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New comment by danmaz74 in "The Slow Formation of Durable Software"

danmaz74 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:50:13 +0000

The trade-off between quality and speed of development has always been a tenet of software engineering. Agentic coding changes the equation a lot, but the equation is still there.

New comment by danmaz74 in "The AI Race Just Got Awkward"

danmaz74 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:41:51 +0000

By that analogy, Anthropic is doing more like 0.000001% of the work of learning all we learned, and writing it down so that Anthropic at al can condense it into their models.

New comment by danmaz74 in "What if AI worked at 1.000.000 tokens per seconds?"

danmaz74 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:17:59 +0000

Higher TPS by itself wouldn't remove the humans in the loop. Humans in the loop aren't there to make things faster, but to make them right - current LLMs can't do that on their own in most real world projects.

On the contrary, I would say that higher TPS would make humans in the loop much more productive, because the current long wait times mean that you lose focus and flow.

New comment by danmaz74 in "US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments"

danmaz74 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:22:56 +0000

A US-led NATO may very well not survive two more years of Trump presidency.

New comment by danmaz74 in "US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments"

danmaz74 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:17:32 +0000

T-bills are offering higher yields, that helps with demand.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'"

danmaz74 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:17:25 +0000

This is pretty a common misconception. Schengen area only refers to the fact that there are no border checks between two countries which are in that area - it's just like an internal movement. This applies to anybody, so for example if a Canadian enters the Schengen area, they can move to any other country within that area without checks and without requiring an additional visa.

What you're thinking about is the "single market" - which, even if the name could deceive, also applies to people, including the right to go work anywhere within the single market for citizens of single market countries. Which is what many brits always hated, as they wanted single market for services and goods, but not for people.

Single market doesn't imply Schengen though - eg I as an EU citizen have the right to move to Ireland for work, but I still need to go through border checks as Ireland is outside of Schengen (because they have free movement with NI).

New comment by danmaz74 in "Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'"

danmaz74 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:44:53 +0000

Schengen looks like a stretch, considering the geographic situation, but free movement is achievable, if both want it.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'"

danmaz74 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:43:12 +0000

As someone who is very much in favor of this, let's remember that for now we're only at the announcements level. Any binding changes in the EU require a long process - if anything else, because there are 27 member states, each of which have veto power. But I'm hopeful that facts will follow these announcements.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier"

danmaz74 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:16:47 +0000

At this stage it's not about how much it's worth, but how much investment is required to reach their goals.

New comment by danmaz74 in "GPT-6 Astra"

danmaz74 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:55:00 +0000

Yes, that could be a way to achieve that. After all, even humans have short term and long term memory, and it looks like sleep is a very important "tick" to connect the two, so it's not all just continuous.

For sure, doing it for all users would be economically unfeasible. I wonder if the labs are experimenting with something similar, though.

New comment by danmaz74 in "GPT-6 Astra"

danmaz74 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:45:35 +0000

I have no idea about timelines, but the current LLM architecture has no mechanism which could emulate online learning in a way similar to how it happens in humans and other animals. As another commenter wrote, there is no neuroplasticity while these systems interact with their environment in normal usage; adding information/constraints to the context partially mitigates this, but it's a completely different mechanism.

The RL phase is the most similar mechanism I know of that comes to my mind, but I'm not sure it could be adapted to fill that gap.

My totally unsubstantiated theory is that this is the missing link towards what most humans would consider AGI. I don't see this as intractable, but it may require some substantial change in architecture.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)"

danmaz74 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:41:58 +0000

Given how important matrix multiplication with a huge number of fixed parameters is becoming, there is an enormous incentive to design much more efficient architectures where this very simple compute is colocated with memory. Inference cost would come down a lot.

New comment by danmaz74 in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

danmaz74 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:41:13 +0000

Yes, but that should be on a case by case basis. Blocking everybody is just an ideologically stupid choice, besides being inhumane.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

danmaz74 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:50:51 +0000

Memory fabs take years to build, they cost a lot and there is no guarantee that the demand will stay as high years in the future. It's all very complex.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

danmaz74 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:18:43 +0000

How long has this war been going on? A year is a totally realistic time frame if you evaluate his words.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

danmaz74 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:48:42 +0000

30-40 per day means between 10,000 and 15,000 Palestinians killed per year. Just think about that number for a minute. I think that you're giving Ben Gvir way too much benefit of the doubt here.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

danmaz74 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:28:30 +0000

And he is a minister in Israel's government, not some rando. Israeli governments and actions in the last many years are simply indefensible.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview"

danmaz74 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:05:48 +0000

I've been using it to vibe code a personal application while I'm using a more "powerful" setup for my main agent assisted coding, and I have to say that it's been very good so far. I just wished that it was easier to hand off some tasks to codex web, like I tried to do today as I was starting a boat trip.

New comment by danmaz74 in "The German Mittelstand"

danmaz74 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:50:59 +0000

Come on, it's not just MBAs. I remember when patio11 (nothing against him personally, it's just the best example I can remember) became a star here on HN by saying that the solution to every problem as a consultant was to hike your rates. The idea of just asking as much money as you can get away with, which was seen as reprehensible by most of the population (my guesstimate, I don't have hard data) until more or less the eighties, Reagan and Thatcher era, has now permeated Western society at most levels, not just MBAs.

PS Chinese companies were (and probably still are, when they can) stealing IP, just like the USA did when it had more IP to steal from Europe than to protect from others. Western companies were very happy to let that happen when in exchange they could make more profits in the short term by using cheap Chinese labor and infrastructure.

New comment by danmaz74 in "US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market"

danmaz74 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:14:49 +0000

> hope their bet on JPY vs EUR pays off in the long-term

Which bet?