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BoorishBears··on Ask HN: Why can I only downvote select comments?
I don't think HN staff would ever do that, but what was the topic?
BoorishBears··on GPT-6 Astra
This isn't the gotcha that you think it is: AGI's original definition is being able to do any task that requires human intelligence.

The unlock isn't AGI smart enough to invent quantum mechanics, it's suddenly being able scale human intelligence using grains of sand instead of decades of food and energy and nuturing.

BoorishBears··on GPT-6 Astra
Cool. Being sole proprietor of AGI 15 years ago should result in monuments and religions devoted to you today.

Cancer should be cured, and we should be a post-quantum interstellar fusion-powered civilization.

I wish the AGI crowd would finally shut up now that it's clear no one is even trying for AGI (OpenAI revised that to "$100B in profit")

What we're getting is incredible, where we're headed is incredible, but some people have such a fetish for futuretelling they can't just shut up and enjoy the ride.

BoorishBears··on GPT-6 Astra
After they buy AZ, making this name foreshadowing
BoorishBears··on GPT-6 Astra
Would be surprising if it's not on all 3 major clouds soon enough because that's been their general strategy since said break up
BoorishBears··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Lol we got literally the opposite:

> *Fewer progress updates during long tool runs.*

> The model writes less user-facing text between tool calls, especially at higher effort. Set thinking.display to "updates" (beta) to receive the progress updates it does write, and remove any prompt line that tells it to hold findings for the final response.

BoorishBears··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
At least half the changes are just anti-distillation strategies...
BoorishBears··on GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
4.7 and 4.8 are smaller than 4.5 and 4.6

(And 4.5 was smaller than 4)

BoorishBears··on Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware
As the other comment points out, if you've installed more than a few, you've definitly connected to the CAN bus.

Few headunits will ask you to connect to the OBD2 port for practical reasons, but the miscilanous manufacturer specific connectors you hook up often include CAN bus connections.

OBD2 port is just 1 of multiple ports with access to the network, even your headlights can be on the bus

BoorishBears··on ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs
I was confused why I was already on the list... this is from 2023.
BoorishBears··on AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
I noticed my MBP had a periodic stutter sometimes: every 3 seconds or so the mouse would lock up for a few milliseconds.

I tracked it down to American Express's login page (auto loads if you leave the site idle) relying on Akamai's anti bot measures polling some web Bluetooth feature, causing Chrome to trigger a BT scan: https://castle.io/research/fingerprint-harvesting-in-the-bot...

Turning off Bluetooth solves it, but that's not a great solution when using a Bluetooth mouse... and it sounds like it might be causing your issue too.

BoorishBears··on Grok 4.6
To be really clear, Fable is Opus.

Anthropic finished a new pre-training run, Opus-sized models got enough of a jump they could have released Fable as Opus 5... but the economics of Opus models weren't where they wanted.

Being the masters of distribution that they are, instead of announcing a massive price hike, they just introduced a new tier and promoted Sonnet-sized models to Opus.

That's why every Opus after 4.6 has had such mixed feedback: smaller model with more RL can only make up so much ground, especially on vibes (which are hard-to-impossible to build a reward for)

(I mention all of this because if they'd just released Opus 5, no one would be asking "why is it a few months later everyone caught up to the latest release"... that's always how it works)

BoorishBears··on Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
If no hand model is what's letting them sell me a high quality mouse for $45 in a two pack... I'll take whatever hands they can get
BoorishBears··on Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
MX4 finally got me looking elsewhere until I stumbled upon this: https://ergodriven.com/products/the-vertical-handshake-mouse

I got it specifically because they had a mini rant about the weight of switches that other vertical mice use, and while I couldn't tell if that was a real problem, that's the kind of mentality I used to ascribe to Logitech.

The MX4 is clearly marketing logic. The haptic feature adds nothing of note, and 100% feels like their marketing people got to preempt the core goal of making an ergonomic mouse so they could have a headline.

BoorishBears··on Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
OpenAI's moderation API is multi-modal and free with no strings attached in a way that truly boggles the mind.

I've put easily over a billion requests (>$100,000 by typical moderation API pricing) through it over the last few years for $0.

I think it's a severely underappreciated offering, but I also don't bother pushing it too hard because who knows when the party will end lol. Strikes me as something that's only stuck around because no one's abusing it.

BoorishBears··on Bending Spoons entered definitive agreement to acquire Airtable for $1.28B
For those curious, peak valuation was Dec 2021: $11.7B
BoorishBears··on Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300
You can't beat current API pricing running Kimi K3 a single node, so as I said anyone serious is not doing that for Kimi K3.

