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Re:High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN on Monday October 19, 2026 @05:16PM (#50158183)
I stand corrected.
Re:High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN on Monday October 19, 2026 @08:50AM (#50151802)
ipsec is compromised, but ok, spread your net wide
Re:Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins on Friday October 16, 2026 @07:25PM (#50126132)
"..chose to risk moving the US government to it.."

Oof, about that...

Re:Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:37AM (#50003309)
Damn that was fast, you owe me a few beers.

The association for Human Mathematics (AHM) criticized OpenAI's release of 722 math manuscripts and urged mathematicians "to discontinue their work with OpenAI." And, Terence Tao reposted AHM's statement on his blog.

Re:Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:35PM (#49999107)
Okay, but if they write another open letter or give another keynote proclaiming the end of the world then you owe me a beer.
Re:Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @04:38PM (#49998481)
ok
Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Monday September 28, 2026 @08:05PM (#49886184)
There's a hilarious meme people do where they convince google they're an animal and they're in a precarious situation and ask for help. And, google roleplays like it thinks it is really helping that animal. https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddyretard/comments/1l77vu6/goog... https://www.reddit.com/r/lovethissmug/comments/1v8y68g/i_lov... https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtificialInteligence/comments/1v91...
Re:World Labs Is Joining AMD on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:54PM (#49886104)
You don't have to, there is a free one with open weights from lingbot. https://technology.robbyant.com/lingbot-world
Re:Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:55AM (#49474497)
The one that I really like is "greenfield" when you have an empty repo.
right panic, wrong fear

starlink are too low to cause kessler syndrome... but his starmind might

chip production and network acceleration here we come
Re:Exapunks (2018) on Saturday July 04, 2026 @04:16PM (#48788602)
well args in his original games, not sure about the new ones
Re:Exapunks (2018) on Friday July 03, 2026 @05:06PM (#48779962)
thank you, buying both their games. i'm a big fan of his entire series. i'd just assumed he was gone off the scene

there's also ARGs hidden in all of them, not sure if you're all aware of that

Re:Running local models is good now on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @07:30AM (#48568840)
Those who have never known anything better are okay with much less. For example, anyone who used Fable when it came out are saying that it is very difficult to go back to lesser models now. Even our strongest aren't good enough in comparison.
Re:Open source AI must win on Saturday June 13, 2026 @12:55AM (#48513375)
Someone with AI psychosis would say it was easy. I'm saying the opposite. I'm stating that it'd be cool, but at the moment I don't see how it is feasible. And, for fun I tried to solve one small aspect of the problem.

I also didn't bring up the concept out of nowhere, this is in response to an article about open source AI. The premise of the post is releasing control to the public. What is more open than a decentralized system? And, why wouldn't you brainstorm in a comment on such a thread?

I also didn't ask an AI for the idea, it's just an idea I have. There's a difference.

Re:Open source AI must win on Friday June 12, 2026 @11:14PM (#48512506)
I've been contemplating a decentralized model training system for some time using volunteer machines that we all contribute. But, it is astronomically difficult. The communication speeds are untenable.

And, there is the issue of data poisoning from untrusted nodes. I've almost cracked that last issue with a self-healing checkpointed rollback system that doesn't have to throw out anything that follows the corrupt datum.

But, I'm just one person with an idea and I don't have infinite funds to make this happen. This isn't a small project.

Maybe there would be interest in something like this, now that entire frontier labs are being banned from making further progress.

The total power of all GPUs on the planet dwarf their capabilities, if we had a way to harness them in a distributed way efficiently. We wouldn't be able to train a Fable as fast as them, but eventually having access is better than never having access.

You're mistaken, this is a cratering of the userbase inside and outside of the US. The ban is on any foreigner whether abroad or living in the USA, so Anthropic has no choice but to completely shut down access to the model for the whole world including the US.

Their IPO is well and truly fucked now. This also means no other frontier lab in the US is allowed to exceed Opus 4.8 capabilities.

If you're a luddite or a decel you should literally be dancing in the streets right now. And, if you're a tankie you'll be dancing right next to them. And, if you were hoping for a Star Trek-like future, you just adjusted your timeline for the worse.

Re:No Slop Grenade on Friday May 22, 2026 @12:29PM (#48238125)
Hm, I wasn't trying to. Baka baka baka, jim-kun!
Re:No Slop Grenade on Friday May 22, 2026 @04:44AM (#48233466)
I asked Claude to write a one word response:

Touché.

Re:No Slop Grenade on Friday May 22, 2026 @04:16AM (#48233296)
I'm verbose, and no one was ever interested in anything I ever had to say before. And, they certainly wouldn't be now if I used AI to do it.

These days I only bother commenting if I really feel I need to get something off my chest, but I don't assume anyone gives a shit. I frequently just delete my responses. I don't generally feel anyone needs what I'm saying.

