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sinatra··on The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs
> it's been playing the game of economic protectionism for centuries.

Equal to or more than other major countries? If so, can you show me anything supporting your claim?

sinatra··on GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis
I've tried Chinese open models few times before. They were fine, but they didn't come close to the benchmarks they were claiming.

Now, maybe GLM 5.2 is close to Opus 4.7, but I don't wanna keep checking them and keep finding that they're still benchmaxing and aren't at GPT (my choice) or Opus level. The boy who cried wolf, I guess.

sinatra··on Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee
Hah. And you think a Govt agency will be able to do a rigorous enough examination to eliminate people who don't know that just because a method in C# is asynchronous does not mean it executes out of order?

Reminds me of a friend whose job application got rejected by some Govt agency in Canada due to "experience mismatch." Job required "Software Programmer" experience but he was a "Software Engineer" instead.

sinatra··on Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
Obsidian is great. And glad to see how you’re looking at plugin security. But one more thing you should consider is: How do you reduce the need for plugins for basic product behavior. E.g., I use a plugin to be able to open a file in new tab instead of replacing current tab. That should be a setting, not a plugin I’m forced to use.
sinatra··on Write some software, give it away for free
Easy to say that, isn’t it? I can almost guarantee that YOU also want and do consume much more than an average human on this planet. Never mind the fact that humans consume more than their share of the planets resources anyway. Whatever the definition of “their share” is.
sinatra··on Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM
Will 1.5B people have a lot of very intelligent people too? Yes, some of the most intelligent! Will those intelligent people have the educational opportunities and research opportunities to be able to use that intelligence to deliver a SOTA model any time soon? Especially with so many resource limitations they face, I doubt it.
sinatra··on GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams
Oh. So when you say “May we please have terraform back?” You mean “May we please have terraform back at my employer?” Why are you posting such an employer specific request on a public forum?
sinatra··on GPT-5.2-Codex
My (admittedly one person's anecdotal) experience has been that when I ask Codex and Claude to make a plan/fix and then ask them both to review it, they both agree that Codex's version is better quality. This is on a 140K LOC codebase with an unreasonable amount of time spent on rules (lint, format, commit, etc), on specifying coding patterns, on documenting per workspace README.md, etc.
sinatra··on GPT-5.2-Codex
Piggybacking on this post. Codex is not only finding much higher quality issues, it’s also writing code that usually doesn’t leave quality issues behind. Claude is much faster but it definitely leaves serious quality issues behind.

So much so that now I rely completely on Codex for code reviews and actual coding. I will pick higher quality over speed every day. Please don’t change it, OpenAI team!

sinatra··on It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)
Let’s call it JoyScript so it still shortens to JS. And so at least the name as some joy in it even if the language doesn’t.
sinatra··on Anthropic acquires Bun
Hah. It can’t be “I need to spend more time to figure out how to use these tools better.” It is always “I’m just smarter than other people and have a higher standard.”
sinatra··on Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
I currently use GPT‑5.1-Codex High and have a workflow that works well with the 5-hour/weekly limits, credits, et al. If I use GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max Medium or GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max High, how will that compare cost / credits / limits wise to GPT‑5.1-Codex High? I don't think that's clear. "Reduced tokens" makes me think it'll be priced similarly / lower. But, "Max" makes me think it'll be priced higher.
sinatra··on Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
In my AGENTS.md (which CLAUDE.md et al soft link to), I instruct them to "On phase completion, explicitly write that you followed these guidelines." This text always shows up on Codex and very rarely on Claude Code (TBF, Claude Code is showing it more often lately).
sinatra··on How to Firefox
I stopped having the same issue of 100s of tabs of "math videos that I was going to watch one day" when I started saving them in my private playlists. Now I just have 100s of videos in playlists that I just look at longingly but never watch.
sinatra··on Kiro: A new agentic IDE
Have you documented how you built this project using Kiro? Your learnings may help us get the best out of Kiro as we experiment with it for our medium+ size projects.
sinatra··on Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025
And the d20 rolled a 12 when you checked it for duration to hold? Man, lucky you! Give the dice a kiss!
sinatra··on GPT-4o
First, “Plaintiffs ACCUSE the generative AI company.” Let’s not assume OpenAI is guilty just yet. Second, assuming OpenAI didn’t access the books illegally, my point still remains. If you write a book, can you really complain about a human (or in my humble opinion, a machine) learning from it?
sinatra··on GPT-4o
Your comment seems unfair to me. We can say the exact same thing for the artist / IP creator:

