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New comment by elisbce in "Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample"

elisbce — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:32:22 +0000

I don't think you even understand the problem. The determinant needs to be a non-zero constant AND you need to prove that particular map is not globally injective, meaning you have to find at least two points mapping to the same value. Of course it looks easy when someone shows you the counterexample.

New comment by elisbce in "Sophon PFG-1: a monolithic-3D AI ASIC with 330 GB of on-die DRAM and no HBM"

elisbce — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:57:20 +0000

What a great bullshit detector signal it is if someone's involved in the DAOs and NFT stuff. Don't waste your time on a fake AI-generated one-man shell company. The company had like 3 investments since 2017, first $2.5k from school startup grant in 2017, and two more from incubator programs in 2023 and 2024, for "augmented reality". And now you are the most innovative chip designer in AI. Nowhere on Chenming Hu's Linkedin said anything about being an official advisor for this one-man company. I can take a photo with Messi, does that make me a top soccer player?

New comment by elisbce in "The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs"

elisbce — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:05:10 +0000

Chinese frontier models don't need to catch up in every category. They just need to win in coding and that's exactly where they are going. The gap went from 12+ months to 1-2 months with the latest release of GLM 5.2 and coding is a task that you don't need heroic efforts to find rare and long-tail training data, you can just outsmart your competitor by optimizing algorithms and training recipes. This is something they can do at scale with the money and talent pool.

New comment by elisbce in "IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology"

elisbce — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:30:51 +0000

Why doesn't the industry use something like transistor density per cubic cm? This would extend to 3d cases and impossible to fake

New comment by elisbce in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

elisbce — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:39:26 +0000

Did Opus 4.8 just get a lot dumber because of this? My sessions are making so many dumb mistakes it wouldn't make before...

New comment by elisbce in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

elisbce — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:25:44 +0000

The familiar Chinese recipe for success: Always copy and imitate first, even if it is inferior, always make it cheaper or even free so that the original innovator will be burdened by brutal price competition and much bigger R&D costs and cannot keep up in the long run. Then the copycat will win in the endgame.

New comment by elisbce in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

elisbce — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:31:29 +0000

It's all about specific people at the leadership. No structure is immune to corruption because people come and go all the time. The reason why Nintendo is so resistant to slop for so long is because their key leadership people were homegrown all the way from entry-level jobs and are still there.

New comment by elisbce in "Siri AI"

elisbce — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:39:30 +0000

And why is that a good thing? The average user can't even spell Anthropic. Why do you think they can safely pick a third-party model provider that could harvest the hell out of their conversations? The control of ecosystem is part of the privacy and security. My mom's Android phone has like 100 apps that she had no idea how they were downloaded. For real user choices, the vast majority of users just want a phone that they can trust and don't have to be a techie to avoid being exploited. They can choose to buy a phone that can be built from legos, OR they can choose to buy a phone from someone they trust to get the privacy and security taken care of for them. This is the real user choice.

New comment by elisbce in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

elisbce — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:03:08 +0000

Seeing how many smart human beings commenting on this post mixing up concepts like intelligence, understanding and consciousness and falling for all kinds of logical fallacies makes me believe humans are no more advanced than a good next token predictor :)

New comment by elisbce in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"

elisbce — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:18:55 +0000

Can't imagine how strong your neck must be. For me, the weight alone is a deal breaker.

New comment by elisbce in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

elisbce — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:28:50 +0000

He already scanned the codebase with Codex Security and a whole bunch of other AI tools, and fixed 200-300 bugs and CVEs. On top of that Mythos found 1 more bug and 1 more CVE is already impressive.