It takes a bit of self-awareness to realize that no one is interested in what you have to say, so don't bother. And, I think it takes twice as much self-awareness to realize that they certainly don't care about what a bot has to say, unless they're the ones asking.

Re:US and Israel carrying out strikes against Iran on Saturday February 28, 2026 @07:54AM (#47194757)
That is only 6% of our Navy. Not half.
Re:Wario Synth: Turn any song into Game Boy version on Thursday January 01, 2026 @06:21PM (#46459333)
Re:Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition on Thursday August 07, 2025 @07:35AM (#44823186)
OH yea, I confused it with the movie name.

Surprisingly, the wikipage fails to mention it was a failed experiment and doesn't mention the ocean issue at all.

Re:Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition on Thursday August 07, 2025 @02:47AM (#44821349)
Meanwhile biodome couldn't keep an artificial ocean from acidifying.
Re:Why agents are bad pair programmers on Monday June 09, 2025 @11:01PM (#44232032)
LLM agents don't know how to shut up and always think they're right about everything. They also lack the ability to be brief. Sometimes things can be solved with a single character or line, but no they write a full page. And, they write paragraphs of comments for even the most minuscule of changes.

They talk at you, are overbearing and arrogant.

Re:Eleven v3 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @05:12PM (#44195840)
For reference in case anyone is wondering, it is based on:

https://github.com/152334H/tortoise-tts-fast

The developer of tortoise tts fast was hired by Eleven labs.

Thanks, I replied to your other comment.
The research I've cited has indicated this is a genetic transfer among female-to-female births of a need for more cesareans.

"A female-to-female familial predisposition to caesarean section was observed. It could be caused by biologic inheritance, primarily working through maternal alleles and/or environmental factors. The results imply that both mechanisms could be important."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18540028/

"Large-scale epidemiological studies indeed evidence that women born by C-section are more likely to deliver by Caesarean than women born vaginally, owing primarily to genetic rather than social factors."

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1712203114

Yes, that's what they're indicating. And, it is saving lives. I myself was cesarean section, as was my mother. I wouldn't be here without it.

That's the potential conundrum, if it turns out to be vastly increasing the need to save those lives than in the past due to a evolutionary pressure on the gene pool. If the WHO is right and we're going to start seeing 50 - 63% increases by 2030, what's in store for the human race if this rate of expansion keeps up?

Will we reach a time when no one can be naturally born and almost our entire race has to be conceived in external gestation devices or cease to exist? And, when we reach that point will we look with concern towards Africa and wonder at how sad it is they're still conceived naturally.

Edit: I don't have the answers. I'm not sure what we should do to course correct or if we need to. But, it is definitely something that should be looked into before it is too late, if it isn't already. And, that is why I brought it up in the context of this breakthrough, to ask if we've considered similar consequences. And, if we have a way to mitigate them if that turns out to be the case.

Edit Edit: I can't reply to your comment below I think we've hit the leaf end of this post. But, to reply to your question are c-sections replacing natural births or are they just becoming more common? The research I've cited has indicated this is a genetic transfer among female-to-female births of a need for more cesareans.

"The cesarean delivery rate increased from 5% in 1970 to 31.9% in 2016. This sharp increase can be attributed to various factors, including changes in maternal age, medical advancements allowing more complicated pregnancies to proceed, and evolving obstetric practices. In 2022, the United States recorded more than 3.66 million births, most of which resulted from spontaneous or induced labor. Labor dystocia remains the most common indication for primary cesarean delivery. Globally, cesarean delivery rates continue to rise, and reducing unnecessary cesarean procedures remains a priority in the United States, where 32.2% of all births in 2022 were cesarean deliveries."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK546707/

"If this trend continues, by 2030 the highest rates are likely to be in Eastern Asia (63%), Latin America and the Caribbean (54%), Western Asia (50%), Northern Africa (48%) Southern Europe (47%) and Australia and New Zealand (45%), the research suggests."

https://www.who.int/news/item/16-06-2021-caesarean-section-r...

Note: Coincidentally, WHO's article I've linked is lamenting that Sub-saharan Africa only had 5% cesarean due to less availability of the procedure. It is their perspective that the increase in percentages is a good thing and indicates progress, instead of being concerning. And, they find Sub-saharan Africa's low numbers concerning, instead.

Side Note: I also found lots of interesting articles which I haven't posted here, about epigenetic side effects caused by caesarean deliveries like leukemia, illnesses and other genetic issues. But, that seems out of scope for your question. You can make a quick search and find these, though.

"A female-to-female familial predisposition to caesarean section was observed. It could be caused by biologic inheritance, primarily working through maternal alleles and/or environmental factors. The results imply that both mechanisms could be important."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18540028/

"Large-scale epidemiological studies indeed evidence that women born by C-section are more likely to deliver by Caesarean than women born vaginally, owing primarily to genetic rather than social factors."

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1712203114

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