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Mirror publisher to cut 220 editorial jobs as readers turn to AI summaries(theguardian.com)
1 points by pera 10d ago|0 comments
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OpenStreetMap fighting a large set of AI crawlers / scrapers(en.osm.town)
4 points by pera 11d ago|0 comments
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by pera 16d ago
Everything you say can and will be trained against you
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by pera 22d ago
My point was that we won't care about benchmarks anymore because we would see an obvious and completely unprecedent increase in productivity (and I believe it will likely come from the same people who will develope such machine). The r
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by pera 22d ago
You don't need super-intelligence to produce at a greater rate when your tasks are parallelizable.
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by pera 23d ago
To each their own. Personally I will start feeling the AGI as soon as we move from chatting about benchmark results to learn that some lab just announced the discovery of tens of novel treatments for rare diseases. Maybe I'm too boring
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Hong Kong convicts two Tiananmen vigil activists of inciting subversion(france24.com)
4 points by pera 1mo ago|0 comments
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by pera 1mo ago
I meant it in the latter way: a metaphor can be useful as a pedagogical tool to introduce new ideas, and using the source of inspiration for this idea as the metaphor itself makes perfect sense, but unfortunately our brains seem to be prone
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by pera 1mo ago
Yes it is a very serious problem because it confuses a lot of folks with a great deal of power like judges and policymakers. The first book I ever read on ML (late 90s) dedicated the entire first or second chapter exploring the distinctions
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by pera 1mo ago
Save that for your local mom-and-pop store: Microsoft is a multi-billion dollar corporation with enough resources to, at the very least, provide a reliable service for enterprise clients. The "AI is using a lot of resources" excus
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Large genome models used to design new viruses(arstechnica.com)
4 points by pera 2mo ago|0 comments
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by pera 2mo ago
Azure has a lot of GB300s: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/microsoft-azure-worlds-first-g...
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by pera 2mo ago
Yup, already mentioned in a comment below: the IPs are in that list. They also show up in AbuseIPDB with multiple reports.
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by pera 2mo ago
Yeah it's not just Amazon, but so far Amazon was the only one specifically looking for URLs in source code. Interestingly it ignored URLs in the fake markdown docs. Another detail: the scraper did not attempt to access the endpoints im
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by pera 2mo ago
Thanks, the Amazonbot IPs that accessed my honeypot are in this other list: https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/searchbot-ip-addresse... By the way, they used false user-agents.
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by pera 2mo ago
My concern is more in relation to trying to use an endpoint from non-public source code, it seems negligent to randomly try endpoints like this
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Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt
20 points by pera 2mo ago|21 comments
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by pera 2mo ago
Ruled by whom? The International Court of the Northern District of California ?
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Georgia homeowners are being forced from their homes to power AI data centers [video](youtube.com)
4 points by pera 2mo ago|1 comments
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by pera 3mo ago
If you wanna look into another example search for the Abercrombie Plan in Edinburgh: it was a very ambitious urbanistic plan to "modernize" this city. For instance they proposed to demolish all of the historical Georgian and Victo
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by pera 3mo ago
In the mid 20th century some people believed urban motorways were "progress" and wanted to build them everywhere, see for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama_%28New_York_World%27s...
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MI5 knew agent was misogynist 'obsessed' with violence, watchdog finds(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by pera 3mo ago|0 comments
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by pera 3mo ago
Maybe I am missing your point but "Textbooks are all you need" distilled from GPT-3.5
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by pera 3mo ago
Sorry but your argument doesn't seem coherent: How is the cost of RL relevant here? It would also help if you could substantiate your initial claim (i.e. "internet training data is not where frontier capabilities come from")
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by pera 3mo ago
> Using them was allowed as fair use That is only relevant in the US, and even there it is still not clear-cut whether the fair use doctrine applies on all these scenarios. Outside of the US the situation is also quite different: for exa
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by pera 3mo ago
-16.5% at the moment... Is the market reacting to the $20B bond offering news? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/spacex-ki...
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AI and tech are trying to influence the midterm elections(text.npr.org)
20 points by pera 3mo ago|0 comments
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AI data centre would be 'one of Scotland's top polluters' if plans greenlit(thenational.scot)
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by pera 3mo ago
> Today we're gonna announce something a little weird and a little crazy, but also spectacular and filled with hope. Why is that almost every LLM generated article sounds like a LinkedIn motivational post? (this is not a rhetorica
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SpaceX Set to Overtake Amazon in Value as It Soars for Third Day(bloomberg.com)
21 points by pera 3mo ago|13 comments

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