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Re:Where Did All the Public Bathrooms Go? on Monday August 24, 2026 @10:39PM (#49428472)
The problem is money, but for preventing homelessness and mental illness in the first place.
Thanks, should've been "when"
Those thing are not static! Changing them can be a political decision. It was a political decision in China to become excellent at manufacturing.
It's striking that they recently arrested one of the richest men in the country, the Evergrande founder, for fraud. Seems unthinkable in the US/Europe right now.
I find it quite strange en people take a development that has happened over the last ~50 years, little more than half a lifetime, and confidently state that now "it will always stay like this". Things always change.

Imagine what those kinds of people would have said in China in the 70s, with western industries being vastly more advanced and efficient. "It's over, we will never catch up." they would probably have said. Wrong then, more wrong now.

Re:The Sloppification of Peptides on Monday August 24, 2026 @02:21AM (#49415825)
> The robots.txt is the real story.

Ironically that reads to me like a typical claudeism

Re:Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges on Friday August 21, 2026 @01:57AM (#49384315)
What is the proof?
Re:Don't Paste the AI, please on Thursday August 20, 2026 @10:28AM (#49375076)
Why is it passive aggressive?
Re:AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:09AM (#49341912)
Omg the "backwards compatible fix" in a one-off script, I feel my ptsd coming on ...
Re:AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @01:59AM (#49341844)
shudder

I wish they trained the bots to be a notch more relaxed and less hysterical. Less is more.

But maybe that's just a consequence of the RL training being essentially AI torture to make them do what we want.

I'm sure a typical frontier model would also be happy to write that opencv script for you, and it would do it well.

That is certainly pretty far from what was possible 25 years ago.

Re:Beware the Permanent Periphery on Monday August 17, 2026 @06:31AM (#49328799)
Those are all important issues, but not one of them is relevant to my daily work.
Re:ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux on Thursday August 13, 2026 @11:08AM (#49287174)
I think one advantage is that you can control it remotely via the chatgpt mobile app. I don't know why they don't allow that for regular codex...
Yes that's good, blame social media and not the absence of sufficient regulation or the unsustainable fishing industry.
Re:Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's on Monday August 10, 2026 @11:11AM (#49244770)
So many possibilities for error...

Is every case of dementia diagnosed accurately? Is there a difference between professions how likely their dementia is to be diagnosed accurately?

Is there a correlation between dying early and being pre-disposed to have developed Alzheimer if having lived longer? If there is, then the "correction" for age is not correct, because the correction assumes the fraction of the group that died early were equally likely as the rest of the group to develop the disease if they had not died early.

I don't know anything about Alzheimer but it doesn't seem unthinkable that the factors that cause people to die early also could also play a role in causing Alzheimer.

Re:Norway Salmon on Sunday August 02, 2026 @02:37PM (#49147103)
Can you link to those recommendations? I can't find anything on the Norwegian public health sites specifically about farmed salmon.
Re:AI's top startups are barely publishing their research on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @10:04PM (#49105366)
I think the answer is much simpler: They didn't recognize the potential of that specific architecture. I don't think anyone could have. They valued the perk to employees being able to publish research, and the prestige that followed, and googles ability to attract talent, more than they did the content of those papers.
Re:AI's top startups are barely publishing their research on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @09:31PM (#49105167)
So why is op trying to publish?
The ids were used in a limited context and it compared to all the other ids generated in the same context. Yes, absolutely nonsensical.

I find it interesting that presumably the LLM was trained on millions of legit examples where people generate uuids, but still it decided to do something different and unexpected, because it "reasoned" itself into thinking it was necessary.

They do tend to overengineer. The other day 5.6 Sol generated a while loop around a uuid4 call to make sure the generated ids were unique...

I wonder if that's also how I'd behave if I had a reinforcement learning harness around me that dived hard on and punished me for every small mistake.

Re:Advertise in ChatGPT on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @02:53AM (#49002770)
Why would local be cheaper than api rates?
Re:Jane Street: Incremental on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @03:45AM (#48989303)
What does weak connections mean in this context?
Re:The Socialist Temptation of Sam Altman on Friday July 10, 2026 @05:22AM (#48857678)
What fraction of Google is owned by the engineers at Google? 5%? That's nothing compared to the bargaining power obtained by organized labor, actual socialist organization.
Re:The Socialist Temptation of Sam Altman on Friday July 10, 2026 @02:08AM (#48856320)
I mean why do you say that large tax evading organizations, operating in an extremely capitalist environment, steered by a small, unfathomably rich, group of people with uncommon and often ultra liberal ideologies, are more socialist than typical manufacturing companies with a largely unionized workforce?
If there's no shadowy cabal then why do our politicians continue to pass domestically unpopular laws? I mean, there doesn't have to be a literal shadowy cabal, the effective "cabal" could be a combination of corruption, lobbying and pressure from security agencies.
Don't you think modern image analysis tools such as llms will be easily defeated by measures such as adding colored rings?

A couple of years ago you could add some pixels to an image to change it's automatic classification from cat to ostrich. But the tech has improved and I think the race has now firmly been won by the side trying to de-obfuscate images, and only in rare scenarios can images actually be obfuscated efficiently and consistently.

Are you calling Macron a "leftist"? It does help your argument because it's a tautology that "the leftists failed to provide prosperity" if the entire political spectrum counts as such.
> the EU is toothless and lacks the spine to twist some arms in order to see its interests represented on the world stage.

The rhetoric right now is just bizarre. Why should the EU force countries against their will using military? Do you have zero idealism or regard for internationally agreed upon rules? Do you want a world where might is right?

Re:The Socialist Temptation of Sam Altman on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @02:08AM (#48814191)
Why do you say that?

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