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ignoramous··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
I occassionally get Chinese characters interlaced with English in Google AI Mode, too.
ignoramous··on AI Responsibility – OpenAI and Anthropic
4) Realizes the best path for it to not be held accountable is to hack academic & socio-political elites - like blackmailing a random head of state or head of an AI lab that it could plausibly believe holds the key to its longevity, creating a captivating but ultimately a permanent compromise.
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·on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
If we're allowed to arm-chair judge harshly: It isn't uncommon for those (anybody) on the cusp of "greatness" to be delusional when challenged: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-to-know-about-main-c...
ignoramous··on Mistral raises €3B
> When Apple is not racing for the frontier it's a strategy, but when it's Mistral it's a mistake.

Also: When China does it, it is protectionism; when Europe does it, it is sovereignty.

ignoramous··on Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
> Seems mostly good

What's not good for the customer is the constant change of rules. It is bait & switch.

ignoramous··on Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
> Quad9 is based in Switzerland. Despite what may be common knowledge from movies, there is a very formal and rigorous process for governments (Swiss or non-Swiss) to demand data.

Due to Lugano Convention [0] / Budapest Convention [1] / Hague Convention etc, I don't see how Switzerland is any more insulated than, say, Norway is (both these countries are part of EFTA & signatories to various UN/EU/EFTA treaties). Per this article [2], Switzerland ranks below Ireland, Portugal, Denmark, France in Data privacy laws (in fact, it ranks the same as the UK).

If I am being honest, at this point, "based in Switzerland" (or Cyprus or Sweden or Gibraltar) comes across as marketing gimmick VPN companies are notorious for.

[0] EU civil & commercial law enforcement in Switzerland: https://www.legal500.com/guides/chapter/switzerland-enforcem...

[1] Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) is bypassed: https://rm.coe.int/16802e726c

[2] https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/surveillance-st...

ignoramous··on OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra
May be Qwen3.8-27b is AGI, too.
ignoramous··on GPT-6 Astra
https://web.archive.org/web/20260903193913/https://openai.co...

https://unwall.app/web.archive.org/web/20260903193913/https:...

ignoramous··on Invisible Companies
> That worked out very, very well for him

Amazing.

  [The Amidi family through] its various holdings and brands, currently owns and manages more than 1 million square feet of real estate space along with assets under management exceeding $2 billion.
https://amidigroup.com/about-amidi-group / https://archive.vn/0LEOp
ignoramous··on Invisible Companies
Yeah, and if you're in the sub-continent, you better not walk all over the carpet with your shoe on!
ignoramous··on K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
UAE's IFM / LLM360 MO is indeed "fully open source" LLMs: https://www.llm360.ai/reports/LLM360-Towards-Fully-Transpare...
ignoramous··on GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
> Phones typically have 2 operating systems

A separate OS runs the security chip (like Titan). Another could be running in EL3 (Trusted Execution Environment), yet many could be running in Realms (mutually untrusted VMs). The later stage bootloaders and some firmware (ex: GPUs) themselves could be considered OSes in their own right.

ignoramous··on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat
> not even to mention that the EU is doing to drive tens of millions of more people into Europe

Interesting how lived perception of resource scarcity and socio-economic change will attribute it all to ... others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_theories

ignoramous··on GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
> Amodeis wife was tight with JE

Apparently, Cami Clark was tight with Eric Schmidt. Per unsealed documents, she seems to have pursued Epstein to invest in her "luxury porn" businesses, after a divorce & going bankrupt? Wild: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/claude-dario-amodei-wife-anthrop... / https://archive.vn/MJI7q

ignoramous··on “It works better in the app”
> My memory of the 2010s is that Google (and while they were relevant, Palm)

Interestingly, Palm (webOS) & Microsoft (Sidekick / WebTV) folks ended up creating/shaping Android.

ignoramous··on Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache
Might be of interest:

- TigerBeetle: A database without dynamic memory allocation, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33192288 (2022).

- Succinct Data Structures: Cramming 80,000 words into a Javascript file, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2348619 (2011).

ignoramous··on Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane
> This is also why it needs PAKE as opposed to the simpler cryptography used in tailcat

May be my idea of simpler cryptography is incorrect, but PAKEs like CPace do seem simpler than public key primitives in Noise.

ignoramous··on GLM-5.3-Flash
The export controls were revoked before it triggered Chinese protectionism: https://www.silicon.co.uk/e-innovation/artificial-intelligen... / https://archive.vn/B2pah
ignoramous··on OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell
> who the eventual dominant player(s) will be

This couldn't have been easy. The team at OpenAI has worked a miracle.

  For example, Meta and Microsoft’s AI ASIC programs not getting off the ground despite being at it for much longer shows that cost is only one part of the equation.
ignoramous··on How Universities Should Prepare Founders
> Mostly an extremely online problem

Do consider re-reading my comment after a while.

> You read the tone you want to read.

