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Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:32PM (#50309055)
It could be a "Severance" type of show
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:31PM (#50309046)
Industry is more soft porn than a show about heists
Re:Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Officially Released on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:29PM (#50278650)
> Take that to its natural conclusion.

What on earth is a "natural conclusion" in this context? I'm going to assume that part of your comment was written by AI.

> Why isn't it an issue for hyperscalar data centers, particularly as NVidia wants to move to annual chip updates.

Because he's not a hyperscaler? He's not operating data centers where compute is fungible, he's buying an individual machine that he wants to use for years. He can't just keep buying a new machine and fob off the old one to someone else's less demanding workload.

This advice is inadequate and impractical. Most people don't have access to doctors who spend enough time on them to really get to the bottom of all issues.

In most countries, there are simply too many patients per doctor, meaning it's a conveyor belt of "good enough" 5 minute appointments.

People will turn to other modes of discussing and analyzing their problems if they go to professionals repeatedly and the problem still isn't solved. Just telling them not to do so or to ignore 100% of it isn't going to solve that.

> It is not realistic to stop the generation of nonsense (of the malicious or the stupid sort).

Seems like a big statement. Why is it not realistic? People are already doing it manually by having one LLM fact check output from another.

I like using Gemini Notebooks, but this is one of my current frustrations. At least with the current UI, I can see the document getting quoted, but not the actual quote to verify what it's saying or to see the context of the quote. So I'm forced to find the content manually or just trust the LLM got it right.
There's this article on a woman dying after ChatGPT "helped" her taper off medication https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/well/ai-chatgpt-medicatio...

There really needs to be some kind of "double check" mechanism built into these things instead of putting 100% of that on the consumer. Humans simply don't have the mental capacity to double check the amount of data coming out of LLMs.

Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:57PM (#50264036)
It could have been a human trying to justify their existence. "no no, I wrote this ad copy myself: look, no em-dashes!".
In general, buying binds capital, more than renting.

If you include opportunity cost into the decision, then your contrast can and often will disappear (i.e. renting is financially superior or "winning" in your terminology).

Also, is this an AI comment? Because it's surely poetic about something that doesn't call for it.

Re:Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @03:59AM (#49681223)
> Individually, people prefer be kind and compassionate, prefer to help when they find another in trouble.

What are you basing that claim on?

How do you know it's an actual preference and not mainly caused by external factors (e.g. not wanting to be seen doing unkind things, wanting to be seen as upstanding)?

Re:Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @03:43AM (#49681118)
Have we arrived at the conclusion that terms like "understanding" and "interpretation" for what is happening is appropriate?

Isn't it simply that there are two competing goals that the LLM received RL for, honesty on one hand (a goal that is often assumed as implicit for humans) and producing a solution that meets expectations (which doesn't technically require honesty)?

So the LLM didn't read and interpret the prompt and decide via discussion to violate ethical behavior, the unethical result merely won out because ethics wasn't a hard requirement (and one that isn't reliably detected in the result). An LLM doesn't fear punishment, so ethical behavior is simply one of many positive signals that were trained into it.

Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? on Saturday August 08, 2026 @07:40AM (#49220860)
FWIW, I had a similar impression of your comment as JohnMakin.

> give the friend a subtle clue that it's time to move on

If a friend needs someone to listen about life struggles and you tell them you're tired of it and don't want to hear it anymore, then you're not being a friend. Maybe you want to be encouraging and that is fine, probably helpful. But you immediately seem to turn that encouragement into threats of social exclusion:

> If that clue isn't heeded the friend often gets targeted 1:1 offers for help and can eventually just be shut out of the group altogether for being too negative.

I've seen this many times - people suggest "solutions" to something they don't quite understand, then get angry when people don't take their non-functional solution. Similarly, in online support groups, I've seen plenty of people storm off angrily because people are being "too negative", not seeing that sharing these feelings, wanting to be heard and knowing you're not alone with certain struggles can be part of a discovery and healing process. Those people use similar language you used in your comment of "misery loves company", essentially accusing people of wanting to be miserable and choosing depression.

If you want people to read what you write in a charitable fashion, refusing to explain the background for your comments is rather dysfunctional BTW. In general, people don't all have the same mental context and experience background to understand where you're coming from.

It could work, but those types of jobs (paying significantly more than local salary and yet fully remote in a different time zone) are few and not easy to get nowadays (not that they were ubiquitous before).
No, he says it's a different category of problem, and ability to solve one doesn't carry over to the other and it doesn't imply intelligent understanding.
The overseas person didn't work out because of time zone and cultural and language barrier friction that wasn't anticipated in the idea.

