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HAL3000 commented on New Huawei 96GB GPU   e.huawei.com/cn/products/... · Posted by u/elorant
stogot · 2 days ago
Are you a local? What city?
HAL3000 · 2 days ago
Langley
HAL3000 commented on Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything   wsj.com/business/retail/t... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
trasirinc · 2 days ago
I'm from China. I know what real numbers and news come out of China.
HAL3000 · 2 days ago
Sure, you are. You created this account 2 hours ago, all comments anti China, perfect english and you write about China as "their" country in one of the comments.
HAL3000 commented on Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash   latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/taimurkazmi
NitpickLawyer · 12 days ago
What a bad article. I mean how biased can you be, to put the first big quote from someone who wrote a book called "The AI con". Come on! This feels like the "deepseek r1 is the death of nvda" of 6 months ago. Someone is making a play, and whoever wrote this article fell for it.

gpt5 has always been about making a "collection of models" work together and not about model++. This was announced what, a year ago? And they delivered. Capabilities ~90-110% of their top tier old models at 4-6x lower price. That's insane!

gpt5-mini is insane for its price, in agentic coding. I've had great sessions with it, at 0.x$ / session. It can do things that claude 3.5/3.7 couldn't do ~6 months ago, at 10-15x the price. Whatever RL they did is working wonders.

HAL3000 · 12 days ago
> gpt5 has always been about making a "collection of models" work together and not about model++.

No, it wasn’t. Have you read and listened to Altman’s hype around GPT-5 from a year ago? They changed the narration after the 4.1 flop, which they thought would be GPT-5, and it seems some people fell for it.

> Capabilities ~90-110% of their top tier old models at 4-6x lower price

Maybe they finally implemented the DeepSeek paper.

HAL3000 commented on Intel Foundry demonstrates first Arm-based chip on 18a node   hothardware.com/news/inte... · Posted by u/rbanffy
2OEH8eoCRo0 · 12 days ago
It's going to be fun in two years when Intel is golden child again because TSMC has bomb damage and Taiwan is blockaded.
HAL3000 · 12 days ago
> TSMC has bomb damage and Taiwan is blockaded

For anyone familiar with Chinese culture, history, and mindset, and who views China through that lens rather than a Western one, the probability of this is lower than the probability of Intel’s collapsing entirely in the next two years.

“Supreme excellence is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

“Victory without unsheathing the blade.”

“If swords are clashing, strategy has already failed.”

HAL3000 commented on GPT-5   openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd
candiddevmike · 25 days ago
This post seems far more marketing-y than your previous posts, which have a bit more criticality to them (such as your Gemini 2.5 blog post here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/17/gemini-2-5/). You seem to gloss over a lot of GPT-5's shortcomings and spend more time hyping it than other posts. Is there some kind of conflict of interest happening?
HAL3000 · 25 days ago
Maybe there is a misconception about what his blog is about. You should treat it more like a YouTuber reporting, not an expert evaluation, more like an enthusiast testing different models and reiterating some points about them, but not giving the opinions of an expert or ML professional. His comment history on this topic in this forum clearly shows this.

It’s reasonable that he might be a little hyped about things because of his feelings about them and the methodology he uses to evaluate models. I assume good faith, as the HN guidelines propose, and this is the strongest plausible interpretation of what I see in his blog.

Dead Comment

HAL3000 commented on There is no memory safety without thread safety   ralfj.de/blog/2025/07/24/... · Posted by u/tavianator
ralfj · a month ago
> While you're wondering why I keep claiming Go is a memory-safe language, you can also go ask the ISRG, which says the same thing I am at

And yet Go violates the definition they give -- it doesn't prevent out-of-bounds accesses. (And just to be sure we're talking about the same thing, I'm specifically talking about Go here. All the other languages on their list are actually memory safe, as far as I know.)

> you have to demonstrate a plausible scenario in realistic code where an attacker controls both the value and the address it's written to.

So your definition of memory safety includes some notion of "plausible" and "realistic"? Neither https://www.memorysafety.org/docs/memory-safety/ nor Wikipedia have such a qualification in their definition. It would help if you could just spell out your definition in full, rather than having us guess.

HAL3000 · a month ago
> So your definition of memory safety includes some notion of "plausible" and "realistic"? Neither https://www.memorysafety.org/docs/memory-safety/ nor Wikipedia have such a qualification in their definition. It would help if you could just spell out your definition in full, rather than having us guess.

This is a strawman argument, you're arguing semantics here. You're a smart person, so you know exactly what he means. The perception created by your article is that people shouldn't use Go because it's not memory-safe. But the average developer hearing "not memory-safe" thinks of C/C++ level issues, with RCEs everywhere.

Unless you can show a realistic way this could be exploited for RCE in actual programs, you're just making noise. Further down the thread, you admit yourself that you're in a PLT research bubble and it shows.

HAL3000 commented on The United States withdraws from UNESCO   state.gov/releases/office... · Posted by u/layer8
paulvnickerson · a month ago
Agreed. If I want to see doom and gloom announcements about the current administration I'll go read Huffington Post or NY Times, thank you very much.
HAL3000 · a month ago
Why did you click on the comments and leave one? You could have just ignored it and let others discuss what they want.
HAL3000 commented on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites   bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg3r... · Posted by u/mattcollins
tptacek · 2 months ago
I think Netanyahu belongs in prison, and Trump, the less said the better, but: couldn't have happened to a nicer unauthorized weapons-grade uranium enrichment facility dug into the side of a mountain hours outside of population centers.

If you haven't already, I highly recommend reading up on the GBU-57 "bunker buster" bomb, because it is some Merrie Melodies Acme brand munitions. It's deliberately as heavy as they can make a bomb, not with explosives but just with mass. They should have shaped it like a giant piano.

HAL3000 · 2 months ago
Thinking that doing something like that will stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is naive. It's not a technical challenge for them, it's a political decision, only a political decision. If they really wanted to, they would already have it. Enriched material was transported from these centers some time ago, as news outlets have already reported.

As for the facts, and not just the narrative: 60% enrichment is not considered weapons-grade enrichment, and it is not illegal under the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty). Therefore, today's attack is an illegal act of aggression against another country, violating international law. Those are the facts.

HAL3000 commented on AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu   dwarkesh.com/p/ege-tamay... · Posted by u/Philpax
themanmaran · 4 months ago
How are those mutually exclusive statements? You can't imagine someone working on backend (focused on distributed systems) for 10-15 years at a FANG company. And also being in a position to interview new candidates?
HAL3000 · 4 months ago
Who knows but have you read what OP wrote?

"I just used o3 to design a distributed scheduler that scales to 1M+ sxchedules a day. It was perfect, and did better than two weeks of thought around the best way to build this."

Anyone with 10 years in distributed systems at FAANG doesn’t need two weeks to design a distributed scheduler handling 1M+ schedules per day, that’s a solved problem in 2025 and basically a joke at that scale. That alone makes this person’s story questionable, and his comment history only adds to the doubt.

u/HAL3000

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