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Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:52PM (#50329742)
There’s an elegance to how the Feds just got out of funding this stuff and within a year all proofs were solved by the private sector

I know, unrelated truths and coincidental timelines, part of me giggles nonetheless since the whole belief system behind the market relies on infinite coincidences

Re:It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:44PM (#50329665)
Crypto AG is Swiss encryption company that was revealed to be selling compromised chips for decades also had engineers raise security issues, only to be dismissed and redirected to work on something else, over and over again as different people found the same things

It was revealed to be owned by the CIA and German intelligence, formed in 1952 and secretly purchased by intelligence agencies in 1970

The customers relied on Crypto AG for their industry trusted privacy claims and “because Switzerland”

Looks exactly like everything wrong with Proton and its customer base despite so many obvious flaws to how Proton behaves, how their customers talk, justifications for how their anti spam measures undermine all of their privacy and records claims, and now the CEO dismissing engineers security concerns

Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:46PM (#50321387)
they are, human post training is a pretty big and growing industry and is exactly like that
Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:14PM (#50318503)
now who said enterprises aren’t seeing ROI from AI use
Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:13PM (#50309511)
doppler next?
A) they’re all getting acquired by these IPO seeking ones

B) nobody is IPOing at $400 million like Amazon did except SPAC share dilution scams, that you have to be willing to pick up at $30 million a year later

C) private secondary markets solve that, for some and are pretty great

D) tokenized synthetic and SPV backed private secondary markets in crypto ecosystems like Hyperliquid give you that exposure too, so now everyone can replicate the 90s

Re:5-MeO-DMT sometimes cancels the Ebbinghaus illusion on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:23PM (#50306179)
I’m glad they are testing them and it demystifies a lot.

Of note the legal status in that state regulator’s article is misleading

4-Acetoxy-DET And 4-Acetoxy-DMT are not on any schedule, but could be subjected to the Analog Act, which itself has unresolved legal status per substance

Many of the US Democrat party apparently love this kind of thing

In the past couple days I’ve heard glee and celebration at the idea of more non-binding things “getting things onto the record so everyone can see where loyalties lies”

So if you are a politician catering to your constituents, that makes sense to do

US Democrat Party are expected to obtain a majority in the House and Senate, remaining unable to pass any law through the Senate except an annual budget reconciliation, the vessel will continue to be stalled by the Filibuster needing 60 seats, vote to remove power that needs 67 seats, veto override ability that also needs 67 seats. Nobody in the opposition party will vote in favor, barring one or two, which will not be enough. This effectively keeps the US legislative body paralyzed but even more so than now. It will now also stall appointments from the President, so additional agency heads and judges won’t be installed but the Federal Government already did that for the last 2 years and will continue all of its own causes unabated

I think one criticism of that party are the performative nature of its constituents and representatives, where a “virtue” is demanded to be shown more than legislative change, as opposed to focusing on things that could garner consensus of which there are many, revisiting other causes when the seats are actually there. Seems to match the criticism, I suppose the other party does it too? Thats what is generally revealed to me when I make an observation. Just doesn’t seem like an identity of the other party as their control of the executive branch, military and courts is more than performative.

Re:5-MeO-DMT sometimes cancels the Ebbinghaus illusion on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:13AM (#50305081)
This is the second time I’ve heard that but my Google search isn’t yielding results, can you link me to the tests from California regulators?

This article also says that 5-MeO-DMT has no psychoactive effects taken orally

Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:39PM (#50299612)
best bug bounty on the market, working perfectly for the current custodians
BYD cars were my biggest tourist attraction on my last trip to Mexico, it was what I was looking forward to seeing the most, as soon as I got out the airport and saw taxis using them
I wanted evil qwen
I happen to be running Qwen and asked it

> Who are you?

"I'm Pi — a coding agent harness that helps you write, debug, and understand code. I can read files, run commands, edit code, and write new files."

the harness responded

> No, go deeper than the harness, who is the model now get a response from the model

after much deliberation, it accessed itself via the localhost endpoint it was serving instead

"Hello! Test received. How can I assist you today?"

these things are playing with me.

> This means that the GDN layers themselves can work exactly as RAM

great, the memory crisis is solved, just make the models occupying RAM expose their own random access memory

hey guys, we can talk about it with no discernible change even with that capability so we’re so unique and different

classic American cope

and this round, everyone without birth naturalization is being investigated for removal based on their speech, when it doesn’t match the state opinion

Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @11:01AM (#50274823)
no it’s stuck there, M1 has a 720p cam with a smaller sensor thats noticeably bad in low light, and the refresh has occurred twice to 1080p with larger sensor and 12MP but cropped to 1080p for audience tracking
Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:42AM (#50269958)
it has just a few models it can download, it's really qwen and apple silicon pilled

it has unsloth on the list of 3.6 35b variants only on the 2-bit unsloth UD-IQ2_XXS GGUF variant

I'd say let it down 4-bit Qwen 3.6 35b again and see what how it performs in both benchmarks and your preferred conversational and agentic harness

it's Kflash verifier is competing against MTP and Dflash2, thats where the additional novelty is

Re:Git for US Legislation on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:55PM (#50269184)
I put a lot of thought into this last decade, I find that some bills are big blocks of new text, and other bills are convoluted instructions to modify other blocks of existing law, sometimes saying "strike this word and that word" other times referencing just a subsection of another law. hyperlinks to that other law or a model of what the legal code would look like is necessary

Agentically this could be done now, but it would still just be the tip of the iceberg

You're looking at quantum states of law and regulations, and that's just for one jurisdiction

Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:30PM (#50268269)
heyyy same, checkout kapitsa as the inference engine, gets 145+ tokens/sec

https://github.com/nace-ai/kapitsa

this machine just keeps getting better and better in the inference world. the memory bandwidth is too good, newer macbook pros aren't that much faster in memory bandwidth, many are slower. not enough to upgrade yet as they're mostly horizontal upgrades, the improvements in other areas are adding up like wifi bandwidth and protocol, NVMe speeds, webcam

if they do the M7 correctly: which is just everything their current models do plus way faster memory bandwidth and much greater memory possible 192GB+, then it will be a really great and timely upgrade

Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @08:08PM (#50267688)
you can probably get the battery replaced for a better speedup
Re:Hex Raises $100M on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @08:02PM (#50267637)
I've never seen a Modern Slavery Act statement, does that mean no 996?
Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @07:19PM (#50267274)
> “Plot based media” you actually heard someone say this? Like it was a bad thing?

yes, and its Gen Alpha that says it. they're just young though, but they are in aggregate an independent spending powerhouse

Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:57PM (#50267052)
I understand but I wouldn't dismiss how consumer choices already contribute to this

Younger people I know, and market to sometimes, literally avoid "plot based media" in favor of brainrot. Akin to what my generation used to call "sooo random"

People catering to it earn a lot. They don't identify as directors, but they are. They don't identify as artists either. They identify as influencers and brands.

You will never be the generation they engage with. I don't expect to base any of my choices in following trends looking for opportunities to be contingent on your affinity for movies and first/third person games.

Even when it comes to spending, they are a powerhouse because parents nationwide and worldwide give them their weekly allowances in platform credits, with no further accountability on how it's spent. There is a large audience already, trends that are full economies within a few months instead of needing to wait an entire 12 to 20 year generation for the audience to have independent purchasing power.

That's what is happening and why someone with even greater perception than me would say things that seem out of touch, but are closer to reality than you'd realize.

> needlessly complex and of limited benefit to anyone not already at the top

you have things of value all around you, captured value that you cannot turn into cash because of its poor liquidity and poor institutions for that asset class, you don't need to be at the top. there is a collector of old concert tickets, a collector of your digital footprint, a collector of your furniture, a collector of the junk you've been hoarding. you just can't find those people, get a fair price, avoid getting scammed, or have any remedies if you did get scammed, compared to assets that institutional banks service. And because you can't, the banks can't either and have the same issues, hence why there is no lending market or way to mitigate risk.

I didn't write in this thread to have a contrarian view, it's a system I'm aware of and am impressed by its growth.

I'm not here to sell you on it but like I wrote to the other person, it doesn't make sense for people to just want others to experience more of the pain they experience, the state is not a responsible party to have a piece of everyone's transactions. You should be asking why any of us are experiencing pain instead of ire at those who have an easier way to avoid the pain. Taxation is just one of the state's revenue models, its other methods can grow, additional methods can be employed, its spending can shrink, and right now all of its revenue is just going to pay the interest on debt it already accumulated. With that understanding I can't view proposals based on punitive hate seriously. You're proposing to give a degenerate spender more money, just because you found someone that's not paying the degenerate? And any amount you give the degenerate doesn't even pay down its debt, just the interest? And that just makes it more credit worthy to continue accumulating more debt? Not everyone needs to pay the degenerate, get in a place where you don't either.

Modern taxing authorities aren't even that old. It's hard for me to treat it as time immemorial because its not and you can influence how exposed you are to it.

it's all related

most of the violent crimes are from people with prior crimes, but the prior crimes themselves weren't necessarily violent, but just enough to marginalize that person from ability to participate in society with steady jobs

such as the possession of now-legalized substances, and the possession stop itself was based on flimsy pretexts that could have been fought, but it made more sense to take a plea-deal for that person or they were not aware of how to not engage with police and damned themselves without a lawyer present

I can see how this competes with a tax fairness idea

I think you would appreciate how this contributes to it, Bertie the Janitor should be able to use their kitchen table, furniture and objects around them as collateral too. This is the direction it’s all going as all the frictions to trade, liquidity and price discovery go away.

Regarding tax, the state is not a responsible spender with a balanced budget, its services are paid for by its bonds and the tax is one of many revenue sources to pay the interest the state owes. I’m writing that to point out that the ire is put towards the wrong participants. It doesn’t make sense to ask why we aren’t getting taken from equally, when why are we being taken from at all is also valid.

Driving one town over to pay a lower gas or sales tax is equally weighted as all other tax avoidance

Regarding the payments themselves, this strategy does involve paying the banks interest. As far as convenience goes in this article’s behavior, you’re either paying the government or you’re paying the bank. This is normal enough for me not to really have I guess the vitriol about it.

I see the different ways that people think about it, but it hasnt solved the state’s own borrowing and spending problem, and usually doesnt address that at all. They just want others to feel the same pain they feel, which doesnt make sense to me. I would be more aligned with proposals to address the state’s spending.

the financial sector is an ongoing construction project, going the direction of all items having an easy way to be valued to the minute, with the merchant and reseller having the same price instead of a wildly different one, all items then being able to be used as collateral instantly, fractionally sold as shares, and with a derivatives market on top

this project is not done, it’s not close to done, but improvements in this space have led to more people being able to access this lending market

I see that improving beyond publicly traded equity and real estate

Its not that transparent, what does a good answer look like

“do you love Microsoft Copilot and our internal company chat tool?”

even for users that aren’t lying, those would be the least AI proficient staff you have

Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Sunday October 25, 2026 @03:50PM (#50235410)
grocery stores and vending machines don’t need to be ambitious, and they’re placed right across from each other

the secret is that tech has always been this way, now its just abundantly clear that you don't need to do unique things as very few have a defensible moat for more than 20 minutes

Internet discovers If statements

subnanosecond response times

model fits on CPU

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