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Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @10:59PM (#50127468)
Thanks for providing the source.

I'll just note that again, my hypothesis and the actual way it works are very similar to each other, and both are very dissimilar to the suction cap analogy. Suction cap works by passively utilizing atmospheric pressure, this utilizes moving a large amount of air in the direction opposite to the road. The only difference is that it's taking the air from below instead of pushing from above. I imagine that is the case to utilize the same outlets that are used for lifting the car.

Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @09:54PM (#50127109)
I think we are saying the same thing, and both of us agree that it's not "suckers" like the original commenter said.
Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @08:00PM (#50126398)
This is not how it works. It’s not sucking against the road, it’s pushing against it with thrusters at the top of the car.
If that's the reason, then the solution sounds like a typical bad bureaucratic government - instead of fixing the problem (improved treatment for horses), ban the whole thing.
Then find a single court case that matches what I said above. With so many debt collection cases in the US, surely you could find a single one.
I’m sorry, but you are the one spreading misinformation.

But I’ll give you an easy way to prove that what you said is true instead of just yelling at each other.

Give me a single example in the US of an online service company providing service after a credit card declined on a no-commitment service with auto renewal that actually sued in court and recovered something. There is none.

You can turn any subscription to a single purchase with a virtual credit card.
Re:Muse Spark Open on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:51PM (#50110885)
Both GLM-5.3 and Qwen 3.8 max have carve outs for commercial use above a certain threshold.
Re:Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:01PM (#50095192)
But it doesn’t. If it was true prices in the EU would be lower. But the EU is by far and large more expensive, even after accounting for VAT.
Re:Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:01AM (#50086315)
This is actually a good point. The policy described in the article doesn't apply in the EU, but it's not like Amazon is cheaper in the EU.

Also, it is common to see in the US competitors with lower prices than Amazon (e.g. I frequently see brand name products on Microcenter cheaper than Amazon), not to mention that it doesn't apply to sites like eBay. So you've got to wonder if it actually has a strong effect on pricing across the internet.

Re:GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:29PM (#50061676)
That’s not the same at all. The GLM attack appears to be intentionally built, encrypted, and obfuscated based on the blog post.

Also, the Grok one made the front page, why am I only hearing it through a minor comment?

Re:GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:18PM (#50061500)
Wow. Why was that not a top news in hacker news?
Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:54AM (#50043958)
Software engineers are primarily outcome-oriented.

Mathematicians are primarily understanding-oriented.

Leveraging AI to tackle new frontiers without true understanding converts mathematicians to engineers.

Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:43AM (#50043825)
And to be fair - that how medicine works today. We don’t really understand what goes into our body, so that’s why we do clinical trials. And sometimes we discover adverse side effects years and decades after a drug has been released.
Re:3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:17AM (#50040773)
Data centers are becoming higher priority targets in wars recently, and with humans delegating more to AI, I suspect their priority will increase even further.

Makes me wonder how much compute is already being built in bunkers under mountains.

I think this misses the important point of how governments tend to get less efficient at scale, and over time.

You could pay more and still get worse services.

Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @06:59PM (#49985388)
Math is far more than that. If you can solve prime factorization for example, suddenly you can listen and interfere with almost every private conversation on the internet.

We are not far away from the moment where these models will be restricted, and sharing the results will be done more carefully.

Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @05:28PM (#49984410)
No. They would need to kidnap rich and poor people and their families regardless of "earning" it. Then they. will start to get closer.
Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @01:35PM (#49981628)
Except that in China, the people who do that will disappear.

The propaganda of trying to make US and China government appear the same is making people dumber. and is one of the most heavily used tools in China’s online propaganda arsenal.

That's a leverage Huawei has, not the CCP.
What an incomprehensible and illogical comment. Huawei cannot rnforce its IP on US companies without US support. How does it give a stick to the CCP?

This is not just hypothetical, there is actually a draft bill aimed at that - Prohibiting Adversarial Patents Act of 2026 (H.R. 9142)

The solution above (no new storage) would solve that problem.
Yeah, the storage point made the whole case weaker.
Crude oil demand peaks in summer, not winter
Re:ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:45AM (#49864011)
Out of around 70 EUV machines a year.
Re:Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos on Friday September 25, 2026 @06:30AM (#49842579)
Also - notably - the prompt was incredibly under specified, yet the result was tasteful and well thought out.

How far away are we from “build a startup that generates $1M MRR, my openrouter key is in my .env”?

It's still really important to test what the agents can do. We should accept that this is a risky test, and should take precautions. But not to the point of prohibiting in practice evaluating it. OpenAI is trying to improve alignment and control of these models in these evaluations after all.
Which is the correct way to handle this.

With that said, there is also criminal negligence. Now that OpenAI is made aware of the risks, it's also expected to take additional precautions in the future, otherwise there could be criminal liability as well.

Re:Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @03:59AM (#49797953)
Making SVGs is coding (of a very specific markup language). So it's not actually absurd. We've also seen that more capable models are generally better at everything minus benchmark contamination (benchmaxxing) anomalities.

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