hobofan

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by hobofan 7d ago
NFO files (both image and text) for current releases and ones going way back can still be found on xrel.to
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by hobofan 9d ago
Pretty sure it's worded in a way that it applies only to the server, so it should be read as two distinct things: - Japan-developed 2nm 3D-stacked CPU - server integrated, developed, and manufactured in Japan
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by hobofan 9d ago
Why? The point of a shader language is to define a function that outputs some graphics. Why should that not be portable between GPUs/CPUs of different vendors?
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by hobofan 10d ago
You are not the typical office worker.
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by hobofan 10d ago
I'm pretty sure the message board that was recently swarmed by OpenAI agents to collude on benchmarks would like to disagree.
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by hobofan 10d ago
> It's also the third largest economy in the world If going by GDP (which this claim usually does), the EU as a whole beats out China for second place by ~10%. When going by individual countries Germany alone is the third place behi
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by hobofan 10d ago
From what I was able to see from the outside, App Store has had semi-automated reviews for updates in basically forever (+ some random spot checks), presumably based on some introspection that only triggers a human review if a new system AP
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by hobofan 10d ago
That's still ultimately privacy by contract (where you have to trust the inference providers to uphold their end of the deal), rather than privacy by design.
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by hobofan 11d ago
I think in target-rich environments, the humanoid form is pretty easy to beat.
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by hobofan 11d ago
Not every visualized data point is tied to a binary decision. e.g. when highlighting a quarterly revenue result, there is a big difference between missing the target by 1% or 50% (and of course the absolute number behind it is also importan
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by hobofan 15d ago
Why? This just follows the scheme they have established in 5.6, just that GPT 6 introduced Astra as another tier above Sol.
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by hobofan 15d ago
I'd wager it's more due to decision making culpability. Now, for the next "teen committed suicide after talking to AI therapist" headline, Claude can deflect the blame to the parents for not supervising their child enoug
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by hobofan 15d ago
> Why use a limited version? Because in most of those API, even many implementations of the Responses API, you lose a lot of control of where your data is going. e.g. an Agent or the Responses API may automatically invoke a tool call tha
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by hobofan 16d ago
Photographing bikes or electric scooters does nothing without enforcement through the city. It allows tracking down the person who placed it wrong, but in the absence of fines through the city, the rental companies surely won't start f
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by hobofan 17d ago
In a world were there is a significant amount of people that do things just to take photos of themselves doing things rather than experiencing the thing, this may be the lesser evil.
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by hobofan 17d ago
> Improving models in a holistic way sounds a lot like training to me. I think that's quite a leap. Using de-indetified data to improve the products is what everyone has been doing since the dawn of web analytics.
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by hobofan 17d ago
The distiction they are trying to make is: "One of our employees or the model was able to verbatim read the chats when they were actively tackling the problem" vs "The chat of someone working on the problem may have ended up
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by hobofan 18d ago
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527396 (and I can also just add that it's my go-to tool for that exact use-case, and
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by hobofan 18d ago
Regulation != censorship. (Apart from that, Mistral has Shieldstral[0] for adding policy enforcement). With it's general approach of Open Weights, and being able to be deployed on-premise (/private/public cloud), they are a v
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by hobofan 18d ago
Are they, though? I would say, let's find out when the IPO settles, but then again the market also sustains a incredibly crazy valuation for Tesla.
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by hobofan 19d ago
Rerun is pretty dope, but I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that it's the "author's main project"? There is a whole company backing it, with no affiliation that I could find, apart from the author being an
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by hobofan 20d ago
All individual robotic parts are already far enough in research. Even if they aren't, an AI with enough resources can continue doing that research on its own. It could likely get a good leg up by breaching the security of all top robot
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by hobofan 20d ago
> we have full control over the tool call dispatching > cannot do anything without the harness doing the execution This only holds true as long as the harness is exploit-free. A sufficiently advanced AI can in theory (and I think ther
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by hobofan 20d ago
> how is an AI going to affect anything in the real world? Robotics
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by hobofan 20d ago
> People hire cleaners and tradespeople into their homes all the time. It's very obvious that there is a difference between a single person that you can personally vet, and something that records videos that can be shared anywhere.
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by hobofan 20d ago
> Only Gen Z and later are starting to care and willing to spend the time and effort to self host. I'm not sure what you are seeing, but what I'm seeing is widespread teach illiteracy in Gen Z outside of their smartphone. Gen Z
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by hobofan 21d ago
Unions are not just for bad employers.
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by hobofan 22d ago
The HN title is misleading. > Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID __This__ Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year. The "This" in the the sentence serves an important role. It currently reads like all ID verification com
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by hobofan 22d ago
I'm not opposed to AuthS either! :)
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by hobofan 22d ago
This has already been solved well-enough with AuthN and AuthZ as distinct names.

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