tuckerman (u/tuckerman)

tuckerman commented on GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers gptzero.me/news/neurips/... · Posted by u/segmenta

worik · 23 days ago

> Bibtex are often also incorrectly generated

...and including the erroneous entry is squarely the author's fault.

Papers should be carefully crafted, not churned out.

I guess that makes me sweetly naive

tuckerman · 23 days ago

I don't think the original comment was saying this isn't a problem but that flagging it as a hallucination from an LLM is a much more serious allegation. In this case, it also seems like it was done to market a paid product which makes the collateral damage less tolerable in my opinion.

> Papers should be carefully crafted, not churned out.

I think you can say the same thing for code and yet, even with code review, bugs slip by. People aren't perfect and problems happen. Trying to prevent 100% of problems is usually a bad cost/benefit trade-off.

tuckerman commented on Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction entropicthoughts.com/nvid... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

zozbot234 · 25 days ago

Sure, but I don't think most people here are objecting to the obvious "3 years is enough for enterprise GPUs to become totally obsolete for cutting-edge workloads" point. They're just objecting to the rather bizarre notion that the hardware itself might physically break in that timeframe. Now, it would be one thing if that notion was supported by actual reliability studies drawn from that same environment - like we see for the Backblaze HDD lifecycle analyses. But instead we're just getting these weird rumors.

tuckerman · 24 days ago

I agree that is a strange notion that would require some evidence and I see it in some other threads but looking at the parent comments going up it seems people are discussing economic usefulness so that is what I'm responding to.

tuckerman commented on Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction entropicthoughts.com/nvid... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

aswegs8 · 25 days ago

Not sure why this "GPUs obsolete after 3 years" gets thrown around all the time. Sounds completely nonsensical.

tuckerman · 25 days ago

I agree that there is hyperbole thrown around a lot here and its possible to still use some hardware for a long time or to sell it and recover some cost but my experience in planning compute at large companies is that spending money on hardware and upgrading can often result in saving money long term.

Even assuming your compute demands stay fixed, its possible that a future generation of accelerator will be sufficiently more power/cooling efficient for your workload that it is a positive return on investment to upgrade, more so when you take into account you can start depreciating them again.

If your compute demands aren't fixed you have to work around limited floor space/electricity/cooling capacity/network capacity/backup generators/etc and so moving to the next generation is required to meet demand without extremely expensive (and often slow) infrastructure projects.

tuckerman commented on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe noheger.at/blog/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/happosai

Mistletoe · a month ago

>ended up having to switch back to Mac over missing webcam drivers and other random hardware issues

This has been my experience every time I try Linux. If I had to guess, tracing down all these little things is just that last mile that is so hard and isn't the fun stuff to do in making an OS, which is why it is always ignored. If Linux ever did it, it would keep me.

tuckerman · a month ago

I think this is true with an arm mac (and would be tricky to fix that, props to the Asahi folks for doing so much) but for a lot of other hardware (recent dell/asus/lenovo, framework, byo desktops) I find Linux complete. I'm sure there is hardware out there that with struggles but I've not had to deal with any issues for a few years now myself.

tuckerman commented on Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer stickerbox.com/... · Posted by u/spydertennis

xnx · 2 months ago

> We wanted to let kids combine the power of their ideas with AI tools

Why? Kids can combine the power of their ideas with crayons, markers, and pencils.

tuckerman · 2 months ago

I think with the right parental guidance/supervision this could be a very fun toy.

From the website it seems like a great way to generate some black and white outlines that kids can still color in. If used like that it seems almost strictly more creative than a coloring book, no? There are plenty of other ways kids can express creativity with pre-made art too. Maybe they use them to illustrate a story they dreamed up? Maybe they decorate something they built with them?

Also, some children might want to have fun be creative in ways that don't involve visual arts. I was never particularly interested in coloring or drawing and still believe myself to be a pretty creative individual. I don't think my parents buying me some stickers robbed me of any critical experience.

tuckerman commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo

dolphinscorpion · 2 months ago

And how much are you paying? I pay $20 a month, but I doubt OpenAI makes money on me; they probably lose a lot.

tuckerman · 2 months ago

Pro is the $200/month plan

tuckerman commented on Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs checkout.com/blog/protect... · Posted by u/StrangeSound

ChrisMarshallNY · 3 months ago

That’s standard practice, on HN, and has been, before AI was a broken condom on the drug store shelf.

Unpleasant, but comes with the territory (I don’t like it, when it’s done to me).

That said, I’m not sure that kind of scolding is particularly effective, either.

tuckerman · 3 months ago

I think saying just "explain" is a bit of a meme and meant to come across as almost humorously asking for an explanation.

tuckerman commented on NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again gothamist.com/news/ny-sma... · Posted by u/hrldcpr

HeinzStuckeIt · 3 months ago

That high school is necessarily a place of cliquey behavior and bullying, and that kids may even benefit from it, is not a universal thing. In some countries, viewers of imported American TV shows are baffled by that depiction of high school, because in their high schools there aren’t such hard knocks.

tuckerman · 3 months ago

I agree with you, American schools seem particularly bad at breeding these sorts of unhealthy dynamics, and we shouldn't accept it as normal. But even in a better environment, unstructured social interaction with peers still seems like a useful part of growing up/socialization and shouldn't be replaced with kids sucked into their phones.

tuckerman commented on Debian Technical Committee overrides systemd change lwn.net/Articles/1041316/... · Posted by u/birdculture

Barrin92 · 4 months ago

"everyone else" in this case is pretty much only the debian ecosystem because they insist on enforcing a serial lock policy from the 1980s. It's fine if Debian wants to move at the speed of a Soviet committee but I don't think it should be expected (or would be healthy) for systemd to move at the same pace.

A software developer's primary job is to develop software for their users, not to comply with a third party distributor that repackages their software.

tuckerman · 4 months ago

The beef isn't with systemd upstream which already has a very simple/boring workaround for this, it's with the debian package maintainer (some people here are wearing multiple hats).

Really the whole raison d'etre of debian is move at this pace to prioritize stability/compatibility. If you don't like that philosophy there are other distros but a package maintainer's primary job is to repackage software for that distro (which presumably users have chosen for a reason), not comply with upstream.

tuckerman commented on Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region aws.amazon.com/message/10... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

jiggawatts · 4 months ago

I would divide these as functions inside a monolithic executable. At most, emit the plan to a file on disk as a “—whatif” optional path.

Distributed systems with files as a communication medium are much more complex than programmers think with far more failure modes than they can imagine.

Like… this one, that took out a cloud for hours!

tuckerman · 4 months ago

Doing it inside a single binary gets rid of some of the nice observability features you get "for free" by breaking it up and could complicate things quite a bit (more code paths, flags for running it in "don't make a plan use the last plan mode", flags for "use this human generated plan mode"). Very few things are a free lunch but I've used this pattern numerous times and quite like it. I ran a system that used a MIP model to do capacity planning and separating planning from executing a plan was very useful for us.

I think the communications piece depends on what other systems you have around you to build on, its unlikely this planner/executor is completely freestanding. Some companies have large distributed filesystems with well known/tested semantics, schedulers that launch jobs when files appear, they might have ~free access to a database with strict serializability where they can store a serialized version of the plan, etc.