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Re:Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:28PM (#50294512)
Kagi might be (intentionally or accidentally) working around GitHub's attempt to prevent indexing of repos.
Re:Using AI to reverse engineer hardware on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:56AM (#50114608)
These numbers are made up. I don't see how IP clearly makes things worse or better.

On one hand, yes, IP = monopoly = rents, as you say.

But on the other hand, no IP means economy of scale is a lot more important, and that favors huge corporations.

Which effect is bigger? I don't know.

Re:How the Military Will Hack the Election on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @03:50PM (#50094011)
Not only elections, anything he thinks he should win is rigged: Emmy awards, Nobel Peace Prizes, probably a lot more.
Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:05AM (#50051931)
If the cost comes down, that could make something worth paying for when it previously was not.
Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:01AM (#50051897)
> We have banned or curtailed access and research for other technologies before.

Such as? I can't think of anything comparable. Nuclear energy maybe, but that has obvious justifications for regulation. Not just "I don't like it".

Re:Reducing undefined behavior in the C language on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:55PM (#50015810)
Why would this help? Unsigned integer overflow is defined behavior, that causes basically the same set of bugs in practice. In a way it is worse, because at least runtime UB checkers have a reason to complain about signed integer overflow, but they won't complain about unsigned integer overflow.
> We got a firehose on behalf of our client, a major movie studio, of search of their titles by zip code from “G”.

Doesn't Google basically make this kind of data public? I know I've seen maps by state of what people are searching for, this is barely different.

Point being, it seems absurd to compare this to snooping on people's private networks by third parties

Re:OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:46PM (#50014557)
I don't know about this person, but for me and I'm guessing the average professional in basically any field, before LLMs, they simply ignored information that needed summarizing, made their own crappy slides, and didn't proofread their emails.
This is just handing harassers a foolproof method for avoiding police intervention if they wanted to harass (or worse) in person.
Remind me who leaves 8 bath tub faucets running 24/7/365?
Re:Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:24PM (#49880487)
It's not that simple. A pure EV needs ~10x as much battery as a PHEV. So for the same amount of batteries produced, you could make 10x as many vehicles PHEVs as EVs. Not all vehicles can be EVs due to practical issues.

Which results in more total electric miles driven replacing gas? I don't know, but "gas is destroying the world" is a brain short circuit.

Re:Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:58AM (#49797273)
It's a matter of scale: https://www.wsj.com/world/china/the-u-s-has-been-spending-bi...

If you trust Google's AI summary, China spends 4-5% of GDP on industrial subsidies, vs US at 0.4%. 10-12x as much.

Re:Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:47AM (#49797218)
It looks like the curve is flattering, and the current state actually looks slightly cherry picked (it matches a previous spike that looks a bit of an outlier before the result went down). The longer they train, the more they risk getting scooped by another release by someone else. Etc etc it's a judgement call based on all of these factors (and more, including cost/occupying a big cluster as you mention)
Was there really a choice? What they do or advised others to do would have had no bearing on what is happening.
> I'm sure many of us would have made the same mistake.

From the reporting and commenting on this incident, that is not the impression I'm getting. This wasn't one bad call after getting half way down the runway, this was a continuous stream of bad decision making for the entire approach, with the copilot suggesting the pilot go around too.

Also: this kind of incident is very rare, so obviously, the vast majority of pilots don't make this mistake.

Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread on Friday September 04, 2026 @10:46PM (#49572613)
That the issue of slavery has weak explanatory power for what is happening today.
Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @05:41PM (#49528643)
Just go back to 4.8. Opus 5 was a regression in every way I've noticed every time I have tried to use it.
Re:OpenAI and Anthropic are ruining San Francisco on Saturday August 29, 2026 @12:10AM (#49486801)
There is not one mention of data centers in the article, and I highly doubt anyone is trying to put any significant computing capacity in SF.
Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @11:44PM (#49459400)
Roomba was not competitive in the market, no amount of Amazon market manipulation would have changed that. Best case scenario, Amazon would have invested in making it competitive. Worst case, their engineers would have been absorbed into Amazon's warehouse robotics projects.

Is either of those worse than what actually happened: the company is now a zombie brand for a Chinese company?

Some of Evergrande's financial practices were somewhat ponzi-scheme-ish (new sales funded construction of previous buyers), and the US has imprisoned a few such schemers too.
Re:Incident with Github.com on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:57AM (#49333111)
None of this is specific to GitHub. The exact same problems will sometimes happen any time users and developers communicate, which is a basic requirement of developing useful software. I doubt GitHub issues are worse than mailing lists or any other mechanism.
Re:Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding on Sunday August 16, 2026 @12:08AM (#49316824)
Based on my personal experience and general observation, it seems like companies are both slow to hire, and slow to fire. So, paradoxically, both actions seem like they should signal "this company is going to be better in the future", because companies only either hire or fire when it is really obvious they should.
Re:Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding on Saturday August 15, 2026 @05:59PM (#49314703)
You're conflating two things (probably intentionally, but I'll go with it). If you are firing someone without replacing (a layoff), then presumably, that person cost more than the value they provided, and so laying them off should improve the value of the business (after incurring the costs the parent post mentioned).

If you are firing someone to replace them with someone else, you are incurring a lot of cost (hiring is time consuming, difficult, risky, and requires a ramp-up time before the new hire is productive), and hoping that the long term benefits outweigh that cost.

Re:RISC-V: They should have known better on Saturday August 15, 2026 @01:37PM (#49312530)
If that's really all it takes, then it is not much of a moat.
I don't know what timeframe we are talking about here, but 1 million gallons is how much 33 people in the US use in a year. It's really not that much water.
They shouldn't be. But the point is, they are. OpenAI and Anthropic are paying many rights holders for access to their data (reddit, NYT, etc.).

So distillation, among other things, allows Chinese labs to indirectly benefit from these arrangements at no cost to them.

Re:Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro? on Saturday July 18, 2026 @02:03PM (#48960519)
> Between 2005 and 2024, Chinese firms received on average three to eight times more subsidies than competitors in OECD economies.

https://www.oecd.org/en/blogs/2026/06/industrial-subsidies-h...

Re:What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI on Sunday July 12, 2026 @01:38AM (#48878615)
Disclosing private repos against the owner's intent is a much more immediate and significant business risk than violating the license of open source code.

Maybe that shouldn't be the case, but it is.

Israel can fly aircraft over their adversaries at will. Russia can't.
Other than nukes, Russia does not have significant spare capacity. They use missiles and drones with months of their production. They fly bomber aircraft as close to the front as they can. They've burned through most of their cold war era stockpiles of equipment. 0.5-1% of their entire population is a casualty of this war (so probably closer to 5% of their working age men).

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