Hacker News: lukeschlather

New comment by lukeschlather in "Apple’s grey list: Words and phrases your iPhone won’t help you spell"

lukeschlather — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 19:32:26 +0000

> Apple’s iPhone will not autocomplete references to drugs, sexual acts and, perhaps in the spirit of corporate protection, “iMessage isn’t working”.

It will be interesting as corporate predictive text generators take over the world and companies like Apple will literally build the Jobsian reality distortion field into their products to portray their services as working better than they are.

New comment by lukeschlather in "Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash"

lukeschlather — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 16:18:09 +0000

Yes, Carbon and Mythos are the secret super-smart models you can't use without an invitation and a million dollars.

New comment by lukeschlather in "Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash"

lukeschlather — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:32:15 +0000

Carbon is to Argon as Mythos is to Fable.

New comment by lukeschlather in "OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats"

lukeschlather — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:23:10 +0000

Yeah, why didn't I think of just spending $30k/month on an inference server and figuring out how to train a 2T parameter model. I clearly don't care about this at all or I would just do that.

New comment by lukeschlather in "Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI"

lukeschlather — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:21:03 +0000

I think we've reached a point where reading the AI summary (which I think is Gemini Flash Lite) is probably going to be more reliable than actually reading the top 10 search results. The top 10 search results were often blogspam even in a pre-AI world. I feel like either you trust Google to retrieve information or you don't (and Gemini has problems but so does Google Search, and are you really sure the latter is worse than the former?)

It has been over a decade since Google Search was anything but a machine-learning powered word association engine. I miss old Google Search but it's dead and I trust Gemini more than what Search has turned into.

New comment by lukeschlather in "Northflank Breached"

lukeschlather — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 22:39:14 +0000

AWS and GCP both work pretty well if you avoid conditions, which are a nightmare. Azure is like everything is conditions, and also buggy.

New comment by lukeschlather in "Northflank Breached"

lukeschlather — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:05:22 +0000

I'm sure there are absolutely brilliant people working at Azure. I think the overall system is very badly architected and I don't know what it would take to salvage it. Infra security is a lot easier to do when you have a system that has mostly solved it already, and I'm not saying GCP and AWS are perfect, but "security is mostly solved" is a decent description of their systems, I think. Of course it could all fall over tomorrow, but I'd guess that's a lot more true of Azure.

New comment by lukeschlather in "US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears"

lukeschlather — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:31:01 +0000

If Intel were capable of building more chips they would. I don't think their lagging TSMC is a diabolical attempt to inflate their profit margins. Although I only really know what I read on the news.

New comment by lukeschlather in "US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech"

lukeschlather — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:25:11 +0000

The Danish status quo is radically anti-capitalist and anti-business by American standards. Do you think the average Danish zillennial is in favor of moving to a more American model (privatized healthcare, minimal union protections, etc.) ?

New comment by lukeschlather in "Gemini 4 Carbon"

lukeschlather — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:30:51 +0000

I had Claude write me a script to probe all the GCP Vertex models. I can say with confidence that I know how to call Argon, because Claude told me how, I did it, saw it was modestly better than Flash for my use case and I decided it wasn't worth the money right now, for this use case.

I'm fairly confident I can't call Carbon, and I am okay with that.

New comment by lukeschlather in "GPT-6.1 Terra"

lukeschlather — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 22:23:24 +0000

The problem with that is then you would have GPT 6.1 Max with max thinking which is different from GPT 6.1 Small with max thinking.

If you look back the naming problem started around the point that OpenAI started doing reasoning models (o1, 4o) where they had to describe this fork in model behavior that let a smaller model think longer and be smarter.

You can come up with naming schemes that don't clash, but there's something to be said for this approach where the thinking level is like you describe and the model name requires you to learn that Astra is the largest model.

New comment by lukeschlather in "Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier"

lukeschlather — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:52:00 +0000

There's obviously a limit to what you can change via ToS. Yes, their ToS says they can alter the deal at their discretion. Adding ads to a premium ad-free tier seems like fundamentally a violation of the presumed contract. (Specifically talking about one-year plans, saying that they can make these kinds of fundamental alterations to the deal mid-year sounds like it ought to be illegal if they're selling one-year plans.)

New comment by lukeschlather in "Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier"

lukeschlather — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:52:32 +0000

That's fair, changing mid-year is definitely a problem and arguably illegal under current law, though really if we had functional antitrust I'm not sure that bundling would be legal to begin with.

New comment by lukeschlather in "Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier"

lukeschlather — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:36:50 +0000

That seems like revisionist history. Amazon started out with Prime Video bundled with Prime as a whole, and didn't raise the price. After 5-6 years they made it an add-on, then they added an ad-supported tier.

But if anything, the racket is bundling free shipping with ad-free video and everything else. Raising prices periodically to keep up with inflation is not a racket. And whether you would prefer to get downgraded to the advertising plan or automatically pay more is a personal choice, and automatically downgrading you rather than renewing you at a higher price is in some ways a more sensible default. (Though I'd prefer to be upgraded to the higher price generally and be notified so I have the option to downgrade or cancel, though downgrade really isn't an option I would consider.)

New comment by lukeschlather in "AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons"

lukeschlather — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:02:16 +0000

The margins on GPUs are estimated at 80% right now. So the price would most likely drop by 70% just by building the additional manufacturing capacity. Assume some modest reductions in cost and the price should drop by 80-90%.

The only reason computers are so expensive is that demand is so out of control.

New comment by lukeschlather in "eMudhra intermediate CA compromise"

lukeschlather — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:31:27 +0000

This seems like an AI-generated summary and it leaves some obvious questions unanswered.

This thread (linked by the page) seems like a better source: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-polic...

Ian Carroll notes:

> I think it's worth noting that this compromise is much worse than the private keys simply being stolen by a researcher. They are inherently weak single-byte keys that anyone can factor, and the issue cannot be contained.

New comment by lukeschlather in "There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]"

lukeschlather — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:58:21 +0000

I would bet that there are some proofs whose simplest form are simply incomprehensible to humans. Explaining them in terms a human could possibly understand is a fool's errand. However the theorem itself may be much simpler, and the theorem is the thing that's most worth translating.

Attempting to translate the proof is valuable, but we have to be realistic about what is and isn't possible.

New comment by lukeschlather in "A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms"

lukeschlather — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:37:11 +0000

It's not a constant factor, that's the misunderstanding. It's an unknown factor.

New comment by lukeschlather in "We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers"

lukeschlather — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:05:21 +0000

I've had pretty good luck having Gemini or Claude use SAM as a tool. Gemini is really good at identifying things in images, but it doesn't do a great job doing segmentation per se, but SAM on its own can't really decide what you need to segment.

New comment by lukeschlather in "Why are all these data companies buying internal data?"

lukeschlather — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:50:18 +0000

They're looking for like, plumbers' email and quickbooks which tells you what kind of plumbing jobs they do and how much they get paid, so they know what kind of things to make robots for.