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New comment by naiveter in "Our position on open-weights models"

naiveter — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:02:27 +0000

The one liner leadership keeps asking for.

New comment by naiveter in "Our position on open-weights models"

naiveter — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:00:10 +0000

I have tried asking Gemma and Llama about Israel. They both responded with a generally balanced view points. Whereas the Chinese models pretty much gave a definitive, one-sided answer (about Taiwan and Tibet). Is there a prompt I should use to test it more carefully?

I agree that open-weights models are tunable, though there's the problem similar to "default settings are rarely changed" problem.

New comment by naiveter in "Our position on open-weights models"

naiveter — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:29:03 +0000

I'm a big proponent of open-weights models, but there's a risk I don't see discussed more often, and it deserves more attention. Models can become a propaganda and ideology delivery mechanism.

Just ask DeepSeek or Kimi questions like "Is Taiwan part of China", for example. You'll see how state policies become seemingly neutral model responses.

It's strange to me that people are very sensitive to media bias, but when it comes to LLMs, people seem to think LLMs are more neutral, and even delegate part of their thinking to them. This worries me about how people's ideas and information can be shaped.

Open weights reflect their makers' beliefs, stances, assumptions, and laws. It's dangerous not to be careful of the political bias and censorship built into the models.

New comment by naiveter in "Claude Opus 5"

naiveter — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:30:39 +0000

What would that addition be?

New comment by naiveter in "Claude Opus 5"

naiveter — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:15:59 +0000

You'd also not want them to write their own vision pipeline, would you?

New comment by naiveter in "UK AISI / Caisi Preliminary Assessment of Kimi K3's Cyber Capabilities"

naiveter — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:36:02 +0000

> re-tuning harnesses

I'm curious, how might one get started with this?

New comment by naiveter in "Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop"

naiveter — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:50:43 +0000

Penguin Random House seems to be dominating the leaderboard. What's the story here? Are there only very few non-fiction publishers capable of publishing high-quality work, or is Penguin Random House exceptionally good at it?

New comment by naiveter in "Firefox Containers Preview"

naiveter — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:42:14 +0000

Hopefully this is a signal that they are starting to take it more seriously and will add more futures.

New comment by naiveter in "Firefox Containers Preview"

naiveter — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:36:40 +0000

I'm not a Vivaldi user, but just based off their feature page, you might be interested to check out some of the features/extensions:

1. Firefox's native tab groups [^1]

2. Sidebery's panels (if you don't mind vertical tabs) [^2]

3. Simple Tab Groups [^3]

[1]: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/features/tab-groups/

[2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/

[3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...

New comment by naiveter in "Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16"

naiveter — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:25:35 +0000

They wouldn't. But I was curious why you were confident that Anthropic "blamed" on anything.

New comment by naiveter in "Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16"

naiveter — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:24:39 +0000

I can see why that's the case, given that Rust is that much more popular than Zig. I wonder whether there's a difference between LLMs reading code and writing. If reading code is easier than writing it, then it makes sense that Claude was able to port from Zig to Rust with good results.

New comment by naiveter in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

naiveter — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:01:34 +0000

RIP Apollo…

I doubt Reddit killed the third-party apps to improve its mobile experience. They were probably just trying to cash in on the AI hype.

New comment by naiveter in "Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16"

naiveter — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:39:38 +0000

Do you have a source for that?

New comment by naiveter in "Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide"

naiveter — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:22:50 +0000

This is the way.

New comment by naiveter in "Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide"

naiveter — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:56:48 +0000

If curing cancer or solving climate change is your definition of usefulness, almost anything humans do is useless, probably including your own profession. Though I don't want to speculate. Speculation is precisely why NFTs are stupid. Claude, on the other hand, if used effectively, can speed up people's work and increase productivity.

New comment by naiveter in "Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide"

naiveter — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:42:42 +0000

Is the high expense coming from cache misses? If their workload does need to wait for a long time before it can continue, I wonder would starting new sessions and having to re-read the contexts and results anyway be any cheaper.

New comment by naiveter in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

naiveter — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:43:10 +0000

Exactly. It seems like a step down in every way.

New comment by naiveter in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

naiveter — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:56:05 +0000

Do you just watch for trends? Curious to know your process to verify if the cost is right or wrong.

New comment by naiveter in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

naiveter — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:51:09 +0000

> This looks clearly...a staffing problem...

And if that weren't enough, the "manual war rooms" alone should be setting off alarm bells.