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Re:Python 3.15.0 on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:33PM (#50022985)
Inappropriate answer to someone saying that adding 10 MB worth of GIFs to a source code tarball is inadequate.
Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @09:26AM (#50020220)
And then Danone.
International law? They give Nobel prizes for writing fiction?
Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:02PM (#50011287)
Using bots to defraud the platforms and get royalties he didn’t actually earn sounds like a crime to me, but what do I know. Maybe I should just make a Trump joke.
Not to mention the price of electricity.
This is what HN has devolved into: someone taking adware and removing the ads is a "bad guy".
It's not about the algorithm, it's about what you can or can't say. Facebook censors you and won't allow you to say certain things.
Re:OpenAI says teens use ChatGPT for under 15 minutes a day on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @01:43PM (#49996205)
If they are, it should be easy to uncover the truth: ask the parents of the teenagers how long their children use ChatGPT for each day.
Re:Southern Olive Oil on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:25AM (#49994163)
The tin part is interesting to me - I don’t know of any coops in Spain that still sell it in tin. It must be one of those things that people abroad deem authentic but which aren’t.
Nothing novel about this. In fact this is the reason why years ago Google stopped using ccTLDs to serve their website.
This is the worst deflection I’ve seen in this website and that’s saying a lot.
That would mean the software before LLMs were quality products, which is laughable.
>Are you paid to press enter at anything that Claude present to you?

I'm paid to create a product. If Claude does so without me having to look at the code, then that's what I'm being paid to do.

Re:Our approach to EU text provenance rules on Monday October 05, 2026 @03:34PM (#49969436)
Why not have our devices generate watermarks for everything? That way, we won’t have any kind of defence.
Re:Our approach to EU text provenance rules on Monday October 05, 2026 @02:51PM (#49968870)
The way I interpret your comment is that, in the future, it will be enough to prove that someone tried to remove an LLM watermark to put them in jail.
Re:Our approach to EU text provenance rules on Monday October 05, 2026 @02:49PM (#49968833)
Isn't that what this watermarking allows for? To allow LLM companies to detect that certain text was authored by their tools?
Imagine if someone said something like this of a brown country. They would be banned right away.
A good analogy for German engineering.
Re:What is going on with ceiling fans on Saturday October 03, 2026 @03:08PM (#49946837)
I see no indication that the photo is AI. https://st.hzcdn.com/simgs/pictures/living-rooms/century-woo...
Re:The Escalation of War in Ethiopia on Saturday October 03, 2026 @11:12AM (#49944993)
Because it affects gas prices.
Re:The Escalation of War in Ethiopia on Saturday October 03, 2026 @10:27AM (#49944570)
We give attention to things that deserve our attention, i.e., things that affect us. The war in Ethiopia scores very low on that list, to the point of almost complete irrelevance.
Re:cp: -r or -R? on Saturday October 03, 2026 @07:02AM (#49943137)
It's "ditto", not "dito"
Re:A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:09PM (#49935928)
That’s a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist. Nobody considers not getting logged out randomly a problem.
Re:A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:00PM (#49935832)
Because when you log in you don’t want to be logged out at (what, for you, will appear to be) a random time of the future.
Re:A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:46PM (#49935664)
How long should a cookie you expect to last forever actually last?
Re:A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:45PM (#49935651)
If this is the worst thing they’ve found in that portal…
Things are good when they are good for you. Things are bad when they are bad for you.

By now the Spotify algorithm has been good for me. The day it starts being bad I’ll badmouth it. It’s not the time yet.

We have a lot of that in Europe. Parasite professions. Someone who does nothing but charges a lot for his signature.
I am a "media fan" and algorithms (going back to last.fm) have make me discover so much music that it's not even funny. The idea of "escaping algorithms" is a net negative for me.
So, like professional orders in Europe? Thankfully everybody agreed that writing code is not engineering so this isn't mandated by law, but we were this close.

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