<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: wongarsu</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wongarsu</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:33:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=wongarsu" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wongarsu in "DeepSeek Harness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are lots of papers on the topic. I think the best summary is "it's complicated". Typically models perform slightly better in English, typically best in either professional English or very rude English. Though this varies by model, not all react well to rude English, and I wouldn't be surprised if Chinese was on the rise<p>Also, "less tokens" is not always straight forward. I doubt it's a coincidence that the cavemen skill (or now proxy, I guess) has lots of numbers, but not a single benchmark on model performance or actual per-task token savings<p>For example one paper I remember found that without CoT, just stating your prompt twice increases model performance. With CoT, the same function is served by the CoT restating the important parts of your question. Something about which tokens can affect which other tokens in attention implementations</p>
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<p>And we fixed the ozone hole by taking decisive action internationally banning the worst ozone-destroying gases</p>
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<p>Based on the location I got it guesses the location from the IP. The accuracy of that varies wildly by country and ISP. The US is a place where it is usually accurate to the city level</p>
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<p>Silent alarm is an awesome feature. But it scales with battery life: on a watch with ~48 hours of battery you want to charge daily. And the most convenient time for that is in the night, which kills the silent alarm feature<p>Once you get to a week of battery life like a Garmin or those cheap armbands without screen that becomes a much better feature</p>
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<p>I wouldn't want to abolish software copyright completely, but we would all benefit if the copyright duration was much shorter for software. Something like 20 years. That would keep source code leaks of current software toxic, but make it possible to build on top of old software (like say the leaked Windows XP source)</p>
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<p>But $800M in USD is worth only about $1.2B today. Keeping the money invested in Apple is convenient if you're already paid in stock, but beyond the lock-up period we have to keep in mind that it's just one of many things he could have done when accepting the money<p>Though I think it fair to speculate that if he had taken the deal he would likely have more money today, at the cost of less status</p>
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<p>One subtlety that is worth considering is that what a company is inherently set up to do is maximize shareholder <i>value</i>. Value can be quite complex, especially while the number of shareholders is small. Value can include the legacy or reputation of the shareholders. It can include the ethics of the shareholders. It can include completely different goals, like the famous "make humans a multi-planetary species".<p>Treating value as purely monetary profit is a perversion of that. To a certain degree it's inevitable as the number of shareholders grows, so seeing it in public companies isn't surprising. But even then, if a company focused on creating equipment for sustainable, pesticide free farming were to pivot into making Hellfire missiles that might be insanely profitable while still destroying a large part of what existing shareholders value about the company</p>
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<p>Even in the west, Nvidia's dominance is bound to weaken. There is a notable uptick of articles on HN about people running large models on AMD hardware. And while I don't know official sales figures, I know we have trouble getting our AMD system delivered<p>AMD's software story is still a lot worse than Nvidia's. But patching up vllm to run one or two models you care about on AMD hardware is a much easier proposition than using them in most other fields of AI.</p>
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<p>They literally replace \n with the unicode symbol<p><a href="https://github.com/activeing123/mcptoon/blob/main/src/mcptoon/output.py#L89" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/activeing123/mcptoon/blob/main/src/mcptoo...</a></p>
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<p>The counterpoint is that we already exploited a lot of the cases where simplifying the problem helps. We've spent approximately two centuries doing that. That leaves a lot of processes left over where that kind of specialization was either not feasible or not economically attractive</p>
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<p>Spiders can't reach as high. Unless you make them really big, but then they take up a lot of space<p>Humans are very space efficient</p>
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<p>Counterpoint: the number of product lines in the space shows high customer demand, but the existing products are all pretty bad. If OpenAI can deliver a better product with a business model that works that's a huge market opportunity</p>
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<p>People don't have to actually follow through with the trend to buy the product, only think they want to. Same as selling fitness products to people who end up doing very little fitness</p>
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<p>The description makes me think that it's targeted at the "screenless" trend. Especially among young people there is a trend to cut down on smartphone usage. This device would fit right in with that: no screen, status display with LEDs and oldschool moving parts (presumably engineered to be cute or endearing). Something to carry around when you don't want to be distracted by the temptations on your phone screen<p>The irony of selling an AI assistant with that premise is not lost on me</p>
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<p>I haven't kept up. Are Siri, Alexa or Google's smart speakers any good now? Or are they still mostly for setting timers and controlling spotify?</p>
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<p>However if you start current SOTA models out on a bad codebase they will happily  write more bad code to fit in with the "conventions" of the existing code. Including authentication and isolation. If you start out your app on the wrong foot (for example because you lack the vocabulary to express what you need) you can end up with nicely polished turds<p>Asking the LLM for a review of the code would still have caught it</p>
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<p>And get sued even harder by publishers?<p>Publishing any out-of-copyright books would be awesome thing to do. But it seems none of the books in this order would fall under that, and it's unclear how many old books they are actually ingesting. Current reports are mostly talking about relatively recent books</p>
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<p>You can get some approximation of that with more detailed plans. I use a prompt like "Let's make a detailed plan. Write plan files as markdown to plans/feature-XYZ. [regular prompt]". That way you get much more thorough plans than with plan mode, and you can make it as detailed and deep as you want.<p>It can't account for things that only come up during implementation. But you can explore much more of the design space in planning to reduce the opportunities for Claude to wander down the wrong path during implementation</p>
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<p>If for that many people there truly is no way left to provide some economic value (that is rewarded enough to pay for shelter, bread and Netflix), that might mean the end of capitalism. Even living in a slum is not free<p>I'm not sure what would replace it. A welfare state doesn't work if the state doesn't have the money. State-run economies don't have the best track record either</p>
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<p>If printing technology took centuries to eliminate the trade of printers, by the same logic computers took about 80 years to eliminate a large chunk of knowledge workers (and that's just counting until today, we might still be a couple years off)</p>
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