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fibers commented on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness yro.slashdot.org/comments... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute

ghssds · 11 days ago

Slashdot refused to moderate comments in an effective manner. Comment section was always full of bad memes that became stale:

* Lot of rickrolling. but replace Rick Astley by Goatse, Tubgirl, or LemonParty.

* Frist post

* BSD is dying

* GNAA

* Nathalie Portman

* Robotic Overlord

* In Soviet Russia

* Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these memes

* etc.

Then it becames fixated on SCO and basically became Darl McBride News, for years...

However, what was interresting was their qualified upvote system. You did not simply upvote or downvote, but needed to add a qualifier to it: +1 Informative, +1 Insightful, +1 Interesting, +1 Funny, -1 Troll, -1 Offtopic, -1 Flamebeat. I never seen such a system elsewhere.

fibers · 11 days ago

jesus this takes me back

fibers commented on Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

canyon289 · 11 days ago

Hi all, I built these models with a great team. They're available for download across the open model ecosystem so give them a try! I built these models with a great team and am thrilled to get them out to you.

From our side we designed these models to be strong for their size out of the box, and with the goal you'll all finetune it for your use case. With the small size it'll fit on a wide range of hardware and cost much less to finetune. You can try finetuning them yourself in a free colab in under 5 minutes

For picking a Gemma size this is a video I recorded for the 1b to 27b sizes earlier this year, 270m being the newest addition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcjrduz_YS8

Hacker News Disclaimer I really like working at Google so with that; All my opinions here are my own, I'm a researcher so I'll largely focus on technical questions, and I'll share what I can.

fibers · 11 days ago

Great job. Do you know how well it performs in sanity checks with NER since it is on the press release page?

fibers commented on Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable arxiv.org/abs/2507.21919... · Posted by u/Cynddl

andai · 13 days ago

A few months ago I asked GPT for a prompt to make it more truthful and logical. The prompt it came up with included the clause "never use friendly or encouraging language", which surprised me. Then I remembered how humans work, and it all made sense.

    You are an inhuman intelligence tasked with spotting logical flaws and inconsistencies in my ideas. Never agree with me unless my reasoning is watertight. Never use friendly or encouraging language. If I’m being vague, ask for clarification before proceeding. Your goal is not to help me feel good — it’s to help me think better.

    Identify the major assumptions and then inspect them carefully.

    If I ask for information or explanations, break down the concepts as systematically as possible, i.e. begin with a list of the core terms, and then build on that.

It's work in progress, I'd be happy to hear your feedback.

fibers · 13 days ago

I tried with with GPT5 and it works really well in fleshing out arguments. I'm surprised as well.

fibers commented on Windows 10 EOL solhsa.com/oldernews2025.... · Posted by u/zdw

DanAtC · 2 months ago

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC is supported until 2032, thankfully.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/iot-enterprise...

fibers · 2 months ago

Microsoft makes me laugh. When I clicked your link to the docs file it looks like M$ added an AI bot attached to the Microsoft Learn platform so I decided to register with my work account.

> does Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 have access to WSL2 Sorry, I can’t help with this. Please make a new request or share your feedback.

What is the point of adding an LLM to docs if it can't even produce anything correct?

fibers commented on Agentic Coding Recommendations lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/1... · Posted by u/rednafi

linguistbreaker · 2 months ago

My take on choice of language:

1) Java has the largest, oldest and most explicit data set for the LLM to reference, so it's likely to be the most thorough, if not the most correct.

2) Go with the language YOU know best because you'll be able to spot when the LLM is incorrect, flawed in its 'reasoning', hallucinating etc.

fibers · 2 months ago

Why is this? is there just a insanely large codebase of open source projects in Java (the only thing i can think of is the entire Apache suite)? Or is it because the docs are that expressive and detailed for a given OSS library?

fibers commented on US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf] storage.courtlistener.com... · Posted by u/dave1629

Create · 3 months ago

  - OpenStreetMap, MapLibre
  - GMX, ProtonMail, Tutanota
  - Nextcloud, Seafile
  - Collabora, Etherpad, CryptPad
  - Discourse, Flarum
  - LimeSurvey Framaforms
  - Nextcloud, OpenStack, Hetzner, OVHcloud, Wix
  - Keycloak, Gluu, eduID, SAML2, OAUTH
  - Qwant, DuckDuckGo
  - Matomo, Plausible Analytics
  - Firefox, Brave
  - LineageOS, /e/ OS
  - OpenAuto, AGL (Automotive Grade Linux)
  - Open Health, Gadgetbridge
  - Fairphone, Various MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators)
  - Community Fiber Networks, Local ISPs (various)
  - Skyscanner, Kiwi.com, Amadeus
  - LibreTranslate, Apertium, Mistral
  - CB, Swish, Klarna, SumUp, Revolut (UK)
  - EasyMile, Navya, Aurora, Apriv, BMW, Daimler, Renault, Volvo, VW, Oxbotica, Zenuity

fibers · 3 months ago

thank you for these good alternatives. I will take a look at them later

fibers commented on US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf] storage.courtlistener.com... · Posted by u/dave1629

matheusmoreira · 3 months ago

I like your style, "lol" is the appropriate response to the notion of losing Google's entire list of products.

