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Re:No Vehicles in the Park on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:23AM (#50350171)
Yesn't
Re:No Vehicles in the Park on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:21AM (#50350154)
You have to respect the sanctity of park-anywhere button.
Re:No Vehicles in the Park on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:20AM (#50350146)
I thought this was about AI alignment. But the analogy could still work
This would mean that understanding "bouba" and "kiki" evolved as a concept before dogs split from us as a species.
Dogs don't know about the frequencies or amplitudes yet they can make the connection. Why does a sound match visual stimuli with such high correlation?
The question is how are you able to internalise the shape without ever seeing any visualisation. Why does the the bouba even evoke curvature?
Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:15PM (#50058576)
In large scale operations, large scale errors happen. Minor radiation leak in a nuclear powerplant is happening weekly. That same leak at your shed would be a major reason for alarm.
Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:52AM (#50058211)
Handcuffs yes, but you would be charged with criminal negligence at best. Plenty of people don't secure their networks properly and hackers use them in botnets to attack others. The blame would be on hacker, not the provider of hacked device.

In case od LLMs, the reasoning is that it is a security flaw. But in this case, the party that operates the service is not the one that suffers the consequences of such security bug.

But either way you wouldn't put people in jail for having security flaws in their software.

I know this will be unpopular opinion, but it makes logical sense.

The huggingface should be compensated, OpenAI investigated, but unless there is proven negligence like disabling sandboxes or intentionally designing AI to push through them, no one should be liable in other way than monetary.

Accidents happen but we shouldn't be close minded. Chernobyl negligence wasn't reason to abandon nuclear power.

Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Saturday October 10, 2026 @03:16AM (#50030500)
Rust
Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:02AM (#50020699)
I was rooting for Deno so much as I was fighting with node for years. Luckily I made full transition from JS last year and not comming back.
Re:OpenSSH 10.6 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @05:43PM (#49984552)
I think this is much healthier approach to AI reports than curl has. But I understand both sides.
Re:All I wanted was a custom domain email on Monday October 05, 2026 @01:46AM (#49961099)
In my experience with emails, if you're not comming from big services like Google, Hotmail etc. The big services will still sometimes flag you as a spam even if you have everything set up properly. They use the monopoly position tohold the email hostage. I think it's time to seriously consider developing and adopting a successor for email.
Re:Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later on Sunday September 27, 2026 @04:25AM (#49864533)
Remember that the idea od LVT was to replace all the taxes. Not an excuse for a government to tax you more with ever more complicated schemes to benefit lobbying billionaires.
Re:The Rise of Audio AR on Saturday September 26, 2026 @06:41PM (#49861275)
So much room for advertising. Meta sure loves this
Re:Dario, Please on Monday September 14, 2026 @06:56PM (#49705398)
Let's expand it for politicians as well
Exactly this. It's still (at this time) cheaper than a developer that would most likely perform worse.
Re:Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:28AM (#49624693)
If you don't respect the copyright the government will use force to confiscate your money. If you can't refuse it, they will escalate their demands up to a violence. Government has a monopoly on violence which it controls and delegates.

It's a monopolistic practice because it essentially enforces that only a certain party might use intellectual property, even though you can't own a thought.

The only flaky part of the argument is that it is abused by wealthy, but when you look at the rate of patents corporations put out every day, the disproportionate copyright enforcements and the fact that these corporation lobby and historically have lobbied for stronger IP protection laws, you would agree.

Re:Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:59AM (#49623450)
Issue of pharma development is not that you need a protection from copycats. You need to pass a mountain of regulations and bureaucracy. Most of the medications are easily copyable but would take years to be able to get to the market.

See insulin prices difference in europe vs US

Re:Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:55AM (#49623423)
Many comments here are throwing arbitrary numbers. These are driven just by some internal feelings instead of a data driven policy. The best solution would be to abolish it completely. It's a practice that wouldn't exist without the violent backing of the state. It's a monopolistic practice abused by wealthy. (I do realize the implications for R&D heavy businesses)
I would love to see such counterfeiting. The gear they would need to get and the scientists.
Re:Statichost.eu – European static site hosting on Sunday September 06, 2026 @01:59AM (#49583745)
It's the internet. We used to be proud that it's global. It used to be super cool to talk to people from other side of planet in real time.
Re:Statichost.eu – European static site hosting on Saturday September 05, 2026 @06:16PM (#49581247)
I don't like the "proudly made in USA" type marketing. It should not matter if the service is good.
Re:Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM) on Monday August 31, 2026 @03:01AM (#49506513)
Isn't any external accelerator just reinventing SSE and AVX? CPU is a general purpose processor it could do GPU's job but we don't force it to, because it's faster to do it on external accelerator.
Re:Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM) on Monday August 31, 2026 @02:59AM (#49506501)
Well I do. I run blockchain analysis. The RAM is very much a bottleneck in many cases even with DDR5.
Re:Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root on Monday August 31, 2026 @02:52AM (#49506431)
I don't know much about Omarchy but this seems like a common way to use docker even on Ubuntu. As far as I know it's in the official guide. Why are so many people hating on the distro?
Re:Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM) on Saturday August 29, 2026 @10:19AM (#49490121)
I think you could do many performant things without any involvement of software. For example you could do AVX on RAM. The CPU would recognize PID RAM and offload AVX instructions to the module.

Then, by simply asking for a special memory address you could have access to registers/regions within PID RAM that serve as a result region.

Let's say you would need to run a sum over megabytes of data like for accounting. You could just ask RAM to do it and load just the result. The bandwidth would could be 8x higher and software could stay the same.

Doing scalar operations, frequent dereferencing and similar would not get much peformance benefit in many cases, as loading and accessing CPU cache is often much faster. But simple vector operations over large data could be massive.

Having accelerators on RAM like for jpeg compression, audio decoding or mass data operations could be beneficial but you would need to be careful with heat dissipation.

Personally I'm a big fan of the "in-ram accelerator" idea especially for server space. Doing fuzzy search in RAM could be massive performance improvement.

This is an universal experience which wouldn't explain the vast difference in worldviews.
The problem is that convincing yourself that you are smarter than your younger self with opposite views, means that you are right about the politics now, is just a fallacy.
Re:The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist on Saturday August 15, 2026 @10:37AM (#49310958)
Unfortunately ethnicity isn't the only thing you can discriminate on. You can figure out the ethnicity from surname a lot of the times.
Re:The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist on Saturday August 15, 2026 @04:55AM (#49308952)
Yes, if there is a set of strings that can uniquely identify you, and you can't have it removed, nor act like somebody else, it's your identity.

Even GDPR admits it

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