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Re:Grieving the Loss of Details on Saturday October 10, 2026 @02:12PM (#50035562)
Before anybody panics about LLMs let's just take a deep breath, and see this tech for what it is.

It is a giant interpolation machine. It is very good at remixing stuff, but is is hapless when it comes to novel things.

Consider this: an llm was trained on physics, but the training data was cut in 1904. That is just a year before Special Relativity was published. The LLM was then shown papers of SR, GR, and Heisenberg's paper from 1925 that established quantum mechanics, and similar foundational papers of what we call "Modern Physics".

The LLM has systematically "disproved" all of them, and rejected as false.

So even if you show it a novel idea, it's still going to reject it.

It is by design limited to remix existing ideas.

The recent "novel" mathematical proofs are also just remixes. What I mean it uses two or more established math frameworks together to generate a viable bridge. The result is undeniably a new proof, but not a novel idea.

People with novel ideas will always be needed.

Re:Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @12:10PM (#48662027)
Finally!

Trees are fantastic creatures.

(I'd happily go as far as calling them Beings, but I'm afraid it would sound like some kind of a new age esoteric bullshit, even so I'm borderline convinced they are sentient.)

The important thing that fascinates me is how Tree actually work. They are generally perceived as growing from the soil to the atmosphere. However, the opposite is true. About 98% of the material of a tree is originated from the air, namely the carbon extracted from the CO2 content of the air. Trees are literally growing from the air, and piercing down into the soil to get water to run their Calvin cycles to extract the carbon and produce the ATP.

Knowing this, I'd be more than surprised if Trees - or plants in general - haven't had any methods to control their food source: the atmosphere. I believe they do. And by destroying them, we are limiting this control. Looking from this angle, there is very little surprise in the onset of weather extremes.

I summary, I'm very happy with this legislation. I hope this a first step in many that is actually going to help us taming the climate of our planet again. With more trees. Because trees are awesome.

You need to saturate your attention span with running so many agents at once that when you issue the last prompt to the last agent, the first one is already finished. This way you need to continuously concentrate, so flow is achievable.

The difficulty is to break down the task in a way that multiple agents can work on it.

I usually spin two or three major issues with 10-12 agents in total.

The deafening silence in the comment section says it all.
Nothing unexpected. Microsoft has a remarkable talent for turning good products into useless ones. Skype is another good showcase of such talent.
Re:15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @09:04AM (#47061022)
> The AI rip-off was not just ugly. It was careless, blatantly amateuristic, and lacking any ambition, to put it gently. Microsoft unworthy.

I'd argue that this statement is perfectly true when the word "unworthy" is removed.

Re:Astrological CPU Scheduler on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @05:41AM (#46869247)
I mean... why not? :)
Re:The Problem with Lying Is Keeping Track of All the Lies on Thursday June 06, 2024 @09:05PM (#40604279)
This is a sales pitch. No useful info there.
Re:Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit on Monday March 25, 2024 @10:44PM (#39823821)
This one has been around for ages, and it does work on mobile too.

https://satellitemap.space/

The problem is that the entity supposed to "bomb it to rubble" and the entity pushing for AI development happens to be the same entity.

Maybe confusion why people can't see this is because tech development in the US has mostly been done under the umbrella of a private enterprise.

But if one has a look at companies like Palantir, it's going to become quite obvious what is the main driver behind AI development.

Re:Putting ads in hardware through HDMI on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:22AM (#38098551)
The point of the website would be to avoid the future where this is standard.

It won't be able to get standard if nobody buys the products that has it.

Re:Putting ads in hardware through HDMI on Sunday October 29, 2023 @06:27AM (#38057245)
If that patent becomes a reality, I'll make sure to create a website to track which products do this, so we can all avoid buying them.
Re:Show HN: Tell YouTube Ads to Fuck Off on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @07:54AM (#37913558)
Loving this.
Not a biggy. Let's have them implant backdoors everywhere, and then use it to acquire and publish all their data and their conversations.

