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f4uCL9dNSnQm··on New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair
I find it interesting that we are closer to regrowing teeth than hair. At least there was human clinical test for TRG-035. Is it just cause hair transplant is "good enough" stopgap solution?
f4uCL9dNSnQm··on ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others
Last time I used GPT-4.5 to analyze blood results it gave different output if I uploaded it as 2 instead of 3 separated CSV files. It was both amazing experience: clear and easy to understand statements, and list of most common causes. And terrifying: "What about X?", "You ar absolutely right, there where X results included, disregard everything I wrote above, here is the new analysis".

So for me non-deterministic means unpredictable. Yes, there was nothing random or non-deterministic in that case, I could repeat both scenarios multiple times and get same results again. But the result is affected by something I didn't expect to matter. That damages the trust in tool, no matter how we call it.

f4uCL9dNSnQm··on The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
Do we count Google's search AI overview? Because it is shoved in face of million, every day, and it really is only slight improvement over Clippy.
f4uCL9dNSnQm··on OpenAI signs $38B cloud computing deal with Amazon
OpenAI might actually survive, even if investors lose significant part of their investment. It those those companies that took out loans to invest in "AI" or took overpriced shares as a payment that are getting wiped out.
f4uCL9dNSnQm··on OpenAI signs $38B cloud computing deal with Amazon
It says

> Non-API products may be served on any cloud provider.

I am not sure if Bedrock counts. There are 2 OpenAI models already there: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/openai-open-weight-models-n...

f4uCL9dNSnQm··on Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time
Isn't it already quite bad? I remember HN post about small company where employees' private accounts got terminated for "due to a prior violation or an association with a previously-terminated Google Play Developer account".
f4uCL9dNSnQm··on Nvidia to invest up to $1B in AI startup Poolside
I wanted to complain how Reuters says close to nothing about Poolside in that news article, but Poolside's own web page is as enigmatic as it gets.
f4uCL9dNSnQm··on Mathematical proof debunks idea the universe is a computer simulation
There is no disagreement about that. But the simulation hypothesis claims that is is more likely that what we perceive as reality is a simulation, run by someone else, than that we are in "real" world.

I think it is worse hypothesis than even Drake's equation - there, at least we know all factors, we just have no idea what their value is and with sample size of 1, the current uncertainly is like 40+ orders of magnitude. That still brings us closer to "is there inteligent life in universe" answer than we ever got with "is this universe a simulation".

f4uCL9dNSnQm··on UBCO study disproves the simulation hypothesis
It is hard to even disprove that we aren't a Boltzmann brain that hallucinated entire reality. Assuming the simulation is perfect(or at lest consistent) the only way to falsify it is to get some impossible estimates for required CPU/memory/storage. I think the whole "if simulations are possible, multiple ones will be created" falls apart when 1 second of running simulation requires several years of compute.
f4uCL9dNSnQm··on In orbit you have to slow down to speed up
There is the small, tiny issue of people commenting just based on title, without even reading the article.

In this case I expected it just links to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcvnfQlz1x4 and didn't even notice in links to Wired.

f4uCL9dNSnQm··on 3D solar tower increases capacity factor 50%, triples solar surface area
So how does it compare to simpler vertical bifacial solar panels discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45414215 ?
f4uCL9dNSnQm··on Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant
This has to be equivalent of "Long Island Iced Tea Corp" renaming to "Long Blockchain Corp."
f4uCL9dNSnQm··on Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant
I had exact same issues with "Uber".
f4uCL9dNSnQm··on uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store
If MotoApps are doing this, it is impressive they can also do that on Samsung phones:

https://community.verizon.com/t5/Mobile-Network-Archive/Game...

f4uCL9dNSnQm··on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
Speaking of anti-web:

https://i.postimg.cc/br7F8NLd/chat-GPT.png

I wonder when webmasters will take theirs gloves off and just start feeding AI crawlers with porn and gore.

f4uCL9dNSnQm··on uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store
Which model is that? I have a single "Moto" app on mine that is un-removable and that is all bloat I can find.
f4uCL9dNSnQm··on Nvidia takes $1B stake in Nokia
I always forget that Nokia bought out Siemens part of "Nokia Siemens Networks" and it is now just "Nokia networks".
f4uCL9dNSnQm··on LLMs can get "brain rot"
I hate it but I still found it interesting that something like it can be done with just CSS (-webkit-linear-gradient)

Edit: I noticed that replacing it with "standard" "linear-gradient" reverses the direction of gradient.

f4uCL9dNSnQm··on Researchers complete first human trial on viability of enteral ventilation
No, the total surface of intestine is up to 40m^2, while the single lung has 100 m^2 for exchange. It might be a supplementary method at best.
f4uCL9dNSnQm··on Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
And Dropbox is a thin wrapper around rsync. Tools like Postman are convenient. JS scripting allows to extend it easily, like to make request with random test data. Anyway, the previous company I worked for banned it, as soon as it switched from local files to cloud based "collections". Older versions would be ok, but like others mentioned, Postman doesn't like to hear "no" when trying to auto-update itself.
f4uCL9dNSnQm··on Desperate SF residents ask for help blocking autonomous cars from their street
There were some attacks based on modifying road signs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08278 . At the very least Cars can be tricked into going over local speed limit. I wonder if fake one way street signs would have priority over build in maps.
f4uCL9dNSnQm··on Credential Stuffing
> a password field should accept at least 100 characters. Assuming it's salted+hashed anyway

There was recently a bug in bcrypt implementation where characters after first 64 were silently ignored.

Anyway, while it is easy to require long password it is almost impossible to detect password reuse. The only way to solve the issue is to not let users to choose passwords, if they want to change it then generate a new one for them. And that isn't happening unless sites are forced to do it by government.

f4uCL9dNSnQm··on Paxos mistakenly mints $300T PYUSD on Ethereum, citing tech error
> PYUSD's price momentarily deviated from its $1 peg but quickly stabilized following the burn.

Why is there even a market for trading between asset-backed stable coins and USD? Shouldn't issuer always buy it back for nominal price?

f4uCL9dNSnQm··on We're losing the war against drug-resistant infections faster than we thought
Is it still the case? I mean sure, it was going on on such scale that the joke was "chicken soup is best for sickness as it already contains antibiotics" but surely it was already banned in most countries?
f4uCL9dNSnQm··on Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement
It is the website owners that commit click fraud. It has been that way for the last 25 years. I mean the first thing I did as a kid was checking what will happen if I keep clicking on ad on my newly created homepage.

> just name them Does Adsense even gives you information where exactly your ad is getting published?

f4uCL9dNSnQm··on After the AI boom: what might we be left with?
It is totally irrational: let's invest in AI companies, on the off chance that Singularity happens and makes money and entire economics system obsolete.

There is no winning scenario.

f4uCL9dNSnQm··on After the AI boom: what might we be left with?
> It is absurd to claim that an intelligent-looking entity doesn't have intelligence

Is it? I am pretty sure biology will solve good old "are viruses alive?" sooner than we agree on definition of intelligence. "Chinese Room" is at least 40 years old.

f4uCL9dNSnQm··on After the AI boom: what might we be left with?
It won't happen due to Gell-Mann amnesia. It "helps" that LLMs never admit to not knowing something. So from average user point of view it looks like the agents know everything and are only under-educated in the one domain the user is actually the specialist.
f4uCL9dNSnQm··on A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
Is it? I didn't notice any real issues besides crypto scam bots spamming comments with their conversations. Or do we count "influencers" peddling sponsored junk?
f4uCL9dNSnQm··on Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
It is UK. They find it hard to jail people that lied on purpose to jail innocent people, multiple times.
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