Hacker News: kadushka

New comment by kadushka in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

kadushka — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:51:26 +0000

How would this work? Where do the money for their pension fund come from? Would taking money from it result in them receiving smaller pensions?

New comment by kadushka in "Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs"

kadushka — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:19:13 +0000

Most quant papers I've seen usually report non-trivial degradation on standard benchmarks, like 1-10% degradation (compared to FP16/BF16). Especially when using 4 bits or lower. For example, I just opened a random paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.09426 see Table 1.

p.s. dense vs MoE: both are being released because they offer different trade-offs: at the same level of quality, MoE will use less compute, but more memory.

New comment by kadushka in "Claude Opus 4.7"

kadushka — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:53:29 +0000

models are getting weirdly good at hacking while still sort of sucking at a bunch of economically valuable tasks

like most human hackers

New comment by kadushka in "Robot Police Dogs Powered by AI Take over Atlanta's Streets"

kadushka — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:00:09 +0000

taser/pepper spray within 5 years, firearms within 10.

New comment by kadushka in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

kadushka — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:41:29 +0000

We are surrounded by black boxes we depend on - have been for at least a century.

New comment by kadushka in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

kadushka — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:24:53 +0000

Probably had a lot of meetings

New comment by kadushka in "Ask HN: Release Path for 'Transformers Alternatives'?"

kadushka — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:38:17 +0000

1. If you have good results on sufficiently large models (check latest papers re: which benchmarks are still relevant), post them on Github, along will detailed instructions how to reproduce.

2. Post the link to the GH repo in "Show HN" section.

3. If results are solid, write up a paper and upload it to arxiv. Next step would be try to publish in an ML conference.

p.s. To increase your chances of anyone actually clicking on your GH link, use good old Pytorch.

New comment by kadushka in "Show HN: Most GPU Upgrades Aren't Worth It, I Built a Calculator to Prove It"

kadushka — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:59:04 +0000

I'm not interested in gaming, but if you had a version for AI, I'd be using it!

New comment by kadushka in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

kadushka — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:34:45 +0000

Diffusion models are not autoregressive but have the same limitations

New comment by kadushka in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

kadushka — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:26:01 +0000

Imagine that we made an LLM out of all dolphin songs ever recorded, would such LLM ever reach human level intelligence?

It could potentially reach super-dolphin level intelligence

New comment by kadushka in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

kadushka — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:52:59 +0000

I'm an employee, and my boss loves me because I deliver things he wants quickly and reliably - because I use AI tools. Guess who he will keep in the next round of layoffs?

New comment by kadushka in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

kadushka — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:46:06 +0000

I'm serious - the productivity boost I'm getting from using AI models is so significant, that it's absolutely worth paying even 2k/month. It saves me a lot of time, and enables me to deliver new features much faster (making me look better for my employer) - both of which would justify spending a small fraction of my own money. I don't have to, because my employer pays for it, but as I said, if I had to, I would pay.

New comment by kadushka in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

kadushka — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:28:37 +0000

I would probably pay $2000 a month if I had to - it's a small fraction of my salary, and the productivity boost is worth it.

New comment by kadushka in "Why vampires live forever"

kadushka — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:18:24 +0000

Is there any evidence?

New comment by kadushka in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

kadushka — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:40:07 +0000

Sure, could be just lucky. But if there are several successful small studies, and several unsuccessful large ones (no idea if this is the case here), we should probably look for a better explanation.

New comment by kadushka in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

kadushka — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:36:50 +0000

use a diverse population

If that's the case, we should question whether different homogeneous population groups respond differently to the substance under test. After all, we don't want to know the "average temperature of patients in a hospital", do we?

New comment by kadushka in "Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105"

kadushka — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:06:23 +0000

Can you imagine writing code for 100 years?

New comment by kadushka in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

kadushka — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:52:49 +0000

the larger the trial size, the smaller the outcome

I find this a bit surprising. Could there be something else affecting the accuracy of larger trials? Perhaps they are not as careful, or cutting corners somewhere?

New comment by kadushka in "Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)"

kadushka — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:22:45 +0000

This will break down when >30% of people are unemployed

New comment by kadushka in "An Ice-Covered Russian Ghost Town"

kadushka — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:45:56 +0000

https://nord-ursus.livejournal.com/171473.html