Hacker News: rsanek

New comment by rsanek in "Honey, We Bought an AI Story"

rsanek — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:43:50 +0000

So interesting to read about AI perceptions from the other side. In my mind, the problems with these drafts were moreso that the writers using AI could not (or would not) actually engage and improve them when given feedback, not necessarily that their writing process did not match the traditional one.

I'm not sure I see any inherent problem with publishing books written with the help of AI. As with software, I don't really care much how it's made, I care bout my experience with the finished product.

"Is it worth the $?" is ultimately the question that will be asked of anything one pays for, regardless of how exactly it was produced.

New comment by rsanek in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

rsanek — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:29:22 +0000

Interesting perspective. In my experience the risk is actually that it results in alert fatigue, which means that drivers that would otherwise pay attention to such an alert no longer do.

New comment by rsanek in "New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf]"

rsanek — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:46:44 +0000

I rarely make cards by hand anymore. I would recommend forking something like https://github.com/jasperket/clanki and editing it (perhaps with an agent) so that it works exactly to your liking.

New comment by rsanek in "Europe's new climate in seven charts"

rsanek — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:06:11 +0000

I think you're measuring one method against a goal it wasn't set for. I assume you are referring to Mammoth direct air capture in your comment -- Stratos in Texas will soon be up, at ~15x the size of Mammoth. But DAC is only one method, and it's the hardest to scale. Just look at options outside of DAC, like Vaulted Deep, whose costs (financially and energy-wise) are far lower.

I do agree that it's unlikely that we can ignore reduction and just depend on purely scaling capture, especially if we care about avoiding more negative climate effects as the scaling goes on. But to say it is "completely infeasible" is not accurate.

New comment by rsanek in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

rsanek — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:35:13 +0000

The exepense is what's not to like. Far cheaper to build a single-story warehouse + outside parking lot than a second story above a parking garage.

New comment by rsanek in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

rsanek — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:01:45 +0000

It's fair to call out issues with the tool. But I think for individuals searching for jobs, using LLMs as the scapegoat for why it's hard to find a role is not terribly helpful.

In my experience, cold-applying has always worked essentially as a black hole, and LLMs haven't changed that much. The reality is that alternative avenues are always necessary to get the job you want. That could be a third-party recruiter; reaching out to a hiring manager on LinkedIn; or using your network to get referrals. Those continue to work whether the company is using a bone-headed tool like this or not.

New comment by rsanek in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

rsanek — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:25:07 +0000

Let's play this out further. How about high school, should there be grades there? Tests at all levels also typically involve a grade / metric -- are those included too?

New comment by rsanek in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

rsanek — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:21:29 +0000

Do you mean very well? Lots of proof out there that it works; Fin, Sierra and others already operate on a value based pricing model where they only get paid if the AI actually resolves issues.

New comment by rsanek in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

rsanek — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:18:43 +0000

If you can't concentrate while people are working on computers near you, I don't think you'll do well in any workplace that is based around knowledge work.

New comment by rsanek in "DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]"

rsanek — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:51:15 +0000

The CCP's approach has historically been to subsidize their companies far more than other countries do. Why would LLMs be any different?

https://www.oecd.org/en/data/dashboards/magic-database-indus...

New comment by rsanek in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

rsanek — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:12:14 +0000

Turns out, BLS actually lists this stuff when they release CPI figures.

Used cars & trucks; butter; cheese; flour; chicken; textbooks; drugs are all down since ~2 years ago. Not an exhaustive list!

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.htm

New comment by rsanek in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

rsanek — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:06:05 +0000

That's just one part of it. According to https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/routing/model-variants/exa...

  We use three classes of signals:
   * Tool-calling success and reliability from real traffic
   * Provider performance metrics such as throughput and latency
   * Benchmark and evaluation data as it becomes available

New comment by rsanek in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

rsanek — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:46:24 +0000

Not quite -- those were loans that were largely repaid, quite different from the subsidies CCP uses for its industrial base.

ProPublica has a nice tracker that shows the loans: https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/

You can also see how subsidies compare between China and OECD in this recent doc. In autos, China subsidizes to the tune of 2-3% of revenue vs. <0.5% for North America. https://www.oecd.org/en/data/dashboards/magic-database-indus...

New comment by rsanek in "Running local models is good now"

rsanek — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:27:49 +0000

Who's paying the $50k? I don't see how it makes sense to pay that much for a home-grown setup when I could pay <$5k/year total for both of the two best frontier models at effectively unlimited usage.

New comment by rsanek in "Don't trust large context windows"

rsanek — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:49:56 +0000

> The number on the box gets bigger every release.

Not really tho right? Since we got to 1m context in mid 2025 nearly no one has gone higher.

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

rsanek — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:14:08 +0000

While it's a little unstable, I've found Docker's sbx to be a great sandbox to run agents with --dangerously-skip-permissions

New comment by rsanek in "Open source AI must win"

rsanek — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:15:47 +0000

Perhaps an idea that could work is that if you're a lab that is releasing closed source models, you have to also release open source ones. gpt-oss is now old but was decent when it came out. Nemotron is solid, especially the recent ultra release. And Nvidia especially has a much better story vs Chinese models around releasing all parts (including pre and post training data), not just the model itself.

New comment by rsanek in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"

rsanek — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:12:31 +0000

Likely CCP-subsidized

New comment by rsanek in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

rsanek — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:35:24 +0000

It'll be at 50% within 6 months, then 100% within a year.

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/06/01/c...

New comment by rsanek in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

rsanek — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:02:05 +0000

Note that with that link you're looking at data that is over a decade old. Alabama is actually doing better than California in the most recent grade 4 math profile. https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/profiles/stateprofile?sfj=...