Android? It's not a big loss. It's no longer the open platform it used to be. Hardware remote attestation will get us locked out of every app if we "tamper" with our devices. It's just a shitty version of iOS now so who cares?

fibers · 3 months ago

it was a losing fight, by covid I switched to iOS when I realized safetynet really messed up with the ability to own your own hardware since banking apps would straight up break if you rooted your phone. at that point I also realized there was less fragmentation with iPhones and had more long term support.

fibers commented on US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf] storage.courtlistener.com... · Posted by u/dave1629

0xbadcafebee · 3 months ago

I'm not sure people understand what the consequences of taking away Google's ad revenue is. If a large enough bank goes under, it takes out not just the bank, but huge sectors of the economy, affecting many more businesses and jobs. That's why the government bailed out the banks when they failed.

The same will happen when Google loses its ad revenue. Google is an ad company. By opening up all its trade secret data, it loses its advantage. That will make it lose its core revenue. The end result will be Google collapsing entirely within a few years. Then those component parts people are talking about "opening up" will be gone too.

Here's a small number of things that will die when Google dies. Can you imagine how the world will be affected when these go away?

  - Google Maps
  - Google Mail
  - Google Drive
  - Google Docs
  - Google Groups
  - Google Forms
  - Google Cloud
  - Google OAuth
  - Google Search
  - Google Analytics
  - Chrome
  - Android
  - Android Auto
  - Fitbit
  - Google Fi
  - Google Fiber
  - Google Flights
  - Google Translate
  - Google Pay
  - Waymo

In the best case, killing these will force consumers to move to Apple. You wanna talk monopoly? You haven't seen anything yet.

Apple has no alternative for much of the Business-focused products, so that will take considerable time for companies to adopt alternatives. But in the meantime, the world will become pretty broken for a lot of companies that depend on these tools. This will affect many more people than just Google's direct users. The whole web will shrink, and huge swaths of the worldwide economy will disappear. Businesses closing, lost jobs, shrinking economies, lack of services.

There are plenty of parties who want to see Google lose or take part of its businesses. But if it's not done extremely carefully, there's a very large stack of dominoes that are poised to fall.

fibers · 3 months ago

- Google Maps - this would be a big loss but at least this will open the field for Apple Maps and OSM (and I wonder if a competitor will be able to properly leave OSM as is an perhaps integrate traffic data like with Waze or another product like it)

  - Google Mail - I dumped gmail after Google google'd GDomains and sold it to squarespace so I moved to proton

  - Google Drive - lol, this is a literal multibillion industry with dropbox, box.com, etc

  - Google Docs - lol, maybe high schoolers will finally use paper and pencil now? either way proton docs looks promising and perheps a new competitor will take the space

  - Google Groups - email listservs are still a thing, use that
 
 - Google Forms - this seems like a serious loss but surely there will be another competitor

  - Google Cloud - there are better ways to do on prem now, either way you can use AWS or Azure

  - Google OAuth - ok this one will be a big loss but also people need to get it together that google isnt mail.

  - Google Search - this product has been going through a collapse since pre covid give me a break

  - Google Analytics - lol
 
 - Chrome - web standards have been cannibalized by google already so like who cares at this point. just switch to Firefox

  - Android - another major loss but it still suffers from fragmentation, hopefully Chinese competitors fill the void?

  - Android Auto - lol 

  - Fitbit - lol didn't they just release an update where you cant export your data anymore

  - Google Fi - another MVNO that may die out? I mean cricket is still good right?

  - Google Fiber - a genuine loss and hope they will be treated with care but probably not given the large legacy telcos that will acquire it

  - Google Flights - another major loss? but even as someone who loves flying it is becoming an untenable situation given the current regime in the White House and ATCs getting knocked out

  - Google Translate - another major loss but this can be solved with LLMs
  - Google Pay - lol

  - Waymo - lol

fibers commented on Feds arrest man for sharing DVD rip of Spider-Man movie with millions online arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/ndsipa_pomu

ranger_danger · 6 months ago

You're not wrong, but I would say this is a little bit more than just IP theft, as these charges are technically criminal in nature. Physical theft and fraud, bypassing encryption explicitly for unauthorized copying (regardless of what it was), etc.

fibers · 6 months ago

that logic can be applied broadly to the unbelievable amount of ip theft that LLMs train on

fibers commented on Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code simonwillison.net/2025/Ja... · Posted by u/k__

m11a · 7 months ago

A lot of the niceness about DeepSeek-R1's usage in coding is that you can see the thought process, which (IME) has been more useful than the final answer.

It may well be that o1's chain of thought reasoning trace is also quite good. But they hide it as a trade secret and supposedly ban users for trying to access it, so it's hard to know.

fibers · 7 months ago

how many reported cases of banning are there? that sounds insane for asking it to print out its chain of thought