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by bigyabai 1mo ago
> I'm not involved at all in WP That's an oddly specific thing to clarify upfront.
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
No, this is to attract accessory manufacturers, and then corner them into buying an MFi/connector license: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MFi_Program
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
But hacking has always been a vulnerability, even pre-AI. The scale multiplier here is the number of vulnerable machines, not the intelligence of AI. > An ounce of prevention can be worth a pound of cure. It can be, but if you get chem
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
> Open-weight means no guardrails. We're going to live in that world forever now, capable adversarial models have already been trained and will be used in a large conflict. The pragmatic issue is hacking, and current open-weight L
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
It's "flood the zone"[0] as commercial strategy. Does your business look bad? Spam the media with unavoidable press releases, deny competitors and detractors the spotlight by making grand accusations that override their autho
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
No, but you're not missing out on anything. This guy has been yelling at clouds for months now: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Bitu79
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
Isn't OneAPI a good example of the problem, alongside Mojo/ONNX/TensorRT? The industry doesn't need a fifteenth competing standard. They need hardware buy-in. By holistic, I mean hardware architecture cooperation. Nvidia
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
I'm talking about holistic efforts like OpenCL, and standards that would be equivalent to Nvidia's "Compute Capability" versioning. The basic underlying tech can be agreed on, but Apple/AMD/Intel all have diffe
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
I would too, but sadly that's Khronos' job to organize, and they've had trouble getting American vendors to work together. It's likely that CUDA will continue dominating until they put aside their differences. The curren
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
I'm tired of this rationale. "I'm more worried about grandma than $CORPORATION'S monopoly abuses" is exactly how you get manipulated by these billionaires. They want you to be addicted to their power. Uncensored C
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
> How much is China learning from open models? Across all their labs? Probably more than OpenAI and Anthropic learned from Astra/Mythos combined. The American frontier is being driven by an abundance of compute, which doesn't s
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
I don't trust them, which is why I inherently question the validity of their RSI/bioweapon/extinction claims.
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
> and to have democratic control of the development of the technology Why? I don't care about democratically participating in a closed model's development. It doesn't belong to me. China will develop whatever they want, a
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lets-see-who-this-really-is
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
I don't understand why this question exists. The answer is February 28 2026, the date of the Minab School attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack 156 civilians were killed after a Claude age
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
Counterpoint; HN was destined to change. Guys like Paul Graham are a rare breed, a Hobbit-like optimist living in the equivalent of Mordor. When the political headwinds are strong, that type of hopecore content finds the right people and mo
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
Apple's Neural Engine is equivalent to the "NPU" hardware you would find on many cheap ARM SBCs. It's a dedicated coprocessor with a very low performance target, not intended for giant transformers or LLM acceleration. T
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
Halakha is characteristically flawed like all other religious law. It can be interpreted in merciful denomenations, or cruel and internationally illegal ones.
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
According to the Quincy Institute, the opposite happened: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-war-polling-us/
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
" is the mother", not " was the mother" If you take this all the way back to ancient history, nobody will be happy with the examples we drum up.
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
> that market was always fickle due to ASCIs. The GPU crunch came because cards like the 3060 were extremely cheap and could outrun most sub-$1000 ASICs at the time. The dedicated crypto GPUs were too-little too-late; hundreds of thous
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
> I really don't think it's an if question but a when Nvidia still will ship gaming products. The upcoming RTX Spark laptop APUs are still gaming-capable - we also have Blackwell gaming GPUs and the Nvidia-powered Nintendo Swit
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When war drums roll (2001)(espn.com)
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
*taps the sign* Repealing Section 230 When You Disagree With It Creates An Even Bigger Incentive For Abuse
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That side of it is understandable, albeit open to interpretation. I can see how both sides justify their own choices in the short term. But we hear this "dumping" argument quite often for seemingly arbitrary purposes. Is it "
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For the government to subsequently reopen it? There has never been a more blatant honeypot in the history of American social media.
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
Certainly, just like Retina Display™ technology and Taptic Engine™ integration. These are unparalleled features. You cannot even imagine them, if you don't own an iPhone.
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> They’re doing it as a way to undermine the industry leaders and attract people to their brands. Isn't that just how competition works? Codex and Claude are both widely speculated to be sold at a loss (at least compared to API pric
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
My other comment still applies to this response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649583 Google lacks the authority to unify folding phone software any better than they can unify homescreen launchers or dialer applica

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