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Re:Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:34PM (#50346854)
Uh, he was an actor plating parts written by other humans.

If you want real examples, look to Cincinnatus or George Washington.

Re:We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:56PM (#50343611)
Been experimenting with swarms myself, and some of the things have led me back to this book that was originally written to combat groupthink at the CIA:

"The psychology of intelligence analysis"

Ask your AI agent about it and the failure modes of agent swarms.

Re:Ask HN: What hardware are you using to run local LLMs? on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:05PM (#50342885)
I have a Mac Studio M1 Ultra with 128GB of RAM, an M5 Pro MBP with 64GB of RAM, and until recently an M1 Pro MBP with 32GB of RAM. I also have two Mac Minis with 16GB of RAM, but they're mainly used for embedding models because they're so small.

I'm doing a bunch of batch work for an experiment with them right now, but my daily driver is a Gemini Pro subscription.

Shit, if broadcom did this to their codebase the world would be a better place. Their stuff is crap, and it's everywhere. It's unclear if they even use source control. Our guys spent ridiculous amounts of time backporting our submitted fixes into their releases.
Re:Qwen has alter egos triggered by flipping a single neuron on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @09:28AM (#50273210)
"I am a meat popsicle."
"WISeR has resulted in delays and denials of care, operational chaos, and reports of patient harm"

It sounds pretty par for the course for non-AI as well. What criteria is the EFF using for its evaluation or the program, Medicare's own internal metrics?

I'm actually amazed this stuff even works enough to do a bad job. Getting data into an LLM out of the Medicare system is something I assume would have taken at least a quarter or two.

I love western civilization
Re:Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea on Thursday October 22, 2026 @06:47AM (#50193625)
Well the human brain just just a bunch of electricity and cascading neurons.

None of that means they can't be useful tools, but when they fall down, we should remind ourselves of why that is, etc etc.

Great, now iOS users can get crapware and malware just like android users. Freedom!
Re:Victory! Court Rules OPM Data Disclosure to DOGE Is Unlawful on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:10AM (#50177512)
In this era, a ruling by a district court is irrelevant.

What do the Supremes say?

There have been a lot of doctrinal changes over the last few years, and lots of courts haven't gotten the memo.

Re:GLP-1 may slow biological aging on Saturday October 17, 2026 @01:19PM (#50133004)
That's not a common side effect, and I've been watching GLPs for years. In fact, it's more likely to cause divorces due to, you know, becoming more attractive.
Re:GLP-1 may slow biological aging on Saturday October 17, 2026 @01:16PM (#50132974)
If you're getting it compounded it may be time to switch providers.

Seriously, in the first week you should feel a bit of nausea at .25mg. After 2-3 weeks you should see something, either weight loss (most) or gain (some).

Or you could be one of those who have no effect, which sucks. I'd go over your process with your provider, from storage to injection.

The last set of updates seems to have fixed my sync issues. I have no idea why this is so hard, except maybe their team architected things incorrectly.

I believe the readings go to their cloud first then the app reads from there, which is one of those things that makes you realize hardware guys shouldn't design software.

And yet it's so remote that who is going to stop you?
Re:What was a Token Ring network? on Friday October 16, 2026 @12:37PM (#50120658)
FYI cable networks (upstream) are essentially token ring.

In fact, broadcast ethernet is essentially token ring, except instead of a token it just grabs the wire. Only one machine can grab the wire at a time. Switches hide that from most people.

Re:Zero-Click Spyware Delivered via Targeted Ads: AdFection on Friday October 16, 2026 @10:45AM (#50119000)
Tell that to the people raking in billions (ie: google)
Re:Zero-Click Spyware Delivered via Targeted Ads: AdFection on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:22AM (#50114392)
Direct deals are different than programmatic.
Re:Zero-Click Spyware Delivered via Targeted Ads: AdFection on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:21AM (#50114389)
Not sure why this guy is getting a lot of shit. I play at adops, but I haven't done much with it since we set everything up.

Ads drive the internet. Sorry, but it's true. And you, the technical people, have no real idea of the scale. I don't like ads, but was amused when I had to turn off all my blockers to get stuff done. Many people in the adops world dislike ads, but money.

