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blharr commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01

npunt · 17 hours ago

Any idea that is based on "If everyone just..." is wishful thinking. Describe the mechanism by which you convince everyone to just do something.

blharr · 16 hours ago

Sure, but the ID solution is an "if everyone just gives up their privacy / anonymity / sensitive data" and the mechanism is by denial of service

In fact its worse. Every site must also implement this security check. Or everyone must agree to just use sites and services that follow this policy. Otherwise anyone can just use another, often 'less safe' website.

blharr commented on Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory github.com/localgpt-app/l... · Posted by u/yi_wang

jack_pp · 2 days ago

Can you provide examples in the wild of LLMs creating bad descriptions of code? Has it ever happened to you?

Somehow I doubt at this point in time they can even fail at something so simple.

Like at some point, for some stuff we have to trust LLMs to be correct 99% of the time. I believe summaries, translate, code docs are in that category

blharr · 2 days ago

The above post is an example of the LLM providing a bad description of the code. "Local first" with its default support being for OpenAI and Anthropic models... that makes it local... third?

Can you provide examples in the wild of LLMs creating good descriptions of code?

blharr commented on Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out boxc.net/blog/2026/claude... · Posted by u/fugu2

teaearlgraycold · 6 days ago

Which while expensive is dirt cheap compared to a comparable NVidia or AMD system.

blharr · 6 days ago

What speed are you getting at that level of hardware though?

blharr commented on Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections blog.citp.princeton.edu/2... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha

hintymad · 19 days ago

What I failed to understand is why only in the US the voting procedure is so controversial. Want paper vote? That's racism. Want counting in a day? That's xenophobia. Want to limit certain time window for counting? That's definitely racism. It's funny that the US criticized that EU countries were getting less democratic. Well, at least those countries have a much more sane voting process.

blharr · 19 days ago

I don't understand the critique. Nobody has ever made these claims.

I don't mean this as an ad hominem, but was this comment generated with AI or something?

blharr commented on Without benchmarking LLMs, you're likely overpaying karllorey.com/posts/witho... · Posted by u/lorey

candiddevmike · 21 days ago

One point in favor of smaller/self-hosted LLMs: more consistent performance, and you control your upgrade cadence, not the model providers.

I'd push everyone to self-host models (even if it's on a shared compute arrangement), as no enterprise I've worked with is prepared for the churn of keeping up with the hosted model release/deprecation cadence.

blharr · 20 days ago

Where can I find information on self-hosting models success stories? All of it seems like throwing tens of thousands away on compute for it to work worse than the standard providers. The self-hosted models seem to get out of date, too. Or there ends up being good reasons (improved performance) to replace them

blharr commented on Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy ossa-ma.github.io/blog/op... · Posted by u/calcifer

gruez · 23 days ago

>Maybe Henry Ford was on to something when he shocked the world by paying his employees enough to afford the product they were making (more than doubling many workers' wages)...

That's a nice story to tell, but the economics never works out if you do the math. Whatever extra wages you pay, you only get a fraction of that back in increased sales. How much percent of a worker's income do you think is spent on a car? As a rough measure we can use the BLS's CPI weights for "new and used vehicles", which comes in at 7.4%, with an extra 1.4% if you include maintenance and parts. By that alone "paying his employees enough to afford the product they were making" is going to be a losing proposition, because Ford can only hope to get 8.8% of whatever they paid in wages back as revenue. And all of this is ignoring the fact that you can't pay extra wages out of revenue, only profit, so you can only hope to recoup a fraction of that 8.8%.

blharr · 23 days ago

Obviously this would never work with a single employer. But I think the point is moreso that if every employer, in an altruistic sense, decided to pay their employees enough to afford more purchasing power, the entire market would grow faster

blharr commented on Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/7777777phil

littlestymaar · a month ago

> Yes, you just break the book down by chapters or whatever conveniently fits in the context window to produce summaries such that all of the chapter summaries can fit in one context window.

I've done that a few month ago and in fact doing just this will miss cross-chapter informations (say something is said in chapter 1, that doesn't appears to be important but reveals itself crucial later on, like "Chekhov's gun").

Maybe doing that iteratively several time would solve the problem, I run out of time and didn't try but the straightforward workflow you're describing doesn't work so I think it's fair to say this challenge isn't solve. (It works better with non-fiction though, because the prose is usually drier and straight to the point).

blharr · a month ago

in that case, why not summarize the previous chapters and then include that as context to the next chapter?

blharr commented on AI misses nearly one-third of breast cancers, study finds emjreviews.com/radiology/... · Posted by u/Liquidity

triceratops · a month ago

There are more radiologists than AI models that read MRIs.

blharr · a month ago

The amount doesn't really matter. What matters is the variance. There could be only 3 radiologists in the world that use different practices with 1% 10% and 50% error rates. It would be misleading to say "Radiologists miss 50% of diagnoses" based on one practice.

The assumption when gathering these statistics is that more or less you can average these out, but with AI you might have a model with literal 100% error rate or a model with a much lower error rate, and that changes a lot depending on the AI method its using.

blharr commented on More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are 'AI slop', study finds theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/schu

tim333 · a month ago

It would probably be good if it worked. Not quite sure how you'd automatically detect it.

blharr · a month ago

Before you used to manage your own subscriptions or communities to join. That was enough. My suggestion would be just having a whitelist for the channels or sources you want to follow that push non-slop content.

blharr commented on More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are 'AI slop', study finds theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/schu

scotty79 · a month ago

YouTube is amazing repository of millions of practical skills and knowledge. It's achievement at least on par with Wikipedia. Calling it a mistake just because there's some entertainment there as well that not everybody is fond of is a bit harsh.

blharr · a month ago

Except it's also a battleground for a ton of insidious recommendations that now distract you instead of educate you.

I know many people who spend 10 hours+ a day just listening to inflammatory content

It's also not just the consumers. So many great educational channels have been forced to appeal to click bait or lower quality content because of the nature of the platform