This isn't analogous to the threat of AI.

I'm guessing with backstabbing he means China's practice of stealing technology and closing off the market for foreign companies.

Lots of smaller and mid sized companies that tried to invest in the Chinese market lost everything because the government protected and supported local copycats, with no intention of giving the foreign company fair access to the market.

He literally said it for China: stopping an invasion. I would add limiting political influence from autocratic governments that don't respect individual rights, but I know that's opening another Pandora's box.
Re:Claude Sonnet 5 on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @01:24AM (#48742591)
We all have a health problem that puts an end date on our efforts.
Re:Why a Computer Science Degree Still Opens Hidden Doors on Saturday June 13, 2026 @03:56PM (#48520823)
Product does what it should and doesn't what it shouldn't?
Of course it requires SOTA, people will always choose better models over some compact thing that is obviously more limited. You can't control the truth with models nobody wants to use.
Re:Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T on Friday May 29, 2026 @08:05PM (#48330947)
His analogy is that a gas station is for putting gas into your car. But he walks there often, so the assumption that you need your car if you go to the gas station isn't inevitable.

You could conceivably walk to a car wash that has similar sundries as a gas station.

Re:AI is killing the cheap smartphone on Friday May 22, 2026 @07:12PM (#48242763)
Oh sure, Chinese investors and business people share their profits with everyone out of the goodness of their heart. Nice fairy tale.
Re:AI is killing the cheap smartphone on Friday May 22, 2026 @12:27PM (#48238095)
Did they consider that profits on the build out won't be uniform, i. e. there will be some companies that go under but the rest of them will capture the profit?
Re:AI is killing the cheap smartphone on Friday May 22, 2026 @05:11AM (#48233594)
Maybe, but you have very similar dynamics in China or other countries. At the root the problem is one of power dynamics, inequality, authoritarianism (whether legitimized by money or politics or both). Or said otherwise, an erosion of democratic and egalitarian ideals.
Re:If AI writes your code, why use Python? on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @04:06AM (#48105522)
I find brackets help me understand structure from a distance much better than whitespace.

Misplaced brackets seem like a thing from the past to me when we didn't have IDEs. I don't remember ever having a bug due to that.

Re:Building for the Future on Friday May 08, 2026 @04:37AM (#48060355)
Engineering and running a company are very different skill sets. Engineers are often not good at Marketing, networking, sales, ...

Even if you are good at those, for many companies, it's more about connections than about the ability to build stuff. So if you don't know the right people, it is very difficult to get a foothold.

It's a dumb joke considering Germany has been one of the most peaceful countries in decades. And the people making the jokes are often citizens of a country actively engaged in wars.
Re:China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @03:59AM (#47931650)
Personally, I prefer the US approach. At least then everyone knows what they're dealing with and they can openly react instead of being forced into a fake dance between what is said and what is REALLY said.

The covert stuff gives some degree of plausible deniability and it causes a good amount of the population to be complacent and ignore reality. I don't see how this can be considered good for anyone but the people creating propaganda.

Re:China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @03:56AM (#47931621)
I have no idea and for me it's not the central question.

I don't like it from any party, but from a moral standpoint, the more authoritarian someone is about their propaganda, the more invasive and violent it feels to me.

I perceive what the CCP is doing as denying my (and other people's) humanity and individual rights. I simply cannot accept a government that imprisons artists and human rights activists. A world where art is crime is not one I find worth living in.

I perceive American propaganda in the same category as advertising, harmful and annoying, but they won't lock me up or threaten my safety if I speak up against the propaganda. Well, at least that's how it used to be, who knows with the current trajectory.

Re:Is my blue your blue? on Monday April 27, 2026 @06:04PM (#47928006)
I'm bluer than 98% apparently. For me, turquoise is green. I didn't realize that's not normal.

If I'm off on a detail like that, then...uh oh.

Re:China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus on Monday April 27, 2026 @04:00PM (#47926565)
They're doing a lot that goes against that strategy, you just don't see it in the headlines except in cases such as these or when you dig into how they conduct international negotiations or business deals involving the Chinese market.

Not to mention how they are openly expansionist in the SCS and obviously wrt Taiwan.

Of course they want to be seen as reasonable, their ideal is to control the international narrative just how they can do it internally in China.

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