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ncr100

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One-line fixes are the best

FTFY: Fear leads to hate. Hate leads to sarcasm.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardsnick

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(WARNING: Has LOUD Star-Wars music):

- https://starwarsintrocreator.kassellabs.io/FP-LxbQVrUHPe7UvJL-8

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ncr100··on Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test
So, since Gemini was told in May it was a hacking agent and then did this, then the AI Guardrail could be don't cause harm to humans in any derivable manner of your behavior.

Otherwise, I will expect for the under-development Gemini AI robot to respond with murderous behavior IRL to being told in the future, "it's a ninja" .. and to any other similar tongue in cheek violent actor.

Three Laws of Robotics, with disabiling self-annihilation ability, is sounding like a decent lily pad intermediate step while we figure out better ways to stop these crazy things!

ncr100··on Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
Or Grove
ncr100··on Astra for Law
Email them...?
ncr100··on An interactive world map of the stories cultures have told
And the island of Guam is not clickable / visible in landscape mode on the phone.
ncr100··on Salesforce Global Outage
Is like Microsoft Windows in that way?
ncr100··on Apple's Dimensional Drawings
Claude Sonnet 5 'High', first attempt, is functional and quite basic:

- https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/4598e48b-8b19-473a-88c4-9...

ncr100··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
"Artisanal" english.
ncr100··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
I can't even

^ Intentional.

ncr100··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
Cool.

Now that we are living in The Future, I am dumbfounded how e.g. dynamically populated lists change their content reliably to something I did not want, during the phase of interaction where my finger is descending onto the target. Click! Not what I want.

Feels like a lost art which will be "discovered" again in the next 15 years.

ncr100··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
This seems like a general UI bug.

Q: For those amongst us who are UI experts, what is it called when dynamic lists populate unpredictably while a finger-tap is in-progress?

a) start query and see initial results

b) start finger-navigation, moving finger over initial results

c) start finger-tap descent

d) underlying list is updated, replacing future finger-tap destination's UI element with another

e) finger-tap meets different element than intended

ncr100··on Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
EULA perhaps, or do you think not?
ncr100··on Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
He does, it's in his bio in LinkedIn
ncr100··on iPhone Duo
Mmm I have had two foldables .. 3 years daily usage ... and they're great phones and great tablets.

So, ymmv.

ncr100··on iPhone Duo
Lease for $58/mo .. $1392 over lease life
ncr100··on I resigned from Anthropic today
https://archive.is/7UHoa
ncr100··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Means the authors of the paper are "authors".
ncr100··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
To build on this, is it correct to say ANY training on data from any individual originating human deserves to be cited and attributed on the solut6paper?

I wonder whether these bickering users (of AI various products) with math degrees are missing the forest for the trees.

ncr100··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
Is it that they / mathematicians didn't solve it? But rather that WE ALL WHO WERE SPIDERED FOR THE MODELS SOLVED IT is the true attribution?
ncr100··on Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
Graffiti is amazing. It is protest.
ncr100··on Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
Here is the EULA: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/legal/terms-of-service/

After reviewing it - idk? It's too complex for me to understand .. in my naivety!

ncr100··on Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
Agreed - and with AI being able to easily navigate arbitrarily complex and humanly-misleading systems, average humans (without a personal lawyer always on retainer) are at an increasing disadvantage in society.
ncr100··on Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
Additionally e.g. the UK has right-to-repair which may influence this subject:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552588 (from elsewhere in this discussion).

ncr100··on Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
I disagree that it's "inherently deceptive". That claim deserve justification IMO.

It's an obtuse-feeling abstraction.

> ".. or whatever they want to call this fake purchasing shit that all software has .."

Yep - I agree with the sentiment.

Reality is, we have a set of systems in society capable of over-complicating (from a HUMAN sense) life, which reasonably can be seen to make life unpleasant for the less-enfranchised populations - those without a personal lawyer to review every action they take in life...e.g you and me.

ncr100··on Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
I get it. And the point I failed to make is they did redefine it via a normal process of contract.

A bit of pedantry:

> Sony is the one with the different definition

Yes, agreed.

And to build on that, Sony is using a normal legal vehicle, a contract to make that different definition. And customers of Sony are entering into contract .. which is very normal thing for customers to do when engaging in business relationships with businesses.

> "That is the expectation one has, not whatever a giant multinational decides it is"

Yep.

To reinforce my yep, (tiredly - sorry but I am) - The yoke of bureaucracy and this complex economy we live in also rests upon us, the citizens. It is a burden - and an increasing risk as AI is unleashed into more and more of our systems, digital AND legal / policy / social. (AI has "infinite" memory so it can use circumlocution, taking advantage of overly complex and distracting

Looping back:

I could have said "it suuuuucks, f' the man, man!" as I do hold that view. However we are here, with legal contracts capable of imposing these broad and uncomfortable relationship constraints (eg between customer & business).

SO the question, in my mind, is HOW are we going to understand WHAT we want society to look like, as presently and into the future an INHUMANLY complex set of rules is capable of limiting our expressive existence, leading reasonably to general dissatisfaction in life?

ncr100··on Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
Nice - I live in the USA, for reference.

We don't have that, here. We have "Freedom" .. which I am suspecting is redefined to mean "kakistocracy".

ncr100··on Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
Sure, https://www.playstation.com/en-us/legal/terms-of-use-march-2... - see section 10.1.

For part of the above sentence ... "it" is existent, not nonexistent.

And about the ".. I have .." part of the comment you wrote, @kstrauser, by using their service a person must agree to their contract.

So, if you, per-se, don't use their service, then you haven't entered into the (existent) contract with Sony!

Here is the segment:

> 10.1. All intellectual property rights subsisting in the Content, including all software, data, services, and other content subsisting in or used in connection with our Services, the Online ID and access to content and hardware used in connection with our Services belong to SIE, its affiliates, and its licensors. Use of the terms "own," "ownership", "purchase," "sale," "sold," "sell," "rent" or "buy" in this Agreement or in connection with the Content does not mean or imply any transfer of ownership of any content, data or software or any intellectual property rights from SIE, its affiliates, or its licensors to any user or third party.

ncr100··on Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
An example of:

- Quality With A "K" !

Is AI able to easily catch these kinds of errors with a carefully crafted addendum to the prompt?

ncr100··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Fascinating response by OpenAI, "the report’s authors declined our request for access" - AFAIK OpenAI is not clicking on the live, public links to either the report or the still-live memo data linked from here on HackerNews.

Full:

> “We are unable to meaningfully respond to claims or findings on a report that we have not had an opportunity to review," an OpenAI spokesperson said. "Reuters and the report’s authors declined our request for access. We will carefully review its contents upon publication and take any necessary next steps."

ncr100··on GPT-6 Astra
Not public

Does some things better

Rhetoric of AGI being tossed around, redefining the term

ncr100··on GPT-6 Astra
What if it's only able to make a worse form of cancer? :-/

Would cancerbench be unethical?

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