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Re:Life with Down Syndrome
on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:12AM (#50352237)
People with Down syndrome aren't all the same. The highest measured IQ of a person with Down syndrome in a scientific study was 117:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3707311/
Having said that, men with Down syndrome are generally infertile anyway.
Re:Life with Down Syndrome
on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:01AM (#50352092)
I don't know why people don't understand this, but something being true doesn't mean it can't also be hurtful, and it doesn't mean it has to be said. Gabe clearly already knows that he is different; there's absolutely no point in telling him this, other than to hurt him.
Re:Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for...
on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:54AM (#50351997)
We're not living in the bad timeline; we're living in the absolute clown timeline.
1.9. Super Intelligence (SI)
Small businesses are increasingly leveraging SI products and services to extend limited resources and run an efficient, competitive, innovative business. For example, SI systems are often used to write code, automate workflows, generate content, or provide customer support.
Fortunately, I can use Even Superiorer Intelligence (ESI) to fix this PDF and replace this dumb-ass term with the proper nomenclature.
Re:LongCat-2.5: Native Multimodality for Agentic Tasks
on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:30PM (#50341323)
Here's one in High: https://www.svgviewer.dev/s/UgGqwY8R
IMO pretty damn good, the bike frame is great, the feet connect to the pedals and the wing to the handlebars, and one leg is behind the bike.
Re:LongCat-2.5: Native Multimodality for Agentic Tasks
on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:10PM (#50340986)
In my first test, it filled 200k of its one-million-token window in 5 minutes. Right now at least, it seems to be fast.
Update: a second thread went down to a more reasonable ~80 tps.
Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @07:19AM (#50324932)
Author accuses me of not understanding people and then makes a sweeping generalization about a large number of people.
Re:UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:11PM (#50318470)
I'm happy they're doing this, and it's good and admirable to see people be able to change their minds on something they once believed so strongly, but this should have happened 30 years ago.
Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:59AM (#50317352)
> there are some basic things you don't understand about people.
> Academics really are naive and out of touch people
That's a hilarious juxtaposition of sentences.
Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:22AM (#50315958)
I knew one or two profs like that when I was studying, but the vast majority of people in academia are just regular people with families and interests outside of academia. It's kinda disheartening to see the anti-intellectual bent this discussion has taken.
Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:39AM (#50315620)
The exact opposite is true. The only consistently working, stable democracies do not have a single leader of the executive branch, e.g. Switzerland.
The CIA sponsored extensive studies on this and came to the conclusion that democracies with a strong presidential role are associated with a greater risk of failure. It's not really surprising, and it can be seen in the US right now.
Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:37AM (#50315603)
It's always funny to me when people say "overeducated", as if knowing things is only good up to a point. If you know too much, you suddenly turn bad.
Re:Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the comp...
on Friday October 30, 2026 @08:08PM (#50311819)
It's because the old bits are starting to stink a bit from age. Get those stinky bits out of here, I say! Let the AI make some new bits!
Re:Northflank Breached
on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:33PM (#50306351)
Yeah, if Exchange goes down, you get a day off. If the little boutique email provider you chose goes offline, you get a day in calls with everyone yelling at you.
Re:Anthropic Cracking Down on Video Game Rewrites
on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:54AM (#50305731)
You don't know what I carry in my car.
Re:Anthropic Cracking Down on Video Game Rewrites
on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:54AM (#50305727)
I can't believe I have to spell this out, but when people make an analogy, they're not saying that the things they are comparing are exactly the same. I'm saying that I paid for my Claude subscription, so it should do the development work I ask it to do.
Telling people that they can write code by hand is like telling them that they can walk when their car doesn't drive, regardless of where you drive to. It's technically correct, but it is completely irrelevant.
Re:Anthropic Cracking Down on Video Game Rewrites
on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:29AM (#50305314)
"The car I bought doesn't want to drive me to the hospital!"
"You can walk yourself you know?"
Re:Proton goes all in on using AI
on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:04AM (#50302312)
> this sounds a lot to me like blowback from current or former employees
Well, yeah. They're the ones who are harmed by Andy's behavior, so obviously they're the ones speaking up. How does this disqualify anything they're saying?
Re:Proton goes all in on using AI
on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:02AM (#50302303)
Yeah, I'll give him a pass on the 88 thing. Lots of Chinese people have these types of numbers for license plates, phone numbers, or bank account numbers. It has nothing to do with Nazis; they're just lucky numbers. Eight sounds like "发", which means becoming wealthy.
Re:Proton goes all in on using AI
on Friday October 30, 2026 @06:57AM (#50302255)
I'm not sure that's true, at least not in this case. Andy is an actual geek. He's just also an asshole. Being a geek doesn't stop you from being an asshole.
Re:Proton goes all in on using AI
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:10PM (#50298125)
I don't even care about that. Sure, use LLMs to write code. But the way Andy talks to his employees and treats them is so disrespectful, I find it actually despicable.
Unfortunately, it's not super easy for me to migrate away from Proton, but it's the next personal tech project I'll undertake.
Re:‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:19PM (#50297000)
Correct, not necessarily. But if it is, that should be considered.
Re:‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:17PM (#50296149)
Right. So we shouldn't take the effects of taxation into account when making tax laws?
Re:Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local ...
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:16PM (#50296134)
No, I'm very obviously not, and the only lazy swipe was your response.
Re:Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local ...
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:16PM (#50296125)
> So you're kinda looking for a "I want to allow this software to do whatever it wants - I accept all risks?" button?
Yes.
> And with each new update you're re-evaluate?
No. Hope that helps.
Re:Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local ...
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:34PM (#50295483)
I didn't say you weren't. I'm asking for myself, not for you.
Re:Patrick Stewart has died
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:25PM (#50295360)
I found this clip of him talking about his teens and his hair, sadly on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/teamcoco/videos/sir-patrick-stewart...
Re:Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local ...
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:09PM (#50295069)
Can I have the opposite, a tool that automatically clicks on "allow"? I installed the app, it's fine.
Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:58PM (#50294907)
Let's hope so. Another good model for security work would be great.
Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:58PM (#50294902)
Unlike with Claude, you can use any harness you want with Mistral's models, including Claude Code.
Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:54PM (#50294862)
I'm not sure it really matters. I think a quantized version of a large model ends up being only slightly worse than a model trained at a smaller size to begin with. And like you point out, large models can also be used to distill smaller models, so it's good to have them out there.