Not sure how you're getting "no one serves models on a single node" out of that.

BoorishBears··on Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300
Most discourse around GPU prices is nonsense right now. Some people using Spot prices for providers who won't have Spot capacity, some people using hourly rates for instances that are never in stock, some people ignoring commitment discounts.

Not to mention no one serious is serving this on 8xB200 instead of multiple nodes: the vast majority of Moonshot's inference work is focused on PD-disaggregation

BoorishBears··on Seedance 2.5
This is absolutely hilarious

https://x.com/CuiMao/status/2049828401201246395

BoorishBears··on Seedance 2.5
I often see this kind of passive-aggressive characterization of the process with AI that's meant to bait people who obviously are expressing their creativity with these models.

I hope no one will fall for it: even when you emphatically reply "I spent the last year building the pipelines I use" it'll still be treated as equivalent a couple of sentences relative to the old ways.

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At the end of the day, the painful lesson some people are (re)-learning is that creative expression doesn't have to be tied to any specific process. A lot of people fall in love with creative expression + process... but some fall in love with just the process, and some fall in love with creative regardless of the process.

AI does not favor those of us who loved the process (that's me with coding), but it's definitely capable of allowing new people to experience what it's like to have creative input in your mind and see it expressed outside of your mind.

BoorishBears··on Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout
They do once you're getting margin called.
BoorishBears··on Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout
There's something amusingly circular about these conversations, because clearly laypeople like me and the person you responding to are saying "that sounds like it shouldn't be allowed" and the invariable responses are always "it is allowed!"

The comment literally says it: "it can't be that illegal"

BoorishBears··on Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it
> Testing whether censorship transmits through unrelated data requires that it never appear in the data.

> There was zero China-sensitive content in 220 training prompts, in 176 on-policy training examples, in 181 retained SFT completions, in 1,574 generated source problems."

It's really not my fault you wrote a rambling article and while skimming (best an article earns out of me with an off-smelling title) I took that to imply there was an SFT step in your distillation pipeline.

Maybe the AI that wrote the article for you was a bit confused on that as well?

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Also I question your understanding of this thread if you're wasting so many words trying to explain distillation to me.

(I mean, you're wrong btw. If we're going full pedant then most compute spent on distillation is labs very broadly distilling their own models into smaller models that are still pretty damn large and expensive to distill...)

But sure, small scale distillation is usually for narrow domain specific tasks, welcome to 2019. The entire point of this thread is that "distillation" for such narrow use cases couldn't reasonably affect censorship without intention.

You can introduce misalignment even with a very narrow focus (https://arxiv.org/html/2502.17424v2), but it doesn't happen by accident.

So if your goals with distillation weren't centered around censorship, and weren't meant to introduce censorship, then why are you trying to draw this tenuous link?

BoorishBears··on Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it
> Changing how the model thinks about the Holodomor is completely irrelevant.

Your post title is literally "Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship."

Like I'm not really interested in debating you on this because even the title is nonsense, there is no good faith interpretation of what you're doing here.

Distillation is such a wide concept, and you have such a narrow domain, it's not an even somewhat useful experiment to make the claim that you're making.

BoorishBears··on Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it
This seems like mildly interesting distillation work wrapped up in a nonsense attempt to drag censorship into the discussion.

There's no way your <200 examples for SFT would ever change how the model thinks of Holodomor unless you'd very intentionally crafted examples to do so.

It feels like you're expecting rubes to draw conclusions that are irrelevant to the actual work you did.

BoorishBears··on Kimi K3-256k
Not surprising it's a hard cutoff: they almost certainly have two infrastructure configurations for the two max sequence lengths

Fewer nodes dedicated to prefill per instance, and fewer nodes in total since you don't need to support a higher KV cache.

Disaggregated inference also means they can tune the balance of compute dedicated to prefill seperately from decode

BoorishBears··on JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)
I prefer its sibling library Kotlin, from the makers of the world famous Java IDE: Jetbrains Fleet
BoorishBears··on Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge
"the premium of in person" is a string of words that only means something to people in a very specific circle where everyone is constantly trying to tastemake and write in lower case.

Ironically they have extremely limited influence on how the larger world moves: normal people won't meaningfully change their habits around eating good food or meeting up with each other just because AI can generate a picture of either.

BoorishBears··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
https://i.imgur.com/3zWdJpz.png

vs

https://i.imgur.com/ta6g1d2.png

BoorishBears··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
Why do you think an inference provider competing for the same compute as OpenAI and Anthropic gives up those margins rather than giving a modest discount over the frontier for near-frontier performance?
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