Hacker News: riknos314

New comment by riknos314 in "Claude Fable 5"

riknos314 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:10:08 +0000

> All these points are valid, and OpenAI did a great job identifying potential risks, especially misuse and biases, at an early stage.

Many of the OpenAI employees who were focused on these risks in GPT-2 later founded Anthropic, notably Dario [1]. Since the beginning and continuing through today Anthropic describes itself as an "AI safety and research company" [2]

I'm not sure if the OpenAI of today has the same focus on safety, or if they do the minimum to not look irresponsible given Anthropic's effort.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei

[2] https://www.anthropic.com/company

New comment by riknos314 in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

riknos314 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:13:09 +0000

Are teaching and software engineering even job categories that overlap enough that they should compete for the same pool of visas?

It seems to me things would be better if they were classified as different visa categories.

New comment by riknos314 in "India's surprise baby bust"

riknos314 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:26:11 +0000

> There was a change that took place in the late 70s it looks like

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

New comment by riknos314 in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

riknos314 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:45:01 +0000

Unfortunately in the current market 32GB of ddr5 seems to run about $400 as 2x16gb DIMMS, and even more for 1x32GB DIMM (higher density chips are more expensive). So $600 really isn't much over market price, especially considering strix halo uses 8000MHz ram instead of the typical 6000 found in consumer dimms.

New comment by riknos314 in "Vitamin D acts more like a hormone than a vitamin"

riknos314 — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:13:45 +0000

The premise is correct, but this particular source is definitely an ad for a blood testing program.

> The [Vitamin D Receptor] VDR is part of the nuclear receptor superfamily of steroid hormone receptors, which are hormone-dependent regulators of gene expression. These receptors are expressed in cells across most organs. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D

New comment by riknos314 in "Local LLMs perform better when you teach them to ask before they answer"

riknos314 — Sun, 24 May 2026 06:59:46 +0000

I started using similar approaches in the sonnet 3.5 era and found them incredibly useful at the time. The frontier lab models have gotten significantly better about their guesses over time, but I still sometimes turn to the technique if my own ideation is only about 80% of the way there, as the LLM's questioning can help me identify the blind spots that need more consideration.

New comment by riknos314 in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

riknos314 — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:52:02 +0000

No simulation is perfect, so ideally you have a feedback look constantly looking at new real-world data as it comes in and finding where the simulation has errors, and updating the simulation to improve the correlation between the simulation and the real world over time.

My guess is they did have flooded street sims but the correlation was much lower than expected, or the details of the situation being simulated (lighting, building locations, how dirty the water is, ...) were sufficiently different from the situation that was encountered that the sim based training didn't generalize to the new context.

New comment by riknos314 in "Tears – Tiered Enforcement, Authorship Review System"

riknos314 — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:28:34 +0000

I like this concept of adding additional context to the dependency graph of imports.

Any plans for tooling that would enable rules like "no code above tear allowed in the production build"?

New comment by riknos314 in "Apple announced the iPhone 17e with a chip developed in Israel"

riknos314 — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:04:01 +0000

Intel employs over 9000 people in Israel [1].

There's significant chip development and manufacturing talent there, so it's not really all that surprising if Apple has a team there for those purposes.

Also Apple bought out Intel's modem division in 2019 [2], so chances are that group was already Israel based under Intel.

1. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/corporate-responsibi... 2. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/07/apple-to-acquire-the-...

New comment by riknos314 in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

riknos314 — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:24:23 +0000

Age gating the VPN age gates (pseudo-anonymous) access to 100% of the content on the internet. Regardless of whether or not you agree with it, age gating only the porn subset of the internet is a much smaller restriction.

New comment by riknos314 in "The sigmoids won't save you"

riknos314 — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:23:10 +0000

> those that do not have an "unavoidable expiration date"."

Try avoiding the heat death of the universe /s

New comment by riknos314 in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

riknos314 — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:20:14 +0000

A more accurate phrasing is: It's significantly less likely that one learns the portion of the work they offload to an LLM.

A random anecdote is that most of the people I know who went very far in theoretical math are relatively poor at basic mental arithmetic, because they always think in the abstract and offload addition and multiplication to the calculator. It doesn't mean they can't do it, they just aren't as practiced or as fast at it.

New comment by riknos314 in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

riknos314 — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:56:41 +0000

Amazon has far more roles than just software. PMs, FC area managers, managers - if your job involves writing anything you're expected to be using AI in some capacity.

New comment by riknos314 in "Productivity isn't about going faster"

riknos314 — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:39:39 +0000

Even if the ultimate measure is dollars most employers will attempt to predict which metrics of employment best correllate with dollars so they can predict how many people to hire

New comment by riknos314 in "Productivity isn't about going faster"

riknos314 — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:37:20 +0000

Any claim about "productivity is due to X" that doesn't define a timescale is either flawed or misleading. In fact all measures of anything need to be done across some meaningfully defined time scale to have any relevance.

New comment by riknos314 in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

riknos314 — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:07:21 +0000

> github has a huge warning saying to never use pull_request_target to run user code

This is an area where documentation is necessary but not sufficient. Github needs to add some form of automated screening mechanism to either prevent this usage, or at the very least quickly flag usages that might be dangerous.

New comment by riknos314 in "Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria"

riknos314 — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:39:17 +0000

If your intestinal lining is healthy, there's probably not much to worry about.

If it hurts while just sitting in your gut that's probably a red flag that something about your digestive system is off.

New comment by riknos314 in "AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures"

riknos314 — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:55:11 +0000

That's still coordinated, but by the publicizing of the key

New comment by riknos314 in "AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures"

riknos314 — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:22:35 +0000

What process or mechanism would you prefer to use instead of coordinated disclosure?

New comment by riknos314 in "AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures"

riknos314 — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:40:36 +0000

I believe this premise that the cost of identification of vulnerabilities via diffs is going down over time begs the question "what do our processes need to look like if simply making the patch public is the disclosure?"

Current coordinated disclosure practices have a dependency on patching and disclosure being separate, but the gap between them seems to be asymptomatically approaching zero.