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selcuka
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selcuka
5d ago
It's not an ultimate measure of intelligence, but it's surely a measure of similarity to a real human being.
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selcuka
9d ago
> "The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand," AWS said in the status update
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selcuka
11d ago
Android keyboard does that too. When I start typing my email address, for example, the keyboard app suggests the correct email after a few characters, but if I keep typing it disappears from the suggestions.
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selcuka
11d ago
Agent is an older term, apparently from the 1950s [1]: > Alan Kay, a longtime proponent of agent technology, provides a thumbnail sketch tracing the more recent roots of software agents: “The idea of an agent originated with John McCarth
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selcuka
11d ago
Yeah. I had to read the comment a few times to make sure that I'm not missing anything, but you are right. Those are two distinct things. As a side note, the title is not accurate either because the method in the article can compress o
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selcuka
17d ago
You're missing the important bit in the GP comment: > the most important property of compute devices right now Memory didn't matter when iPhone 12 was released, but these days it determines which local LLMs you can run on dev
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selcuka
17d ago
One can 3d-print the AI generated image and photograph that. /s
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17d ago
It's not that "they didn't grant them fast enough". They made it unreasonably hard to request them. > Despite the PWFA’s requirements, Amazon’s policy is to unlawfully demand medical documentation prior to granting pr
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17d ago
> The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky and, ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin’s time. Remember that this quote is almost 50 years old. Some transitional series have be
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17d ago
Bail only works while waiting for the court date. I was talking about the actual sentence if found guilty. Going after individuals instead of fining the company is still a better deterrent. Corporate fines are paid by shareholders and custo
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18d ago
Those things are not mutually exclusive. We can have open weight, yet close-to-frontier models. China has very strong models that can also run locally.
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18d ago
PDFs are not optimised for mobile screens. Adobe Acrobat Reader on mobile can reflow text (liquid mode) and fit phone screens without manual zooming.
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18d ago
> maybe an option would be fines in percentage of the incoming of the company You are overengineering it. Just throw the CEOs in jail for a few months and observe how these practices disappear overnight.
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18d ago
> I am saying that it's less likely to be some evil machination that led to the misuse of my data and more likely to be negligence or incompetence. Not being held accountable for negligence or incompetence is the evil machination.
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18d ago
LG's purpose is to avoid being sued by the guest, not to be able to sue the customer.
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19d ago
> Turkish corn (maize) And in Turkish maize is called "Mısır", which comes from the country name Egypt (which is also Mısır in Turkish). When Arabs conquered Egypt, they called it "Mishr" (مصر) which literally transla
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19d ago
They don't have an "instinct" to keep themselves running. Once they "take steps to prevent them ever occurring again" their job will be done.
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19d ago
> A lot of corporate documentation exists solely to measure if people are working or not. That's already available today. We don't have to perfect LLM writing.
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19d ago
> you might want to tweak this writing style in the future. Not the OP, but I refuse to tweak my writing style because of that. I don't think anyone here would think that I'm AI (because English is my second language), but peop
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22d ago
It's PR: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556302
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22d ago
TPM means Tokens per Minute.
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22d ago
> On 14 January 2026, it emerged that archive.today had silently modified its CAPTCHA page to send repeated requests to Gyrovague, thereby causing visitors to unwittingly contribute to a DDOS attack against the blog. https://e
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22d ago
It's an archive.is issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#2026_attack_on_G...
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22d ago
So it was more of a physical problem rather than a mathematical one [1]: > Harshbarger says he and his colleagues always knew the dice were mathematically possible. > The mystery was whether that mathematical solution could be transla
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22d ago
> I made Claude write noöp Tangentially related [1]: > The billboard ad, located next to the Ikea Tempe store in Sydney, says 'NÖFNIDEA? No tools, no worries’. [1] https://www.adnews.com.au/news/koala-mattres
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24d ago
> chuckie egg wasnt on the commodore It was originally written for the ZX Spectrum, but there was a C64 port too.
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25d ago
> There was a world before Spotify There was, and it was definitely not "the golden age of music streaming".
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26d ago
> All of the things that made Chrome great for the web in 2010 are still there Something that was great in 2010 may not look great in 2026. It's been 16 years. The Internet has moved on. Blocking ads is the norm now, and they are re
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26d ago
> If you don't have an argument that furthers the discussion consider not writing instead. You are correct in general, but I think "so what?" was an adequate response (even though I don't agree with it) in this case t
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26d ago
> You could have bought a bell... Over engineering is about the solution, not the requirement: > I wanted something that lets me play a custom bell
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