I'm sure that besides loosing their power quickly, they also going to face prison time for abusing it.

It would be such a wonderfully poetical end of them!

/sacrasm off

Woohoo! A pre-production alpha car has issues. What a breaking news story!
One moment of silence for our brothers and sisters still using windows. /salute

XD

Re:TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia on Thursday December 01, 2022 @06:13AM (#33814859)
I'm afraid there could be a hidden math behind this.

As in: cost of a war with China vs. economic cost of China acquiring TSMC tech.

As long as a war is cheaper, the US is protecting Taiwan.

I'm no expert, but it usually comes down to something like this.

Re:TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia on Thursday December 01, 2022 @06:08AM (#33814820)
Yeah, that's what I'm hoping for.
Re:TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia on Thursday December 01, 2022 @06:03AM (#33814791)
Poor Taiwanese people... their security insurance has just been cancelled.

I wonder how many days after the first successful batches of chips coming out of the Arizona fab will China invade Taiwan.

I do hope not, but realistically: with high-end chips being made on US soil, the US will have very little interest in protecting Taiwan, apart from maybe blocking China from also acquiring the tech.

Re:Hacker News Parody Thread on Sunday November 20, 2022 @09:53AM (#33681310)
Most useful comment on the whole thread. Thanks for the tip about the [-].
Re:Ask HN: How did you stop drinking? on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:42AM (#33160850)
Alcohol is a slow killer. Physical addiction takes about 10 years to form. First, it's barely noticeable. People think it's age, and "after 30 hangover lasts for 2 days". But that is not actually being hang over. It is the symptom of alcohol withdrawal. Mild one at first, but more severe as physical addiction settles in.

Drinking 3-4 days a week seems like "okay". However, it basically means drinking whenever withdrawal symptoms kick in. This is creating a feedback loop, that is very hard to notice, because it is mild, and also socially accepted.

If you really want to know how addicted you are, stop drinking completely for a week.

If you find yourself unable to sleep, or sweating all over the place, or having weird stomach or muscle pain, or have unexpected mood swings: you already have a physical addiction to alcohol.

Re:El Salvador expected to default as Bitcoin plummets on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @10:24AM (#31340395)
El Salvador has more than 2000 of them. If people want to cash out BTC, they can. No network access or exchange needed.

https://coinatmradar.com/country/64/bitcoin-atm-el-salvador/

Re:El Salvador expected to default as Bitcoin plummets on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @10:10AM (#31340179)
They are happy with their monopoly as it is.
Re:El Salvador expected to default as Bitcoin plummets on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @10:04AM (#31340096)
Except for conveniently using one of the ~40,000 crytpo ATMs that are already installed globally.

https://coinatmradar.com/

Re:Managing Python Versions with Pyenv on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @04:56AM (#31337439)
You can `make dist` on the python repo to build the rpm of whichever branch/commit you want to use. Pre-built ones are also available from nightly build. I still don’t know why you need a separate tool for that.
Re:Managing Python Versions with Pyenv on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @09:26AM (#31326846)
AFAIK venv is a subset of virtualenv brought into the standard lib around python 3.3.

I’m talking about the “full” virtualenv. This one: https://pypi.org/project/virtualenv/

Re:Managing Python Versions with Pyenv on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @09:25AM (#31326833)
IMHO it’s solved by installing different python versions using the OS package manager, like `dnf install python3.8 python3.9`, and then creating virtualenv using whichever version you need, like `virtualenv -p python3.9 venv`
Re:Managing Python Versions with Pyenv on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @08:58AM (#31326543)
Unpopular opinion: tools other than virtualenv are for people who do not understand how virtualenv works. On the other hand: people who do understand how virtualenv works, know it very well we: don’t need the other tools than virtualenv.
It’s like reading: “Ford is outsourcing the fabrication of its new flagship EV line to Tesla”.
Yeah… so let’s cut the trees and pour concrete everywhere, so people will feel so miserable that the Metaverse becomes economically viable.

/Slow clap

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