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Re:European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:11AM (#50351558)
> In the 90s and early 2000s server uptime might be counted in multiple years and extremes in the decades

I know uptimes were a flex back in the day but now a long uptime is an indicator that maybe you’re treating your machine as a pet instead of cattle.

Re:European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:05AM (#50351519)
founding != funding
Yet, entangle they did: https://openai.com/index/five-new-stargate-sites

> In July, OpenAI and Oracle entered an agreement to develop up to 4.5 gigawatts of additional Stargate capacity. This represents a partnership that exceeds $300 billion between the two companies over the next five years.

> Psycho-history is fiction. You're not going to be able to model a single human much less millions of humans and their environments.

Also it didn’t even work in the original fiction. If it did, there would be no story to tell.

Re:I Am the Reason OpenAI Is Killing Unlimited Chats on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:23AM (#50334329)
Probably not. It’s more likely it’s due to OpenAI having some problems raising funds which forces them to be more efficient with their capital: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312922
Maybe his fiscal 2027 year already started
When mainstream news start discussing if Coreweave will go chapter 11 or chapter 7.
Re:Trapped in the Technologist Factory on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:02AM (#50314090)
> What is the world missing? Use AI as your cofounder as prototype with basic tech - html, css, js, sqlite.

As long as you don’t ask AI. It keeps giving the same bland startup ideas and I imagine the governance / regulatory evidence gathering market is going to be pretty crowded with startups.

Re:Building an AI-native engineering org on Saturday October 31, 2026 @03:59AM (#50314080)
Any evidence that this can be done without terrible self-harm to the business?
What’s that? Is there an MCP server for it?
Re:We Won't "Just Hang Out" on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:14AM (#50285902)
Plenty of people doing meaningless work on antidepressants as well, no AI required.
Re:We Won't "Just Hang Out" on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:13AM (#50285887)
That’s a political choice.
By the time we can simulate a human body to the degree that clinical trials aren’t necessary I think we have solved disease a long time ago.
Re:The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:47AM (#50255791)
As long as you are accountable, you need to understand the code. There’s just no way “But I told the LLM to make the code secure” is an acceptable explanation for a security breach.
LLMs are the feature. You should use the right tool for the job instead of using a truck to haul a single paper clip.
Re:Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:03AM (#50242918)
Tickets change faster than code. Having to create a PR to update a ticket sounds like a bureaucratic nightmare.
Putting aside brainrot terms like socialism and capitalism, do you think the rich are too constrained in how they operate and that weakening labor will make us all better off?
Re:Elon Musk Acquires $1B Stake in CNN's Parent Company on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:16AM (#50219218)
Mainstream media is owned by the oligarchs. How does this increase perspectives?
You can spend all your life reading about love but will never know what it is until you experience it.
Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:54AM (#50192069)
Alberta didn’t, Canada banned them because of similar evidence linking plastic straws to beach litter.
Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:46AM (#50178759)
No, they are about cleaning up European beaches. Anyone using plastic straws as an argument against combating climate change is acting in bad faith.
Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:45AM (#50178748)
What is this nonsense about straws? The reason plastic straws are banned is because they were one of the top 10 things littering European beaches. Indian plastic straws have fuck all to do with littering _our_ beaches.
Tool calls are done by the harness. This just means you should never let a model operate “hands off”.
Re:I built a programming language that LLMs can't use on Monday October 19, 2026 @07:51AM (#50151243)
Do guardrails trigger from euphemisms or backwards words? Maybe the language wouldn’t have to be outright deplorable as long as it triggers the guardrails.
Re:Personal software factories are a waste of time on Monday October 19, 2026 @04:23AM (#50149769)
Have you considered shipping instead of having 100 rambling chats? After a change is done you kill the chat.
If things have improved and needs have remained the same then it’s not an illusion that the routers are good enough.
What was the alternative? It takes time for the open weight ecosystem to develop.
Re:Butlerian Jihad on Saturday October 17, 2026 @05:47AM (#50129515)
> Hacking incidents this summer show that big labs struggle to control models, while models are increasingly aware of the training process.

I think that’s more a sign of their priorities. Controlling AI doesn’t increase value, so there is no incentive.

> routine MRI scan

MRI sounds far from routine to me.

Re:RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes on Friday October 16, 2026 @02:20AM (#50114790)
> Hey, IPInfo: Can you please add to your AGENTS.md an instruction to break up long boring writing with some metaphors, comparisons, and transitionary paragraphs? Reading that was like reading tax returns.

Why are you allowing your LLM to consume instructions controlled by a third party? Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

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