cshimmin in "Evolving OpenAI's Structure"

cshimmin — Mon, 05 May 2025 19:47:04 +0000

Yep, I mostly interact with these AIs through Cursor. When I want to ask it a question, there's a little dropdown box and I can select openai/anthropic/deepseek whatever model. It's as easy as that to switch.

New comment by cshimmin in "Amazon Doesn't Want You to Know How Much the Trade War Costs"

cshimmin — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:50:02 +0000

Oof, wow. I'm very much in the tech space and I literally had never heard his name before your post.