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lefty2

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    Comment #49211171

    Don't worry, if it escapes from the lab we can just blame it on the bats again

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    Comment #49199229

    I understand now. Flagged means inappropiate for Hacker News. Yeah, they always flag any article that is anti-AI - even if it is well reasoned

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    Comment #49186608

    flagged as what?

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    Comment #49167711

    > I literally do not write code anymore. but you are taking advantage of a subsidised service. What happens when developers are forced to pay the full price (i.e. $2000 a month ins…

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    Comment #49062603

    Also the agreement can be can be terminated with only 90 days notice

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    Comment #49053073

    yes, but not necessarily cheaper

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    Comment #49048307

    The Chinese models are only temporarily cheaper, because they are subsidised the same way that frontier models are. Once those companies need to make money the subsidy will disappe…

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    Comment #48996273

    According to the article they don't have to declare leases or GPUs until the datacenter becomes operational

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    Comment #48716820

    I tried both unordered_flat_map and hopscotch map with the pathfinding algorithm that my game uses. Both were slower than regular unordered_map. unordered_flat_map about 33% slower…

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    Comment #48416854

    They would be jamming their own glide bombs and drones then. It would be more useful to jam Russian airspace to defeat Ukrainian drone attacks.

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    Comment #48173301

    > If / when enough companies exit the market That will only happen when the bubble bursts and those companies will exit by going bankrupt

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    Comment #48173231

    Who is it written by anyway? The author's name is not given in the article

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    Comment #47864142

    I wonder how many false positives there were. Typically this types of static analysis tools come up with a ton of potential bugs, but only a few of them are actual bugs.

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    Comment #47617392

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2025/11/10/openai-spe...

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    Comment #47606289

    Sora was losing 15M a day and it was running at least 3 months, so that's a total 1.3 Billion. That's a pretty expensive experiment. It sounds like a company with lots of VC to bur…

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    Comment #47594086

    also they need to pay back that in one year, so if OpenAI don't IPO this year they are screwed

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    Comment #47496041

    > -1 still produces -1 instead of 0 That could be a problem depending how you are using it.

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    Comment #47482206

    > The same trick can also be used for the other direction to save a division: > NewValue = OldValue >> 3; You need to be careful, because this doesn't work if the value is negative…

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    Comment #46673040

    > Yes, OpenAI is burning $8-12B in 2025 OpenAI actually burnt $12B in just one quarter (not for the entire year as he claims) https://www.thurrott.com/a-i/openai-a-i/329108/openai-…

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    Comment #46577183

    c++ 03 was a lot easier. For instance, if you want to avoid unnecessary copy operations when returning a string, just return it in variable that you pass by reference (eg. void doS…

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    Comment #45970322

    If it's untrustworthy, why do they prevent us from disabling "AI overview"?

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    Comment #41777070

    Tanks don't really make any sense. MBTs are designed to fight other MBTs. Out of the thousands of tanks that have been taken out in Ukraine, 99.999% has been by drones, artillary o…

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    Comment #37851907

    Does the analyst offer any explanation where he got his figures from? No. Then you should assume they were pulled out of the ass

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    Comment #28930556

    How about "Facey McBookFace"?

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    Comment #27337335

    Humans still sleep in two shifts. It's called the siesta