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Re:Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:17PM (#50249450)
yeah, i saw this as well. it seems like in the worst case it's a leak of an internal URL seen during RLVR training or something along these lines. Doesn't seem particularly malicious.
Real people! LLMs wouldn't have such a varied distribution of outputs I think ;)
Re:Where Did All the Public Bathrooms Go? on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @11:26AM (#49435765)
make people pay and this problem is solved. it blows my mind that there is an obvious solution here that we simply refuse to touch because... principle?
Re:Where Did All the Public Bathrooms Go? on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @11:22AM (#49435714)
Abandoning paid public bathrooms was a mistake. Better to pay a dollar and have a clean bathroom than to have 10x fewer public bathrooms but free.
This feels... excessive. If you wanna regulate AI then regulate AI. This is what Congress is for no? Just seems like a weird way to go about this.
some require less hand-holding than others though
But if the closed-source models can do this without the additional effort, that's a significant gap, no?
At least Quebec actually does have a distinct nation/culture/ethnicity/language.
Re:Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30) on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @01:28PM (#47506215)
Yeah I'm really not sure why everyone is shitting on it so hard, I mean it is a cool interactive experience. I understand that present-day Opera has some serious problems, sold to a Chinese company, people feel like it's a separate thing from old Opera, that it's lost its soul, all very fair. But we should be able to evaluate this experience as a separate thing, and it's pretty slick!
Re:2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @03:19PM (#46891058)
I am also surprised it's so low (the number who haven't read). I would have expected 3 in 5 or even 4 in 5 americans to have not read a single book in 2025. I wonder if these stats include "tried to finish a book (and failed)" rather than actual completion stats.
Re:When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023) on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @09:37PM (#46226987)
Am I missing something? If the algorithm is interrupted, the list will not be sorted. How exactly does it fit the criteria of an anytime algo?
Re:Has Google Solved Two of AI's Oldest Problems? on Saturday November 15, 2025 @07:35PM (#45941754)
Wrong post.
Re:Smartphones and Being Present on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @01:55PM (#45582876)
Can you explain how you patched the iOS IG app? Seems massively useful if it's not too much of a pain. Please share!
Re:Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund on Friday October 10, 2025 @12:28PM (#45540743)
Is it just me or is the total amount of funding at the Sovereign Tech fund (https://www.sovereign.tech/faq) hilariously small? 11.5 mil eur right now? 17 mil next year? Better than nothing of course, but...
Re:ML on Apple ][+ on Monday September 29, 2025 @03:26PM (#45417720)
Bit of a weird choice to draw a decision boundary for a clustering algorithm...
Plenty of progress in models that can use tools and search. Would love to see how one of these tool/search-enabled models do at this kind of a task. In my experience, they don't fabricate things anymore, just sometimes occasionally misrepresent the content of citations (put a citation somewhere where it doesn't actually support what is written).
Would require decompilation of the Animal Crossing game code for the Switch. I believe DRM has gotten a lot better since the Gamecube days as well. Hypothetically possible maybe but good luck haha
There's something about taking old games and injecting new life into them that just seems so fun and exciting! Also very interesting to know that the Animal Crossing codebase has been decompiled into readable C code. Fascinating! So many opportunities to mess with it.
Re:iPhone Air on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @11:55PM (#45193051)
Are you able to use banking apps, etc.? Genuinely curious.
Re:iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @11:53PM (#45193041)
If you are an existing Fizz customer with a physical SIM, is there a pathway to switching to eSIM now? Because there wasn't for a very long time.

EDIT: Huh you're right! It's now possible. Groovy!

Re:iPhone Air on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @05:56PM (#45189830)
Unfortunately both the 12 Mini and the 13 Mini did terrible numbers sales-wise. People say they want small phones but not enough of them actually buy them when they are available. :(
Re:iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @04:52PM (#45188888)
This is especially surprising to me given several providers still only support physical SIM or weird half-support (e.g. Fizz, that I'm with, allows you to open a new line with eSIM but not transfer an existing line from physical to eSIM).
Re:iPhone Air on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @04:42PM (#45188701)
I believe the counterargument here is that we've gotten used to phones being relatively thin, and people have learned to charge their phones every night anyway. Something about stated vs. true desires, just like with the Minis where people said they wanted smaller phones but then nobody bought them. I believe it might be a similar thing where people say they want thicker phones with big batteries but they won't actually buy them when they realize they will be noticeably thicker and heavier.
Re:iPhone Air on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @04:37PM (#45188591)
Can always get an Android phone and run GrapheneOS with no Google services or apps. Good luck functioning in the modern world though...
Re:iPhone Air on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @04:34PM (#45188546)
They don't have smaller screen iPhones anymore lol what? the iPhone 13 Mini is the last phone that can be in that category. Does anyone really think that 6.1 inches is a "small" device?
Re:iPhone dumbphone on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @01:24PM (#45185274)
https://help.instagram.com/654906392080948

Doesn't seem like this is possible anymore?

Re:Claude can now create and edit files on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @01:21PM (#45185224)
Anyone else having serious reliability issues with artifact editing? I find that the artifacts quite often get "stuck", where the LLM is trying to edit the artifact but the state of the artifact does not change. Seems like the LLM is somehow failing in editing the artifact silently, while thinking that it is actually doing the edits. The way to resolve this is to ask Claude to make a new artifact, which then has all the changes Claude thought it was making. But you have to do this relatively often.
Re:iPhone dumbphone on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:45PM (#45173749)
Unfortunately some of us use Instagram specifically to keep in touch with people (IG DMs). and Meta does not seem to want to split off the messaging from the main app the same way they did with FB messenger for some reason (I would love it if they did). For Twitter, some of us need it for work as well (lots of interesting AI research published directly to Twitter). Reddit is definitely pure entertainment yeah. But there are nuances.
Re:iPhone dumbphone on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:44PM (#45173729)
What works for me, and this might not be palatable to everyone, is to intentionally downgrade my phone to a worse experience to add friction. I am currently using an SE 2020 on purpose. This thing overheats like hell, if I try to do anything too intensive with it it starts stuttering like crazy. But that's actually perfect, it's what I want. It naturally reduces my use time because it can get annoying to use.
Re:iPhone dumbphone on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:41PM (#45173696)
Is it possible on Android? How? I would love for this ability to exist

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