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New comment by sigbottle in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All"

sigbottle — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:46:35 +0000

That... is a more plausible explanation I didn't think of.

New comment by sigbottle in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All"

sigbottle — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:46:03 +0000

Is quantization a mostly solved pipeline at this point? I thought that architectures were varied and weird enough where you can't just click a button, say "go optimize these weights", and go. I mean new models have new code that they want to operate on, right, so you'd have to analyze the code and insert the quantization at the right places, automatically, then make sure that doesn't degrade perf?

Maybe I just don't understand how quantization works, but I thought quantization was a very nasty problem involving a lot of plumbing

New comment by sigbottle in "Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out"

sigbottle — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:30:59 +0000

Forget the "Humans must always be in the loop for accountability" argument against AI, we already don't have such checks today!

New comment by sigbottle in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety"

sigbottle — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:18:34 +0000

Interesting you single out commercial and government entities but not people. What defines the difference? Bureaucracy? Concentration of resources? Legal theory?

I guess I'm trying to wonder why this line of thinking (in theory) doesn't turn to paranoia about everybody. I don't know much ethics or political theory or anything.

New comment by sigbottle in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

sigbottle — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:39:14 +0000

That's actually an interesting argument for centralization, when it comes to interoperability concerns. I have never thought about it.

Of course, the standard response against centralization is that the centralized entity can sneak backdoors and turn at the drop of a hat.

Maybe something like a signal-like model might be good, in that regard, as opposed to mesh networks.

New comment by sigbottle in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

sigbottle — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:01:41 +0000

Things have mostly gotten better through centralization and unification, which is certainly a way of getting better.

New comment by sigbottle in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

sigbottle — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:17:06 +0000

Does economics or political theory focus on centralization, practically speaking? Not as a normative claim. What the actual effects are like. It just feels like we're at a centralization of power of unprecedented scale, to the point where no previous theories or models could really apply (in order to make analytical progress - I mean sure feudalism is honestly becoming a scarier and scarier analogy but still, there are significant differences)

I'm pretty much only thinking about these kinds of problems at my job at this point, so this is important to me in that regard

New comment by sigbottle in "Why meaningful days look like nothing while you are living them"

sigbottle — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:46:53 +0000

I converse enough with LLMs for research at this point where I feel I have a good enough structure to hop on/off them to primary sources and stuff, so I don't get annoyed with them too easily.

Whereas I haven't seriously reflected on my social media consumption habits for over 15 years, and over the years I'm getting more and more annoyed at social media.

Not to be a bit misanthropic, but there's something seriously wrong with my social media usage, especially when I know there's a real human on the other side, combined with ever increasing annoyance towards commenters and just the feelings I get after reading social media.

It may be dopamine / self-help related, but no actually, I think all of that is part of the issue (discovered that in high school when it was taking off). Something about the way I'm fundamentally interacting with the medium seems so horrible and icky the more I mature.

New comment by sigbottle in "Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries"

sigbottle — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:34:36 +0000

Look, I read Continental philosophers too and I think they're cool, my point is that that kind of statement isn't what an analytic philosopher would say

New comment by sigbottle in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

sigbottle — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:29:27 +0000

Well the point of capitalism (going back to Adam Smith) is that the invisible hand converts locally selfish behavior to globally good outcomes. The argument is whether or not that emerges. So if your implication was that human trait was selfishness, yes, that is quite the point of capitalism.

New comment by sigbottle in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

sigbottle — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:06:33 +0000

> making this type of deterministic and WCET (worst case execution time) a dominant computing paradigm.

Oh wow, really? I never knew that. huh.

I feel like as I grow older, the more I start to appreciate history. Curse my naive younger self! (Well, to be fair, I don't know if I would've learned history like that in school...)

New comment by sigbottle in "Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries"

sigbottle — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:45:50 +0000

Also I thought that 20th century analytic thought dissolved metaphysics entirely and didn't want to talk about it. I mean sure then you can question, "why delete metaphysics" but then you can't say that the 20th century brought this kind of stuff

> It treated ontological Being as fixed, as beings nailed to a wall, lifeless and immobile.

This reads more as a response to Plato & Kant

New comment by sigbottle in "Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries"

sigbottle — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:41:48 +0000

Wait I thought Heidegger claimed that title? Or is he the guy who shifted Being from a noun to a verb, and Hegel's still focusing on the noun (just that the noun itself is a moving concept)?

New comment by sigbottle in "Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries"

sigbottle — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:02:28 +0000

Yo what has been the coolest thing about Hegel's philosophy you learned?

New comment by sigbottle in "Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries"

sigbottle — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:02:03 +0000

I'm starting with the Science of Logic!

I want to cry...

New comment by sigbottle in "Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement"

sigbottle — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:21:14 +0000

Well for the chess world, open source world (BDFL), etc probably okay. For real world governments...

New comment by sigbottle in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

sigbottle — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:49:54 +0000

I mean yeah ultimately it's a tool and I've even leaned off of AI recently for coding because it was exhausting dealing with all its hallucinations

New comment by sigbottle in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

sigbottle — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:44:30 +0000

No, we should build the massive, privately-owned, nationwide surveillance apparatus with taxpayer money! It's for science, after all! We have no data on whether or not cameras covering every square inch of space, hooked up to a centralized surveillance database is actually good for society. We need to conduct this methodologically and scientifically. We'll be able to come to an objective conclusion with enough testing!

New comment by sigbottle in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

sigbottle — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:04:47 +0000

I mean humans do that too, and I don't think it's very unjustified. The "we deduce from a deep base premise P down a chain of inferences" picture is extremely incomplete and has been challenged all over the place - by normal people, by analytic and continental philosophers, by science itself, etc.

Not trying to say that LLM's are equivalent to humans but that the concept of reasoning is undefined.

And the fact that their performance does increase when using test-time compute is empirical evidence that they're doing something that increases their performance on tasks that we consider would require reasoning. As to what that is, we don't know.

New comment by sigbottle in "The cult of vibe coding is insane"

sigbottle — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:04:34 +0000

am layman. is CV "solved" at this point, or is there more work to be done?