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pamcake··on When oil prices spike, where does the money go?
Compensated by the cost for companies selling those things increasing, pushing them to move markets or close down as they struggle to stay afloat.

And the ripples don't stop there.

pamcake··on Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm
Think more platonic hanging out. Hiking, game night, grabbing a drink.
pamcake··on Google ending ChromeOS support two years early
> It also sounds like "many of" these devices will be supported but not by updating ChromeOS, instead by sidegrading to Googlebook OS.

FTFY

pamcake··on Coding is not solved
This was already the case, at least for the last few decades.
pamcake··on Coding is not solved
> Proficiency in counting Rs and proficiency in writing code that counts Rs are different and you can fail one and excel at the other it turns out.

That is not the argument. Emphasis added:

> > They matter when implementing the business logic of the application, when writing tests for a character counting function, etc.

pamcake··on I switched to Brave
Those are all active.

Also: Tor Browser, Konform Browser, Mullvad Browser

pamcake··on Domyn's CEO says OpenAI, Anthropic are lying about safety
Respect for saying it as it is.
pamcake··on Golang: Crypto/fips140: do not bloat crypto code unnecessarily
What's up with all the likes, urgency, and pressure? Is this part of some kind of operation?
pamcake··on AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
I suspect that TLAs and the administration are already too hooked to make that move. One can wish. It would be the legal thing to do.
pamcake··on AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
You read right. For example, using Artifactory the way they did (unmonitored live proxy mode) was pure negligence + laziness/incompetence. Especially if they believed even 10% of the "imminent runaway risks" they had already been harping on for months. On top of that, no (or at least entirely insufficient) monitoring and human oversight. Even after they had previously been hit by the same class of "sandbox breach" multiple times, as GP alludes to.
pamcake··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
> All cameras have the same problems this one.

My perfectly normal camera does not stream shit to Meta servers or any other cloud. It's in fact fully offline. So, no.

Recording is one thing and sharing the same recording with a hostile foreign entity another.

Legally, many places have strict ban on publishing photos/recordings without consent, while photographing itself is generally allowed in public spaces.

This is before even getting into with issues of recordes d material being used as training material etc, which adds additional ethical and legal issues.

pamcake··on What Sun got wrong
Debian installer runs fine over serial, at least.
pamcake··on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
By "happened to a lawyer" you mean "was done by a lawyer".
pamcake··on I don't like passkeys
If this is your only blocker you could still use passkeys with a different provider, like KeepassXC?
pamcake··on I don't like passkeys
The pitch is that passwords will supposedly be phased out entirely as an option.
pamcake··on OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior
"What has science done?!"
pamcake··on A warning about 'model welfare'
With that assertion, every running PC has consciousness and a self-bootstrapping compiler or a debugger attached to itself are sentient?

Doesn't seem meaningful.

pamcake··on Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it
You would find a mention of that in the initial July incident post from HuggingFace. It looks like it was indeed pretty high up the list.

https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026

> We are working with outside cybersecurity forensic specialists to investigate the issue and review our security policies and procedures. Finally, we have also reported this incident to law enforcement agencies.

Do we expect Nvidia acquisition of HF to have changed the vibe? Note that also the OP is from July, before the acquisition.

pamcake··on Israeli Effective Altruism Firm Behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta Cyberattacks
> Read the full story here: https://www.effort.news/irregular

That is a better link for the story than the current (alt: https://xxcancel.com/brianchau57/status/2099580981271318606).

It was previously submitted but was quickly flagged out. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704132

pamcake··on Optimizing a Spin-Lock
> Note that even OS kernels can have this issue - imagine what happens in virtualized environments with overcommitted physical CPU's scheduled by a hypervisor as virtual CPU's? Yeah - exactly. Don't do that. Or at least be aware of it, and have some virtualization-aware paravirtualized spinlock so that you can tell the hypervisor that "hey, don't do that to me right now, I'm in a critical region".

I can't be the only one who learned this the hard way by cramming too many vCPUs onto too few physical cores and initially wondering where the high load and latencies came from.

pamcake··on Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
From a business perspective, Amazon was/is a legit business threat to ~every physical bookstore (and, arguably, many publishers). It doesn't follow that they could take Amazon to court for that.
pamcake··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
That update was made 9/6: 5 days prior to archival and on the same day xcancel.com previously also "returned". I can find no public updates regarding Nitter project after the 9/11 archival.
pamcake··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
Of more concern, the Nitter github repository was permanently archived a couple of days ago.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

pamcake··on David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models
The initial HuggingFace post on the incident mentioned that they had reported law enforcement.

Shortly after, Nvidia acquired HF for $12.9B.

No such talk since.

https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026

https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-talks-acquire-hugg...

pamcake··on Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog
Less granularity could be a middle ground.

Show the date but not h/m/s.

pamcake··on Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries
Do you belive the machine is taking offence? It can not.

Telling me, a coder you never met or interacted with before, that I would introduce more bugs than The Product(tm) is pretty rude and prejudiced.

> The project author believes that, with capable human direction, modern LLMs write code faster than people and introduce fewer bugs.

pamcake··on Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries
Note: That md file is LLM spew (like most of rest of codebase).

https://github.com/pg83/solo/commits/main/README.md

https://github.com/pg83/solo/commits/main/

pamcake··on Incident with Github.com
> GH shouldn't have promoted LLM usage the way they have

No qualifiers necessary. But try arguing with a lawnmower...

pamcake··on Incident with Github.com
Allowing and accepting? More like encouraging and instigating.
pamcake··on A spectre is haunting Unicode
> I was told that the Unified CJK thing adopted a different "philosophy" from the rest of Unicode

What would that philosophy be about? Sounds apocryphal. Unicode has never done "unification" like that for other languages/scripts?

i/ı/i, ö/ø/ø̈/oͤ: Same same, different codepoints.

Search and sorting is a mess everywhere. Depending on your locale, ö sorts either after o or after z. Sometimes it's semantically and phonetically equivalent to o wrt search but moreoften not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96

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