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Re:Dario, Please on Monday September 14, 2026 @07:50PM (#49705855)
there is no accountability for companies, it's not a new thing.

3M polluted groundwater in Minnesota for 50 years[1]; Nestlé misled mothers in order to make them stop breastfeeding and switch to their formula which killed babies [2]; Both copmanies are still doing business today.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M_contamination_of_Minnesota_... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott

He is neither right or wrong. The reality is that this is a lose-lose situation from the ordinary person's perspective. Regulation -> regulatory capture and things get worse faster, no regulation -> things simply get worse faster.

I mean I don't know what we do at this point. Ideally AI researchers need to be treated like nuclear scientists working for an adversary. But we all know that's not going to happen.

Does Geoffrey Hinton work on AI research?
Re:Everyone should slow down AI development except for me on Saturday September 12, 2026 @10:17PM (#49679280)
Yes I trust sama/dario/elon with that power

/even more extreme sarcasm than you

> If it works it isn't low quality.

then the same applies to AI written code?

Re:On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:16PM (#49615383)
This is the problem Yu Deng got this year's Fields Medal for I think?
Re:The revolt of the reader on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:07PM (#49589161)
i think long form podcasts with experts in certain fields is going to replace (non-fiction) reading for me. at least when you can see the human being talking, what comes out of their mouths cannot be AI generated.
Re:I Feel about AI on Sunday September 06, 2026 @11:39AM (#49587581)
are... people's emotions usually this well compartmentalized?
Re:Music Theory for Programmers on Sunday September 06, 2026 @05:05AM (#49584598)
For programmers and written by AI and mostly wrong... What a combo
Re:Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio on Saturday August 29, 2026 @02:23AM (#49487447)
dflash2 is atmost 10-20% above mtp, it won't get you to 30 tps
The funny thing about LLM is, you can build one from scratch and yet you still won't understand how it works. You would understand what kind of matrix multiplications the neural network performs (in fact that's not that hard. An OS is orders of magnitudes more complex), but you would still have no idea why it does what it does.
how are you running the 2.4t model locally if you don't mind me asking
Re:Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM on Saturday August 22, 2026 @04:23PM (#49403508)
Feels like you are missing the point a little bit. LSP is a human facing tool, so providing a good user experience should be the ultimate goal of it. What you described, feels to me, is not quite aligned with this goal.

Of course, since you describe RA as "explicitly an experimental project to prototype the right architecture for an IDE", all that doesn't matter and you can set the project's goal to be whatever you want. However, it just sucks for us, the users, because RA is the only thing we have. I'm just glad to see someone else is trying to do something different. And may the best project win.

Re:Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s on Saturday August 01, 2026 @02:52AM (#49131797)
are they allowed to use the "SQLite" name?
Re:Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport on Sunday July 26, 2026 @05:31PM (#49062616)
Re:My falling-out with the rationalist community on Monday July 20, 2026 @09:01PM (#48986880)
> online nerds

you are heavily downplaying the power and influence some of these people have. Sam Bankman-Fried is one of these people, for example

Re:My falling-out with the rationalist community on Monday July 20, 2026 @08:59PM (#48986864)
> So they are not rationalist then?

one doesn't simply become rational just by calling oneself rationalists.

Re:My falling-out with the rationalist community on Monday July 20, 2026 @08:50PM (#48986824)
> Dawkins has unbelievably heated arguments over frankly nothing.

and that's without talking about all the problematic views held by him...

what a bizarre article, completely disconnected from reality. in what world is manufacturing, a sector that has been neglected for decades at this point, having any sway on politics in Britain.

why does The Economist have so much disdain of manufacturing and people who work in it? look at China, look at their manufacturing industry and what they are able to do with it. then look at the UK, who is struggling to build Hinkley Point C, or HS2 (projected to be the most expensive high-speed rail in the world btw). The Economist is an absolute f*ing joke.

If you did read the paper, you'd have noticed that people who slept more regularly in this research were also wealthier, and more physically active. They did say they adjusted for these variables, but who knows. Maybe they didn't adjust them enough, maybe there are more covariates they didn't consider.
Holy Dunning–Kruger effect...

As a software developer, I am a much better doctor than actual trained doctors, and am definitely immune to any placebo effects.

what would be a non-pilled way of saying the same thing?
The audacity to ask for donations to cover for their own mistake
Re:Keygen.music on Friday June 12, 2026 @02:28PM (#48507677)
> a floating player you can drag

you can drag only by clicking on a ui element that has no indication that it can be dragged.

Re:Report on an Unidentified Space Station on Friday June 12, 2026 @01:29PM (#48506960)
Also Yokohama Station SF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokohama_Station_SF

Which is about a self-replicating subway station :)

Re:I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @09:57AM (#48476377)
Just get a keyboard that supports custom firmware and go wild with it. You can do whatever you want.
Re:Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @10:08PM (#48378993)
I mean, you prompted something useful out of an AI, good job. But then use that to ask for donation? Feels weird, man.
if someone told you to `rm -rf --no-preserve-root`, and you did it without even checking what the command does. is it their fault or yours?
Re:London's Free Roof Terraces on Sunday May 31, 2026 @03:55PM (#48349152)
This is basically a lose-lose situation: extra bureaucracy for development projects that actually benefits the local residents (planning applications can get to thousands of pages long, and the whole process takes a really long time [0]), and local residents don't actually get the benefits intended by policies like this. The only people this benefits are those who have a lot of money to throw at things like this.

[0]: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/london/article/shoreditch-works-...

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