Hacker News: dcl

New comment by dcl in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

dcl — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:01:21 +0000

A CPU only benchmark for typical data-science and ML tasks that I can run on a few different systems that will help me figure out what the next system I should buy is. I have no idea what Apple silicon is like for these tasks.

New comment by dcl in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

dcl — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:19:15 +0000

Deliberately producing misaligned and deceitful AI systems now. Great.

New comment by dcl in "Ferrari Luce"

dcl — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:57:31 +0000

Ferrari uses cars like this to test loyalty. If you want to get 'on the list' buying cars like this is one of the ways to do it, especially if you haven't spent considerable $ with them before.

New comment by dcl in "Ferrari Luce"

dcl — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:50:50 +0000

imagine no more: https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6a14fc70630c8191bedf8e06913f4d34

New comment by dcl in "Ferrari Luce"

dcl — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:46:47 +0000

This. If you want to get on the list to buy the new supercars, you're going to have to start here. And you better add some expensive options.

New comment by dcl in "Ferrari Luce"

dcl — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:34:08 +0000

This is the car you will need to buy to get on the list to buy the Ferrari you kind of want - but not the Ferrari you really, really want, that will cost you a lot more.

New comment by dcl in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

dcl — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:22:55 +0000

Anyone else think Britain is going to eject the Royal Family within 100 years?

New comment by dcl in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

dcl — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 03:34:59 +0000

Because it's a 4gb download?

New comment by dcl in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

dcl — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:58:41 +0000

S&P gets you dividends though, so the interpretation of that chart is tricky. Holding the S&P, you can still do better than holding gold, even when the GOLD/S&P ratio is positive.

New comment by dcl in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

dcl — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:23:47 +0000

How much am I missing out by using the standard launcher my Pixel comes with? I haven't played with different launchers since the Nexus 4 and Android 2/3 (I think).

New comment by dcl in "New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect"

dcl — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 04:51:10 +0000

Are you getting confused with the photoelectric effect experiment?

New comment by dcl in "Marble: A Multimodal World Model"

dcl — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 03:16:40 +0000

What happens when you prompt one of these kind of models with de_dust? Will it autocomplete the rest of the map?

edit: Just tried it and it doesn't, but it does a good job of creating something like a CS map.

New comment by dcl in "A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it"

dcl — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:57:52 +0000

Is this why I cannot seem to fine tune YOLO models on a Apple M4? The loss hits nan after a few batches. Same code using Windows PC and Google Colab CPU and GPU is fine...

New comment by dcl in "Generalized K-Means Clustering"

dcl — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:44:32 +0000

At a previous $dayjob at a very large financial institution, it's however many clusters are present in the strategy that was agreed to by the exec team and their highly paid consultants.

You find that many clusters and shoehorn the consultant provided categories on to the k clusters you obtain.

New comment by dcl in "DeepSeek OCR"

dcl — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:16:09 +0000

Is there any 'small' OCR models around?

Say I only care about reading serial numbers from photos in a manufacturing process, not whole document parsing. Using a 3B param model to do this seems like a bit of overkill...

New comment by dcl in "The Burrows-Wheeler Transform"

dcl — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 04:08:11 +0000

A friend doing bioinformatics told me about this at uni, it was definitely one of those "i can't believe this is doable" sort of things.

New comment by dcl in "Open models by OpenAI"

dcl — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:52:40 +0000

Anyone tried the 20B param model on a mac with 24gb of ram?

New comment by dcl in "Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding"

dcl — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 04:36:27 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation for the reference

New comment by dcl in "How large are large language models?"

dcl — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:30:05 +0000

ML algorithms are compression algorithms, the trained models are compressed data.

New comment by dcl in "Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds"

dcl — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:50:10 +0000

Ahh rightio. That's a shame.