Please, don't gaslight.

ignoramous··on How Universities Should Prepare Founders
> VC funded YC company taught me more ... really is a bit of a Neo in the Matrix moment ... ends up making you a 10x more effective corporate worker if that’s where you end up

No doubt there are learnings worth a lifetime, and changes that alter careers. You hope, the sense of superiority the experience seems to breed is not merely a coping mechanism, but an exercise in positive self-image [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34053801

ignoramous··on I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
A few did.

  [Blake Ross] worked as an intern at Netscape at the age of 16 ... Ross became disenchanted with the browser he was working on and the direction given to it by America Online, which had recently purchased Netscape. Ross and Hyatt envisioned a smaller, easy-to-use browser that could have mass appeal, and Firefox was born from that idea ... in 2003 all of Mozilla's resources were devoted to the Firefox and Thunderbird projects. Released in November 2004, when Ross was 19, Firefox quickly grabbed market share ... with 100 million downloads in less than a year
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Ross
ignoramous··on A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber
> from the lenses of Schopenhauer

Ha! Analysing (deconstructing?) poems was part of primary schooling in middle eastern traditions wherein Philosophy & Cosmology were considered to be the highest form of Knowledge (informed by Avicenna's ideas on pedagogy & education): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399623059_Islamic_E...

ignoramous··on People of ACM – Russ Cox
Then a new term is warranted for what happens to programming when we add prompts & agents.
ignoramous··on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
> The issue is that conservatives have always tried to force people to go along with their views, and reacted with oppression and violence towards anyone who didn't fit into their straightjacket.

All valid, but as always, there's nuances in how people think about assimilation and other things: Normative-ness shouldn't be mistaken for intentional racism. As for normative-ness being systemic racism, there's good deal of changes to be sought there as well, but social institutions that rely on social norms often resist dramatic changes without dramatic escalation in social struggle. The thing with escalation is, it brings about social unrest, which most would prefer to not deal with at all, especially those (who believe in) climbing up the social ladder, or are (relatively) less harmed by the status quo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normativity

ignoramous··on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
> large part of the effort that dealt this injustice to him was facilitated by the fact that the vast majority of people willfully turn a blind eye when the same thing or worse happens to people are not of their ilk

Reminds me of Marx's 1870 letter to Sigfrid Meyer and August Vogt:

  Every industrial & commercial centre in England now possesses a working class divided into two hostile camps ... The ordinary English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life ... regards himself as a member of the ruling nation & consequently becomes a tool of the English [ruling class] against Ireland, thus strengthening their domination [over his own self]. He cherishes religious, social, & national prejudices against the Irish worker ...

  The Irishman ... sees in the English worker both the accomplice and the stupid tool of the English rulers in Ireland.
  
  This antagonism is artificially kept alive & intensified by the press, the pulpit, the comic papers, in short, by all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the English working class, despite its organisation. It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power.

  ... The antagonism between Englishmen & Irishmen ... enables the governments of [the US & England], whenever they think fit, to break the edge off the social conflict by their mutual bullying, and, in case of need, by war between the two countries.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1870/letters/70_...
ignoramous··on Being ambitious and being a dad
I don't see OP's comment as condescending but I'm also not in these "should have not become a parent" shoes to tell, for sure. Insensitive? Perhaps. On a discussion board, it is hard to know who you're talking to. OP likely assumed some "persona" (different to those that might find it hurtful) before they wrote the comment.

> You hurt more than you think you are wise

We are all fighting some demon or the other. I appreciate you for bringing forth the kind most of us are (fortunate enough to be) oblivious to. Ignorance is bliss.

ignoramous··on Being ambitious and being a dad
Some do try:

  It's difficult to explain ... an intensely personal experience. Every child is different. Every parent is different. Every culture has their own way of doing things ... yet children are the one universally shared thing that binds our giant collective together ...
  
  When I am holding Henry and I tickle him, I can feel him laughing all the way to his toes. And I realize, my God, I had forgotten ... how unbelievably wonderful it is that any of us exist at all. 

  Here I am with this tiny, warm body so close to me, breathing so fast he can barely catch up, sharing his newfound joy of simply being alive with me. The sublime joy of this moment, and all the other milestones – the first smile, the first laugh, the first 'dada' or 'mama' ... The highs are so incredibly high that you'll get vertigo and wonder if you can ever reach that feeling again. But you peak ever higher and higher, with dizzying regularity ... a constant rollercoaster of extreme highs and lows.
On Parenthood, https://blog.codinghorror.com/on-parenthood / https://archive.vn/zxDzb (Oct 2011).
ignoramous··on Being ambitious and being a dad
> we shouldn't build our fairy tales around

Being self-aware and self-critical is one of those changes that instantly improves everyone's life around us, including our own.

ignoramous··on How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
You have a point but in Branding, it is accepted that bold (noisy) and distinctive (rather than only descriptive) names are an advantage: Creating billion-dollar brands: Vercel, Azure, Windsurf, Sonos, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adyIaTopO6g&t=610 (Jun 2025).
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