The point he's making is simple: the ad networks are not responsible for the ad payload. And you might argue the point, but your arguments are worthless. Even finding the entity responsible for the payload will be difficult, and they're probably overseas. Are you going to sue them? No, you're not. Can you actually prove damages, even if you did decide to sue? Probably not.

The structure in the article sounds nefarious, but it's literally the adtech stack. The only thing the company must be doing that's abnormal is tracking all the users in one specific IP range and associating it was a company, likely with their emails. I never touched the targeting section of the stack, but I presume that's possible but not "normal."

The author needs to pack a small drone next time they head out. They're light, easy to use, and take pretty OK pictures.

It's funny how these big geo features are all hidden. I mean, it's a big crack in the Earth. Maybe this is where the lizard people come from, so anyone that talks about "the crack" disappears?

Re:Thinking will become a hobby on Monday October 12, 2026 @07:17PM (#50064406)
Thinking is already a hobby.
The best code review process I've done are more like oral exams ie: the person walks through the changes and we listen as they describe it.

It's a good way to catch thinking errors, which are the insidious errors.

Re:Unikernels were hard. key word: were on Sunday October 11, 2026 @03:49AM (#50040604)
General purpose OSses are a tax, one that people pay because it's cheaper than rolling your own.

Has the math changed? Maybe. I remember the days before multitasking and protected memory. Things were faster, but more fragile. But these days there are so many things happening that they are, on some dimensions, just as fragile.

The real cost is going to be hardening, and maybe LLMs can do that as well.

The ICC is an attempt by European leftists to impose their value system on the smaller or poorer countries.

Where are the ICC cases against Saudi? Syria? Yemen? Egypt? Most of Africa? North Korea? Haiti? Nicaragua? India? Iran?

It's a kangaroo court that gives retired judges jobs and powerless liberals the illusion they're doing something.

Re:A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:20PM (#50001567)
Just pound values into registers! I love it, so old school!

In fact, that's how i/o worked before DMA on many systems. Good times!

I understand why it did what it did, but I didn't want to spend the time digging in and changing its behavior.

The view options are what killed it in the end.

The thumbnails issue was just me looking at the sausage and like "ugh, I wouldn't have done that."

It's always a tradeoff between time and work. I would have done a sliding window around the current screen, but then you might have placeholders. Maybe it should do low-res first and generated hi-res thumbnails 3 pages out while scrolling. But that's a lot of work for the 10% case.

What I want is aperture back, with all the fun AI stuff and using Affinity for photo editing (which I have anyway). I'll add that to my queue of projects I guess.

Tried immich and there was a lot not to like. It behooves everyone to try each one and see if it fits.

Just for product aesthetics, i believe it created a thumbnail folder with every resolution, which is annoying since i have a multi-decade 8tb library.

There were other actual issues with organization and display. But with this I realized I can just get gemini to write a DAM for me in a weekend.

Re:From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4 on Saturday October 03, 2026 @12:07AM (#49941278)
Engineers have entered the building. We've come a long way from people debating whether mmap was safe to use.
My wife ships with endicia and shopify. I've often wondered if the barcodes that are printed are actually tracked, as you can void them. With that void comes a "i'm not going to ship this anymore' self-certification.

I suspect that the postage is actually generic and can be reused, but for obvious reasons don't want to try.

You can also take postage paid envelopes and stick them on anything. People used to stick them to bricks back in the day just for fun.

Having just gone through an umbrella insurance process, I find it interesting that it's your primary product.

My understanding of umbrella coverage is like what you said: it's an adjunct product and a way to increase the fees on their other lines, which is why if you get umbrella via your existing carrier they generally enforce minimums on your auto (and home).

As someone with kids who drive, umbrella was much more complicated than expected.

I wish you guys operated in my state so I could run my numbers through you.

Re:What It's Like to Work in One of America's Data Centers on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @03:18PM (#49806685)
Most data centers are closed-loop, like your air conditioner. Does your air conditioner use water?

Presumably there are some data centers that use water cooling. I think google and amazon's big ones do. But even then, they're not "polluting", they're using them as heat sinks.

There was a lame rolling stone article that claimed amazon was "polluting" in Eastern Oregon, but what Amazon was doing was taking brined water from an aquifer and putting more concentrated brined water back into the water table. Air conditioning doesn't really add brine, so even the premise is ridiculous. I know that article has been referenced a lot by the "Data Centers Pollute The Water" folks.

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