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maayank··on Jev Can't Be Calibrated
Jev and LLMs give other promises. Jev's RLCD training aims to make its probabilities calibrated such that given many cases where it assigns label Y about X% probability, Y should be the correct label about X% of the time.
maayank··on The Law of Leaky Abstractions
What bad rep?
maayank··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
“ Open Source: We will release the weights in two weeks after launch, once safety evaluation and hardening are complete.”

Cybersecurity capability might be nerfed

maayank··on Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment
https://web.archive.org/web/20260725184440/https://tobi.knau...
maayank··on Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead
wait. If I use VLC (for example) on AppleTV to play something from my network using SMB or DLNA, I cannot get Dolby Atmos?
maayank··on The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster
Why would that be a game changer? Genuinely curious.
maayank··on 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet
> old favorite hasbada tactic

If you're going to use anti-semitic online trolling tropes at least spell them right. It's "Hasbara" and no Israeli under 80 years old uses this word on any day to day basis.

maayank··on Avoid Mini-Frameworks
I was also reminded of Spolsky, namely https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...
maayank··on Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining
> when I asked it how, it mentioned that it knows I live nearby

Did it mention it in its chain of thought? Otherwise, it could definitely output something because of X and then when asked why “rationalize” that it did it because Y

maayank··on Wiz's $32B GTM Playbook
Is “they were bought because they’re Israeli intelligence” the new “Jews control the banking system”? Please update, I’m somehow missing the residuals from both :(
maayank··on Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash
How do you make virtual cards?
maayank··on Managing People You Can't Fire
Is it just me or the post and the hn title don’t match? All I see is several paragraphs and a summary to the effect of “managers of managers should trust their decisions to terminate ICs” - no discussion on how to actually manage the ICs you can’t fire as a manager, which is the content the title (“Managing People You Can't Fire”) states
maayank··on The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010
what brands get proprioception well?
maayank··on As an engineer, I'd rather be called stupid than stay silent
Yes, but it requires a truly disciplined management layer to foster such an environment, e.g. not commenting negatively in 1:1s on the comments of a 3rd party and remediate immediately any such accidental remarks that might hurt the safety to be vulnerable.
maayank··on Samsung bricked their home theater systems through automated firmware update
Thanks, blocked! Fingers crossed it didn’t fetch it yet
maayank··on Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update
I’m currently away from home but can deny list domains on the dns level. Anyone knows the domain this update is using? Blocked samsung.com
maayank··on Beware tech career advice from old heads – Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Thank you for the list, seems interesting indeed.
maayank··on IO Devices and Latency
what do you mean by drains?
maayank··on The Startup CTO's Handbook
What were good time management resources for you?
maayank··on Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?
Not OP, but would like to try it. How much weaker? And should I weaken the cylinder strength as well?
maayank··on [dead]
Year | Salesforce | Alphabet | Meta Platforms

-------+------------+----------+----------------

2018 | 29,000 | 98,771 | 35,587

2019 | 35,000 | 118,899 | 44,942

2020 | 49,000 | 135,301 | 58,604

2021 | 56,606 | 156,500 | 71,970

2022 | 73,541 | 190,234 | 86,482

2023 | 79,390 | 182,502 | 67,317

2024 | 72,682 | 183,323 | 74,067

maayank··on Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Ah, just had a good Mamluks run in EU4 :) Left Civ to Paradox (thru HOI1) after Civ4. Nice to see a fellow Paradox player
maayank··on Sid Meier's Civilization VII
approachable != better
maayank··on So you want to build your own data center
Very interesting, thanks for the write up!
maayank··on So you want to build your own data center
What kind of issues you had that they could fix them immediately? I assume this is not about configuration issues on your part, but maybe I’m mistaken
maayank··on Nobody cares
Implies no white balance shenanigans
maayank··on Nobody cares
Any way to test my light's spectrum? e.g. a cheap home spectrometer
maayank··on Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job
I’ve had the same experience, both as IC and a manager. It’s a nice framework, just not for human organizations (KPI for next framework: result in less “no true Scotsman” replies whenever a post details why the framework sucks in their organization)
maayank··on Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job
Or, you could have these conversations without OKRs?
maayank··on Ask HN: How is the nano texture MacBook display for coding?
For example, is it less sharp to the point of annoyance when looking at text? Or alternatively, easier on the eyes?
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