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shikon7··on People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
But isn't the point of recurive self-improvement that you can fire people training your AI?
shikon7··on I said no and Apple said yes
But what if you switched to Linux to avoid having to use AI?
shikon7··on Advertise in ChatGPT
Wouldn't that be censorship, too?
shikon7··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Strawberries are a well known weakness of LLMs, as they have a hard time to count the numbers of "r"s in them. Maybe that's why, because they fear that weakness could be exploited somehow.
shikon7··on I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)
It likely is, but it is still uncanny to think about how much of it is actually true.

Is it making fun of people relying on ChatGPT, or is it just an exaggerated description of how she actually does research, honestly I don't know.

shikon7··on Wrap Go binaries in Python wheels
Because you can wrap Go binaries in Python wheels, but not yet Python wheels in Go binaries
shikon7··on German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad
Also, in that case, they know where all the men currently are, which is probably the main reason to implement it now. m
shikon7··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
Maybe you could use different timetables in summer and winter, so that only the relevant part of activities is affected, not everything indiscriminately. This would also make it possible to cater to local needs much better instead of simply fixing school hours from 9 to 15 and adjusting the clock that it falls into daylight.
shikon7··on Our Agreement with the Department of War
No, executive orders can't change law and international law, unless ratified by congress, is not democratically legitimized and applicable law in the US to begin with
shikon7··on Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
It's not new in the sense that any of its components are new, and it's not new in the sense that similar things had not been done before, it's new in the sense that putting the right components together in the right way suddenly created something capable of starting a viral hype.

Essentially, as I understand it, it is a personal AI assistant running on your computer, integrated with different systems (like email, chat).

shikon7··on Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
What would be a reasonable amount of time to audit the dependencies?
shikon7··on Claude's new constitution
It's not that life wants to continue existing, it's that life is what continues existing. That's not a moral standard, but a matter of causality, that life that lacks in "want" to continue existing mostly stops existing.
shikon7··on 65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform
If I would guess, I'd say 65% positive, 35% negative
shikon7··on TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models
That doesn't work when the Chinese produce uncensored open weight models, or ones that can easily be adapted to create uncensored content.

Censorship for generative AI simply doesn't work the way we are used to, unless we make it illegal to posess a model that might generate illegal content, or that might have been trained on illegal data.

shikon7··on Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
You mean, if you would apply the inverse of the standard romanization of Mandarin, the resulting sound would be closer to the Japanese sound, if starting from the Kunrei spelling than if starting from the Hepburn spelling?
shikon7··on Nvidia Nemotron 3 Family of Models
> We are releasing the Nemotron 3 Nano model and technical report. Super and Ultra releases will follow in the coming months.
shikon7··on FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence
You can run it with a 5090 and the standard ComfyUI template, it just offloads some parts to RAM. Image generation takes about a minute for sizes like 1024x1024.
shikon7··on Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
It seems to me that thinking models are harder to decensor, as they are trained to think whether to accept your request.
shikon7··on I refuse to date someone who uses ChatGPT
I wonder if printed books were just as controversial when the printing press was invited.
shikon7··on Nvidia DGX Spark: When benchmark numbers meet production reality
But the article shows that the Nvidia ecosystem isn't that mature either on the DGX Spark with ARM64. I wonder if Nvidia is still ahead for such use cases, all things considered.
shikon7··on What if tariffs?
For full effect, it should be priced 100 in Switzerland and 139 in the US
shikon7··on Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?
Seems we're now at a point of time when OCR is doing so well, that printing text out and letting computers literally read it is suggested to be superior to processing the endoded text directly.
shikon7··on Most users cannot identify AI bias, even in training data
But maybe your tells are also biased. If you're truly unbiased, then

* any facts supporting another view are by definiton biased, and should not be presented

* you have the only unbiased objective interpretation of the minds of the subjects

* you don't bias against using words just because they are hyperbolic

* something unbiased would inevitably be boring, so you need emotional appeal to make anyone care about it

* since no sources are unbiased, identifying any of them would inevitably lead to a bias

shikon7··on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
Google Glass was so much before its time, it might be reinvented a few more times and abandoned again before finally becoming a success.
shikon7··on Photowand – Turn selfies into professional photos with AI
The irony of calling selfies not realistic photographs until processed by AI
shikon7··on Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage for Some Executables
No, and I expect kernel developers to be much more careful not to break anything with Rust rewrites.
shikon7··on Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage for Some Executables
It might be a bit of bad publicity for those who want to rewrite as much as possible in Rust. While Rust is not to blame, it shows that just rewriting something in Rust doesn't magically make it better (as some Rust hype might suggest). Maybe Ubuntu was a bit too eager in adopting the Rust Coreutils, caring more about that hype than about stability.
shikon7··on Writing Memory Safe JIT Compilers
> Although being written in Java does improve memory safety, we just saw that rewriting V8 in a safe language wouldn’t help with the types of bugs V8 is trying to solve and so we would intuitively expect that GraalJS must suffer from the same classes of bugs. Yet, it doesn’t.

Essentially it exchanges the bugs of a V8 engine for the bugs of the GraalVM, right?

shikon7··on USB-A isn't going anywhere, so stop removing the port
The future is (supposed to be) that you don't have any USB-A devices.
shikon7··on Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea's investments
I wonder what is so special about South Korea here. Companies from many other countries invest in the US, seemingly without the same problems. Is South Korea disadvantaged by the visa system, or is it coincidence that this happened here?
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