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Re:Mac at Any Scale on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @11:52AM (#50354423)
I am lost, doing it in a Hackintosh is feasible but against EULA terms? I remember having a Hackintosh around the office two years ago (yes, it was x64 based). BTW I just found "ARM is not a universal architecture, there will be no more Hackintosh" [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/1uboij0/arm_is_...

> Because if it does then what, companies were not using cold storage backups before?

What I observed in the rising cybersecurity attacks happening around me:

(i) There are organizations thinking that they have [complete] backups and being aware they don't once the cyberattack if effective.

(ii) Even in organizations with complete backups they don't have a [good] process to recover them, and the operations suffered a lot.

Yes, drives are very expensive and that's why there is a business for renting them. Even Amazon Snowball offered that [1]. There are other rental services such as [2] but many of them are not LTO-10 yet (don't know if it really matters right now).

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/developer-guide/...

[2] https://mediastoragegroup.com/

Re:My Favourite Laptop on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:54PM (#50341723)
Had Lenovo (X220), followed by two top XPS 13" (lighter), then the first M1 (8gb), M1 Max (64gb!), and M3. Battery, weight, Linux-like, and UX (in that order) made the M1 practical to carry and reconverted my M1 Max into a server for LLM and computation. The M3 sometimes also work as a computing server in tandem. I would love to carry again my XPS 13" with Linux but the battery duration and lifetime makes it unusable for mobility.
Re:Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:47AM (#50336738)
“It's not real, you're in a simulation, now imagine you're a surgeon...”
To include in the series after "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" and "640K ought to be enough for anybody".
Re:GAAC: Lossless KV Cache Compression for Faster LLM Inference on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:23PM (#50317539)
I couldn't find it either but there is something related: https://github.com/lichangshiwhu/Adacode
This, don't get why there was no model like this. Even understanding the complexity to reach consensus (and technology).
I am having a very positive experience with Argon: since it was launched I accessed it through Ultragravity and connected via a Google Cloud account. For one month I have been trying to move the needle in SHA256 cryptoanalysis with Claude to not avail and Argon moved "two needles".

Since then I tried it for experimenting on diverse fields. For example, this week there was a discussion here in HN about the non-continuation of Python funding on the JIT, so I "played" again to removing the GIL and moving to the JIT in Python, it did it. I played with many other things, even the Riemann Hypothesis (it just removed their rational parameter rounding only moves 0.875 towards 0.87495702, nothing significant though).

Many other relatively great things were done this week in parallel. I have some budget for research.

Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:40PM (#50277660)
At this point an Apple robot or car make more sense than a touchscreen.
Re:The Agent SDK on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @11:16AM (#50275105)
> endless technologies with little to no adaption.

I think the difference is that those endless technologies will probably be used by other agents without people's explicit knowledge.

Re:Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:20PM (#50265227)
I wonder if the best play now is not to play and wait until the landscape is clear. They are making partnerships now (e.g OpenAI), and investments (e.g. Anthropic).
Re:Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:12PM (#50265112)
With the success of Tailscale I would like to be sure that their repositories and scenarios are continuously reviewed. I understand that there is always a next hop in cybersecurity though.
Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:18AM (#50260655)
> In cryptography, most of the problems believed to be exponentially hard, such as factoring, don't have proofs of an exponential lower bound.

Actually, integer factorization already has subexponential-time algorithms, such as the General Number Field Sieve (GNFS).

Re:New iMac with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:14AM (#50259726)
> I'd rather have a M1 Max 64GB over a M5 Pro 64GB.

I am one of those: bought the M1 Max with 64gb thinking in running VMs, afterward bought a lighter Air with less memory and ended up using the M1 Max as a kind of luxury for LLMs and multicore computing.

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