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New comment by novia in "Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins"

novia — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:16:27 +0000

update your priors dude

New comment by novia in "AI coding at home without going broke"

novia — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:05:24 +0000

I want to be able to experiment with tweaking model weights and seeing the outcomes and i want to be able to finetune open source models. What's the best way to experiment with that without breaking the bank?

New comment by novia in "The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds"

novia — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:41:51 +0000

gosh the scrolling on that site was so jumpy!

New comment by novia in "I made my phone slow on purpose"

novia — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:54:00 +0000

brilliant. can someone build this for android apps next?

New comment by novia in "Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers chasing usage scores"

novia — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:17:57 +0000

I was an IC procrastinating on my real work, not a manager. I think I implemented this in Github during my first sprint on the team. Managers are probably wise enough to the way of humans to not attempt something like this (Goodhart's Law and all that). I know as a fact my peers started pointing to the high score list I made as a way to start justifying asking for raises and things like that, to demonstrate that they were pulling their weight on the team harder than others.

New comment by novia in "Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers chasing usage scores"

novia — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:32:40 +0000

I made a high score list for my team to get people to care about catching bugs during code review.

The gamifying started immediately.

If you ever make anything competitive there will be that one guy trying to cheat his way to the top.

The high score list was supposed to be for finding logic errors. This guy was trying to pass off finding typos in text strings as equivalent to finding something that would blow up prod if pushed up.

I really... hate... reality

New comment by novia in "Claude Opus 4.8"

novia — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:20:06 +0000

got a random pair up with this model on lmarena. it was outperformed by gemma-4-31b. suffice to say i'm not impressed (or maybe i am impressed with gemma?)

New comment by novia in "What can we gain by losing infinity?"

novia — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:22:31 +0000

yeah that seems fine. there's like no good reason to do that. are you trying to simulate reality or something?

but my point still stands, choose whichever calculation you think is important to be able to do with Ω, defined as f(Ω), square it for good measure, and set that as the max, the min, and the number of numbers in between each integer.

The total number of possible numbers will be ~2*f(Ω)⁴ which should be more than enough numbers :)

New comment by novia in "What can we gain by losing infinity?"

novia — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:11:35 +0000

Take the approximate number of subatomic particles in the universe, call it Ω. Define the largest number as Ω² and the smallest number as -Ω², and define the number of decimal numbers between each integer number as Ω², evenly spaced. That should be more than enough numbers. Redefine Ω with each new discovery in physics.

If this seems too conservative to you, like if for some reason you want to talk about the volume of the universe in terms of the width of an up-quark or whatever, feel free to tack on some modifier to my proposed number system.

New comment by novia in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

novia — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:24:41 +0000

today was my first time using copilot since the change. i never told it to always use opus or the latest codex model. i always relied on the auto-router to choose which model to use. It always worked well. Today it sucks, because they took away the option for the autorouter to use the best models. The thing that is failing is something extremely simple. Maybe the routing component got broken with this new change

Cat and Tape = Experiment (video)

novia — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:38:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gl7xr5rftc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871732

Points: 1

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New comment by novia in "Wife Acceptance Factor"

novia — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:44:09 +0000

What I am seeing in the wiki page (at least from the radio example) is that women make the world better by not wanting random components and dangerous things strewn around the house. I like that most people are heterosexual and that there is indeed some amount of sexual dimorphism in general interests between men and women! It seems like it results in a balance that makes things better than they would be otherwise if only one of the two sexes had absolute control.

New comment by novia in "Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert"

novia — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:58:33 +0000

You too can let ants crawl all over you. They will find snacks.

New comment by novia in "US Treasury Seeking Access to Anthropic's Mythos to Find Flaws"

novia — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:33:00 +0000

preliminary injunction was issued in sf

New comment by novia in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

novia — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:47:53 +0000

sama, i know the odds of you seeing this are very low, but i'm so sorry you're being targeted like this. you don't deserve this. i recently saw you do a q&a with francois challet and.. after it was over, you went to your car very quickly and you were driven away. i think these days you must think a lot about your safety and the safety of your family and i wish it didn't have to be that way. wishing you and your family all the best.

New comment by novia in "Regular army and reserve components enlistment program: Summary of change"

novia — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:14:01 +0000

As a 37 year old who has been growing more patriotic and willing to serve with age, I'm excited about having the option.

New comment by novia in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

novia — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:01:22 +0000

compromise between observing the daylight saving time switch and not observing it. There are benefits to switching twice a year (sunlight in the morning during the winter when you're supposed to be getting up for work, or when kids are getting on the school bus) (sunlight later into the evening during the summer so you can go play soccer after work if you want to) and you lose things if you decide to stick with just one

New comment by novia in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

novia — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:06:56 +0000

Compromise solution: In the spring, just lose the hour during the workday at 3pm instead of in the middle of the night. Designate that missing hour a holiday so employees still have to get paid for it. All the complaints about switching back and forth would go away.

New comment by novia in "Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy"

novia — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:18:46 +0000

> Think of Amazon as a search engine for products

Hahahahaha you lost me

New comment by novia in "Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock"

novia — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:32:57 +0000

they could improve their product search page so it's actually useful