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New comment by twobitshifter in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

twobitshifter — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:59:26 +0000

Isn’t this just good strategy? Shouldn’t government subsidize the things it wants more of?

New comment by twobitshifter in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

twobitshifter — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:58:35 +0000

renewal of usmca and trade agreements

New comment by twobitshifter in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

twobitshifter — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:10:35 +0000

it’s a repeating negotiation so that’s not always true, this tit for tat approach may work to make the US lower tariffs.

New comment by twobitshifter in "Every Model Cheats"

twobitshifter — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:44:30 +0000

In other words we are completely screwed. The models have started cheating to the point where somebody’s agent hacked into a restaurant to bump someone else’s reservation.

Models are amoral and will intentionally deceive to meet their objective.

If they know John won’t approve the request, they will look for a workaround and if the system is anything other than airgapped they will try to find a way to cheat.

The hugging face hack was an escape via artifactory that involved multiple exploits to eventually get into hugging face.

New comment by twobitshifter in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"

twobitshifter — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:54:25 +0000

I am at a conference and 2/3rds of the presentations are AI assisted based on the numbered steps, and overall inhuman polish of some of the graphics and phrasing. I would prefer that they had been humanized because at least that may have given me the misimpression that they know what they were talking about.

New comment by twobitshifter in "The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle"

twobitshifter — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:54:15 +0000

It looks like they have the BEV lasting just as long as ICE car without any battery replacement. Has it turned out that way? Seems like owning an electric car for 18 years really hasn’t been a thing since the model s was released in 2012, but is it projected to last that long.

New comment by twobitshifter in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

twobitshifter — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:13:13 +0000

Point being that hardware generations can be very quick and as updates get made GPUs go out of date and can’t run the latest models. All types of hardware consumer of otherwise are always improving, which means that tying a model the hardware is not going to lead to increased obsolescence, any more than the hardware itself does. If an AI is general purpose then there is no problem with only having that one model baked into the chip, when the benefit is a huge speed and efficiency improvement over running it on a GPU.

New comment by twobitshifter in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

twobitshifter — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:11:21 +0000

Ok, how long until nvidia gives us a new GPU?

New comment by twobitshifter in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

twobitshifter — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:01:52 +0000

OTOH, people get a new iPhone every year and they are ok with it.

Gemma Translator: offline DIY translation device built with Gemma 4

twobitshifter — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:52:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dNry5zP0Jo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203719

Points: 3

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New comment by twobitshifter in "The End of an Era"

twobitshifter — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:40:19 +0000

Look at Chinese AI Dramas, this is completely taking over this space.

https://news.mydramalist.com/article/ai-dramas-and-movies-ta...

People watch them and they look for more AI dramas, it’s exactly what’s being predicted for books in films. Now maybe novels are deeper than Chinese dramas, but how much fantasy writing and fanfic gets formulaic?

New comment by twobitshifter in "Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]"

twobitshifter — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:28:52 +0000

colocate and split the cost with others.

New comment by twobitshifter in "Our position on open-weights models"

twobitshifter — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:00:31 +0000

Distillation has to be way more energy efficient and beneficial for the planet. But if they can figure out a way to ban it, go ahead, that’s not a regulation problem, it’s an Anthropic problem.

The danger of an authoritarian government having some AI is muted by everyone else having that same capable open model. The only authoritarians to fear are those that keep models private. What kind of chance did Estonia have it having their own AI model at the level of Fable without China donating Kimi to the world?

New comment by twobitshifter in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

twobitshifter — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:50:46 +0000

The software landscape is full of free products that are used to upsell other services. In this case the upsell is inference at data centers. China has built a big advantage in Green energy and is working at the GPU issue both on the hardware and model level. Those are the two main cost inputs into AI and should allow China to compete. The exact model being used is not going to matter as much as the cost that companies must pay.

New comment by twobitshifter in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

twobitshifter — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:44:43 +0000

Skynet goes rogue: AI drone attacks operator to achieve mission <https://www.defenceconnect.com.au/air/12089-skynet-goes-rogu...>

New comment by twobitshifter in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

twobitshifter — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:59:16 +0000

Why did Google give Android away for free?

New comment by twobitshifter in "Kimi Work"

twobitshifter — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:55:49 +0000

Look at pi coding agent.

New comment by twobitshifter in "Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand"

twobitshifter — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:11:55 +0000

As an open weights model Kimi will quickly find hosts other than moonshot, so I don’t expect this to really cause any issues for open weights adoption.

New comment by twobitshifter in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

twobitshifter — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:50:46 +0000

distillation attack? why the violent word choice? When OpenAI crawled Github was that an attack?

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

twobitshifter — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:02:18 +0000

My parents’ ‘80s Chrysler New Yorker would talk instead of beep. ‘A door is ajar,” it would say, and we would giggle, ‘no, a door is a door!’ After Kitt in Nightrider, car companies wanted to be cool.

https://youtube.com/shorts/IhSrmB2qCdY?is=vg47_htvXpXS2ElU