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Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:44PM (#50307501)
after years of pursuing this guy/team, the government will catch it then it may proceed to free the guy like it happened with Alexander Vinnik. Who was released bythe US and returned to Russia in February 2025. Guy was exchanged for Marc Fogel, an schoolteacher. mind you. great swap right?
Re:M7.6 Earthquake in Panama on Saturday October 10, 2026 @12:22AM (#50029543)
as the scale is logarithmic a 4 is more than a thousand times lighter, imperceptible almost
awesome explanation. never thought about the complexity of doing analog and having precision issues because it's not discrete anymore and repeatable
Re:ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs on Saturday August 22, 2026 @01:18PM (#49401692)
damn, what a rollercoaster you had there, man
Re:Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome on Sunday August 16, 2026 @04:32PM (#49323394)
so how do you save data over the cable when it's needed?
Re:AI First Ethical Code on Monday August 03, 2026 @06:57PM (#49162498)
A thought experiment of how would an ethical system would look like if it was developed by AI.

So what happens if an AI goes up to Sinai and comes back with its own idea of what's good and bad. A debate evolving day by day

his not yet is actually:

couldn't workaround Capt has and turnstile, gave him a really small timeframe so it got desperate because it was enough time to test hypothesis and traction

Re:The startup's Postgres survival guide on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @09:21PM (#49015668)
* BRIN indexes are great for append only with an incremental value (a 50MB instead of 100GB index in timeseries data in my case)

* If your disks are ssd and scsi in different volumes, adapt the random cost of io in the config to let the planner now

* if you have RAID controller and a Battery-Backed Write Cache (BBWC), you can disable Linux filesystem write barriers. removing excessive fsync from the mouth of the psql demigod in SoCaL ~linux 2015, Bruce Momjian IIRC

* monitor disk usage, in backups pipe to gz, never to disk

* counter-intuitevely modern hardware may have an io bottleneck and plenty of cpu, so try Filesystems like ZFS using Zstandard (zstd), for boost in your Transactions per second

* if possible, schema multitenancy instead of database multitenancy, instagram talked about this decades ago

* indexes index functions results too, precompute those fields and partial indexes help a lot

* BM25 and FTS in pg are so good you probably don't need Elasticsearch and you will save a lot in de-sync between both of them

* you may be hacked in this brave new world post Mythos, thus, learn PITR to an external only write, no override medium like S3

Re:OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @11:02PM (#48929894)
your honor, openai means nothing, just ask elon
Re:Prefer Strict Tables in SQLite on Saturday July 11, 2026 @02:56PM (#48874684)
about the use of ANY, that's perfect for tracking changes on an audit table per field
yeah, I think what makes this post different was that AI did it. hopefully science will advance faster in the next decades with AI researchers helping
Re:Rocketlab acquires Iridium on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @12:02AM (#48728358)
seems they charge almost usd2 per KB now. oh well.
Re:Rocketlab acquires Iridium on Monday June 29, 2026 @11:57PM (#48728325)
I have used iridium before, IIRC I paid 1 usd per KB, PER KILOBYTE (!!!), to track some stratospheric globes we launched in like 2014
Re:A Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time on Thursday June 25, 2026 @05:24PM (#48679399)
may you please tell us how much effort goes into each type of task in those months?

where else do you think these techniques be applied?

Re:Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool on Thursday June 18, 2026 @08:28AM (#48584327)
wanted sovereignty, bought a Blackwell for usd12k, discovered a billing issue in some customer and explains that will cover the card

I don't follow how it supports the decision of buying the card, I would even say using online SOTA models would had caught it earlier without usd12k and monthly electricity being spent

Re:Want your images back? Sure... That'll be $5! on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @10:20AM (#48570941)
storing data over years takes money, so charging for it I can understand

but charging and knowing you don't have any data for this user is a big NO NO

for the love of the game, very refreshing good ol' coding
Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe on Sunday June 14, 2026 @09:51PM (#48535606)
bro, what an anchor to the past that framework is
my length is a valid data point for the sake of science
Re:Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS) on Saturday June 06, 2026 @03:59PM (#48428441)
how much docs did you need to supply?
Re:Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS) on Saturday June 06, 2026 @03:59PM (#48428434)
bro, I learned a lot, I did it step by step and discussed everything with Claude, then used the knowledge to build an emulator at work for a rtos machine (WIP)
Re:Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS) on Saturday June 06, 2026 @09:34AM (#48424968)
some weeks ago I made a Gameboy emulator from zero in rust and then exported it to wasm

https://holy-lake-f6df.sdreyesg.workers.dev/

took me 3 hours with Opus. Opus knew the whole ISA, clock, bus quirks, etc. from their training without any external docs

Re:Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story on Friday June 05, 2026 @06:17PM (#48419063)
"but open immigration policies also carry risks. New waves of migrants will be ethnically different, less educated, and sometimes unskilled…It will gradually dawn on governments that immigration alone cannot solve their demographic troubles and that much more active government involvement in encouraging or discouraging procreation may be necessary."
Re:Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story on Friday June 05, 2026 @06:12PM (#48419021)
after being flagged and down voted for mentioning Lee Kuan Yew views on Multiculturalism, I reiterate my comment with a direct quote to keep ynews truthful and not polarized towards the left:

"They are implacable in wanting to put down all who do not agree with them."

"What role does Islam itself play in fueling Islamic extremism? Muslims want to assimilate us. It is one-way traffic…They have no confidence in allowing choice.12 Samuel Huntington sent me a piece he was writing in Foreign Affairs called the “Clash of Civilizations.” When I saw him, I said, look, I agree with you only where the Muslims are concerned, only there…Hinduism, Chinese Confucianism or Communism, Japanese Shintoism, they are secular really. They know that to progress, you must master science and technology…But the Muslims believe that if they master the Qu’ran and they are prepared to do all that Muhammad has prescribed, they will succeed. So, we can expect trouble from them and so, it happened.13 Muslims socially do not cause any trouble, but they are distinct and separate Islam is exclusive."

gonna ask the same... do far it's has been manually choosing what's useful in each command for the agents?
Re:Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story on Friday June 05, 2026 @07:42AM (#48411077)
Duke study showing all white jury's was 16% more harsh https://today.duke.edu/2012/04/jurystudy
Re:Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story on Friday June 05, 2026 @07:40AM (#48411058)
the most important lesson from Singapore is Lee talking about culture. to be in Singapore you become Singaporean. you don't allow inner turmoil and divide on multiculturalism
Re:Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story on Friday June 05, 2026 @07:39AM (#48411048)
Trump is testing the limits of USA democracy every day, just from the top of my mind: top lieutenants worth 5%+ ownership in Thether holding company, Ivanka's husband with the Saudis, Ivanka herself in the ONU, shameless plugs of crypto tokens and cards in the podium after elections, pardons for criminals

democracy failed America

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