Hacker News: ricopags

New comment by ricopags in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

ricopags — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:24:06 +0000

I say don't muddy the water with the public panic over "will it won't it" bubble burst predictions.

The effective demand for Opus 4.5 is bottomless; the models will only get better.

People will always want a code model as good as we have now, let alone better.

Bun securing default status in the best coding model is a win-win-win

New comment by ricopags in "Gemini 3"

ricopags — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 08:19:08 +0000

Cooperation with the eval admins

New comment by ricopags in "Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion"

ricopags — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:53:19 +0000

not wrong, per se, but it's far from the first time

New comment by ricopags in "How large are large language models?"

ricopags — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:41:30 +0000

depends on the hyperparams but one of the biggest benefits of a latent space is transfer between modalities

New comment by ricopags in "Ask HN: Where is OpenAI physically, server-wise, running inference?"

ricopags — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 23:00:01 +0000

in a bunch of azure data centers?

https://datacenters.microsoft.com/globe/explore/

New comment by ricopags in "We need more optimistic science fiction"

ricopags — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:36:26 +0000

ASU's Center for Science and Imagination has a project[0] specific to this that they launched[1] in 2014

[0]https://csi.asu.edu/category/optimism/ [1]https://csi.asu.edu/project-archive/optimism/science-fiction...

New comment by ricopags in "AI Dev Explainer"

ricopags — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:53:33 +0000

Lovely CSS and nice content chunking, but perhaps overly biased towards finding utility with LLMs as there is too little information about cautions to take.

Most egregiously, on the AI is stateless page[0], it shows relying on an llm reponse to call a program via sudo. I can't think of a system where a professional programmer could justify such a risk.

I think after "AI predicts text" it makes less sense to say "AI is just another API" than something like "AI makes APIs fuzzy" because the stochasticity makes an AI API anything but "just another API." Most people think of APIs as deterministic in function, AFAIK.

[0]https://www.aiexplainer.dev/stateless

New comment by ricopags in "Reflection 70B, the top open-source model"

ricopags — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 20:07:01 +0000

I /feel/ similarly intuition-wise. But models are crazy and what they respond to is often unpredictable. There are no lungs in an AI model but nonetheless 'take a deep breath' as a prompt has shown[0] improvement on math scores lol

Personally I strongly disapprove of the first/second person pronouns and allowing them [encouraging, even] to output 'we' when talking about humans.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/telli...

New comment by ricopags in "Show HN: An open-source implementation of AlphaFold3"

ricopags — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:26:06 +0000

Possibly because it dovetails with pharma mfg and [potentially] food mfg. Could see a case made for enzymatically brewed 'meat inks' [very sorry for this term ;p] for 3d printing the next gen of lab meats.

New comment by ricopags in "Does Sundar Pichai/Search team know how bad Google search is?"

ricopags — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 20:39:57 +0000

Certain based on anything other than instinctive surmise?

New comment by ricopags in "AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point"

ricopags — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 12:13:18 +0000

The massive LLMs trained on webscale data aren't. But some are, in fact:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07612

New comment by ricopags in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

ricopags — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:56:17 +0000

It isn't clear at this point that the Azure thing and the CS thing are unrelated

New comment by ricopags in "New AI Training Technique Is Drastically Faster, Says Google"

ricopags — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 00:33:28 +0000

Largest context window (because of most compute) wins.

They've got more serious engineering heavyweights, putting a lot of collective work on fewer tasks/approaches. Microsoft is taking more of a kitchen sink approach

New comment by ricopags in "New AI Training Technique Is Drastically Faster, Says Google"

ricopags — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 00:31:31 +0000

Pretty similar to cappy https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06720

New comment by ricopags in "2x faster Gemma 2 finetuning and 63% less VRAM"

ricopags — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 01:27:21 +0000

Gemma 2 27B is currently the best performing 'open' model [license is non-commercial].

The Unsloth team have a blog post up where they've made fine-tuning Gemma 2 require less VRAM, and also have extended the context window.

They've also updated their 'mistralified' PHI-3 models to Microsoft's June update of PHI-3 which sees some performance increases as well.

2x faster Gemma 2 finetuning and 63% less VRAM

ricopags — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 01:27:21 +0000

Article URL: https://unsloth.ai/blog/gemma2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40871615

Points: 3

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New comment by ricopags in "Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful"

ricopags — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 20:35:48 +0000

It's never been better than what MS had and if you think so you've never used the MS way as I do.

Alt+underlined letter with no menus opens opens whichever menu maps to that letter

After which any [unique, as they mostly are] underlined letter activates the press for that menu item.

There is no equivalent to the speed of this in OSX, even with third party software.

Very very happy to be proven wrong on this

New comment by ricopags in "Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful"

ricopags — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 20:34:06 +0000

No it doesn't. Alt+space bring up the window system menu to restore/maximize/close?

Alt+f, a to save as?

Negative.

New comment by ricopags in "Perplexity's grand theft AI"

ricopags — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 20:32:14 +0000

If you pay attention to what I wrote vs what you wanted to read, you'd see the false equivalence is yours.

Pay-gating copyrighted content is different indeed from public-posted social media content. In the instance of the Forbes theft, Perplexity offered links to other copycats, but never the original [costly] reporting.

New comment by ricopags in "Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful"

ricopags — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 20:20:17 +0000

Never coded a GUI app but speaking of regressions:

As a heavy windows KB user, losing the ability to alt+letter all the things to /quickly/ navigate windows apps is incredibly frustrating.

I've read that Mac OS envy infiltrated the WinUI time and while some may prefer the aesthetics, on Windows 11 apps like mspaint I can no longer navigate anywhere near as quickly.

From milliseconds to multiple seconds.

I'm incensed at this change personally, and I feel totally confused by it from the perspective of MS. In the era of AI and automation, slower screen draw times will make a significant impact to performance and energy use. I hope someone like Mark Russinovich, Kevin Scott, or Satya Nadella will notice and change course.