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tacet··on I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold
so advanced healthcare that maternal death ratio is higher than russia.
tacet··on Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model
qwen: stumbles deepseek: Tapei glm: Tapei kimi: Tapei
tacet··on ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU
Lot of the stuff regulated don't arise on locally run llm's. No ads targeting minors, no real dark patterns, no bans without reason, no personalized feed without possibility to opt out. maybe i forgot something.
tacet··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
EU banned destruction of unsold clothing. Estimated 4-9% of textile products in europe are destroyed before sold.

Lack of clothing is not really that big of problem if we look from needs perspective.

tacet··on Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
no quack
tacet··on LLMs reward expertise
And honestly, it's amazing.
tacet··on Our position on open-weights models
i meant it in the sense of arcane knowledge model could have that would make it simple for anyone to brew up in cheap lab while managing to not infect themselves over and over.

"at home" bioweapon panic has been around since crispr and rna synthesis got available to amateurs.

tacet··on Our position on open-weights models
the bioweapon panic is funny. "oh, yes i know nothing about bicrobiology but i will follow instructions of synthetic text generation machine on temperature 1 about how to design a lab to not kill myself while brewing organisms that will kill myself if i make mistake"

There is nothing that special about bioweapons, there are plenty of bacteria that will kill you just fine. Americans even have free samples on their salad.

tacet··on At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
This becomes simple math once you hire smart and competent people that tell you that there is no path towards agi.
tacet··on Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
The aim of war is to make political change and gain control of opponent. it is much more valuable to capture datacenters, infra and semiconductor fabricaton than to destroy and rebuild it.
tacet··on There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
Also massive human work done on them, that wasn't done before.

Data labeling is pretty big industry in some countries and I guess dropping 200 kilodollars on labeling is beyond the reach of most academics, even if they would not care about ethics of that.

tacet··on Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
You have to keep in mind that it's not like anthropic just asked mythos to "find fancy bug, make no mistakes" and got the result.

my quick read of the process they describe is that first they asked agents to rank files in order of potential to have interesting bugs, then they launch agents for each file in order of "interesting bug potential" and finally launch another agent for verification. (maybe i am mistaken, this is my read of this post https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/ )

it's not clear to me if they made just one pass over each file or made several passes for same file, but regardless, I think if you recreate roughly same process and burn 20000$ on tokens with other reasonably good model, you will find some fancy bugs too.

tacet··on ‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms
You can limit amount you feed back into network.

Not sure how is situation with home installations, factory i work for runs 150kw plant for our own consumption and don't bother with selling, but i know that we can set up how much we want/are allowed to feed back.

tacet··on The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan
To add, public broadcaster often is collective (state) funded, but it is supposed to be independed from state.

How much media can or rather may diverge from state opinion depends country to country.

tacet··on OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
There are youtube skits about openclaw. It is discussed in techy podcasts and i think it was mentioned in 404 as well.

It's popular because people are exploring "what can i do with compute" once again. React is as meaningless as tickless kernels for vast majority of people.

Should be noted that i am not using any claws. Just a person remembering people spending their nights programming all sorts of psychedelic displays in qbasic with some moving on to asm. Asm for fun.

tacet··on Be wary of Bluesky
I think it depends on person.

The only social connection i lost is a person who lives on mastodon now. The rest of people that matter to me are on bluesky now.

tacet··on AI has a cargo cult problem
They mean the data AI companies scrape(d) to train their models.

For example they can't opt for their comment not to be scraped off HN and used for training.

tacet··on Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched
Hmm, there is no delay. Iirc the full cycle (sattelites return to exactly same spot in relation to earth) is about 10 days and most paces get crossed in 1-3 days.

Are you looking at sentinel 1 or sentinel 2

tacet··on Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten
Or you could mess up your brain even more, as it is established by zen teachers and scientific literature.
tacet··on New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden
Can you list some of the countries? I am curious, because in my country i can be seen within few days or call my doctor i need to. There are also consulting doctors that can be reached, if GP is not available. costs about 4 euros per visit.
tacet··on New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden
> If people protest instead of working they will be fired which means they'll also lose their health insurance.

Not protesting got Americans to this spot.

sincerely a 28 day per year paid vacation enjoyer.

tacet··on Europe's Largest Makerspace
math comes to about 5 megabits upload. not great, but i could live with that.
tacet··on AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem
>This is ridiculous. According to their resume they lived, studied, and worked in Poland for over 10 years and don't speak Polish?

Could be russian. :D We have people living here for 60+ years and cannot speak local language.

tacet··on Bring Back Shortwave
>very ominous semi-continuous monotonous hums

could be buzzer perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76

tacet··on AI, China and Copium
Probably both. I'll admit to be layperson in all this, but deepseek is pretty impressive. Even if they have used more compute than they claimed, this part of article you linked didn't age well judging by reviews of 4.5 :D

>Many have compared V3 to GPT-4o and highlight how V3 beats the performance of 4o. That is true but GPT-4o was released in May of 2024. AI moves quickly and May of 2024 is another lifetime ago in algorithmic improvements.

tacet··on GPT-4.5
if i understand correctly your argument, then i would say that it is very recognizable as science

>People could tell scaling wasn't working well before the release of GPT 4.5

Yes, on quick glance it seems so from 2020 openai research into scaling laws.

Scaling apparently didn't work well, so the theory about scaling not working well failed to be falsified. It's science.

tacet··on Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle
I hope someday some youtuber drops omg cable at my office for content. Preferably several.
tacet··on Investigating an “evil” RJ45 dongle
>It's sad because the HN crowd is technically maximally (?) literate

I laughed. While there certainly are very smart people here, HN crowd is pretty diverse and large parts of crowd are startup/business/framework of the week/ai bros folks. Not someone who would know what spi is from the top of their head.

tacet··on Neil Gaiman and the perils of BDSM: is it possible to consent to sexual torture?
It is also very common amongst those men who don't claim to support womens rights. It's just that there is no shock about deception. Reading the vulture article, there is attempt to tie in feminism in that article, but looking at details, it doesn't really come into picture - it is just powerful man straight up doing whatever he wants. In case of Pavlovich she was just straight up delivered in his hands by Palmer with Palmers full knowledge on what would likely happen. That is what actually shocks me the most.

In a way there is no avoiding feminism - we are commenting article written by feminist expressing view of some radfems that there can be no consensual bdsm. Your warning has it's own chapter in one of Dworkins books.

tacet··on Neil Gaiman and the perils of BDSM: is it possible to consent to sexual torture?
There have always been low key feminist bdsm-wars playing along the same lines as sex wars did.

On one hand, bdsm should not be exempt from inquiry and criticism, but this article kind of uses shock imagery instead of exploring what consent is, how does it work, how it becomes complicated.

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