Hacker News: greesil

New comment by greesil in "Leak Reveals Possible Secret Russia-China Military Plan to Disable Starlink"

greesil — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:15:08 +0000

Because stage 3 would be something like Kessler Syndrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

Leak Reveals Possible Secret Russia-China Military Plan to Disable Starlink

greesil — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:11:57 +0000

Article URL: https://united24media.com/world/leaked-documents-reveal-possible-secret-russia-china-military-plan-to-disable-starlink-20627

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850972

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by greesil in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

greesil — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:14:54 +0000

If you were anticipating the stock to drop sharply in the future, this may be cheaper.

New comment by greesil in "Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets"

greesil — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:03:03 +0000

Their only accountability is to the stock price. The insanity will continue.

New comment by greesil in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

greesil — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:35:50 +0000

Because nobody reputable reported on it?

New comment by greesil in "Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar"

greesil — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:13:13 +0000

Capital, politicians, conservatives, libertarians,

New comment by greesil in "America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen"

greesil — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:41:12 +0000

I doubt it's the greatest given all that's happened in the past year. But it's certainly up there, no pun intended.

New comment by greesil in "Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]"

greesil — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:29:26 +0000

But me asking questions is in fact my trying to understand, is it not? I ask a stupid simple question with a slightly rude tone, and then I get downvoted by a bunch of pedantic insiders. Although to be fair it appears some are trying to help.

Look dude, every field develops its own terminology. It's not a conspiracy, just an emergent property. But it always makes getting into the field, or understanding what's in the field, much harder than it needs to be.

New comment by greesil in "AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise"

greesil — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:31:18 +0000

Server load, for sure.

New comment by greesil in "Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise"

greesil — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:29:21 +0000

How do you know this? I'm not trying to attack your statement, I am genuinely curious how anyone knows anything about model performance outside of benchmarks that are already in the training set.

New comment by greesil in "Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]"

greesil — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:38:13 +0000

Yes, I understand one function of jargon, which can be useful to insiders in that it conveys a precise meaning. But, it can be confusing to outsiders, and that is also a useful thing for insiders. In the context of LLMs, what other function can produce p(next token) if not the LLM? And, you just about make my point for me with regards to jargon being confusing by misidentifying what the policy actually is (something i never would have noticed :) In any case, it's an interesting paper. Thanks for all your down votes everyone.

New comment by greesil in "Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]"

greesil — Sun, 17 May 2026 05:03:06 +0000

But the probability vector is the output of the LLM, no?

New comment by greesil in "Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]"

greesil — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:47:52 +0000

It's a comment. On Hacker News. Not the RL subreddit, or whatever. I'm just amazed at the jargon. I'm sure it's useful, but one could just call it model output.

New comment by greesil in "Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]"

greesil — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:34:08 +0000

Wtf is a policy? Is this some sort of RL thing that I'm too ML to understand?

Gemini tells me it's the probability of the next token for an LLM. Okay then.

AI research papers are getting better, and it's a big problem for scientists

greesil — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:10:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/930522/ai-research-papers-slop-peer-review-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160892

Points: 3

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New comment by greesil in "A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10"

greesil — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:29:36 +0000

"This is notably fast given that this is the first time that an Android driver bug I reported was patched within 90 days of the vendor first learning about the vulnerability."

This makes me feel better about Google, but also makes me kind of frightened of the rest of Android. I wonder what Apple's response time is?

New comment by greesil in "More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions"

greesil — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:19:26 +0000

Which comments?

New comment by greesil in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

greesil — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:16:34 +0000

The whole country? Really?

New comment by greesil in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

greesil — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:59:43 +0000

Some people respond to incentives. The rest of us are just trying to do our jobs and will probably be fired and then later consumed by the basilisk. We are living in an age of extremophiles.

New comment by greesil in "Gemini API File Search is now multimodal"

greesil — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:23:33 +0000

Too bad they can't just easily vibe code new features.