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Nice, I like it!

Feedback: I don’t understand how the rising category works. I looked up a couple of books and they seemed to have peaked a while ago.

They’re gonna kill the entire ocean and conquer it in its entirety. Any resistance by the ocean will be futile!
Re:We Took over ChatGPT Accounts on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:08AM (#50316862)
They should have paid in tokens?
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Saturday October 31, 2026 @03:19AM (#50313942)
Insurance has limits especially in cyber. Eg it could be topped out at $200M.
Sure they promise.

I am talking about what they actually do after they got elected.

I wonder if this got solved anywhere yet: how do you get politicians that actually want to save money instead of raising taxes or creating new types of taxes?

I understand that it’s way easier and quicker to do the latter instead of saving.

That’s the reason they do it in the first place.

I just wonder if there is a way to incentivize them to save instead. Maybe some country was successful at one point in time.

Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:57PM (#50310050)
HN has a dedicated upvote functionality.
Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:55AM (#50305749)
It’s the same thing: let’s say Microsoft or AWS got hacked. Then you’re definitely not the only one who got hacked.

So, you can always say: Look, it’s not us (especially not my org!). It f’ing Microsoft/AWS. Everyone got hacked.

You and your career are gonna be fine.

That’s what I would have thought as well…
> I wouldn't have expected any impact on mental health resulting

AFAIK declining mental health was the main driver of the bans - put forward by its proponents like Jonathan Haidt, author of "The Anxious Generation."

Compared to what is this a good measure?

"How much is needed during no sun and no wind" could be reasonable comparison.

Re:OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:19AM (#50286827)
Insurers would disagree. You don’t need to know mechanism to understand / model risk outcomes.
Re:New iMac with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:01PM (#50262169)
People need (!) this type of devices in representative settings, eg the reception of a boutique hotel.
Most big European cities run trains every 10-15 minutes and every 5 minutes during rush hour.
Re:Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:43AM (#50239584)
Pro talking here…
They share many cultural elements.
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Sunday October 25, 2026 @04:44AM (#50229504)
Anthropic recently published their code review approach that supports them deploying 30,000 (!) times a day:

https://claude.dev/blog/solving-code-review-at-anthropic/

Re:I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018) on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:29AM (#50221590)
Exactly.

Any good scientific theory must create falsifiable hypotheses.

Otherwise it’s just a nice story.

Re:The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) on Friday October 23, 2026 @06:08AM (#50206678)
On a related note: I’d say that in 90% of all use-cases talking to LLMs to create code is the right approach.

As opposed to creating flows where LLMs do something on the fly.

Code creates determinism, LLMs don’t.

And AGI is such an undefined word.
Re:What Is the Karakoram Anomaly? on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:26PM (#50197587)
There you go! And only Ze Germans say Deutschland
Re:What Is the Karakoram Anomaly? on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:57AM (#50195406)
Everyone says Germany except for the Germans! And those I know couldn’t care less.

It’s easy to insinuate that people aren’t making an effort. But maybe it’s says more about the person on the receiving end than the person "who is not making the effort".

Re:The Decoherence Trap on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:07AM (#50177912)
It’s pretty plain, no?
Re:The Decoherence Trap on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:07AM (#50177905)
I agree. Although local optima is what most humans already operate on. So it’s sounds like an engineering solution could be possible since group of humans are also able to divide and conquer complex systems.
These things are true:

- we don’t understand how LLMs work

- DeepSeek is funded through an state-backed investment fund

- China and the US are sort of adversaries

Isn’t that enough to be cautious at the very least?

Ok I’m a stranger on the internet who tries to genuinely understand.

To that end I’ve read all your comments. I am not sure what you’re proposing or asking people to do?

Are you asking for empathy? I have a lot of respect and empathy for people who dedicated their life to solving complex problems.

At the same time I’m trying to be optimistic by saying not all is lost. Yes people will need to adjust. I’m arguing continual change and adaption have always been part of life.

Is dyslexia PII or PHI?

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