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Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:32AM (#50178625)
This is the energy commissioner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_J%C3%B8rgensen

But if it is a real emergency, surely we would just want any EVs we can get, to encourage building out the infrastructure for them.

Re:What shall I teach my son? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:29AM (#50178601)
And the US has the greatest economy in the world as a result. No losing millions to corrupt licensing and permitting schemes, council / tribunal approvals, certifications and mandatory examinations, etc.

As a Europoor it's sad seeing my young nephew growing up, and realising he will have far better opportunities in the US or China than here, where everything is blocked, taxed and regulated to maintain the status quo.

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:52AM (#50178234)
It's hilarious that the EU is busy putting tariffs on electric vehicles and blocking nuclear power... but they still call it an "emergency".
Re:Our approach to EU text provenance rules on Monday October 05, 2026 @05:43PM (#49971268)
I wish we could vote out the EU!
It's working as intended? Meta invests in innovative infrastructure, and the country benefits.

Look at Europe for the opposite, and the disastrous consequences there.

Re:The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:08PM (#49792671)
And Europe is even worse, it's embarrassing.
I think it's okay to advance humanity, but they can GTFO when they then try to ban distilling and open models.
Re:Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:47AM (#49624908)
Good. It helps solve crimes, and can even resolve general anti-social behaviour.

I'd rather have the cameras than have family members die to drugged up drivers, or robbers get away with their crimes.

Flagged. Editing a wiki page is not hijacking or hacking.
Re:Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @04:08AM (#49430511)
Limited scope isn't a bad thing.

But both have done great work too - I use gnome-keying and KDE Connect all the time.

Re:Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M on Monday August 24, 2026 @08:35AM (#49418885)
This money is funding Hyprland and QuickShell.
Easier said than done - where do you get the B300s from?

Better to start working with harnesses, evals, statistical analysis, etc. - where you don't need the huge hardware for pre-training etc.

Re:Pacing the Frontier on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @03:39AM (#49094489)
As a Europoor I've seen the devastating consequences of rampant safetyism first hand. Entire industries and energy security destroyed to satisfy the precautionary principle.

We need to accelerate as much as possible and create abundance as fast as we can. Life is short.

But the EU still blocks self driving cars which would make this unnecessary.
Re:Git is forever. I'm building Oak anyways on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @06:04AM (#48642703)
How is downloading stuff remotely the bottleneck here?
If you're gonna fine-tune for a closed set classification problem like this, you could just fine-tune BERT and get a faster model with better performance.
Could the harness not check for a failed tool call and pass it to a small model for correction without clogging up the main context?
Re:How LLMs Work on Saturday June 06, 2026 @04:16AM (#48422638)
It's not just the architecture but also the data - the decoder only approach lets you train in parallel over blocks of text (no RNN serial waiting), that allows you train on much, much more data.
What? The UK is doing better economically than Germany right now.

And better than anywhere in Europe for Tech with Deepmind and Ineffable Intelligence there.

It still shares many of the same mistakes as Europe though - e.g. now having to buy Russian oil and gas again instead of using the North Sea oil, not expanding nuclear power, rampant welfare and council housing corruption, etc.

Re:Ten Signs of Fascism. America has all of them on Sunday May 17, 2026 @04:59AM (#48167194)
Real fascists like Pinochet and Videla murdered thousands of innocent people.

The USA is not even close to that - massacres in football stadiums, students thrown from helicopters into the ocean, entire villages burned alive in Belarus, etc.

Re:Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying on Friday May 15, 2026 @09:04AM (#48148072)
Any chance on port forwarding coming back?
Re:The Other Half of AI Safety on Thursday May 14, 2026 @03:48AM (#48132315)
And what will a human do better? Why will the human care? Who will pay the human?
Re:If AI writes your code, why use Python? on Monday May 11, 2026 @05:19PM (#48100822)
The LLMs just churns out non-idiomatic slop in any language.

It doesn't matter if the 800-line if statement is able to use pattern matching.

There's been a lot of progress on making coding agents able to solve problems when they can easily evaluate in a closed loop, we desperately need something similar for controlling complexity and using relevant abstractions.

Re:A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro on Saturday May 09, 2026 @08:07AM (#48074302)
What? DeepSeekV3 just came out and is incredible for the price. Mythos is also half-released.
And all the oil companies - CRC and Chevron are huge.
Re:Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @05:17PM (#47940923)
AWS Bedrock supports prompt caching, just note that if you use the Converse API you need to set the cache points manually.
Re:AI's Economics Don't Make Sense on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @02:09PM (#47938204)
The price of everything will go down. That is the beauty of the free market.
It's not hype, the demand for inference has grown more this year than expected.
Hopefully they put ChatGPT on Bedrock now.

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