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Re:Tiny Little Office on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:25PM (#50107051)
A crime is a violation of law that can result in prison time.

A civil violation can result in financial penalties but not criminal penalties (prison)

Re:Do dentists know what they're doing? on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:23PM (#50107006)
What you are missing by waiting 5 years for an X-ray is that the rate of growth affects when the cavity needs to be filled.
Re:I know why Mathematicians weep on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:09PM (#50106811)
Climbing a mountain is different from flying a helicopter to the top
Re:I know why Mathematicians weep on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:07PM (#50106777)
AI systems have Reinforcement Learning
A human cannot start a conversation. Every human conversation is predicated on the human being activated by its parents.
Re:Returning Soldier Effect on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:00AM (#49800559)
The graph makes it pretty obvious that the effects isn't real. The newy steady growth in ratio 1910-1950 is more interest, but even so, the magnitude of variations is tiny.

If anything, infanticide is likely the cause of distortion. Look at China's One Child Policy.

Re:Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @08:48AM (#49800387)
It's human-modified AI slop. No human is able to write so much so badly
Re:Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @08:43AM (#49800328)
Interestiny, the article mentions that, in comtext of PhD students desperate to escape to industry labs.
Re:Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @08:40AM (#49800286)
In addition, per OP's own source, Computer Eng and Comp Science have the highest Median Wage Early Career. That's a great trade for slightly higher unemployment rate.
Engineering is a religion based on faith. Math is the god you follow :-)
That's leaning into engineering, away from math. Heuristics aren't always accurate. Math history before proof is the history of delusion. Idea, heuristics, and motivation aren't nearly enough for correctness outside of a sandbox.
LLMs have LLM intuition, not human intuition. (See the movie Her.)

LLM cannot reinvent Euclid from scratch, but a larger system including LLM might.

Love is more important than breathing. It is and it isn't.

What good is an end you can't reach, or worse, you can reach but it's wrong?

And now you see the business value of Nueralink with DRM.
Disintermediation.

It's Amazon's whole business model.

https://prosperousamerica.org/amazons-heavy-recruitment-of-c...

10 years ago Google Photos already had AutoAwesome with Hasslehoff Photo bombing.
Ruby ln Rails and are you sure you need all that? Do you have dozens of interrelated products with a billion users for each?
Ethos is lived not told.
If it is fashionable for 20-30 years running across multiple categories, maybe it's actually valuable and worthwhile.
Because it's not as conventient or functional as cloud and they don't pay me to talk it up.
Re:No Country for Mediocre Mathematicians on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:00AM (#49521388)
PhD in naturalism (stamp-collecting AI proofs), not a PhD in math. The AI is the one earning the PhD in math.
"domain seizures"

Why do attackers need domains, instead of relying on a list of controlled IP addresses? That seems incredibly fragile.

Re:Show HN: How much of Hacker News is AI? on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @12:38PM (#49452012)
Who would do this project and not use an LLM to classify what counts as "AI"?
I don't understand. Are you saying that AI should write notes but then they should be excluded from the AI's context?
It's also hard to finish an idea that is mine.
Doesn't need to be "up front", but you do need to curate the context.

AI can't read your mind, and it will read what you (or anyone else) wrote.

Negative sum, not zero sum.
Re:And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @12:09PM (#49363471)
SK government is solving that problem by ending the war with NK
Re:If your agent commits a crime, who is responsible? on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @12:07PM (#49363438)
Your sign the document affirming that the information is accurate.
Re:If your agent commits a crime, who is responsible? on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @12:06PM (#49363426)
There is centuries old legal doctrine on the subtleties of criminal intent and negligence and liability. You didn't discover a gotcha that thousands of lawyers never noticed.

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