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New comment by johnb231 in "Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games"

johnb231 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 05:19:17 +0000

They blacklisted games that feature incest. Good riddance. This trash should never have been allowed on Steam.

New comment by johnb231 in "Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?""

johnb231 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 19:46:16 +0000

Of course I can discern that. I think it sounds stupid and childish, and makes someone appear less intelligent. Overused and misused word. But this is now derailing the thread.

New comment by johnb231 in "Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?""

johnb231 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 19:32:36 +0000

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New comment by johnb231 in "LLM Inevitabilism"

johnb231 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 07:14:50 +0000

Devs finish the work 30% faster and take the rest of the day off. That's what I would do. Working remotely.

New comment by johnb231 in "LLM Inevitabilism"

johnb231 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 06:56:22 +0000

Dude in 1972 looking at Atari Pong: “computer graphics will never achieve realism”

New comment by johnb231 in "Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department"

johnb231 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:50:59 +0000

Meaningless comparison. If xAI or Google accepts the contract, they intend to deliver within the budget. You can't say whether it's too much or too little without knowing all of the details, which you don't.

New comment by johnb231 in "Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model"

johnb231 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 02:55:53 +0000

The process involves running the original model. You can rent these big GPUs for ~$10 per hour, so that is ~$160 per hour for as long as it takes

New comment by johnb231 in "Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model"

johnb231 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 23:28:46 +0000

These are all "too big to host at home". I don't think that is the issue here.

https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2/blob/main/docs/deploy_...

"The smallest deployment unit for Kimi-K2 FP8 weights with 128k seqlen on mainstream H200 or H20 platform is a cluster with 16 GPUs with either Tensor Parallel (TP) or "data parallel + expert parallel" (DP+EP)."

16 GPUs costing ~$30k each. No one is running a ~$500k server at home.

New comment by johnb231 in "Commodore 64 Ultimate"

johnb231 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:59:36 +0000

Written by ChatGPT. The second paragraph is obviously AI slop.

This sentence is 100% AI generated: "It’s a symbiotic cycle: retro inspires, modern sustains. Commodore isn’t returning. It’s evolving, with purpose."

New comment by johnb231 in "Grok 4 Launch [video]"

johnb231 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:58:11 +0000

That is for professional or commercial use, not casual home users.

New comment by johnb231 in "Grok 4 Launch [video]"

johnb231 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:25:59 +0000

You are doing it wrong. That's where you should downvote, not flag.

Frivolous flagging - as you are doing - could eventually get your account privileges removed.

New comment by johnb231 in "Grok 4 Launch [video]"

johnb231 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 05:42:43 +0000

Elon Musk cofounded and funded OpenAI.

I use Grok, ChatGPT, and Gemini. They are all excellent, state of the art, and have their unique strengths and weaknesses.

New comment by johnb231 in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"

johnb231 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 04:35:20 +0000

https://cloud.google.com/terms/service-terms

"b. Disclaimer. PRE-GA OFFERINGS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND. Pre-GA Offerings (i) may be changed, suspended or discontinued at any time without prior notice to Customer and (ii) are not covered by any SLA or Google indemnity. Except as otherwise expressly indicated in a written notice or Google documentation, (A) Pre-GA Offerings are not covered by TSS, and (B) the Data Location Section above will not apply to Pre-GA Offerings."

New comment by johnb231 in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"

johnb231 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 04:21:00 +0000

How is this so hard to understand? It's a preview service for testing only, not intended for production.

I am done with this thread. We are going around in circles.

New comment by johnb231 in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"

johnb231 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 04:18:37 +0000

The users aren't random "human beings" in this case. They are professional software developers who are expected to understand the basics. Deploying that model into production shows a lack of basic competence. It is clearly marked "preview" and is for test only.

New comment by johnb231 in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"

johnb231 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 04:13:50 +0000

This case was simply a matter of people not understanding the terms of service. There is nothing more to be said. It's that simple. The "engineers" should know that before deploying to prod. Basic competence.

And I mean I genuinely do not understand what you are trying to say. Couldn't parse it.

New comment by johnb231 in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"

johnb231 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 03:49:44 +0000

I honestly have no idea what you are trying to say.

It's a preview model - for testing only, not for production. Really not that complicated.

New comment by johnb231 in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"

johnb231 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 03:18:43 +0000

The model is labelled as Preview. There are no guarantees of stability or availability for Preview models. Not intended for production workloads.

https://cloud.google.com/products?hl=en#product-launch-stage...

"At Preview, products or features are ready for testing by customers. Preview offerings are often publicly announced, but are not necessarily feature-complete, and no SLAs or technical support commitments are provided for these. Unless stated otherwise by Google, Preview offerings are intended for use in test environments only. The average Preview stage lasts about six months."

New comment by johnb231 in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"

johnb231 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 01:09:25 +0000

That is a preview / beta model with no expectation of stability. Google did nothing wrong there. No one should be using a preview model in production.

New comment by johnb231 in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

johnb231 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 22:29:18 +0000

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