Hacker News: maskil

New comment by maskil in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

maskil — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:18:03 +0000

He's not dead. No need to eulogize just yet.

New comment by maskil in "CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)"

maskil — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 01:03:12 +0000

If CEOs can be replaced, shouldn't founders be also (who are often CEOs)? What about all levels of leadership? Why can't AIs just run full companies autonomously?

New comment by maskil in "Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks"

maskil — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:47:35 +0000

Wikipedia is completely unreliable on any area of controversy, there are armies of editors who are skilled in fitting the articles to their agenda.

New comment by maskil in "‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]"

maskil — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:13:47 +0000

Why is there an Israel exception to politics on HN?

New comment by maskil in "IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites"

maskil — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 15:52:02 +0000

I just did. No question a number of these comments are completely inexcusable.

2 points:

1. A number of them, especially by more moderate voices, were made in the immediate days after Oct 7 when there was a tremendous amount of anger as a reaction to what happened.

2. The above comment and others like this were made by the extreme of the extreme right in Israel. I don't think that even Ben Gvir would utter such a thing.

Nobody with decision making powers is making any attempt to exterminate a people.

New comment by maskil in "GitHub Copilot is now available for free"

maskil — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 02:21:17 +0000

I found that AI models really have a hard time with Android native, kept reverting to the latest libraries which don't have broad support. I had more success with Flutter but still needs a decent amount of course correction.

New comment by maskil in "ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials"

maskil — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 01:05:02 +0000

Isolating Netanyahu like this will only lead to a hardening of the Israeli position because he now truly has nothing to lose

New comment by maskil in "Interview with Yann LeCun on AI"

maskil — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 01:32:47 +0000

You still will need clear benchmarks as the reward for RL. With Chess, the rules are simple but you may not have a clear loss function for a complicated architectural challenge.

New comment by maskil in "Israeli Supreme Court says ultra-Orthodox must serve in military"

maskil — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 14:10:58 +0000

People, the most hawkish parties in the current government are also the most over represented in the army. Don't project US issues on everyone else.

New comment by maskil in "Israeli Supreme Court says ultra-Orthodox must serve in military"

maskil — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 12:10:01 +0000

The Hareidi parties are actually the least hawkish in the current government, and historically were equally willing to prop up left wing governments.

"Security" related issues are not on their agenda.

New comment by maskil in "Let's reproduce GPT-2 (124M) [video]"

maskil — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 03:30:41 +0000

I suggest to put Karpathy in the title for visibility

New comment by maskil in "Codestral: Mistral's Code Model"

maskil — Thu, 30 May 2024 01:33:31 +0000

Understanding existing code is in its wheelhouse (provided the infrastructure feeding the existing code to the prompt is working well), but I believe if you examine the totality of work a human programmer is involved in, an LLM is woefully behind in many areas (gathering proper requirements, potentially iterating/pushing back on requirements, architecting a solution on a macro level, other gaps an LLm cannot fill).

New comment by maskil in "Codestral: Mistral's Code Model"

maskil — Wed, 29 May 2024 16:10:46 +0000

I would argue the opposite is true.

My experience with coding with LLMs is that the only thing it's really good at is generating boilerplate that it has more-or-less seen before (essentially a library, even if is somewhat adapted), however it is incapable of the creative thinking that developers regularly need to engage in when architecting a solution for their use case.

New comment by maskil in "Reproducing GPT-2 in llm.c"

maskil — Tue, 28 May 2024 19:39:13 +0000

Please do! It's a fantastic series!

New comment by maskil in "Boeing faces new US investigation into 'missed' 787 inspections"

maskil — Tue, 07 May 2024 13:37:12 +0000

Except that people aren't dying as a result

New comment by maskil in "Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices"

maskil — Sun, 05 May 2024 20:53:50 +0000

Since when is the entire Europe a party in the war on Ukraine?

New comment by maskil in "The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Problem"

maskil — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:00:01 +0000

Why is this comment being downvoted?

New comment by maskil in "Run Llama 2 uncensored locally"

maskil — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 12:25:19 +0000

I tested this prompt with GPT 3.5, GPT 4, Gemini and Gemini Advanced, they all answered the question straightforwardly, except for Gemini (plain), which did answer but then proceeded to go on a long lecture about science and religion.

New comment by maskil in "OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO"

maskil — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 14:20:59 +0000

On the contrary, they seem to be doing it quite fine without a union

New comment by maskil in "Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer"

maskil — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 13:31:48 +0000

"Make the slope approx 20-60 minutes", to be clear does this mean it should take that period of time to gradually go from 120 to 20-60?