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You can't disentangle the compute from those algorithmic gains, though. Every small adjustment to its algorithms is made on the back of tests relying on compute.
Technically interesting but also fanciful bollocks - because there was no Stockfish in 1996, and developing a sufficiently strong equivalent in time for the Deep Blue match would have taken substantially longer that the 18 years the current Stockfish has needed, thanks to the drastically weaker processor capabilities back then.
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:13PM (#50247302)
This presupposes a state strong enough to apply the decisions of those votes, which can't be guaranteed. The problem is that we need government power and authority to exceed that of the AI developers. But this is the age when large government is generally seen as undesirable or a threat to the individual.
> Especially in Europe where you obviously have countries like Belgium that aren't nation states to begin with.

Belgium has been independent for almost 200 years, and is one of the founding members of the the UN. In what possible way is it not a nation state?

> Meanwhile, authorities have offered Smith a plea deal including a $1,000 fine, $1,000 in restitution and three years' probation. She has refused, saying she is innocent.

This is nuts. Is it possible US prosecutors give so few shits about justice?

Re:Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:44PM (#50157115)
I think the poster's point was, "Imagine what we could be applying our ingenuity to if the bastards invading us would only piss off."
Re:Show HN: Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out on Monday October 19, 2026 @10:24AM (#50152893)
In what sense will it be killed? I don't plan to stop writing my own messages or notes, just because AI can write, and I seriously doubt many other people who prefer their own voices will change either.
Re:Codex is EATING my Mac's disk space on Sunday October 18, 2026 @06:51AM (#50139884)
The two can be true at once. OpenAI can be remiss leaving it this way so long, and deleting the files can be a practical workaround.
Re:Codex is EATING my Mac's disk space on Sunday October 18, 2026 @06:49AM (#50139871)
I'm sure this is a naive question, but have you considered just deleting the logs?
Re:Go Piss, Girl: The plight of the public potty on Sunday October 18, 2026 @06:42AM (#50139834)
This is just a question of resource allocation and priorities. If a society can afford the displaced costs of unregulated production and extraction, or fleets of aircraft carriers and upkeep for however many thousand nuclear weapons it possesses, or oligarchs (how many is it now?) diverting wealth into superyachts, it can also afford sufficient spaces for people to piss in and janitors to clean them.
Re:Go Piss, Girl: The plight of the public potty on Sunday October 18, 2026 @06:20AM (#50139681)
Pragmatic, but have you considered the predicament you'll be in if you need to go before lunch?
Re:DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @06:42AM (#50129839)
5 years? Look at the leaps since last November. Since the Spring, even.
Re:Using AI to reverse engineer hardware on Friday October 16, 2026 @09:36AM (#50118240)
Your question presupposes new algorithms must come from someone toiling. But AI will be just as capable at developing new algorithms as ripping off the existing ones, surely?
This doesn't sound right. How do you explain places like Utah?

(Not that Mormon voting was ever directed by Japanese mating habits. But you get my point.)

Re:I know why Mathematicians weep on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:01PM (#50107591)
> Instead of working with humans, I increasingly work with a fleet of agents.

I do too, but it means I have more time in my life to spend with people.

Re:I know why Mathematicians weep on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:58PM (#50107541)
> the notion of the thing that grants you status, prestige, and a living wage being commodified would spark in anyone a profound sense of dread.

Not for those without status (which is most people on this planet). But yes, AI is set to wipe out most established hierarchies and their gatekeepers, and to equalize most fields. A profound sense of dread is something most ordinary people live with throughout life, and if AI can reduce systemic unfairness, I bet most people will actually find some degree of relief from that dread. The complacency of the formerly-statused being shocked along the way isn't much of an argument against that equalization.

> Beyond just making you redundant in your job, the whole architecture of your existence, the thousands of hours of struggle, the sacrifice of putting off social games or personal enjoyment are now rendered moot in hindsight.

This passage answers itself, doesn't it? You can sense those things you postponed fun for (work and the apparatus around its struggle) were never worth it. So why fight for us all to have to keep working just to live? Isn't a post-scarcity world the thing we should all be fighting for?

Contrary to that hypothesis racists are just as racist when the going's good.
There at the end of your post, your agenda peeps out.

> the regime

The 'regime'. Also known as the democratically elected government.

> That looks like rationing.

What a way to characterize supply and demand variation.

Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:07PM (#50075097)
Their last non-flash frontier release was 3.1 Pro back in February. Two new frontier releases at that pace would be Feb 2028.
Re:Thunderbird for iOS on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:56PM (#50074877)
There's too much chrome. There's no way that I've ever been able to find to remove the fat fixed message header in reading view to see more of the message.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:48PM (#50074736)
Buddy, there's a Pelican riding it. No real cloud is like that, no real sea is like that, no real gulls are like that. And that's fine because it's a cartoon.
Re:3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:03PM (#50045976)
Chris O is such a good researcher and source of information. His feeds have been essential reading the last 5 years.
And it can get a lot worse for the invaders yet.

If the FP-9 arrives on time and enters serial production, Ukraine will have a ballistic missile which can meaningfully tap Moscow's power plants. It could be a long winter for Moscow.

Re:3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit on Sunday October 11, 2026 @05:37AM (#50041355)
Several reasons.

First, a long-running SEAD / DEAD campaign by Ukraine last year and early this which thinned Russian air defence throughout occupied territories and left Russia with difficult deployment decisions for what remained.

Second, improvements to drones (speed and EW resistance) and expanded production - meaning the air defence can be saturated.

Third, Russia's vast geography itself, leaving countless approaches to targets impossible to defend.

Re:3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit on Sunday October 11, 2026 @05:03AM (#50041139)
Mariupol's civilian casualties are hard to establish. Some of the upper estimates [1] run to 100,000 killed. Over just a couple of months.

[1] https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/10/06/i-m-used-to-walking-...

Re:Programming Isn't Special on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:14PM (#50024550)
You've never been to the Bodleian, have you?
Re:Programming Isn't Special on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:12PM (#50024522)
> There are different kind of arts. There is the art of a craftsmen and there is beautiful art.

The art of a craftsman, otherwise known as 'craft'.

Re:Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours on Friday October 09, 2026 @11:08AM (#50021582)
> So at the breaking point, will Russians storm the capital or storm Ukraine?

It seems to have somehow escaped your notice that Russia has been storming Ukraine for almost 5 years.

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