Tough luck, then. You don’t have the right to shit on and harm everyone else just because you’re a greedy asshole who wants all the money and is unwilling to come up with solutions to problems caused by your business model.

Once the IP is on the internet, you can't complain about a human or a machine learning from it. You made your IP available on the internet. Now, you can't stop humanity benefiting from it.

sinatra··on Experienced engineers are struggling to get hired
Usually it’s much easier to be liberal when doing so doesn’t cost you meaningfully. I’d encourage you to evaluate for yourself if your stances are truly fair and if you’re truly liberal considering how painful it is for an H1B to lose their job vs you. It’s also easy to say “but H1Bs get exploited!” Considering how many H1Bs come here, maybe they’d rather face this exploitation vs staying in their own country?
sinatra··on CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft
Just to be fair, for 90% of the world, the kinds of compensation many hacker news readers have (a Silicon Valley engineer who gets a high base plus bonus plus equity) would also be considered “holy guacamole, whatever is the angle I look at it … does not make any f_ing sense”
sinatra··on The dark side of the Mac App Store
Sorry, I meant that the maximum they’re making is $2B. But in reality it’s surely a much smaller number. Which makes it even more unlikely that Apple is optimizing for developer fees.
sinatra··on The dark side of the Mac App Store
There are 20M developer accounts. And Apple charges $100 per account per year. That's $2B in revenue. Apps on the App Store make $100B in revenue. So, Apple makes equivalent of 2% of Apps revenue from developer accounts. I doubt they'll intentionally risk the $100B revenue by making their App Store full of crapware for a 2% equivalent.
sinatra··on An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
If relay gets popular, won’t some services simply start to block relay subdomain for registration to make it ineffective? Just like 10minutesemail etc are blocked in many places.
sinatra··on Apple Watch Series 7
Have a series 6, used it in the pool (salted) the first time and the watch died. Had to get a replacement from them which took one week. I couldn’t do fitness tracking all that week. So, I am not planning to use the watch in water at all.
sinatra··on How to get rich without being lucky (2019)
If they’re a family oriented society, then losing the family is a big loss by itself, no?
sinatra··on How to get rich without being lucky (2019)
Nothing to lose? They lose everything and everyone they know. You’re underrating how important that is for most people.
sinatra··on iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
Add your two thumbs and two index fingers so that you can use any one of them depending on convenience or rare edge cases like rock climbing damage to one of them.
sinatra··on iOS 14 is available today
For what it’s worth, I had the same problem with all previous Apple earphones. But, I don’t have that problem with airpod pros.
sinatra··on Amazon Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Rules CA Appellate Court
This is a good place to ask this question: Lately, we’re trying to buy products on Amazon only if it says, “Sold by Amazon.com.” Is that a good way to ensure that the product is not counterfeit? The assumption is that if Amazon is selling something directly, it would be getting it directly from the real manufacturer.
sinatra··on Ask HN: Is it legal for US companies to hire remote non-US contractors?
Yes. But the companies need to keep in mind that they’ll have to review the IP laws of not only US but also the country of the candidate. Just because they sign a contract with the candidate that’s valid in US doesn’t mean that the candidate doesn’t have full IP ownership of the code in her own country. And the company needs to do this review of IP laws for each country from where they get such candidates.
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