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sva_on Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack

With rabies I'm not sure it is really control in the sense that it makes the host find victims, but rather that your neurons get damaged in a way that causes immense agitation and the biting is almost a reflex to "defend" yourself as you're incapable of processing what is happening.

sva_on Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack

It was because the beaver was rabid.

sva_on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

I keep hearing this, but Hassabis did not leave Google/Alphabet. He merely changed from an administrative position to a more technical one.

sva_on Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18

It is a nothing burger, for PAYG it stays the way it is:

> Each paid tenancy gets the first 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month for free to create Ampere A1 Compute instances. This free-tier usage is shared across Bare Metal, Virtual Machine, and Container Instances.

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/price-list/

When I login, top banner also says:

> Always Free Ampere A1 Compute entitlements have changed. This update does not affect your paid resources, existing paid workloads or bill. Contact support for further questions.

Which is slightly ambitious, but I would orientate around what the price list says.

sva_on Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886728

sva_on Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18

Trick is to make a bit larger instance, then scale it down to the always free limits - or so I've heard. You might pay a small amount, but totally worth it. That Arm server with 4 oCPU, 24GB, 200GB SSD is a beast, I've had it since 2022.

Btw make sure you crank up the SSD speed all the way, as long as it is in the always free limit, you won't be charged for it ... Even though it says you will.

sva_on Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18

> You may see a small, temporary charge on your payment method.

A small, temporary $100 charge, lol. Gave me a little shock when I signed up as a student.

sva_on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

Hassabis isn't leaving

sva_on Ask HN: My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed]

It should be illegal for the registry to add a domain that has already been 'sold' to their premium tier. Imagine you build anything successful under a domain name and the registry can just legally blackmail you into paying a horrendous amounts of money to keep your domain?

sva_on A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants

Chill, it's just a rhetorical phrase. They want to show that this KDA is the result of a series of incremental improvements, and I think they did a pretty good job at that.

I often find people get annoyed at mathy stuff because they seem to think that they should be able to read it like a (comparatively low information dense) newspaper article or something similar.

Math isn't like that, it usually has high information density and you need to parse every single symbol. And also people make this mistake where they gloss over stuff they don't get because they think they'll just understand things from context. Works great in normal literature - but math ain't like that. If you don't understand something, go back to the definitions.

sva_on You Could Have Come Up with Kimi Delta Attention

I think Karpathys nn zero to hero is a good starting point. And you can experiment on small networks using pretty normal hardware.

sva_on Future euro banknote design proposals

> Beethoven is potentially the second-best known world-wide behind Da Vinci

You mean Europeans? Because I highly doubt more ppl know about them than about Jesus. And I'd claim the most well known European is probably Hitler, through infamy.

sva_on Who's afraid of Chinese models?

I see a lot of ways how that could lead countries into a dystopian nightmare, where the gov gets to decide what kind of biases a model should have.

sva_on Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs

I recommend his book, "Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch)", which is also linked in the article.

https://sebastianraschka.com/books/#build-a-reasoning-model-...

sva_on Who Is America's Homer?

> I could also see someone suggesting Hemingway, although I don't buy it.

Some of his works are already in the public domain in the US and can be found on Project Gutenberg, so you may not have to buy.

sva_on Judge a book by its first pages

It's a good thing that people have different preferences

sva_on Codex Resets

Compare to Anthropic who consistently do their resets between Thursday and Friday, somewhat alienating people who have their resets around that time.

sva_on Judge a book by its first pages

I don't know, I think some books like for example Frank Herbert's need a couple more pages to set up the scene.

Also, some of the best tv shows I watched need a couple episodes build up to get a nice payout.

sva_on After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy another smartwatch

It is pretty damn useful to track your progress if you do any kinds of endurance sports like running or cycling, but yeah I turned those notifications off right away.

sva_on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION

float will have to do it.

sva_on German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks

https://nitter.net/eliebakouch/status/2077425801633427919

That is very disappointing.

sva_on Schema Harness Achieves ~99% on Arc‑AGI‑3 Public

I'm wondering what's up with the release of Gemini 3.5 Pro, they keep postponing it. For a while, Google was doing pretty well with their releases.

sva_on 42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support

In Germany we even import people by the millions to keep rents high, among other things, and more than half of them get their housing paid for by taxpayers money.

sva_on TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access

Yeah right, I manually set up 4 servers, 2 pcs and 2 phones in a wireguard mesh network and I don't understand what it does.

sva_on TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access

If you don't care to invest half an hour into learning some basics of how computer networking and in particular CIDR notation and subnet masks work, maybe it is not for you.

sva_on I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets

I am pretty sure you have to enable cloudflare to manage your robots.txt, it shouldn't be doing that by itself. Maybe they did it by accident, it is just 1 click.

sva_on European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS

I'm not sure what that has to do with age verification or such things, and even if you don't want to use the platform directly you can use mirrors like xcancel.com or nitter.net as drop-in replacements (which I use.) I dont think that site has any age verification measures implemented that are mandated by law as of now. But I'd just stop using it if they did or if the mirrors stopped working.

All in all, I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the original topic of EU being about to enforce 'age verification'.

sva_on European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS

I am also European, not sure why that matters though.

This type of argument always sounds to me like someone was abused by their ex-partner, but now prefers their new partner who abuses them a little less.

This is a common negotiation practice in business as well as politics. You make some absolutely outrageous demand, and people protest, but then you give them the -originally planned- light version of it, and they will accept it; in light of the worse option.

There is no reason to endure this BS, hence I referenced manufacturing consent.

I sometimes can not believe how easily people allow themselves to be manipulated.

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And you can vote out "Big Tech" - by refusing to use their products. Giving up your rights to play some videogame, as GP outlined, is an absolutely sad thing to witness. There are people who fought and died for the rights we have, and we allow them to be eroded for some silly consumerism.

sva_on European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS

I guess that is one way to manufacture consent.

sva_on Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act

> I think Germany is also economically growing?

Barely, and it was in a recession 2023-2024.