<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: reliablereason</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=reliablereason</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:47:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=reliablereason" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reliablereason in "Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you have a number that is 1000^90000000 that number is larger than the number of atoms in the observable universe.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:47:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568012</link><dc:creator>reliablereason</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568012</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reliablereason in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The issue is apparently this commit (someone did a git bisect):<p><a href="https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/859d44fa4f1420775e4ba050337ef32092f2894c" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/859d44fa4f14207...</a><p>Which is a fix to the security issue CVE-2026-29518:
<a href="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-29518" rel="nofollow">https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-29518</a><p>A CVE reported by VulnCheck which is a company that uses AI to find software vulnerabilitys.<p>I would honestly blame this on bad test coverage.<p>If you look at most of the commits where Claude is "co-author" you see that 80% of are just adding new tests. Which is exactly what would be needed if low test coverage was the issue.<p>I have done the exact same thing long before AI was a thing. You are rushed to "FIX" some security issue that someone reported. It is a scenario where you are working in code that you did not write or you wrote it so long ago that you cant remember.
You try your best to just fix the security issue but you perturb something else while doing it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 09:52:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344355</link><dc:creator>reliablereason</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344355</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reliablereason in "Various LLM Smells"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"A is not B instead A is blah blah" instead of just saying "A" is a very common pattern have seen in Claude.<p>It is strange to read as the topic A has often not been introduced and introducing it by saying what it is not makes very little sense to a new reader.</p>
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<p>No you could rent virtualised servers way before AWS.
AWS simply had good marketing.<p>The virtualised server thing was not a AWS thing, the thing that was were their other services. For example instead of renting a virtual server and installing a database on it. You could rent the database; that was sort of a new thing that AWS made in to thing.<p>It was never cheaper what you paid for was a promise of fire and forget. You would no longer need to worry about any responsibility to update the server or the database cause the AWS crew took care of that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 13:41:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083918</link><dc:creator>reliablereason</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083918</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reliablereason in "The IBM Granite 4.1 family of models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pragmatically enterprise tends to mean less refined, designed by committee and expensive.<p>In this case i would guess it is mostly a justification for taking a part of the LLM pie.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 09:40:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995220</link><dc:creator>reliablereason</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995220</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reliablereason in "The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure that i understand your position exactly.<p>But consciousness is also "just a story" (a complicated one) that the human body tells the human mind.<p>We cant know from the outside if "the story" inside a LLM is detailed enough to emulate what we might call a felling of what it is to be the character in the story while it is telling the story.<p>It is similar to the fact that we cant know that other people have that subjective experience. In humans we think we have the right to assume cause we are quite similar in build to begin with.<p>Jumping back to the original subject to explain where i am in this. I personally don't think the entities in the storys of todays LLMs is detailed enough to have what we call human consciousness, mostly cause we are not training them to develop anything similar to that. Mabye they could have some type of weak qualia but i suspect most insects probably have much more qualia than the characters in todays LLMs.  But that is quite a vague guess which is not based on enough data in my mind.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 08:55:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994930</link><dc:creator>reliablereason</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994930</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reliablereason in "The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was not talking about the actual feeling in the moment. The point is the valence of the thing. Ie fear of a thing is a pointer to that thing having negative valence.</p>
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<p>Most chatbots are not trained to have/emulate emotions so pain or fear of death is non existent. Therefore killing them and/or using them as slaves is not a moral issue. Thats how i reason.<p>On another point, LLMs are not conscious if anything is conscious, it is something being modeled inside the network. Basically if an LLM simulates a conscious entity, that doesn't mean the LLM itself is conscious; stating that is making some type of category error. So the fact that LLMs are just useful statistical generators would not mean that sentience could not appear out of it.</p>
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<p>Removes paradoxical stuff like claims that there are bigger and smaller infinities.<p>Paradoxes comes from contradictions, a mathematical system that contains contradictions is a failed mathematical system.</p>
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<p>Unlikely. That would be extremely expensive in bandwidth, storage and compute. Deciding to build the product like that would be an engineering decision that i would fire someone for.</p>
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<p>I wonder under what circumstances footage from the glasses are uploaded for classification.<p>Probably this is people asking the glasses something about what they see and the glasses uploading video for classification to generate an answer.<p>People think it is "just AI" so are not very concerned about privacy.</p>
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<p>Okay. If it made it, it made it. That is true in a deductible way. If p, then p.</p>
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<p>The statistics is generally not. But the data used to learn the statistics may have been under license.<p>Learning from licensed material is generally accepted in humans, you may learn from something and then create something else and the new thing is not considered legally problematic with the exception of patents i guess.<p>Whether the same thing holds true for electronic systems is where people disagree if you look at the problem space in its essence. I land on the side that it is the same thing(humans and electronic systems learning), some seam to think it is a different thing.</p>
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<p>If neither the user or the tool created and is responsible for the text, who is in your mind?</p>
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<p>Claude is not a legal entity, it is a software tool that outputs text based on statistics. There is a user that used a tool to create text and that user is the legal entity responsible for the text in any legal way that matters.<p>Anything else would be completely ridiculous given current laws in most countries.<p>It would be as ridiculous as blaming the car in a car accident where you drove over someone.</p>
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<p>This is like asking:<p>"Who owns the text microsoft word helped you write?"<p>Claude code is a software tool not a legal entity.</p>
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<p>Right! Blaming an agent or anyone else is crazy.
The author built a system that had the capability of deleing the prod database.<p>The system did delete the database cause the author built it like that.</p>
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<p>If the effect size is big small sample sizes does not matter as much as otherwise.<p>You really have to look at the power analysis and the sample size together.<p>Saying this as a general truth. I am not sure about the power of the method in this papper, i only read the abstract.</p>
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<p>Right a very simple UI thing that they should have that would have prevented so much misunderstanding. Is a simple counter. How much usage do a have i used and how much is left.<p>If a message will do a cache recreation the cost for that should be viewable.</p>
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<p>Honestly that would be quite good, an intelligent ad remover
that scans the page and the dom for modals and removes them.
Like a classic ad blocking tool on steroids.</p>
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