Hacker News: polotics

New comment by polotics in "April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini"

polotics — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:07:21 +0000

Ollama got some first-mover advantage at the time when actually building and git pulling llama.cpp was a bit of a moat. The devs' docker past probably made them overestimate how much they could lay claim to mindshare. However, no one really could have known how quickly things would evolve... Now I mostly recommend LM-studio to people.

What does unsloth-studio bring on top?

New comment by polotics in "I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed"

polotics — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:03:52 +0000

Hamas as financed, and helped grow, and fostered as an entity, and rid of its more middle-of-the-road competitors, by two you-know-who parties in this farcical tragedy, parties that comically keep identifying themselves as one another's mortal enemy... glad I never set foot in that madhouse in 20 year and most likely won't ever again.

New comment by polotics in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

polotics — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:52:21 +0000

That tragedy of the Maven targeting system is very much something that could have been optimized away, so no! Ad-servers optimizing minds could have been better employed on that project. (nothing to do with Java's Maven, look it up) Someone told me: "Think! Who were these girls' parents..." and that's BS it was really a big senseless mistake, now we're clearly in Vendettastan

New comment by polotics in "Show HN: A prompt that builds the most capable AI agent system"

polotics — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:19:47 +0000

this prompt is extremely wordy, contains a lot og general considerations that I don't think the llm will take as actionable, repeats itself at a shallow level of abstraction, and is overly broad in its envisioned scope. one does wonder what the person who painstakingly typed in all of this text must have been thinking. also, where are the comparative stats about its prowess on representative tasks?

New comment by polotics in "Some uncomfortable truths about AI coding agents"

polotics — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:23:07 +0000

i was kinda hoping for TFA to finally produce some research outputs or even statistics, but sadly the `uncomfortable truths` are your usual vague talking points.

New comment by polotics in "We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it"

polotics — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:19:13 +0000

shallow broad vague boastful and wordy, this way you know the LLM is nearby...

New comment by polotics in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

polotics — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:52:44 +0000

Oh well that's a rabbit hole: NVIDIA Blackwell has this, also GGUFs sidestep this with Qi_j / Qi_K... Great article, spikes curiosity!

New comment by polotics in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

polotics — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:40:36 +0000

Leading to my question: Ok keeping a zero and a minus-zero does make sense for some limits calculations... But when all you have is 4 bits, is this not quite wasteful? Would using the bits for eg. a 2.5 not improve the model?

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

polotics — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:24:28 +0000

this quote is from 1919 not 2019 by the way AFAIK, so there is nothing new under the sun

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

polotics — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:28:00 +0000

Yes, and still note, about using the word "winning". Jeannette Rankin: "You can no more win a war, than you can win an earthquake"

New comment by polotics in "Robert Mueller Has Died"

polotics — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:14:23 +0000

It would, but only once you have fallen under the spell of thinking meaning and authority was to be found there. Consider your zone has been flooded maybe?

New comment by polotics in "Robert Mueller Has Died"

polotics — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:11:10 +0000

Come on, seriously? Then you have fallen into an old trap.

As it implies you think it would be good if someone who has to be brought before a court of law to answer for their actions, someone who has to be given a chance to defend themselve, and to be judged fairly by an assembly of their peer, gets the opportunity to die without this public reckoning?

If this were to happen it would make me feel sad.

New comment by polotics in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

polotics — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:54:11 +0000

or take (less) of these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAMP/T 8^)

New comment by polotics in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

polotics — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:12:20 +0000

do you have any evidence to back your claim? gangs employing teams of underage burglars assisted by risk averse adults with skills for entry and targeting are a thing. everyone has a mobile phone.

New comment by polotics in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

polotics — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:22:41 +0000

Clearly we are talking about another ethos than yours:

What will anyway happen is your life someday ends, what must not happen is that you are remembered in dishonor.

Also, Mearsheimer, what a muppet.

New comment by polotics in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

polotics — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:19:32 +0000

Tu as le droit de perdre, mais tu n'as pas le droit de te faire surprendre. (You have the right to lose, but you do not have the right to be caught off guard.)

New comment by polotics in "What 81,000 people want from AI"

polotics — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:19:39 +0000

Just in case:

"The doctors were just doing a copy-paste of a copy-paste of a prescription from a few weeks ago, not realizing it was the medication that was killing her. AI helped me ask the right question to save her life."

New comment by polotics in "Jeff Bezos wants Washington Post’s newsroom budget halved, productivity doubled"

polotics — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:13:44 +0000

I think you hit the jackpot here. Taking it further: the value of facts° presented henceforth by the WaPo should be traced back to explicit gains.

Not gains for the Post itself though, but for its owner, for example in regulatory capture.

Those can be computed pretty precisely or estimated. How is this income generation not then inputted to the owner as income?

It is said that the USSR failed because of incorrect accounting. Let's not let the Land of the Free fail in the same way!

New comment by polotics in "Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures"

polotics — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:36:22 +0000

Repugnant it may be, but you're leaving better sells on the table: it is extremely wasteful of human capital, both because the winners after having taken all, tend to spin out and add only negative value to societies. Also the many pre-determined losers, having to waste so much of their energy on survival, mostly cannot contribute positively either, sometimes also drifting into serious negative value generation.

So yes: as a system, "wealth" is demonstrably extremely wasteful of capital, in wouldn't take much on both edges to improve it significantly.

New comment by polotics in "The Bitter Lesson Has No Utility Function"

polotics — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:55:25 +0000

Yes! The quality of prose is IMHO f(maximal brevity with no loss of clarity, grammar be damned)

LLMs destroy that. always!

TFA is a case in point: It could, so should, fit in four sentences.