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Re:OpenAI: Securing our frontier model training environment on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:43AM (#50221735)
Sure, derived findings can be published (that's often one of the goals after all), but original artifacts are never expected to leave the premises.
Re:How is music possible on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:23AM (#50221523)
Doesn't have to be social to be enjoyed though.
Re:OpenAI: Securing our frontier model training environment on Friday October 23, 2026 @08:17PM (#50217106)
Yes, but artifacts created in these air-gapped networks are expected to stay there. This is not true for AI lab models, who would get access to the internet once live.
Re:Jailbreaking the Switch 2 on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:07PM (#50197304)
Reasonably sure you'll be able to do the same with DeepSeek in a year if not already.
Awesome. How did you prompt it? In my experience generated long texts quickly turn sloppy.

Also would be great to get an article from other side of the eternal broadcast.

Re:My old job feels distant now on Saturday October 17, 2026 @08:47AM (#50130652)
Do higher ups actually read contribution policy on a public repo?
Re:Beauty in DVD Menus on Friday October 09, 2026 @05:31PM (#50026798)
I'd rather have extra content in separate files so it's playable by anything.
What's to pad there? Their one nine?
More like the year of the Whopper imo.
Re:An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot on Saturday September 26, 2026 @08:56PM (#49862201)
Thank you!
Re:Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:07PM (#49805633)
I think that's a very Silicon-Valley-centric view of an idea lifecycle.
Re:Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator on Monday September 21, 2026 @12:32PM (#49789521)
Well, presumably AI lowers the bar for entry so more people (and very specifically people with revolutionary ideas, but without corresponding implementation skills) could get in on the action.
Re:Uber is laying off 10% of staff on Thursday September 03, 2026 @08:47PM (#49559109)
> Does this magically unblock people?

Yes? Removing and/or minimizing detractors/hangers-ons/randoms from a project is an important part of running a project. Especially in corporate scenarios where telling people to go pound sand is, unfortunately, not an option, more elaborate strategies must be employed.

> If coordinating teams creates as much problems and impedance as you claim, how come Uber hired them to begin with? I mean, either Uber was shooting itself in the foot then, or it is now. Which one is it?

Are you thinking that humans can predict behavior and evolution of social systems, and especially how they would behave after some change is forced upon them?

In my opinion, that cannot be further from the truth. Any sufficiently complex social system, which Uber with 30k+ employees definitely is, exists and evolves more or less independently from how any one individual part of this system might wish. Even if it's a CEO.

Uber leadership thought cross-team coordination would help them, so they hired a bunch of people to do it. That might have been a correct idea at a time, or at least on paper, it looked like a correct move. But in the end, it did not pan out. So they probably shot themselves in the foot back then. Did they shoot themselves in the foot now? Who knows? (Spoiler: no one) We'll see once enough time has passed.

Re:Uber is laying off 10% of staff on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @10:49AM (#49537185)
People whose primary job is to "coordinate" often, either in a well-meaning attempt to be thorough or just to be relevant, try to pull as many different people into any decision-making as possible.

So instead of me just getting approval from my manager, I need to get approval/buy-in from departments A, B, and C.

In that case, firing the "coordinator" person increases velocity because parts of the business processes they prop disappear.

Re:Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse on Monday August 17, 2026 @10:22AM (#49331493)
"inexplicably" was obviously a sarcasm.
Is it SillyTavern but TUI or is the flow different? I know SillyTavern is more dialogue focused, but surely it can be configured for novel writing instead?

Not sure why you're getting so much hate. Internet is already chock-full of slop, a new TUI-based tool is not going to make it measurably worse.

Re:Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @12:11PM (#49260485)
And yet, inexplicably it does.
The joy of nondeterministic systems.
Wish they'd do a Switch 2 edition without a screen. I use mine (Switch 1) 100% docked.
They didn't even start on the dump part yet. Only initial 5% of the shares are trading so far.
Re:Email could have been X.400 times better on Thursday April 23, 2026 @09:51AM (#47875753)
> If the history of email had gone somewhat differently, the last email you sent could have been rescinded or superseded by a newer version when you accidentally wrote the wrong thing. It could have auto-destructed if not read by midnight.

Immutability is one of the best things about email.

We had replaceable batteries in phones for years. There's no reason battery replacement has to involve 20 steps and require ungluing the screen.
Re:Atlassian Enables Default Data Collection to Train AI on Monday April 20, 2026 @10:47AM (#47835196)
Programmer adjacent data can already be consumed from git repos. Atlassian has PM data.
Re:NASA Artemis II moon mission live launch broadcast on Thursday April 02, 2026 @10:21AM (#47614909)
A cube with an edge of 2.1 meters.
Re:The age of Pump and Dump software on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @11:57AM (#46782682)
> I’d be surprised if crypto scams haven’t already seen their high watermark in terms of actual victims.

NFT was the peak.

Seems to be a strange setup for a marketing photo.
Re:ChatGPT Atlas on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @01:25PM (#45658610)
Why wouldn't it be Chromium/V8-based? New browser engine is multiple developer-years of effort.
Do they even have any legal presence in UK to fine?

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