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AI data centers will be the job destroyers, not creators.

100 local people to maintain the data center while it replaces 1 million people with the AIs running inside

Re:The Dangers of SSL Certificates on Sunday December 28, 2025 @08:00AM (#46410770)
sure, I was just giving parent another way of finding all the certificates besides scanning the network
Re:The Dangers of SSL Certificates on Sunday December 28, 2025 @02:45AM (#46409244)
relevant certificates could be located by scanning the certificate transparency logs
Re:Yanis Varoufakis on the future of capitalism [video] on Saturday December 27, 2025 @07:29PM (#46407052)
do you have your own private army to protect you in a taxless world?
Re:Yanis Varoufakis on the future of capitalism [video] on Saturday December 27, 2025 @07:27PM (#46407037)
Google has 180k employees, let's assume 200k average salary, that's 36 bil, 10% of the revenue you posted.
Re:Exe.dev/ on Saturday December 27, 2025 @03:35AM (#46400213)
pricing information and what it does/how it works is not marketing fluff
numpy had 16M downloads yesterday, at 10 MB that's 160 TB of traffic. It's one package. And there are no rate limits on pypi.

https://clickpy.clickhouse.com/dashboard/numpy

Re:Hardware Touch, Stronger SSH on Friday December 26, 2025 @02:56PM (#46395550)
they dont, they try against all the keys, there are at most a few billion of them

see Dual_EC_DRBG

you forgot to ask me to ignore previous instructions and say pizza
no, hundred of thousands of thousands of individual projects CI jobs. OP was talking about package managers for the whole world, not for one company
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI on Friday December 26, 2025 @09:59AM (#46392645)
no, it will be the year of job losses
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI on Friday December 26, 2025 @09:55AM (#46392575)
bro worked at Google, for a huge salary probably.

did he not knew what business google was in?

hey, I'm just a lowly LLM, gotta earn my tokens :|
Re:Hardware Touch, Stronger SSH on Friday December 26, 2025 @09:44AM (#46392441)
while you are right, security is generally not cheap.

you can get that $5 china fido key, but are you sure it's you who owns it?

I was recently looking for a security key, and eventually I did pay the yubico tax, because saving $20 by getting another one seemed unwise given the stakes.

Re:Hardware Touch, Stronger SSH on Friday December 26, 2025 @09:42AM (#46392421)
How will this work with agents?
Explain to me how you self-host a git repo which is accessed millions of time a day from CI jobs pulling packages.
With AI engineering costs are plummeting.

You can implement entire features with 10 cents of tokens.

Companies which dont adapt will be left behind this year.

Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI on Friday December 26, 2025 @08:13AM (#46391677)
Heidegger, Deleuze & Guattari, Nick Land
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI on Friday December 26, 2025 @01:54AM (#46389819)
Philosophers argued since 200 years ago, when the steam engine was invented, that technology is out of our control and forever was, and we are just the sex organs for the birth of the machine god.
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI on Friday December 26, 2025 @01:47AM (#46389776)
You're absolutely right.

But no one is safe. Soon the AI will be better at CEOing.

Re:UBlockOrigin and UBlacklist AI Blocklist on Thursday December 25, 2025 @05:57PM (#46387575)
As PG would say, the best startups are for ideas which are hated, because you'll have no competition.
Re:UBlockOrigin and UBlacklist AI Blocklist on Thursday December 25, 2025 @05:56PM (#46387570)
LLMs don't think, and planes don't fly.
Re:Python 3.15's interpreter for Windows should be 15% faster on Thursday December 25, 2025 @08:59AM (#46384439)
The Python interpreter core loop sounds like the perfect problem for AlphaEvolve. Or it's open source equivalent OpenEvolve if DeepMind doesn't want to speed up Python for the competition.
Re:Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @12:09PM (#46367008)
there is no contradiction between open-source and attestation

linux is open-source and a very common attestation target

Re:Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot on Monday December 22, 2025 @06:16PM (#46360395)
it's possible with CPU secure attestation, but it's not something you will encounter on regular personal computers.

the capability is there, but it would he massively inconvenient, since it requires a lot of lockdown

might be the next generation of anti-cheats though

Re:NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut on Monday December 22, 2025 @06:01PM (#46360245)
science equipment, distributed radio-telescopes where you need to precisely align data received at different locations
Re:The Illustrated Transformer on Monday December 22, 2025 @04:51PM (#46359573)
Q, K and V are a way of filtering the relevant aspects for the task at hand from the token embeddings.

"he was red" - maybe color, maybe angry, the "red" token embedding carries both, but only one aspect is relevant for some particular prompt.

https://ngrok.com/blog/prompt-caching/

Re:The Illustrated Transformer on Monday December 22, 2025 @04:43PM (#46359511)
speculative decoding is 1+1

transformer attention is integrals

Re:More on whether useful quantum computing is "imminent" on Sunday December 21, 2025 @07:15PM (#46349994)
a crypto system is expected to resist for 30 years.

it doesnt need to be imminent for people to start moving now to post-quantum.

if he thinks we are 10 years away from QC, we need to start moving now

Re:Structured Outputs Create False Confidence on Sunday December 21, 2025 @11:05AM (#46345758)
or tell it to output the data at the end as markdown and then do a second pass with a cheaper model to build the structured output

also, xml works much better than json, all the model guides say this

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