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Re:Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:21AM (#50350160)
i hate ENOF by Sol Yin, it is a dystopian book about a possible AI future, anytime i hear people talk about ENOF by Sol Yin it is always in context of how ENOF by Sol Yin wants to end the world.
Re:AO3 Down for Maintenance on Saturday October 31, 2026 @10:51AM (#50316711)
very funny to wake up to a hacker news argument over the use of the word "they"
Re:AO3 Down for Maintenance on Friday October 30, 2026 @06:28PM (#50310951)
> Earlier today, we detected evidence of a security incident on AO3. We are still in the early stages of response to this security incident and determining its scope. AO3 will remain down while we continue investigating and addressing what has been found so far. However, we want to make some things clear:

First, no AO3 data has been deleted. All your works, bookmarks, kudos, etc., are safe.

Second, while we currently don't believe that the user database was stolen, we are also unable to rule it out. The AO3 database contains account information that may include your username, email address, IP address, and a hashed version of your password.

We use industry-standard techniques for storing passwords in a scrambled form that cannot easily be reversed. Even so, no hashing method can fully protect a weak or reused password from being cracked. As a precaution, we recommend that you change your passwords on any other sites where you use the same password as on AO3.

AO3 does not collect real names, so none could be exposed. Additionally, our donor information is held in an entirely separate system and is never linked to AO3, so that data has also not been exposed.

We will update everyone as our investigation continues; we may be unable to respond to individual inquiries from users. Please keep an eye on our official outlets for updates. Our next update will be posted when we have further information available.

Our current expectation is that AO3 will be down for a minimum of two weeks; however, it could take up to four weeks. During that time, we may be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state, meaning that not all features will be available and/or the site may be read-only. If we are able to do that, please be aware that we might have to bring the site back down unexpectedly as part of our recovery efforts. We will keep you in the loop for any developments. Oct 30, 2026 - 01:27 UTC

Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:59PM (#50263200)
you know they jut bump this every year right
Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:58PM (#50263196)
i think also better general support for multi screen setup
Re:A farewell to Arc browser on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:45AM (#50206526)
ayy thank you very much it is a labor of love
Re:A farewell to Arc browser on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:59PM (#50198908)
>As much as Josh is a tool

did you really have to include that? without substantiation this is just a mean offhand side swipe.

Re:A farewell to Arc browser on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:59PM (#50198899)
yes please ^ browser company engs!
Re:PingCap TiDB Leaks on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:45AM (#50192425)
... how did you know?
Re:PingCap TiDB Leaks on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:44AM (#50192416)
well technically they didn't LOSE data, in fact, now they have free global replicas of the data!
Re: on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:39PM (#50189155)
you beat pi-durable to it!
Re: on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:29PM (#50189081)
> depends how well they did the post-training, which I can't tell

this is their problem, not yours. at least disclose # of flops spent or amount of data used in an attempt to give us an idea of how nontrivial it was. cursor at least does this with their composer model

Re:Flux 3 Image Klein: open weights, 5.6B parameters on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:22AM (#50128771)
i think well argued and a reasonable hypothesis (esp considering deepseekocr and most omnimodel research), but you are wrong heheh. approximating instantaneous physics is, while nontrivial, still computationally light vs the stuff we ask LLMs to do.

look at any study of llm depth vs multihop reasoning capability (here, just to help https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-death-of-params-zai-ceo-ji... but theres a long line of others).

i will grant that people do do "reasoning in image models" type benchmarks, and it's not nothing, but its kid stuff vs what we make LLMs do, and the only way you get image models that basically do reasoning is you glom a diffusion head on an LLM backbone, which is basically gpt image 2.0 and above

none of which is to dispute the original question which is perhaps "why are image models so smol vs LLMs" - which i agree with and wish there were funding for scaling them - but the abject failure of sora indicates that perhaps our data isn't nearly good enough (again pointing to another thing - much easier to pretrain and posttrain LLMs given quantity of text data)

Re:Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:16AM (#50128737)
i guess indicates the amount of "load" the destination country would have if they said yes to everyone. >1 is certainly too much
Re:Flux 3 Image Klein: open weights, 5.6B parameters on Friday October 16, 2026 @08:03PM (#50126422)
this is the right answer. ultimately text and general llm usage incl coding is far more internally complex than just memorizing the looks and composition of concepts placed in an image. dont forget that most of our reasoning benchmarks basically require the llm to have a search engine and calculator in its own weights.
Re:Flux 3 Image Klein: open weights, 5.6B parameters on Friday October 16, 2026 @08:02PM (#50126418)
i think its instructive how the ancient sculptors and artists used to have to draw nudes in order to understand the human body. perhaps our image models need this
Re:Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:26PM (#50121481)
just cite the numbers guys.

US market share of global desire to migrate

2007 - 24%

2016 - 20%

2017 - 18%

2025 - 15%

Canada is #2 and moved up from 7% to 9%

Re:Tesla Roadster on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:41PM (#50113786)
you fail to understand the psychology of billionaires
Re:Tesla Roadster on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:23PM (#50113634)
> an expertly crafted extra-terrestrial vehicle.

hmmmm. spacex-tesla merger signalling?

Re:Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:05PM (#50095261)
> It was also getting very expensive. When a conference has a long list of sponsors and tickets also start at $600 minimum

im in the conference business but just fyi thats actually cheap - venue, av and f&b alone cost many millions for a conference this size. a good rule of thumb on cost is $1-2000 per head depending on quality of event.

Re:Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @01:09AM (#50082644)
were there any hints that this might happen at all? so abrupt
Re:Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:07AM (#50072912)
how exactly did character.ai lose $2b in 2 years?
Re:Unikernels were hard. key word: were on Saturday October 10, 2026 @10:35PM (#50039280)
i'm sorry what? eli5?
Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:30PM (#50023904)
but even in that scenario, the node competitors absolutely spurred new energy and innovation in node, as node themselves have acknowledged
Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:28PM (#50023875)
as a counterpoint, your fears are hypothetical so far - nobody on earth cares as much about bun as the bun team and if it was good enough for them it is probably good enough for 99% of users

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