<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: smus</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=smus</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:16:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=smus" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smus in "Ask HN: Not treated respectfully by colleague – advice?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What source can you possibly be looking for lmao</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 03:55:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45709012</link><dc:creator>smus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45709012</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45709012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smus in "The “Wow!” signal was likely from extraterrestrial source, and more powerful"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Iphones are created by low wage workers with poor working conditions</p>
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<p>You think a motorcycle will do serious damage to a car driver when rear ending?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 03:50:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45001209</link><dc:creator>smus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45001209</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45001209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smus in "Diffusion language models are super data learners"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you explain how CoT is a form of diffusion or models bidirectional attn?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 04:34:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44860773</link><dc:creator>smus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44860773</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44860773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smus in "Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many people have places to live without owning a house. Me for example!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 03:47:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44752835</link><dc:creator>smus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44752835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44752835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smus in "Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from stratosphere, dies in Italy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there anything you do that ends up being more dangerous? Genuinely curious</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 14:44:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44615880</link><dc:creator>smus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44615880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44615880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smus in "Kiro: A new agentic IDE"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you implying frontier models are running on a100s? Certainly not</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 09:55:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44569583</link><dc:creator>smus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44569583</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44569583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smus in "Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We benchmarked Gemini 2.5 on 100 open source object detection datasets in our paper: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20612" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20612</a> (see table 2)<p>Notably, performance on out of distribution data like those in RF100VL is super degraded<p>It worked really well zero-shot (comparatively to the foundation model field) achieving 13.3 average mAP, but counterintuitively performance degraded when provided visual examples to ground its detections from, and when provided textual instructions on how to find objects as additional context. So it seems it has some amount of object detection zero-shot training, probably on a few standard datasets, but isn't smart enough to incorporate additional context or its general world knowledge into those detection abilities</p>
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<p>You are still being incredibly reductionist but just going into more detail about the system you are reducing. If I stayed at the same level of abstraction as "a brain is just proteins and current" and just described how a single neuron firing worked, I could make it sound equally ridiculous that a human brain might be conscious.<p>Here's a question for you: how do you reconcile that these stochastic mapping are starting to realize and comment on the fact that tests are being performed on them when processing data?</p>
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<p>The point is this is a problem you have on ARM. Your choices are select ARM, have this problem, or didn't select ARM and don't have this problem.</p>
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<p>You understand that factoid strengthens the point of the person you're replying to right</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 04:09:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44440170</link><dc:creator>smus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44440170</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44440170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smus in "Guess I'm a rationalist now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The comment I replied to conceded wrongness and smugness but is still somehow confused why otherwise intelligent ppl dislike the movement. I was hoping to clear it up for them<p>Extra points for that comment's author implying that people who don't like the wrong and smug movement are unintelligent and protecting their egos, thus personally proving its smugness</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 20:05:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44322073</link><dc:creator>smus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44322073</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44322073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smus in "Guess I'm a rationalist now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Feels like "they are wrong and smug" is enough reason to dislike the movement</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 18:28:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44321221</link><dc:creator>smus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44321221</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44321221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smus in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even in cities with good public transit, it will not take me home at 3 AM, with possibly few exceptions like cities that have good public transit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 13:23:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282175</link><dc:creator>smus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smus in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's your Venmo?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 13:01:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282098</link><dc:creator>smus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282098</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smus in "I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nope, they all depend on x and the same is true in this scenario</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 01:39:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44280011</link><dc:creator>smus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44280011</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44280011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smus in "A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are super confident a thing that exists can't exist<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_well_(condenser)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_well_(condenser)</a><p>Check out the passive section of the above</p>
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<p>60bpm of random notes!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 15:11:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44062867</link><dc:creator>smus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44062867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44062867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smus in "Is Winter Coming? (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you been to San Francisco?</p>
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<p>It's a bit demoralizing people talk about AI training as if it were even 1/100th the environmental impact of the personal automobile or frequent airplane trips</p>
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