Hacker News: ericflo

New comment by ericflo in "Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views"

ericflo — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:31:25 +0000

I don't think it isn't unsurprising :)

New comment by ericflo in "Skills Officially Comes to Codex"

ericflo — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:02:57 +0000

Yes, and! It's the combo/bundling/distribution of these things that makes this powerful.

New comment by ericflo in "Skills Officially Comes to Codex"

ericflo — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:51:55 +0000

People are really misunderstanding Skills, in my opinion. It's not really about the .md file. It's about the bundling of code and instructions. Skills assume a code execution environment.

New comment by ericflo in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

ericflo — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 08:13:50 +0000

We have to find a way to punish Google if they move forward with this. We need the Gemini folks to be worried that this distraction will jeopardize their competitiveness in AI.

New comment by ericflo in "EverQuest"

ericflo — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 17:13:33 +0000

EverQuest taught me so many life skills, no joke. Was on the Morell-Thule server as a teen.

New comment by ericflo in "Fine-tuning LLMs is a waste of time"

ericflo — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:29:46 +0000

It's not either/or. Generally you finetune when optimized many-shot still doesn't hit your desired quality bar. And it turns out with RL, things like system prompts matter a lot, so searching over prompts is a good idea even when reinforcing the desirable circuits.

New comment by ericflo in "That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection"

ericflo — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 06:51:25 +0000

Classic post in this genre: https://web.archive.org/web/20151217104831/https://zedshaw.c...

New comment by ericflo in "Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet"

ericflo — Tue, 21 May 2024 23:20:11 +0000

New comment by ericflo in "Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy"

ericflo — Mon, 20 May 2024 07:41:53 +0000

I just read that document and, I'm sorry but there's no way it's written in good faith. You support open weights, as long as they pass impossible tests that no open weights models could pass. I hope you are unsuccessful in stopping open weights from proliferating.

Chameleon: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Foundation Models

ericflo — Fri, 17 May 2024 01:11:42 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09818

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40385304

Points: 4

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New comment by ericflo in "FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules"

ericflo — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:58:44 +0000

Seat belts may seem useless too if you've never been in an accident.

New comment by ericflo in "Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss"

ericflo — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 01:05:17 +0000

If you read this article and it gave you pleasure, examine those feelings. I find the generally schadenfreudic reaction to be disgusting. These people just wanted to get together to talk about something they enjoy and you don't.

New comment by ericflo in "Alan Wake 2 is an unexpected visual marvel even on older GPUs"

ericflo — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 02:44:22 +0000

I think this game is one of the best pieces of storytelling ever created, and it's so weird and arthouse that I can hardly believe there's an audience for it.

New comment by ericflo in "CancelQuora"

ericflo — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 15:34:14 +0000

Whenever I think of Quora, I think of their giant party in SF around a decade ago, which stands out in my mind as the height of that era of tech.

New comment by ericflo in "Next-gen AMD RDNA 4 GPUs reportedly won't compete with Nvidia at the high end"

ericflo — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 20:35:06 +0000

Meanwhile, the other rumor is that Nvidia stopped production on RTX 40 series in order to shift all manufacturing towards ML chips like H100. Seems like they're both in an all-out sprint to produce as many H100 and MI300X as possible. Which makes total sense to me.

New comment by ericflo in "Revolt: FOSS Discord Alternative"

ericflo — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 02:26:25 +0000

No, do not do this. Use Matrix, or...anything else really. I tried building on top of IRC a decade ago and it was a more forgivable mistake back then, but a mistake nonetheless.

New comment by ericflo in "Together’s $20M seed funding to build open-source AI and cloud platform"

ericflo — Mon, 15 May 2023 19:15:33 +0000

I would also check out their 3B model. I tested it on launch with LoRA fine-tuning and found it to be surprisingly capable despite its size. I think a lot of people are skipping past testing it because it only has 3B params.

Edit: https://huggingface.co/togethercomputer/RedPajama-INCITE-Bas...

New comment by ericflo in "AR Demands Peripherals"

ericflo — Sat, 13 May 2023 04:45:26 +0000

Horizon: Call of the Mountain is a recent example of a UX interaction that I really like with eye tracking + a peripheral. It uses a button press, so it's an intentional action, but the eye gaze determines which action to take.

New comment by ericflo in "Xhtml Friends Network (2003)"

ericflo — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 01:01:52 +0000

Ooh, blast from the past. I wrote some Erlang code to crawl this stuff back in college. Just found it, wow: https://code.google.com/archive/p/erlysocial/

New comment by ericflo in "Leaked deck raises questions over Stability AI’s Series A pitch to investors"

ericflo — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 21:07:39 +0000

I think in the world of ML, contributing that much compute should count as co-creation. There is a lot of code published by academia that just needs compute and data, but they don't receive it. Stability deserves credit for Doing the Thing. IP rights are another thing but that's a whole subtree of legal questions that society is barreling towards.