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New comment by thadk in "“Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive?"

thadk — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:03:14 +0000

Article does not mention the other reason: in the interview with Dwarkesh, Amodei remarked about how other organizations are copying or training off Opus for their models.

By delaying allowing others to train off Mythos, they hold their SWE-Bench Pro head start longer so among other things, the USG can't but notice Anthropic's lead when they're deliberating on whether to further substantiate the "supply chain risk".

New comment by thadk in "An idiot’s guide to lead optimisation for proteins"

thadk — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:10:15 +0000

Anyone else read this as "An idiot's guide to Pb optimization for proteins," as in avoiding contaminated dietary protein isolates?

New comment by thadk in "A laser-based process that enables adhesive-free paper packaging"

thadk — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:47:05 +0000

Muji stocked a stapler like this for some time.

New comment by thadk in "Offloading FFmpeg with Cloudflare"

thadk — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:14:05 +0000

Ffmpeg.WASM is really good and might manage all these steps before even uploading.

New comment by thadk in "Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers"

thadk — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:25:12 +0000

Since it kind of had an LLM flavor in the original anyway, I had an LLM redraft this for my particular non-Japanese intercultural situation, and it wasn't valueless. I had to tell it to "Make sure to keep the same technology focus of the original."

New comment by thadk in "Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction"

thadk — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:33:08 +0000

The Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) mentioned is streaming on Amazon Prime in the USA, amongst other streaming services:

https://letterboxd.com/film/land-of-silence-and-darkness/

New comment by thadk in "Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]"

thadk — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:36:51 +0000

"We're not perfectly good at preventing some of these other [model] companies from using our models internally." — well maybe this says something about how Opus 4.5 and Opus 4.6 have the same SWE bench score.

New comment by thadk in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

thadk — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:23:14 +0000

Huh, so if a China-based lab takes ARC-AGI-2 on the new year, then they can say they had just-shy of a solution anyway.

New comment by thadk in "GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster"

thadk — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:48:33 +0000

It was probably from the other day when roon realized that normal people have it slower than staff.

Then from that they realized they could just run API calls more like staff, fast, not at capacity.

Then they leave the billion other people's calls at remaining capacity.

https://thezvi.substack.com/i/185423735/choose-your-fighter

> Ohqay: Do you get faster speeds on your work account?

> roon: yea it’s super fast bc im sure we’re not running internal deployment at full load

New comment by thadk in "Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt"

thadk — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:19:06 +0000

Does this manufacturer's practice pattern of repackaging data center components (e.g. Mellanox) imply any up and coming product creation opportunities?

New comment by thadk in "The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)"

thadk — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:20:16 +0000

On two separate instances 4 years apart in Liberia, the VSAT unit and Asus WiFi router were overheating at peak usage or peak heat times. This must be happening more than is generally realized.

Easiest solution: permanently point a good case-fan-sized USB fan on to the unit, using its own USB port.

New comment by thadk in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

thadk — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:11:00 +0000

this Nov video talks thru via Cursor renegotiation, how in important ways a token != a token (not even within types like reasoning, output, or a model) because attention can lead to expensive logic loops. https://www.oreilly.com/videos/live-with-tim/0642572259488/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXMO2dW0LI&list=PL055Epbe6d...

New comment by thadk in "Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin"

thadk — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 06:56:16 +0000

Glad it was a helpful remix! Since that post, the original tool author added UKLG's full version to the tool: https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Code:gff,sm,jc,rh,uklg/sectio...

New comment by thadk in "Apple Creator Studio"

thadk — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 07:18:46 +0000

The main thing about Freeform that has been useful is that it has been a https://infinitecanvas.tools without a lock-in subscription.

New comment by thadk in "What the heck is going on at Apple?"

thadk — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:27:33 +0000

Could be Fadell, why else would Apple put Thread in phones? Maybe iTunes Store (via Fuse) and iPhone (via General Magic) weren't the only things Fadell had pitched Jobs on when the time was right.

New comment by thadk in "Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's"

thadk — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 17:51:11 +0000

It seems like li.st was founded by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._J._Novak#The_List_App — unlikely to show on HN but maybe someone knows him.

New comment by thadk in "Venn Diagram for 7 Sets"

thadk — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 04:34:25 +0000

Here's a very rough interactive on more recently published 7-way and 11-way venn: https://observablehq.com/@thadk/venn (with clean-ish svg, cites)

This fork shows an older version with all the shapes turned on and filled with original colors: https://observablehq.com/d/4a5120e490fa9da4

Santiago Ortiz's venn was from 2013 (via archive.org) . I had forgotten I'd seen that, thanks for sharing.

New comment by thadk in "The zipper is getting its first major upgrade in 100 years"

thadk — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 06:22:30 +0000

Huh, reading the spec sheet, the hem line at the bottom of these has to be quite thin like the rest of the zipper-proximate area.

You can note on each of the 3 example garments and in the comment near them that the double thick sewn hem has to end near the new "zipper" design.

New comment by thadk in "Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents"

thadk — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:52:56 +0000

Imagine a PhD mortally terrified of exceptions!

Now I see why Karpathy was talking of RL up-weights as if they were a destructive straw-drawn line of a drug for an LLM's training.

New comment by thadk in "Seeing like a software company"

thadk — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 03:46:55 +0000

It seems to me the next opportunity for Sean is to integrate this logic with The Goal (1985) extended universe of works.