So, does 5.2 still have a knowledge cutoff date of June 2024, or have they managed to complete another full pre-training run?
Readit Newsm12k commented on GPT-5.2 openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/atgctg
m12k commented on No ARIA is better than bad ARIA w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/pract... · Posted by u/robin_reala
There are thousands of blind people on the net. Can't you hire one of them to test for you? Please?
If you don't want this to break eventually, you need it tested every time your CI/CD test suite runs. Manual testing just doesn't cut it
m12k commented on Helping Valve to power up Steam devices igalia.com/2025/11/helpin... · Posted by u/TingPing
I have a super high opinion of Valve. Sure, they have loot crates. But sensible people don't buy them. I guess you could blame them for having it in the first place. That's fair I guess. But I've never for a second considered buying any of that junk.
I just buy single player offline games with no IAP, and Steam is amazing. It's a million miles ahead of the competitors, and it's really surprising that EA/Ubi etc.. try to compete but don't get the reason they're losing. They screw customers and then act surprised that customers hate them.
They've hedged their bets by making, and selling, both games whose monetization is exploitative and non-exploitative
Obligatory link to the in-progress forum post about the development of The Return of the Obra Dinn's dithering effect: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg136374...
The difficulty for dithering on an interactive 3d scene is in making the dithering stable on camera rotation, otherwise you get a twinkling stars effect, not dissimilar to the "fireflies" in reflections in ray-traced games.
And here's a couple videos about a technique that was inspired by the Obra Dinn's dither, but making it surface stable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqGaIMVuLs (explanation)
m12k commented on German government comes out against Chat Control xcancel.com/paddi_hansen/... · Posted by u/SolonIslandus
Unless there's a law ensuring our freedoms.
I mean, the right to privacy is already enshrined in the EU's human rights. The courts would likely strike Chat Control down if it were to pass. But I wish there was a way to prevent our politicians from even trying this shit.
m12k commented on Tell the EU: Don't Break Encryption with "Chat Control" mozillafoundation.org/en/... · Posted by u/nickslaughter02
I like to compare this to mandating surveillance cameras in every home. It would certainly make detecting and investigating many crimes easier. And the government might pinky swear to never watch without a warrant. They may even keep that promise. But that slippery slope is far from the only issue. Even more damning is that as long as this exists, whether used in official capacity or not, it will be the most sought after thing by hackers from crime organizations and hostile nations. Espionage, blackmail, you name - no person or organization would ever be safe, everybody's privacy and security is undermined.
120Hz limit for high refresh rate support seems strange. The most common refresh rate for high refresh rate monitors is 144Hz, and faster refresh rates are available. If you run a 120fps animation on a 144Hz monitor you'll get duplicated frames, which negates a large part of the benefit.
Maybe the developer that implemented it only had a 120hz display to test it on?
m12k commented on Distillation makes AI models smaller and cheaper quantamagazine.org/how-di... · Posted by u/pseudolus
The article is pretty light on details, and misses (or I missed it if they mentioned it) an important distinction. There are two main types of distillation:
- completion based methods, where you take a big model, give it some queries, and use the answers to post-train a smaller model. This is what deepseek did with qwen models, where they took ~800k traces made by R1 and used sft on smaller qwen2.5 models. What the sky team found in their experiments is that you can use as few as 1-2k traces to reach similar results. Much cheaper.
- logit/internal representations based methods, where you need access to the raw model, and for each pair q -> response you train the small model on the entire distribution of the logits at the same time. This is a method suited for model creators, where they can take a pair of big + small model of the same architecture, and "distill" it in the smaller one. This is likely how they train their -flash -mini -pico and so on.
The first method can be used via API access. The second one can't. You need access to things that API providers won't give you.
From the article:
"Considering that the distillation requires access to the innards of the teacher model, it’s not possible for a third party to sneakily distill data from a closed-source model like OpenAI’s o1, as DeepSeek was thought to have done. That said, a student model could still learn quite a bit from a teacher model just through prompting the teacher with certain questions and using the answers to train its own models — an almost Socratic approach to distillation."
m12k commented on Open guide to equity compensation github.com/jlevy/og-equit... · Posted by u/mooreds
As our 30 person startup has grown, I made a conscious decision to stop pitching stock options as a primary component of compensation.
Which means the job offer still includes stock options, but during the job offer call we don’t talk up the future value of the stock options. We don’t create any expectation that the options will be worth anything.
Upside from a founder perspective is we end up giving away less equity than we otherwise might. Downside from a founder perspective is you need up increase cash compensation to close the gap in some cases, where you might otherwise talk up the value of options.
Main upside for the employee is they don’t need to worry too much about stock options intricacies because they don’t view them as a primary aspect of their compensation.
In my experience, almost everyone prefers cash over startup stock options. And from an employee perspective, it’s almost always the right decision to place very little value ($0) on the stock option component of your offer. The vast majority of cases stock options end up worthless.
> The vast majority of cases stock options end up worthless
Also, even if the company ends up worth a lot of money, there's no guarantee that a way to liquidate, such as an IPO, exit or secondary market, will become available in any reasonable time frame. And as a regular employee you have exceedingly little to say in bringing about such events. There's not much fun in having a winning lottery ticket that can't be cashed in, in fact it's highly stressful.
m12k commented on Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans arstechnica.com/health/20... · Posted by u/zdw
"While less access to health care and weaker social structures can explain the gap between the wealthy and poor in the US, it doesn't explain the differences between the wealthy in the US and the wealthy in Europe, the researchers note. There may be other systemic factors at play that make Americans uniquely short-lived, such as diet, environment, behaviors, and cultural and social differences."
Off the top of my head, obesity seems like the obvious culprit to investigate. If so, I wonder if semaglutide will close this gap again?