New comment by elisbce in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

elisbce — Sun, 10 May 2026 02:49:31 +0000

If you want to take the risk and install some unsigned software on your machine, go ahead, but don't blame Apple, who is gatekeeping for the entire ecosystem for making the decision to keep the restrictions in place so that the other 2.5 billion users don't fall victims to malware defenselessly. Also, as a rule of thumb in cybersecurity, never underestimate human flaws or overestimate your ability to overcome them. Even the most brilliant experts cannot possibly know everything and make zero mistakes, let alone "the users" you are talking about. It is pure illusion that "the users" know exactly what's running on their machine under the hood. We should be thankful that Apple is willing to hold the lines and go this far to tighten security up when nobody forces them to. It is probably one of the best thing coming out of Jobs' relentless push for privacy and security on the iPhone.

New comment by elisbce in "Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc."

elisbce — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:56:17 +0000

Totally agree. I found the results surprising because a bunch of languages are faster than C++. Then I looked closer. The requirements are self-conflicting, No SIMD, but must be production-ready. No one would use the unoptimized version in production. Also looking at the C++ implementation, they are not optimized at all. This makes this benchmark literally pointless.

New comment by elisbce in "8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions"

elisbce — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:13:33 +0000

Judging from their website, all links eventually point to either the VPN extension download website, or a signup link. I'm not surprised if some nation state supported APT is behind this shit.

New comment by elisbce in "An Implementation of J (1992)"

elisbce — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 05:44:24 +0000

The more I see these languages that have neither power nor readability, the more I appreciate C.

New comment by elisbce in "Datacenters in space aren't going to work"

elisbce — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 04:10:59 +0000

When SpaceX came about, they said it was impossible for the rocket to come back from space and get reused. They said it wasn't going to work to combine multiple thrusters to form a big thruster and be reliable enough. When Starlink was introduced, they said it was stupid because the bandwidth is too small to be useful. Where are we now? 10 years ago, AI couldn't even beat a high-rank amateur Go player, let alone the best of pros. Everyone takes the excuse of dimensionality curse. Now what?

People who only look at the past/present and conclude impossibility are never going to be the ones who invent the future. Even math and science evolve, let alone engineering. The problems described in this article don't even remotely feel like the kind of barriers we faced when Go was solved, when protein fold was predicted and when LLM was solving problems with one prompt. If there is a strong NEED for datacenters to be up in the space, there will eventually be datacenters in the space.

New comment by elisbce in "How good engineers write bad code at big companies"

elisbce — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:18:47 +0000

1. In Silicon Valley, people are not bounded by non-compete clauses and can come and go at will. So fungibility is a top priority for any tech company. The only way to do that is to make sure expertise is shared across the team and not monopolized by one or a few old-timers.

2. Eng teams that have mostly old-timers tend to get stale and slow in changes. This is bad for products that need rapid evolution or new ideas to break status quo. New engineers have way more incentives to make changes to prove themselves and collect credits, while old-timers tend to play safe and stay on the side of stability.

3. Bad coders, not new coders, write bad code.

New comment by elisbce in "Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not"

elisbce — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 04:54:59 +0000

That's so stupid. Just because I posted a video on TikTok doesn't mean someone should be able to go to the city's public website, look me up on a yellow page and download my photo id and fingerprints.

New comment by elisbce in "Jailhouse confessions of a teen hacker"

elisbce — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 03:43:43 +0000

Yeah, blame the victims for not protecting themselves enough. How familiar.

New comment by elisbce in "Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?"

elisbce — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 06:14:23 +0000

Yes, it is messy when you want your MySQL databases to be mission critical in production, e.g. handling a large amount of customer data. Historically MySQL's High Availability architecture has a lot of design and implementation issues because it was an afterthought. Dealing with large amount of critical data means you need it to be performant, reliable and available at the same time, which is hard and requires you to deal with caching, sharding, replication, network issues, zone/resource planning, failovers, leader elections and semi-sync bugs, corrupted logs, manually fixing bad queries that killed the database, data migration, version upgrades, etc. There is a reason why big corps like Google/Meta has dedicated teams of experts (like people who actually wrote the HA features) to maintain their mission critical MySQL deployments.